oisin got buff over the summer, the same time he would have gotten a rage crystal
maryann is a barbarian with insane athletics and porter's been teaching her, he might have connected with the high five heroes through her in the first place
kipperlilly didn't want to be called the rat grinders because it gives away some of their secrets but ruben just wanted to fuck with her
the rats that lucy revived were either killed out of spite by the other rat grinders or they were just collateral when porter fought monsters
oisin only started missing ping pong balls after talking to adaine when she said she didn't remember him and talked about how rich she is, maybe because he felt justified then
buddy presumably thought they were actually restoring this goddess even though she was competing with sol and helped anyway
they all genuinely thought lucy was coming back so 'killing' her wasn't ever meant maliciously by the rat grinders
they could have had a suicide pact all planning to take the deal and come back and just lucy didn't follow through
so with the next cleric they didn't give him any warning so he would make a split-second decision to come back to life without necessarily knowing the consequences
I can't stop thinking about Travis' face when Lottie mentioned Javi, because of course that would work.
It's not even just because Javi's in the Wilderness and he wants to stay with him, but the thought of going home without him? Out of everyone, Travis is the only one whose return would be painful to his remaining family. He returns home not proud that he survived, but ashamed that he didn't bring his little brother with him. He's probably already ashamed that Javi died instead of him, if Travis died then at least their mother would feel comforted knowing he died protecting his little brother. Now? If he comes home instead of Javi, it's because he failed to protect him. Every time he protected himself he must have felt selfish, like he was choosing himself over his baby brother.
Imagining his life after rescue, I can see why Travis ended up where he did. I can see why anything he does to keep himself safe or make himself happy felt like a moral failing after he couldn't do any of it for Javi. I can see why, as much as he desperately wants to live, the thought of going home and telling his mom what happened made him want to stay in the Wilderness with his brother.
wip kipperlilly demon design from my self-indulgent ao3 work here:
+ alive klck sketch
also self-indulgent buddy dawn head
im so glad nobody's going for this steve/nancy last-second shit - eddie saying it's true love was the most uncomfortable thing that it should have been played as a joke lmao. i get that eddie and robin don't really know about their whole history but they're really acting like jonathan and nancy broke up like wtf they haven't spoken all season
i'm actually really enjoying this season but they are not seriously pushing steve and nancy, are they? steve didn't spend two seasons getting over her just to get back with her now. i didn't watch all the nancy and jonathan storyline for this. no.
gilears voice is slightly different - maybe it's just that brennan hasn't done that voice in a while, but i really think there's something up with him. obviously he's had great luck (probably a trade-off for figs new terrible luck) but his personality seems to have changed and fabian didn't make an insight check
Anyone else getting odd vibes for Gilear this episode…? Cause between him mysteriously winning a vacation and getting engaged/married without telling Fig (cause you KNOW he’d tell her) and Fig’s Dairy Demon Deal™️, I feel like something is up…
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this whole scene was so gerard talking to elody-coded you have no idea
Hey. Hey since when did you have permission to tell your mom about my horribly embarrassing curse?!
Kind of lazily done lineup of the gang since I finished freshman year earlier this week! :3 Gorgug is my fave