#c3e77

[floweroflaurelin]

Huevember day 10: The Patron

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Let’s do terrible and beautiful things.

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I’M STILL REELING FROM LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE I had something totally different planned for Day 10 and I shoved it to the side and made this instead. Shaking and screaming,, I’m just lucky the colour of Delilah’s influence is green…. Losing my mind over here

#huevember #huevember 2023 #critical role #laudna #critical role fanart #delilah briarwood #critical role art #laudna fanart #critical role laudna #bells hells #floweroflaurelin art #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #c3e77 #critical role campaign 3 #now see if only [REDACTED]’s new [REDACTED] look was green I could do it for an upcoming day lol #I do have plans for that character coming up I just might not be able to include the new [REDACTED] #iykyk heheh #ALSO HOW ARE WE A WHOLE THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH ALREADY

[acebender]

Last hour of episode 77 summarized:

#cr spoilers #critical role #c3e77 #taliesin jaffe #ashton greymoore

[mareastrorum]

Taliesin Jaffe, 11/9/2023:

#critical role #cr liveblog #c3e77 #ashton greymoore #taliesin jaffe #fucking crazy ass choices man

[lightningtitties]

touching your gf's face so tenderly that it needs to be announced

#gotta let the people know #theyre sooo #cr spoilers #imodna #c3e77 #c3e90 #marisha ray #laura bailey #critical role

[i-am-shitpost]

I went back and watched the scene where Fearne and Ashton discuss what to do with the shard and there’s some things I want us all to remind ourselves of:

Fearne explicitly says “if I do have any say in it, I think it should go to you. I don’t know if I want it.” And goes on to say that she feels Ashton is meant to hold both pieces.

Ashton says they know that Fearne would miss them if something happened to them (this is NOT in the context of the shard, but the mission overall) and thanks her for it

Then they say “it’s nice to feel love for people. I love having you…here”

When Ashton does float the idea of them taking the shard they say “I need you to promise me that we’re going to find a way to make it happen if we’re going to do it”

When discussing the plan, Ashton continually uses ‘we’, showing that he has always considered this their plan. Together. With equal say. And she can easily say no, Ashton would have accepted that answer. It’s specifically an “IF” question.

Ashton asks Fearne explicitly that if it goes wrong to “Please try and save my life. I’m not lookin’ to die”

This is explicitly not a martyr attempt

Ashton says he trusts Fearne more than they trust the others.

In regards to the plan, they word for word ask “Are you okay with that?”

Fearne responds “Yes I’m okay with that.”

There is no pressuring that goes along with this question whatsoever. Ashton outlines their idea for the plan, and then asks point blank.

He then apologizes for putting this on her.

Ashton also tells her “if it’s not okay it’s not your fault”

Ashton expresses that it’s nice having something to lose again, “So hopefully I won’t fucking lose it…again”

Other moments worth noting:

in the scene in Percy’s laboratory, Ashton says that “[they]’d like to feel safe…for once” when discussing how they’d like it to just be them and Fearne.

After getting kicked in the face and yelled at, Ashton immediately tells Fearne “that’s probably fair” holding no anger or resentment and validating her feelings as much as they could in their current state.

It was not manipulation. Fearne was not coerced. There were no double meanings. Ashton was straightforward as always. It wasn’t a recklessly planned or naive decision, they both felt this was the right call. It was not a martyr attempt either, Ashton did not want to die. But they felt this was the right call for the mission, so they stepped up and put their own neck on the line.

Ashton was being himself in a very stressful and gut-wrenching way, but it was not malicious or twisted. It was just terrifying.

Edit: I have removed a note about a comment made when Ashton kissed Fearne, I had misremembered the timing and delivery and hadn’t seen a clip of that scene circulating to rewatch yet, only the clocktower. Other than that, everything is accurate.

#critical role #cr c3 #critical role spoilers #bells hells #cr spoilers #callowmoore #fearne calloway #ashton greymoore #talisen jaffe #c3e77

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

c3e77 spoilers no context

#Critical Role #Ashton Greymoore #Bell's Hells #cr spoilers #cr liveblog #c3e77

[twinklestarss]

Hugs all around!

Campaign 3 Episode 78: Fractures

#critical role #critteredit #criticalroleedit #bells hells #bell’s hells #ashton greymoore #laudna #fcg #chetney pock o'pea #imogen temult #orym of the air ashari #fearne calloway #cr3e78 #c3e77 #c3 #cr3 #cr campaign 3 #campaign 3 #critical role campaign 3 #taliesin jaffe #sam riegel #marisha ray #travis willingham #laura bailey #ashley johnson #critrole #critroleedit

[marvelousbelladonna]

Fearne learns about Laudna and Imogen

“She [Imogen] makes me so happy” -Laudna

#critical role #cr spoilers #campaign 3 #c3e77 #marisha ray #laura bailey #ashley johnson #laudna #imogen #imogen temult #fearne #fearne calloway #imodna #laudna x imogen #pastel goth #southern gothic

[ariadne-mouse]

Delilah: I'm very powerful, and you intrigue me, Fearne

Fearne, collector of divine and arcane favor: yeah, get in line

#critical role #cr spoilers #op #c3 #c3e77 #delilah briarwood #fearne

[pagerunner-j]

I'm having two feelings simultaneously:

That whole sequence kicked ass

If the de Rolos find out even a fragment of what just went on in there, under their roof, they will kill you all

#critical role #cr spoilers #c3e77

[tatersdoesstuff]

something something pain doesnt make people love makes people + love being the reason ashtons alive etc

#critical role #ashton greymoore #fearne calloway #fresh cut grass #fcg #bells hells #c3e77 #cr spoilers #callowmoore #love reusing quotes in other contects mmm #taters does art

[hungryriverbeast]

something new

#my art #critical role #cr spoilers #ashton greymoore #c3e77 #listen was using the shard a good idea? perhabs not #but I do love pressing giant red buttons #bells hells

[acebender]

The rare three-cam-Sam, make a wish

#critical role #cr spoilers #c3e77 #sam riegel

[luminousstardust]

on the plus side for ashton. what is more non-binary than having both the spirit of an emperor titan and his empress inside your body trying to rip you apart simultaneously?

#kind of a slay if you ask me #crazy batshit insane episode still has me reeling days later. i love bells hells #ashton greymoore #bells hells #critical role #critical role spoilers #bells hells spoilers #cr3 #c3e77 #cr spoilers

[lightningtitties]

im straight up not having a good time

#cr spoilers #c3e77 #critical role #fresh cut grass #fcg #fearne calloway #bell’s hells #ashley johnson #sam riegel

[masterqwertster]

A difference between Ashton absorbing the Spark and Fearne absorbing the Spark that I haven't seen discussed is that Fearne had the ability to ripcord out until the end of the 6th round/start of the 7th round while Ashton only had to the end of the 1st round.

Now by "ripcord out," I mean they could have halted the absorption process by either removing the Quintessence Array or potentially pulling the Spark out of the Array's funnel. Essentially, the Spark's crystal vessel had to still exist and be a separate receptacle, much like how the Quintessence Array cannot fully transfer a creature's magical essence without proper absorption time.

For Ashton, the Spark's crystal crumpled to nothing by the end of the first round via CON Saves (Ashton's early rounds were weird in that Matt rolled multiple damages against him instead of just one, especially the second CON Save round). All they had were those initial moments where it didn't seem impossible, didn't seem like anything they couldn't handle, to back out. 36 Damage and unaware they had to go for 9 more rounds where one pulse of Damage could do up to 60 Damage.

Fearne, on the other hand, besides having a much gentler time of it with zero CON Saves and able to use her own magic to help keep herself up from lower Damage rolls, had until the end of the sixth round or the start of the seventh round before the second Spark crystal finished crumpling into nothing. She had time to assess if it would be too much for her to finish, time to say "No, this was a bad idea. I don't want it."

I'm sure part of that difference is Ashton jumped in on a bad idea and was being forced to deal with the Consequences while Fearne's was a much more measured decision and the "safe" route. You know, game mechanics and penalties.

But consider it narratively.

The way I read it, one of two things happened: Ashton's body is so attuned/ready to be a vessel of great powers that it just slorped the Spark right up, no hesitation. Or, Rau'shan was so eager to move in with his old partner, that he jumped right in (and later backed out because it was too crowded to be tenable). And honestly? Both have interesting implications.

If Ashton is just a higher power absorbing machine, that can mean some interesting things for how he ended up with the Shard of Ka'Mort. Like that the Hishari ritual wasn't meant to bestow the Shard to anyone, but through whatever fuck up happened, Ashton chomped it up. Or that it was about bestowing, but Ashton was such a better vessel that it fucked up the ritual. And the Potion of Possibility giving them a half-beacon brain just happened. There's no explanation as to why it didn't just give him a Mote of Possibility to essentially reroll a Death Save into stabilizing himself rather than die, which makes sense with what the Potion does. Instead it made Ashton a permanent well of dunamis. Maybe that happened because Ashton is titan-blooded. Maybe it's because they are uniquely suited to being a vessel of great powers, that they possess a body hungry to hold more power.

On the other hand, if Rau'shan wanted in to reunite with Ka'Mort with all haste, that makes Ashton his first choice of vessel. Then Rau'shan backed out because three's a crowd and a quality vessel does no one any good if it breaks trying to use that power (because Ashton did manage to contain it all). And maybe he goes a little slower when a second vessel attempts to hold his Spark, just to make sure she's not going to blow up on him.

Or even Fearne just doesn't have the same draw for the Spark as Ashton, so it crumbled at the rate the Quintessence Array drained it at instead of being sucked straight through to it's new home.

I'm just saying, it's a very interesting difference that didn't need to exist to show how much easier absorbing the Spark is for not-Ashton.

#MQ blathers #critical role #cr meta #c3e77 #c3e80 #ashton greymoore #fearne calloway