#d20 cassandra

[cariocake]

finale prediction:

cassandra is back. she looks up at her beloved cleric with tears in her eyes and the first thing she says is

"hey girlie"

[sluttycinderella]

i really wish kristen’s divine intervention had worked because how poetic would it be if buddy’s life was saved my cassandra? what feelings would that spark in him?

[potatobugz]

Cassandra vs. Parenthood

[barnabyboppins]

Why is Brennan so fucking good at writing lesbians. The lesbians are winning so hard they could never lose. Immaculately affectionate wizards/Archdevil’s paramour? Not fully resolved toxic cleric breakup? “Put this behind us so that you and Kristen can do whatever” Bees x2? (Former) Celestial Ex-wives separated in life, clasping together in death? Hello??

[d20brainrot]

Part of this has been sitting on my drafts for a while and after Brennan's "Do you think Kristen even wants to be a cleric?" question (which was honestly my conclusion as well), I think Kristen's only problem is not executive dysfunction. She also does not know how to be a cleric in a healthy way.

She only knows how to be a follower. Kristen was not good at converting people for Helio either and lost her faith before learning. She probably associates that work with Helio, even as a prophet of a deity she created. I have seen a few people mention her position as a prophet must feel very similar to being Helio's chosen and I fully agree.

Also, there is a way to do chaos in a productive way but Kristen's ends up destructive because its chaos without purpose. I think we have seen all the ways embracing chaos has been good (creating Cassandra came from embracing doubt and chaos) and in this season we're really seeing the other side of chaos which is fear, confusion and anger in the face of uncertainty.

Side note: I think Fig is actually a decent example of chaos with purpose: her actions are absolutely insane ("I disguise myself as him" "I minor illusion a sexy rat") but usually have an end goal (I wanna get the racist pirate off Riz, I wanna find Zayn through his rat) and are within her capabilities which really works with being the archdevil of rebellion.

[pecan-jelly]

When you’re in the dark, I’m there holding your hand.

(Text around the border is lyrics from Florence + The Machine’s Cassandra)

[cxlandine]

you are cassandra. in the middle of being possessed by the spirit of your vengeful, undead domain and feeling the world split apart with the festering carcass of your ex-lover being restored to grandeur only so she can be devoured completely, someone familiar approaches from the deck of a flying ship in active battle. your vision is warped, you're barely conscious, you don't know how it's possible that you're still alive, the figure blurs further and splits in two. one calls out to you, the same voice that has been reaching out for you all along, the same voice that called out your name the very first time and brought you to life. you ignore her. the other - clothes a little tighter, some subtle makeup, a pair of bicycle shorts patterned with a flag not known to this world. she opens her mouth - her teeth are horrible. 'blimey', she says, and you feel again. you feel something that crushes against your bones and shocks still your rotten heart. something cuts itself loose from your chest and escapes with a virulent tear of pain through your throat. lightning, bright and sharp, gushes from your screaming maw to its true purpose, and then she's gone. it's over. 'blimey', it whispers into the ethos, a memory as much as a promise to the tragedy of a dying star that may die forever. but you feel something else, you remember something or perhaps you are only now recognising it that nothing can be done. something else that lived in that void of space, you think. nothing more than a collection of cells yet, and still the weight pushes you to your knees. two lines on a stick, you reason, perhaps not even a choice to be made at all. surely not a life to be lived, you tell yourself as the memory of possibility dissolves and the void envelops the very space that baby might have occupied.

'blimey', the whispers consume what's left of your aching heart. 'blimey', you echo.

[spot-semiconlon]

*walking up to a lesbian couple*

So… which one of you is doubt and which one’s conviction?

[vampirehayfever]

now go away, literally forever <3 *blows you like dust out of the palm of my hand*

[thisisnotthenerd]

thinking about kristen applebees worshiping a goddess of mystery, doubt and the unknown, and what it says about the fact that that faith did not spread during four months of endless night from the night yorb.

thinking about how the world watched as this prophet of multiple gods said “what is your name, you who i praise” and brought cassandra back from the nightmare king.

thinking about what it would take to say, “i know you are afraid and uncertain. i cannot offer you answers, only respite, and the knowledge that you are not alone in the night. the void is vast, but there is something there to seek out.”

thinking about how galicaea benefited not only from tracker’s trip to fallinel, but from having answers in the light of the moon amidst the endless night. about how sol and helio must have felt a loss of faith in the absence of the sun.

thinking about kristen applebees, who tried to pray for years on end to find a reason for why bad things happen to good people, and upon finding a process, felt the paralysis of the unknown.

[cutepilleddd]

last minute painting I did 4 my school’s art show!! cassandra fantasy high I will love you forever

[cariocake]

last 20 minutes of the episode was in like bullet time and i know the bad kids weren't perceiving the same things as each other but kristin being in this circle of pure chaos watching her friends throw up spells and counterspells and jumping into a mysterious swirling vortex of case files and her first thought isn't about princess nara or tracker it's

do i see cassandra?

[stars-irises]

[d20brainrot]

*walking up to a wlw couple*

"So like... in your relationship, who's the nightmare wife and who's the rage wife?"

[blousemouse]

Something so devastating about a god devoting themself to you and remaking themself in your image only for you to turn your back on them.

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

no one asked for this but i made a Kristen Applebees and Cassandra version of the hands from The Creation of Adam painting anyway here it is without the speed paint cause tumblr hates me but hopefully i'll put it in a reblog

bonus angsty fhjy version below