Hyperfixation Zone

Laudna my beloved <3 She/They 20

[daggersandarrows]

the thing that people don't acknowledge about caduceus is that he's a 19 year old accidentally goth homeschooler (in the way that only people who don't know what goth is can be like the truest fucking goth) whose main hobbies are being the most gossipy, judgiest bitch in the mighty nein, talking to plants as if he can understand them in a universe where he canonically CAN communicate with them, he just doesn't fucking get them, and making tea. he dyed his hair pink. he is terrified of water. he carried a bone flute hundreds of miles for the specific purpose of terrifying his sister out of her mind before he even knew she was alive for sure. his response to a one night stand with a hot but evil girl was "sleep well with your bad decisions". he's a middle child. he keeps getting stuck in mud puddles. he spends 90 episodes teaching fjord about how to accept death and then while fjord was extolling how great caduceus was at acceptance, caduceus was pleading with god to resurrect a dude he never even met. "wise old guy who counsels the group" couldn't be further from the truth. that's what he WANTS you to think. plus this is objectively funnier

[bettertoburn0ut]

Both things can be true

There is wisdom in abject stupidity

[wistfulwatcher]

This PC Romance is Happening To Me!!! a trilogy by marisha ray

[somewhataveragefangirl]

Love this moment Taliesin and Laura shared during the last episode upon learning they're headed to Whitestone!

[duskodair]

Ok ok ok, imagine the game of telephone that's happening rn. Orym calls Keyleth and says it's the Cerberus Assembly. Keyleth goes, fuckin wizards, and calls Allura. Allura goes, oh those bastards, calls Caleb and goes get ur fuckin wizards and Caleb, exhausted, ambles up the road to beau's house, bangs on the door at 9pm and just goes 'ludinus'

[sparring-spirals]

in light of episode 30, the interaction with chetney slapping imogen and telling her to be careful and not set off the explosives with her powers ("Its made. Of electricity.") in e29 can now be interpreted as:

1- hilarious, unintentional foreshadowing and an unheeded warning

2- a challenge that imogen took on with full enthusiasm

3- chekhovs mounted machine gun with 237 bullets in it

[carlyraejepsans]

everyone everywhere can do whatever but how do you have the power to bring the non-existent into being through art and then draw sans undertale tall and thin. do you hate fun. is that it

[carlyraejepsans]

ngl this is like the main reason why i never managed to get into fanon sans' multiverse extravaganza. people would be like "oh check out this comic/series/au it's really good" and every time i would look at their sans design and be like

[number-1-transfem-berdly-enjoyer]

I know what you mean but out of context it's very funny to see someone complain about a skeleton being skinny

[parttimebird]

Finally getting back to c1 :’ )c

[patroclusdefencesquad]

feel like pure shit just want them back :(

[that-thing-in-the-closet]

The stardew villagers refer to the farmer the same way cecil from wtnv refers to john peters. You know, the farmer.

[bisexualmaelstroms]

bi laerryn confirmed??

[bixbiboom]

[ID: A screenshot of the tags attached to the previous reblog, made by Aabria. They read “she is married to a changeling, what do you think they were doing in bed? give us more credit”. /end ID]

AABRIA, PLEASE.

[petrichortiefling-deactivated20]

i have too much time on my hands

[saturniade]

 geralt

[the-caleb-widogast]

i am respectfully watching this d&d game

[transjudas]

OFMD + disability

(note: I did not include injuries that could potentially cause disabilities such as Roach’s shoulder because it’s not shown that there’s any clear lasting issues. Also, I included Black Pete because even though it’s never acknowledged in the show, I think it’s important to note that his actor, Matthew Maher has talked about his cleft lip and palate and said about the scar and his speech impediment: “I always think of it as a challenge—an impediment/challenge to my acting career…If you have anything that sort of makes you aggressively different than everybody else, you have to sort of wrestle with it. I had speech therapy. Part of committing to being an actor was finding a good speech therapist to make me just a little bit more comprehensible. But even still, she didn’t eliminate the lisp and there’s still the scars. It’s been one of the biggest things that’s slowed me down, but it’s also been paradoxically the thing that distinguished me the most.” So even though it’s not addressed in canon, the fact that it isn’t and he’s able to just be as he is on screen is so nice to see.

[mera-kiin]

you've got a good head on your shoulders. Fr. Literally. Your head is very pretty.

[flowercoasts]

me: i’m going to be normal. so so normal.

my brain: laudna reaching out desperately to imogen ever since the stone broke. going ‘are we okay? are we okay? tell me we are okay.’ trying to gain back some semblance of normality (and failing). being quiet and drawn in and unsure, trying so hard to act normal, why can’t she just act normal. being cold and a little mean to ashton (“are you going to bleed out?! :D” “no one seems to like talking to you!”). at every turn going, ‘hey imogen, do you remember this? do you remember? remember me? remember what we had before i broke it?’. at least pate and sashimi are the same. at least chetney is kind and nice and funny. he gave me a woodcarving. “reminds me of the shacks that pate and i stayed in.” “they deserve happiness.” “they need their privacy, it’s important in a healthy relationship.”

laudna (who loves attention, who finds it enjoyable to interact with strangers, who loves to be a little strange and unhinged and unapoletically herself) crying and reminiscing and hurting and having been quiet the entire time in the city, turning to her friends and screaming “don’t look at me!”.

[feelslessfoodmore]

Ok so after going through the tag I feel like I'm really not seeing enough people talking about how narrowly Orym avoided an Absolute Perma Death this last episode‽‽‽‽ Laudna making that perception check (which Matt was very reluctant in allowing to begin with!) single handedly decided Orym's fate.

Let's break it down real quick: 1) Matt said they were 300-400 feet up which is above the cap for max fall damage but below the height where you take more than a single round to hit the ground. Orym would've fallen to the surface of the planet and taken a fuck ton of fall damage well before Imogen could cast fly and catch up to him. (The fly spell makes the target hover so by rules as written, she technically wouldn't have been able to catch up anyways since she wouldn't've been able to free fall and would've had to descend at her 60 ft. fly speed.)

2) in the keyfish incident, Keyleth's body did not remain in one piece and I doubt Orym's would either. This combined with the time it would take to get the body back to F.C.G. would put them well outside the time like l limit of revivify.

3) And finally, all of that is predicated on the condition that they can even find his body at all!! That air ship was high in the sky, moving notably fast, with strong winds perfectly capable of blowing a halfling around mid air. Predicting where Orym would land would be way more difficult than just retracing steps. I can't remember if they were still above jungle or not but if they were they'd be pretty much fucked unless F.C.G. had locate object prepared (dead bodies are objects RAW but they also could just target something he'd had on him and hope it didn't go flying in the fall.) It could take days to find Orym and I don't think the captain would be willing to risk it since as they said falling overboard is usually a one and done deal.

Like that wasn't just the usual "Oh Orym is putting himself at risk in battle again and might die" because in those cases F.C.G. is right there, diamond at the ready if healing isn't enough.

This was Certain Death.

This was Liam makes a new character because the Hell's Bells do not have the connections to bring him back yet. No church connection, the only person they even know of capable of bringing him back is Keyleth and while there might be some Watsonian reasoning that the characters would think to go to her I just can't see the players wanting that. Asking Keyleth to fix all their problems just doesn't make for a fun campaign.

Orym keeps dancing with death but this was something so infitesimaly close to the end of his life that I'm convinced if Laudna had failed that roll Liam would've narrated how during the fall Orym sees a Raven and just watches it peacefully has he grips his tattoo. His last words before he hit the ground would be "I'm sorry" and then something about his husband being on the other side and getting to see him again, maybe even a "didn't make you wait as long as I thought I would I guess".

P.S. How poetic that it was Laudna who once again when faced with Certain Death –instead of kneeling to Fate– took that shit in hand and said fuck no.