#technically. this goes with how he plays in jrwi too

[neoncat666]

im having a normal one and thinking about the like 3 hours i talked with snail about Grizzly and how he plays Zephrael and like I'm being so serious when I say Zephrael is the best character I have seen Grizzly play. It's def due to being able to compare to his other characters and the fact that if we are to compare him to Arthur, he is leagues above I would say.

Theres been a fuck ton of improvement in terms of how grizz plays characters in jrwi and i was talking to snail about how despite zephrael being one of the most different characters he's played, rae feels the most like grizzly if that makes sense. he feels like an actual person rather than a character and feels so intergrated with the world that snail brought up that he feels like a character that couldve been an npc if he wasn't a player character. he feels like someone you would meet in this world and it would make sense. and god the fucking portrayal of rae makes me bonkers. his personality is so fun and odd and the way he acts is so facinating.

grizzly does so fucking good on making rae seem like an actual person you interact with and know about but still omits so much information. every character in the party is like that but with rae, we almost know so much about him yet nothing at all at the same time. i compared it to becoming friends with someone and knowing things about them just by hanging out when they suddenly tell you something huge about themselves that you never even knew about. its easy to infer from zephrael and i want to look deeper and see what he is telling from the way he acts. he's a smart guy, somewhat lost, but still wellspoken and i think about his speech often.

that goes with how grizzly acts as him which is genuinely my favourite. so many line deliveries, actions, and just like random exclaimations come off so natural and are fucking phenominal. ep 5 has become a favourite due to the dynamics we saw with the party (save me wall sunder rae trio) but i also cant stop thinking about how rae spoke a lot of the time. when he found out the smithy was on the second floor (which is still insane to me), wanting to not have to hide, and just ever interaction he had with the others or npcs. he is a very confident, almost egotistic guy but still flounders on some parts. i truly think that if he fell too far into one side he would not be as enjoyable. idk man i just think grizzly's roleplaying is fucking incredible in everything he does and it makes me excited for whats to come.

with Wonderlust coming out soonish and another patreon exclusive campaign on the horizon I truly do think Grizzly has almost set a new standard for his characters. Even if those characters only hit like 75% of how Zephrael is I do think they'll still be above a lot of hid other player characters.