#matilda cr

[dylbydoodles]

Matilda’s Lament

#critical role #critical role fanart #laudna cr #delilah briarwood #cr #critical role art #criticalrole #critical role fan art #cr art #cr3 #critter #Delilah cr #cr laudna #sun tree #matilda cr #critical role spoilers #tw: death #tw: hanging

[mossbone]

C3E37 and Genre Thoughts

I’m seeing so many theories on the latest episode re: Laudna’s past and the things we saw, and here’s my take. On the last 4-sided dive, Marisha said she based ~Laudna~ as her character’s name based on laudanum, the medication. She chose it because “it sounded a little weird, and hazy...and fucks with your head.”

I believe episode 37 reflected that, on purpose.

With the additional knowledge that her birth name was ~Matilda~ it makes so much sense that she has such a personality-fitting name, because she chose it. And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as a lonely child with magic powers she shared a name with Roald Dahl’s famous Matilda who did the same. But then Matilda died, and her narrative, her genre changed. So of course her name did too.

Delilah has been messing with her head and her memories for 30-odd years and episode 37 really showed us exactly what that looks like. The ages jumping around, the town shifting illogically, the purple sparks of our favorite dead girl answering to both names sometimes, the uncertainty of whether or not fighting her worst memories was changing anything, unsure if they were reaching out to her actual spirit all those times...not even knowing if the horrorscape was under the control of Delilah, or Laudna, or Something Else.

In the horror-adjacent novel Harrow the Ninth, there are both real ghosts and personal hallucinations and we never really get closure on which was which for certain scenes. The author goes into a little bit about that being on purpose, because sometimes the horror is in not knowing, and sometimes the horror is in having to rely on people you cannot trust to tell you what’s real, and sometimes it doesn’t matter if the horrors are physically real or not because you are experiencing them and that’s all that matters.

I feel like Matt took a similar approach with this episode, and I see so many people trying to decipher a Fundamental Truth about why Andy called her Matilda but her parents called her Laudna or other inconsistencies that happened. The theories are getting more and more elaborate, and like, that makes sense! Human nature is to solve mysteries! And I could be wrong but I don’t think there is an in-universe concrete reason. Of course people want there to be an answer—it’s terrifying to not understand what’s happening around you. But this was a horror episode! We got to see the characters physically explore the confusion and manipulation going on in Laudna’s head, so I think some things were meant to be nebulous or outright contradictory. Trauma does that to the brain. It makes you remember things wrong, and having the woman who killed you squatting in your mind, filling it with dark powers and shadowy illusions only expounds on that. Which is terrifying! So of course us viewers don’t like that and are trying to find safe logical paths to The Truth. But sometimes The Truth isn’t simple. Sometimes you can’t find the clues to understand what Actually Happened.

This episode, we got an inside look into Laudna’s mind. It was weird, and hazy, and fucked. Like a too-strong dose of laudanum.

#cr3 spoilers #cr3 #laudna cr #critical role #laudna #c3e37 #bells hells #matilda cr #delilah briarwood #critical role campaign 3 #obviously this is just my take and I could be wrong #I also think that each campaign has very different vibes and campaign 2 WAS full of solvable mysteries #it had trails of evidence that lead the party to individuals that could be interrogated under Zone of Truth and then jailed #but like. campaign 3 has much more of gothic horror vibes. #so I think for at least this case of Laudna's mindscape we're in territory that is not only uncharted but CAN'T be charted #because it's a fucked up traumatized necromancied mind and not an ocean #even Delilah seemed unsure of what was true and kept saying somewhat contradictory things

[leafspiritz]

kids saving the world

#thinking about young chetney got me thinking about the rest of bells hells #and how they were all kids in very different places and times #just a buncha kids trying to save the world… #bells hells #bh #orym of the air ashari #chetney pock o'pea #fcg #fresh cut grass #fearne calloway #imogen temult #laudna #matilda bradbury #ashton greymoore #critical role #critrole #cr #critical role fanart #cr campaign 3 #c3 #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dnd #fanart #digital art #procreate

[stacia-honey-art]

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!

#sketch #cr3 #laudna #laudna cr #critical role laudna #bells hells #whitestone #critical role exandria #imogen critical role #matilda bradbury #critical role

[thewhalelord]

Matilda

#critical role #critical role fanart #critical role campaign 3 #bells hells #crit role #laudna #cr laudna #matilda bradbury

[critterpages]

Coming July 23, 2024 from Penguin Random House:

Critical Role: Bells Hells – What Doesn't Break by Cassandra Khaw and Critical Role

#critical role #critrole #cr campaign 3 #bells hells #critical role campaign 3 #laudna temult #Matilda critical role #marisha ray #critical role novel #crit role #cr c3 #cr campaign three #critical role bells hells #imodna #critical role spoilers

[kosalus]

tell me i’m not dreaming alone

get it as a print!

#the grip that they have on me #i really needed to get this out of my system askdajka #fellas is it gay to dream about a peaceful life of domesticity w your bestie #Imogen temult #laudna #matilda bradbury #bell's hells #critical role #critical role fanart #cr fanart #critical role spoilers #my art #digital art #dungeons and dragons #dnd #imodna #southern gothic

[circus-bagel]

WIP Imodna comic-ish inspired by Fish in a Birdcage!

#critical role #imodna #laudna #laudna cr #laudna critical role #matilda bradbury #imogen temult #campaign 3 #crit role #c3 #delilah briarwood #fish in a birdcage #wip #art wip

[definitionofacritter]

she is baby. we protect the baby.

#cr spoilers #critical role #laudna #matilda #bells hells #delilah if u touch her we will reign hell down upon u #this is a threat and we will follow through #oh no a sorta hit post

[mintywolf]

Remember us.

Did Imogen somehow manage to retroactively place herself in Laudna’s memories of her past by coming in contact with her soul? Probably not! But I want to belieeeeve.

#critical role #cr c3e37 #imogen temult #laudna #(matilda!) #southern gothic #critical role art #critical role spoilers #a thing i drew #mintywolf #tumblr of course is going to cut this off please fullview!

[acebender]

Thinking thoughts about Imogen and Laudna escaping through backstreets from angry mobs, one of them pining the other to the wall as the people pass by, pretending to be a couple with bated breath until they are safe.

#critical role #imogen temult #imogen cr #imodna #laudna #laudna cr #matilda bradbury #laura bailey #marisha ray #bells hells #c3 #campaign 3 #c3e57

[mossbone]

“Matilda?

Can you tell me about this drawing?

It’s interesting. What were you thinking?”

#cr3 #laudna #ashton greymoore #I'm still not over this scene #critical role #c3e37 #matilda cr #critical role campaign 3 #laudna cr

[isagrimorie]

The thing I’ve realized about Laudna is, she’s a naturally friendly person. She likes to talk to people and uplift them in anyway.

She likes taking care of people but her whole life she’s been either the odd ball kid other kids would make fun of, or she was getting mobbed out of any home she could make for herself.

And post-rez her only interaction was with Delilah Briarwood. Like, initially, I think Laudna formerly Matilda Bradbury would be delighted and happy to have someone with her until she realized who it was.

It’s no wonder she latched on to Imogen and Imogen to her. Her connection and relationship to Imogen has only bolstered Laudna’s friendly nature, and she is almost always the first to reach out.

Yes, Laudna and Imogen are each other’s priorities (which is understandable, since they’ve only had each other for 2 years) but contrary to what some fandom thinks… they do care for other people too.

(They care and fuss over other people a lot.)

The myth that Imogen only cares about Laudna and vice versa minimizes so much of who Imogen and Laudna are.

Do they care more about each other? Of course!

In any given relationship, of course a person in a relationship (familial and/or romantic) will be a priority more than anyone else. If someone says otherwise, they’re lying.

Anyway, I love this confirmation that Laudna really is the more extroverted one, and Imogen is the more introverted one.

Laudna can make friends anywhere, she can and has been thrown through various situations and she can make a friend. There is a caveat that she needs to be someone else to vouch for her.

She thrives in a social situation and meeting new people and it’s such a tragedy that it took her 30 years to be in a position to be taken in more positively by other people.

#laudna #matilda bradbury #critical role #cr 3x59 #critical role c3 spoilers #bells hells #cr spoilers #imogen temult

[renatogpadilla]

PLEASE tell me I'm not the only one that caught Laudna's silent "Were not done!" when they were leaving the tree!

That girl wants ANSWERS!!!

#critical role #cr #cr3 #bell's hells #cr3e74 #c3e74 #cr3 spoilers #cr laudna #Laudna #Matilda Bradbury

[tinyjellyfishy]

[who you once were]

Imogen wanting to keep little laudna safe. Screaming crying

#imogen temult #laudna cr #critical role #critrole spoilers #Imodna #cr fanart #my art #hey gamers how bout last episode. Matilda???

[l-herz]

Imogen saving Laudna's spirit from a past memory of her as a child just like she saved her in real live as an adult I-

#critical role #cr spoilers #Imogen temult #laudna critical role #cr laudna #MATILDA? #Imodna #Not necessary romantic. Whatever you want it to be :)