Agree, there’s some “Trenchcoat Brigade” aspects to Soothsayer (I used that term to describe his look during Adam’s stream of that cover, and Adam agreed), but Soothsayer is way too nerdy/academic to really be one since the actual Trenchcoat Brigade types tend to be solidly blue collar, working class sorts.
I think it really is that if you opposite Argent’s personality traits you just accidentally end up square in the “grumpy Brit magic know-it-all academic” trope, at which point you might as well lean into it.
Skipping way ahead, because I can’t wait until next Tuesday for this episode, quite possibly my absolute favorite they ever did. It’s certainly one of the biggest shakeups they’ve ever done; Aeternus didn’t exist at all before this week, as far as we know, and it’s debatably a bigger threat than OblivAeon! I don’t think anything ever changed the setting as much as this cosmological retcon.
Maln, I didn’t realize that they created Darkstryfe and Painstake in this same episode. I thought that was a separate Creative Process.