Aabria wins rock paper scissors

I just want to say something: Matt Mercer made up the Calamity.

TW: It was such a chilling take to see you– to hear you do the devil, going like, [sighs] “I never know what I’m going to look like to people.” Just nonchalant, like chills up my back![...] Not conniving, not arch. MR: You did a lot of terrifying things this entire campaign, but that was the most terrifying. And I’d be lying if. I didn’t say, uh, there was a part of me that was like, “I just saw something that Brennan is capable of.” I’m glad that Brennan is like a good– an incredibly good and moral person to his core. Because you’re very intelligent and I’m like, “Oh, he can tap into this like weird manipulation aspect that is horrifying.”

AABRIA 🤣

[Image description]: A screenshot from Exandria Unlimited: Calamity Wrap Up. It’s a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan sitting on a purple couch saying “Comedy completes the realization that drama begins”.

SSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMM HOW DARE YOU!!!!

"He just wanted to be a good man and be with his wife" I WANNA FIGHT HIM!

And then here travis comes in with steel chair saying Cerrit wasn't a good father. And focused on work to much. In the end he wanted to change.

I feel like the “Thank god Brennan uses his brain for good because he is more than capable of using it for evil” realization Marisha talked about is an experience everyone goes through at some point when listening to Brennan talk...

"You gave birth to us, Matt killed us"

"...I was in the delivery room-"

"Well when the tree was killing us in fourth episode, in one second for two hours, you know, it didn't have to do that, you did that-"

"-Everyone loves it when Matt says 2/3rds of Exandria is dead but when it starts happening, people got shit to say-"

Something that I loved about how both Zerxus and Cerrit, despite loving their kids they were bad fathers. Both choose their work, the city over their kids. As well as how the city demands so much but gives very little back.

Zerxus hadn't seen Eilas in 7 years, his son had to mourn and deal with the death of his father relatively by himself because the city pressured Zerxus. Which I think adds a layer as to why Zerxus is somewhat resentful of Avalir and why he doesn't consider it his home. This city being so opulent and has some of the most powerful people on Exandria, they literally don't experience weather, couldn't help his husband who dedicated his life in service of the city. The same city, while he was still mourning his husband, pressured him into taking up a mantel that stripped him away from his son and a living breathing reminder of Evandrin's existence.

Avalir demanded his servitude. And he had no other option but to feed the broken system.

The same thing happens with Cerrit. So much of his work consumed his life, his eyes were everywhere apart from inside his home. It was all consuming, to the point in which when his wife left, it seems like Cerrit didn't put up much of a fight. It was so bad that he didn't even know where she was, he had to learn who his children were as people quite literally during the end of the world. Cerrit making it out was a promise to do better. A promise that Zerxus didn't get to fulfil.

Patia is another example of Avalir's constant demand to be better, do better, how it eats away at a person. She dedicated her entire life, hundreds of years to Avalir, and all she could return to was a statue of her Grandfather. The same person who set Avalir on this path of destruction, people like Vespin were merely a symptom of a larger issue. Patia didn't have a lover, didn't have kids because the city would have consumed her, like it did Cerrit and Zerxus. The Ring of Brass was Patia only family, and in her final moment, she for the first time placed her family above the demands of Avalir.

Avilr in a sense was what Aeor eventually became. A living city, that feeds off the misery of its inhabitants.

the more i think about it the more i realize that zerxus' situation is like so much more fucked up if we add elias' appearance in the situation

luis confirmed some part of zerxus did fall for asmodeus, but also mixed with convoluted paternal love, which sounds bad but it also makes sense when we take into consideration that while asmodeus pretty much looked like an uncanny valley version of his dead husband, that is also probably what zerxus envisions elias to look like especially when he grows up

there's that love and longing he felt for evandrin that he felt when died, and then there's also another form of that love and longing he felt for elias that he felt when they became closed off to each other

adding to that: he missed so much of elias and the last time he saw him, he was just a little kid who needed guidance and protection. then when he saw asmodeus, he exuded this energy of a need for someone to help him (dare i say a child-like helplessness and innocence)

for zerxus to be subconsciously battling between seeing evandrin and then seeing the son he feared he wouldn't see growing up before his eyes

the idea of him being torn between this demonic image of his husband AND his son, both being the most beautiful people he's ever known, and to see that face and those features on the literal devil himself must have been a wild ride for him

God the wrap up is really hitting home how insanely layered and beautifully crafted calamity is, and how frustrating it is that I can’t just recommend it to regular people

The camera stops rolling and suddenly canon leaves you.

LUIS: I want to ask what it was like for you to play our kids? I don’t know, I’m just curious. BLM: There’s a convenience to orphans, which is why from fairy tales and fantasy immemorial– just convenient, right? “I have no attachments, so an adventure makes more sense.” When does Luke leave Tatooine? When his aunt and uncle are dead, right? Spoilers for.... Sorry! But you know what I mean? But I think there’s something to the idea of– In a thing that’s all about stakes and loss, I think it's really necessary. I love doing anything– any familial relationships. Siblings, parents, children...

it didn’t fully sink in until brennan said it but he really did just Decide the accent for aeor which is hilarious in hindsight

I agree with Marisha, pizza sashimi sounds like shitty bruschetta...