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My Brjeaus <3
Not to sound mushy, but stories about two lonely characters from vastly different worlds finding solace with each other always appeal to me
You know what makes it even better? If one of them is sort of evil.
also the choice to make bren's first on screen magic transmutation immediately pinged an interesting one, given that we knew he had an evocation specialisation first, and deliberately switched to transmutation because prior to dunamancy transmutation was the school most concerned with time, and he wanted to go back and fix his mistakes
but seeing the rest of the episode makes it pretty obvious what symbolism they're leaning on there, and it's a very fun one!
caleb, in the campaign as well, has always had this kind of push and pull between evocation and transmutation. at their base level they represent damage and healing
evocation mechanically is about pure destruction, big but precise. your class features let you increase your damage, let you choose exactly who you want an aoe to hit, and eventually let you start drawing the energy from your own body, injuring yourself for the benefit of supercharging your spells. transmutation is about change, yes, but change for the better, it's the most support based wizard subclass, giving you a lot of buffs to cast on people and at higher levels even letting you heal (something wizards otherwise cannot do)
wizards specialise at level 2, but they can still cast spells before then. and i think what we're seeing of bren pre-soltryce is him as a level 1 wizard trying stuff out. and we already know how he feels about the two schools! they gave us two examples of spells bren cast - the magic to fix the fence (a transmutation spell), and the magic that destroyed part of the hearth (an evocation spell). he was trying to help in both instances, but the transmutation is a spell he felt good about, the evocation was a mistake he's ashamed of
but a transmutation based volstrucker isn't nearly as useful to trent as an evocation based one. so everything he said to bren in his home was to draw him into an evocation specialisation. he points out the power he could access, and the precision that training in the school of evocation could offer him. no more mistakes. he makes bren cast a fire spell as a first test, making that connection of fire is how you are useful to us, this is how you prove yourself. and of course sacrificing your own health and comfort to do insane amounts of damage is what trent's already experimenting on with implanting residuum. the transmutation, the desire to fix and to heal, trent's only interested in that as far as he can twist it
contrasting the first two spells bren cast also mirrors what he's going to do. he fucked up with the fire, he's decided to be useful with transmutation, he's using it to mend a fence. and the goal he's working towards by switching to transmutation is to fix everything! to undo the effects of his mistake
now not to say he's only used transmutation for good. his entire plan to go back in time was questionable from the start, and as people have mentioned already, we saw bren combine both when killing his parents (obviously evocation for the fire, but transmutation when sealing the doors and windows). but the intent was still pretty obviously to fix, with the time travel, and so was the murder. bren didn't do that because he hated his parents, but because he'd been taught to do anything in the service of fixing his nation, and he believed they were harming it. conversely, a lot of his invented spells are evocation, and while destructive, they're not inherently evil
but that push and pull, to destroy and to mend, what happens when you try to do one and end up doing the other, what happens when it's both, when it's neither, we see that constantly throughout caleb's character, and it definitely defines him. i don't feel like i can truly end this meta by saying he chose one over the other
choosing to switch to transmutation though, back when he first escaped vergessen, was making a commitment to something. and i think by the end of the campaign he's found how he can fix things in ways that truly matter, and how to focus on fixing things that aren't just his mistakes
(and i very much look forward to seeing more of his spellcasting visually)
Some Occtis sketches. I can’t help being utterly charmed by socially awkward wizards
just let the stinky wizard hug his cat you monsters??
It’s very funny how at the beginning of the show that the mighty nein are in all in very different genres:
Jester and Fjord are in an eighties romance mass market paperback novel. Beau is in this gritty detective noir thriller. Caleb and Nott are the world’s most depressing buddy comedy. Molly is in the Phantom of the Opera. And Yasha is in a Where’s Waldo.
Love that Molly's like. You freaks killed my monkeys and burned down my circus. Unfortunately I can see how absolutely fucked you all are and I NEED something to take care of so I dont have to think too hard about myself so congrats! You are my monkeys! You do not get a choice in this
Girlhood is a spectrum.
guy who is more concerned about not using the scientific method than the actual killing people part (aka fanart of this post that made me laugh earlier)
just watched matt mercer wearing black lipstick mean mug his friends for 5 hours straight what a life im living
He's the main character.
SEEKERS Occtis Tachonis Vaelus Thaisha Lloy Sir Julien Davinos SOLDIERS Wicander Halovar Thimble Kattigan Vale Teor Pridesire Tyranny SCHEMERS Halandil Fang Murray Mag'nesson Bolaire Lothalia Azune Nayar
"We used to have so much money and now we just have a lot" is SOOO fucking funny. Also Longspot just "I'm....going to have more money" Brennan clearly not going to give this antagonist any deeper motivation actually bangs so hard hepm
Samwell, the most reasonable brother, emerged inexplicably from a chimney like a stripper out of a giant cake.
No wonder Maxwell thinks Wealwell merits a “solid.” This poor baby was raised in a house full of ravening lunatics. And Cadswitch.
be solid, be reasonable, be rowdy. if you can save a mouse you can save a person, if you can save a person you can save the world. so beats a worthy heart, xoxo marya. what does adventure mean to me? everything. on high we go, cloudward, ho.
I’m glad they addressed the elephant in the dome of lou dropping banger line after banger line while dressed as santa bc i felt like I was being affected by the 3am gas leak the whole time
Murph being the straight man all fucking season to the wild and whimsical shenanigans only for his entire family to roll up in the finale like the fucking three ring circus of clowns they are was TOP TIER.