#mighty nein echoes of the solstice

[conceiteddemon]

Also also before I go to bed: Luc calling every member of the m9 an aunt/uncle. Yasha hanging out with Caduceus while Beau is on a business trip. Kingsley helping Veth track down her tennage rebel son. Caleb having pieces of everyone’s homes in his spell components for easy teleportation. Jester apparently using sending to call everyone each morning. At the first sign of trouble the way everyone immediately flocks to each other. It’s so refreshing to see a family remain found even after the hardships that brought them together are dealt with! They might not be physically in proximity to each other anymore but the mighty nein remain family and involved in each others lives!!!

[augentrust]

still not over caleb having spell mastery of fortune's favor. he's a wizard living and working in the heart of the empire, who's likely still very judicious with his use of dunamancy in front of others, and yet he chose that spell to cast without effort, a little piece of the dynasty that he still carries as one of the first spells essek ever taught him. you can't tell me this isn't the wizard equivalent of keeping a picture of your boyfriend in your wallet

[hello-eeveev]

I LOVED how silly Fjord and Jester were in the one shot. One of the (many) things that draws me to Fjorester is that Fjord never got much of a chance to be a kid, what with the sweatshops and the child labor, meanwhile Jester had a childhood that allowed her to hold onto a lot of her joy and innocence.

Throughout c2, we saw Fjord loosen up a lot and allow himself to engage more and more genuinely with the antics of the m9, and it was really awesome to see him 7 years down the line, fully leaning into playing when he wants to. Instead of putting on an accent that he thinks will make people listen to him, he’s dressed like a pulp romance hero and still runs a whole shipping company with 3 (4? I don’t remember) ships because he’s a good sailor, a good captain, and a good leader. He doesn’t bat an eye when Jester calls him Admiral and does the eyebrows and the voice; he responds equally dramatically with “yes, my love!” and I don’t think an early- or even mid-campaign Fjord would have been able to do that. But now! Now he gets to play! And I love that for him!!!

[poisonghoulart]

Saw Ashley in this outfit at the live show and knew I had to draw Yasha in it

[tadfools]

[thelavendersquid]

Last night my friend leans over and says,

“Admiral is Jester’s version of Daddy isn’t it”

AND SHE’S RIGHT

[song-of-baldy-ron]

Fucking Taleisin gets possessed by the spirit of Caduceus every time he plays him and drops the absolute best one liners

“Let life decide what you need to be”

what the fuck man I need that on a pillow

[gobliiine]

Essek, pouting at the dinner table with the fancy solstice dinner he made for caleb that’s now gone cold, candles almost burnt out: you’re late.

Caleb, fresh from fighting off the undead corpses of the parents he killed to save essek’s dumb ass:

[thechekhov]

ECHOES OF THE SOLSTICE (PART 1)

spoilers, obviously.

Next part will be in part 2!

[demisexualemmaswan]

thinking about the implications of how wild it is that trent knew that after seven years that essek was still important to caleb

like I know there was that moment in the blooming grove but like...that was Seven years

so then there's the other options that I've devised that could be canon:

Caleb and Essek are just the Empire's worst kept secret like Everybody Knows but they're so terrified of what Caleb and Essek can accomplish together that nobody says anything?

Ludinus told Trent (something abt fucking ludinus da'leth being like yeah ur former student and the shadowhand have been together is so fucking funny to me)

[augentrust]

The Bone That Has No Marrow

[find it on ao3 here]

Words: 28k | Rating: T | Shadowgast

One moment makes all the difference during the battle at Blumenthal. In the aftermath, the Nein grapple with what comes next.

Featuring:

✨ A twist on Echoes of the Solstice ✨ Mighty Nein-typical emotional regulation and processing ✨ Angst with a happy ending

Header Image: Page 187 of "The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for young readers" (1896) courtesy of the British Library's online collection here

[typicalbrunette]

THEY’VE TURNED “NOTT” INTO A TITLE, IM GONNA CRY

[wizard-hubris]

Okay but what if - BUT WHAT IF - (and please note that I say this in a kicking-my-feet-twirling-my-hair-kind of way and not as too serious speculation) the next M9 reunion is gonna be a heist style visit to Xhorhas to break Essek out of trouble? What then??

(Like...we don't know how long Trent had time to fuck around and actually spread the word if he intended for that to be more than a threat...yeah he expected Caleb in the evening but also he was an incredibly powerful wizard. If Caleb can pop around all across the continent so can he, probably)

(But also please the amount of plotbunnies all the different possibilities are giving me........)

(Also also I know Matt's final words were probably meant to nod to Bells Hells but do they mean we're gonna get more M9 involvement in the solstice aftermath? As NPCs or otherwise? Because pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease I misses these assholes so much <3 )

(Edit: NO BUT WHAT IF THE NEXT M9 REUNION IS THE WEDDING????? JESTER CAN'T HAVE A WEDDING WITHOUT HER JESTIE THERE!! ALSO PLEASE WE NEED ANOTHER WEDDING ONESHOT)

[tadfools]

Reblog my poll boy you’re breaking my heart. Is that what you want? To break my little heart?

[gracefulfallen]

ok, but the idea that veth may not actually know luc's age is so genuinely funny to me from a sociological standpoint? because like... yes it was sam trolling. yes sam was being funny/probably forgot/wanted luc to be a teenager despite the fact that he should canonically be 11 or 12. but, also - imagine what this means from a societal perspective!

if you are a ruler in a large empire, you need to know your population demographics. are your birth rates in decline? is your workforce going to keep up with demands of your economy? is there something killing specific age groups at a higher rate than normal? do you have enough young people to fill out your military? enough farmers to feed you?

so you get a census bureau to keep track of all that. but this shit! it is chaotic! this is difficult! it is not as simple as births vs deaths!

first, you have different races with different lifespans and ages of maturity. so, do you set a single age of majority across your realm? what does that mean for orcs, who are adults at 14 and die at 70? how does that same age work for elves, who within elven culture are children until they are 100? do you have different ages of majority for different races?? when can someone legally drink? or enlist? or buy property? or get married??

if that's not complicated enough, there's different realms where time flows differently. so if a kid goes to the feywild (as veth says she took luc), they can come back a whole year (or two, or three, or ten) older than they should be. now they have a useless birth certificate, and the census has to be updated! legally, they're 11. physically, mentally, emotionally they're 19. they've lived 19 years. so... do we adjust the birth certificate? issue an addendum? he should be a legal adult now, and he wants to get married to this wood nymph he met & brought back with him, but everything on paper shows him as 11 and not old enough to get married.

our poor census official is pulling out their hair now.

then! THEN! you have magic! so your census taker is sitting there, and suddenly they get a messenger. "not sure how to handle this - there was a resurrection!" should be simple enough - there's a reason we don't formalize death certificates until the 11th day. "no. see, he was dead 95 years."

well! shit! do you count this as a birth? there's probably a special census category specifically for this, right? but all of his property was inherited by his descendants - some of who have died themselves. his home was sold after his death, and the new tenants are legal owners of it.

i just think the life of a bureaucrat in dnd must be equally fascinating and miserable.

[thelavendersquid]

Went to the bathroom while watching the live show in a theater and because the bathroom was right in between the CR show and the Taylor Swift movie, I could hear Fjord kicking ass in battle while Taylor Swift blasts in the background.

Which is so fitting for Fjord and also I desperately need an edit of that now.