#anyways aabria did you have to rip out my heart? was it personal?
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she was killing. she was dying. she was rotting. she was ripening. she was loving. she was losing. she was a woman. she was a girl. she was Karna Solara.
congrats to Aabria @quiddie Iyengar for making me sob and draw at 2 am
#dimension 20#d20#the ravening war#karna solara#something about living so fiercely and dying with a soft breath#the same tongue used to bite and gnash leaves sweet kisses on its deathbed#she was already dead when she was disposed of#she died with blood and rage and viscera and a love note#anyways aabria did you have to rip out my heart? was it personal?#the almost found family hurt me the most you know#how dare you turn my favorite trope against me please never stop
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i have finally found the time to watch through the entirety of a court of fey and flowers and it has left me clawing the walls
a few thoughts, here and below the cut:
aabria is honestly one of my favorite gms to watch work. like, literally watch, i am 95% podcasts for my actual play media, but the visual elements of her games (esp. her npc facial expressions & acting choices) are so compelling. every damn time wuvvy looked at rue i died.
never not gonna be impressed with how smoothly this team integrated dnd combat & magic & skill checks with the good society framework to make a compelling, weighty, primarily social game. the unique tokens! (the significance to burning them!) the many pvp insight/deception checks over sighs and glances!!
brennan being an eternal gm is a crime, hob is The Most Character
like, picture me taking that character art of hob, printing it out, folding it up, and eating it. love him.
heâs a self-loathing emotionally obtuse plothound who claims to be bad with words but gives The Most Austen-style heart-wrenchingly vulnerable speeches. who else is doing it like him.
(seriously, if youâve got regency media recs with hob-alike MCs I Want Them)
i am imagining some bonkers child creation magic â like, cabbage patch If You Want One It Will Grow stuff, genetics and gametes need not be involved stuff â that gives hob and rue an enormous passel of kids to love on and Treat Right, including at least one Owl With Bug Wings and two or three Literal Bears.
also picturing atla level confusion when the first one of those bears comes along. âjust a bear?â ânot a bugbear, not an owlbear, not a bugowlbear. just a bear.â ââŚthis kid is weird.â âyeah, but weâre gonna love them like mad anyway right?â âoh yeah, of course, iâm just saying!â
deeply shocked andhera was able to sit through that detect thoughts at the tailor shop scene without blurting out SOMETHING, given his tendencies towards blurting out everything in other moments.
but like. imagine.
hob: the k stands for knickolas!!
rue: i love him.
andhera: oh shit, for real?! you love him for real??
disastrous. andhera fails to keep his mouth shut, four wounded two dead. (rip buddy, you were a real one)
otoh. now iâm imagining a fun little trivia game at rueâs nearlywed shower with questions like âwhere did they meetâ and âwho asked whomâ that give them an excuse to retell all of these cute stories about their relationship, and one question is âwhen did rue first realize they loved hob?â
the answer is supposed to be after they danced all night at the masquerade, because rue thinks itâs fine to lie a little for the Romance of it all, but andheraâs like âoh, i remember that! it was when hob told them what the k in k.p. stands for!â
and heâs very :D satisfied with himself for winning his team a point! not noticing rue and hobâs very complex face journeys as they silently have a Conversation about this.
most shocking moment for me, a person who saw a fair number of acofaf gifs on my dash last fall: chirp marriage & child reveal, no question. the cast around her reacting is also very good, but the twist in itself was honestly so unexpected! and it works fantastically to give the lords of the wing motivation to join the larger plot on Our Heroesâ Side, i thought that was very smartly done.
and last but not least, a fun fact!
I did not realize this until the ap episode where omar confirmed ace andhera, but my first dnd character was basically a mash-up of andhera and rue.
like. they were an ace paladin poorly faking charm and coolness, using a normative appearance (âimagine a combination of chris hemsworth and chris evansâ) as a facade a scared, nonnormative creature hid behindâ unfortunately my BINX-alike PC friend died early in the campaign, and the plot took priority over character exploration. but still: same hat!
also: me now, looking back at that character: [miranda cosgrove âinterestingâ meme with the nonbinary flag superimposed]
#a court of fey and flowers#dimension 20#brb off to sort the hob/rue tag by kudos and then by bookmarks and then by word count#i want a thousand different canon divergence alternate love confessionsâŚ#mundane and/or human AUs where the Duty vs Love tensions are shifted a little but still MATTER#BINX found family-ing every damn person she likes even a little into a room of their own in her houseâŚ#pls send fic recs#and asks! send me your thoughts!! if anyone is still out there thinking acofaf thoughts this many months after that season ended#i realize i am Late to the Game but thatâs just how i am with stuff#dropout#tos originals
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