#to orym's late-night sendings instead of matt and! yes!!

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I’m trying to write something down about the scene where Orym sends to Dorian, and then Ashton, having slipped out on the group to look for him, comes and joins him there, but I’m not feeling eloquent enough rn for it. Just. Ashton looking out for people -- all of them, he’s doing it for all of them, he’s been doing it for a while, the cheking in and the noticing and the trying to find some words, whether they’re any good or not. Telling Orym that he can reach out, if he needs something, that he doesn’t have to fold it all back into himself. Ashton sharing so much of himself and how they’re feeling and what they’ve been thinking about. I don’t feel like who I was. Always been... not big on new people, not big on human contact. General... anything. And now - this. And ...and by telling Orym this, especially in that quiet, introspective moment just between the two of them, he’s almost deliberately leaving a door angled open just so, and Orym responds exactly like I knew he would. Because... because he’s been reaching out to Ashton, physically. He has, in fact, been touching him a lot - just small things but very frequent, a tug on his hand or a pat on the shoulder or an attempted noogie or what-have-you. And Ashton has grumbled about some of those, but always good-naturedly, and he’s always let him, and has also been reciprocating. And then here is Ashton saying, in not so many words, I think I want to be touched more than I let on. And here is Orym, turning to him and very deliberately just reaching out a hand and waiting, silently asking if he’s understood this right, and Ashton says yeah. Yeah. We’re good.

#critical role #c3 #cr3x40 #cr spoilers #this ENTIRE SCENE man!! god #the minute ashton bowed out of the group convo i was like ''oh he's gonna check in on orym oh this is gonna be good'' #i love these two; i love the sort of moments the're having #and i just love ashton So Goddamn Much #and then not to distract from the point but DORIAN. I MISS HIM. ORYM MISSES HIM. i always WISHED robbie could just respond #to orym's late-night sendings instead of matt and! yes!!