#everyone uses dnd as therapy to some extent but woof liam REALLY does huh

[brinnanza]

liam: actually you can’t move on past your trauma because it’s part of you you can’t just put it down and get over it

also liam: extended scene of caleb coming to terms with the fact that frumpkin isn’t his frumpkin, the cat he had as a kid that he was trying to cling to, and one way or another, once they’re finished with aeor, he will release the familiar, thereby both symbolically and physically releasing the hold the past has on him

I love that liam does these little character bits because a lot of the players only play off each other which like that’s fine and great but liam’s little solo bits give such a.... a richness and depth to his characters. like. I don’t know what fjord’s thinking!! I don’t know how he’s coping because travis doesn’t like....invite the audience/the other players into fjord’s head. and that’s not a bad thing at all because yknow his character is entirely made of observable action. the other characters don’t know what’s going on fjord’s head so the players and the audience don’t get to know either. 

anyway idk I just think it’s so interesting how on talks liam will be like “oh yeah he loves his friends but if the right temptation comes along who knows” but when it comes down to the decisions he makes in-game, it’s nearly always on the side of healing. like part of that is narrative expediency and some of that is knowing that it’s a game and a show and there’s no way they’re beating an archmage with three of them on little to no spells, but also....he left. he countered trent’s counter instead of staying to kill trent (which he obviously couldn’t have done but yknow trauma or whatever). I thought that was gonna be It yknow, one or the other, but he let it go.

#would love to get into liam o'brien's head tbh like #everyone uses dnd as therapy to some extent but woof liam REALLY does huh #the way he roleplays trauma is very interesting to me as a person with a lot of trauma #like idk I don't know his life or whatever but like #seems like hes been Through Some Stuff huh #brinn watches critical role