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hi guys im alive and (im)patiently waiting for november 19th.....

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started listening to critical role. incredibly endeared by the character dynamics

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Critical Role: [7/8] Mighty Nein members Fjord Stone

Magic's new to me; this sword is new to me. I didn't have most of this all of my life. All I had was my words to get out of situations, to try and heal conflict, to try and outsmart somebody. And now all of a sudden, I have this power; and I feel like it's a shortcut and I've been cheating myself. I don't feel like I've put forth the same effort to resolve something because I can just will something into happening. That doesn't seem right to me.

Art by Ariana Orner and Hannah Friederichs. Animation by Kami and Kevin Areopagita.

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Record scratch noises

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The girls!!!!

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drawing her again always feels so good

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I’ve been interested in how they’re gonna portray Fjord’s use of magic in the series, especially given the storyboard teaser from a while back where it seems they might lean into him actively struggling to control his powers. If that is the case, it would be so funny if they adapt him trying new spells similar to when Travis would use the dice rolls to play into Fjord’s inexperience with magic.

Like Fjord vs blink would translate so well to animation

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it's so hardcover –> we're so paperback

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The teaser has me thinking thoughts so here’s a redraw wip!

I loveeee them, feeling insane rn

Will I ever finish this, god only knows

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Thinking about Fjord because I miss him (rewatch is at the stretch of episodes where he is kidnapped; Iron Shepherds give back my boy). Fjord as a character is concerned with gaining power as a way of ensuring his own agency (as @wardensantoineandevka mentioned in conversation, it's no coincidence the arc immediately following Iron Shepherds, where Fjord is kidnapped on his own watch, is the one in which Fjord follows the call of Uk'otoa in a bid to understand his own powers), however throughout the early campaign, he does this by leaning on Uk'otoa. An entity which, when it suits his own goals, has absolutely no issue with completely stripping Fjord of any agency at all. Once Fjord put the Waste Hunter Blade in mouth, he could not stop from pushing it further and further in, and it was through this process that the Sword of Fathoms absorbed it. Once he laid his hands on the Cloven Crystal below the Gentleman's Hideout in Labenda Swamp, his was taken over by a vision and had no control over his actions of absorbing it. Uk'otoa grants him power, yes, and that power lets him have an effect on the world he would not otherwise have, but it is entirely conditional, a fact which Uk'otoa is sure not to let him forget.

It's also interesting that the period Fjord is serving Uk'otoa is the same one in which he is mimicking Vandran's voice as a way to project confidence and authority to the world. Because both with that and with Uk'otoa he is looking to cultivate traits and abilities that let him better navigate the world how he likes, but he's leaning entirely on external forces to do so. He wants power, so he takes what Uk'otoa gives him and follows where the dreams and whispers lead. He wants to be respected, so he mimics the voice of someone he saw command respect. Rather than in either case looking inward to see how he can cultivate those things for himself, as himself. While mimicking Vandran's voice is itself quite harmless and in many ways indicative of Fjord's own deep personal respect for the man, leaning on Uk'otoa for power isn't, as it involves ignoring the leviathan in the room that gaining power from Uk'otoa doesn't allow the agency he wants, because both agency and power can and will be revoked at any time if he actually uses either to do something other than what Uk'otoa wants him to.

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we're so back

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The illusion of choice

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Ghosthook asked before this journey began whether Idyl's powers were a blessing or a curse, and in the end, it was Idyll using his powers to protect himself and Brixton that finished the critical progress counter to save Desperloch

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enjoy these alt memes for fjord, beau, and nott i also made

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Travis/Idyl and Sam/Snyx having a bard-off was not on my bingo card for this episode.

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is that green jason todd an actual character from a thing or is voltron somehow back with like a nextgen thing? cus it also looks like shiro, art style n all

You mean Fjord??????