#the way that lucy understood KL and why it was important to her to be a hero

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honestly like kipperlily kind of hits on the same story beats hit by tectonya karkovnya and more broadly neverafter for me like. what if you were stuck being a background character in someone else’s story. what if you were resigned to being a boring person surrounded by outstanding people deemed of legendary significance by the fate and random chance. what if your adventuring party didn’t give a fuck about being special or about being heroes but instead chose to see themselves as minmaxxers going for the easy win. what if you wanted to be a hero and no one would let you, and when you met the people you resented this whole time for being heroes, they proved themselves as being as mean to you as you thought they would be. what if the one time you really reached out for it and went on a mission that you knew was above your level and you wanted to be a hero this once and be important and succeed, you got turned into the pawn of a dead rage god. what if you weren’t allowed to be an intrepid hero, so you turned into a villain