theres something so. emotional. and gut punching. about derrig telling vex he knew vax and that he wishes he couldve shown up. it makes me so sad. liam o'brien u are an evil man for always making ur oneshot characters so perfectly suited to mirror vax im going to cry
While thinking about a potential VM vs M9 Battle Royale sequel, it suddenly occurred to me just how unbelievably horny Veth would be about Grog. Fjord might not be in this one, but by god would Veth be bothering another Travis character
I say this with all the love in the world for Ashton, but of course they were gonna take the shard and ignore the warnings. He does believe in fate- he doesn’t believe fate applies to HIM. This is someone who has repeatedly been through things that should have killed them and they didn’t. What didn’t kill them made them more powerful- both the earth shard and dunamis came with their own consequences but it made them stronger and that’s the lesson Ashton has carried in them and discovered.
Ashton is a superiority and inferiority complex blended together. If he dies taking the shard, oh well, he won’t suffer the consequences- the Hells will, everyone who loves them will. If he succeeds, he’s going to hold unimaginable power and be even more of a rock-solid support to his team (pun intended).
So Ashton makes Fearne promise she won’t stop him, he makes her promise she will call for help if he needs it, and they take the shard and put their trust in the people around them. They go through one minute of ancient power trying to sunder their very being, they feel their arm fall off, they are blown to smithereens before reforming, and they hold on until they wake up moments later with a magma arm. But none of those things matter, because his friends were there, his friends were healing him, the ring on his finger from Deanna brought him back to life from certain death.
There are consequences to your actions. No reward without the risk, right? And sometimes it pays off, sometimes you pay a steep price, you bet on 00 and you win, and you think you made the right choice. Until you look up at the people who watched you shatter in front of their eyes, the same people who healed you that also tried to stop what was happening, the same people who believed in the risk and would have rightfully fought you had you had the spine to tell them your crazy plan that was doomed from the start.
Sometimes inevitable probability is the consequence of your actions. Sometimes the consequences are the friends you made along the way.
the venn diagram of people who actually understand pelor’s complexity and the people who understand vex’s character is a circle and a very small one at that
When Wallace first befriended Veronica I was afraid that I would be forced to endure yet another Guy Upset About Being “Friendzoned” By Female Friend Whom He Has A Crush On plotline and was pleasantly surprised to find that they’re literally just friends who support each other. Completely subverted my expectations. Wallace, you rock.
somehow mighty nein e75-76 has multiple bells hells things
there’s a theory in-world that ruidus was a creation of the betrayer gods, and was some sort of long-running mysterious plot that was cut short during the end of the calamity, when they were banished away
there’s also in-universe superstition that ruidus is an ill omen
caleb lying through his teeth telling the ruidus researcher man that the culture of dumb people who think the world is made of cheese is the people of whitestone, tal’dorei ajkdsngkj how funny would it be if laudna believed that and imogen short-circuited
jester saying “i always kind of felt bad for ruidus”
caleb telling the guy studying ruidus (from last ep) that he’s beau’s moon assistant, and that “she is like the big moon and i am like the small moon behind the big moon”
the mighty nein finding a purple rock, which caleb couldn’t identify, but he had never seen anything like it before, and as a transmutation wizard, he could tell that the transmutation that happened to it didn’t make sense