#molly had the circus

[sparksly-mage-of-light]

If they do a Plank King Kingsley one-shot in the future, I kinda hope it's more like the Darrington Brigade so Kingsley can make some friends outside the Nein.

#kingsley tealeaf #critical role #cr spoilers #mighty nein reunited #molly had the circus #lucien had the tomb takers #kingsley can have a pirate crew of his own

[gorgynei]

that photo of laura and robbie but as molly and yasha. they would wear eachothers merch :-)

#i think yasha would be taller than robbie but u get it. ITS THEM! #punches the wall. i love you circus kids. if only you had the time to shine #anyway pushing my masc yasha and fem molly beliefs rn #aceart #critical role #yasha nydoorin #mollymauk tealeaf #critical role fanart #critical role merch #circus kids

[kaltacore]

honestly i didn't want to get invested in beau & molly's friendship because i knew the spoiler but i did it anyway unintentionally and oh boy these 26 episodes of their shenanigans were completely worth it but also since molly's death I haven't taken a L once as their enjoyer. like molly really died in front of beau and made her speedrun through an existential crisis and also taliesin said molly would think that he'd always have a one-up on her. she got his tattoo and then got impaled the next day just like he did (yay! just besties things) and then also got a cursed fucked up eye right in the middle of it just like the one he had. she liked to think there was a town somewhere where people still believed he was a king. it's less related but seeing her and lucien annoy the shit out of each other was also endearing. when kingsley woke up the first thing she did was giving him a middle finger like she wasn't one of the people directly participating in his resurrection because she wanted to. it's like a schrodinger's friendship. molly was six feet under for the most of the show so they haven't actually interacted all this time but somehow put-on pettiness was stronger than death indeed

#their fighting siblings vibes were so special i love them your honor #molly died because he and beau would be too powerful. and by powerful i mean they'd be too chaotic to make it to the end #would go out in a blaze of glory no doubt tho #love them for it. truly disastrious people <3 #anyway i wish they had a besties name. like brjeaus or circus kids you get the idea #i haven't seen one but if it exists please let me know i need to know!! #beauregard lionett #mollymauk tealeaf #the mighty nein #critical role

[dent-de-leon]

can you believe Molly gave Yasha a silk flower in the episode right before he was torn away away from the Nein? That he told her, “Got it for you, in case we lived.” How he genuinely thought he wouldn’t last long enough to give it to her, that he thought he’d just die before he had the chance—

He apologizes, because it isn’t like all the other flowers. Because it’s not the same and it won’t keep well. It didn’t grow, didn’t live—it isn’t real.

And it’s a gift from Molly. A tiefling who wasn’t really born, but clawed his way out of a grave. Already doomed from the start. Empty and alone. Lucien calls him a forgotten fragment, a mistake. “A part of a soul—or is it a whole one? If souls could grow from but a piece…” Mollymauk Tealeaf isn’t supposed to be real or whole. But he’s so full of dazzling color and light all the same, so much joy and love in his once dead heart.

And even though that flower was never alive, it’s still so beautiful in Yasha’s eyes. She still tells him that, out of all her collection, this one is very special. This silk flower, lovely and colorful—it isn’t real, but it warms her heart all the same.

Out of all her flowers, it’s the only one that will never die.

And over a hundred episodes later, Molly opens his eyes for the first time in the longest time—

#started thinking about this again after seeing that lovely circus kids art and just-- #the way molly got to give yasha one last gift before he was back in the grave again. how he was terrified of something happening to him #before he had the chance to give it to her #how well it represents him #how molly is color and life to yasha and how the little festival flower just so very fitting--

[stardustedknuckles]

Nonbinary Yasha not knowing what a pronoun is happens to be my favorite interpretation of her as a person but more specifically for me it's like, if you asked her and Molly about gender it would just be -

Molly: oh hell yes

Yasha: oh heavens no

#Molly absorbed whatever gender she had #Also geddit - demon and angel #Circus kids #Yasha #mollymauk tealeaf

[evillillad]

ive been meaning to doodle this lil fella :o)

(poppet belongs to @cupophrogs)

#welcome home #welcome home oc #doodle #nina loves clowns and the circus :o) #molly hates clowns and the circus :o( #its ok they still all had fun #nina had to get molly some cotton candy to feel better #nina noon #molly moss

[tangismyname]

I haven’t watched it yet but the doll character from the digital circus show just looks like Molly Coddle from Bump in the Night.

This is the same character.

#amazing digital circus #tadc ragatha #ragatha #bump in the night #molly coddle #I had to look up the name of the circus show #and the character lol #I am being lighthearted please don’t hate me

[captainsupernoodle]

Was just reminded of Kingsley gaining 17 levels in six months in the reunited two-shot and there are many potential in- and out-world explanations but I'm cracking up at the concept of the Nein looking at Kingsley hurling his incredibly underleveled self at a life of piracy, said "no. We're not doing this again." and put him in adventurer's bootcamp.

#kingsley tealeaf #critical role #cr2 #like im guessing leveling in bloodhunter is more like remembering his abilities than learning new ones #so hes got the potentiality for however many lucien had #and molly just discovered his as part of defending the circus or trying to do cool shit #and wasnt motivated to develop them further until he actively chose to go into danger w the nein #whereas kingsley said sign me up for mortal danger as soon as he could walk and talk #and was highly motivated to try different shit maybe based on the neins descriptions or thru experimentation #the levels in rogue are because beau did her adventure bootcamp days after hours and wanted them done asap to get back to her wife #and because veth was doing hers after putting luc to bed and woke him up with crossbow ambushes #noodle watches critical role #noodle speaks

[nocylipcowa]

the lawn mowing policy in states is so fucking stupid

#had an absolutely fruitless discussion about it under an aita post. #me totally not serious: omg yall should be thankful that molly didnt cut her grass so the kids can see butterflies. love the anarchy! #that one person who literally roleplays as vld keith: why are you hating on the aunt 😭 if you dont like mowing pay her fines!!11 #and im like lol nope not my country not my circus change your law yourselves like what can i do from across the ocean #oh you have depression and cant get up from bed? well i had psychosis 3 times #do we really have to play this game #txt

[raiinbowwitch]

I just remembered fisheye was my favorite villain from sailor moon and its no wonder molly is one of my faves

well, there's more different than alike to be honest lmao. BUT, the queerness, the gender nonconformity, the circus, the blades, they're both romantic and flirty and looking for a good time. I ship fisheye with the other amazons so in my headcanon they're both poly. they both got something to do with mermaids and transformation. ... and dreams and what it means to be a person holy fuck

okay actually maybe they're a lot alike lololll

#i haven't watched sailor moon in a long time so i might be remembering some things wrong don't hold that against me asddfgghj #critical role #cr2 #mollymauk tealeaf #sailor moon #dead moon circus #amazon trio #oh and tal's a fan of sailor moon so that's a thing #that probably had nothing to do with anything since Molly is based on someone he knows lol

[cherry-cakee]

Hi fellow Epithet erased fans! To celebrate Prison of Plastic’s one year anniversary I’ve decided to bless you with a nightmare I had about Epithet erased that will forever haunt me as a person.

The dream started off really normal, not that off putting until I opened youtube and saw that there was a flood of a shit ton of Epithet erased related content. Like. DIGITAL CIRCUS LEVELS OF VIRAL. It got so bad to the point people started making content farms and dumb thumbnails. (Artistic rendition by me below)

So yeah, that was insane right? But it gets worse. I go look up Epithet erased merchandise right? Instead of plushies as i expected there were actually plastic bootleg figurines that looked like the stuff of nightmares. It reminded me of those dumb looking redbubble tshirts and shirts. [Shown below + artistic rendition of terrible made figures, i promise my art is better than this…]

Fortunately before it escalated even more I woke up from that hellish nightmare and am now thankful we dont have to deal with LORELAI VS MOLLY SLIME CHALLENGE!

(Thumbnail Images for your amusement)

#Epithet erased #Prison of Plastic #epithet erased memes #molly rambles #lorelai blyndeff #rick shades #sylvie ashling #giovanni potage #zora salazar #sylvester ashling

[found-family-tournament]

Found Family Tournament Round 2 Part 7 Group 31

Propaganda and further images under the cut

Archive Staff: Jonathan Sims, Sasha James, Tim Stoker, Martin Blackwood

Mighty Nein: Caleb Widogast, Nott the Brave/Veth Brennato, Fjord, Jester Lavorre, Caduceus Clay, Beauregard Lionett, Yasha Nydoorin, Mollymauk Tealeaf/Kingsley Tealeaf, Essek Thelyss

Archive Staff:

They’re trying their best to understand

Mighty Nein:

Originally, they were only seven, and the Nein part of their group name was a running joke about rolling nines and Caleb's German accent. Then, after Molly's untimely death, the group picked up Caduceus, making seven again. Later, they ally with Essek, who makes eight. And finally, through the power of love and found family, they defeat a villain named Lucien (who inhabits the body Molly had, it's all very complicated), and revive the body to become Kingsley Tealeaf, who looks at Molly as his brother but ultimately makes the group Nine. His revival is literally an act of divine intervention, fueled by the love and loss they all felt after chasing their beloved friend across the continent.

Internally there are other fantastic family bonds. Caleb and Nott/Veth having an incredible bond, Caleb and Beau being the Empire siblings, Molly and Yasha being the circus kids, Beau and Fjord, Cad and Fjord, the chaos crew, Nott and Jester, it goes on and on. They all change each other so significantly, they grow together, and canonically even though they live apart, they all have regular meetups in the tower Caleb created for all of them, with a stained glass window in Molly's honor and rooms dedicated to each member of the group. Even now in the new campaign, they've had cameos that prove years later they still work together and have each other's backs.

This is THEE definition of found family, these assholes were thrown together through circumstance and mostly hated each other to begin with right up until three of their own were kidnapped and then it was ON. And when Molly died, they took his ideals and turned them into a legacy SO POWERFUL they took Essek from a cold, self motivated war criminal to a man willing to die for his friends. They refused to let Beau face her abusive family alone! They helped Yasha heal from her trauma! They took down the whole Cerberus Assembly for what they did to Caleb! They saved the whole dang world together WITH THE POWER OF FUCKING FRIENDSHIP 😭! THEY LOVED MOLLY SO MUCH THAT IT SAVED THE WORLD! THEY NAMED THEMSELVES AFTER A STUPID PUN AND THEN THERE REALLY ENDED UP BEING NINE OF THEM! I WOULD DIE FOR THEM!!!

official art by Ari Orner, fan art by exmakina and tobyjamessharp

#tumblr polls #poll #polls #tournament poll #found family #found family tournament 2023 #tumblr tournament #tournament #The Magnus Archives #The Archive Staff #Jonathan Sims #Sasha James #Tim Stoker #Martin Blackwood #Critical Role #The Mighty Nein #Caleb Widogast #Nott the Brave #Veth Brenatto #Fjord #Jester Lavorre #Caduceus Clay #Beauregard Lionett #Yasha Nydoorin #Mollymauk Tealeaf #Kingsley Tealeaf #Essek Thelyss

[dent-de-leon]

Molly just feels like the most tragic character to me and every time I think about how a goddess called him, "Empty. Free. Obsessed…Death-obsessed, but free" it really hits me--

Molly stopping to examine the graves from centuries ago left forgotten on the side of the road. Molly suggesting that he and Beau should walk around a cemetery when they take skein and start seeing little ghostly creatures from the astral sea. Molly finding a silk flower for Yasha at the festival, giving it to her in the very episode before he dies because, "[I] got it for you in case we live--"

Molly hiding how painfully young and tormented he is for as long as he can, spinning every imaginable story to prevent his new family from learning that his life started from a cold empty grave. Molly always believing he was living on borrowed time, throwing his life on the line again and again, recklessly self-sacrificial and fiercely protective.

I don't know. Just hearing Taliesin talk a bit about the inspiration for Molly the other day and the thought of just how long he lived under the shadow of death, running from the Eyes and Lucien and a turbulent past--how he felt drawn to the grave again and again, and the moments when he learned to love living--

#hearing taliesin talk about molly and his backstory a bit was so sweet im so glad i now have that memory #it really seemed like he made everyone he met smile he was very kind #and i hope everyone else who went to to the con had a lot of fun too #mollymauk #sorry this is the last I’ll take about it but #very happy I got to meet tal yesterday and got to hear him talk a bit about the circus man ;; he sounded so excited to share—

[stardustedknuckles]

I can't believe this panel actually. It's so pointedly about her in this moment even though they're talking about the hobgoblins that wiped out this village. Yasha just rolled out from under a dead guy and immediately started scrounging for whatever those other guys didn't take with them. Cloak made of grass plus the unmistakable comparison to the hobgoblins leaving their fort to kill for food equals a working hypothesis that Yasha doesn't even live here. It's not like them to come into a village, and it's not like Yasha either. The forest is low on food, so Yasha and the goblins are in the same place for the same reasons. Yasha was just caught in the crossfire.

She's living alone in the wasting forest. I'd almost bet on it. And that means wherever she came from, something drove her from it a long time ago. she doesn't have a lot of time on this planet at this point to begin with, so undoubtedly the stormlord's chosen has been fighting wild animals and sneaking for food just as long or longer than she was ever a welcome addition to someone's village.

A makeshift grass cloak to hide the wings that show up when she gets mad, camouflage in the village. And a history behind it, reasons she knows she needs to keep them hidden. She's been in a village before in her memory, and she knows why they threw her out. She's a freak. So, cloak. Survival, a way to buy time while she finds where the food is.

That's so much for a kid to already know. So many awful lessons. Small wonder being told she's chosen by the gods and accepted, wings and all, earned her devotion to the tribe. She never needed them to be nice or fair. She knew already how all of this worked. She needed to be what skyspear said she was. Destined for greatness.

#I'm almost certain I'm right #It's the fact she has no shoes when the dead villagers had good clothes and armor #Yasha #yasha nydoorin #It's the fact that she didn't look backwards and only turned her attention from food when a threat was detected #I don't think 'you'll pay' had anything to do with the village I take back my earlier thought #I think she probably doesn't know a lot of common in the first place and if you want to intimidate a person you use words #Especially if the wings didn't scare them off #Possible parallel between yasha knowing limited common and Molly showing up to the circus saying empty over and over #I am so well fed with these pages

[aspiringsophrosyne]

Jester Lavorre and Letting go.

A while ago, I wrote a post on the Mighty Nein and how that campaign had, among other accidental themes, an overarching theme of characters (player characters and NPCs alike) running from their problems and only delaying the inevitable at best and making things worse for themselves at worst as a result.

I did not include Jester in the list of characters I covered, and I think now might be a good time to delve into why:

Because Jester doesn't run from her problems, she runs to them.

For the sake of complete accuracy, this is generally the case, but not exclusively. Jester, like the rest of the Nein on the whole, has a rather pessimistic view of things and gives up on some things too soon. (Everyone, including Jester, assumed there was no way back to shore after they stole their first ship, and the rest of the Nein, except for Essek and Cad, were ready to give up before Cad's last Divine Intervention, etc.) But we see multiple times that Jester runs towards her personal problems, or what she sees as her personal missions or obligations, instead of away from them.

In fact, it could be argued that Jester hangs on long after it might've been better for her to let go.

But before that, her father. Jester pursues him every chance she gets, and when Marion reveals he's someone she knows and has met, her first instinct is to Send to him and tell him she's his daughter. She keeps doing this until he finally agrees to meet with her. And then, even after that less-than-hopeful face-to-face conversation where he finally admits she's his biological child, she still clings to the idea of hooking her parents back up again.

Travelercon is another one. It's one of Jester's main focuses after finding her father, and even with all the other things she has to deal with, she's continually worrying about getting there in time and trying to figure out what to do when she gets there. She sees it as an obligation to the Traveler (even after she finds out he was never actually a god), and she never tries to run from it or weasel (heh) out of it.

And then at Travelercon, when a vessel of the Moonweaver herself gets involved in the shenaniganary, Jester latches onto Artie and refuses to let go no matter how much Fjord begs her to do so or how much the vessel questions her loyalty in the face of Artie's selfishness. Only when he kicks her off does he spare them both a trip to the Fey Realm.

(And remember, this would've delayed their trip to Eiselcross, which would've allowed who knows what to happen before they came back; not only was there a ticking clock in the form of DeRogna and another adventuring troupe, but time moves weirdly in the Fey Realm.)

On a more positive note, Jester doesn't just refuse to give up on her goals; she also refuses to give up on people. Because of her, the Gentlemen gives up on selling his problems into slavery, eventually walks away from his criminal life altogether, and reunites with Marion like Jester wanted. Her kindness, however teasing, is a big part of why Essek turns over a new leaf. And she never gives up on either of the circus kids. No matter what terrible things their bodies are made to do, she still believes they're both in there, and not only is she proven correct, but her faith in them is rewarded both times.

Jester doesn't give up on people. And while this ties her to Artie in a way that's not entirely healthy for either of them, it does more good than harm in the long run.

This is part of what so strongly endears her to the rest of the Nein. With the arguable exceptions of Essek and Cad, the Nein have largely been written off by people who should've loved and supported them. Veth highlights this when she reveals why she chose Nott as her pseudonym. Caleb's tutelage under Trent is self-explanatory; Fjord's upbringing scarred him; Beau's dad sold her; Yasha's tribe forbade and then murdered her love; Molly was left to climb out of that shallow grave alone—all these people have been discounted. And when they meet Jester, she makes for a beautiful and powerful counterpoint.

#critical role #the mighty nein #Jester Lavorre #nott the brave #fjord stone #beauregard lionett #caleb widogast #yasha nydoorin #caduceus clay #mollymauk tealeaf #essek thelyss #travis willingham #taliesin jaffe #liam o'brien #marisha ray #ashley johnson #laura bailey #matthew mercer #cr2 #cr2 spoilers #c2 #c2 spoilers #critical role campaign 2 #campaign 2 #character study #themes #character themes #tm9 #the mighty nein animated #tm9 animated

[tiamat-zx]

Adding to my wish list of things I want to see in the Mighty Nein animated series:

Yasha being called "Yash" on a regular basis. It's happened far too few times in the campaign and I think it'd be nice if she had a proper canon nickname.

Kudos if it's Molly that first calls her that, and later on it's Beau that normalizes it, on top of her usual pet name of "babe".

Also, will we ever get the origin of how she got her surname? Was "Nydoorin" given to her either by the Skyspear or the circus, was it Zuala's that she received upon being wed, was it always her own, or did she simply make one up because everyone else she met had a surname?

On top of that, I just want more of Yasha than what we got in the early days since, you know, no more Blindspot holding her back.

#critical role #beauregard lionett #yasha nydoorin #the mighty nein #beauyasha #cracklepop #what's in a nickname? #or a surname as well