#caoil rambles

[kingofcomedy]

in line for the meet & greet now!!!

[literariefairy]

also shoutout to me bc i didn’t realize how fast i could revert back to being a 1d stan

[scumbagmordremoth]

15) favorite thing about playing your salad? (ALL OF THEM)

THEY’RE SO GAY?

I may not be a “Sylvari RPer” in the strict sense I was in like 2013 anymore but the plants remain my favorite and I can’t understate the fact that I literally bought GW2 solely because of the Sylvari. I’ve always been a huge faerie buff (to the point that sometimes I worry I might be a little too superstitious) and the devs said “Unseelie Court” and I was sold from there.

GRANTED, those expectations were ultimately disappointed. The Sylvari really aren’t exactly the flower faeries I was looking for. HOWEVER.I’d already played characters in custom made games that experienced an emphatic hivemind with their entire race, were ageless and made of flowers for about five years previous so I was fukkin READY for mainstream game playable races to get on my level. I’ve always been partial to the ethereal, alien, elfy races in any game. 

Ppl always get on about how Sylvari are boring because they’re “good” but like they’re not really any more “good” than anyone else. They get angry, they can be violent or selfish. Ppl act like not being a brooding anti-hero is exhibiting the emotional range of a spoon but really the central conflict of Sylvari isn’t “good” vs “evil” so much as it is “emotions r fukkin hard” with an extra dose of suck because the struggle to attain emotional intelligence for them is metaphysical. This makes Sylvari really good for my favorite kinds of narrative: Hope/recovery and Coming of Age.

Briann, Caoilhain, Len and Naniya all had/have coming of Age aspects to their over all narratives. Caoilhain, Reese, Naniya, Deirdre, Aine and Jadzi had/have recovery as a large theme as well. Len, Jadzi and Rhia are/were examples of a failed recovery arc, which is the superior form of tragedy by far.

Caoil is probably my favorite because the last five-ish years have been a Coming of Age story and now that she’s “of age” it’s time for that difficult, early twenties recovery arc. I’m sure I’ve rambled on about the Heroine’s Journey vs the Hero’s journey before but I’ll put down again, it’s my fave.

[kingofcomedy]

love the imagery of them shouting “hey twat” across the phouse at each other as a pet name

[kingofcomedy]

also we got robbed of the vegas video clip during conspiracies and now im debating if heading to chicago is worth it to try again

[kingofcomedy]

still processing the whole day, can’t believe it was real

[kingofcomedy]

intermission time!!

[kingofcomedy]

so none of us are surviving the tour, are we?

[kingofcomedy]

preparing for an interview at noon by laying in bed and zoning out

[kingofcomedy]

dnp need to stop doing things while im at work, i feel like im about to implode while sending emails

[kingofcomedy]

in line and im so scared

[kingofcomedy]

stumbled into a weird mood again :/

[kingofcomedy]

love that my body is rebelling against me and keeps waking up after only sleeping for like 4 hours

[kingofcomedy]

starting to get that post-event melancholy even though we’re in the middle of intermission with another hour to go

[kingofcomedy]

GENUINELY CANT STOP SHAKING WHAT DO YOU MEAN I MET THEM

[kingofcomedy]

brain is absolute mush right now