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If you asked me to envision a burdenbeast, my first guess would have been cow. Then horse; after all, people milk horses. Afterwards, I’d have started wracking my brain, trying to think of all the different animals people have used for pulling heavy loads, riding, and dairy, with the assumption that maybe we didn’t use them for all three of those tasks but the people of Terra did. Then I’d imagine some sort of fantasy animal.

Needless to say…

…megacerops was not in my list of possibilities. In fact, if you sat me down and told me I had to guess what a burdenbeast was to leave, I’d probably die in that seat.

Definitely not complaining, though. It’s a wonderful idea.

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good