#but it's wild because now I have this wee bby who's just starting out her life with me

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

me, sad about the 5-year-anniversary of the death of my 18-year-old cat Dora: =(

Madia: *exists*

me: =)

[aussieaasimar]

Sad ramblings about an npc i love under the cut ✌

okay so remember that smiling drow bard in the center of that group shot and who had the Dead Anime Mom Ponytail in the solo pic

This is him, keep that in mind, he's a wonderful goofball bard with a great personality who’s best friends with Raja.

So we knew Finniko pissed off some mob boss from the getgo, and we were supposed to go repay his debt by doing that kobold mission for the Zazz right

So we bargain with the leader in a WILD way i'll tell later and he gets escorted out to us. He'd been essentially tortured the entire time since we left, and comes out basically half dead, stripped of literally everything and in like prisoner rags. They cut his hair off,,, and this is just all a horrific insult because he and Raja are devout followers of Wee Jas who live at her temple in the Underdark, and one of her pillars is vanity/beauty, so they obviously always have Killer style

So cutting off his hair and stealing all his shit?? That has to be super rough

the theory right now after Finniko tells is some more info goes that because the Zazz is Caspian, whom Finniko killed by proxy in an accident, the Zazz blamed him, and now Finniko blames himself for the reason they were beating the shit out of him. so he thinks !!! he fucking deserved this !!! bby no!!!!!!!!!

So Raja and I are trying to keep him on his feet long enough to get somewhere safer and comply with this gang so they don't murder the fuck out of us before we leave

and we make it out pretty quickly but Svent cast Wish fucking twice in that meeting with the Zazz and is On Her Face

We get the two in the tavern door where Kaegan has a friend and we'd been staying with, and he and Svent finally collapse in exhaustion, and they're just on the floor basically

Sadya, our stoic strong silent cleric of Wee Jas, a half-drow aasimar, tries to comfort Finniko and hands him her holy symbol and he just

clutches it really tight to his chest

and starts to cry

and thanking Sadya in undercommon as the first thing he’s said since we got him back

and now I cry

he thanked her in undercommon

Finniko was teaching us because of our involvement in some pretty important things in the temple, and the Soul Shatter Blade speaks in it, so Kaegan wants to know so they can be on top of shit, and Sadya didn't grow up in the Underdark

we had been practicing it on our way back from the casino to go get him, and he taught us the basics a while ago on the way up to Remoto where the tavern's at. Mei even picked up some on the trip.

so we knew the basics pretty well but were still learning

but that is probably something both Sadya and Kaegan learned first

So they knew exactly what he was saying in a language they previously didn't speak

and also being so stressed out and overwhelmed that you go back to your first language and also the language that your temple speaks

overwhelmed with emotion and exhaustion and pain and everything all at once and I doubt Finniko was thinking very hard about it but that's just so fucking significant to me

It Gets me. I hadnt even thought about it too hard when it actually happened, I think things were moving too fast, but reading my two sentence note over after the session i just started crying.