#ilu Vox Machina

[alerrison]

The emotional response I have to Vox Machina over the other campaign groups is... a lot. Bell's Hells wrapping up? Fine, it was okay. Mighty Nein? Sure. Vox Machina wrapping up? Full on weeping.

I have genuinely only ever cried at Critical Role over campaign one stuff. Multiple times in the first campaign, and then the only time I remember shedding tears in campaign 2 was when Keyleth's mom went back home. Vox Machina the hold you have on my heart.

[foldbaron]

[sentimental-boy]

my girlfriend was traveling for work and brought my current fave comics back for me :) (she also brought me french toast bagels!!!)

[captainsspnanon]

C2E33 - The Ruby and The Sapphire - rewatch/liveblog

My brain is currently mush from a variety of RL things (boo RL), let’s see if I have any focus for CR.

(LOL I TYPED THAT ALMOST A WEEK AGO that says a lot)

(also off topic, but I’ve been thinking.  Fanfic!Caleb loves endearments, ‘schatz’, ‘leibling’, ‘Blueberry’ if specifically referring to Jester, etc.  But my brain caught on it last night and I went trawling the transcripts.   Caleb...doesn’t use nicknames, like, ever.  It’s almost always “Beauregard”, almost always “Mollymauk”, almost always “Caduceus”, almost always “Jester”.  The ONLY person that he uses a nickname for?  Wulf.  And unless looking for zemnian terms is harder in the transcripts, he NEVER says schatz or lieb or liebling once in canon.   ...granted, I’m not going to get rid of my delight of reading this stuff in fanfic, but it’s a totally fanon behavior.)

(ALSO ALSO!  I most likely will NOT be making a reaction post for Legends of Vox Machina, or it’ll be a very small one.  C1 really didn’t grab me the way C2 did, I found myself zoning out frequently and watching it at fast pace to get through it.  The only PC who stood up to the C2 PCs for me was Grog, but even then, C2s are just [imo] a billion times better.  ...and also I’m kinda meh on the clips we’ve seen so far?  Like, the trailer just released looks great, but the toothpick clip?  *shrugs*  Plus, I like CR for the roleplay aspect, not so much the combat aspect, so don’t know how well that’ll translate for me into the show.  I’m excited for it, I’m absolutely thrilled for CR for it, but I suspect my enjoyment of it will be somewhere around a 5-7 out of 10.)

(last post before I start watching, I PROMISE.  I’ve been fic diving the past few days because BRAIN, and unfortunately one of the fics that I was reading did a bit of a go through of the current arc, just a bit.  Which had the downside of reminding me of things just as Jamedi Cosko, sending Marion’s suitor handless to Marquet, the yuan-ti, the psychedelic fruit and blood trees and puzzle and eggs, members of Avantika’s crew…. I’m a bit disappointed because it would have been a fun remembering moment during the episode.  Ah well)

I love them all dying because the cowboy blood bit went totally wrong XD

“that’s why you wouldn’t hug me before the show”, can I just say I got stupid emotional friendship feels with the fact that these guys hug before the show?

Ugh I love this beach bit.  Beau meditating!  Caleb stripping and going into the water.  Nott hunting seagulls!

Fun fact, first watch through I thought the one thing Caleb didn’t take off was his bandages, and then got very confused when Liam mimed rewrapping them afterwards.  Now I know he’s referring to his amulet.  I’m preeeeetty sure that while he mimed it when talking to Beau and Nott during the backstory dump, he never actually SAID it was an amulet or necklace at any point, and I didn’t figure it out until he actually spelled it out in the campaign (which I think was during the Nott backstory bit).

The lighthouse!!!!! And it only meaning something to Cad right now (TAL’S FACE) but it will mean something to Fjord toooooooo

STEVEN SEAGULL taliesin this hurts me ilu

I love how expressive they all are OOC.  Jester announces herself as The Little Sapphire and EVERYONE is touched

I love Marion Lavorre SO MUCH.  Actually, all the family NPCs aside from Beau’s are freaking awesome in C2.  Marion, the Gentleman, Yeza, Luc, C., C., C., C., and C. Clay (and also C. Clay the aunt).  And I’m super under the assumption that if Caleb did manage to do his reverse the past thing, that Leofric and Una would be wonderful as well (I CANNOT see Matt having Liam go through his whole arc and then punish him by having the parents hate Caleb)

THE UTTER DELIGHT when the music singing is cued perfectly

Oh hello creepo.  I don’t remember your name at the moment, but you MORE THAN get what’s coming to you.  

LOL Matt’s confused about why top table is joking about Marquis being pronounced Mar-queez and such, not realizing that they’re poking him about pronouncing Quay as Kway rather than Key.  (to be fully fair to Matt, I thought it was pronounced as Quay too!  One of those things where I’ll hear it aloud as Key, but not realize that the spelling of it is quay XD)

It’s so fun watching this knowing that Matt doesn’t even realize he’s keeping the vest closed for her.  Also, every introduction is great, every flirt is great, and Nott/Sam saying that Jester CAN heal is hysterical.

And Laura gets him right back by going to get an aerator XD

For some reason Cad’s voice feels a bit off to me this episode.  It sounds a little more sleep graveley rather than the normal low rumble.

I love how the story beat of Jester finding out that her father is the Gentleman (something supposed to come later on) happens because Marion calls Fjord a gentleman, and then Beau just starts riffing from there. Matt must have been like COME ON MAN why did I say gentleman

THE DELIGHTED FREAKOUT FROM EVERYONE I just serious love how these guys are all so invested in everyone’s stories

Thank you google images for bringing me to Laura’s drawing.  Can’t find if Matt posted his though, which makes me sad.  I want to see!!! https://twitter.com/samriegel/status/1037923593588375553

“is that 20? ��OH AH SHIT BALLS”

Also it’s so weird to see Taliesin tracking the word count rather than Travis.  I wonder when that switches over.  (they very rarely get the actual count right anyway, but it works well enough for the concept and narrative. I know crstats has actually counted out the messages and shown that both Laura AND Matt have gone over at times)

I love the running joke this episode of wanting to know how old Jester is (I don’t think we actually ever find out, more than just generalities).

WHAT is going through Caleb’s mind when Marion is talking about how love is a funny thing?  She’s talking about it in terms of romantic love, but it 100% seems like he’s interpreting it as familial love and just destroying himself on the inside.  Liam’s FACE.

While I knew that Caleb was suspicious about the relationship between Marion and Jester (Liam brought it up during Talks at least once), I forgot that Liam wanted to basically insight check Jester for the whole time. Unfortunately didn’t get to, but I do think that Jester really wore her heart on her sleeve for the most part, so he got most of it regardless.  Would have been nice to see if a nat 20 insight would have gotten anything deeper or different.

I FORGOT NOTT OFFERED TO GO SWIMMING WITH JESTER oh my heart

BRJEAUS!  ...goddamn that spelling.  BRJOS

I didn’t realize how frequently Matt really describes someone having hair or a beard that poofs out in a big frizz.  I think he just likes making the PFAH noise with his mouth XD

Hindsight, a lot of the ‘accents’ that Fjord does to disguise himself are just a slightly modified version of his real voice.  I actually like that, it’s both a subtle hint to his real voice, but also a very cool trait of being ‘good at accents’ that maybe isn’t even necessarily true!  IIRC, he only does the Texan, English, and then modified English as old person.

Lol at Travis rolling advantage on the deception check and Matt asking about it, then Travis being very confused as to why he rolled with advantage. It’s not really spoilers to say I think he’s done this once or twice in C3 already. XD

*snerk*  I forgot that even the NPCs thought that Marius was useless.  I wonder if this attitude helped influence how the party ended up treating him?

(had a fucking awful mental health night last night, ended up trawling the live reaction thread on reddit to C3E10.  So, I spoiled myself, but at the same time nothing seemed like a really big spoiler?  So I don’t actually mind it.  At least for that episode XD  I’m trying to be SO GOOD about avoiding all spoilers with C3, and I honestly have for the most part)

I checked CR Transcripts to confirm, and yup, this is the only episode where Caduceus refers to the Wildmother as Mother.  It didn’t feel weird first watch, but it feels SO awkward now, because it’s not IC now, though it was at the time XD  Joys of watching a player poke through their PC and figure out all the traits and speech patterns and such. And it’s something of a delight watching it now because the rest of the PCs are fairly established in terms of that (not 100%, but very solid), whereas Cad is still very new, so his growing pains are all immediately noticeable because he’s the only one.  Also interesting – between ‘wildmother’ and ‘wild mother’, Tal only says it 57 times through the entire campaign!

Liam cuddling into Marisha and slapping Travis after Sam’s ‘fore-pony’ joke just really REALLY makes me miss these three at top table.  ...I’m gonna get really sad once we get into the pandemic episodes, aren’t I? LOOK I JUST LOVE PLATONIC PHYSICAL AFFECTION AND THIS ENTIRE GROUP HAS IT IN SPADES

And then immediately into the Al Gore joke, and it’s just a sign of why Liam and Sam work as best friends so well that Liam is just DYING  I legit don’t think anyone else makes him laugh as hard as Sam does

*hears Matt say ‘marine layer’* *snerks*

...apparently today is just me having top table feels.  LOOK AT THEM WHISPER TO EACH OTHER

(also, the mug that Liam’s using today?  I totally feel like it could work for his C3 PC.)

Hello Yussa’s tower.  Also lol at Liam very quickly and silently patting his hands together with excitement

https://thechekhov.tumblr.com/post/664342481306042368/i-have-no-idea-what-im-even-doing-anymore-but-i

LOL Fjord diving out of the way when Beau falls  ALSO LOL at the fall damage, but yay first use of slow fall!

ORLY ORLY ORLY ORLY ORLY ORLY ORLY I am SOOOOO happy that Orly became this full fleshed NPC and not just a one off

Hello Adella.  I didn’t get the excitement that much when I found out you were a C1 NPC, even now because you were only in three episodes.  But it’s more just the fact that you are someone from C1 that’s exciting, more than your NPCness itself.

Oh lol we don’t even get their names this episode I WAS JUMPING AHEAD

also I seriously miss the full table camera shots at the end of the episode.  Can we bring that back please?  PLEASE?

@suicidallyreckless

[fyeahgrogildan]

Can I just say that I'm really, really grateful and happy that you included Tibs in your VM soulmate AU? He gets left out of those so often, so it's always nice when I come across one that remembers to include him (I'm not bitter or anything no). And he's soulmates with Keyleth and Percy to boot akldflafjldflkjfla ilu for doing that thank you so much. ;~; They're my favorite brot3 from the series, and I don't see enough content for them at all.

Awww thank you so much! He does tend to get left out a lot, and I understand that he hasn’t been around for a while, but he was still part of Vox Machina and that’s important and I miss him.

 And you’re very welcome! I’m so glad you like my silly au! I also love his relationship with Keyleth and Percy and I’m always gonna be sad that we didn’t get to see more of that (maybe someday I’ll try to write something for that if I can figure out how to write Tibs)