Light Them Up, Pretty

A Critical Role and D&D blog. Spoilers tagged.

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cr4 memes part 1: soldiers

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cr4 memes part 2: schemers

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cr4 memes part 3: seekers

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cr4 has blessed me with a swath of brand new Guys

technically this is a series (cr4 memes part 4)

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cr4 memes part 5: I need 10 million hour episodes every second actually

similar stupidity

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the best part of c4e19 was when he said its schemin time and them schemed all over those guys

more nor-exclusively-schemers

(cr4 memes part 6)

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sorry it's 70% azune this is a representation of my inner soul

similar bullshittery

(cr4 memes part 7)

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im not gonna survive the hiatus

the like

(cr4 memes part 8)

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more

(cr4 memes part 9)

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I cannot be Stopped

(cr4 memes part 10 atp jeez)

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when will my husband return from the war (hiatus)

cr memes part 11

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‼️SPOILERS BEWARE‼️

cr memes part 12

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Azune Nayar is not someone who was failed in his youth by the adults around him.

Azune Nayar is someone whose childhood and youth were marked by adults who, faced with bad choices, made the less-worse one because they cared about him.

His parents starved themselves to give him and his sister the chance of being recruited as child soldiers by a mercenary group, because that was the only way to protect him from starvation.

Thjazi Fang saw a child abandoned by the roadside, desperately, determinedly, and implausibly claiming he could fight. Thazi Fang was in the middle of waging a rebellion against the powers of Araman. That rebellion wasn’t the best place for a child of twelve. But it was a better place than abandoned by the roadside or picked up by another mercenary group, and Thjazi cared, so Thjazi took him in and assigned him to noncombat work away from the front lines.

By 15 Azune was fighting on the front lines. (In an earlier war, the same was true of Thazi at that age.)

Thjazi’s rebellion failed. He asked his brother Hal to look out for the teenage Azune. Hal did so, treating Azune as part of his family. Hal did the same for other people who needed it. Being like family wasn’t the same as being Hal’s kid.

The tragedy of Azune isn’t that he was failed or abandoned or uncared for or used. The tragedy of Azune is that the best that people who cared about him could give him still wasn’t the same as what he needed, because being an adult doesn’t make you all-powerful. Azune’s problems weren’t created by those who loved him. They were created by the world he lives in.

Azune lived his adult life for the Torn Banner because it was the life he knew; or out of loyalty; or because they were the ones trying to change that world into something different.

He offers understanding and empathy to enemies (Julien) and strangers (Vaelus). He learned that somewhere.

He will self-immolate for a cause. He likely learned that from his parents, who did it for him, and from Thjazi, who did it for the same cause.

[undead-knick-knack]

NO.

[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.

[screechfoxes]

Occtis + watching and learning

+ bonus

[jadeandquartzes]

[id: five gifsets of occtis and other pc characters, showing moments when he watches from and/or learns things from them. it focuses on him asking vaelus to let him watch her trance, stating that he learned wither and bloom from watching thaisha, talking to murray about watching her divination wizardry, and pulling out a shadow blade spell to emulate julien. the final gifset shows him saying "thank you for the lessons" to julien, and a slightly confused/taken aback julien saying "I see you pick it up quick." end id.]

[countams]

My take on Tertia Tachonis.

[jadeandquartzes]

[id: art of tertia tachonis, a young woman wearing a black dress with white lacing, cuffs, and collar. her hair is white, and tied up with a purple ribbon. she holds a bouquet of white flowers in both arms, and is portrayed in the center of a purple cameo-like portrait frame. end id.]