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raerns asked: How does Lucy feel about the races of the Alliance?

I thiiiink I talked about that a long time ago, but since Lucy has developed quite a lot from that, it’s better to address it again.

Ok so - in general, Lucy doesn’t discriminate between races during the Drustvar questline, what I blame more on programming than on her real personality, because she also calls Kul Tirans mainlander. But I’d like to think that Lucy, in general, is very open to other races because she is extroverted and doesn’t share the animosity many Kul Tirans have towards the Alliance. I’d group them into two categories, the races she could’ve known from before Kul Tiras seceded and after.

Naturally, with humans, she is totally ok with, no matter their origin. It’s what she knows. I think that she also wouldn’t have any negative thoughts about Dwarves or gnomes, if anything, really appreciate their knowledge when it comes to blacksmithing and technology. I personally headcanon that the mining business was optimised thanks to their help, so she’d naturally be very positive towards them. She never had much contact to High Elves, so she’s more or less positive to neutral too, but she is very wary of the Void Elves. 

Night elves, Draenei and Worgen are something a lot more interesting. They’re ... different from what she has known, and even if she met High Elves before, Night Elves are entirely different. Their culture and focus on druidism does remind her of the Thornspeakers, which is why she is a little wary - she trusts the Thornspeakers in any case though -, and that especially in regards to the Worgen and learning how the were created. With the Worgen, there is the additional cultural closeness, as Kul Tirans came from Gilnean seafarers,  Draenei are absolutely fascinating, even though she doesn’t share their convictions and belief in the Light. And she remembers that they also fought in Drustvar during the Horde assault. And Pandaren... let’s say, they know how to cook, and Lucy likes to eat. Well, there aren’t many coming to Drustvar, but who can’t not love them?

So all in all, her opinion on the different races is always very open. As in “every friend of Drustvar is a friend of mine (to various degrees”. The Alliance as an organisation and different leaders... would be different.

weavefate asked: Offers Lucy a pretty daisy

Lucy is clearly caught by surprise when Rosie hands her the dainty little flower, She blinks, accepting it between her dainty fingers and laying it on her palm to get a proper look at it. Maybe she could later on press it in a book, so it wouldn’t wilt away.

“Thank you - it’s very beautiful.”

Anduin wasn’t a problem for me tho bc I feel what’s going on makes sense with what he’s been through, the suggestion of external influence but also just the pressure he’s under with everything (and that things still weigh heavily on him even when he complies, like the Turalyon Alleria stuff). For Turalyon and Alleria, I didn’t feel like it was reverting their characters to BtDP at all tho

at the same time, I took a lot of issue with Nathanos and Sylv because even in BFA material they had been portrayed differently. I liked Talanji’s part a lot, but Zekhan Idc at all. I think my main problem was the plot not progressing and a lot being kinda abandoned halfway through the book.

As for Fairshaw, I could see it coming from that one mission they’re both in, but at the same time, I think the book does a poor job of developing it from there. I didn’t like lorthaly either, and I hate lor’themar’s character as written by roux, but specially in relation to Thaly I hate it.

ANYWAYS SORRY FOR THE RANT I JUST LIKE DISCUSSING THIS STUFF AKSJDNFKASNDF

NO WORRIES LMAO your insight is always appreciated and i love your opinions on that. (mostly bc we agree :’) but also bc it’s rooted in facts and you know your stuff!)

yeah like??? i have a similar impression reading the critiques, while first reaction was glowing and positive, in comparison to the other books people are ... a lot more negative? it’s like the second kingsman film for me, when i watched it at the cinema i LOVED it, but as time passed i came to realise that i don’t really like it. it’s a bit like your weird uncle: you love him, but you don’t like him. 

it’s super hard to say but i just don’t care about the undead night elves bc they’re all so... bland. although i really had to laugh at her comparison of sira diving in a 1v4 teamfight bc it felt exactly like that in general. the few passages i’ve read with maiev made me ??????? bc that’s not the maiev we know. 

I really don’t know what her problem with Anduin was, tho. Jaina’s arc has been disappointing since after the battle of dazar’alor with no real development - not saying she has to stay the mad warrior queen, but switching from “BEWARE, BEWARE OF ME” to “you know it’s just sylvanas, the horde isn’t that bad uwu we must let them mourn uwu~” in an instant (nobody @ me, because that’s the hill i’m willing to die on and i’m tired of discussing it) - but that’s the thing, just like you said - you can’t fault roux for that, because they’ve did that before her and already in the game 

zekhan slowly feels like rhonin, at least that’s what quite a few people say. he started as a meme and now he’s this prominent character who’s just too good and perfect and- urgh. never got the obsession with him either.

i wasn’t sold on fairshaw for the same reason i wasn’t into lor’thalyssra - it just seemed so... farfetched and there for no other reason than to ship characters that had two seconds of interaction. so inorganic and forced. lor’thalyssra made me physically cringe several times during that short story and fairshaw just is like to... idk appease the gays? even flynn with taelia would’ve made more sense and i'm not into that pair either. 

quick question for everyone, but especially mm peeps (considering i follow more mm here than on my other blog) - how important are direct verse descriptions? i really don’t know yet how i can add verses to the muse pages as i want to make it all accessible on desktop AND mobile, but i also not yet want to write out a long user unfriendly verse page if nobody... actually reads it or cares for it. i have a feeling that almost no one looks at a verse page and goes ‘this au sounds cool, maybe we should write in that for a change’, but at the same time - i want to make all my muses the most accessible for like any historical au or modern au.

I- ok.

I guess this refers to me linking that joke thread by Madeleine Roux which also mentions the Thrall/Jaina ship?

While there haven’t been any confirmed crossbreeds for humans beyond elven ones, I’d just really like to know where you get the idea of “a ship is only valid when there can be babies” from? And also allowed? Like.

Like. 

Right.

That’s blatant Thrall’s son named Idiot erasure.

I fully moved Lucy there now (I will follow and give out links when all of the muses are done), so all in all, you’ll get Lucy, Vanora (Blood Elf Ranger Lord. Annoyed. Conservative. You are already dead) and Carys (The renegade, paladin, really tries to follow the light’s teachings. inspired by my time in a catholic all-girls school). Not sure if I reply to drafts on here or just move them with me, but this account is now mostly closed for business and shitposting/updates.