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[vanivanvanilla]

what is boop

#van speaks

[ludinusdaleth]

sam's character, veth, put the core in devexian, and powered him up, and so the first aeormaton since the fall of aeor awoke.

devexian made sure fcg, sam's character, was able to be awoken as he was.

and fcg, using the core inside him, utilized it to save his friends once and for all.

the cycles of this game....

#critical role #cr spoilers #critical role meta #robots #fcg #devexian #sam riegel #van speaks #campaign 3 #aeor #veth brenatto #campaign 2

[between-brat-and-butter]

Doms who are into power exchange are so easy. They tell you to drink water and go wild when you actually follow their order.

It’s just water. Calm down. :3

#van speaks #van posts

[ludinusdaleth]

critical role said "THE BELLS HELLS AND THE CROWN KEEPERS ARE INTERTWINED AND SO IS VOX MACHINA AND SO IS THE MIGHTY NEIN AND SO IS THE RING OF BRASS AGES AGO AND WE ARE ALL SO SMALL IN THE FACE OF THE GODS AND ARCHMAGES AND THE COSMOS EVEN LARGER. BUT FOR THAT, WE ARE MIGHTY"

#full on TEARS down my fucking face #cr spoilers #critical role #exandria unlimited #campaign 3 #van speaks

[vanivanvanilla]

FUCKING WHAT ?

#van speaks #QUINTON ???????? #i didn’t even notice the time at first i was j thinking to myself looking at his recent uploads ‘is he ok he’s been uploading a lot’ #nearly shat myself seeing fucking 38 hours WHAT #i thought 12 hours was the max on yt how the fuck did he post this

[vanivanvanilla]

#van speaks #lifesteal smp #these guys need a team name

[vanivanvanilla]

hey can y’all roier and cellbit fans please come up with a different duo name for the two of them

devotion duo has been established as princezam and mapicc for lifesteal smp for a while and seeing a different duo fill their tag is 🥲 esp as a smaller fandom

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[vanivanvanilla]

so ash knows of the mcytblr sexyman poll

#van speaks #ashswag #do u think he told the other members

[vanivanvanilla]

haven’t made a bunch of these in a while

#van speaks #lifesteal smp #mapicc #princezam #yeahjaron #baconnwaffles0 #roshambogames #jepex #spokeishere

[vanivanvanilla]

lifestealblr banners for those who want them

#van speaks #lifesteal smp #baconnwaffles0 #princezam #‘at their own risk’ meaning they might see stuff eg shipping if that wasn’t clear #made these as per the request of sin #if u wanna use go ahead u don’t have 2 credit me or anything lmao #also made a general one since ik some lifestealers like ash lurk on here sometimes #also also when’s the zam account reveal Curious

[ludinusdaleth]

im deeply enjoying the relationship ira is slowly building with fearne. he takes no umbrage with her for her father being zathuda, but their first meeting was marked by him not killing her because he realized she was of the calloways - and morri. she is nervous around him but naturally gravitates toward him and vise versa due to being the only fae in any given situation. they try to coerce fcg into being as whimsical as them on the silver sun. she steals his spyglass. they bond as ira tries to bring out the rascal fae instinct in her. he insults her by saying shes a disappointment where imogen is more powerful, but only says it because it's the unseelie perspective, and when he realizes she's hurt by it he spends the rest of the episode propping her up as fascinating, her father as shitty, and repeatedly says he would love her on his infiltration team, portraying her as extremely reliable before the volition.

ira is not a good man. and he knows that, and fearne knows that. but i think some part of him is deeply aware of the calloways' hospitality to him when he never deserved it, and even more aware this young woman is morrigan's ward. he is standing before a girl he doesn't see as a princess but the (grand)daughter of the people he truly does see as family. he never really knew how to treat people well, least of all them. but you can see him.... attempting, in his own way, to fit into a familial role to her. if there are two things fundamental to ira beyond his obscenity or his vengeance, it's his warped love of potential, and his even more warped, but even more sincere, care for a seldom few. he sees a literal fire of a youth before him, birthed & raised by those seldom few.

he wont let her peter out.

#cr spoilers #critical role #critical role meta #campaign 3 #fearne calloway #ira wendagoth #van speaks #long post #fae #morrigan calloway #athion zathuda #fcg

[vanivanvanilla]

silly zam, he already has

#van speaks #this is a joke btw image was made by meep @ivorycello meow

[vanivanvanilla]

#van speaks #nakedtoaster #blooming panic #made this 4 myself but idk if any1’s made this yet for the fandom so here

[vanivanvanilla]

#van speaks #mapicc

[ludinusdaleth]

i feel like the mere idea of bringing up orym & ludinus and their entwined threads of fate is taboo, but i cant stop thinking about it.

orym is a rare, nearly impossible kind of protector - a guard, somehow not attached to a corrupt, brutal system. he just wishes to protect his home, his leader. but ludinus, via otohan, attacks this peaceful place. he turns the ashari cautious & agrieved. he turns the society of air into the eye of a hurricane. orym is turned into a widow. his title as guard is marred; he failed. maybe zephrah is forever marked as a battleground & graveyard, now.

orym walks across tal'dorei & marquet, slowly healing beside his friends, protecting them as best he can. but then he learns who killed his family, and she kills his friends, too - and him, for a moment, giving him visions of his dead husband, reopening the wound. he is in the eye of a sandstorm, tinged red by the moon. he is a pilgrim no longer. his attempt to be a guard has once again been thwarted. maybe you cant have peace if you're a protector.

orym is at the center of the goddamn planet, the leylines aligning as he witnesses his leader fall at the hands of otohan, again at the center of his home's wound, and ludinus, again pulling the strings. a protector far stronger, more capable, than him, adorned in feathers, alight with divinity, falls worse. his friends are flung to the far sides of the world. he once again fails as a guard. maybe a guard is too small in the scale of this world's forces to impact the tide at all.

and so, orym nods to laudna as she rips bor'dor's life from him. he shears his hair ever more, adorns tougher armor. he makes a deal with a hag, desperate for any chance someone he cares for could maybe fucking make it out okay - even if his vastly increased sternness to keep them safe pushes all of them farther into fear of their own. he sneers with unfathomable anguish as he sees ludinus at the volcano and wastes every one of his action points to rip his soldiers apart. he uses ludinus's harness. he takes the willmaster's power. he keeps pushing into the bloodred storm. he could never be a guard right. so it is time to be a soldier. to truly protect must mean to run to the source of all of it and end it once and for all.

all of the bells have been forged by ludinus, a horseman of war, but orym takes it most viscerally. he does everything in his power to stop ludinus, but in a way the elf has already won - or perhaps, in his need for exandria to be "saved" (as he percieves his actions will do), he's failed, but the bells have still lost. because this new generation isnt at peace. they arent even heroes. they are soldiers. orym more than anyone else has accepted that is his life, his death, his fate. there is no goal of his that doesnt end at ludinus. ludinus, who just like him, lost everything in a war involving gods. who has felt the way the world keeps turning, unbothered by what destroyed his society. who uses that accursed harness to take power for a cause. who doesnt want to force someones mind to get what he needs, or kill, but does, because it is necessary. who has pushed himself to the point he is a means to an end more than a person, willing to rip himself apart because he doesnt matter, his goal does. who cant see anything but war on the horizon anymore.

when the two are mentioned together it causes folk to bristle. the idea orym could be in ludinus's shadow is seen as a suggestion that orym is evil as him. but, thats not what i intend. it is a terrible thing, watching someone's gaze harden after tragedy. once a long time ago, as the gods fought across exandria, ludinus saw his world destroyed. and so he enacted a plan to ensure that would never happen again. that they would suffer, and mortals would thrive. but his plan was a god's foot, trampling mortal society upon society. and so orym saw his world destroyed. and he knows killing ludinus is how to let it mend. as the two march forward, in a second calamity, i can think of nothing but the first scene of exu: calamity, when pelor & asmodeus fought as avalir fell below them. despite ludinus's raging, incredible hatred of the gods, the biggest tragedy of all is that mortals really are crafted in the gods' image: and he, & orym, are most representative of that endless cycle of war, of this war, a failure of the past generations, of ludinus, to ensure a "true" freedom of mortals. of peace.

willmaster edmunda was a terrible person, but i fear she was on the right track when she spat at orym "some would like to live in harmony [with Exandrians]. some... know the nature of violence, that others like you carry."

he would never have carried it if ludinus had not dropped it at his feet.

#critical role meta #critical role #campaign 3 #orym of the air ashari #ludinus da'leth #long post #van speaks

[ludinusdaleth]

do yall ever think on how within a year and a half robbie daymond cemented himself as a tes & cr fan favorite, with characters with roughly the same accent & voice, whose names rhyme (dorian, fennorian). who's doin it like him

#i saw the fennorian houseguest leak for eso and my brain is in a tumble #van speaks #robbie daymond #dorian storm #fennorian ravenwatch #the elder scrolls online #the elder scrolls #critical role