#oxtra

corazon most likely wouldn't be able to fight off the pirates on his own for very long, especially once his father gets involved. he'd be killed in what would be "a spot of bother" and then buried as "percival milquetoast," his father coming up with some sort of lie that he was ambushed by pirates while doing an overseas study. i think that lord milquetoast would still eventually find out abt the killmost ancestry and lay his claim on the manor of necropolis on sea, so corazon's father would get to live out the life that he killed his own son over. corazon would be remembered by the name he rejected, not the one he chose for himself (side note: andy has a really good knack for making characters that fit into transgender allegories)

merilwen would have to return to her village eventually and, without her friends with her to intervene, she'd be forced into an adult name by way of the tombola. she wouldn't be allowed to adventure, and sure she would enjoy hunting a bit, but she'd still be trapped. every wildcat she encounters would remind her of simon, but instead she's the one trapped with no one to set her free. she'd watch the birds soar and wish she could fly with them, but she never advanced enough to be able to turn into a giant eagle or a pterodactyl. like corazon, she wouldn't be merilwen, the name she's held so dear to herself. she'd be something else until the world ends around her.

prudence would be forced to renounce cthulu and made to live as a hermit, as much as she despises it. in legacy of dragons, when she gets put in the pocket dimension, she's sad about being lonely. despite her general attitude, it's obvious that it's mostly a persona she puts on because of her scary tiefling warlock visuals. she doesn't like being alone, but that's all a hermit is. solitude. no patron, no friends, not even any enemies to smite down. she was abandoned by her parents as a baby, which most likely is the root cause of why she hates being alone. she was born alone, she lived alone, and she'll die alone.

i don't think dob would ever get reunited with suzette if it weren't for him being apart of the guild. he'd travel the world, singing the lullaby and trying to find his sister, but would overall fail. i like to think that he'd eventually find his way into joining lady fyengeh's troupe of performers, but even that doesn't really last forever. if we suspend enough belief that without the guild, mistmire would still survive jacques darkfall and that chauncey survives, then once lady fyengeh weds chauncey, the troupe is essentially disbanded. i think dob would end up spending the rest of his life with flannery, funnily enough, and it would drive him insane.

in elf hazard, it's very obvious that the rest of the oxventurers don't really take wood elf culture and tradition seriously, suggesting elf names that are objectively funny just because they're weird sounds. i think it's dob who also decks himself out with "elven jewelry" and then gets told by adhrel that it's accidentally offensive

i'm currently rewatching hog wild and in p2, when they're fighting the property developers and corazon/andy mentions smth about donning a headdress made of bark and leaves while riding the mechanical hog, and my mind jumped to those very offensive "indian" halloween costumes (though i don't think andy was purposefully trying to offend or upset anyone with this)

all throughout the oxventurer's guild series, and even in their recent live shows, it's pretty obvious that the rest of the guild always tease merilwen for her affinity with nature and animals, and also teasing her for being a ruthless or heartless killer with instances such as her spike growth, despite the fact that the rest of the crew (ie prudence) has done arguably worse and doesn't get half as much teasing as merilwen does

obviously we can't say for sure that this is what the oxven crew intended when ellen made merilwen & johnny shaped g'eth but i do like the added nuance of this parallel to the real world

i also remember reading on another post which i cant relocate that out of all the oxventurers, prudence is the one that is always the most empathetic to merilwen's love for nature, and that people being tiefling racist to her helps her sympathize because she understands how frustrating it is when other don't take you seriously just because of where you come from and what you believe in