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stardustedknuckles · 1 year
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Sheer speculation, but I do actually think it was a late-game realization for Matt that he had backed the Soul into a corner with regards to Beau’s kidnapping, like. I do not think he had the overall integrity of the Soul planned from the word go. I also think it does not matter because it was very clear his intentions with the Soul by the end and when he put together the implications that came with the violence of Beau being dragged away he set it right as the Soul would have. Yes I think it was a “patch,” no I don’t think it cheapens the story even a little. There is a very good chance that initially the Soul was meant to mirror the Assembly in some ways - people with good intentions and evil and everything in between, people harmful to others but helpful to the Nein, people harmful to a single member of the Nein but overall aligned in the same directions even if for selfish reasons. And at some point the story needed the Soul to be more. Beau’s story specifically needed it. They didn’t need to be perfect, just accountable for their own - willing and determined to always be better. I think it still takes a hell of a storyteller to spot that need and fulfill it, late game or no. It is especially masterful to change the weave of a story around a specific character in a way that makes sense and in some ways brings their arc home. Beau was comfortable mistrusting the Soul as an institution, and that had to change if she was going to find real purpose as an Expositor.
(I've been informed that Matt talks about this a bit himself and maybe I'll even watch it, but also I do get a little tired of "well in the OTHER one hundred-plus hours of content, they said...")
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flashhwing · 2 years
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everyone in the mighty nein did sort of have a character that was a mirror held up to them, to force them to reflect and really confront themselves huh (except molly who died before he could find his but shhh)
there’s Caleb and Essek, obviously
Fjord and Avantika, also obviously
Beau and Dairon
Jester and Cree
Nott and Wensforth
weirdly I feel like Caduceus’s was Fjord
Yasha’s hard, I’m actually not sure with her. I don’t wanna say Obann because that’s a fully different type of relationship than what I’m tryna get at here. unfortunately Yasha was not present for much of the campaign so it’s harder to really define. maybe it’s Lucien. it might be Lucien actually
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essektheylyss · 10 months
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I need to shout out the Quotations section on the wiki page for "A Tangled Web" (2x77) because reading through these in order literally feels like experiencing a "Previously on" edit that gets put before a major plot episode:
Caleb: (speaking of the captured Scourger) I assume she has not had much empathy offered to her. And thus she offers no empathy, nor will she, anymore. But things maybe would be better for me if there had been a little more empathy, and there was not. Jester: But there is now. Beau: This isn't some sort of a weird masochistic self-projection type of thing, is it? Caleb: Oh, why not both? Jester: (speaking of the Traveler) No, it's not a cult! It's an organized religion. We're very powerful, and there's a lot of us followers, and ... Oh, shit, are we a cult? Matt: (as the Scourger) Good men don't conquer. They die and are forgotten. I'll die and be forgotten, but at least I know some of my deeds will have changed the course of history. Matt: (as the Scourger) "What do you want? Why did you come here? None of this is surprising. What do you want from me?" Caleb: Maybe if I could talk plainly with you and see one inch of change, I wouldn't believe we're all damned. Matt: "I hope this lesson has been very useful." Caleb: It has. You've made what I have to do very plain. Jester: (to Caleb) I walk up and I grab his hands. "I just want to say– I just want to say that I know what you went through today in the cell was very, very hard, and probably didn't go the way you were hoping it would. So if you need anyone to talk to about it or anything, I'm here for you, okay?" Beau: (to Dairon) You told me to seek out the corruption. You told me to trust no one. You told me to find the information. I could be fucking wrong, but I'm doing exactly what you told me to do. What YOU told me to do. Fuck the Cobalt Soul. You're the first person who ever fucking believed that I could make something of myself. I don't know who vouched for me over there, but I'm assuming it was you. I've always assumed it was you. Dairon: "I am proud of you. You are a fine Expositor. Which you now are, because I say so." Dairon: (giving advice to Beau) "Pry. Ask. Demand. Extract."
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utilitycaster · 7 days
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For the ask meme: 2, 3, 19 for Beau
2. Favorite canon thing about Beau is that she is one of my favorite archetypes, the "I don't care (cares more than anyone ever has)" type of character. She's an okay but not incredible liar (proficient but +1 CHA only gets you so far) especially early on, and so really she's part of the top table triangle of "I know what you are" - both Fjord and Caleb figure out she's not actually just here to punch people and get drunk pretty quickly. She has profound and earnest hidden depths and they're also very badly hidden, and I think that's wonderful.
3. I do think the one real casualty of the Mighty Nein having a very different plot than the one Matt expected was Beau's work with the Cobalt Soul; this naturally would have probably been really different had the party spent a lot of time in Rexxentrum working closely with the Augen Trust early on, as she'd have been balancing those two organizations and serving in many ways as a go-between. So I wish we had gotten a bit more. It actually was pretty solid through the early Xhorhas arc, but sort of fell off after that until she started doing research about Aeor at which point it picked up again. I think her progression would have made a bit more sense and felt more natural if she'd had had more structured missions. That's not really a fault of Marisha or Beau's concept though, or rather, it's a limitation of the subclass which is Matt's build and it was addressed very much post-campaign. (Honestly, for a lot of the Nein, my answer to this will be "I wish we had more")
19. Honestly? While there are relationships I think are obviously not good to or for Beau in canon (her father, natch) and relationships I think get mischaracterized by the fandom (Jester, Veth, sometimes Caleb) I think one of the best parts about how Marisha played Beau was her relationships. They all feel incredibly real and natural and developed. I do wish we could have had more time with Dairon, and maybe gotten a bit more into her past with Tori (again, my feedback on the Nein will largely be "canon is fantastic, wish we had more") but there's no relationship she has that makes me go "this was badly done." I do think her relationship with her father sucks though and is entirely his fault.
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theorphanmakers · 1 year
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Possible Beauyasha babysitters for when M9 is saving the world:
The Lavish Chateau crew: I mean, they're gonna call Marion grandma and she's gonna love it. (It will also be a test run for biological grand babies). Bluud is also gonna kill the babysitting game, we've seen how he is with Jester. Also, the Gentleman eventually moves in and he gonna be the grandpa who says yes everytime moms say no. Also, we already know that everyone took really good care of Luc, so they'll love Beauyasha babies
Yeza: I can honestly see them saying "you're already taking care of Luc, here's one(or maybe 2?) more" and Yeza is the sweetest man and will just be like "uh okay, sure" (he is honestly too good for any world)
Martina: obviously, she's already at their house all the time(cue Beau's eye roll), why wouldn't she just watch the kids while their moms are off saving the world (or just fucking around in Aeor)
The Clays: they won't even notice additional people running around
Orly: I can just see them taking the kids on the boat ship for like a vacation trip to Rumblecusp or wherever and something happening and them being like "hey watch them til we get back" and Orly just agreeing without even realizing that he agreed
(I can also see Yasha suggesting the Stormlord and Beau having to be like "babe he's a God, he doesn't have time to watch our kids" and Yasha saying "yeah you're right that's a dumb idea")
(On that note, I can also see Beau saying "why don't we just leave them at the Cobalt Soul for a few days" and Dairon being like "absolutely fucking not")
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Empire Sibling Neighbor AU AU Where the Ermundruds escaped (either on their own or with help) and, not realizing who had done it are put into protective custody/witness protection within the Cobalt Soul (maybe the Soul knows it was Bren, but they lost track of Bren when was put in the Asylum) And it's Dairon who sees Beau and Caleb and puts 2 and 2 together at some point, and just sighs. For the most hilarity, having it happen in the Xhorhaus, the house the Nein were given by the Dynasty.
Okay wait that's so good omg
Like Una and Leofric are just like, absolutely the fuck now we're not going into protective custody, take us to see Bren right the fuck now. But the Soul can't find him and Beau doesn't even know that they're alive. Dairon is one of the few expositors who knows that the Ermundruds survived, she has no idea that Beau knows them.
And when she reunites them...when she brings Beau and Caleb to their hidden house, the two of them are holding hands as tight as they possibly can. Neither of them even dare to believe that Dairon is telling them the truth.
But then the door opens and it's real Una just bursts into tears and Leofric can do nothing but stare for a few seconds before they welcome them in.
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themadmarauder · 1 year
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I think it would be cool to have a Tales of Ba Sing Se episode for the Might Nein Animated. We could get a short story of where Yasha is while away. We could see Nott and Jester get into some hijinks. Beau could train with Dairon. Caleb could do some spell stuff/library reading. Maybe Cad makes a friend or asks a blacksmith about his sword hilts. Fjord goes and buys a ring of fire resistance for a completely reasonable amount of gold….
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waltwhitmansbeard · 1 year
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"Don't you dare wake them up." A reversal of my previous prompt, this time it’s Caleb ensuring that Beau gets some well-deserved rest.
29. "Don't you dare wake them up."
Caleb does not pretend to know the intricacies of Beau's relationship with Dairon, whatever that relationship may be. He is no stranger to the complexities of a mentor-student relationship, all the ways one's intestines can be knotted up and torn apart after what to the outside world would seem like a normal conversation. Having Dairon here in the Xhorhaus is helpful, he thinks, but maybe it is difficult for Beau, having a reminder of the Cobalt Soul's tight grip on her so close at hand.
It is no wonder, then, when she retires to bed early, citing a headache brought about by too much whiskey. No one pays much attention, the others too excited to dip into the hot tub or, in Caduceus's case, to tend to their little rooftop garden. Nott, however, quickly gets bored, unwilling to stick even a toe into the bubbling water, and she translates that boredom into trying to goad Jester into some fun.
"Let's go trick Caduceus into thinking the tree is talking to him!"
"Mmm, I don't know, he's probably just gonna actually talk to the tree."
Nott paces around the edge of the hot tub, careful not to get too close to the water. "We could scry on Essek, see what he's up to."
"Probably something boring." Jester's eyes light up. "Do you wanna go see what happens when we dump everything in the kitchen into a bowl and try to make a cake out of it?"
"But then what will we eat for breakfast?"
Jester sinks into the water. "Oh yeah."
Rolling his eyes, Fjord suggests, "Why don't you just go draw dicks on Beau's face while she's sleeping?"
Caleb watches the hellfire alight in Nott and Jester's eyes, but before either of them can twitch a muscle, he says firmly, "Don't you dare wake her up."
Jester pouts. "But we'll be super sneaky. She'll never even feel it, I promise."
Caleb settles his best glare on her, and he watches her relent. "Beau has had enough dicks for today." He could slap himself. "I mean, she has dealt with enough dickish people. Let her sleep."
"Fine." Jester sinks fully below the water, which Caleb cannot imagine is good for her, but she pops up again on the other side of the hot tub almost immediately, dousing a shrieking Nott in water.
"I'm going to kill you!" Nott screeches, scrambling for her crossbow as Jester cackles back against Fjord, and Caleb thinks that maybe Beau had the right idea about going to bed early after all.
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thevexedvixen · 1 year
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WIP Wednesday 3/29/23
wow ok was not expecting to do another WIP Wednesday so soon because i’ll be moving soon so life will get even crazier but.... someone literally went and commented on every single critical role fic i’ve written on ao3 the other day. it made me very happy and i want to write more now. i also feel like i have not been reading enough m9 fics lately. so i have been working on something for literally over a year and i’m mostly just stuck with writer’s block on it but maybe posting the WIP will encourage me to finish it.
it’s a sequel to one of my fics, Courting of the Caleb. it is, according to the statistics on ao3, my magnum opus: most hits, comments, kudos, etc. i’m very proud of this fic and someone gave me a great idea for a sequel, but like i said it’s just been writer blocking the heck outta me. i also have a lot of fear this sequel just won’t hold a candle to the original so that’s the other part of it ;A; because this sequel will be much shorter than the original... plan is for it it to mostly be just a fun lil follow up with lots of dialogue.
i will shamelessly provide another link to Courting of the Caleb for people to reread it in anticipation of the sequel! and now without further ado, the WIP :)
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A voice magically fills Beauregard’s ears, telling her, “Hello Beauregard. You are welcome to join us for dinner at Caleb’s house after your work is finished. Yasha is already here.”
Looking up from her book, Beau grins and responds to Essek’s Sending immediately, saying, “Hot boy! Tell Caleb I’m on my way. Unless he’s trying to make that weird casserole again, then I’m dipping.”
There’s no response but Beau doesn’t need one. With one of her friends in town and a dinner invite, she has enough incentive to be done with work for the day. Beau returns her three books and stashes her notes away in her bag before leaving the library of the Cobalt Soul. She does stop by Dairon’s office, knocking on the door obnoxiously and not waiting for a response before opening the door.
“Hey, I’ve got family in town so I’m leaving early. See you next week!” Beau tells them all in one breath and closes the door before Dairon can respond properly.
Dairon waves anyways, not looking up from the work on their own desk.
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isagrimorie · 1 year
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It just struck me whatever happens in the M9 reunion may or may not directly affect what will happen in campaign 3.
From what I understand Beau mentioned that Cerberus Assembly and Ludinus have been quiet.
Since we’re watching Bells Hells 7 years into the future, we know it’s not true.
And we all know Beau and Caleb are like dogs with a bone, they’re not going to drop it. So now I’m curious what happened.
Is the reason why CA branched out to Marquet is because Beau and Caleb have been hampering operations?
Do they need the power of Apogee Solstice to regain / gain more arcane power?
Or, did something happen to Beau and Caleb? (I hope not!).
I might not have been watching C2 all the way through but I have hunted down scenes where Beau was being an awesome Expositor. So I want both empire kids to succeed
Although, CA being so entrenched is not something that can be destroyed in just 7 years. It’s an institution with a lot of influence and moving parts.
But I also wonder if some more people from C3 will make an appearance to help Bells Hells as a resource, like maybe if not Beau but Dairon?
Whatever happens in the reunion might affect things in C3, and I’m interested to know how.
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unicyclehippo · 2 years
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prompt: maybe perhaps....a part 2 of jes overhearing nott and beau's convo about beau being in love with her? 👀 or if that's not the vibes: beaujes evil fun times 👀👀
she dresses her in grey, a suit that accentuates the lines of her, the strength of her, that shows her off the way she is, not the way she might want her to be. beau sweeps her into a hug, fills her arms with both jester and caduceus, and the group continues on not knowing (beau would never tell them) that something profound has happened. someone else sees her the way she sees herself, without her having to explain, without her having to beg them to just let her show them that it works. jester has her measurements, body and soul, and all this even after knowing beau loves her.
beau locks the bathroom door and gets on her hands and knees to clean burned clay off the floor. she excavates mosaic tile from under the remnants, adds bits and pieces of the once-beautiful tub to the corner where they are collecting the pieces in case jester has a spare month of free time to repair it. orange-burnt clay dusts her hands, collects under her nails. she works mindlessly at it; she thinks of barrels of sand on her shoulders, buckets of water on her head, days of climbing up and down stairs, useless busy work that never got her out of her head like it was supposed to, and wants to laugh because dairon had figured her out months before—she only works when she’s running from something.
the clay smells like the too-strong incense. the mosaic—ocean waves and the swirl of kelp and currents—returns bit by bit.
marion is too busy being afraid to notice her when she leaves, which is all for the better because beau doesn’t want to talk to her.
she can hear jester’s giggles and the thunk of boot heels against walls as the other girl tosses open her wardrobe to prepare. beau leans in the open doorway; she hasn’t spent much time with jester since their moment in the alleyway, but tonight, now, it’s different. jester is distracted and beau can steal the moment while she’s not watching—can press jester’s breathless excitement, the wonder in her eyes, into the malleable clay of her memory. beau is no wizard and no artist. she isn’t creative, doesn’t imagine breaking twelve laws of the material world before breakfast; she just imagines for a moment that she is brave enough to step through the doorway and catch jester’s hand, join her frantic search for the perfect shoes to go with her dress, strip herself down and redress so jester can see all the parts of her that she must have imagined - maybe drawn - to have the suit made so perfectly for her.
beau slinks away before jester, silk scarf tossed around her horns, can see her.
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they make their way across town. the night is warm, sea-salt air stirred by the cry of violin strings and all the important people blowing hot air up each other’s asses.
beau looks handsome but it isn’t enough. jester is enamoured by her own mother, daring enough to have stepped out of her home for the first time in years. beau’s stomach dips; she thinks about jester on the brink, holding her hand out for her mama, her smile as bright as the crescent moon and many times as lovely; she thinks about her father’s doorstep, her own cheek hot; she thinks about hands around her shoulders dragging her out; she thinks about jester sliding her hand into her mama’s hand, and crooning reassurances, and the difference between them has never felt so stark. she should feel closer to her—they are dressed up, they are both powerful and capable, they’re both here and jester knows, they both know how she feels—but every inch that separates them feels insurmountable, a crack that widens and widens with every second, and it is with both hands clenched, no trace of clay left, that she turns to caduceus and begs him to make her useful, give her something that she can do tonight.
it seems some cosmic joke that he lets her see the whole of the space between them, all the hundreds of flitting incandescent creatures, all the ethereal eddies that fill the slip stream between them. beau can see jester through it all but now more than ever she could never reach.
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stardustedknuckles · 2 years
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But what if Beau starts getting headaches working on her reports for too long, what if her perception is as sharp as ever but her eyes get less and less thrilled with research in low Reserve lighting and cramped handwriting from other monks - what if one day Dairon spots her rubbing her temples one too many times and sends her to have a chat with an affiliated artificer and Beau comes out with glasses. She makes jokes at the workshop and walks around with an exaggerated swagger and an insistence that they make her "hot as fuck" (which is how Dairon knows to check in with her, later) but she gets home and shuts the door and lets her shoulders drop and just... looks, here at the lenses in her hands. She's maybe thirty by this point and it's no secret that humans and gnomes are the most prone to the need for visual aid even in the daytime (Caleb got his pair within a year of Aeor's events) but even so, there's something vaguely embarrassing to her about it all - the sense of time eroding her abilities far too soon, the feeling she could've stopped it maybe, if she'd known it was happening sooner. A distant feeling of weakness, a pre-vulnerability and anxiety about change she can't control.
Maybe she can still talk to Caduceus about it, and that gives her at least enough hope to put them back on - right as Yasha walks in from the hallway with a greeting that lodges in her throat with a quiet, comical noise as she pauses to just stare. She tries again, manages something of a scrambled welcome without taking her eyes from Beau's face, and it slowly dawns on Beau as she steps closer, really gets a good look at the details in front of her, that there are perhaps factors and benefits to this situation she had overlooked. When Yasha pulls her close for a hungry kiss and immediately smudges the fuck out of those lenses, Beau's vague sense of chagrin lifts enough to think that maybe she could get used to this after all.
Beau gets glasses and Yasha is All About It is what I'm saying.
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they'll go to uthodurn, reveal the toy mafia and Chet's backstory and maybe talk to reani to find out that beau works for the group that have an archive in their town, they get the message to dairon/yudala who tells the rest of the mighty nein, they also get a message out to the de rolo's about keyleth and the masked man in raven feathers who appeared to save her. the party reunites with a game plan and we go for previous character appearances 2: electric boogaloo
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critterfloozy · 2 years
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Summer Wildflowers Reveal and Recs
I didn't sign up for wildflowers this year - personal circumstances meant I was completely unable to commit to anything between mid-April and oh, about ten days ago. But, because it turns out I did actually have time to write things, I worked on a couple of treats!
First up, Inventory: Yasha gives Essek some advice on packing, and maybe a couple other things come up, too. This was really just an excuse for me to dump headcanons about Yasha/do some Wastelander worldbuilding, but there's a bit of discussion of Shadowgast in here, too.
Secondly, there's Amethyst and Flowers on the Table: a story of Cad and Keyleth meeting, but I think the emotional heart of it might still be Keyleth and Vilya (you are, of course, free to disagree). I also went from idea to publish in less than 24 hours, which I'm extremely proud of.
Okay- so ones I liked:
All these Ghosts I've Grown With by @mapleandgingeroatmeal /A_Orbit. Clay siblings, dealing the best they can.
both my broken hands are true by quoth_the_ravenclaw. Veth & Caleb, in a timeline that diverged just a little before canon. There were so many good lines in here.
in the dream we are always posthumous by @callingvoicemail / hanap Kingsley and Molly and Lucien, in one body. Shrimp emotions - horror and comfort and identity fuckery all in one. I need to reread.
We All Need Someone to Stay by WhyYesItsScar. Dairon, on Beau, and looking into what was going on with them.
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utilitycaster · 10 months
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On FCG's build: since you're really good on mechanics and build, I was wondering how you would tweak the empathy domain? I agree that FCG is meeting the needs of the party, but ideally, what changes would you make? I was personally thinking that the Changebringer now being a more official thing for FCG would be a good opportunity, even thematic, to spruce things up a bit.
Thanks! I do agree that the next level up would be a good opportunity to handwave a rework (similar to how Beau's subclass adjustments were made by having Dairon train her more).
So the issue I specifically have is that the way transfer suffering works, you halve the damage, but the damage must still be done to someone, otherwise you take it. This means that as a primary healing class, you're stuck either making an attack as your action (and I believe spell attacks don't count although Matt recently ruled spiritual weapon does so idk) instead of healing, or you are taking tons of damage by using this feature, while, again, being the primary healer. You're also effectively penalized for missing, which sucks.
I think there are ways to work with it as is, but it requires a truly exceptionally grasp of mechanics and it's still flawed - for example, always having aura of vitality up would do a lot of work, but that's a concentration spell that you could lose with a heavy hit.
Anyway I think the easiest way to fix it would be to require those HP either be dealt as damage to the enemy, taken as damage to the cleric, or redistributed as healing (using a healing spell). That way, you're rewarded for deciding to heal instead of deal damage - in fact, healing is a guaranteed damage reduction whereas if you miss on an attack you might take full damage. However, since this does fully just negate damage I'd limit the ability then to PB times per long rest to prevent it from becoming overpowered. Alternately I'd turn the suffering into something else - maybe the next attack the cleric makes is at disadvantage and they can't use the ability again until they've made that attack or until the next combat, whichever comes first, which also means that pivoting entirely to healing would be a valid strategy. Basically, my point is that a cleric should not take a subclass-inflicted penalty, ever, for deciding to heal an ally or themself over making an attack, but I agree this should come with some kind of drawback or condition.
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windwardrose · 2 years
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fate/wildemount
Caleb Widogast - Caster is the shoe-in option of course, but consider: Archer class, the standoffish overthinkers of the Grail War. Summoned by Essek Theylyss, an ambitious and mildly unprincipled prodigy, whose wish is to discover the truth behind the national religion of the Luxon.
Yasha - Berserker. Her master is Obann, who intends to unleash the Angel of Irons. Angst ensues. Does she still get to kill him in the end? Maybe? We should think of a way for it to happen.
Nott - tempting to say Archer, but frankly more likely Assassin. Summoned by Yeza the alchemist as part of a government-sponsored project to infiltrate the Grail War. Yeza didn't know what he was up to. It just happened. Now he has a stabby goblin to deal with, and maybe fall in love with.
Fjord - (sorry man, I nearly forgot you.) Avantika summons him. I don't know what class. Whichever one Molly isn't (Rider or Saber)?
Beau - A rather cynical Lancer, but it seems vibe-y. Dairon is her master, carrying out a summoning in an attempt to suss out what is up with this Grail War thing.
Mollymauk - Lucien summons an alternate universe version of himself while attempting to mind-meld with the ancient spirits of the Somnovum. Saber class? Or Rider, because Rider seems to be the wild card, and boy is this one wild.
Jester - the weirdest cutest Caster ever? I'm not sure her Noble Phantasm is printable in public. But there are probably also hamster unicorns involved. I'm not sure who summons her yet. One of her canonical parents?
Caduceus - (Why are there 8 of you? Go away. Actually, stay please - the Grail War absolutely needs a cool-headed healer-caretaker type. Indispensable.)
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