Just a quick question, did anyone else read the Gathering Storm the story where she actually killed the Obzedat?
Nah. Then again the death of the Obzedat happened back in January, the War of the Spark novel happened in April, and the Gathering Storm was a slow burn over two months (June to July) for just the Obzedat story.
God I'm sick of Kaya. For one, she is probably going to ruin the story again by killing another character. For two, she killed the obzedat! I'll never forgive her. I was very excited to get a new card for them, and it got pushed out by a subpar Kaya card. And now she is here to ruin something else...
The thing about this complaint is that it doesn't really seem relevant here.
Yes, Kaya killed established characters in her only appearances so far.
Yes, a "spirit killer" is probably going to kill spirits again this time around.
The thing about that, though, is that this is an entirely new plane for us.
There aren't going to be people who were hoping to see more cards of "Kromaun of the Hallowed Halls" or whatever because any creature she kills this time around will be entirely new and will have no pre-established fans. If anything, putting Kaya in brand new planes is the safest way to use her as it means that we don't have to worry about her bumping off an established character that people already like.
No, my comment is relevant. She is a poorly written character who simply gets put into worlds to kill people off. Sure, maybe we don't know anyone here, but she will likely kill off someone important to the story just because that's what she does. Actually, I would hope that she gets bumped off just because she is just a plot device. I'm sick of the stories revolving around planeswalkers meddling in the events of every single plane we go to and having such of the story revolve around their involvement.
It feels fake.
It's like every planeswalker shows up at just the right time in every world to see the biggest events, and then changes them. There is little to no evidence why this happens for most of the planes they visit, yet there they are: front and center and the heroes of the story.
Plus shes no Agent 47. Like yea shes basically been used as a hitman, but she doesn't really kill her primary target in a creative way either. So all we are left with is a 1-note assassin.
Like even the way she killed the council is basically no-selling it. Sure the council had it coming, but if fights are like a story, then man Obzedat's death was a snorefest. Easiest fix is just having Kaya go after the ghost council one member one at a time when they are alone like Kaya is the predator. Which creates a tension, possibly a better motive, as Kaya can't just waltz up and kill them all at once as together they are too strong, but alone they are easy pickings.
Since she just strolls in and kills them all like it were nothing, they blew their load with her in terms of potential story development. Like if she can kill the ghost council, ancient powerful ghosts who can literally create blackholes and had a warded room to keep assassins out, then where do you take her story from there? She can go kill I guess the Kaldheim equivalent of Hel or Odin or whatever who is also a ghost but it just makes her uninteresting as they have established that Kaya is more a plot device and less a character.
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Like even the way she killed the council is basically no-selling it. Sure the council had it coming, but if fights are like a story, then man Obzedat's death was a snorefest. Easiest fix is just having Kaya go after the ghost council one member one at a time when they are alone like Kaya is the predator. Which creates a tension, possibly a better motive, as Kaya can't just waltz up and kill them all at once as together they are too strong, but alone they are easy pickings.
Since she just strolls in and kills them all like it were nothing, they blew their load with her in terms of potential story development. Like if she can kill the ghost council, ancient powerful ghosts who can literally create blackholes and had a warded room to keep assassins out, then where do you take her story from there? She can go kill I guess the Kaldheim equivalent of Hel or Odin or whatever who is also a ghost but it just makes her uninteresting as they have established that Kaya is more a plot device and less a character.