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was reminded about Essek's geometer and I'm here to pitch a reverse Home Alone situation where the Nein break into Essek's towers to get a bunch of cool shit he had to leave without, but first they have to get inside without alerting the Aurora Watch by setting off his forty-seven ridiculous security measures

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Me: Molly died 4 years ago. His death can't hurt me no more.

Taliesin on if molly felt his death was worth it: As long as Beau got away? Yeah.

Me:.....welp I'm in my feelings again.

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I will never understand people who want Caleb to find some weird magical way to live longer not only bc it extremely obviously undermines everything that is poignant and crucial about him thematically but also because I think about old man Caleb and I want to start violently weeping

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Essek knitting and gardening is so important to his character actually because the majority of his life and character buildup before the Nein friendship-bombed him was spent in solitude working solely on his studies and political standing. He doesn't need all that anymore, not all of it. He can make time for knitting Caleb a new scarf while still studying the mysteries of dunamancy.

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deeply believe that caleb, jester and beau have a book club where they gather once a month in the salon in the tower, dress up nice, pour some fine wine by the fire, and take it in turns to read each other the worst erotica they could find that month and then vote on whose was worst

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Im thinking about the M9 and languages. like languages and what is spoken and how it can add so many little extra layers to the story, and how they can be used to show insights into the characters. Cause like

Molly Viciously Mocking someone sounding like hacking up a demonic hairball, undermined by Jester always giggling in the background. Then suddenly Molly is gone and Jester is hugging her mother who is kissing her forehead and switching out from infernal to common every other sentence and the nein realizing that Molly was just telling dick jokes and playground insults in the scariest voice he could manage. Jester canonically writing her journal in infernal (which I hope to see in the series because fiendish hell runes written in a kawaii style compete with hot pink glitter gel is something I think everyone needs).

Nott telling a Halfling in Halfling that she ‘had an accident’, and it seems more likely to be a translation error on her end than the truth. Nott shouting at goblins that ambush the Nein in simple, halting Goblin, especially compared to the sentences they fire back at her. Nott knocking on Edith’s door, suddenly speaking Halfling fluently as she hugs a little boy no one had known about.

Beauregard’s high school level, clumsy Halfling and Dwarvish morphing into her reading undercommon, her understanding Zemnian, her studying books written in several different languages as the series goes on.

Fjord being able to read some orcish phrases but consistently messing up the pronunciation, because he basically taught himself, afraid of getting caught learning it but more scared of getting caught not knowing it.

Caleb’s whole interrogation with the scourger, his conversation with Astrid and the political side conversations, juxtaposed with the soft demeanor when he speaks to himself about his parents and the past in his tower. Him canonically dropping his heavier accent whenever he speaks Zemnian.

Yasha, never speaking Abyssal, only reading and translating it, as opposed to having little conversations in celestial when prompted by Caleb, who wants to brush up on his knowledge.

Caduceus speaking in what sounds like normal ass common to plants and animals. Him chatting amicably with giants, stopping every once in a while to ask if he’s pronouncing a word right.

Essek muttering to himself in undercommon as he studies, teaching everyone a few words to be polite. Getting bullied into sharing more by Beau, who had to learn it somewhere, and he acts like it’s a great inconvenience for about three minutes before getting swept up in the joy of sharing knowledge, of teaching and learning, taking concepts and thoughts and ordering them into something neat, precise, definable.

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rewatching the mighty nein and rewitnessing their amount of paranoia is so good. they walk into a 5 star hotel after a battle with the followers of the god of death and a total of 10 hit points and 3 spell slots between all of them and they're still casing their rooms. uv lights out, flipping beds and checking smoke detectors for cameras. they insight check every person they meet. they want to cast a truth spell on the oldest, most powerful and crustiest wizard in all of exandria. theyd rather impale themselves instead of giving up their weapons. theyd rather send a cat with 2 hit points that's determined to roll nat 1s on its perception rolls to check out evil lairs rather than going in themselves. they hate people scrying on them but they get annoyed when they fail doing it to others. they lie to most people they meet yet they're still 'trusted' by the two out of the three great powers on wildemount. no one's doing it like them.

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The Emperor of Fire & The Empress of Earth

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when you're 'just a little guy'-sized, you can be a clothes thief with every single person you date. they can't even do it back. it's the perfect crime.

(sometimes i like to relax while thinking about a modern au where Will is alive and Orym has a husband AND two boyfriends.)

#i need that au to be real so bad. please let orym have all the love

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wait also, can we discuss how liam on 4sd said, in regards to the unanswered sending stone message in 86, that orym thinks dorian might be dead. orym pleading and repeating, "can you get there?" telling him how much he misses him? whole other dimension when you remember that orym, who has not spoken to dorian since before the apogee solstice, thinks dorian might genuinely be dead

#OH NO… #well. crying about orym again

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The Legend of Vox Machina is a deeply philosophical show that asks important questions such as: “what if the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov had a gun?”

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percy

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the briarwoods are like if the crypt scene of romeo and juliet went on forever and ever and ever and ever

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Like in all seriousness, the "wait do we not have the brain link?" "No because FCG is dead" is so fucking real.

So god damn fucking real.

Like, realizing you're missing this one movie you know you own but loaned to... and oh fuck, you realize with a jolt, you loaned it to a now dead friend. They're gone now. So... you can't get that stupid DVD back. What are you gonna do? Go to their parents house and be like, can I rummage and find a DVD of an old bad movie? No. You let it go. And you feel almost silly and wrong that you even had the thought without the memory first - that for a second, you forgot in some way.

There's weird, real life, unflattering, awkward, human reminders of the ones we've lost.

#GOD. FUCK

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Caleb being so into time and then falling for the time guy™, yes, but also. Essek’s journey later on being all about changing, to be better, to grow a conscience, and alongside falling for the literal transmutation wizard, aka change guy (™!)

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Essek conjuring some magic somewhere around in Aeor~