#mossystep

[fadingstarlightcomic]

id like to redraw this especially with the design changes but also i feel like this is where i peaked artistically

[luckthebard]

mossystep replied to your post: Regardless of anything else, Caleb is now in a...

yasha hadn’t been around cats before frumpkin, and they don’t seem to live in xhorhas; caleb might introduce the bright queen to a cat for the first time

@ Matt and Liam, please grant us this magical, magical moment

[sketch-bird]

i love your cr brush paintings so much!! your style really lends itself to the dreamy fantasy quality of d&d. i’m really enchanted by hanfu and thanks to you i keep imagining jester in just the cuuuutest hanfu with flowy sleeves and ribbons on her horns (ㅅ´ ˘ `) ♡

thank you so much!!! i love wearing and drawing hanfu and it’s so much fun getting to project that onto the nein w my xhorhas designs, haha. now i definitely want to draw jester in a nice tang dynasty style ruqun though !!!

[fidgemimic]

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the darkroast chat is being Sexy tonight and i...

m m m m m m m m m m m m m m fidge. fidge ur gonna break me. Fidge.

chat doesn’t talk abt the boy too much and that’s Valid but also i would die for eodwulf but i can never articulate shit in a real time chat so HERE WE GO

like,,,,,,, he works so so hard at being the perfect face 24/7. his expressions and body language are perfect to convey his intention down to the very last breath and twitch of his ears. this is what he’s good at: faking it for as long as possible.carrying more and more and more social and emotional weight until the bulk of it threatens to break him.

because he’s not like astrid. there isn’t a warning for him. no slow decent or hidden tell that someone can find on him when he’s hiding everything. he doesn’t bend, he breaks.

and then he vanishes for a little bit. he’s still in the Xhorhouse, yes, but he’s suddenly hiding from everyone. astrid knows what this means, knows that he wont show himself even to her and that pains her, but she understands. he doesn’t vent properly to others, so he vents to himself in a place where no one can find him. sometimes, he simply speaks what he’s thinking aloud, mocking members of the nein for small slights that he knows he’ll be more than willing to forgive when he’s in a better mood. emulating nott’s grating voice when she had spent hours trying to dote on him and astrid, despite their constant growing unease over it. mocking fjord’s low drawl and the way he radiates the same sickening fakeness that Eodwulf is aware that he would have as well if he wasn’t halfway decent at his job.

or when there’s no one to blame and mock and hate more than himself. and there’s so many people who would be able to remind him of how much of a failure and a monster he is. master ikithon had spent years drilling it into them that traitors were Nothing. not fit to waste time or energy on unless it was being used to tear them to pieces and make an example of them.

and there are just so many of ikithon’s tirades to repeat back to himself - over and over and over and over-

and maybe someone overhears him, pacing up in the garden in the middle of the day when nearly everyone has left to visit the market. beau or jester or hell, even yeza wander their way quietly up the stairs and hear a voice that they haven’t heard since Zadash that terrifies them to their core at the implications.

but wulf is alone. and he’s angry. and they can’t hear the words properly, but it sounds rehearsed from what they do notice. like something he knows from memory and it worries them just a little bit more. just enough to warrant them trying to get his attention.

and he freezes. he stills for a painfully long moment, and the person who’s found him can’t help but be terrified, and they aren’t quite sure what for.

until wulf turns, and everything about him changes. he stands straighter, squares his shoulders, drops his hands from where they had been twisting the fabric of his sleeves into a wrinkled mess, and gives them a soft, welcoming smile.

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mossystep replied to your post “i want to believe that eodwulf is the kind of wizard that casts...”

maybe using a regular size sword creates a fuckin GIGANTIC magic sword

mordekainen, from beyond the veil: hmm this lad and his muscular arms might be onto something

[jumanjiicostco]

top five moments of cr campaign 2 !

Oh jeez... Okay. Let’s see if I can figure this out (in no particular order): 

Caleb’s Confession (2x18, Whispers of War) 

Anyone who’s followed me for any amount of time can probably piece together that I am... incredibly invested in Caleb’s progression. I probably project a lot onto him, and honestly that all started in this moment. I’ve written blog posts about it and I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it. Something really big shifted here for me and I’ll never be able to unsee it. This was also one of the first moments of real emotional vulnerability that ever really stood out to me in C2. So there’s that. 

“He’s My Boy” (2x13, Lost & Found) 

This was the FIRST moment of real emotional direction that I remember seeing. Nott defending Caleb’s actions as well as explaining their very complicated dynamic in such simple terms felt really genuine. I still can’t watch this scene without getting emotional and honestly, it was the first moment that I saw how far they were gonna fall. Which... y’know (spoilers for episode 48) but look at us now. Hanging by a thread. 

Fjord’s First Dream (2x5, The Open Road) 

Hoooooooolyyyyyy shit, y’all. If I wasn’t invested before this moment (full disclosure: i definitely was), I was definitely invested after this. C2 was my first introduction to Critical Role, and to Dungeons and Dragons as a story medium, and this shit blew my mind. For the first time, I saw it for what it really truly was: an interactive method of storytelling. And Fjord and Travis both fucking outshone the moon in this scene. This had me hook, line, and sinker. 

The Aftermath of Molly (2x27, Converging Fury)

Molly’s death in and of itself devastated me. I was a wreck. But I’m being 100% honest when I say that I think it impacted the Mighty Nein for the better. I think that the bravery and the indigence and the conflict that we saw in that episode gave way to the people we see now. To Beau growing so much and Caleb admitting that the M9 are his friends. It brought us to a really quick growing up for that whole party... one that I really think they needed. No, I’m not glad Molly died, but yes, I’m very glad that his death had the impact it did. 

Kiri. All of Her. (2x20-2x25)

Okay, here’s the thing: Kiri was vastly fun and games. She was a chance for Matt to mimic his players and for shenanigans to ensue. (Who trusted a bunch of assholes with a tiny baby bird??? Matthew Mercer. That’s who.) But Kiri also served as a point of honesty and good-will with the M9. They all had to think about what they were doing and how they were going to present it to this small child--and even when they had bad intentions, they really, really had to consider the consequences. Conscience and gentleness look really good on them. Kiri’s episodes taught us a lot about the softer sides of the M9 and I love them. 

Special Mentions: 

Literally any time Beau and Caleb talk one on one

The Jellyfish Scene

Beau’s Stunning Strike on Lorenzo 

Jester and the Ruby 

Caduceus throwing haaaaard shade at Fjord That One Time

Keg. Just alll of her. 

Specifically her letter to Nott

Any episode with guests

[sephiramy]

gotta ask once again what flowers those are so i can cry about symbolism!

Aw, I hope I don’t disappoint, but I went light on the symbolism this go around! These are all common wildflowers that I thought would evoke the feel of the roads the M9 are travelling in Wildemount - daisies, buttercups, cone flower, poppies, wild rose, and sweet pea.

[fadingstarlightcomic]

cover for my second minicomic, white noise! "chad why does this one have a cover but the other doesnt" because i Felt like it.

this is a short 7 page comic exploring the relationship between two background characters named birchtail and heronclaw that takes place roughly 5 months before fading starlight. doesnt have much bearing on the main plot but i wanted to finish another minicomic just to like. really prepare myself for getting back into comics i guess

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