#i am not going to mention the other vestiges here bc I WILL HIT AN IMAGE LIMIT

[mishy-mashy]

Hhhouhggghhhh

[kymal]

on a rewatch it occurs to me that scanlan being the one to kill umbrasyl and fight his instinct to run away and in doing so, getting mythcarver back, is meant to sort of be a stand in for the city of brass when he awakens mythcarver fully

which makes sense bc again in the campaign scanlan earning his vestige wasn’t a full scale character arc like it was for the other members of the party. they went to the city of brass to get the plate of the dawn martyr for pike so i think animated series wise, they’ll try to focus those events fully on pike and thus scanlan’s character beat of awakening mythcarver by standing his ground and finishing the fight has to be placed elsewhere. it makes perfect sense then to slot it in here with the umbrasyl fight.

NOW I’M GOING TO TALK MAJOR SPOILERS FOR CAMPAIGN ONE SO LOOK AWAY IF YOU WANT TO EVENTUALLY BE TRAUMATIZED BY THE GNOME IN THE PUREST WAY POSSIBLE

this does still sort of leave me questioning if this wasn’t also meant to be a bard’s lament stand in if perhaps they don’t get the full 5 seasons i think sam mentioned wanting for the show. tonally, i think this works in favor to scanlan’s character provided we don’t get that big moment that is bard’s lament.

that said though, since i’ve studied that particular moment like one would a shakespeare play! still doing a bard’s lament beat after this would hit so good! play scanlan’s death during the raishan fight as everyone thinking he’s playing another joke on them at first. in the campaign it was played for laughs too! make the dawning horror on the party’s faces palpable as they realize that it’s not a joke this time! we still get our ‘fix him!’ we still get the rush the resurrect him bringing kaylie into the mix.

the sighs of relief when scanlan is still unconscious but breathing again! and it’s ok! scanlan’s ok! they can enjoy their victory! and hey now they can laugh and joke! it’s what scanlan would’ve wanted! and they’ve already alluded to how pike and percy did up his unconscious body with the whole kaylie thing so now just imagine how hard it’s gonna hit when he wakes up like that after dying and failing to be the hero he wanted to be for kaylie, huh? here he is right back in the position he started from.

i am thinking many thoughts. i am rotating the gnome in my mind. i am slipping the tlovm writers room $20.