i am so obsessed with how like. taken as read the ot3 are at this point. like on the one hand it feels like they've been building up to this for ages but on the other hand it kind of feels like i blinked and we skipped right past some Major Turning Point where everything got spelled out and we're just already in firmly Established Relationship-land. obviously tarvek is too well-protected for anyone to assassinate openly, look how angry his boyfriend and girlfriend are at the idea of anyone threatening him. at this point i'm half-convinced agatha's just going to refer to her boyfriends in passing to someone else and no one's even going to comment on it until van finds out twenty pages later and immediately starts making everyone pay up
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ngl i absolutely love that nothing happened to kipperlilly in the past. just an insecure kid burning with anger feeling like the world would never let her have a fair shot. just a resentful girl who should have been working on her issues and instead got taken advantage of by someone in a position of power over her.
give me more villains who are products of the world around them. give me more shitty people who turn into monsters seeking validation.
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Destiny’s Children actually works so well as a name for them because:
It has pop culture significance
Destiny is a major theme (and antagonist???) in the campaign
1/3 of the PCs are literal children, while another 1/3 of them are adults that are essentially also children because they never got to live out their childhood days
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Ok but it genuinely means so much to me that in episode 11’s adventuring party when they are technically not roleplaying all of the Intrepid Heroes refer to their characters as “I” and “Me”
It just feels so personal
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Ooo this Warloc Wally AU makes me anticipate Howdy as the Tavern keeper with the bulletin board with jobs but every time Wally comes in Howdys just on edge cause "this tiny man just *Feels* off..."
All Wally wants is some apple cider
ohhhhh oooooo y'know in the Original Ramble i stated that he stick With the group on their adventures as a traveling salesman but ough. tavern keeper Howdy...
maybe... maybe we can combine the two by the group being Based Out Of a particular town and Howdy owns the local tavern, but sometimes accompanies the group on their adventures both because he needs a "break" and to sell his wares to fresh faces <3 his staff can handle the tavern in his absence
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I simply REFUSE to hear siobhan thompson slander her performance in the acoc village battle as just exploring and stealing lol does she understand how fucking badass everything ruby did there was???? the ruby and amethar teamwork there was one of the most mechanically incredible moments I have ever witnessed and the fact that lou and siobhan were able to perfectly roleplay out the mechanics to match their characters’ relationship is truly unmatched like amethar screaming “ruby!! LETS! GO!” in the most parent voice ever and ruby yelling back “i’m COMING!!!” while lou uses his feat (?) to give ruby more movement is one of the most brilliant hilarious heartwarming well played and acted moments in dimension 20 and I think about it all the time. “I just ran around stealing shit” SIOBHAN THEY WERE PLOT CRUCIAL DOCUMENTS THAT WAS SO SICK AND SO IMPORTANT GIVE YOURSELF SOME CREDIT I know she was joking but still lol genuinely one of the most interesting combat moments in dimension in my humble opinion and I will not be quiet about it
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You ever do something not thinking much of it, but after you do it you realize it was actually like a genius move?
This happened to me with my story: Started it off with a fairly standard conflict; someone wants what Tuon has. But afterward I was like "Oh shit, this is a prime opportunity to show his unyielding guardianship!" But not only that, I also realized that it did a great job at reflecting his flaws and sort of foreshadowing them to the reader
Oh man THATS SO GOOD!! It is so nifty when things work out like that, I hear you- long story relatively short, you betcha.
I had something like that with Aeonian, my Tav for Baldur's Gate 3. One of their quirks that I put down on paper early on was that the places were their muscles would be are rock hard - mainly because of the fact that they're cramming a monolithically sized form's worth of matter down into a humanoid body thats eight times smaller, hence putting a lot of strain on their body as a whole, but also à la a statue for a physical form.
"Statue for a physical form.... death and rebirth themes*......statue made of rock. wait."
Because I cannot escape my hyperfixations, geology was thrown back in my face in whence I was immediately reminded of the ROCK CYCLE:
-which can be pretty well-applied to the whole death and rebirth thing, not to mention a nifty little guideline as to how their character arc can go as well as Aeonian's place as a story in of themselves (long story, involves statues though) and their tendency to 'erode' themselves per se if it means getting where they need to be. Metamorphosis also links pretty cleanly here too, not only because of the metamorphic rock and its processes but because of parallels between Aeonian (embodiment of death [at sea]) and Thanatos, the greek personification of death, who is usually represented by way of butterflies.
I'm real bad at explaining things so I apologize if none of this made a lick of sense, I promise it's a lot clearer in my head and please feel free to ask for clarity on anything!! this is probably some of my favorite character work I've done so far
*dionysus+being the literal embodiment of death [at sea,] longer story
(Please talk more about Tuon he is SO cool and I talk too much, that's some really good character writing)
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