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[Saur Ops Specialist]

Ah, right. It's been so long since I watched it, and his character slid so much toward just being outright racist as time went on that I forgot about that one.



And there's probably another layer where she's moving something out of your line of sight at least part of the time, too....

[Saur Ops Specialist]

Raksi from 1e would have been an improvement over 2e. It's one of those bars that 2e managed to lower instead of tiptoeing over or swerving around. As for comparisons to Eric Cartman, a big part of what makes him objectionable is utilizing pre-existing systemic racism and other forms of structural bigotry to beat other characters down, so I would measure that as a very far comparison, what with it being hard to imagine those fitting into Exalted. A bit even farther so for a Lunar out some ways from an empire that controls most practical perceptions of her to the outside world, to boot....

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"Oh how I love her... father's money!"...

[Saur Ops Specialist]

Prior material has painted the fall of Dragon-Blooded hegemony as somewhat inevitable - all of the wonders they use to maintain their empire will fail, the empire will crumble, and there isn't much, if anything, that can stem the tide, because they're squatting on stuff that Solars built for Solar use and persistent only by Solar maintenance. Short of forcing captured Solars to labor to maintain it, which is dangerous for a number of reasons, they're headed on a downward trajectory....

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Utena falls flat for me when it comes to Lunar sources, but mentioning why is going into spoilers. So, spoiler tag on for the Black Rose Duelists Arc and on into the end of the series!

I've been rifling through the cliffs-notes spoilers and various video and conventional essay commentaries about details that Developer Vance alluded to, and there are some definite things that come up that seem way more Abyssal than Lunar, with Fair Folk as another possibility.

1 - she kind of died long before the series events started.
2 - her true self is in a coffin.
3 -

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[Saur Ops Specialist]

It could be that both are derived from the Mesoamerican term nagual/nahual, so probably not....

[Saur Ops Specialist]

Is Seven Devil Clever a No Moon, now?

[Saur Ops Specialist]

You're asking the wrong person for hope about this....

[Saur Ops Specialist]

All threads are Lunar threads, except for Lunar threads that start as such, which inevitably become something else....