#cr bertrand

[kiiwiidrawer]

Day 22 of drawing Critical Role PCs in halloween costumes

Bertrand Bell as a Ghost!

He really committed to his costume this year :V

[panisil]

Bertrand Bell

Every once in a while, you need to see the sunrise. It might be that night for me.

[thisisnotthenerd]

anyway back to bells hells in the regency au:

laudna was born matilda bradbury, the only daughter of the bradbury family who stood to inherit a barony at the outskirts of whitestone. accused of trying to usurp the briarwoods as one of the only nobles who didn’t fall under their sway, basically atticwifed for it. pale skin and wide eyes from being locked up for years. i imagine that the atticwifing happened when she was like 20, and she’s not fed well/treated well in any way, so this affects the way she looks--slight, tall, a little more bones than flesh, even as she retains an aristocratic face and affect. 

after the debacle is settled, she keeps to herself on her land in a little cottage, taking elaborate commissions as a seamstress. ooh maybe she’s the one to dress the de rolos. anyway, she’s viewed as a spinster basically, but if anyone marries her they potentially gain a foothold into whitestone, which is otherwise fully under the de rolos by the time she can inherit her family lands. after some time she decides to travel to marquet to get away from the site of her trauma and leave the stigma of her experiences behind. starts her own little atelier of Tal’dorei-based fashion in jrusar, basically running it out of zhudanna’s house.

orym is still a bodyguard of the tempest blades and serves the Voice, the queen keyleth of the air ashari before the death of his husband will. this functions as his military accomplishments--he personally protected the queen from assassination. in his downtime he makes friends with the rest of bells hells. it’s interesting to think about, but potentially with the structure of this au he would know laudna peripherally before he meets the crown keepers, especially if she was the one to make keyleth’s wedding dress for her and vax’s wedding.

fearne was raised by nana morri to the calloway family. maybe she’s a countess or something in the ashari territory. both she and dorian (would have debuted as bronte but ended up leaving his family and becoming an independent musician and composer working up to scanlan’s scale) ‘debut’ for the queen keyleth around the same time and that’s how they meet orym. actually maybe that’s how the crown keepers meet--a year pre bell’s hells season, opal, fearne, and dorian are being presented to the queen keyleth, while dariax (and deni$e) and orym all work in and around the ashari kingdom. it’s actually funny as hell to think about orym going with fearne and dorian on an ambassadorial trip to marquet and coming back to deni$e being like i don’t know where dariax is but when i find him i will kill him,

ashton is raised on the streets, finds out they’re titled and is awkwardly shunted into a debut season after years spent robbing people blind. no one knows what to do with him. he hates the stifling, repressed, privileged nature of high society. maybe fcg is a steward or something in dancer’s household who tracks genealogies, finds out about this, and tracks ashton down after everyone in dancer’s household dies. how? i don’t know yet. we’ll find out. anyway it’s basically just the two of them and milo, who was patching ashton up after their final heist.

bertrand served in the military with percy, plays up the connection to vm all the time but basically is just an older man reliving his glory days. no kids, so he’s buried in the whitestone graveyard after bh show up at his deathbed. maybe he sponsors them in the marquesian court in conjunction with eshteross in this au.

chetney runs a wood carving workshop and does custom commissions for a lot of marquesian nobles. i guess this would be the mahaan houses if they’re primarily in jrusar. also peripherally knows laudna since they’re running their businesses in a similar circle. i’m imagining her commissioning him for little wood button details and other such trinkets that go along with dresses.

imogen is set to inherit a barony in the taloned highlands that she doesn’t really want--she goes to jrusar to find out about her long lost mother, which is how she ties into ludinus’ nonsense. i imagine she makes arrangements to stay at zhudanna’s, which is how she meets laudna. full on soft infatuation from the start, and as they live together for awhile they both fall in love.

[sky-scribbles]

Do you think Lieve'tel ever actually dates or does she just wait for Vox Machina to bring hot older guys to her door

[danwhobrowses]

Chetney Pock O'Pea remains the luckiest old bastard in all of Exandria (and Ruidus)

[loserwithanartacc]

Hiii I’ve discovered that the reason my posts where doing badly is actually entirely my fault bc I had the wrong setting on because I have some problems reading lol(atleast I’m hoping that’s the case and this solves the problem)

i deleted the previous post and I’m posting it again. sorry if you had already seen it, I’m not trying to spam ):

This piece took me a long time (30h no joke) but I’m very happy with it, probably gonna do some more Lino after this bc atm I’m tired of digital art lol, but I’ve been needing to finish the Lino series anyway so it works :D

Edit: holy shit it worked, mad at myself for not figuring that out sooner lmao

[arclundarchivist]

Lady Fearne Calloway, Fey Scion of the Ancient Flame

Laudna, Veil-Mistress of the Shadow Tree

Ashton the Reforged, Hammer of Paradox

Chetney Pock O’pea, High Hunter and Lupine Paragon

Dorian Storm, Master Muse and Scion of the Wind

Imogen Temult, Exultant Hope of the Red Storm

Orym of the Air Ashari, Savior Blade of the Tempest

Braius Doomseed, Nascent Might of the Platinum’s Call

[bread-wizards]

Vox Machina: We have brought this man with 0 game or social skills with us to help

Lieve'tel, grabbing Bertrand and Cerkonos by the collar: Thank you, he's mine now

[dawning-skye]

smiley day :) some shots for the critical role C3 episode 91 animatic i'm working on rn

[leglessstreetlights]

somthing abt bell's hells going from being a cobbled together group of (self proclaimed) expendable chucklefucks with little to no cohesion or reason other than "might as well" or "for the money", to being united not only by the narrative (they're too far in and while they're not that good at talking to each other, who else do they have?? they're family now, obviously) but also now they are visually united & have a cohesion that they never did at the start of the campaign.

Every single character now has blue & yellow/gold as a part of their wardrobe, even Dorian. The way BH's commemorate their dead is so interesting to me. FCG is honored in the way they dress, just as Bertrand is honored in their name. When people meet them, they don't know it, but they are also meeting the bells that have stopped ringing.

and just the overarching idea of clinging to the past while the world burns down around you (wearing your dead friend's armor and praying that their sacrifice will make a difference)

[somewhatsentientspellbook]

a pattern is a pattern ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[stickandthorn]

in my perfect world being a gameless freak and vox machina expansion pack add-on aren’t the only things Bertrand and Cerkonos have in common. Lieve’tel needs more than that for gods sake a woman needs standards. I believe they also both have one nipple pierced.

[demigoddessqueens]

Happy 3 years to the Bell’s for the CR anniversary!

[captain-archernerd]

Happy birthday Travis Willingham, a great man with a lot of PCs

[sky-scribbles]

Okay but. Lieve'tel seeing Bertrand's passing in her dreams. Lieve'tel carrying a silver bell he gave her on the end of her prayer beads. Lieve'tel, on the brink of war, wondering where Bertrand's soul has gone.

That disaster grandpa was loved. Good for him!!

[its-your-mind]

Bell’s Hells as textposts 48/???