Thrilling. Impressions: It exists. One day, one of these will be genuinely good, or some kind of clever actual subversion of the entire trope instead of just being edgy or killing one dude off before doing cheat power in earnest for the actual protagonist. But not today, and the whole of next year probably […]
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