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#critical role campaign 2 spoilers
polina-kov · 8 months
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wait wait wait guys have you ever thought about how the Mighty Nein are everything they shouldn’t be upon first glance
no no guys guys listen to me they’re all the antithesis of what they’re meant to be and that’s why they’re such amazing and heartfelt characters
like, Caleb is a wizard who’s afraid of his own fire magic. his own power causes him to falter in battle. his strongest spells are his most dangerous to himself. wizards are supposed to be prideful of their magic, but Caleb’s is the reason he hates himself
Beau is a monk who never wanted to be. her job is one that people normally associate with being calm and collected and Beau was a wild rebellious kid who got dragged into this line of work against her will. she never wanted to be this!! but now she is and she’s gotta deal with it!!
Fjord is a warlock who never wanted power from his pact, which is why you’d think a warlock would make their pact at all. but no. Fjord made his pact because he wanted to live, not because he wanted power. he was a scared orphan who hated his tusks, not a buff, muscled, angry half-orc like people assumed
Nott is NOT, that’s the whole crux of her narrative! she wasn’t pretty, like a halfling girl was supposed to be. she wasn’t a goblin, she was just transformed into one. and not only that, but despite being a three-foot-tall alcoholic kleptomaniac, she’s the mom of the group!
Jester is a Cleric whose god isn’t actually a god and who would much rather bash bad guys over the head with her lollipop than have to stop and heal her friends!! she’s a bubbly, optimistic ray-of-sunshine, but you know when she says she’s gonna change the world with friendship she means it as a threat
Mollymauk is an amnesiac, but he doesn’t want to remember who he was. if you ask him, that wasn’t him! he might be a flirtatious hedonistic carnie, but he’s also single-mindedly devoted to making the world a better and more loved place than it was when he found it. he’s a liar, but he means well. he’s an arrogant fool, yes, but he’s right! he did it! he left it better!
Caduceus seems like he’d be creepy and grim from growing up in a graveyard, but he’s actually the most chill out of the entire Nein by far. he’s calm, he’s sweet, and he’s comforting, more than anything else. you’d think he’d be amazed by seeing the outside world for the first time, but he spends the whole time knowing that one day he’ll return home, that he wasn’t supposed to be the one to leave
Yasha is a barbarian with skeletal wings and a dramatic, monochromatic look, but she’s a complete sweetheart. she’s Molly’s best friend, she was a carnival bouncer, she’s a lesbian disaster who collects pressed flowers in a book out of love for the wife she lost. those black wings were actually hiding soft white feathers
Essek was born straight into the den of politics, he was a spymaster, he literally started a war for his own gain, and yet. he’s sounds irredeemable on paper, but. he’s not!! sure, the Nein kind of have to drag his alignment kicking and screaming into neutral, but they manage it. Essek learns and grows and he overcomes his nature. he becomes good, against all odds
guys guys guys don’t you see it!! look at them!!they’re such compelling characters!! they’re everything they’re not supposed to be!! dude y’all how didn’t I realize this earlier!! they subvert their narratives in the most interesting ways ever and I justhshsbhshshsjnsmshsnhsfn!!
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fantazychai · 9 months
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nothing will ever top c2’s moment of sam slipping in “bren” as foreshadowing for veth and liam desperately panicking thinking he’d somehow learned caleb’s backstory
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sarahinhes · 1 year
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That moment when Matt let loose as lucien and started maniacally laughing? Yes.
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thechekhov · 1 year
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Don’t worry Jester, he won’t leave you again. Though you won’t make it easy...
(for more Mighty Neintales content follow the tag or read it on Tapas)
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noctiferdrawsstuff · 1 year
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I actually started this drawing before finishing c2 so while drawing I was thinking "oh this would be a fun what if" but then I finished the campaign and!!!! It's not really a what if anymore!
and yes Caleb is bluescreening into oblivion
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sunflowervc · 1 year
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why yes, this has sat unfinished in my WIPs for three months since m9 reunited was announced! thank you for asking!
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hufflpuffin · 10 days
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I am so stoked for extra essek content but i kind of hope that the traitor thing isnt like outright revealed early on because I think the bombshell drop of who the traitor is later is so fucking hype.
Like i hope he has a cloak covering him or something to keep things ambiguous while showing the dealings with the Assembly. I hope its ambiguous enough that you can piece it together if youre paying attention but if youre not then its still mindblowing. I was in the audience during the liveshow when it happened and the hundreds of gasps around me was unreal, I hope non-critters will be able to enjoy it the same!
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POV: You’re Ashley Burch rn
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katrina37973 · 5 months
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Forgot to post this.
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l-herz · 10 months
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A MIGHTY NEIN REUNION LIVE!!!
"Echoes of the Solstice"! We'll finally find out what happened to Beau and Caleb! Ahhhhh
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otterlyart · 2 years
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Threads between Campaigns
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Thinking about Caleb and how so much of his story ends with him finding meaning in the temporary.
He spent so long chasing a way to bring his parents back, but in the end he had to accept that they were gone. They were temporary. He has his memories of them now, but that’s all. And he has to find peace with that and find a way to remember them fondly, even though they’re gone now, truly and completely.
He and Essek love each other dearly, but there will come a day when he will have lived his life and grown old and Essek will still be Essek. But even so, every moment they spend together is still meaningful. Even if it ends, it means something.
Just. Caleb and loving things even when they won’t last. Maybe because they won’t last.
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aspiringsophrosyne · 1 year
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One day I'm going to get more in depth into the incredible thematic consistency and weird coincidences of Campaign 2. One day I am doing that.
But in the mean time, one of the things that I still shake my head at is that every time Caduceus Clay got a successful Divine Intervention....it had something to do with that fucking hell city.
First time? The roll was to figure out whatever they could about Vokodo. The info? He punched his way through the planes because he was fleeing Cognouza's appetite.
Second time? It was so the Nein could find and use the entrance into the Aeoran ruins that the Tomb Takers knew about.
And of course, we all know what the third and final Divine Intervention did.
I just love it so much. I hope they at least keep a nod to that in the series.
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wildmelon · 7 months
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the way caleb was the only one who acknowledged that fjord “compromised himself” with avantika and worried about his well-being re. their affair
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joahnwiz27 · 1 year
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There’s nothing I love more than characters who hurt my feelings.
Decided that I HAD to finish C2 (as I am so close to the ending) before continuing with C3 and I am so glad I did… I missed the Mighty Nein’s shenanigans…
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