#or more bluntly; playing favorites and fanonizing away what makes you uncomfortable

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one of the most interesting reveals this episode is that arguably Ashton's approach to the titans is closest to FCG's approach to the Changebringer - jumping in without a lot of information based on a desired lifeline or connection - except FCG went about it, ultimately, in a much more careful way that was perhaps irritating to some of the people around them, but was never actually harmful to themself or others.

#it is actually fascinating to me that like #rather like how ashton and beau are very similar #ashton is also similar in highly specific ways to imogen and to fcg #and it's not that you can't like one and not the other...but i think if you do it's definitely a case of slicing off elements to fit a mold #or more bluntly; playing favorites and fanonizing away what makes you uncomfortable #critical role spoilers #also as always it's really telling when people go to the titans or the betrayers or the fey or whatever as the true powers #instead of championing like. humanism.