Etiqueta: critical role

mcgonagollygee:

fjord talking like vandren is Such A Character Choice and GOD it breaks my heart… fjord who’s been trying to fit in his entire life, who finally finally finds a parental figure who didn’t care what he looked like, just that he was a good sailor… fjord practicing his captain’s accent in private and feelin’ a little silly at first but the shape of the words start to feel more comfortable in his mouth. and fjord afterwards, completely alone in the world, making the conscious choice to sound like one of the only person who ever actually cared about his wellbeing. GOD travis

aislinguistic:

Caleb, entering that stand-off, with zero hours of sleep, having spent the entire night codebreaking, hunched over a diary, only to single-handedly FLIP the encounter was pure college exam all-nighter cramming session straight to finals, acing that fucker, my veins run with coffee, CLUTCH wall of fire, HARD COUNTERspelling Avantica’s only way to rspond because you knOW CALEB KNEW THAT CONTROL WATER WAS COMING OH MY GOD. fucking amazing and of course 12 seconds later he’s facedown in the planks as soon as the adrenaline’s worn out

luckthebard:

I know this is an unpopular character interpretation, but:

Fanon!Molly is much nicer than canon!Molly was, and I really wish more fanwork, meta, and fic for him didn’t downplay the fact that he could be a dismissive and condescending asshole at times.

I never really understood people who said Molly’s charisma score didn’t match how Taliesin was playing him – in my opinion, Taliesin was very much playing a character with a 10 Charisma. He had good intentions and thought he knew best, but he wasn’t great at communicating. He was also stubborn to a fault and bad at listening to other people’s points of view. The group conversation with Nott after Caleb tried to steal the scroll is a great example of this, as is his attitude toward and general dismissiveness of Kiri.

I just think all of those flaws made Molly a really interesting character, and it’s weird to me that fandom has flattened that so much. I’m not in any way trying to say he couldn’t be nice, there are plenty of examples of that too, but his foibles tend to be left out of fan memory of the character, which then misunderstands the whole of who he was. Perhaps it is part of coping with the character’s death (choosing to highlight and remember the best of him), but I wish we could honor the complexity of the character more.