Hannah K.C. Davis

Though Kakania has been trying to find a way to break the hypnosis on Isolde, she wants to do it in the structured environment of St. Pavlov's medical facilities.

-Former Zeno soldier who had been honorably discharged after losing two of his limbs (arm and leg) in battle and still defended his comrades.

-Moved to Appalachia as it was quiet and the people were kind. As it turns out Appalachia has a multitude of immune zones further adding to its strange nature.

-His arcane skill is puppetry, he inherited his family's silver axe, and his afflatus is Leaf. His Udimo is an Elk.

-Kostya does odd jobs near the town he lives by, firewood, repair work, etc. When not doing that he's crafting toys for the kids.

-On top of his lost limbs, Kostya has been mute since birth and speaks using sign language, he knows USL (he's Ukranian), BSL, and ASL. He also has a little mouse named Fievel to interpret for him. Fievel is the one who would speak for Kostya in the briefcase.

-Kostya built his own prosthetics and uses his arcane skill to help them move.

-When a mining company was causing problems, Kostya created a large puppet based on the Leshy of Slavic folklore, therefore the story to introduce him is titled "The Leshy of Appalachia". The Leshy puppet is also his ultimate, a summonable creature that stays in play for two turns. It's made mostly of old trees and bones, a force of nature indeed.

-Kostya of course knew Igor and he carries a lot of mixed feelings over Igor's actions, though his negative feelings towards Igor is apparent when it comes to Lopera and the human members of Zeno who were killed in the rebellion.

No...it's not gaslighting if a creator answers questions about the show they made and what they would've liked to explore in the show that ended up being changed. That's just how producing something works especially when you consider time and budget.

Now how I worded by TADC post was my fault and I shouldn't have necessarily said Pomni had anger issues. That was due to how I interpreted the post and didn't go back to reread it to double check.

@gooseworx my bad for that.

That being said, again not gaslighting and calling it that shows that you don't know how a production works. It's like claiming 5G causes Covid.

Quit it.

Please actually research animation production and like...actually research it, no AI summaries

Thinking about Jax and their story kinda had me reflect on myself a bit because here's the thing....

I would've told Jax to go abstract at some point.

Now before we pull out the pitchforks let me explain; part of the reason why Jax isn't my favorite character but I do appreciate how well written they are as a character and it's simply because if I had been in the Circus, I would've been an easy target for Jax.

I am a reactive person; it's easy to get a rise out of me (I am trying to work on it) and if I had been dealing with Jax especially I would've said something in anger that I would end up regretting later.

I wouldn't wish Abstraction on anyone but I know myself, I get to a point where I try to hurt someone more when they're hurting me and they won't stop, especially in a stressful situation like being trapped in the circus. Basically, I have some anger issues. I don't like hurting people that way and truly I try hard not to because it gets me nowhere and it only makes it harder to be taken seriously.

I wonder if that's what Pomni's anger issues are? She holds back to the point where eventually she just explodes?

@gooseworx said they wanted to explore Pomni's anger issues in the show but there wasn't time to do so.

In turn when dealing with this kind of anger and when people see it, you want to absolutely run and hide because you feel like you've just revealed who you truly are and that everyone now thinks you're a horrible person. But anger is only part of you and in society, we've developed an idea that anger is something that's a negative. That will inherently make you a bad person and I wonder if that's also why Pomni seemed lonely. Being afraid of people not taking you seriously can also make you angry and then it feeds into itself that because you got angry people won't take you seriously still.

There's no such thing.

We are only human and we make mistakes because of ignorance, youth, etc. A 20 year old who made racist remarks can indeed grow and change and realize that they were foolish when they made them. To hold their actions from the past when their actions now no longer reflect their past is counterintuitive and denies them the growth they had rightly worked through.

People can grow and change and become better and that needs to be encouraged. Holding their actions from years ago over their head is what Right Wing Evangelicals do.