Mmm - one nice thing about playing Elle is that almost every conversation she has is something of a learning experience for her, even if it's just things like 'this is how people say words' or 'people don't like this' or 'X did this' or whatever. She's both aware of and very uncertain about the world, and also pretty terrible at maintaining her own self-interest, and all of this makes her conceptions of the world very malleable. She's pretty much always feeling her way through things, and obviously being able to do that in the Bar had a hugely tremendous impact on her. In terms of anything very specific, I think she's learned to be slightly more organized and thoughtful, and learned certain hand-to-hand combat moves she didn't know before, and that's mostly thanks to X.

I suppose it also meant I took Elle in a different direction than canon, but I'm not sure I'd use the word plot hole for something that's more likely completely ignoring previous characterization so she can be a personality-less stand-in for some other dude's story. Whatever.


I feel like Leslie will probably mostly use the Bar to help her do all the work she already does, though I am considering maybe giving her a hobby/skill thing to work on here. (I was thinking maybe something like archery, as she's already reasonably skilled hunting with a shotgun, and she's probably read The Hunger Games. But then she'd need to build like, any upper body strength.)


Given that I think Asami has this very powerful curiosity, there's probably a lot she can/will learn in Milliways. Even before her conversation with Artemis I was thinking about maybe trying to throw learning an other-world language at her, though as Voodoo directed her to the garage unattended, I'm mostly at this point reminding her that she like... needs to eat. Um.


And I'm not sure about Manny. /stops being a bad mun and gets to work on his OOM.