#it absolutely TERRIFIES ME. not F.C.Gs fault though. or not directly.

[sparring-spirals]

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone mention this, so maybe I’m reading too far into this, but it’s interesting to me that pretty much all of the cruel things FCG says in their DeathBot mode could kinda also be applied to himself as well as the people he was targeting with them?(threats of beheading aside) things like “WHY DON’T YOU SHUT UP? JUST SHUT YOUR F***ING MOUTH” and “YOUR PARENTS (parental figure in Grass’s case) GOT RID OF YOU BECAUSE THEY DON’T LIKE YOU AND THEY WERE F***ING RIGHT” 1/2

“YOU WERE NEVER ALIVE” in particular sounds like a much meaner version of how Letters claims that they’re not soul-touched, not a person (Not trying to make this all about FCG, that was definitely directed at Laudna and it hit her like a sack of bricks).Could totally be a coincidence/unintentional but it kinda reminds me of the interpretation of ‘FCG maybe/maybe not projecting onto Laudna about being jealous of living beings and such’. 2/2 (Chopped into two parts because long, so sorry!)

Hm. I'm of two minds about this.

On the one hand, I definitely think F.C.G projects some of their issues onto other folks, when providing therapy to them and in some of his snippier moments. Which- to be fair, everyone in the party is prone to providing advice that swings between "surprisingly good!" and "hmm pal this is DEFINITELY about you, huh". Either way. F.C.G having unresolved Thoughts about his alive-ness and humanity and being left by Dancer and other self worth, and putting elements of that onto other people is a theory I personally stand by.

On the other hand, I also don't think we should understate the extent to which each of the pointed comments were pointed. Each of them were crafted, very specifically, to hurt that person, to aim for a raw spot and hit home.

(Theres also a separate meta that can be written about how fucking terrifying F.C.G murderbot is, not for the murder but for the implied way the kindness and listening and the picking-apart and breaking down issues can be so easily repurposed into a weapon. That they were. But thats for a different day).

The implication that I got from the whole encounter- other than the attempted murder- was about how well that side of F.C.G was able to pinpoint each of their weaknesses, and hurt them with it. Was there bleedover from their own issues? Probably. But no amount of projection takes away the intent behind those words, which I think is the Juciest Bit™.

(Also! as a fun leftover thought, something to be said about how sometimes hurts and their themes are just- common. broad. shared. A big, wide world, but sometimes its very easy to know how to hurt people.) (and sometimes its even easier when you pull out your own pains to amplify it.)

#critical role #cr spoilers #c3e31 #fcg #character meta #speculation #spar speaks #ask away! #sorry this got a little meandering. im still chewing through the implications of Murderbot!F.C.G and their fine tuned emotional warfare #it absolutely TERRIFIES ME. not F.C.Gs fault though. or not directly. #fcg meta