#or the way that cultural and societal narratives are at play esp in the early campaign

[thedragonagelesbian]

like everyone in the fandom, im deep in my m9 feelings after the two-shot announcement, and with the tantalizing possibility of more kingsley content, i’m fixating on how much of campaign 2 is about stories and how the lucien/mollymauk/kingsley triad encapsulate that theme.

what stories do we tell about ourselves? about others? how do we mythologize ourselves, to justify what we’ve done or to protect ourselves or to enshrine ourselves in rose-tinted memory? what stories do you construct about yourself when you are no one, a blank slate whose entire worldview is shaped by the narratives that someone else tells you?

who listens? is it a captive audience at a circus? is it a close group of friends repeating your story over and over again, rubbing away the rough edges until all that remains is the polished half-truth? is it nobody? are you the heroes no one knows about, whose story will never be sung?

are you the last chapter of someone else’s story? how do you claim your own narrative when that someone hunts you, haunts you? do you reject them or do you put them gently, kindly in the grave?

and who do you get to be when you finally have the freedom to choose?

#campaign 2 is a ghost story okokokokokok #this isnt even TOUCHING the way that books function as objects and symbols throughout the campaign #or the way that cultural and societal narratives are at play esp in the early campaign #the stories we tell ourselves about the enemy to justify war #the way that story changes when we learn more about them #the cobalt reserve and the soltryce academy and beau and caleb and VESS DEROGNAS BOOK AHHHHHHHHHHH #critical role #im just...... rlly excited to see kinglsey again and see what taliesin can do with the character with a bit more breathing room