This. And I think that also, because it's so fantastical and can't be replicated in real world situations, it creates this disconnect where it's hard...
Yeah, I found it highly off-putting at first, but... it was a book with real stakes, where you didn't know if the characters actually had plot armor....
And of cpurse, Hellion. The last decade has only proven him more and more right, retroactively. He has absically won by default. Plus he also dated a...