the mood whiplash between cassandra dying and this ridiculous shrimp party........

also fig doing a whole twister party bc fabian and ivy were dicks to mazey. she's a good egg.

i'm not actually sure i agree with riz's theory. i think kipperlily probably wanted to steal something from the engine and ivy was primarily trying to confront fig/distract the bad kids for what she did (super fucked up).

if she really is dead, and i think that's more likely than her getting thrown out or having her death faked, then there's probably something to be said about the way that half the bad kids died on the first day and arthur aguefort killed mr gibbons and himself to bring them back, something he doesn't do for anyone else.

which seems less like favoritism and more luck because aguefort had caught onto goldenhoard's plan with the poisoned tea and needed a reset/to invade heaven.

but dead people come back all the time, which is why ivy's reaction is like... weird.

idk

also i think tracker asking kristen to be okay with her announcing her new girlfriend was a bit fucked but otherwise i think it was mostly things kristen needed to hear just in a slightly too harsh format because tracker had been kind of playing the sidekick. and i've also seen theories that tracker's new girlfriend is Evil and Seeking To Corrupt Wolfsong

which is like

lmao

she's probably just mildly toxic idk, like how kristen or fabian or fig are/were and how all the ratgrinders seem to be.

i'm very curious about kipperlily though. she's penelope shaped but if penelope was more openly a perfectionist nerd rather than secretly a huge loser.

also the sort of like

shadowself theme. is interesting because it's also something that existed in the first season? penelope is a shadow self of fig, aelwyn for adaine, biz for riz, dayne for fabian, ragh for gorgug, daybreak for kristen. i wrote a whole fic about it

yeah, I can't get behind the 'Nara is evil' thing because 'surprise, your ex's new girlfriend is evil' is such a tired trope?

I don't even think she is all that toxic from what we heard cause if I was dating someone, but they didn't want to put me on their socials because they were worried about their ex-girlfriend that, uh, yeah that is bad

yeah like. she's absolutely in the right about that. ragh made her sound a bit toxic but it was so obviously in a way where he felt uncomfortable with kristen's vitriol and wanted to make her feel better. her being evil is also just such a lame excuse for kristen's own toxicity that caused tracker and kristen's relationship to fall apart.

and like all her friends except for riz gassing her up and then kristen turning to riz and being like "riz, you're the only one who won't lie to me" and he's just

honestly a favourite moment of mine among all that. It absolutely makes sense for Fig and Fabian to be gassing Kristen up. That's their personality, plus they were all drunk as fuck. But Riz. Oh, he is just too earnest.

if adaine were sober/not in the middle of a crisis she would also probably join him.

oh yeah. Maybe some gassing, but also honest pointers.

I feel Gorgug wouldn't gas at all, but also wouldn't necessarily point out flaws

And Riz. Riz is Riz.

Riz is the kind of person you cannot just vent to because he will be offering solutions

riz will keep it real with you