[@Pirouette] So, I won't lie: I noticed that you've been struggling a bit with finding your muse and I'd wondered if this was coming. I wonder if it's a case of not just jumping in with both feet. I feel like we're often so afraid of "getting it wrong" with our characters that we don't just write from the heart, we don't just have those characters seize the day in whatever fashion they might do it. 

I'd encourage you to think back to when you were making Ysilla. What was it that drew you to her? What moment did you have where you were like, "Ooooh! that'd be cool / fun", what made you make her the character that she is? I feel like Ysilla has come off as quiet not so much because she's actually quiet as because she just hasn't been as involved. 

As far as this collab went, that was kind of on us as a group, actually. It came together very suddenly and haphazardly, but we should've pinged you. You'd have gotten it at some point, even if late. That's our - and essentially [i]my[/i] bad as GM. I just think I might've made a subconscious assumption that Ysilla would... be quiet or that you wouldn't be able to write for the collab on short notice. I can't speak to others' thought processes, but it shouldn't have happened like that: just passing you by like a train in the night.

I want to help you find your character's identity, plotline, and place in this story, but I need your help to do it. What's something fun, quirky, daring, dumb, or at least different that she'd do? The others have run up against a brick wall. Maybe her puppets can spy somehow? A bird is pretty innocuous. Maybe she can learn something from the way that the older Tethered essentially use the Gift to make puppets of their own bodies. I really liked the concept of Ysilla and her binary with Zarina, but yeah. She hasn't been what I think she could be or has the potential to be. I wanna see her personality in action. Just because she's not as in your face as her sister doesn't mean she can't be impactful and dynamic!

Let her have fun! Let her mess up. Let her make a friend or an enemy. Zarina just fell flat on her face. What does that do for Ysilla? Maybe the sisters should have some interaction during the search for the aberration: possibly a collab. For my part, I'm going to be better with pinging you about anything noteworthy that happens on discord related to your character and possible things you could become involved in. I had kind of just been assuming that [@YummyYummy] was always doing it, though I hadn't asked and it's not really his job, haha. I used to only have discord on my laptop as well for the sake of work-life balance and not becoming a phone zombie. I can appreciate that and I wanna try to make this RPG work for you. For your part, I'd exhort you to ask questions, look for leads, and drop me or the others messages both on here and on discord when you're online. Be active in seeking opportunities for Ysilla and they will be there. I'll make sure of it.

And hey, if it doesn't work out and we can't turn this around, then at least we gave it our honest best effort and that's all I ever ask. No hard feelings. At least you didn't ghost.