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I've been playing the sims a lot lately...

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Maybe I am a minority here but I really don't want the world to view BH as villains. They genuinely do not deserve that and in my eyes, it would be both unfair and unwarranted. This group of outcasts, who are made up of their pain and trauma and have barely been making it through life, lost or left alone. This group that claws itself through life, day after day, feeling unaccepted. Nobodies, all of a sudden pushed into the spotlight of the world. A group that continues to sacrifice and worry and hope and fight and a group that just wants the best for the world in a complicated situation with no perfect answers. It wouldn't be right at all to say they are betraying Exandria, in my opinion. They are trying to subdue the threat of Predathos permanently, at the cost of their own lives, their own safety and sanity. They are trying to bargain, with fate, with gods. For people and the gods themselves. They stopped Ludinus, but there is no stopping the change he has brought. No stopping the fact that the world knows and looks to the moon and the cage and the godeater inside.

They are just trying. They are tired, they were chosen and pushed and pulled and they are trying.

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thursday! my hells :)

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"You should never run into the storm alone"

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regardless of the outcome, lowkey hoping that bh become a sort of political grey area for the exandrian leaders. they hate that they changed the status quo but also accept that they offered the gods a choice and allowed them to stay. like Leylas will probably not enjoy possibly having to share the details of consecution with the gods and probably having corral the tiny gods every time the cycle begins again. but she'll want to have some sort of hold on ashton for the dunamancy

vasselheim will probably have a fit, especially the followers of the gods that decide to leave and will want to go after bh but will then have the matron and bh's allies (they are few but they are mighty) to argue with

the matron and her followers will probably have to keep an eye on them just simply bc yknow... one of them ate the old god of fate and the matron also allowed it all to happen and provided the tools for it

in the feyrealm artagan will probably know the situation through jester and nana morri would protect bh/scare off those who come after them

like I'm imagining that bh just become those fugitive that you casually see in the cafe next door and everyone knows and clerics or military will just act like they havent seen them so they don't have to go through all the weird hoops and hurdles to figure out if they need to bring them in or not.

im also imagining if in 6months time, at the fjorjester wedding, people and nobles all see bh and can't do a single thing about it bc the bride invited them personally

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Okay it was *definitely* Ashton that stole the charming glasses originally, after picking the lock on that museum guy's desk, and at the earliest opportunity they hid them in Fearne's bag as a gift

I really liked that moment of Ashton deliberately choosing *not* to get better at charming people

This is now two consecutive BH releases where someone has misattributed something Ashton did, what with Matt giving Chetney credit for dropping the black hole thing in the cooldown for episode 119

It's like Ashton's charisma is so fucken low that it even affects the cast irl ... maybe they should have kept the glasses lmao

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I love her

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I don't know, I kinda wouldn't be mad if Bell's Hells ended up being the bad guys to the rest of the world.

Like Vox Machina are legendary heroes. Mighty Nein saved the world but are mostly unknown. Let Bell's Hells be the well intentioned group who did everything they could to save the ordinary people of Exandria and yet still end up taking the blame for the end of the gods.

Can you imagine how fun that would be for the new characters in campaign 4? Maybe they're connected to Bell's Hells in some way and know the truth. Maybe they are convinced it's all their fault and hate them with a passion.

Maybe they take a trip to the feywild and meet a faun who seems so friendly and fun and then they find out her name. (God, can you imagine them meeting Ashton and getting the wrong end of the stick immediately? Or seeing Laudna as this sweet lady then having her form of dread emerge?)

I just think it would be fun.

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Bells Hells as textposts 86/???

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it's that "unfortunately you've already used a spell on your turn" caster jealousy.

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“I don’t deserve you, but I’m glad you’re here.”

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Accusations of this plan coming out of nowhere are funny to me because it wouldn't have made any sense to come up with the idea of the gods going mortal before this episode.

Before now one of the things they were worried about was predathos eating and killing exandrians aswell as or instead of the gods if it couldn't get to them.

Only after Imogen joined with it and saw it can't even see mortals let alone hunger for them does it make sense to suggest this, and she comes up with the idea because of Downfall and seeing the gods do it before, so hardly out of no where.

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Somehow he still seems to enjoy basking in the sunlight and the quiet busyness of the birds and butterflies. They say necromancy is a dark art, but whoever reanimated the beast of the black swamp knew what they were doing.

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On the off chance they manage to convince Asmodeus to partake in their plan, rather than run or attempt to overtake the people who hold the diminished god eater… will Braius’ post campaign life be spent looking for the mortal child Lord of the Hells? Completely ignoring the family Bell’s Hells were willing to be for him?!

there's a LOT that's queued up to happen after they maul the godeater into submission. braius cut his way to the front of the line with his mask stunt, though. what i think is going to happen is that braius is going to have to make a choice between allowing himself to be accepted into the hells again and redeem himself, or to keep sticking to old habits and stay with asmodeus? they're under no right to forgive him for nearly getting laudna squished, but they've forgiven over worse. and dorian wrote a song about an old jerk who he only knew for three days. they even named their party after him.

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my own take on a predathos!imogen

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bh: okay, we have good news and bad news. the good news is the original ludinus is dead, but now he has a clone somewhere on exandria running around

keyleth: oh. that’s bad.

bh: but now predathos isn’t inside ruidus anymore

keyleth: that’s good!

bh: imogen got tricked and almost became the vessel to predathos

keyleth: that’s bad.

bh: but she escaped and we got it under our control with the raven queen's help

keyleth: that’s good!

bh: and now we need to get to vasselheim and speak with all the gods and convince them to rebirth themselves with the luxon beacons. or it’ll BE bad

keyleth: ...do you need help faking your deaths?