#right now they're the dead 'queer icon' (as if cr hasn't had multiple queer characters in all types of roles across all their campaigns)

[thevalleyisjolly]

Being quietly but incredibly vindicated by Taliesin explicitly saying at the Comic-Con panel that bringing Molly back would have been wrong, that Molly’s whole deal was a celebration of the ephemeral, and that introducing Kingsley was always the plan.

#not maintagging this one because i simply don't have the strength for molly discourse now #yes! you can miss molly! a major recurring theme in cr is death and grief and mourning and healing #but it would be completely antithetical to the actual canon character to bring them back #if in your own headcanon or fic; you want to imagine a version of molly as alive; more power to you #but canon never 'owed' us a resurrected molly because actual canon molly would never stand for it #i feel like a lot of people got caught up in the excellent RP by the rest of the cast about their characters' grief for molly #and with death and in grief; you often idolize people; overlook their negative qualities and fixate on their good moments #which is not the fault of the cast (who RP-ed it excellently) or the characters (who mourned very realistically) #but a lot of people got caught up in those powerful emotions and it just contributed to the deification of the character #which led to real world nasty behaviours like shitting on caduceus and attacking fans who did anything other than praise molly #people really took the 'i am your god' JOKE a little too far #on a side note; you just known that if molly had lived; they'd have eventually clashed with the rampant biphobia in the cr fandom #right now they're the dead 'queer icon' (as if cr hasn't had multiple queer characters in all types of roles across all their campaigns) #but if they'd lived; how many people who now laud them as the pinnacle of queer rep would deny their bisexuality? #i thank blood maledict that we never had to witness the absolute nightmare that would have erupted if molly/jester ever became a thing