It occurs to me that perhaps I never toplevel because I'm bad at them

top levels are a lot of work lmao

it's why I only top level when I have Things To Do

MAN RIGHT

but hoshizoku and SaroSaron both wanted fitz in a lab setting so I gave a "come bother my character who is generally not engaging with the event" anyway

I mean he is very much engaging with the heat event, but not at all as written

the trouble of trying to seed out things in a starter without going "let me take you on a six-hour tour of this arc I'm constructing with my character who won't have answers to this problem for another four months":

yay