#spirala kinross

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Making Spirula a lesbian who happened to have children with a bad man makes her feel like Willow 2.0

Seriously, it's the same story (even if i feel that Mel made this so Spirula can feel more sympathetic)

NOOOOO YOU'RE RIGHTTT...

Someone tell Mel to get a bit more creative please. You can't keep using the same formula.

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OH THE MAN WHO ENTERS INTO THE LILIUMS HOUSE AND KILL EVERYONE PLOTLINE

I hate the fact the ONLY REASON he did this is because Snowdrop ""rejected"" him by moving out without her choice

Also sometimes two demon kids are involved in this murder which is very ????

THAT IS SO STUPID, OH MY GOD. NOBODY IS "REJECTINC" SOMEONE BECAUSE THEY'RE MOVING. WHY IS SNOWDROP NOW BAD FOR MOVING AGAINST HER WILL AS A CHILD BECAUSE HER PARENTS ARE RACIST AND DIDN'T WANT HER TO BE AROUND BROKE PEOPLE. Mel try not to make unnecessary plotlines and ideas that don't make sense at all challenge!

Also the archon/demon kids have names, they're called Lillith and Lestat.

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found this blog accidentally because of the Quartelz hashtag and saw you and other anons talking about goatasus brooches so i'll give my own opinion too

I really like the brooches and seasons/weather thing as a concept

If all brooches independent of the form had the same soft texture it wouldn't be a problem, but fact that the brooches have different textures, how tf goatasus like Pearl, Frostbite, Corundum or Spirala even sleep???

About the weather/seasons... i don't mind a lot tbh, it's a fun concept but Goatasus have nothing else to know their children is really theirs, the only way we know Peafowl is truly the lilium siblings dad is because of Bronze and Frostbite hand markings

EXACTLY. It feels like Mel hasn't even thought out things for the Goatasi to the point where they feel so unnecessary to the story because their species sometimes will make sense but then we still don't understand how they work, like how they're much physically weaker yet magically strong (even though in the older story, St★rdrop trained Pastel for years then it was Dominik training Pastel to be a child soldier, and Peafowl was supposed to be a bit more buffer yet he doesn't have alot of muscle on him.)

Brooches and seasons may be interesting, but there's a huge lack of seasonal changes in the species that I don't think Mel considered? If Goatasi were born in the winter, they'd definitely need to shed their coat of fur in the warmer seasons so they aren't constantly hot, and they'd need to regrow that fur to prevent staying cold. Summer Goatasi would be the same thing but reversed.

The colours on them make virtually no sense, because again, where are the genetics other than the markings and SOMETIMES the brooch? What about similar colour schemes to the parents so we know who their parents are? Fern is green and Spirala is orange, yet Snowdrop is blue and the only thing that indicates she's from the Kinross family is the brooch she's named after, but Pearl looks more like her mother.

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Wait, did Mel really write these questions? I only knew about Nadia's abuse

Yeah, she did. And I got the post link for Snowdrop being abused by her parents (especially Fern, don't mind Spirala's old name being Periwinkle, huge TW for child abuse by the way. It's literally so fucking upsetting and nasty.) but the CSA comic and the Pastel abusing 🍊's character are incredibly triggering and so viscerally disturbing that I can't even look at them.