#candela obscura 3

[raguonmynieceandnephew]

He is so fucking hot, Jesus Christ

I see and a nerdy man of color in their 40's with a deep voice and the ability to pull a full well constructed badass dramatic monologue out of his ass and lose my mind

[its-mekjt]

CANDELA SEASON 3 CAST IS STACKED. ASHLY'S VOICE LINE IN THE TRAILER SENT SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE

[molly-yasha]

#scaredycat

[shadydruid]

Bells Hells x Candela Obscura 🖤 💜 Finished Laudna and Imogen together 💞Which outfit do you like more?

[i-lavabean]

It’s been fun to try this art style on Tide and Bone, time to wrap it up with one of the most incredible storytellers I’ve ever seen

[otterlyart]

Brained and Brawn for @xombigirl

[elemental-plane]

i was struck with a vision

[predictablesloth]

CR doodles except it's just shit i find on pinterest

[becpng]

assorted needle & thread sketches from the past month!! happy last thursday to those who celebrate

[han-ban-bam]

thank you candela for the nightmare fuel & Ashly I salute you

[johnnyspells]

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Sean Finnerty Candela Obscura: Chapter 2 - Circle of Needle & Thread

[conceiteddemon]

There were some little inconsistencies in the first Tide and Bone chapter that I’ve been gnawing on but I think I’ve pieced together the Maw’s plan that makes everything make sense with the new context given to us in the asylum directors letters.

Parts of the break in mission seemed too…smooth? It was bothering me that there was a screaming beast transformation followed by a murder/resurrection in the backyard and that none of the guards, who were explicitly stated to be on high alert and had timed periods of feigned casualness drilled into them, didn’t go check on All of that. And maybe guards who work for greyslate have seen/heard their inmates do some weird shit and have learned to look the other way as long as it happens within the bounds of the sanatorium, fine, but in the middle of the night? In the backyard?? It seemed pretty sus to me before I realized

The Maw and the Serious Man had set up a Candela investigator honeypot

Here are the facts:

1. Sarkas’ escape from the sanitarium went oddly smooth, RIGHT after he witnessed some magic bullshit go on. It went so suspiciously that Rajan theorized that he might have been let out.

2. Sarkas had no proof of what he saw other than his word. According to Matt, a lot of Candela cases turn out to be ‘a drunk guy’ or ‘neophyte woman making big deal out of nothing’ or ‘mob hysteria’, so when Sarkas, who was previously in an insane asylum and had a background as a distrusted OUP, came to Candela with nothing but his word, it seems set up to appear as Baby’s First Investigation. Nekari and Cosmo, who are both old hat, heard about this assignment and thought it seemed ‘routine’. A little parting gift walkabout for an incredibly old man.

3. The Maw seems to mainly prey on the vulnerable. It took Rajan’s sister as a child thrall, and attempted to take him as well. This is speculation but if the Serious Man knew Raj’s mother well enough to stroll around with her, then it’s likely that she was involved with the Occult. Combine that with greyslate being a place where they put OUPs out to pasture, and her line about the circle having her ‘favorite flavors’, it seems like her preferred thralls are those who have had bleed exposure before. Investigators are both strong and vulnerable, and would make great thralls because they haven’t been ‘used up’ like the inmates were.

4. The director’s letters stated that the Maw needed stronger thralls as the current ones burned out too quickly.

So we’ve got the perfect setup to nab a few grade-A thralls, people who are in a line of work where disappearances happen regularly, are susceptible to the Bleed, come with a host of issues to feed upon but aren’t ‘greyed out’ yet like the inmates are. It seems like the perfect plan! Nab a circle, get strong thralls to get digging, set up some misdirection on where the group disappeared to once they are brainwashed and you know more about them.

Unfortunately for them, Cosmo rolled up with a guy who knew EXACTLY what he was fighting and had a chestful of locusts, a monster woman to engage the enemy monster woman in a kaiju battle, a backup triage lady since the first triage lady was preoccupied monster battling, and another dude with a personal vendetta who literally physically cannot die.

[maestache]

a Grimm fate indeed....

[marvelousbelladonna]

Characters

Liam as Cosmo Grimm

Ashly as Dr. Elsie Roberts

Sam as Oscar Grimm

Noshir as Rajan

Gina as Madam Cordelia Glask

[shadydruid]

AU: Laudna in Newfaire (Candela Obscura) some minor details will be added but I think she already looks pretty 🖤

[deramin2]

Critical Role emotionally tortured LA audiences in the historic United Theater on Broadway like two weeks ago. Now they're moving 9.5 miles away to the historic Greek Theater to emotionally torture and terrify their audience again.

I feel like it's also worth noting that the Greek Theater is an open air amphitheater in Griffith Park. Griffith Park is famously haunted both in local folklore and a very common setting for fictional horror stories. Especially among LA Vampire the Masquerade players (you fight a werewolf at Griffith Observatory in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines; it was also a setting a few times in LA By Night).