#orion acaba

[caraianellisande]

Not to sound like an Orion Acaba apologist, because he did do some legitimately bad things, but like, why are there so many videos about his behavior on critical role?

Out of everything we know he did, plus what was alleged, being a bad DnD player while going through cancer and drug addiction is really not that big a deal. And remember, the actual cast of critical role, the people actually hurt by his behavior, his friends, they've let this go. He wasn't even kicked out, he left.

I don't understand this obsession with dissecting his shitty but mostly harmless actions during a really low period of his life.

These videos aren't even about the actual bad shit he did. He raised money for charity and then kept it instead of donating. A former partner has alleged he was abusive. This pales in comparison to being a problem player.

And even if people were discussing those actual bad things, what good would it do?

It's been a decade. The man is barely a public figure anymore. His behaviour cost him his spot in a multi million dollar enterprise.

Let this thing rest.

[ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods]

In honor of the anniversary, behold a window into a shadowy past (by which I mean vines of the home game that eventually became campaign 1)

(Warning: Orion Acaba does appear in these)

[robinchan-hananomi]

Magrim: May we help you?

Percy: Hello, yes, I am Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III

Tiberius: You can call him Percy

Percy: You can simply call me Percy, thank you.

[rollerska8er]

increasingly convinced that "main character syndrome" has lost all meaning when we're talking about Actual Play shows.

it used to mean people like Orion Acaba from Critical Role who was notoriously poor at giving other players room to breathe and tell a collective story, to the point of his character being written out of the Amazon show because he sucked so bad.

these days it seems to be used for people like Ally Beardsley, who, while not without flaws in their playstyle and attitude to roleplay, is nothing like as bad as Orion, or Brennan Lee Mulligan himself in Misfits & Magic, whose PC is explicitly supposed to be a dark Tom Riddle figure trying his best to do right.

like at a certain point it just becomes "UGH why is this person acting like a PROTAGONIST in a STORY in which they PLAY a PROTAGONIST"

[marcmarcmomarc]

RWBY Volume 10 predictions - voice cast: Shade and Beacon staff (Additional allies in Ruby’s Faction)

Rowena Sunnybrook: Lani Minella

Thumbelina Peach: Colleen O’Shaughnessey

Ann Greene: Cindy Robinson

Harold Mulberry: Orion Acaba

[sculien]

CRITICAL ROLE 1.05

[lt-sarai]

Going through campaign 1 again and I started at like Episode 14, where they're preparing to go to Vassleheim to deliver the horn of Orcus. I wanted to see the moment Percy hears the Briarwoods' name, and I wanted to watch the Trial fo the Take episodes, but I don't care about the Underdark as much, so I skipped it.

I didn't mind Orion the first time through and even liked Tiberius, but it's just so hard to watch him be a terrible table mate.

I'm just gonna skip to the feast with the Briarwoods, I think. I'll read the summaries of the episodes in between.

[realm-of-the-mad-god]

Me: I'm normal about my interests

Also me: watches the entire first season and part of the second season of legend of vox machina in one day

[locuas642]

Legend of Vox Machina

OKAY. Draconia.

Okay, for those who do not know about Tiberius know the player was expelled from the show early on, and if you are curious as to the details please go read this, I am acknowledging this happened just for the sake of talking about the adaptation and I dont want to just bring up drama for the sake of it.

Okay so. To recap, in the original stream, there was a character, the Dragonborn Sorcerer Tiberius Stormwind who was part of Vox Machina, whose player was expelled from the show in the middle of the Briarwood story-arc. His backstory is that he was a prince from the kingdom of Draconia, a flying city ruled by Dragonborns in search for magical items but, once his player left, Matt sent him on his way to do his things.

In the original Chroma Conclave saga, when Vox Machina meets the sphynx Osysa to find a way to defeat the Chroma Conclave she... reveals Draconia was destroyed by the Chroma Conclave. Many episodes later we learn that the ruins of Draconia had become Vorugal's turf, and the party decides to scout the area which comes with a series of revelations.

Draconia, we learn... wasn't as nice a place as Tiberius believed. They had a class divide between Tailed Dragonborns and Tail-less Dragonborns, with the later being oppressed by the former. so the now freed Tail-less dragonborns living in huts, had welcomed Vorugal and the freedom he had brought initially, but they were willing to ally themselves with Vox Machina to get rid of him.

But the most important part is that the party discovers... Tiberius is dead.

The last appearence of Tiberius in the show, is as a frozen corpse the result of his battle against the Chroma Conclave. And the party decides to give him a funeral.

And it's an emotive scene. Regardless of the player being toxic, this was a character the rest of the cast had grown attached to since before the streams began. not the least that due to Orion Acaba no longer being welcome, this was as final a death as you could get.

And it was something that would be impossible for the animated series to adapt, since neither the show nor the fandom would ever want Orion Acaba anywhere near the project. There are people who legit still Love Tiberius, but who would throw up at the thought of that happening.

So here we have the best next thing the show could have: a new character in the form of Dohla who is legally distinct from him, her backstory is changed a lot and Draconia is altered to still exist in this version.

Because you know, the emotional connection to the place is no longer here. And instead we have Dohla sell everyone to Vorugal both because of wanting to save her people, but also because she was jealous and hurt by Kima and Allura.

This is to say, I absolutely loved that the show decided to have the Not!Tiberius Expy be mauled by Vorugal for finding her annoying

[cringefaecompilation]

forgot to make a post about it myself but the funniest fucking thing on the day of the ten year anniversary was a guy making a post saying "holy shit orion acaba is annoying" and i didn't even think he KNEW it was the anniversary

[brodorokihousuke]

Do you have any opinions/thoughts on Apollo's objection? or overall his voice actor. specifically AA4. cant remember if they switched it up in AA5&6. (just asking bc I'm really fond of his voice and think it adds a lot to his chara and ur Apollo posting is always such a treat)

Yeah, he has one VA for AJAA (JP Kellams) and another for DD & SoJ (Orion Acaba) (I looked this up i didn't know it off the top of my head 💀)

I do really like his voiceacting in AJAA, it's very confident and strong, fits with him well. I... wouldn't, like, be able to give an in-depth review of it or anything but I do like it. I especially like his "Gotcha!" + the little "twaaang!" noise that plays after it LMAO. His DD/SoJ VA is fine, but I definitely prefer the other one.

Ironically despite me being obsessed with DD I vastly prefer the full aesthetics of AJAA (art style, sound, music, gameplay etc). I mean, hell, my icon is just his AJAA mugshot with the bombed outfit slapped on top of it

[g-u-v-e-n]

He bende Orion takım yıldızının

7.Galaksisinin, 7.Güneş sisteminin, 7.Gezegeninden geldim. 😅😅😅😅😅😅

Bunlar ne içiyor acaba. 😁😁😁🤔🤔🤔

Adamı mezarında rahat bırakın bari. 😕😕😕😕

[mareastrorum]

Chewed on Episode 1 a bit because it’s a touchy thing to comment on.

Elephant in the room: Orion Acaba eventually leaves the first campaign after a falling out with the cast. I did not watch the stream live, but I clocked the friction among the cast during my first watch, then was fairly relieved once I got to the episode where they announced he would not return. A lot of the general mood of the fandom now is to avoid talking about him if you can help it.

I’m not going to do that.

I don’t know Orion personally nor the veracity of any fandom claims about his character. I’m not going to bother with any of that. I’m just going to comment on what I like or don’t like of exactly what occurs on the screen without any speculation about events outside it. Just like any other character, I’ll probably have several positive and negative observations about Tiberius.

I’m fairly consistent with my tags, so if there’s any commentary on Tiberius, I’ll include that character tag so people can block it if they want. I usually only do team tags if it’s about the group as a whole, but as an exception, I’ll add Tiberius’s character tag if there’s even one sentence that highlights anything about him.

Anyway, this is just a heads up so anyone who has a strong aversion can block that tag if they don’t want to see that content.

[robinchan-hananomi]

Scanlan: Oh yes down below in the waters, our allies Vex, and ah, somebody… saw some creature under the water snatching bodies as they fell

*multiple offended noises and laughing*

Scanlan:… Keyleth

Tiberius: YES!

Scanlan: Yes, I forgot who went

Tiberius: Her Majesty, Keyleth!

Scanlan: Pike’s beauty distracted me, you shouldn’t have cleaned her up so nice.

Tiberius: I’m sorry

[bluebandedagate]

I hope Orion Acaba sat alone in his living room reading the news that Critical Role was going to be made into an animated TV show and felt the full immensity of what he robbed himself of.

[thessalian]

Thess vs TLOVM S3, Ep 3

Tried some Silent Hill 2, but a bad pain day has overtaken me and I am not up for getting ambushed by Lying Figures two at a time, once in an enclosed space. (Fucking record store.) Not that I didn't survive; it as just not fun when I've been having pain spasms in my left elbow most of the evening.

So instead, I'm going to liveblog TLOVM. I understand from the few spoilers I couldn't really avoid that I'm going to see a variation on one of my favourite scenes. So let's see.

Oooooh Raishan ... I mean, you're not as trustworthy as you want anyone you've been dealing with to believe, but ... say smarter things, Deceiver...

Okay, honey, your only hope is that Vorugal withholds that message he was told to give because he's greedy enough to want your empire. And hope that you can get Keyleth to believe that you're at least not immediately selling them out to Thordak. Otherwise, certain bits of your fate are going to happen a lot sooner.

Grog ... that is an A-B conversation, so C yourself out. Also ... I know people are going to think this is happening too fast, even those who saw the campaign as it happened, but ... what the fuck else are they supposed to do when they didn't have, "The arrows were flirting?" "The arrows were totally flirting"?!?

I guess Scanlan is very much invested in that whole thing he was talking to Kaylie about. If he forgets who he is when the lute goes down, he's going to hold it for as long as possible.

Someone taught Grog the phrase "spill the tea", and he only used about half of it. Typical.

"...perhaps I'll cut down the Sun Tree and build an extravagant canoe." Cassandra, you have recovered from your ordeal so very well.

YOU TELL HIM, CASSANDRA!

Yeah, Percy, "eugh" is right; that's terrible. Just blurt out the first thing that comes to mind that isn't self-recrimination and you will be fine-- Yeah! THAT'S the spirit!

Admittedly? I miss the multiple bottles. Maybe the animators in charge of this weren't up for Taliesin's earlier demand: "I will be expecting labels for all of those".

This is why we all need to be glad that Vex is ... Vex. If she was too much like her brother? This would be the result. Vax, borrow your sister's chutzpah for one night.

Wait. Wut.

"...Right. Shutting up now." So ... we decided on 'after', then. And that thing you said just before you knocked, Percival? Her. Not 'it'. HER.

Ah, so someone on screen has finally figured out the bit about "it doesn't necessarily mean everyone but her gets brutally murdered". Still, take your joys where you can, you idiot.

"So ... joy today isn't worth pain tomorrow--" THAT'S WHAT I JUST SAID. THANK YOU, KEYLETH.

Well ... at least one of the Vessar twins is happy. And ... you know ... not a self-sacrificial dipshit.

Well. They had a good time.

"Good talk." BWAHAHAHA!

Well ... this is probably better than being high on magical drugs at important moments? Maybe?

brb - laughing at the dipshits.

I still have to wonder how they got this allowed. I thought Orion Acaba owned the rights to the name Draconia. Then again, he's done shit-all with it since 2019, so ... I dunno, maybe a deal was cut, or something? No one's even made mention of it.

Scanlan ... you bundle up that far and you still leave half your chest exposed?

Dohla... Dohla ... Rachel House. Hrm. Nothing I've seen, but most people would be all about Thor: Ragnarok, Moana, and Our Flag Means Death. Right. Moving on!

Okay, if we have the good ship Perc'halia being dragged in and out of dry dock for the sake of angst when we've already got Vaxleth beached and Scanlan ... you know, having a significant identity crisis that he's not getting help for (partly because he won't let anyone, but that's another thing)? I'm going to slap someone.

Well. Welcome to Hell. Nice place. In a "Night On Bald Mountain With Better Lighting" sort of way.

I ... was going to suggest that they spell it for Grog, but then I remember that they never did the thing where Pike taught him to read, so that'd be basically pointless. I ... don't think there's any way to correct him on that one.

Is it wrong that I'm not trusting Dohla?

Vex, what are you--? Ooooooooh shit. Well, that explains Yenk things.

So ... they're keeping the destruction of Draconia? Because however this come's out, Vorugal's going to tear shit up.

Also ... not trusting Dohla ... for a reason, apparently. This is a really interesting take on how things went in the campaign.

Seeing Allura and Kima fight is impressive.

I'm impressed no one did anything with the "We're edging" line. Then again, Scanlan's currently in Hell, so...

Dohla ... yeah, no, don't shit-talk ancient dragons. They will-- that. Yeah, there goes the story of you.

...I didn't know Fenthras could do that...

I know Kima is going to be okay. I know Kima is going to be okay. I know this entirely too well. It is going to be an object lesson of the "sometimes this shit works out" variety and everybody will be okay. I know this partly because campaign and partly because I need to know this down to my bones to get any sleep tonight.

At least Vex has somewhat more emotional intelligence than her brother-- mostly. Sort of. But at least Percy seems to understand what she's not-saying. And she did at least communicate worth a shit.

(Also that is probably the only way they can actually convey that will-they-won't-they dance of frustrating nonsense they had going during a lot of the campaign while dealing with a shorter-form format like half-hour episodes.)

Well ... that could have been a more painful cliffhanger... But I'm grateful it wasn't because I can't handle more adrenaline tonight.

Right. Winding down time. Hopefully I'll be in better shape tomorrow and the flu vaccine doesn't hit me too hard.