#c2e89

[lessattitudemorealtitude]

Jester: [Molly] was basically a god.

Beau: He wasn’t

Super funny that that’s basically what Lucien basically aims for in the final arc

#critical role #critical role rewatch #jester lavorre #beauregard lionett #mollymauk tealeaf #c2e89 #lingering wounds

[chiakery]

c2e89 is so great, definitely my comfort episode and one of all-time favs (as someone who watched all 3 campaigns and pretty much all of smaller scale CR content). It's one of those episodes that have feels and fights and backstory and humour and What the Fuck and in general sound like a fever dream when you think about them later.

We've got lore dumps about history of Empire and gods! Jester Sending shenanigans! Fight club! We meet Astrid! Jester wants to spend a lovely time with Fjord (*cough cough* workout date) but Travis rolls a nat 1!! Beau beats the shit out of an old man! Fjord's Not Good Very Bad Day continues as a paladin crits on him, dealings 90 points of damage in one hit! Ashley intimidates the fuck out of everyone (the horror in everyone's eyes *chef's kiss*)! Caduceus and his bone flute! Nott steals a bunch of hats!

#just thinking about my fav moments from each campaign #and this entire episode is just so incredible #c2e89 #critical role #the mighty nein

[piratespencil]

So many good moment in c2e89 (Caleb's meeting with Astrid, Beau and Jester's conversation about Jester overstepping boundaries by contacting Beau's dad, Jester and Fjord's disastrous workout session, Yasha’s incredible champion pit fight) but the highlight of the episode is absolutely Cad in the background just going ham with his new bone flute lmao.

#caduceus happily screeching with that thing in the background of every scene dhgdfklghdf #critical role #caduceus clay #cr2 #c2e89 #this was such a good ep tho i love downtime eps #nott going out and stealing hats for everyone at the end <3 #kk talks about stuff #kk watches cr2

[xhorhaus]

i am obsessed with caduceus and the fact that his immediate reaction to yasha's self destructive fight was "We are going to have a talk." Like yes my guy share your wisdom! Screech that bone flute! Give her a hug! He is truly the best in how much of his friends he SEES even if he doesn't always understand

#caduceus clay #cr spoilers #cr2 spoilers #c2e89 #m9 #saum watches m9

[foldybikes]

oh god the emotional whiplashes in the stone coffin pit fight in rexxentrum. the funniest 'resistant to very good scotch', 'fiscally conservative' old man getting rekt by beau fight, then the camaraderie and awe in the 'he's beginning to believe' fjord knock down, to finish with a drawn out yasha self-harm-through-fist fight tragedy.

whoa whoa

also then hats.

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr2 #m9 #mighty nein #c2e89 #self harm #liam whispering 'are you doing penance' to ashley #matt's continually widening eyes #damn and here I was thinking yasha seemed pretty even keeled just quietly reading her book #the injustice and offense of involving someone else in your self harm or penance without any consent is just.. fucking OOF yasha girl no #kal dimmins is never going to fight in the stone coffin again #love this show the drama is excellent #also nice reznor singing at the end there #foldycr

[septembermonologues]

im rewatching episode 89 and i feel like i definitely didn’t appreciate matt having fjord make a religion check after jester told him the wildmother and the traveler go on dates enough the first time around. definitely not as much as marisha and liam.

#this whole episode is just a treat #c2e89 #critical role #k watches mighty nein

[ashleyinwondrland]

Yasha breaks my heart and I just want to give her a sweet little cottage with bountiful garden space, so she can grow as many flowers as she desires.

Caduceus will come to visit for a cup of tea and conversation, both with Yasha and the flowers. He will give the flowers a little pep talk to bloom and stand as long as they can for Yasha.

For her life to be full of happiness surrounded by people who love her and tell her how amazing she is everyday. And filled with wonderful things, not just flowers but books filled with others adventures and beauty. Because I think when they get to the end, Yasha is going to just want to be at peace.

#maybe a couple adventures here and there lol #and I know she ends up with Beau but this is more specific about Yasha #critical role #c2e89 #yasha nydoorin

[fagdyk]

Yasha just gave this pit fighter an existential crisis

#lmaoo i love her so much #yasha nydoorin #c2e89 #donna watches campaign 2 #critical role

[khalliys]

Beauyasha Week Day 1 - Angst / Champion

Happy Beauyasha Week, everyone! Let's kick this week for our bestest, favourite couple off with some delicious angst.

#BeauyashaWeek2022 #Yasha's pit fight my beloved #(which is in c2e89) #not pictured: #Beau stepping forward to squeeze Yasha into a hug #after she gets hit by her sad kicked puppy eyes #critical role #crit role #critical role fanart #yasha nydoorin #beauregard lionett #cr yasha #cr beau #beauyasha #cracklepop #cr #cr2 #cr campaign 2 #the mighty nein #art #khalliys #beauyashaweek

[nerdandtie]

Stormwood & Associates: C2E89. Self Exploration (Small World Part 3)

#Small World #Stormwood &amp;amp; Associates

[lessattitudemorealtitude]

The way Liam is looking at Ashley as Yasha starts her pit fight, I think Caleb immediately catches on to what Yasha is doing

#critical role #critical role rewatch #lingering wounds #c2e89 #caleb widogast #yasha nydoorin

[casukaga]

“with that, bloodied, i finally start to smile, which you haven’t seen in a while.”

yasha during the stone coffin fight in ep 89 ⚡️

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#everything else i tried drawing today was failing me so i managed to slap this together on a whim #i haven’t rlly drawn her level 10 outfit all that much which really sucks because it’s my fave of her outfits #also #i really wanna go back and draw stuff for pre-covid m9 episodes because i didn’t get the chance to last year since i was busy #there’s so many ideas i’ve had in september / october that i haven’t touched yet and i’m like!!! aaAaAa #but anyways here’s this. i like rewatching yasha’s fight in ep 89 sometimes and have just been thinking abt it lately lol #i have another one for ‘show me why you’re the FUCKING champion’ which is more along my typical style and less uh. comic-y and bright like #this one #critical role #crit role #cr #cr2 #c2e89 #the mighty nein #mighty nein #critical role fanart #yasha nydoorin #casu art #my shtuff #blood tw

[vethbrenatto]

What’s assault?

#critical role #yasha nydoorin #mighty nein #creations #c2e89 #caleb widogast

[xhorhaus]

i can't believe i waited 89 episodes to make a cr sideblog but also holy fuck caleb and astrid meeting is everything to me— the tenderness after all these years, the genuine regret at his pain but the belief that life is suffering, the way they both know that they are on such separate paths but also want so badly to see each other again !!! losing my mind

#saum watches m9 #cr2 spoilers #cr spoilers #c2e89

[theregoesmylurkerstatus]

Caleb has, verbally, shown so little bloodthirst regarding the people who wronged him. He doesn’t know how he feels. He doesn’t know what he wants. He wants them to change, he wants the pain to stop. He wants to rehabilitate all these murderers under Ikithon because he was one of them and he wants to believe he’s not alone in this, he wants them to get better.

He also takes three steps into the place where he was sealed away like some kind of animal, full of simple (if skilled) guards who are so much lower on the food chain than the assassins Caleb knows... and for the first time ever he starts crushing people to death. Gone is the soft talk and hesitant hope. He asserts that they knew what they were doing. That they were not innocents.

He spent eleven years there. He can’t remember it. He also can’t think of the people who did that to him as people, whether they were actually the ones that guarded him or not.

I think Caleb’s trauma and his ability to react with extreme prejudice when confronted with it often gets underestimated both by the audience and Caleb himself. There’s a really interesting dichotomy that seems to go on with him, in that we’re constantly taken somewhat aback by these breathtaking displays of violence of his, even though they keep happening.

I realised it when we first met Astrid, actually. I don't know about anyone else, but the revelation that Caleb’s reaction to watching his parents die wasn’t running in to help them, or screaming himself, or even dissociating, but was instead attacking his peers? It surprised the heck out of me.

I don’t think anyone thought that would have been his reaction. All the pieces of fiction or art or meta about that moment that I saw assumed he had a much more passive or help oriented reaction. Even the cast themselves animated that moment as Astrid and Eodwulf stoically walking away from a silent Caleb on his knees in their own animated title sequence.

The fact that we all accepted the image of Caleb, on his knees, silently watching his family burn, is interesting to me. Because I do get why.

When Caleb is forcefully reminded of that moment of extreme grief, he dissociates. He doesn’t react violently when lost in his trauma in that particular way. Add to that that Caleb brushes over the immediate aftermath of his parent’s deaths, which makes it seem like his foggy, clouded state in the Asylum was the instant result of his trauma, and the idea that Caleb reacted passively to his parent’s deaths is a very easy assumption to make.

At this point I believe it’s also indicative of how Caleb sees himself. Caleb hates (hated?) himself, yes, but he doesn’t actually seem to see himself as a violent person. When asked to impress a high level mage from an alien culture, he chose the versatile reskinned Bigby’s Hand, Cat’s Ire. When trying to be intimidating, he uses his words, or points to his friends as threats, or uses Frumpkin as a prop.

He doesn’t seem to give his ease with violence much thought or weight in his own view of himself. I think he assumed he was passive during his years at the Sanitarium, and so therefore assumed that his “breaking” was similar. And if that’s what Caleb thought of himself, why would we think any different?

People don’t tend to think of Caleb as a fighter, least of all Caleb himself. The common view of him is that he’s a hesitant support character. He’s not someone who fans or other characters alike would easily call “bloodthirsty,” especially with him confronting and discussing the man who ruined his life and refusing to commit to killing him.

Everything about how Caleb verbally approaches these traumas shows that he’s not vengeance driven. Revenge has never been part of his game plan, never been something he cared enough to pursue. And because of that palpable lack of bloodthirsty vengeance, because of his soft spoken, cautious demeanor, Caleb is not someone who would generally be picked as having extreme, unrelenting violence as his knee-jerk reaction.

Except that’s exactly what Caleb does when backed into a corner. That’s like his biggest move. Wall of Fire and Fireballing Avantika and her crew on a hair trigger? Bleeding, on the verge of unconsciousness, out of spells, and still managing to deal the killing blow on Lorenzo because he chose violence over any other action? Opening the final fight against Obann by smashing through the window and burning half the cultists to death, because they were that desperate to get Yasha back after two failed attempts?

He woke up after eleven years of being addled, confused and not himself, and immediately killed a guard and broke out of the Assembly’s own Saitarium in the heart of Rexxentrum. He unexpectedly got stabbed by a full-fledged Scourger, and his instant reaction was to beat her over the head with a rock. 

And now, he’s infiltrated that same Sanitarium where he was kept only to flip from his desire to redeem those under the Assembly’s thumb to murdering half the people he came across in there with extreme prejudice.

His lack of interest in long-term vengeance is interestingly balanced by his frequent choices to pursue short-term retribution. It’s both his way of protecting his friends and himself, removing the threat and discouraging other threats, but it’s also, in my view, frequently an outlet for his heavily suppressed anger at the people who hurt him and his friends.

Caleb can be a good diplomat, but Caleb rarely chooses to be a diplomat. Caleb can be charming, but Caleb doesn’t like being charming. Caleb can be a good support caster, and Caleb is a support caster! But when he’s too compromised for strategy, when he stops thinking, he starts burning everything in his way. Because Caleb? He likes the way fire feels.

Caleb spent his formative years training to respond to conflict, physical or political, with lethality, and on a much more fundamental level, he is and always has been a man of action. 

He took action to get out of the Sanitarium as soon as he was capable. He took action in the Bright Queen’s throne room, made a risky ploy instead of letting them be arrested. He wanted to take action retroactively against his parent’s deaths the second he regained coherency.

Despite what we all assumed, doing nothing in the face of his parent’s deaths was never an option for Caleb, and he wasn’t taught anything that was going to help his parents once the house was on fire and the screams started. So what else was he going to do, after two years of growing into the Scourger mould? When he loses his mind, his ability to think, two of his reasons to care?

Of course it was violence. Of course it was lashing out at the people he must have thought, on some level, as being in his way. Of course it was fire. What else would it be?

And though these circumstances here aren’t the same... there are enough similarities. He’s once again in those familiar halls (in that familiar mindset) where he was treated as a weapon, nothing more. He’s with the people he loves and he knows they’re in danger, again. In fact, they’re in danger from the same people he spent eleven years feeling threatened by, that he viewed as obstacles, whether consciously or not.

He doesn’t want his loved ones to be in danger. He doesn’t want to be surrounded by the guards who he associates with his own helplessness. He especially doesn’t want those two things to go together. And he has never been able to sit idly by when he can act. But what kind of actions can he take? What can he do to get these guards away, away from him, away from his friends, out of his way, right now?

The tried and true method. Not burning, not here, not now, let’s not set a building on fire with his loved ones in it again (though it happened anyway). But no matter. He’s learned a lot of tricks in the last few months.

And hey, don’t worry, Caleb’s not angry. He’s not still working through his own pain and rage at these people. He really does want to heal, not hurt.

It’s just that these ones deserved it.

#critical role #cr spoilers #c2e127 #c2e89 #ramblings #caleb #speculation #its interesting because he has such a good hold on his temper and he tries to think through most situations #which means he DOESNT get pushed to that breaking point a lot #and its usually only that breaking point that showcases how easily he wields violence #which is another factor in why he doesnt get regarded as a violent character #because he isnt! he really doesnt get violent often! its just something thats instinctive for him #his instinctive reactions though are not often seen bc he usually has a pretty good control over himself and situations around him #and i think its really really telling when he gets pushed into that mindset when theyre NOT at deaths door #hey caleb i dont think you're as ready for forgiveness and moving on as you think #theres a lot of buried rage in caleb and you can quote me on that #ive been saying it for months (years?) and ive only grown more confident in that assertion since then #sorry if this is an incoherent mess #does this make sense? i dont knoooow im sick of looking at it

[septembermonologues]

one could argue that even posthumously molly doesn’t need to be gassed up like that

#‘MOLLY KNEW THINGS!’ #marisha and laura are on a fucking roll this ep #k watches mighty nein #c2e89 #critical role