#riptide tomorrow.

Alright, JRWIeners, since Riptide is coming back in the next few months, I figured I finally get this discussion going again. Who do we think is the mole in Lizzie's crew?

The obvious answer is Caspian. He's kind of the odd one out in the crew, being the only one who predates the campaign. But also. Caspian seems to have been around Lizzie since the Shadowbeard days. Either this is a really long con or something else is up. I think if the mole is Caspian, then he's been replaced by a duplicate, as we saw with the whole DoppleGilly issue.

Then theirs John. While he is a former Navy soldier, I don't think he's the mole. If he was, why'd he get sent to the BLOCK? Unless they made a deal with him there or something??? Also he's been around the crew so much and there hasn't even been the slightest hint of any ulterior motives from him.

Aannnd I don't know enough about Rudith to make a judgement on that. Though, point on their favor, we found them on outlaw soil. Considering Jay got jumped just for looking like a Ferin (granted, she was actually a spy, but Lizzie didn't know that until well after), i doubt a navy rat could survive there for long.

Warning for me rambling with no pictures because if I draw art for this I will be lost to the trenches forever and I have other stuff to finish (Gem AU mostly).

I've seen a few swap AU ideas get brought up before. But lately I've been thinking of my own. Basically all of the Albatrio get swapped with their respective sister figures. Ava and Jay swap, Chip and Lizzie, and then Edyn and Gill.

A lot would go differently of course. I think instead of Arlin getting stuck in The Hole in the Sea's catacombs(?) it would be Chey. And maybe Chip still runs with Price in the modern day. Which would mean Lizzie's motive is still relatively the same as Chip's, but there's room for deviation in certain arcs. Imagine you meet your little brother figure after not seeing him for years and he's like. A little emo now.

Not too sure if Jay would die instead of Ava or if they're both alive. I mean, obviously, Jay's main motivation in canon is to figure out what happened to her sister. But like. I don't want my girl to be dead. Idk.

Gill's still the chosen one but he's like... What the Elders wanted him to be. And Edyn's is NOT a fan of that. She's probably still doing spy shit. She'd be a rogue.

On the topic of classes. I'm not entirely sure how closely they stick to DnD 5e for Riptide? I know Gill's subclass is homebrewed but other than that I'm unsure of the specifics. Assuming we could just use regular 5e stuff, Edyn would be a Swashbuckler Rogue (because Pirates), and then Ava would be a Ranger. Genuinely no fucking clue what Lizzie would be because apparently whips aren't really supposed to be wielded by players and they're really made for enemies to use. And of course, in the show, Lizzie seems to have a custom stat block instead of a player-adjacent one. Maybe a Fighter? Also she's 6'5 because I said so.

Their ship would be called the Matron Rose, referencing the Black Rose and also it just sounds like something two sapphics and a fish would come up with.