#The Mighty Nein origins

[occidentalavian]

The gang's all here!

[pippinscribs]

Re-imagining the cover of Nott’s origin comic.

Still getting the hanging of layout and and titles and colours but I think it’s kinda fun, and pushed me to actually make a big piece traditionally

[redwinesupernoova]

If i was smarter than i currently am, i would write a long and thoughtful passage about parallels between Caduceus and Fjord, the weight of responsibility on their shoulders, placed there from a very young age, about family (Via blood and otherwise) and its importance, involuntary loneliness and enduring hardship all by yourself, concluding with the fact that they discovered kinship and family within each other which is really no surprise after all. But sadly, i'm not, so for now i'm gonna lament amazing dynamic that they had, which seems to be lost and forgotten by most in favour of other more romance leaning relationships. A shame, really. Will always be one of my favourites, this one.

[acquaxxoid]

THEIR LITTLE FACES IM DYING

[shorthaltsjester]

Fjord & Jester // on Adventure and Finding Home

I want to explore the world. I want to see the lands we haven’t seen. I want to find things that people are scared of and solve them or do whatever anyone else needs to do. But – I hope she’s a part of that.

The Mighty Nein Origins: Fjord Stone - Kevin Burke and Chris “Doc” Wyatt || The Mighty Nein Origins: Jester Lavorre - Sam Maggs || A Moon or A Button - Ruth Krauss & Remy Charlip || “first letter to véra” (26 july 1923) - Vladimir Nabokov || Hadestown: “All I’ve Ever Known” - Anaïs Mitchell || Critical Role Campaign 2: “Fond Farewells” - Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham || Antigonick - Sophokles, tr. Anne Carson || Critical Role Campaign 2: “Domestic Respite” - Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham || Herakles - Euripides, tr. Anne Carson || Changing - Liv Ullmann || “Lover” - Taylor Swift || Critical Role Campaign 2: “Dinner with the Devil” - Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham || tumblr user @/dimpledthings || The Mighty Nein Reunited: “Unfinished Business” - Laura Bailey

[critterpages]

Ohhhh Beau Beau Beau….

“Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins - Beauregard Lionett will be released next spring, landing in bookshops on April 30th, followed by availability in comic shops from May 1st.”

[ludinusdaleth]

"I am terrified of the world, and terrified of what it could do to you, even now. But I don't want that for you. And I know you will never be satisfied to stay in one spot. So, just promise me this. Promise me you will find people you trust. People who love you just as much as I do, okay?"

"I will. I promise."

The Mighty Nein Origins: Jester Lavorre

[stardustedknuckles]

MOLLY AND YASHAAAAAAA MY HEART.

THEY'RE FAMILY. THEY'RE BEST FRIENDS. I'M GONNA CRY.

[blackmosscupcakes]

I love this panel so much because I can just hear it SO clearly in Taliesin's voice.

[bravenot]

some of my favourite panels / pages from The Mighty Nein Origins: Nott the Brave (artwork by Will Kirkby)

[ashisafriedpickle]

He’s so babygirl

[encyclopediacr]

Dark Horse will be releasing The Mighty Nein Origins for Jester, Caleb, Yasha, and Nott together in a collected edition! The Mighty Nein Origins Library Edition Volume 1 will be released September 13, 2023. It features an expanded sketchbook (found in the back of each release) and new cover art from Robynn Frauhn.

[marvelousbelladonna]

Yes!!!!!!!!

[does-a-nein-hit]

I find it very interesting that one of the first words/things that Molly say and seemingly remembers after he joins the circus is 'cat', specifically while looking at a black cat.

It may actually mean nothing but my first thought while reading the comic was that it was a memory vaguely resurfacing of Cree.

I've seen people say that it's a reference to Caleb and the Mighty Nein 'taking in strays' but it happens so early on in Molly's path to regaining a sense of self, essentially a time where he was closer to being Lucien than the Mollymauk we know and love that my immediate thought was that it was a vague memory of Cree. Especially since the Lucien novel tells us that Lucien and Cree were childhood friends. It would make some level of sense then that Molly would see a black cat and make a connection, even if he can't fully explain it. I may be completely wrong but I thought it was quite cool!

[darikbelochka]

More Lestera fanart please!!!

[tiamat-zx]

So I’ve been rewatching the Beauyasha supercut compiled by Astro Edits on YouTube, and… I’ve realized something.

When Yasha is recounting the day that she lost Zuala, she remembered it as her running away from the execution, and that she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes.

However, that’s not what really happened.

She did, in fact, witness it. She witnessed the Skyspear stabbing Zuala with her blade when the latter had tried to convince the former to allow their union. She had also slain the Skyspear in retribution.

To be fair, it’s not out of the question to declare that Yasha was an unreliable narrator when by her own admission she had been missing some time in her memory, and thus may not have fully recalled everything at the time due to her rage and sorrow rendering it all a blur.

I bring this up because, from what I understand, the fog had faded the moment that Obann had shackled her once more. She had suddenly remembered what she had done.

And nowhere was that made ever clearer than the moment that she had been forced to stab Beau in the Chantry of the Dawn.

As I stated before in a post a while back, the “imagery she had seen once before” was not that of Molly’s death, but that of Zuala. At that point, she had regained a significant portion of her memories, including what had occurred on that day. She had even expressed confusion during her epilogue when she saw Jadek in the armor of the Skyspear, and then Yasha quietly realized that the previous Skyspear had been felled by her own hand.

So when you think about it, this explains the supposed contradictions between what was mentioned in the campaign and what was depicted in her origin comic. Because there weren’t any contradictions at all.

Regardless, there is still one fact that remained constant: her belief that she was a coward for the longest time whether it was her long-held belief that she had run away from the execution, or the sad truth that she didn’t have the courage to confront the Skyspear herself, the latter of which had led directly to Zuala sealing her own fate.

It wasn’t until she had found the second love of her life that she began to realize that she wasn’t a coward, but a survivor. And it wasn’t until she had found Zuala’s grave that she finally made peace with her loss, and had been able to forgive herself.

To this day, Yasha Nydoorin still remains my favorite PC to come from the creative and talented mind of Ashley Johnson. And this is but one of many reasons as to why.