#critical role bor’dor

[sunflowervc]

bor’dor, be at peace, be with your family, rest now + fuck you for betraying the team also

[demigoddessqueens]

Bor’dor Dogson/Jay from Ghosts is King Bumi??

[stickandthorn]

The Bor’dor reveal does make his introduction so incredibly funny. He tires to kill them with a crossbow and a 5th level lighting bolt, doesn’t succeed, and the excuse he runs with is “Uh, well, shit, fuck- I HAVE MAGIC POWERS?!? When did THOSE get here?!?!? What’s going on?!??? I am but a humble shepherd from *checks notesapp* Wildmouse” And it works?!?? No one did it like Bor’dor fucking Dog’son.

[cpprcoyote]

I love this group sm already <3333

[lorn-art]

A simple farmer

[marvelousbelladonna]

Laudna has Bor’Dor haunt Zathuda

[iwilltryalittlearter]

It’s Bor’dor Dog’son’s first battle!

[aeoris4lovers]

he made fruit rollups and cut them into little shapes. he got the whole party magically high. he fell asleep cuddling with an elemental cougar. most character of all time

[scriptmyworld]

I love how fucking dark this all is. Orym, the guard, the eternal watchdog, just watching and doing NOTHING. giving Laudna the okay to brutally kill this man who betrayed them.

[artschoolglasses]

I love them. 🖤

So much. 🖤

[critical-yeast]

I know people are theorizing that Bor’dor is some secret agent or a powerful being pretending to be some guy or whatever but I think it would be funniest if we kept going “no, he can’t possibly be that pathetic, he can’t!” and then he just. Is. He’s a sad wet cat with a yogurt cup stuck on his head. He’s the worlds most confused coathanger. He just wants to go tend his sheep and his brother and instead he can shoot lightning out of his hands and is *so* stressed about it. Someone get this man a blanket and tea and possibly a valium.

[samcarter34]

To hear some of y’all tell it, you’d think Orym forced Laudna at knifepoint to kill Bor’dor.

Also Laudna had already used Hunger of the Shadows at that point. Killing Bor’dor isn’t what brought her back, knocking him unconscious was.

[demigoddessqueens]

Collecting them like Infinity Stones

I’m not the only one who noticed, right?

[stickandthorn]

Bor’dor is like if you took the concept of just some guy, put it in a jar of vodka, and let it infuse for a year till you got just some guy extract. It’s like if you reduced just some guy down and made a simple syrup out of the reduction. Bor’dor is such a concentrated and powerful version of just some guy that he’s transcend the concept of just some guy and looped back around into the strangest man you’ve ever met. He’s what the saddest wettest rag of a man points to when he says “well at least I’m not like that.” He’s screaming and crying and throwing up as we speak. I feel blessed to know we get to watch him experience horrors beyond his tiny sheep shaped comprehension for hours to come.

[dumpster-fire-sapphic-failgirl]

Bor’dor, inadvertently, displayed the biggest difference between the Bell’s Hells and the Ruby Vanguard

The Hells have been very deliberate. Kill only the cultists. turn those who can be turned. Orym even felt guilt for the ripples those controlled actions might cause. And yeah, they dropped an airship on the key, but it was Ludy’s shield that caused it to kill most of the vanguard in exchange for preserving his ultimate goal

When it came time to hurt the people that attacked the site, Bor’dor struck indiscriminately. The only person he downed was Prisim, who, in other circumstances, might have been swayed to join his side. (she attacked an avatar of the dawnfather with a fucking demon, for fucks sake)

Collateral damage didn’t matter as long he had a *chance* to hurt those that hurt him. No thought to consequences because there is nothing more important than destroying

so even though most of the Hells don’t give a fuck about the gods, they are still very different on a foundational level

and even if the gods die, it’ll be the Hells cleaning up the mess, because the Vanguard has no plan for after, because the after isn’t important

[pixelmator5]

Ok no, but actually, that is probably one of the best and most emotionally charged episodes of Critical Role to date. If not in its entirety than at the very least out of campaign 3, followed closely by the episodes around both Yu’s betrayal and FCG snapping.

Deni$e finally calls someone on their crap when the rest of the party is just believing their lies.

Bor’Dor finally betraying the party and reveals himself as a member of the Vanguard, revealing his tragic backstory that is eerily similar to Orym’s (there are some discrepancies in his story that I want to unpack later though.)

Laudna finally losing her composure, the compartmentalization finally getting to her as she murders Bor’Dor to regain her sense of control.

Orym quietly watching as Laudna murders the man that has a story similar to his who only couldn’t be helped because the wrong side manipulated him into fighting on their side and quietly proclaiming how they’re at war, finally losing his reservations about killing “innocent” cultists.

Prism punching Bor’Dor without thinking because she was so betrayed by what he did, as he was the one who was supposed to have no experience with her.

Ashton walking Prism away as Laudna kills someone who under any other circumstance likely could’ve been an ally, and then proceeds to comfort both of them when they feel terrible about what they have done.

We really need to actually take a moment and appreciate the work of art episode 63 was because it was amazing in all the ways. I want to write 6 posts about what this episode did for each and every one of them but do not have the mental capacity to do so. So this is all people are going to get.