#and not orym

[bread-wizards]

The real question of "what would each character be doing if they didn't meet the rest of the Hells?" is how many of them would have accidentally ended up on the side of the Vanguard? Because I think it is nearly all of them.

[oddthesungod]

Windswept 🍃

[jadequarze]

Hells to the Bells

[eeriepete]

I had to make this quick piece, they're both beautiful 🥺

[tarydarrington]

💚💙

[erandraws]

All three Liam O’Brien romances??? ending happily??? in this economy??

[myrling-art]

"Orym looks waaay up Caduceus's body." | Campaign 3, episode 111

Point of view: You are three apples tall and you are faced with something so big that your halfling body can barely grasp what it's looking at.

Orym and Caduceus are canonically the smallest and the tallest people between Bells Hells and the Mighty Nein, and I had way too much fun drawing my interpretation of Orym's perspective next to a giant-kin.

Also, there is this video going around of a tortoise being gently nudged by a giraffe as it is fleeing in terror, and I want you to think about that for a sec.

[caitmayart]

That was one hell of a PAUSE, D O R I A N

[yudol-skorbi]

worst tv marathon ever

[czpeterp]

Dorym kiss 💙💚✨

[suraelis]

From Critical Role C3EP111

When Ashley said "Let it cook", Liam said "We're done with the slow burn"

[teaweltzer]

"I'm going to kiss you now- Can I kiss you?" "Ohhhhh shit. Yes"

[californiannostalgia]

The thing about Vox Machina is that they are a frat party that woke up one morning after a drunken bender and decided to hunt down the serial killers who murdered their friend's family. One thing happened after another and they ended up taking out some very bad individuals in power at great personal cost, which propelled them to mythic status.

But fundamentally, VM is a college frat party that got impossibly attached to each other in the process of trying to do some good.

The Mighty Nein are a group of confrontational, distrustful pariahs who are vulnerable to outside influences that try to manipulate them into a villain arc. But after they completed trauma dumping and crisis bonding, they closed ranks and ground every single one of their personal demons to smithereens.

In essence, the MN are an exclusive, protective battle blender that only saves the world in order to save each other.

Bells Hells are defined by extreme stress. VM was trying to save the world, and the MN were on a self-actualization journey. Bells Hells have to do both of these things at once.

They're quick to trust, which opens them up for numerous betrayals. They don't have enough power to protect against the losses of friends or family. All they've got going for them is their collective aura of tragic weirdness and their full-on willingness to kill immortals (fucking delilah).

In a way, BH view themselves as monstrous abominations. They gain trust from the unlikeliest people and will try to befriend you if they think you're a fascinating monster like them. They've never agreed on anything ever, but they're open to a lot of impossible things and take it in stride. After all, their own existence is an impossibility. And I think that's fucking special.

[theminttu]

Orym 🌙🍃 Two of Swords 🍃🔴

Oh sweet leaf Why did you leave? Why didn't you stay? How can I be your guardian angel when you are away?

[ohbeauregard]

C3E105

Bells Hells + official titles

[worddevourer]

Wait, is Orym's bananas high perception a trauma response to not spotting the assassins that killed his husband coming? Is it literally 'Nobody will ever be able to sneak up on the people I care about like that again?'

Like, in my head, I was going 'oh haha, this is Liam trying to make the perfect counter to someone like Vax, someone who can beat a high level rogue's minimum stealth role,' but like... in character? In character this is a man who has decided he'll never let anyone catch him unawares again.