#relief when caduceus enters a room and the way that caleb gave essek what molly gave him. mollymauk changed essek just as much as any of the

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i know i’m constantly chewing drywall over shadowgast and it is because there’s so much to drive me insane there and i’m extremely fond of them and their batshit fire/mirror dynamic but if i even Think about essek’s induction to the mighty nein or his feelings toward and friendship with them i will lose my fucking mind

#thought about beau’s ‘fuck. i like him’ and yasha talking to him about loneliness and penance and him deferring to fjord when the tombtakers #showed up and veth working alongside him and caleb in his little wizard laboratory and also the veth essek anxiety drinking and the obvious #relief when caduceus enters a room and the way that caleb gave essek what molly gave him. mollymauk changed essek just as much as any of the #nein and does he even know it? #and of COURSE there’s the EVERYTHING about the insane wizard romance. but then i’ve saved jester for last because truly TRULY essek was only #ever able to become who he was by the end of the campaign because of her #essek thelyss is an interesting character for me for a number of reasons but maybe most of all because he’s sort of emblematic of who the #mighty nein are and how they interact with the world #practically every guest on c2 talks about how meeting this party of assholes changed their character decidedly for the better and yeah that #REALLY is who they are as a group #and it’s most obvious in jester and mollymauk #those two catalyzed positive change in the party itself throughout the course of the entire campaign. we don’t have a mighty nein without #them. but that becomes a key trait of the group as a whole #i like them a completely normal amount i promise #critical role #essek thelyss