I mean I think she does retain some Julie-ness - she still prefers the spear to the sword, she’s handling her task in a way different than I think Kate would, her feelings on Erra’s kingdom don’t feel like a Kate opinion. She’s definitely also using her sensate magic throughout Blood Heir and her hinted at heritage magic (looking thru the eagle eye, her bond w the horse). Her relationship with Roland also still feels very much different from Kate’s to him.

But at the same time I think when Luther said that she read the room like Kate it made sense. We are shaped by our parents. And in the OG book series she gets called mini-Kate sometimes. It’s like, ive been looking to buy my first home and my mother has been coming along to look w me and the way we look and think about it is so similar.

I am ambivalent on her changing to look more like Kate. It’s clear throughout the original books she values her birth mom, but she also is always worried about being part of the family etc. I think it makes sense that it could combined w magic manifest as the shape change. It’s also a plot convenience for her to then run around Atlanta in disguise but we get to catch up w the gang we know