when i get my hands on Liam O'Brien i'm making him pay all my therapy bills
like. LIKE. look at his face. the sudden surprise as jester invades his space and proceeds to RUTHLESSLY unravel and acknowledge his pain after the traumatic events of the day, the way he's so carefully tucked away all emotions and tried to move on without worrying the group. look how quickly the layers all crumble away, how emotional and vulnerable and small he looks, how for a second we see Caleb Widogast without all his layers. if i had any power at all to do so i would give this man a thousand oscars and then ask for a milion dollars to compensate for the emotional damage he has wrought me
Every time a critrole cast member gets blindsided by their character catching romantic feelings the funnier it gets. Taliesin 'my character is irredeemable and will never be happy' veering straight into 'actually he's in love and will get a happy ending whether he wants to or not'. Liam entering c2 set on no romance only for Caleb to fall hopelessly and uselessly in love with first Jester and then Essek. Marisha being set on Beau being a fuckboy with zero attachments only for her to start falling for Yasha in literally the first episode and going on to develop a crush on Jester as well. Ashley creating a character in mourning with zero thoughts on romance who falls SO HARD for Beau. Travis KNOWING going in that Laura would try to romance him, set on not letting her succeed, and then falling headfirst for it anyway. Marisha and Laura both entering c3 like 'best friends!!' only to, at almost the same time, go *surprised pikachu face* 'why am I experiencing jealousy???'
[lying awake in bed][gnawing on the blankets] he was hopelessly in love with her. not a little crush, not something easily entertained and dismissed, but hopelessly in love. and he just never said it. to anyone
Twitter user Iris_Hawkins11: “Slut era” whispers Caleb Widogast as he silently pines for all of his friends with no intention of ever speaking a single feeling out loud.
caleb really gave jester a storybook in zemnian so she'd have to ask him to read it to her. next to a warm fire perhaps. that is peak romance. he was romancing her. in a way that saw her and knew her.
and they didn't end up together? worst meta gaming decision of all time. it's been 3 years and i'm still upset
I’m rewatching campaign 2 and I’ll never get over that Laura/Jester as a joke to break the ice asked Caleb if he was secretly in love with her and the unspoken answer was a fucking YES