having thoughts about durge’s confrontation with orin in the temple of bhaal when she shapeshifts into durge and the implications it has on when orin replaced them.
like???? i wasn’t expecting her to shift to look like durge but when she did i couldn’t help but think did she do that to gortash before he learned that durge was gone?? i’ve seen a lot of people talking about how orin probably posed as gortash with durge, but what if it was the other way around? what if when orin was actively getting rid of durge, she would pose as them around gortash so as to not arouse suspicion about what was going on? make it seem like durge was beginning to pull back from the whole thing to open up the position for orin, when in reality it was just her tricking gortash into believing the person he was closest to was pulling away from him while they were being infected.
like thinking about it from both sides, both gortash and durge probably had some very vulnerable moments with orin thinking they were with the other that she directly used against them to get where she wanted to be - replacing bhaal’s chosen and being one of the leaders of the absolute, one step closer to total power.
in my playthrough too, orin was posing as the one dryad at the circus who you can talk to about your “love match” (i don’t remember what her name was), and i thought it was really interesting to see what means she’s willing to go to to get information. i’m romancing astarion, and when you get the scene with the dryad, you can choose multiple options that are “correct,” but he will disapprove for certain ones because they are much more intimate knowledge than the other ones so depending on what you choose, once orin reveals herself you can be like “oh fuck i just told the chosen if bhaal my partner’s deepest darkest secrets and she can use that against us.” not that it ever really comes into play, BUT THINK ABOUT IT. she surely would’ve done the same thing with gortash and durge
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Oh no… I might have made a mistake
I started reading Purple Hyacinth since it kept popping up here and there on my dashboard and I think I have a problem…
I’M OBSESSED WITH THIS
It’s so fucking good????
The art and the music are fantastic but the characters are really it’s life and blood and I’ve just read like 30 chapters but if anything happens to Lauren and Kieran I will set fire to anyone responsible and then to my self
Like!!!????
I love them so much???
And the plot too!!! I haven’t been this taken by a story in years??? Like last time was probably mass effect when I finally played it when the legendary edition came out and that’s a fucking high bar to reach my friend
I’m so taken by this work words lost any meaning
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I was about to ask what if macaque said he didnt care about wukong, but this man is not subtle about the fact wukong is the center of his universe
you mean the very same simian who spent his episode in s1 wanting to kill Sun Wukong and was pissed off when he saw Wukong’s hesitation to hurt a fake MK? the same guy who spent his episode of s2 presenting a play all centered on his relationship with Wukong and how it fell apart? the same Macky who spent like 5 minutes (of episode time) ranting to Tang about how trusting people is not worth it because it leads to you not looking out for yourself because others won’t do that for you (oh gee i wonder who that is)? the same Macky that willingly offered to enter the scroll with MK despite MK expecting to go alone (because he’s the guy out of the main cast who’s the closest to the monkey king)? the same dude who Peng asked “is there anything Wukong can do that would break his hold over you?” the same Macky who chose to sit next to Wukong at the beach and present his concerns of what’s to come?
that Macky?
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You know, it used to be a rarity for characters and ships to plague my thoughts every waking moment
And then I joined the Critical Role fandom, and now all of these characters and ships are living in my head rent free, and I’m too nice of a landlord to evict them
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I wasted eight years of my life being friends with someone who didn’t care about me at all and abandoned me for no reason at the drop of a hat without so much as a word and now I’ve completely lost my ability to socialise or form meaningful connections with other people thus making new friendships impossible so I am literally completely alone every day I feel like I’m going to be sick
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From the fun asks - 1, 31, 46, 71?
1: when you have cereal, do you have more milk than cereal or more cereal than milk?
more cereal 🥰
31: what is your opinion of socks? do you like wearing weird socks? do you sleep with socks? do you confine yourself to white sock hell? really, just talk about socks.
Ohhhhhhhh I’ll go off in the tags about socks 🥰
46: tell us the worst pun you can think of.
Gee-I’m-a-tree 🤦🏽♀️😂
71: what’s your favorite kind of tea?
Honestly I’m not a huge tea person. Mainly cause I haven’t tried many and I want to try them but they expensive and I’m scared I won’t like it hahaha
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