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aeoris4lovers · 1 year

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thoughts on verin getting to know the mighty nein:

fjord: voted most likely to be verin's crush. each of them thinks the other is way cooler than them and sometimes it just makes them really awkward around each other but once they get comfortable they're just very loud about Look At My Badass Friend. they fall into the habit of shooting each other "can you believe this" looks when the others start making ridiculous plans, as if they don't also love the chaos. verin is committed to being fjord's personal hype man, and he takes his job very seriously.

beau: at first, beau mostly just thinks verin is kind of annoying (though funny to watch when he annoys the shit out of essek), but he turns out to be a good workout buddy and is more than willing to get wrapped up in her and fjord's shenanigans. the first time they really hit it off is when beau is connecting the dots on her latest mystery of choice and verin jumps in to start bouncing off of her ideas, and everyone else just watches in awe as they frantically unravel it together.

caleb: verin is not immune to the urge to manhandle the resident scrawny wizard, and is even less so after finding out he's the one essek is in love with. he plays the part of the "if you ever hurt him i will make you pay" brother for a while (mostly because he thinks it's funny and it annoys essek) but ultimately, he becomes like a brother to caleb too. also, he's obsessed with any and every cat that caleb brings his way. bring him a particularly small cat and he will shed a tear.

veth: verin thinks veth is hilarious, but he's also a bit terrified of her (which absolutely goes to her head). he does, however, prove to be fantastic with luc, and the presents he brings for luc start being accompanied by particularly nice trinkets he thought she would like. sometimes veth teases fjord talking about how strong verin is, which immediately makes verin blush every time.

jester: these two together are literal sunshine. they bring out each other's excitement and absolutely light up a room once they set each other off. if you see them whispering to each other, expect the unexpected, because they might be planning the prank of the century but they also might just be planning on surprising everyone with baked goods. (sometimes both. usually both.) essek fears seeing them in a room together because it exponentially increases his chances of getting hug-attacked.

kingsley: kingsley flirts with verin constantly and verin is adorably confused by it, which only makes it more appealing for kingsley. verin thinks it's really cool that kingsley is an actual pirate, and kingsley absolutely eats up the attention and awe. they sometimes gossip together, and kingsley manages to bring out a catty side of verin that essek didn't even know existed.

caduceus: while verin was the odd one out among his generally serious family, he fits right in with the chaos of the clay family. he easily falls back into the role of "lovingly shitty little brother," so much so that caduceus' own annoying brother side tends to come out while they're together. unsurprisingly, caduceus is also the only one able to get verin to talk about all the things he tries to pretend aren't weighing him down.

yasha: beefy blonde besties, classic introvert-extravert pair, and mlm/wlw solidarity at its finest. it's not uncommon to find the two of them staying up late talking about anything that comes to mind. verin is no less convinced of yasha's ability to send magical messages than yasha herself is. when her wings are out, he begs her relentlessly for a ride until she gives in. he has a certain brightness to his personality that yasha didn't want to admit she missed when molly became kingsley.

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astrid: verin is, respectfully, absolutely terrified of astrid. not just because she used to be an assassin for the other side of the war he was trained to fight – he gets over that part quickly enough, he just thinks she specifically is intimidating, and she regularly leans into it just to amuse herself. eventually, he works up the confidence to start trying to retaliate and fuck with her; he's not often successful, but it's a fun game and they're both irrationally competitive about it.

eadwulf: tied for most likely to be verin's crush. verin also thinks he's intimidating, but more in the "if you put a knife to my throat i might just have to make out with you" way than in the "if you put a knife to my throat i would say my goodbyes and accept my fate" way. eadwulf is particularly hard to get a real laugh out of, but verin gets good enough at it over time that even caleb is impressed. very rarely, verin even manages to get a snort-laugh out of him, which caleb never lets him live down.

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daggersandarrows · 3 years

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I was wondering, if you’re ok with going into it, how was the first and second campaigns fraught with racism? I don’t mean this in a condescending bullshitty way, it’s just that I truly don’t know, and when I’ve gone looking for answers myself generally I just find other white people speaking over actual poc or some very unnecessary discourse. ive sort of skim watched both campaigns so idk where it comes into it, and I’m also white and probably just missed it because you’re right, white people inherently have blind spots about racism. If you don’t wanna go into that’s fine, it’s not your job to educate me, but if you do I’d love to hear what you have to say.

hey anon ^.^ thank you for asking so respectfully. i have the spoons right now and don't mind talking to you about it a bit. please ask for clarification if you need it, this stuff can easily be misconstrued and i don't want people to think i mean something that i don't.

disclaimer that i'm black and hispanic and can only speak from those perspectives. i'm not white passing, i'm brown, but i'm not dark skinned so i can't give a personal perspective on colorism.

i haven't finished campaign one, but what i've noticed so far is that jarret is extremely, uncomfortably fetishized. this was the moment that hit me the hardest because it's the racism i most commonly experience. generally comparing people of color to food or implying that they're more fuckable because they're exotic...not great.

sam also makes an "i don't see color" joke implying that he couldn't tell the difference between a white dragon and another dragon that was pretty uncomfortable.

campaign two unfortunately contains more examples (at least at my point in my c1 rewatch).

the existence of beau and veth. HUGE disclaimer on this one: i don’t think they’re bad characters, i don’t think marisha and sam are bad people for creating them. i just would never like to see a white person play a person of color, no matter who the white person is and no matter how respectful they try to be. this is a BIG one and it may be better if i just make a separate post related to this issue.

the “let’s have caleb and beau pose as slaves” scene. it was just...it was just gross, didn’t like it, it was highly uncomfortable to watch, and the fact that it was played for laughs kind of shows that they didn’t even think about why it really might not be a good idea. this is a prime example of white privilege and unintentional racism.

matt has done a pretty fair job of mitigating “this race is Evil simply because they are this race”, but it’s far from perfect, and there were some stereotype-y scenes involving tieflings, drow, etc. that were a little cringy and oversimplified. in fairness to the cr cast, this is a problem with dungeons and dragons in general. unfortunately this doesn’t make it hurt any less.

#critical role #cr discourse

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