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If I had a nickle everytime these were my favourite characters i'd have two nickles.
If I had a nickel for every time a cheerful, silly, “jester” type character was abandoned by their friends and came back as a bitter, twisted version of themselves with messed up hair and dark marks under their eyes, I’d have two nickels, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
(Also they both ultimately get redeemed and then go off away from the main cast for a long time to recover.)