BEATRICE + being protective of AVA
WARRIOR NUN | SEASON 2 + bonus
AU: Laudna in Newfaire (Candela Obscura) some minor details will be added but I think she already looks pretty 🖤
Ava: But that’s the Warrior Nun’s job, right? They die so everyone else can live.
Beatrice and the fandom:
screencap redraw (somewhat) to cope!
[C3E63] spoilers - part 2 below the cut :')
i just think they should wear cute summer outfits and go on little summer dates together that’s all
yknow I keep seeing posts criticising imodna as a relationship bc there's no conflict there. they're so obsessed with supporting one another that they refuse to ever challenge each other. any hint of conflict (like with the gnarlrock) is devastating to their relationship and the only way to recover is to pretend it didn't happen.
but personally I Like it that way!!! I like seeing two women in an unhealthy codependent relationship! god knows I've seen enough men like that! it's delicious!
they're mirrors and they love each other SO deeply even though they both have complicated feelings about their own self (how do you love yourself when you know you're a monster? you find yourself in another monster and then it's so easy to love them)
I do look forward to potential future conflict between them, don't get me wrong, but also I love them as is! codependent! pathologically obsessed with each other! desperate to be together and terrified to rock the boat!
Something I cannot overstate the importance of in Critical Role is how often it points out that the idea of going through grief in five linear, relatively short term stages is bullshit.
The five stages of grief as they were originally outlined were never intended to be seen in such a straight order, it was something meant to be a framework to aid understanding, not a worksheet to simplify loss for people who lost someone close to them, and Critical Role gets that in a way that is so, so important.
Some people stay in one stage for years. For Percy, for example, anger motivated an entire arc of the campaign, and when his grief is revisited, and he says “I really miss my family,” it’s no less something to be proud of, even years later.
He is still treated as worthy of being cared about. His grief is still treated as valid. He is still supported and heals in a way that can’t be outlined by stages.
Some people move backwards in the stages. We just saw it with Orym and Laudna, and it wasn’t met with judgement. It was met with empathy, and understanding. Understanding that even if these ideas and actions aren’t necessarily healthy, they come from a place of pain. They make sense.
That’s not a message we get to see in media a lot, but it’s so, so important.
And that’s not even getting into how Critical Role takes an honest look at types of loss that are seldom explored, but happen all the time, like Anticipatory Loss in the lead up to Vax becoming the Champion of Ravens and Ambiguous Loss with Keyleth and her mom and in many, many ways in the Mighty Nein.
Anyway, my point is, Critical Role is really good at showing that grief is something that doesn’t like to follow models, that moves backwards and forwards and sideways, and more importantly, it doesn’t make you a bad, incomplete or broken person if that happens to you.
broke: team issylra didn't get new outfits, weeeh!
woke: team wildemount sitting in their pristine new clothes when the others walk in in fucking tatters is gonna be the funniest and saddest moment in the whole show
i know its partly the nature of critical role as a whole changing for this third campaign, but its SO funny to me that "Dont Trust Anyone Not Even Yourself" Paranoid Chucklefucks The Mighty Nein were showered in kind and helpful guest PC's and ended up So Good at the Magic Of Friendship (threatening). While Bell's Hells of "time for therapy!!!!" "do you think they'll be our friend" "what the fuck is up with that game time!!" have wound up with a like. 40% hit rate for villains in their close friends. like this is a MASSIVE oversimplification and it makes sense but its mostly very funny to me. rip to early campaign m9 you would have loved all of your paranoid instincts constantly paying off in the worst way
Mighty Nein was constantly convinced a stationary inanimate chair was evil and out to get them, Bells Hells said "oh hey look a chair" and then it attacked them IMMEDIATELY
Here's a Laudna Sketch I'm working on! I will be finishing this (hopefully in the next couple of days) so stay tuned for that!
Imogen and Laudna taking a really long pause before defining their relationship
ava is so head over heels in love with beatrice it's ridiculous
What I forget often is that people watch what we do. I know that sounds strange, but we’re focused on making it as real as possible, and it’s not until it gets out there that people are affected by it. It’s quite touching to know that something that you’ve done has had such an affect and impact on people.
She takes the stethoscope and holds it around the rib area, where she’s pretty sure the heart would be if Mr. Bones here had one. “Oh Mr. Bones, your heart is racing, I know I look really good in this insanely restrictive and heavy habit, but you must control yourself, I am a woman of the cloth!”
“Mrs. Bones is going to be jealous.”
The new voice suddenly behind her makes Ava jump out of her skin (just like Mr. Bones). She turns around, nearly tripping over her skirts as she takes off the stethoscope and throws it at the intruder like a weapon.
Said intrude reaches out and catches it with one hand in an insanely attractive manner.
how do you solve a problem like ava silva? ch 1 by @simplykorra
Uploaded because everybody deserves to hear Audrey’s inhuman excited squeak
seymour: I hope that you wouldn’t mind…
audrey 1:
marisha’s delivery on “we’re…………………… sisters” is so funny because she had a really solid chance of actually making it sound believable and she failed