Arya - Your voice is retaining its strength, and your characterization shows no particular weaknesses, so don't feel bad about your portrayal at all. You know I don't mind slow tags anyway. Really, you're doing fine with Arya, so definitely don't feel self-conscious here.
At the same time, I know that this can be frustrating. Particularly with her, she's lost closer cross-canon CR that she can easily talk to on several occasions in the last two months. When it happens on repeated occasions, that definitely frustrates things, so I can feel you here.
My main suggestion is try to stick it out for a month or so. We will have new characters coming off the boat in December again, and the war just went into cold-war stages, so we shouldn't have to deal with the overwhelming feel of Ragnarok. Get a look at the sorts of IC plots other players are starting, see if you can sneak your way into one or more of those in a couple weeks and just don't worry too much. If you need help with AC to get through November, give me a buzz. I think you'll have a clearer idea if Arya's still workable by late December.
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At the same time, I know that this can be frustrating. Particularly with her, she's lost closer cross-canon CR that she can easily talk to on several occasions in the last two months. When it happens on repeated occasions, that definitely frustrates things, so I can feel you here.
My main suggestion is try to stick it out for a month or so. We will have new characters coming off the boat in December again, and the war just went into cold-war stages, so we shouldn't have to deal with the overwhelming feel of Ragnarok. Get a look at the sorts of IC plots other players are starting, see if you can sneak your way into one or more of those in a couple weeks and just don't worry too much. If you need help with AC to get through November, give me a buzz. I think you'll have a clearer idea if Arya's still workable by late December.