#2 vampires cleo fan

Braids the worst braids ever, asked to make a million more

Zams design is based off of a bit of sailor moon and also a moth, also gave her some armor for fun

I think tf!Legs is trying so hard to walk the line between making sure she's okay and is taking care of herself while not controlling her or ordering around, and he's fumbling it (like everything lmao). I get it's frustrating, and he's being so patient, but whenever he tries to subtly bring it up through teasing it can come across as a dig, which tf!Graecie then internalises. The "do more" bit hurt my heart. And everything else he says she can just excuse away. He needs to word stuff better they can't go on like this.

Oh and also, he just assumes everything now. "You say you're fine but that doesn't mean you're fine" like yeah you have a point but also she's never actually been fine. At this point her genuinely feeling fine and okay is a win in my book just let her have this please I'm begging you.

And tf!Sausage... my boy is just threatening her atp. Telling her she'll go back to the nightmare realm will just make her want to sleep even less. Telling her off every time she does a blessing just makes her do more (I would genuinely do the same thing out of spite tbf). It just means she doesn't share what's wrong anymore because she'll get told off for not taking care of herself more.

Additionally, he keeps pushing his very black and white world views onto tf!Graecie. And sure, he's right about some of them. But he's also wrong a lot (coughs in tf!Pyro defender I don't even watch him but I agree with him on this 100% Tim had to go). Since tf!Graecie literally sees everyone as nice... what stops her from ignoring him when it really counts because she just doesn't want to hear it anymore?

It didn't really hit me until tf!Pyro came back. Pyro Dagmeare the man that you are I never doubted you for a second idc about the haters. He made more progress in around forty minutes than tf!Legs and tf!Sausage have done in weeks. Bravo my g. I love this duo and the rescue stream reminded me exactly why.

He actually treats tf!Graecie like an adult. The spirit of transparency is working. Part of it might be that he also have what seems to be a complex relationship with his faith (from what I gathered I'm not a Pyro main but that's the vibe I got). But he also speaks to her like an equal. They actually had a very intelligent conversation on what had been going on where tf!Graecie explained her view on the Tim situation, and on the poisonings, and he actually listened.

He doesn't see himself as a person above others (at least morally in comparison to tf!Sausage if that makes sense). He speaks to with respect, calls her Grace which is just everything to me, and is just a very active listener in conversation. Like I wish I had him in my life to just nod along to my ramblings and say "mhm" "oh fair enough" "interesting". Tf!Pyro treats her like an equal, he calls both of them wanderers, and just validates her in the stuff which isn't as big of a deal as people make out to be, at least imo. Like when she walks off.

I mean, he has a point. Tf!Graecie is twenty years old. She might be naive, but she's not stupid. She's actually aware of her naivety which is the first step in the right direction. She's ignorant about most of the world, sure, but she has her own mind. If she doesn't want to hear something, she's just going to up and leave, and there isn't a lot wrong with that (minus the avoidance issues but ehhhh).

Tf!Pyro is right, people shouldn't be angry at tf!Graecie for wandering off and tell her off like a child. Following her to check in is fully valid, but everyone needs space. She's faced danger alone, and escaped. Several of her spells aid this. It's been proven time and time again that she's an excellent navigator. She can now see in the dark. If she's lost, she can literally send a massive flare into the sky. She'll be fine.

So...yeah. I got a bit sidetracked there.

I do fully understand where tf!Legs and tf!Sausage are coming from though. I think it worked before when tf!Zam was around because girlie is a bit spineless, so tf!Graecie had someone that would agree with her while gently suggesting other ways to handle things. There was balance.

But now they just aren't doing the right thing. I don't think any of them know what the right thing is atp, and neither do I tbf. I'm fully prepared for tf!Sausage to just crack and lash out in some fashion, driving her away. We've already seen how she can just fully ignore tf!Legs when he upset her. I'm scared there will be a fallout.

But I do have a lot of faith in tf!Pyro, in the sense of the deprogramming. And I also have faith in tf!Maddy in terms of helping tf!Legs but also helping tf!Graecie take care of herself. I missed these Australians glad they got out of the cage/silly.

I also trust in Juniper in the sense that she's going to be the one that actually asks the right questions. They all need more information on the flock but literally no one but her has actually been getting any recently.