In topic: "how do we feel about Calliope"

Sunday, August 10th, 2025, 11:15 PM25 days ago

i don't like her very much, but it's hard to blame her for it if that makes any sense. i am generally pretty negative on the majority of act 6, one of the reasons being an over-reliance on characters who were thinly veiled representations of various sections of the fandom. callie to me is very symptomatic of the second one. her and caliborn being at their cores caricatures of "wholesome" and "toxic" fanartists just killed any motivation i had to get invested or interested in either of them, even if they were later fleshed out more than that.


disregarding all the meta reasons and focusing just on her as a character, i usually ended up skimming her chatlogs but i never had any strong opinions on her. the roxy romance felt a little shoehorned to me, but i could say that about a lot of relationships in the back half of the comic. she (or alt callie? whichever, it's been 10 years) provided some interesting context/worldbuilding on the nature of dead sessions, so as someone who is a big nerd about the mechanics of sburb she gets some major points for that.

i'd say overall she's fine. she's far from my least favorite character in that era of the comic, she had some interesting stuff going on, but for the most part just didn't do much for me. alt callie was pretty boss though.

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