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[orange_sun]

...I refuse to actually count how many comments or months it's been but whatever, question meme for Josh and Echidna. If you want to ask about David Menlo in Demonverse that's also fine! Or monsters but I reserve the right to make mysterious faces.

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[orange_sun]

I will just pretend a mysterious plot essay was there.

The thing about Echidna is that she's almost always in her element. She's probably not going to be a Persona with a huge character arc; she is what I conceived of her to be and I'm happy with that, even if it means she's kind of static. Her focus isn't on place so much; it's on the heroes and what they're asking her for and how they strive. And honestly, she's loving that. People are going out and throwing themselves against the Darkness, they're coming to her regularly to test themselves against her children, everyone is striving to become more and better than what they were. And that's kind of the core of what she is, that striving. So she's loving it.

The personal monsters thing is basically a really deep expression of that. When you can't confront something within yourself in an ordinary way, but you want to, she can change the context and present it to you in a form you can challenge more effectively. So of course she loves the people who come to her for it, and is happy when they succeed.

Personally, she thinks everyone is a sweetheart in general (people who aren't tend not to tag her, probably fortunately) and wants to grandma at them all. The weather and the supply shortages are annoying but nothing she can't work with -- she's kind of wistful that she can't easily bring out wine or just randomly feed people, and that her quest rewards are less good than they should be, but Camelot itself is an environment that by its nature forces people to strive in all ways, so that's a bonus for her.

What's Jill thinking of doing when she gets all her memories back?

[maidmalapert]

That depends heavily on what Edmund does. Jill's preference would be to Legacy; she knows Eureka got pretty upset about the idea of her leaving, she wants to support Amethyst, she doesn't want to leave Sakuya, and she's invested in saving Aather. Part of that is just because she has those kind of ideals, but part of it is really personal... she's homeless except for Aather right now. She does eventually want to go back and confront Aslan and try to get to Eustace and the Pevensies, but that's not going home, it's just... the next mission after the Darkness is defeated. She's pretty sure she's going to get to do this, too! Edmund has mentioned that he wants to stay and help Aather, and she's definitely not leaving as long as he's still here.

If Edmund outright rejects Jill as a knight, though, it'll probably be increasingly difficult for her to be around him, so if she gets all her memories back before he does (which is pretty likely, since she only has like eight left or something) and he rejects her, she might Good End instead. Or if he got all his memories back and actually acknowledged her as his knight, if he Good Ended and wanted her to come with him, she'd go with him. She'd still stay and Legacy if he Good Ended but was fine with her staying to support Amethyst, though; she doesn't need to be right by his side to be his knight, and if that was the assignment he gave her she'd be okay with it. She'd be torn! But she'd be okay with it.

Anyway, that's all kind of short term. Once Aather is saved, like I said, she's planning to march back and yell at a God Lion and try to give her friends a more complete picture of what's going on. Beyond that, it is once again up to Edmund, but ever since the Loveless game, she's had fantasies of traveling across different worlds and helping people with him.

Okay. Give me the list of gods, Personae, and general assholes on Josh's Eventual Punching List and why they made the cut. Also, if you're so inclined, what his battle strategy would be with them once he'd had a chance to size them up, and how the interesting fights would likely go.