#D20

[emtortles]

we all remember Kristen’s familiar, right?

[ID: a recreation of a Steven Universe comic panel by Haus of Decline. In this version, kristen applebees has a tiny winnie the pooh in a baby chest carrier and is supporting her weight in one hand while the other holds her staff of doubt beside them. They both have a worried expression as Kristen says "i think we're gonna have to kill this guy, winnie", who disappointedly replies with "damn". /end ID]

#edit: thank you to @wanderthroughtheruins for the ID #gotta remember to add those #my art #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fh #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #Kristen Applebees #dimension 20 adventuring party #d20 adventuring party #emtortles

[linposter]

THIS GUY ☝️👇☝️👇☝️👇 honours the COCK 😤😤👏👏💯💯💯

#arts #riz gukgak #brian murphy #d20 #dimension 20 #d20 fhjy #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #saw this man CHEESIN and couldnt not draw my wee guy

[emiko-matsui]

my favourite characterisation that's so unnecessary but so real about the bad kids is that fabian is almost never-present in the groupchat

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fhjy #fabian seacaster #lou wilson #the bad kids #d20 fh #fantasy high junior year #fhsy #boys night

[islandoforder]

the thing is like. as an overwhelmed teenager who was just killed by a system that didn’t protect them properly and wants above all to live, yeah i can see pledging yourself to an unnameable rage god, like you should be angry your school just shipped you off to die alone in the mountains on your spring break.

that said, given gorgug, kristen, adaine, and riz have all died and not pledged themselves to a rage god, i simply know that adaine in particular will see this as simply a skill issue

#the rat grinders #the ratgrinders #adaine abernant #riz gukgak #kristen applebees #gorgug thistlespring #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #fhjy #siobhan thompson #ally beardsley #brian murphy #zac oyama #brennan lee mulligan

[schreibfederlaerm]

it's just really funny to me to imagine Fabian actually being a great big brother honorable nemesis.

like, putting a nemesis ward on the nursery with aelwyn's help since "it won't do if they die before their eighteenth birthday, will it?" (aelwyn, deeply sarcastic: "well of course, that is exactly why I put the ward on adaine's room." fabian, too deep in denial for sarcasm: "see? you get it")

gifting them a battle sheet baby blanket since they should start preparing for their battle early on (and yes it's extra fluffy, it's for a baby stop laughing everybody)

generally trying to teach them everything he knows "so their battle to the death will be a fair one"

giving their adventuring party the same lecture on tactics that the bad kids got from his papa

hunting down chungledown bim and any other nemesis so his sibling is the only one who could get a piece of his fund (he just wants it to stay in the family, shut up)

just. fabian being an amazing big brother but also if you call him that to his face he will cut you

#no one can tell me that fabian of all people will look at a toddler trying to copy his dance moves and still try to kill them 15 years later #the vibe is very much 'good night westley good work sleep well i'll most likely kill you in the morning' #except fabian will have been like that for as long as his sibling remembers so there's not even a bit of fear #fantasy high #dropout #dimension 20 #fabian seacaster #d20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #d20 fhjy

[cntbtchthevapegod]

Ally really is masculine fertile

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #ally beardsley #lou wilson #brennan lee mulligan #fh junior year #d20 fhjy #dimension 20 fhjy #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #d20 fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 ally beardsley #dimension 20 adventuring party #kristen applebees #fabian seacaster #winnie the pooh

[haleyusesherwords]

Gilear Faeth is doomed by the narrative in that he was supposed to be just Some Guy, but his daughter was so determined for him to be part of the narrative that he ended up with an ancestral curse

#gilear faeth #Emily Axeford dragged that poor man into the narrative by the scruff of his neck #inspired by the adventuring party comment where Brennan explains that Gilear is so weird because the Bad Kids just keep talking to him #dimension 20 #d20 #fig faeth #fantasy high

[kindlespark]

dang y'all

#buddy dawn #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #dimension 20 #d20 #my art

[unhauntng]

hey guys! do you think after her and tracker broke up, kristen thought she’d have to leave mordred? do you think she got out a half explanation to jawbone that he didn’t understand and assumed meant that she’d be gone for the evening, not forever? do you think adaine or fig walked in on her packing? do you think she cried because she didn’t want to have to go back to her parents but she didn’t want to bother fabian or riz and sandra lynn had to try and explain that she wasn’t there because of tracker, she was there because they loved her?

do you think that might have been the first time a parent figure told kristen that since she left home?

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #kristen applebees #trackerbees #adaine abernant #figeroth faeth #fig faeth #fantasy high junior year

[wyrmwright]

the love you can't even name

#d20 #dimension 20 #fhjy #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #cassandra #ankarna #fhjy spoilers #im losing my mind over these two... #day and night conviction and doubt #deific yuri tragedy #losing someone and not even being able to speak their name back #the idea that it was cassandra's anger and feelings of unfairness of being in the precarious position she was in is what brought her back #that ankarna was still with her because even the gods cant scrub her name off of cassandras heart #the shards interacting with each other.... #this too is yuri #butch ankarna because of course #i love women

[thecryptidzenith]

Thinking about. Rizbert. Erizabeth. Rizwalda. Riz has to be short for something because... because why? Is he 'too good' for a short name? (a goblin name?) Isn't he surrounded by non-goblins who cannot think outside their cultural perceptions of what a name is supposed to be? Riz both as a name and as a person seems short & lesser but don't worry, he's really something greater, something larger and longer than can be expressed with his native name. As if something small cannot be powerful and important without secretly being large. As if there is only one way to be great. It's like Sklonda said, his name is Riz. Just Riz, as if there's anything 'just' about it.

#is this a joke. yes #but jokes are indicative of wider social things in the (fictional) world #and i find this a useful lens #also Sklonda literally says 'i don't like that your friends call you that. Your name is Riz' #clearly this is something the text touches on #and there's definitely a racialized aspect to it #plus the importance of names is kinda a running theme in FH #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fantasy high junior year #riz gukgak #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #d20 fhjy #dimension 20 fhjy #d20 #dimension 20

[pparuparfait]

so like…this is 100% why ivy had That Reaction to fig disguised as lucy, right? it wasn’t that she saw through the disguise, she just saw her once dead friend now revived (like the rest of the party had already been) and thought lucy finally chose ankarna (chose them)

#IM NOT CRAZY RIGHT? #‘we have to talk something out’ she was gonna fill her in on all she missed and their new next steps #lucy frostblade #ivy embra #rat grinders #they’re so crazy like god #i’m so excited to see more of their dynamic and what unfolded #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fhjy #fh #fhjy spoilers #vague ish but still

[islandoforder]

i will say kipperlilly’s rage at riz specifically for having an unfair advantage in his dad’s tragic murder when riz has been practically killing himself all year bc they are a single parent low income household and won’t be able to afford uni without a scholarship precisely because his dad’s tragic murder isn’t accounted for is just,,,, oh boy

#kipperlilly copperkettle #riz gukgak #sklonda gukgak #pok gukgak #brennan lee mulligan #brian murphy #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #fhjy

[feelingtheaster99]

Oh my gosh Beardsley that was SO SMART to figure out the people whose blood crystallizes are the people who TURN DOWN being brought back to worship Ankarna god DAMN

#that’s so interesting that buddy agreed to that so quickly #like the man was FULL helio #then got murdered and was like FUCK THAT I’mma rep this nameless rage god #do you think he knew that was gonna happen #I’m gonna say no and he was so mad at Kipperlilly for murdering him that he agreed #which is maybe what she wanted to happen although as a long term plan that seems… poor to say the least #ankarna #d20 ankarna #buddy dawn #kipperlilly copperkettle #kipperlilly clerickiller #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fhjy speculation #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high speculation #fhjy ep 16 #untapped rage #untapped rage spoilers #live reaction #ally beardsley #kristen applebees #lotta SMART MOVES from Kristen applesbees in the last two Les

[cntbtchthevapegod]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLY BEARDSLEY

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #ally beardsley #d20 fhjy #dimension 20 fhjy #fhjy #fh junior year #fantasy high junior year #d20 fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 adventuring party #kristen applebees

[emiko-matsui]

Okay, I just need to get something out of the way when it comes to the Kipperlilly conversation nobody's brought up yet, which I think is insane. Almost all of The Bad Kids would be more powerful if they didn't have their tragedy porn tragic backstories.

First of all, this doesn't apply to Fig and Gorgug because if Fig wasn't Gorthalax's child she would be a lot like Kipperlilly and not the ruler of hell. I wouldn't say Gorgug has a tragic backstory, he's got a pretty normal growing up experience with ups and downs.

Let's start with her #1 nemesis, Riz Gukgak. She's so jealous that his dad was murdered and that gives him an advantage in the adventuring life. To be crude, no, it doesn't. What would give Riz an advantage in the adventuring life would be living with someone who has a direct contact to all the government's inner workings and conspiracies. Now that would be an advantage. That gives you connections and clues that no one else can get. This is not what happened. What happened was eating cereal with water for breakfast, what happened was not getting an opportunity at college, what happened was a 9 year old who stopped sleeping, what happened was not your secret agent dad giving you an advantage in the school conspiracy because he's dead. Otherwise he fucking would've.

And now Kipperlilly's new #1 nemesis, Kristen Applebees. She was ostracised from her religion for her sexuality, she achieved sainthood, and raised a dead god back to life. None of this would've happened if she hadn't been raised in The Harvestmen. No, it wouldn't, but what would have happened if Kristen had been straight? Disgusting thought, yes, I know, but let's talk about it. A Kristen who never left Helio behind would have so many more fucking advantages than the one with Cassandra has. If she had followed her birthright she would be the only chosen one of one of the world's most powerful gods. Sol is the biggest god in Spyre and Helio is his son. Helio does not have a chosen one anymore because Kristen left. It's not a title that's just given out, it could only have been Kristen. You know what's an advantage? Being the chosen one of one of the world's most powerful gods, being a god's spoken favourite, and deified by all of that god's followers. Now that would be an unfair advantage. You know what's not an advantage? Being homeless at 14 and being at the mercy of your ex-girlfriend's uncle for housing, dying and having absolutely no one there for you so you're only option to survive is to trust your own abilities enough to raise yourself from the dead, and failing school because of biased teachers.

And what of Adaine Abernant? The Elven Oracle? Her tragedy porn tragic backstory is surviving an abusive home. Now I just have to imagine that Adaine would have it a lot easier than most students, an incredible amount of unfair advantages, if her old money parents paid for every wizard whim she wanted, kept her diplomatic immunity so she could do literally anything she wanted without consequences, and gave her a direct contact into the heart of the Fallinell government. Now that is what I would call an insane amount of unfair advantage. I would be furious at this rich kid who's never had to work for anything myself. This is not even close to the case. She's barely passing classes because she can't afford the material you're required, she goes to the guidance counsellor for panic attacks, and she's being hunted by her home government. I'd say that's about every single thing in her life working against her having it easy.

Fabian Aramais Seacaster. He's complicated since he is very privileged already. He gets 5000 gold a month just for existing. He's the captain of the Owlbears because he killed the previous one. He lives alone in a mansion. Yeah, that's pretty privileged. His parents are also so severely fucked up that if they hadn't been filthy rich they would've been absolutely horrible for him. If he had parents who unconditionally supported him and stayed with him through everything, then we could talk about perhaps the most powerful person in Elmville. In Solace possibly. The most feared pirate in history who single-handedly dismantled a monarchy and fights against armies on his own is at your beck and call, does whatever you ask him to, and loves you more than anything. The greatest swordswoman in the world, that bested the most feared pirate in the world, the daughter of one of the most influential elven families and immortal will do anything you ask her, loves you to bits, and would cheat any rules for you. To have that would just be insane. You can argue that Fabian already has unfair advantages because of his social status and inheritance. This is true, but this is also true within his own adventuring party. Now his parents aren't helping him with anything and are determined that he reach his legendary status on his own. Otherwise talk about a fucking advantage.

All this to say is that if Kipperlilly got all of The Bad Kids tragedy porn like she wanted she wouldn't have been better, but she would've made them better. There is an adventuring party out there in the multiverse that has a secret agent at their disposal, the only chosen one of a Sol religion, Bill Seacaster and Hallariel Lomenelda unprompted in their corner, and a seer with unending resources and diplomatic immunity. These would've been people you start a platform about adventuring not being fair for everyone because of. The people you went against was a homeless kid, a kid with an anxiety disorder, a trust fund kid, and someone with PTSD.

I've seen your posts about Kipperlilly being wrong for her validation, but right in the fact that The Bad Kids have been given larger plots and mysteries because of their families and circumstances and I don’t want to fucking see another one. When you make that I want you to think about the adventuring party they would've been without their backstories. The insanely powerful and privileged adventuring party that almost happened. Their life got made worse, not easier because their life could have been so fucking easy. Kipperlilly can take all the tragedy porn she wants and then maybe realise that that's not what makes the adventurer. That the reason she's mad at The Bad Kids is the only reason she can even tangentially compete with them.

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #kipperlilly copperkettle #the bad kids #fhjy #riz gukgak #kristen applebees #adaine abernant #fabian seacaster #d20 fh #the rat grinders