I keep seeing posts about Bobby Dawn having a change of heart, or a realization, or anything after hearing about what happened to Buddy. And those are all well and good, but here's the thing. He won't. Not even a little bit.
I grew up in a conservative Christian religion in the south, which is definitely the vibe that Bobby Dawn gives off. Tragedies like this did little to shake the true blue believers. "God has a plan for all of us" was a common sentence to hear after a tragedy, whether it was a hurricane that devastated parts of the world, or a member's toddler got cancer. God always had a plan.
When Bobby hears about his grandson, he may be sad (maybe. Death in dnd isn't as big a deal as it is in the real world), he may be angry at Kettlebell Carpaltunnel, but he will never question Sol or Helio's plan for his grandson.
In all honesty, he'll probably be mad at Kristen, the nonbeliever who left Helio without a chosen one. "Miss Applebees, may I give you a word of advice? When a path is laid before you, it is the height of arrogance to leave it and choose your own." If it weren't for her wickedness and apostasy, Helio would still have his chosen one. If this sinner had stayed with Helio, she would still be in class. The last stand would never take place, and Buddy wouldn't have had to be there to die. But the wicked girl had the arrogance to question Helio, and to cause not only her own downfall, but the death of his beloved grandson, a young man who wasn't chosen, but still followed Helio's word and was faithfully devoted to him.
Of course, Helio has a plan, and that plan was for Buddy to die, but if there were anger to be placed, it would be on Kristen. But in his belief, it's not the fault of Sol, nor Helio.
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This one was a WILD ride XD Such a good time to work on, but EACH AGUEFORT IS AN INDIVIDUAL LAYER. Shout out to Derek and Ruby for animating all of these very silly principals ♥
Ame and her Foxxy familiar! We've all got those friends you just can't take your eyes off... Oh, they SEEM innocent enough, but somehow chaos just seems to find them! That's how I feel about Ame and Fox as played immaculately by Erika Ishii and Brennan Lee Mulligan respectively!
This post is awesome, and it makes me wonder where the rat grinders were during that prom fight freshman year. Did they skip prom to get extra experience in the woods? Were they some of the kids running out of the gym scared? Do they feel jealous, ashamed, or defensive about how little they’ve done compared to the bad kids? Or do they like that they’ve gamed the system?
i wonder how the rat grinders felt when they realized that not only are the bad kids insanely good adventurers, but they also love each other.
like, i can just imagine the high 5 heroes first starting out, and they're excited and nervous because they all just met and hit it off, and they're going to be an adventuring party now! and then they hear about another group of freshmen who got detention together and are forced to be an adventuring party, but also they got into their fight (an actual fight!) and they totally killed the lunch lady!
and maybe they were a little envious because the bad kids got actual experience, but they pushed that aside. they would get to have their own adventure in their own time! and it's a little sad that the bad kids were forced together instead of getting to choose like they did. and then months go by, and they realize they might not have as much in common as they thought, and maybe they start to really only talk when they're in the woods killing rats, but hey, at least they chose each other!
and then the bad kids kill the acting principal, unravel a whole apocalypse that was about to happen, and save the world, and the high 5 heroes realize they just spent all of freshman year killing rats. and then sophomore year happens, and they probably see how close the bad kids, how they literally revolve around each other, and some of them literally live in the same house as each other. the bad kids go on a big world-saving adventure again, and they see videos on the bad kid's website of them having a great time being an adventuring party. and maybe they look at the people they chose to be an adventuring party with, and they realize they really don't care about each other that much.
i wonder if they looked at the bad kids and realized they had everything the rat grinders wanted: favoritism from the school, honed skills from actual fights, world-saving adventures, and a family. i wonder if that's when they really started to hate them.