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also yeza screaming at the amount of money his wife just casually handed him (‘here, take 20 platinum!’ ‘aaahhhhHH??!!’) and freaking out until she lowers it (‘sorry, 10 platinum!’) and then just staring at her in wonder and amazement before quietly stuttering over i’m in the wrong line of work made my heart grow 100 times larger, how is this squishy chemist so lovable and how do i let him know that he deserves the world

#critical role #critical role spoilers #yeza brenatto #m9 #yeza #c2e58 #xhorhas arc #m9 npcs #m9 allies #it was SO soft y'all

Someone: “Knowing the risks of her disguise dropping, why did Dairon enter the fight?”

Matt:

#critical role spoilers #critical role #c2e53 #dairon #m9 #m9 npcs #i have to go back now and watch all the dairon scenes #i think.... i’m gonna write a fic from her pov abt beau #and prolly also do some meta #cause holy shit #xhorhas arc

i know it was a while ago but i just relistened to the scene with ikithon and yasha in e18 and fuck if the fact that she never tells him her name (in this scene and ever i’m p sure) and he makes a point out of saying “it has been a pleasure, yasha” (esp after she failed that wis save) doesn’t make my skin crawl i hate it so much

#critical role #c2e18 #yasha #trent ikithon #m9 #m9 npcs #mine

Yeza Brenatto is a normal nerdy halfling man who just really loves his wife and alchemy I’m so relieved and happy

#c2e57 #m9 #critical role #critical role spoilers #yeza #m9 npcs #m9 allies #xhorhas arc #lb

“i’ll take care of your pets miss jester” did you know that every time yeza speaks i remember that i would die for him

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This just continues to highlight how the Mighty Nein have come to thrive under pressure, especially as they come to trust each other more.

It makes them throw away their reservations and masks and learned behaviors and act on what they have in the moment. Their strengths shine through, as does the trust they’ve been building with each other.

Against Avantika; they had an entire city coming down on them, with no immediate path out, they managed to escape with their lives and a ship (while Avantika didn’t) and the only consequence was a banishment. It was because everyone was acting under pressure-- Beau, the self-proclaimed asshole left alone in the face of a diplomatic situation, held herself back and started to talk them out. Everyone else trusted in her, Jester even had to make a choice to let her take care of it. And with the entirety of Darktow bearing down on them, they presented themselves with a steady certainty and brought Avantika’s treachery to light.

A smaller scale example: the lava-crossing with the fire giants in episode 50. The plan was all muddled up, everyone moving in the wrong order-- Nott was stuck on the other side of the lava on her own. But the moment she went down, suddenly Cad had a healing spell and Beau was there to pull her out and they got away.

Here, with the Bright Queen. They’d talked and talked about how to go into this, tried to plan out what they were going to ask for, what they were going to tell her, and the plan fell apart quickly. But when everything went to shit, well... Caleb never would’ve brought up presenting the dodecahedron as an option going in. He’d barely wanted to show it to Yussah. But he was put in a position where he had to act quick to protect himself and everyone, had to throw out at least some of the caution he has learned about items and people of power and act quickly to save them. And he did. And everyone figured out what he was doing and just had to trust that it’d work. And it did.

And the Mighty Nein became the heroes of an Empire.

#c2e56 #critical role #critical role spoilers #c2e50 #c2e43 #m9 #beau #caleb #nott #cad #m9 npcs #the bright queen #m9 allies #i guess she's an ally of theirs now h u h #the brave

I love the implication of “some part of Beau subconsciously was holding back” to explain the d6/d8 discrepancy that may have cost her the fight.

Maybe in the heat of battle, at some point, she swiped for the drow and brushed through where her hair would be and there was nothing. Maybe her punches landed on clothes that didn’t quite match up to what she was seeing. Maybe she remembered someone who fought like this, saw something familiar in the drow’s stance and didn’t have the time to put it together in the middle of battle. But some part of her realized that... something more was there. Some part of her that made her pull her punches just a little bit, just barely enough to leave her opponent standing.

And when it turned out her opponent was really Dairon? That part of her was validated, entirely.