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I hope they bring Essek back to Zadash after Cognouza is defeated solely for the vibe of:

Essek, heavily disguised, having a panic attack: The last Kryn agents in Zadash were attacked and brutally murdered in the streets. The Nein: While stealing a beacon. Are you planning to steal a beacon, Essek? Essek: .....Fuck off.

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“Caleb’s Turn. You are a sheep.”

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Jester: “Oh no! Is Caleb a sheep forever?”

Caduceus, rolling his sleeves up: “Don’t worry, I have ‘Dispel Sheep’

Caduceus-

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Jester: “Oh no! Is Caleb a sheep forever?”

Caduceus, rolling his sleeves up: “Don’t worry, I have ‘Dispel Sheep’

Caduceus-

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Got two prompts in a row about sheepleb and Essek so ✨🐏✨

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Got two prompts in a row about sheepleb and Essek so ✨🐏✨

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No thoughts head empty just Caduceus in 97 telling Essek ‘we know you’re a good man’ and Essek scoffing, but only a couple of months later casting Fly on Caduceus, prioritising his escape through the Immensus Gate over his own

Thinking about Cad in 97 telling Essek ‘we’re all here’, and then proving that he meant it in 136 by picking Essek up to carry him rather than letting him trail behind the others

Thinking about Cad going out of his way to treat Essek as a valuable party member (’we have help now’ ‘can you Identify this?’), and Essek being so politely appreciative of Cad’s healing

Thinking about Cad living through seasons of solitude in the Grove, thinking that he was supposed to be the Responsible Child who wouldn’t leave, and Essek living in the solitude of his tower for years, far too aware of the expectations placed upon him and convinced that he had to be the Prodigy Child

Thinking about how they’re by far the oldest of the party and yet perhaps the least experienced with the world beyond their former, solitary lives, the drow/firbolg equivalents of early-twenty-somethings seeing the real world for the first time

Idk I just think these lonely kids have a lovely understated dynamic and I would love them to interact more

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Continuing my RP Jester Sketchbook series.

Please enjoy these spreads which span content from eps 134-135!

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THE WIZARDS ARE SHOWBOATING FLIRTING

Caleb's expressions are so adorably dopey but he's a bisexual disaster wizard so that tracks.

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(beauregard): pretty sure i’m in love with yasha.

(fjord): huh!?

(beauregard): yeah….

(fjord): oh….um…maybe, i dunno, tell her how you feel or something?

(beauregard): you think i haven’t tried already? but it’s like every time i start to tell her, i always end up buckling under the pressure.

(jester): how?

(beauregard): ok, take yesterday for example.

*flashback* 

(yasha): walks into the kitchen in a towl* 

(beauregard): *chokes on her coffee*

(yasha): you ok?

(beauregard): yeah!

(yasha): are you sure?

(beauregard): *thumbs up*

(yasha): ……

(beauregard): hey yasha?

(yasha): yeah?

(beauregard): you’re, uh….my soul mate *jazz hands*

(yasha): ……..

*end flashback* 

(fjord): ouch.

(jester): wow.

(beauregard): exactly.

*meanwhile somewhere else in jorhouse* 

(yasha): – and then she suddenly does this thing *jazz hands*

(mollymauk): oh yeah, she’s got it bad for you.

(yasha): is this some kind of primal human mating call.

(caleb): you could say that.

(yasha): so should i jazz hands back?

(mollymauk): defiantly jazz back.

*the next day*

(beauregard): *brushing her teeth*

(yasha): storms into the bathroom*

(beauregard): *chokes on toothbrush*

(yasha): oh sorry! i didn’t mean to scare you.

(beauregard): no, no. you’re good. is something wrong?

(yasha): no. however i do have something to convey to you.

(beauregard): ok.

(yasha): *jazz hands*

(beauregard): …….

(yasha): …..did i do it right? are we mated now?

(beauregard): hold on, wait a second, are we WHAT!?!

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Packing up boxes.

Into each box I bind a cocoon around my old life.

I haul the boxes up the stairs of the new house, use a knife to slit the tape, and out stream clouds of new hopes on fresh, bright, still glistening wings.

They land on the walls, alight on sills, and flutter into the sunshine up into the cobalt sky, with a perspective of my corner of the world of which I can only dream.

I close my eyes and see it laid out before me, wildly rambling. I reach down to touch it and it disappears, a reminder that nothing is real except for the sound of my heart and the love for which it beats.

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Casting fly on yourself to show off to one another can be something so personal

I’m glad I got to bear witness to the wizard’s mating dance

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There’s been a lot of commentary on the way Matt has played it so that literally every character who meets Trent immediately dislikes him, and I’ve always thought it was interesting that Trent makes no attempt to prevent this!  For someone so incredibly manipulative, someone whose job is literally creating state propaganda, for him just - not to care that he has a reputation for being just, the Worst?  

Even as far back as the party after the victory pit, before we knew anything about Caleb’s backstory and the place Trent had in it, he’s unpleasant and everyone knows it.  Beau points it out later that night after Caleb tells his story - she totally got a bad vibe off him!  she feels vindicated! - and at the party, Oremid Hass apologizes for Trent’s demeanor and gives the impression that this is a thing he has had to do before.

So here’s the deal: Trent isn’t trying to make people think he’s a nice guy.  Trent never tries to convince the kids he’s training that he’s some wise, kindly old father-figure.  And this is very clever, because if he had everyone believing he was some gentle, Dumbledore-style mentor, any evidence at all of his mistreating the students under his control would be an Obvious Red Flag - why do the students of this otherwise perfectly lovely man keep showing up with bruises?  Why don’t they socialize with their peers?  Where do they go, on weekends when they disappear from campus?

Instead, Trent cultivates an image of a stern, unfriendly - but dedicated! - practitioner of magic and defender of the Empire.  The kind of teacher everyone knows is an asshole who plays favorites, maybe even one with a reputation for physically disciplining students.  So if the kids ever complain, it can be waved off with the excuse that “Eh, Trent’s just like that, of course he’s mean and terrible to be around, everybody already knows that!”  

So I was thinking about that, and do you know who it reminded me of?

The Trunchbull, from the book Matilda.

I can’t remember if it made it into the movie, but in the book it’s established that part of the reason she does such insanely heinous things like punishing kids by locking them in a closet filled with broken glass is because if she was only a little horrible, the kids might complain to their parents and the parents would believe them and do something about it.  But if she’s egregiously horrible, most people will simply assume a kid is lying or exaggerating when they describe the abuse.  People will believe “this teacher slapped a kid across the face,” they will not believe “this teacher dragged a little girl around by her hair and shot-putted her over a fence.”

That’s Trent.  Who are they going to believe, the unpleasant-but-respected member of the Assembly, or some random kid with wild tales of crystal experiments and secret murder lessons.  A kid who probably can’t get their stories corroborated by any of their classmates, because all the classmates have been terrified into silence.  

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the mighty nein are all golden retrievers excited to make a new robot friend while essek might as well have his ears pressed and fur puffed like a cat about to smack the shit out of something he’s never seen before

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safe embrace

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Ok but I love the comparison of Essek slowly letting his shadowhand persona go down more and more this episode, (discussing his favorite food, having fun saying up, being vulnerable with Caleb, saying fuck, etc) vs Lucien very clearly trying to hang onto the suave villain persona with all his might even as he yells “THAT WAS A DICK MOVE” at the mighty nein at the top of his voice like a 12 year old in an overwatch voice chat. 

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soft wizard is soft, more at 11