It is perfect

I'm glad.

In my mental timeline, I'm thinking that at the beginning of the kidnapping rumours, Leslie went some places when it was bright out and she kept to major roads, and after this close encounter of "wow so they're really kidnapping people out here" is when she started her current policy of "no leaving the house without an escort."

Except maybe to take Ferdie for a short run up and down the street within sight of the house. This dog needs his walks and he usually gets much longer ones.

That should be what really eats away at Hector as he goes deeper into cult stuff: the current state of affairs is denying a doggo his walkies.

Oh no, the thing to finally make him question a charismatic cult leader: but the DOG tho

He usually gets nice and long walks! Sometimes all the way to the shopping district!! He's dying of cabin fever!!!

"Hahaha, let's make a joke in this tag about Leslie being surprised by how much she wears her heart on her sleeve here! ...Which might be because for most of her life, no one paid enough attention to her to read anything from her body language as long as she was quiet. Oh no, I made myself sad now."

at least it's you and not me for a change. BE SAD FROM YOUR OWN CRIMES

I'm always sad from my own crimes.

I bought into this when I decided to play from a canon that basically averages one sad revelation about how bad Leslie's life used to be per chapter.

So I can't say I don't prepare myself for it. But I'm still always sad from my own crimes.

Now I'm sad from your crimes too

I considered saying nothing either here or in the tag, but then I decided to say it in both.

Forgive me, crime victims.

I decided to simultaneously release "Leslie canonically wears bonnets in the cold" and "Leslie received a tacky sweater for Modranicht" in one glorious mess of a winter outfit.

Thereby ruining any chance of someone thinking she knew how style worked. She's done well up until now, but it appears that was all luck.

Well, at least no one will miss her if she gets lost in the snow

She will certainly stand out.

I bet Hubert was rather uncertain about this one of Leslie's gifts. She would have shown him.

I mean... different worlds, different fashions, and he isn't exactly a purveyor of it in Fodlan

(It's fucking ugly Leslie)

True.

(It's full of friendship feelings!! Just like the completely arbitrary colour scribbles on a canvas she was given at one point and keeps in her room!)

Kaede is negative percent help with fashion advice, don't ask her

It's fine, she's positive percent help in giving a great pillow.

/clown hat war flashbacks

...clown hat what

oh boy

I suddenly feel like the new person in town who asks a question and the entire bar goes dead silent as everyone stares at me before one of them tells me that it's better not to ask.

"We don't talk about those times."

I HEARD SOMEONE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE STUPID HAT

and the rest of her outfit that time wasn't much more coordinated

......I see why you say she's not an expert on fashion.

No offence, Kaede.

since it was literally spare clothes people got out of their suitcases since they weren't moved in

And she just. Wears that in public

and during Incredible Violence

What I know of her canon leads me to believe that Incredible Violence is just the standard backdrop

Basically

I guess some of those aren't hideous separately.

Kaede will wear whatever people give her

use this power responsibly

unless she thinks it's silly looking, but her metric for that is, uh

Yeah

Leslie's canonical fashion era is in the neighbourhood of the Victorian style of Aefenglom, so if she ever uses this power, it would be very period.

In Aef Kaede already tends to pick stuff that looks similar to what Maria wears, so that wouldn't look too amiss

pfff

The Small Child is the one helping Kaede read and also helping with clothes

They have different Tragic Backstories, and Leslie's involved education.

Kaede's formal education ended after like ten because she was busy being a murder cuckoo instead

And that's why Leslie does the reading, and Kaede does the murder.

The garden needs fertilizer!

A creative use of her skills??

Oh Kaede can help with the murder but Hubert can't

This is double standards Sundad

look the Haunted Mansion needs to stay on-brand

Leslie, perhaps unwisely, trusts both of them to only use murder when it is necessary.

Define "necessary"

When the death will improve the world by an evil person's absence. (Leslie is a beacon of good but her moral compass has a few uncommon dials.)

Contact with Hubert has made her also add the possibility of "the person is not unforgivably evil, but is doing bad things and would cause more innocent deaths not killing them."

hey don't @ sundad about this

This reminds me! Canon Leslie actually threatened to murder someone in the most recent chapter!

And actually did murder a pack of predators who were going to eat her friend, but observing how Leslie reacted to this one allowed the bad guy to correctly deduce that Leslie wouldn't follow through on the threat (possibly because the bad guy was only being suspicious rather than threatening immediate harm).

It backed up my thoughts about how Leslie is willing to consider murder, but she is going against her nature when she does so. And also makes me wonder if Aef Leslie makes it to 16 how the people she hangs with would affect what she’d do in a similar circumstance.

I have several reasons why I picked Leslie out of multiple “very kind abused child goes to feared, supernaturally powerful noble family and receives love” protags, but one of them is that I enjoyed a protag who is simultaneously an extremely good and caring person but also is like “sometimes the best revenge is crushing people into the dirt or maybe murder.”

Good protege

It will never stop amazing me how well Leslie and Hubert click.

It's a little alarming honestly

It'll be fine. She has more influences than just a bunch of formal FE3Hs who repress everything.

I mean more in the "the person Hubert feels the greatest kinship with is a 12/13 y.o. girl" haha

During his memories they were just like, yep, mood

LMAO yeah, it is not where I would have expected Hubert to find this connection.

I’m imagining if Hubert told someone who hasn’t met Leslie that he feels they’re a lot alike and they are imagining some goth kid but instead we get a fluffy and brightly-coloured girl who sometimes brings a stuffed animal with her.

Or the other way around.....

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They just arrived at similar conclusions from opposite ends of the personality spectrum.