i think feferi does a lot to flesh out the world of alternia, but more to flesh out beforus. it's kind of an understated thing because people don't really think about the dancestors, but feferi's caged-animal philosophy to raising trolls really shows in a lot of ways the dancestors are fucked up. it's great, it's legitimately compelling.

and it's really funny that people will say "beforus was a better place than alternia" as if beforus didn't produce some of the most fucked up people in the cast