I really enjoyed my time with Varina and this game as a whole even if I slumped in posts sometimes. That's more of a personal issue than a game one though. Thanks to our GM team and the playerbase for making it possible.

Always happy to play with you, sister!

Seems like Varina got some closure to her hunt for mommy this time around? And now she has a girlfriend too?!

Just how much was her world shaken when Manny got girlfriends???

Raven Cadera wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 15, 2021 6:00 pm

Always happy to play with you, sister!

Seems like Varina got some closure to her hunt for mommy this time around? And now she has a girlfriend too?!

Likewise! And I don't think Varina is going to be asking "Where is my mommy?" for a long time. As for girlfriend, eh! Can't put labels on things when Varina's involved or else she'll enter avoidant mode.

Manny Donos wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:01 pm

Just how much was her world shaken when Manny got girlfriends???

It's terrible! She was already using that as another metric to consider herself better than Manny and now he's putting her to shame! Raven's married and everyone's coupling around her while she's still processing her mom leaving her dad!

Doesn't Varina have a girlfriend now?

Or is her sexuality a bit of a moving target?

Sister!

Did you as the player Varina would find her mommy in this game? I wasn't sure if it was the reason for your reprisal?

How it started seems vastly different from how it's going, judging from the beginning of the game and what Varina managed to do/discover in that short time!

Varina No-Labels, Stealer of Cookies!

Like I said in Korvin's, I really appreciated just how hard Varina committed to teenagerdom. She's been fun to watch, and interact with.

Thank you for letting me threadbomb you and Manny.

What was the biggest shift for Varina this game? She kind of had a lot of them.

Manny Donos wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:05 pm

Doesn't Varina have a girlfriend now?

Or is her sexuality a bit of a moving target?

It's complicated, both for her sexuality and girlfriend. I didn't even think about romance for her (she was 16 at conception!) but then this game crawled along and I thought, "Wait, teens think about this sort of thing. I was a teen once!" I kind of hammed up her contemplations a good amount, coupled with how I felt like I'd be confused in a galaxy with so many, well, options.

At the end of the day, it seems like Varina is attracted to all sorts of humans and adjacent types. On the romantic angle, she's really difficult... like even worse than being her friend!

Soleene Stryss wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 16, 2021 2:35 am

Sister!

Did you as the player Varina would find her mommy in this game? I wasn't sure if it was the reason for your reprisal?

How it started seems vastly different from how it's going, judging from the beginning of the game and what Varina managed to do/discover in that short time!

I actually discussed with our dear Head GM that I wanted her to hunt for her mom. Her post-game goal from the prior game was to reunite with dad and try to find mom. Thus, her pursuit to have a family.

In a way, I think I subjected myself to Varina's hope of unifying them! It did not turn out that way and I think that's actually more realistic for a mom who left in the first place. Dramatically, I think that disappointment combined with her limb-loss will make for a more mature Varina for a reprisal. In that case, I'd hope I could make her still prickly and prone to violence without lashing out, if that makes sense.

Of and one more thought: I didn't go to the Crater because it seemed like the intuitive choice, like TOO intuitive. Plus Varina wanted her mom to be doing something a bit nobler than raiding all the time. Besides, it also would have been extremely awkward if her mom had been aligned with Carid. All in all, definitely some avoidance there and nobody in their right mind would tell her that.

Dhelih Dotaivi wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:56 am

Varina No-Labels, Stealer of Cookies!

Like I said in Korvin's, I really appreciated just how hard Varina committed to teenagerdom. She's been fun to watch, and interact with.

Thank you for letting me threadbomb you and Manny.

What was the biggest shift for Varina this game? She kind of had a lot of them.

Varina is definitely the type who disregarded boundaries and conventions...

I do think I got into the groove of it! It helped having people who already knew her and enjoyed her company, even if it is prickly. The threadbomb, of course, made it all the better!

Part of my regret this game is that Varina's arc sometimes got shifted into overdrive because big events would happen and I hadn't been active around them... but I still wanted her to change. Ah, well, games are meant to be enjoyed, not work. Back to your question, I'd say she's more tolerant of other people's choices. She did, after all, want to beat up her mom at the start. Now, she's still kind of sour about it, but she's willing to move past it. Another example would be executing the Mandos in the Ketsu fight, a disagreement that made her similar to Dex.

Thank you for bringing Varina to this game, it was a real pleasure seeing her again! As well, it was and is always a cool vibe to have the Varina and Reibelle scenes to get a little hint of those generational vibes which are great.

Varina's always a delight to read, regardless of interaction

Meiyokashi wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 18, 2021 10:00 am

Thank you for bringing Varina to this game, it was a real pleasure seeing her again! As well, it was and is always a cool vibe to have the Varina and Reibelle scenes to get a little hint of those generational vibes which are great.

Varina's always a delight to read, regardless of interaction

Thanks! She's definitely a treat and I do enjoy the opportunity to bring in other generations, family, and whatnot. Makes the universe feel a little more real and bigger to me.

I am curious how the Salky Raiders would have played out if Varina had never existed. Would you have had a similar Valkyrie character or had she been conceptualized because of Varina's quest?

Plot-line as it was actually came together from a lot of the different things I wanted to include, Varina's mother being one! So, yea! The plot as you saw it wouldn't have existed exactly as it did without Varina

I had a backup plan to replace her with another co-leader after the pieces came together, just in case bringing Varina's mother in like that wouldn't fit your vision of what you wanted for her. But it was always a backup to the original plan.