#brennan. man. what.

[slumbering-shadows]

Can you imagine the mortification of all of your friends now having to help you battle your parents' weird sex machines. in highschool? Gorgug will unfortunately never be able to live this down. 20 years later kristen can just turn to gorgug and say "lawnmower" and he will take 2d8 psychic damage immediately

[heytherecentaurs]

Brennan’s talked before about how as a poor young adult he lived in New York and struggled with food security. He tells a story of going to frozen yogurt places for free samples and a cheap dumpling spot because it was a lot of food.

His opinions on food and his described behaviours around food make a lot of sense in that context. He may be successful now and can be assured he can eat again when he’s hungry, but it appears he has legitimate trauma around his experiences with poverty because what he’s humorously describing is a trauma response. His mind hasn’t gotten rid of the anxiety of “I’m eating now so I better make it count because I don’t know when I will again.”

Because he’s a comedian he manages to frame it as a joke, but there’s certainly an underlying sadness. It also informs Evan Kelmp’s characterization. Capitalism is the root issue here and poverty is state-sanctioned economic abuse.

Anyway, I hope he’s doing well and taking care of himself.

[seawitchkaraoke]

never gonna get tired of Aabria and Brennan playing dnd together, they know each other so well, they are so fun, they're clearly having so much fun ''does Evan have a grenade??'' ''idk will you let me? :)'', ''you know what I'm gonna ask'' ''yeah I throw myself in front of Sam, absolutely'', ''I'll give it to you, if you detach your shadow'' ''.....(pause, clearly aware that with Aabria as a dm, this will have Consequences) yeah I do it, I want to get all of them'', ''is my shadow back with us?'' ''no :)'' ''okay. (concerning)''

And that's just this episode, but there's so many little moments in all of their campaigns that really read as ''I will fuck you up <3'' ''I know and I am walking into it with open eyes <3'' from both of them, never hold any punches, because they know the other one doesn't want them to, just. Inflicting emotional damage on each other for funsies is a love language I guess?

It's beautiful

[nellasbookplanet]

The tragic idea that the Betrayers loved their siblings so much that it ended up being what drove them apart. They didn't want to settle for anything that could hurt their family, and mortals were doing so, either directly (a mortal usurping one of them) or indirectly (emotionally hurting them during the Schism by just. dying so much). To the Betrayers, it wasn't worth it. They wanted their beloved family to leave and go somewhere that wouldn’t hurt them.

To them, it's the primes who are the betrayers. The primes were motivated by more than just love for their immediate family - they loved their creation, too, and more than that, felt a responsibility for it. They would rather fight their own siblings than leave it.

We saw all the gods love and protect each other during the opening of Downfall. The Betrayers were not uniquely evil from the start. They wanted to save themselves and their family from hardship and suffering, even if it meant leaving their creation, their game, and in response their siblings locked them away. Not only do they not love mortals, they view mortals as this corruptive force that somehow turned their family against them. Do they think that, if they succeed in exterminating them, the Primes will be freed from their influence? Maybe - perhaps some of them are waiting to forgive and embrace their siblings, but far from all, I suspect. Asmodeus certainly expressed during Calamity that he didn’t so much want to be reunited with his siblings as he wanted to punish them. He was betrayed by the ones he loved most for the sake of a game! Maybe togetherness and forgiveness was once an obtainable goal, but not anymore. Even if the Betrayers succeeded in ending Exandria, the Primes would never forgive them, and they would never forgive the primes. Their family can never be whole again because of, as they see it, the toxic influence of mortals. So they hate mortals for this influence, but more than that, they hate their siblings for being so weak as to fall for it.

[l-herz]

Adaine and Aelwyn: Bite the Hand

[roll4gay]

I love that Emily wanted enough for Fig to just be happy after fhsy that she was ready to retire her 🥹

And I know I would have LOVED whatever new character she came up with

But I am SO GLAD WE GET FIG BACK

[picklesinabottle]

God I'm so obsessed with the fact that freddie was like "I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna roll and I'm gonna fail and this is how it's gonna turn out" and then he rolled a 31 and accidentally killed the chief of police

[hamable]

Brennan: Blimey me once, shame on you. Blimey me twice, shame on me.

[feelingtheaster99]

“Unnamed Bard Student, PLEASE!” 🤣

Literally that whole scene of Fabian’s final downtime was Lou demonstrating ONCE AGAIN that the man fucking COMMITS to the bit

[acourtoffeyandfables]

I missed these misfits

[littlebirdy0301]

[chungledown-bimothy]

who is this and what happened to evan kelmp

[stardustedknuckles]

"Everyone you ever knew who told you that they would keep you safe as long as you behaved were already hurting you."

[whitehartlane]

sonny and his kids 🥹🤍

[whitesheepwrites]

The way Brennan played Jack at the end of his talk with Timothy, idk, something something about a boy too clever and too ambitious who was never taken serious, always chased away for his tricks and schemes that were his ways to survive in an unkind land. A Jack who grew up without two loving dads, without Tim who would have found delight in his every trick and scheme, who would've thought him clever, who would have taught him to not run himself ragged for the approval of those who do not know him because all the approval he needed was at home with a father who would always be on his side regardless of guilt or blame. Still too clever, too ambitious for his own sake? Sure, but a Jack who would've died trying to bring fortune to his humble home, not caught in the frontlines of a war of his own making, miserable and angry.

Idk man

[nine-of-needles]