i have been steadily catching up with the mighty nein campaign the past few weeks after i fell off right around travelercon arc a few years ago.... i am ENTRANCED AGAIN and i have been doodling them while i put off thesis film work..
So uh... this was a school assignment turned fan project that I ADORED making!
Edited in Premiere Pro bc that was essentially the point of the assignment but wow. I swear on god I screamed so many times at my screen while editing this I cried over something I made
Consider it a minor tgamm tribute bc im planning smth else bigger!
writing polyam is so fun. instead of two people bantering you have three. or more. the chaos. i sat down to write something sweet and now someone is screaming and getting chased through the house
As someone who gets serious second hand embarrassment the one painful thing about Critical Role is how cool they are of making complete fools out of themselves.
They stroll up to the bright queen or the gentleman or literally any character that is 1. In power and 2. Only tolerates them and they’re immediately like “this is a good time to be completely confusing and also an asshole”
And like. I get it. I get the joke. I swear to god I get the joke. And it’s funny. But it’s literally hard to watch. Like I need to shut my computer and take a walk hard to watch.
Nott this guy has your BLOOD stop making jokes about how he’s sweaty! Caleb your whole goal in life rests on this meeting with the bright queen! Maybe YOU do the talking instead of fucking Yasha and Jester.
They get into a meeting with Yussa and immediately are like “well fjord and Caleb are our two highest charisma. So you know who should go in? Beauregard.”
“We are from the empire and need to talk to this very powerful drow woman about working in Xhorhas. Who do we send? Nott and Jester. Obviously.”
I am both impressed by these actors and their ability to work through these super awkward situations with humor and no shame and I am sinking into the floor, face red. They don’t feel embarrassment because I feel it for them.
ur telling me will killed that lithuanian guy and turned him into a fucking butterfly just to be like "yeah nvm actually" and then get married and have a child?????????????
thinking about little molly finch, the baby on a boat that tugged a house across the ocean
who grew up hearing bedtime stories based on tales from her family’s old country, of shapeshifters and seamonsters, and the story of the night the sea rose up around them and dragged that boat down to bottom of the sea bed
who could see that giant house and boat at low tide at night
who drew a picture of a princess in a castle at the bottom of the sea besieged by a sea monster
bowlgate gets such a rap for being the most aggravating mighty nein argument, but I think people are WILDLY underestimating how aggravating Molly and Beau going in on Nott about Caleb in ep 13 is, like imo it's worse
Thinking about how a kid from Shadycreek Run probably learns to count from their collection of scars or how pain is more consistent than a meal. Thinking about how enticing a group of people who wear their scars proudly, who shed their own blood and turn it into power would be to a kid who can take pain and knows how to bleed. Thinking about how it wouldn’t matter to that kid what they had to do for that power just so long as they got it.
Thinking about how that kid probably always cut himself a little too deeply, always played a little too recklessly with his life because <I>no I can take it</I> because if blood is power then obviously the more you can take means the more you have. Thinking about the disappointment when that desperate kid realizes that he can never bleed enough to have that kind of power he wants, that he’ll never be the ideal because he spends too many days hearing stories about the evils of things that look like him and even if no one says it, he knows they’re thinking it.
Thinking about how he justified his decision to leave by calling them clouded and uninspired and believed in that so much that others listened and decided they’d follow too.
Thinking about how, years later, someone else came to him and saw the scars on his soul instead of his body and said “we see you- we’re like you and we can share our power with you” and how he agreed blindly because he can take it. He can handle the power. He can cut as deeply as he has to even if it drives him mad, anything if it gets him the kind of power to be more than a scarred up brat from nowhere.
Thinking about how cutting himself and everyone around him too deeply just for a little more power, a little more of what he doesn’t have, is how he loses every. time.
torn between being mad that we didn't get to see molly kill the red dragon, and loving what we did get and that molly still got to be the badass that she is