Those Were Bad Ideas And You Should All Feel Bad

Hey, I’m J! Just a girl who got emotionally invested in the campaign of some nerdy ass voice actors (heads up: this is not a spoiler free sideblog)

[screechfoxes]

Julien + comforting Occtis

CRITICAL ROLE 4.31 Trick of the Light

[corvidkusnos]

Julien is an older brother who is protective of his younger sister an used to facing the scorn of his parents, I think it's only natural that seeing how abusive Occtis' family is to him that there's a protective older brother instinct in him to want to protect him

Julien in the Overture: Occtis your family sucks, you're not leaving my sight because I don't trust you and hope to lure out your family to kill them

Julien in the Convergence: Occtis your family sucks, I'm not gonna admit I care about you so openly yet but I'm your older brother now get behind me

[see-arcane]

Wicander: I’ve got this. I just spent an evening being a convincing Scion of House Halovar. I can maneuver around Primus on my own!

The Dice: eat shit Light Brite

Azune: Hey, is there any way I can convince the head of House Einfasen to start plotting towards aiding our Royce allies while also scheming to hammer Tachonis to death right now, this second?

The Dice: Would you like more 20s on that, king?

[corrya]

It's not lost on me that Dol-makjar is a historically orcish city and yet has a governing body consisting entirely of humans. How the hallowed round, the very site of so much orcish suffering, is mearly on a lease to Hal from the sundered houses, trying to corrupt and shape the stories they share there.

[halzune]

What are you doing here?

CRITICAL ROLE EP 30: Here in the Dark

[ariadne-mouse]

i love Aabria pointing out that in a world where magic exists like this, it is not unreasonable to worry that a Restoration could reveal something - that at any point you may have been subject to a controlling magic without your knowledge or consent. imagine someone casts a Restoration on you and something you thought was immutable or true changes. I would also be relieved any time I came out the other side unaffected, and be glad to have buddies willing to cast it on me

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

[honourablejester]

Oh my fucking god, Thaisha fucking Lloy. Wreathed in storm, surrounded by her people, priestess of her city, telling this foreign false faith to fuck right off before they get hurt. Oh my god.

Like, the difference between the Thaisha of the ritual, the gentle shepherdess guiding lost souls through grief and joy to freedom, and then this Thaisha Lloy, stone cold, stone faced, just flatly daring anyone to touch what is hers. No explanations, no nothing. Just flat, this is the way it is because I say so. Do we have a problem?

I am getting Delenn of the Minbari flashbacks, because Thaisha Lloy just made a whole combat just go away. Tail between their legs.

There's all these Magpies in the background with their crossbows, Vaelus, Azune, Hal, Murray, half of damned Dol Makjar ready to have a fucking go, and none of it is needed.

Just Thaisha. Just a Lloy. Casually ready to stand her ground.

Hot damn.

[beautifulterriblequeen]

Is anyone else losing their mind over Kattigan wanting Teor back so badly that he would take being haunted by his spirit just to be near him again, and the only reason he doesn't do that is because he knows how hard Teor strived to find and free his brother, and now that the brothers are together in death, Kattigan would not take that away from Teor even for his own fraught angsty comfort? Just me?

[revvethasmythh]

matt: molaesmyr you do recall as one of the previous powerful elven nations. however, through some strange, not entirely understood cataclysm, the city fell and the surrounding forest was corrupted

me:

[screechfoxes]

CRITICAL ROLE 4.29 Opening Night

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Is your Dungeons and Dragons character too happy? Are they too settled into their life and thusly require some kind of personal tragedy to motivate them to leave it and take up a life of adventuring? Try Primus Tachonis!

Primus Tachonis is an all-purpose personal tragedy creator sure to spur your character to adventure specifically so they can get his ass. Whether you need an old money asshole muscling in on an institution beloved to your PC or an evil sorcerer to slaughter their entire family Primus Tachonis has the magic and the social station to create whatever tragedy is required to serve your backstory.

Primus Tachonis is so versatile as a backstory tool he has professional D&D players raving:

Primus Tachonis killed my character's best friend and now she has to figure out who she is without him! -Laura Bailey I wrote a light backstory because I was still feeling out the setting and my dungeon master used Primus Tachonis to turn my brother into a statue! -Travis Willingham Primus Tachonis is trying to take over my character's magic school and endangering her students, and she will not have that! -Marisha Rey I had intended my character to have a tense but ultimately repairable relationship with his father, but then my DM used Primus Tachonis to rip his skull from his head. Now my character is on a quest to kill every member of Primus' noble house! -Matthew Mercer My character was a happy and established local playwright until Primus Tachonis had his little brother executed. Now he's taken up the sword again in his brother's stead! -Liam O'Brian I needed someone to murder my character's wife and daughter and my dungeon master suggested Primus Tachonis, and I couldn't be happier with the result! -Robbie Daymond Even works on members of his own family! -Alexander Ward

So don't miss out on the one-man solution to forcing your character to feel the call to adventure, try Primus Tachonis today!

[dol-makjarcoffeehouse]

I just want to make a quick note about this before people get too silly about the situation. It's very important to remember that Robbie is Native American, and is putting a lot of work into making sure that Kattigan has indigenous cultural touchstones as part of his characterization. And that is the appropriate lens through which we should view his missing and murdered wife and daughter, I think.

I would be reluctant to use fridging in this exact context, because this isn't some imaginary scenario to generate manpain for a white hero, this is a much more common experience of Native American and First Nation people, having their wives and daughters and sisters (in particular, but not exclusively) go missing. And never getting answers, never learning what happened, and not being believed that there's a problem in the first place.

This is like how being rescued from a tower by a prince is not particularly empowering or affirming to cis physically able straight thin perisex white women and girls, but can be for basically anybody else. Particularly black girls and women, who do not get a lot of cultural messages that treat them as people who are so valuable and precious, who may not have the strength to save themselves, or may wish that they didn't fucking have to save themselves (and everyone else) all the time.

White men have this story so often happen that we have a trope name specific to one specific and particularly egregious version of this, but you don't often see men who look like Robbie dealing with this type of story in fictional settings, even though it happens for men like Robbie in real life with horrifying frequency.

Sometimes stories that are old can be new again in different hands, from different point of views, so just... mind how you step here.

[chipthekeeper]

great, now I'm flustered

[chipthekeeper]

Life Transference™

[revvethasmythh]

really need to emphasize how sexy it is that julien is taking notches for every tachonis killed and thaisha just started putting notches on her belt for candescent creed/halovars killed

[lovelyswampwitch]

god that thumbnail is killing me. it's like that three dragons meme

omg my dumbass just realized these are the three paladins of the campaign lmao.