the city of truth and these are my consequences

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Am I the only one that's noticed that over the years Huxley got dumbed down??

Like he goes from giving long intelligent explanations on the ins and outs of magic to not even understanding the roleplay aspect of a simple murder mystery??

Idk I know he's supposed to be a "himbo" but I feel like it's to his own demise. Huxley IS smart. Not very, not as smart as Lasko or Damien, but he is.

And we still get these moments of his intelligence and I do find his lack of awareness endearing 90% of the time, I feel like we lost important aspects of his character to really make him a himbo and that makes me sad.

I love Huxley and especially his relationship with Damien. They're perfect for each other 100%. But the only times we see any sort of higher intelligence from Huxley, it's emotional intelligence. And yes, he's EXTREMELY emotionally intelligent and I love that, but he's also just.... Normally intelligent??

He moved across the country to attend DAMN. He left everything behind to pursue a higher education at a world renowned school. YOU DONT BOTHER DOING THAT IF YOURE OF LOWER INTELLIGENCE!!!

not to say people of lower intelligence don't do that, but it's usually the brainiacs you see making large moves to secure a higher education. And sure, he did struggle, but he's still highly competent in, at the very least, his own element!

Idk I don't like the "blondification" if you will, of Huxley. I started to notice it more maybe a year ago? He suddenly started missing more jokes/innuendos, started not knowing certain things he absolutely would, etc. I don't know if this change was intentional (but I imagine it was since Erik writes all his own scripts, verse outsourcing them or having a writing team), but I can absolutely see that Huxley went from being a super complex character who maybe even held himself back academically to fit in to "Haha! He didn't understand the sex joke! Isn't he such a silly himbo!" Which as a change to a long standing character, who so many people love, it makes me really sad! I wish he wasn't written this way nowadays! At first it was funny, but as we get more Huxley content, it feels like it just gets worse and worse.

I hate to be the too woke guy and obviously not every character needs to be insanely deep and complex but this is like if Gavin went back to being like, "I'm a sex demon. That's why I act like this" WHEN WE HAD A WHOLE ARC OF HIM DEFINING WHO HE WAS!!!

Maybe it's just me and I'm being too sensitive but it really hurts because Huxley is one of my faves (like top 5 redacted characters) and to see him slowly being reduced like this hurts my soul. And I don't see anyone else mentioning it so I feel crazy because I know he wasn't always written like this. If you go back and watch any video pre like- idk let's say pre DameHux confession, you can see the difference in how he's written.

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