for some reason dawntrail was everybody's brand new first experience with a character serving their thematic and literary purpose and then sidelining or removing themselves in the larger continuing plot, heedless of the number of characters that have done that before them and will after them. wuk lamat didn't bow out similarly to aymeric after the events of 7.0, her own rise to prominence within her own culture, instead her relevance plummeted like a stone and she's being abandoned. wuk lamat most reminds me of vriska from homestuck in the sense of everyone who reads the story either liking her a great deal or completely loathing her with an enormous audience off to the side that couldn't give less of a fuck about her specifically, but vriska was also supposed to be a mary sue parody that andrew hussie ended up taking completely seriously in on-and-off waves while declining to joke about her the way he used to in earlier years ("fat vriska, we will be married at seaworld" etc) and wuk lamat both hasn't been in the story long enough and won't be in the story long enough to really warrant that kind of attention, so the fact she got that kind of attention is very strange to me