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tbh Caramelinda is the ONLY NPC that I’ve trusted this entire season; Brennan also said she’s one of his favorite NPCs, not that that means she ISN’T nefarious, but I find it hard to believe she would do anything that could lead to her daughters getting killed. she’s hard on them, but she loves them.
I’ve been pretty inclined to trust her as well--at least concerning her intentions with her family. Like, I wasn’t sure about her politics in general since Brennan gave us that line about her being kinda isolationist and “what the world took from her” (which we now know is about Lazuli) but from an in game standpoint, I never really got bad vibes from her and from an out of game standpoint, I feel like “fun dad/mean-to-the-point-of-literal-evil mom” is not really in line with how Brennan tends to frame things (not that I know the man’s brain. Just going by the last few seasons of d20). Strict =/= good (see eg: Goldenhoard) but it doesn’t mean bad either and, in fact, in a world like this, to be strict is to be loving if you want your super high risk for assassination daughters to stay alive. And, I mean, was she wrong? How did messing around work out for Jet? And Ruby is only alive by the skin of her teeth.
So, for the record, I am still hard Team Cara until we get explicit proof to the contrary, but I like to be as thorough as possible when I recap.