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In honor of Sam and Matt playing MtG, here are my color predictions for everyone’s characters.*

Keyleth: Green/White. Her duty to her community weighs heavily on her, as does her responsibility to Vox Machina. Also, she loves being a druid and having that connection to nature. Beyond her natural abilities, she goes out of her way to acquire books and knowledge about the natural world.

Grog: mono-red. I mean, barbarians and rage always lean red, but Grog’s strong emotional bonds to the rest of VM are also in that slice of the color pie. He favors the simplistic approach--smash things until they’re dead--that red mages are so well known for.

Pike: mono-white. Putting Pike in the ‘healer cleric’ box and forgetting about her does a huge disservice to a character as deeply thought out as the rest of VM! But with so little screen time, it’s difficult for me to say IF she would be dual or even tri-colored. Sarenrae’s guidance keeps her on the straight and narrow.

Vax: Black/Red. While often seen as a villainous combination of colors, Vax’s self-reliance and distrust of authority are the very essence of black. Also, any servant of the Raven Queen is going to brush up against that part of the color wheel. It’s his prankster nature and wild emotions that put him in red--Vax feels things Very deeply, but he was also one of the members of VM most ready with a quip or a joke.

Vex: Green/Blue/Red. Her time in the wilds of Tal’dorei and her bond with Trinket put Vex in green. Her deftness in handling social situations and in haggling give her blue, while her devotion to her brother and her teammates put her in red. She has a bit of a temper, our Vex’halia.

Scanlan: This guy. One of the most versatile spell-casters in VM, on top of all of his layers of shallow jokes, make him VERY DIFFICULT TO PIN DOWN, COLOR WISE. I have to put him in Blue, because Ioun chose him as her champion. But Scanlan???? mono colored??? I GUESS.

Tary: White/Blue. His artificer skills put him solidly in blue, but his arc was all about learning how to relate to actual human beings (and not Doty) and then how to establish himself as part of his community at home. His work on the Darrington Brigade is more white than anything else.

Percy: Black/Blue. Again, his sheer intelligence (and using his cleverness as a crutch/identity point) land him in the ‘blue asshole’ category where people USED to think Jace lived. (They were incorrect, but that’s another story.) His struggle with his darker self, while ultimately successful, does leave him with some major tendencies towards black magic. He was never interested in ruling Whitestone, only in exacting revenge for the deaths of his family.

CAMPAIGN TWO:

Caleb: mono-blue. Perhaps while under Ikithon’s tutelage he leaned more black/blue, but nowadays Caleb is motivated by a ferocious search for knowledge. His tendency to use spells that control the state of battle are also very blue--indirect and manipulations of poeple/things around him.

Beau: Blue/Red. Her impulsive nature and frequent outbursts make her solidly red, while her recent forays into true nerd-dom make her blue as hell!

Fjord: Blue/Green. His constant curiosity about the world around him is Very blue, but it’s not just his new dedication to the Wildmother that puts him in green. It’s his sense of being, of searching for a place where he belongs in the order of things.

Nott: Blue/Red. In a surprising turn of events, Nott is the same color identity as Beau for completely different reasons! Her blue comes from her high intelligence, her dabblings into tinkering and alchemy. Though she wouldn’t classify it as book-learning or nerd-dom, Nott is fascinated by the way the world works and trying to figure it out. Scientifically! She has to be red, though, because her ferocious love for her family and for the M9 isn’t the impersonal love of community that comes from white. It’s purely a person-to-person bond, which is more in red’s wheelhouse.

Jester: Red/White. Her fun-loving and purely chaotic nature put Jester squarely in red, but it’s not (just) her access to healing magic that adds in the white: it’s her unwavering faith in the Traveler, the only person she sees as a Higher Power. If he asked her to jump off a cliff, she would do it no questions asked.

Yasha: mono-white. Ashley’s got to get something for making two characters who are so wildly different, and yet remain in the same color identity. Similar to Jester, Yasha’s faith and belief in the Stormlord put her in white, as does her protective nature towards the M9. But more than that, it’s her attitude towards her tribe that cements my choice: though she has every right to hate them, all she feels is that she ‘owes them a death,’ meaning that she still considers herself to be one of them AND under their rule.

Molly: mono-black. Some people says black characters are villains. I say there’s more depth to the color than just being the wheelhouse of demons, vampires, and undeath. Mollymauk, for example, is exactly the self-centered asshole that black magic embodies. He’s ambitious, he’s bossy, he’s got to be right at all times. He’s the kind of character who thinks of the group as his, and therefore no one better fuck with them. He loves them, yes of course he does. But it’s the same place that the Tiffany Aching quote comes from:

“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!“

Caduceus: Green/Black. I mean. Any grave cleric is going to at least ask themselves about being black. A grave cleric of the Wildmother? Who grows tea from people’s graves? 10000% Golgari.

*I was going to do color predictions for the cast, but: 1. that kind of analysis of Real People makes me uncomfortable, and 2. play style can be VERY different than color identity, and getting the two mixed up is too complicated for me. Like, I would never have pegged Matt as a Grixis player. (although it makes total sense now that I think about it.)

#long post #cr #critical role #magic: the gathering #mtg #i put....a lot of thought into these

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