Do I Get A Nice View?

.....yeah. YES. Marisha Ray is a goddamn mood

[oxideorange]

I know it caused some controversy, but i personally support the cast's decision to make everyone 5'11

here's the version where you can see my actual height headcanons i think it's not interesting so it doesn't get a separate post & i mostly made it so i could stretch and squish them

[taohs]

this genre of women

[imogearnes]

THIS SERVE… VAELUS THE MOTHER YOU ARE

[dsadwdasdadawdwad-deactivated20]

Ashley intro: Vaelus

[thaishasflowers]

ashley johnson really played one gnome and went “that was nice, i will only be playing tall baddies from here on out” and i love that for her

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

I've been rotating a specific exchange between Thaisha and Vaelus in my mind: the one where Thaisha bitterly comments on Vaelus's lack of funerary decorum by noting that, as an immortal elf, Vaelus probably hasn't experienced enough loss to know her behaviour isn't appropriate, to which Vaelus, a woman explicitly described as wearing mourning vestments and who announced herself as a follower of a dead goddess, sarcastically replies that yes indeed, she has never experienced any loss ever. It's only a few lines from each character but throws the massive gulf in their perspectives into sharp relief.

Because Thaisha isn't wrong that Vaelus is acting the way she is because she does not understand nor appreciate the gravity of the event she's crashing, but rather than being borne from simply not experiencing loss because her people don't die unless they're killed, it's borne from the fact that everyone but her people will die even if they are not killed. Vaelus doesn't understand why everyone is so devastated by an event that was inevitable simply being moved up the calendar, especially because as an ancient elf specifically, the average humanoid lifetime is nothing to her. The 70 years that have passed since the Shapers War is a blink of an eye to her. It's a callous approach to the feelings of others brought about by her experience of watching the lives of non-elves pass in the blink of an eye to her, and by the fact that both she and they know they will die eventually, so a sudden death of such a mortal being doesn't register as anything that would be especially devastating to those that knew him.

But Vaelus is also justified in being defensive about the fact that she has experienced profound loss, she's been very explicitly clear in her introduction of herself and in her dress that the Shapers War took someone precious from her, and that she's still actively in mourning. And in keeping with her inability to consider an inevitable death as something to mourn, Sylvandri's death wasn't something that was guaranteed to pass, she was a timeless being like Vaelus that was killed. The last of the Shapers to fall.

But of course this loss doesn't register as anything major to Thaisha! She's a part of the generations born after the Shapers War; the only world she's ever known is one which does not have gods. While she as a druid loves the world and the divinity nature has in its own right, she's never known a divinity that also has full personality and intent. The idea of a god you worship being a person you have an intimate relationship with would be incredibly foreign to her, so the idea that Vaelus is mourning a loved one in much the same way she is mourning Thjazi probably never even crossed her mind.

Both Thaisha and Vaelus are women deep in grief trying to hold onto the pieces of the person they lost, but their perspectives and life experiences are just so vastly different that neither has fully recognized that in the other, and I am fascinated to see where this relationship goes because tiny snippet was already so good.

[tissueboxesforseals]

(small occtis voice) i have aramán's one and only reanimated lapinpin

[foldbaron]

The characters of C4 were created using a modified stat roll (5d6, drop the lowest two) so they could be best at what they were really aiming for with their build. The difficulty will scale alongside it.

[samryx]

Vaelus💜

[squirrel-stowaway]

camp map + more art by toff mazery!

[jadequarze]

Imodna valentine's day speedrun

[xxadiaa]

drew this in a frenzy after watching the first date episode

[teansouprmyjam]

WE'RE SO BACK

[sango-blep]

🙄

[sobriquetisapun]

Imodna

curtesy of this picrew:

Couple Maker

I will be adding more hairstyles, clothes, accessories etc. in the future. If you want to share your creations with me, feel free to tag

[orym-blossoms]

The thing is, the gap between what Bell's Hells has been *asked* to do and what Bell's Hells *does* has always been wide and getting wider.

They get asked to track down Treshi, they end up attempting to sabotage what turns out to be an entire Vanguard base and draw the attention of their extremely high-level leader at the spur of the moment with no plan. Three of them die.

They get asked to sneak (SNEAK!!) onto Ruidus and gather intel to report back to the gathered armies and leaders from across Exandria. They end up spending days there, get involved in a local rebellion they know nothing about and barely attempt to understand that almost manages to assassinate Imogen's mom, and face Otohan again. One of them dies.

They get asked to track Ludinus to Aeor and find a way to disrupt or sabotage whatever he's looking for. They end up defeating the biggest obstacle standing in Ludinus's way, then watch the propaganda miniseries he's planning on releasing to the world before he grabs it and runs away. (At least no one died that time).

They get asked to sneak into the core of Ruidus to find a way to stop Ludinus from releasing Predathos with the understanding that if shit goes bad, they can call for help. They kill Ludinus before he can release Predathos! . . . Then they go in (just to see what all of the fuss is about) and end up having to seal Predathos inside Imogen so they don't all die right there (which some of them nearly do). AND THEN somewhere in there they decide to go confront the gods (outcome uncertain).

No one has asked Bell's Hells to "handle" a "gods problem". The people asking them whether or not the gods deserve to live were Ludinus and his cult. And even then, just a handful of members within it that they spoke to. (Ambivalence about the gods' importance on a personal or societal level is *not* the same thing.)

So, what I'm saying is this is hardly out of character for them, to assume some greater insinuation of themselves. They've been doing it the whole campaign! And of course your D&D adventuring party is going to have agency, of course pursuing threads and hooks is the whole point of the game! It's the interesting thing both as a player and audience. Bell's Hells are characters, they're doing what characters should do, but there is a disconnect between their perception of the situation and the situation as we have been shown. And this has been consistently escalating the whole time.

Every time it's escalated, they've done that on their own. This is Beyond the Scope of what they have been asked to do.

[byorkewkew]

[hunnieknight]

BIG DOGSSS

The WOLVES.

Big doggies!!