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I've been working on this Caleb and Veth playlist for literal years and I figured it was finally time to share it. Since Spotify still doesn't let you annotate your playlists, enjoy my lyric-based annotations below. 🧡💛
Maybe In Another Life (Caleb + Veth)
Songs for two people who found each other at their lowest lows, who loved each other even when they didn’t know how, who followed each other to the end of the world, who saved each other. Songs for what was, what could have been, and what could still be.
Still here forever btw
Are you all right? I am so very sorry, I'm so sorry— No, I'm fine, that was good, that was good acting. No, it was not good.
that episode 1 widobrave content huh
Of course I love the "he's my boy speech", it's one of the most amazing moments in the campaign, but honestly the whole aftermath of it is golden too.
Like, the conversation with Fjord and Beau and Molly ends with her saying "I'll talk to him" (and then there's a round of Beau threatening her, and Nott being mad about Molly casting charm person on her when she was trying to steal from Fjord etc.), but like then she goes and finds Caleb, and he asks how it's going up there, and the first thing she says to him is "I stole this fucking scroll for you"!!!!!! The scroll that the whole fight was about! The scroll that all the others were mad at Caleb for trying to steal, literally the thing that set off the whole fight! She just had that in her pocket the whole time!
And it's not until after she has given it to Caleb and they've been all excited about it that she even mentions that the others were mad at him. And when she does, she is still so firmly on his side about it! "They were very upset that we tried to take the scroll box. They are in the firm belief that it would have left some sort of clue that would have led the authorities to us by stealing something, after we had broken into two houses, stolen other things, torn up a rug–"
Like, every aspect of the sentence makes it clear she disagrees (and she says "we" tried to steal it! They were only mad at Caleb for this, they didn't even know she took it, but it's "we"!)
And idk that whole conversation is just such a perfectly clear illustration of the very sharp divisions that still exist within the group, with Nott and Caleb firmly on one side and the rest on the other. And I guess I just love how real that feels, because I was kind of expecting her to actually convey the grievances of the group, but the closest she comes to that is saying that "they are under the impression that, and this a fair point, that we are not very communicative or… We don't behave as much as part of a team as they would prefer." Right, yes, perfect, their issue was that you two are "not very communicative", not you know, that they're worried you have your own agenda and will sacrifice the good of the group for the sake of your own goals, and might even stab them in the back if you decide that's more advantageous for you personally. "They're mad because we don't communicate" is all Caleb needs to know to be up to speed about the fight he just missed <3 "I said that I would tell you and discuss. And so that's where it stands with the weirdos." I love her so much.
~Post-M9 Campaign Spoilers ~
tldr Veth being in love with Caleb is unequivocally canon, and Caleb being Weird About Her (tm) is also unequivocally canon Following that, post-campaign Essek trying to ask an oblivious Caleb about his feelings for Veth is both funny and compelling to me
Un-tldr: So Widobrave from Veth's perspective of being in love with Caleb is canon, and imo (/ in pretty much everything I’ve written for them) Caleb is also in love with her and realizes that but doesn’t want to say anything due to uhhhh everything else about them and their situations HowEver I also think it’d be interesting character beat if he didn’t understand or contextualize that, and just felt these complicated, ‘foolish’ ‘probably jealous’ ‘very awkward’ ‘not knowing what to do with himself’, feelings without having a proper name for them
Especially with his eventual floating wizard boyfriend Essek, for his many faults (including warmongering), is not stupid, and not half as inept with reading people as I feel like we in fandom make him out to be He's also not un-weird about Veth either. I think he likes Veth and respects her skill with research as an alchemist and one-level-dip wizard, and is aware that she's a significant part of the reason he was welcomed into the Nein with (mostly) minimal hazing,, but he still fully did order the kidnapping and torture of her husband that one time which is a bizarre undercurrent to have to a friendship and on top of that his boyfriend is in love with her Imo on a cultural level the Dynasty would be more familiar with complicated love situations than the Empire, due to (potentially massive) lifespan disparities and consecution. Someone’s full-on death could become the equivalent of seeing your high school sweetheart ten years later except also they're a bugbear now (many fantasy Hallmark, fantasy Christmas movies to that effect [/jk]) so Essek would have a frame to work from in approaching it
So imagine if you will One [perma-]night among their seventeen fae and real cats, Essek thinking like,, okay Thelyss be chill, it’s a sensitive topic, he didn't know she was married, and he lost two of his previous partners in a pretty deeply horrific way, he might not be ready to talk about it, maybe just offer communication: “Hey Caleb I want you to know I love you, I do think we should talk about Veth sometime?” And Caleb’s like: ‘How do you mean?" Essek: “I mean you two have a very,,,,, special relationship,, and I think now that we’re together we should be open with each other on what that entails?’ Caleb (looking up from outlining a Nein-Sided Tower reno that accommodates, among other things, Veth and Yeza’s extended individualized sex room) : “I'm sorry I really don’t know what you mean?” Essek: Essek: "Babe"
”Veth and Yeza’s extended individualized sex room” really takes this from good to amazing
"I am the parent--you do understand that, correct? I keep him safe, so he can get better and stronger and achieve great things. When I found him he was nothing, just a scared little boy in the corner of an alley. It's my job to protect him. I protect him. He's my boy, and he'll be a great man someday."
Fascinating that they kept Nott's parent speech from the campaign. It's almost verbatim, but where they've placed it in the events of the episode recontextualizes it.
Nott insists that he was a "scared little boy" while the audience is being shown that he is a full adult with incredible power and agency. He may have even been holding back during their friendship. Caleb's backstory in the animation also feels more brutal than I remember, with active missions instead of just trauma tests.
The new speech does more to reframe what we know about Nott, rather than Caleb. She needs to be a parent, and needs to see him as helpless and in want of a caretaker.
This crystallizes the relationship as something both characters need right now but will eventually have to change. Nott will someday have to admit that he's not her child, and more importantly that's not how she wants him to see her. Likewise, Caleb will lean into having a caretaker for now, but he'll eventually chafe against that and probably want the chance to protect and care for Nott in return. In the campaign, they grew out of that dynamic gradually over about 50 episodes, but didn't address the shift.
How the writers placed this moment in the story sets us up to have a more direct arc for their relationship. We the audience can see already that Nott means well but that her view of Caleb is more about her own needs than she's willing to admit. It also seems shockingly rushed for such an early friendship--Nott got SUPER attached to Caleb super quickly. It's been, what, a week? Two weeks they've known each other? Nott, you're in trouble girl. ((Edit: maybe several weeks per Beau's comment))
I'm quite happy; this feels like an intelligent adaptation choice that still keeps a beloved moment from the original show.
🍎🍰POLYARTOBER DAY 5 — PICNIC!!
They prepared an awesome date for their boyfriend ♡.
I can't believe this is the FIRST day I finished sigh. I like to think Willy grew the veggies/fruit and Luzu cooked. Anyways follow me on twitter (sargsoup), I am very active there and very obsessed with my ot3, but this event is on tumblr sooo.
💙❤🖤 Thank you so much @polyamships for this event!!
Ps. Edit: Hii I saw this tagged as rpf and I don't know if mcyt rp characters shipping is catalogued as rpf, so I just wanna clarify this is about the karmaIand series characters, sorry I didn't tag it, I'm used to avoiding general fandom/character tags when mcyt content involves shipping
Un rejunte de ideas sobre qué creo que pasaría si c!Luzu recuerda sus vidas pasadas. Son solo ideas generales.
Sé que, de recordar todo su pasado claramente, Luzu estaría aterrorizado. No por los horrores que pasó, sino por en lo que se ha convertido. Darse cuenta de que es un reflejo de todo lo que le hizo daño, de que la sonrisa que nunca pudo proteger es la suya. Extrañaría y adoraría a Good Luzu, por fin se daría cuenta de que la estabilidad, la felicidad, la luz y el amor que tanto busca en otros es simplemente lo que extraña y quiere devolverle a su propia persona.
La guerra a comenzado :] …