A thing that's wrecking me about C2E69
Because there’s so many things that stand out. Like the NottxJester convo for example. PLZ love and have patience with mah bb goblin PLZ. Or Yasha saying ‘Please let me be first.’ She wants to face this head on and that WRECKS ME!! OR FJORD ALMOST GOING DOWN, LIKE LEGIT!! Or like Beauregard being BOSS AND THE DICE WORKING right when she needs them to.
But there’s also… something a little quieter in the background that happens this episode. That I think I only really got bc I was watching a clip of Ep45 to reference something else. And that would be the change in Caleb’s battle tactics ever since he’s gotten Polymorph.
He’s a field controller and buffer with his spell use, primarily. Either bc Caleb wants to be effective, or Liam wants to make sure he’s not wasting spells. The spells he’s most frequently used in the past were ones to buff his allies, or debuff enemies, or to affect terrain/field of battle with environmental spells. And he’s typically only reverted to damage spells as a last resort, or when he’s really emotional.
The use of Polymorph changes his tactics soooo much. And ever since the dragon battle of ep45 and his resulting breakdown over it, he’s changed how he fights. He stayed behind, near the lava river, even thought Nott was invisible, utilizing Polymorph to make sure Beau could get Nott out safely in C2E50. He did both to try to catch the giants’ attention, and because he wasn’t leaving without Nott. Ep60’s title for heavensake, is 'A turtle by any other name’ in reference to the Polymorph shenaniganry. Ep65&66 have him utilizing the Giant Eagle form bc of the chase sequences, and needing to catch the rest if they fell. Again, most recently in this dungeon, he uses the Giant Spider and the Giant Eagle forms, to protect both himself, and the rest. He couldn’t keep a distance from the battle, was in an area where big damage spells were only so effective, and so he used the forms to probably buff his own health to stay up and not waste cleric spells, and to also get in other creatures’ faces as a distraction.
And now here, in e69, he Polymorphs to Giant Ape. And states out loud that he isn’t leaving behind Jester or Nott, and goes straight for the Laughing Hand. It’s been 24 episodes since the dragon battle in the Happy Fun Ball. It’s been even longer than that, since Caleb has started making big plays to get the others to safety. Everyone often uses clutch moves to do that in combat, don’t get me wrong. But it’s pretty telling that there were tons of posts leading up to e69 about what cliffhanger Caleb would leave us on for our hiatus. But damn did it break my heart a little bit when Ape!Caleb just screamed at the Laughing Hand to distract it from Jester and Caduceus. His tactics have changed so. much. and I’m not gonna get over that any time soon.
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