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#and then they come crawling to the zigguraut barely scathed
cadykeus-clay · 4 years
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just finished rewatching the briarwood arc and it really sticks out to me that matt Never said cassandra had been charmed by sylas and delilah. he never mentioned in meta any kind of magic effect, never described her “shrugging off” anything. she did say that her actions were made ‘not in her right mind’ but that doesn’t necessarily mean a charm effect, and matt also referenced stockholm syndrome. 
so all evidence on the table, there’s a very high chance that cassandra was never charmed by the briarwoods in a magical effect sort of way, but instead in a mundane sort of “your brother left you for dead, but we saved you, because you’re worthy, not like the rest of your family, they hardly cared for you anyways, lonely youngest daughter, always forgotten, always left behind, but no more, we will love you, we will cherish you, you’ll be the sole object of our desire, and you’ll see that all cruelty is just means to an end, you’ll come to understand why we had to do this in time, no one purely evil would have saved a dying girl in the snow, but we did, because you’re so important to us” sort of way. 
and i’m thinking especially about her white-knuckle gripping percy’s hands and choking on her words as she asks him “can i be trusted?” and archibald refusing to look her in the eye for days after finding out she was double crossing the rebellion attempts she feigned leading with him, and the fact that she kept a picture of her with some of her brothers, but her parents had been burnt away, and delilah’s final words to her being “YOU COULD HAVE BEEN MY DAUGHTER” and like .... cassandra ......................... what did you Go through
#critical role#critical role campaign 1#vox machina#cassandra de rolo#briarwoods arc#all the various insight checks on her throughout the siege of the castle never revealed an ulterior motive#and i truly believe that until that moment that the glass walls came down in the acid pit she was really thinking that percy had come back#to save her. and she was willing to trust him and turn on the briarwoods#and then she saw him and his friends trapped#and her free#and delilah came and whispered in her ear#and it was the exact same as before where percy failed to save her#he failed again#and it was a perfect chance to even the scales#to leave him behind when she was the only person who could save him#delilah may have killed her family but percy abandoned his and a part of her is going to relish walking away as He lays dying so he knows#just how bad it fucking hurt#and then they come crawling to the zigguraut barely scathed#and she's so god damn angry that he got away again#he saved his stupid fucking skin and is going to ruin her life yet again#and then she gets knocked out and when she comes back the first thing percy does is give her a sword and tell her to run#to save herself#to get out while she can#and maybe. just maybe. he means it this time.#and maybe. just maybe. she was right the first time in trusting that he loved her#and she looks at delilah. armless and dying. begging for vox machina to finish the job.#and she's fucking sick of people swearing to love her and then leaving and sylas and delilah; who swore they'd never be felled and they'd#stay with her for eternity; are dead or nearly there. and if she's going to lose them no one else is going to fucking take them from her.#she's going to be the one to get rid of them. not the other way round#and she puts her sword through delilah's chest.
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