hourglasshalfempty as u suggested

I am only ever helpful you know

im ready to provide him with a surrogate meathead sword man

invoke a series of incredibly confusing emotions

he'll be counting on ur magic, friend

without calling him a dangerous sly monster-in-waiting everyother breath?

confusion, fear, concern, alarm

I might put Nysek on the meme just for laughs when it goes up

Nah but if he does a good job he'll give raistlin a compliment

yay!

now, need will be a bit suspicious but it's her background paranoia and trust issue that don't really show in person lol

it is not personal, she is a cautious soul who has that on everyone.

hematite what is your angle what do you want is this a trick im leaving how dare you -

Joysweeper i think the funniest part will be that raistlin is also suspicious of her, because he's a suspicious fellow by nature, but also he's a mage and he got the "don

"don't trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain" lecture

which need would say is completely fair

this only increases his suspicion

hopefully not into his internal monologue :')

things people call need out on in her canon: trying to rescue women who don't "deserve" it, keeping bearers from fighting women (that one's fair), taking control of their bodies during an emergency after having said :I'm going to work through you: but without having spelled it out

things no one actually calls need out on in her canon: calling everyone children, reading all the minds around her all the time

she doesn't. normally let on that she's doing that.
but I'm gonna get some permissions up.

oh dear

i am really tempted to have raist show up at a point where he's not yet fully aware of the lich attached to his soul, so Need can notice the little shit

but it depends on if people like him enough to want to do an astral deworming plot

fecking thing literally is like a tapeworm, it leeches his energy and life, which is why his chronic illness got markedly worse after

oh god also need is gonna have so many things to say about how mages are trained in raistlin's world

none of them willl be kind or complimentary

"I'm sorry, they cursed you with seeing "time as it affects all things" meaning all your ever see is death, rot, and desolation, never beauty or hope or life, literally because as soon as you look at something it time-lapse ages into its death and decay"

"and they did this to teach you to be compassionate?????????"

"how was that supposed to work, exactly"

raistlin: the council believed that by doing so I would accept the frailty and preciousness of all life

need: oh yeah, because that's something you can just hit a button and make someone do, good grief

lmao you get it
"Decay fuels new life, even! These idiots don't even have a grasp on natural cycles!"

then there's a lackeyism about how humility, the fleeting nature of youth and beauty, and a reminder that all things end is well and good but that implementation as something permanent is monstrous and wrong

(I was so into this author as a kid that it still affects my writing; I love me a long sentence with a 'but' in it that outlines how something similar to a bad thing might be okay but the bad thing is not, and I had to teach myself to use fewer semicolons)

and yeah need will probably wanna un-lich him regardless

help out their buddy he looks like could use a break

the canon point I'm looking at is before that time she has nyara use her to impale a possessed man to get the evil spirit to go "oh this body's dying time to gtfo and find a new one", then need healed him a bit as a time as she was very slowly pulled out
there is almost certainly a less dire way to go about this though

Stacia: Listen, I don't even have to like you to deworm you. Is there a way for me to magically crawl in there and fight that thing?

Stacia: It gives me the heebies, and also jeebies.

journey to the center of raistlin's mind

horrifying

it is one hundred percent something that's gonna be bad later for someone and just out of principle should get reckt

okay so a fun fact about this parasite whose name is Fistandantilus

/snickers

is that the local wizard governing body knew about him. for centuries. they knew where he was, knew he was a hazard to young wizards, allowed him to continue to exist in a place where he could directly prey on young inexperienced mages, and never. told. anyone.

they do not warn young mages about him, ever

wow

even as they send young mages into a dangerous intiation where he can and does freely interfere, generally killing the young mages for their life force

Raistlin was the first in centuries to actually survive

And they never. Tell. Him. What. Happened

THEY KNEW HE HAD A LICH and we're just like. welp. not our problem.

were just like. auto correct

anyway Raistlin was RIGHT, the gods ain't SHIT, and the Council of Wayreth can GET STUFFED

wow!!!

There are so many things for need to be upset about

Dick: So. After we finish with this magic tapeworm, we go and fight the entire wizard council in your world, yeah?

Also. At least Remy is less annoying than a kender.]

she won't be as mad as she would be about griffith but she'll be plenty outraged

griffith gets his own special evil bastard category

Kevin, with great seriousness, regarding this backstory: bruh