I’m honestly so obsessed by Belkar Bitterleaf. Like he starts as a one-note joke character, then we get a prophecy that he’s going to permanently die within the year (that’s an in-universe year oracle fans) that he never hears. And then he has one of the most carefully plotted characters arcs ever where he grows into being a full person and looks like he’s starting to swing to the side of the angels and the entire time we the reader know that he’s not going to live to see the end of it. It makes me want to scream. How am I supposed to be normal about him?