My name is Raphael.

You are my father.

Prepare to die.

*bells tinkle*

she dun on my geon till i meshi

the reason critical role is so good is because every campaign features at least one cast member creating a character that they intend to be doomed by the narrative and matt and the rest of the cast going don’t be an idiot, Our Love Will Undoom Them. like in the explanation of percy’s final playlist, taliesin wrote, “Cheers to a happy ending for a character intended by his creator to be karmically irredeemable. May we all be so fortunate.” and just, Yeah.

If it takes away all our magic, anything gifted to us from something greater...

bad dreams in the night

like whats up doomed yuri

Headcanon: The destructive tendencies of the Heterodynes are at least partly influenced by the Doom Bell.

We're told that one of the occasions for ringing the Bell is the birth of a new Heterodyne. I'm willing to assume that this is more or less an immediate response. Live baby? Ring bell. The Castle likes literally everything involved in this event, so I don't think it would wait very long. And the Doom Bell is not only loud, but has a direct and dire effect on the sentient psyche. Which means that one of the first things this new baby experiences is a flood of existential dread, despair, and overall doom almost literally jackhammered into (generally) his consciousness. Everything will die! YOU TOO! Everything is fleeting and inconsequential and unimportant next to the inevitable DOOM.

I'm willing to venture that this is probably not a good thing to happen to an extremely plastic infant brain. Immediately upon birth. Just gonna hazard a guess.

After that, why not burn down the world and laugh in the flaming wreckage? You always knew it would come to this.

Additionally, the three Heterodynes we know were not born within hearing range of the Doom Bell - Bill and Barry were both born and raised outside Mechanicsburg, as was Agatha - are noticeably more stable and less, well, destructively evil than their ancestors. Upbringing? Yes. I'm not discounting that. But.

...before anyone starts planning the next generation of Heterodynes, perhaps they should develop some really good soundproofing first.

Or see how Agatha feels about temporarily - very temporarily! for their own good! - timestopping new babies while the Castle plays with its favorite noisemaker, I guess.

An image showing the Robotnik lineage (and a little bit of the Black Arms one) from the Sonic games.

in an unsurprising turn of events, i spent most of today ponifying the Through the Red Door guys

bonus bishop UDR, belonging to @steampunkforever of course:

but can belle the tinkerer run doom

wtf is up with the Robotnik family man

Average Robotnik family photo! I’m also including found family, not just biological family! That’s why Rouge, Omega, Metal, and many others are here (*´∀`*) I know I’m technically missing some characters, but those who are missing are mostly irrelevant… damn you, Sega.

I’m so normal thinking about them today

I made a Robotnik family tree. Other ones I have seen before aren’t as clear to look at, so I made one myself. This one only accounts for game/idw canon.

Bonus:

Fabbricante di lacrime

Okay sure just split the group again I'm sure nothing could go wrong this time dividing them into sub-groups to sting at high levelled and relatively unknown areas with high risk and high threat of boss level enemies in the vicinity and then go on another break to make us stew on that, it's fine IT'S FINE!