#otterlings

Ngl, I teared up a bit when I got the prompt that Heather was dead. Yes, every death before his was a bit of a bummer, but Heather was the first time a character died that I was already truly attached to. It's moments like these where I've wanted to close out Clangen and retry the moon to get something different--but that's not how this works! I can only hope that you all have come to love Heather as much as I have.

So! One thing I wanna make explicitly clear is that, canonically, Heather didn't groom Daisy. That's why I made sure that she was the one to confess her feelings, and that almost all of their romantic buildup was from her perspective! (Of course, there are no thought police, and you are welcome to come up with whatever headcannons you'd like!)

When I got the prompt that Grouseslash refused to go to Heather's vigil, I hadn't even realized that she hated him at that point (I wasn't always great about keeping an eye on the relationship bars, oops-I have a whole chart for it now!). So it provided a great opportunity to revisit the unnamed rogue arc and really dig into how that might have impacted her relationships with authority and the way she views the world.