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tcthinecwnself-a · 5 years ago

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rules: tag ten followers you want to know better !

name: Peggy star sign: Aquarius height: 5′ middle name? e.

put your itunes whatever on shuffle. what are the first 6 songs that popped up? Cecily Smith: Will Connolly New York, New York: Frank Sinatra Smile: Sammy Davis Jr. Let Me Make You Proud: Jeremy Jordon On A Clear Day: Kiki’s Delivery Service Stick it to the Man: School of Rock (these are from my Favorite Tunes playlist on spotify)

grab one book nearest to you and turn to page 23. what’s line 17? “I don’t see that this will help us much,” siad Thorin disappointedly after a glance. “I remember the Mountain well enough and the lands about it --- “ ( The H/obbit, of course. always gotta have it near me)

ever had a poem or a song written about you? Not that I know of. I wasn’t exactly someone people wrote songs or poems about in high school. Holding out hope that someone is that sweet in college!

when was the last time you played air guitar? I was listening to Queen maybe a day or two ago.

who is your celebrity crush? Travis Willingham / Taliesin Jaffe / Liam O’Brien (I just love ?? HANDSOME VOICE ACTORS MKAY???)

what’s a sound you hate; sound you love? Hate: that huff / sigh sound someone makes when theyre either annoyed at you or making fun of you. Love: Kitty merps or mrhm? sounds

do you believe in ghosts? Not exactly. My family likes to believe that cardinals are our passed away family members coming to visit. So if that counts.

how about aliens? nah

do you drive? Yes!

if so, have you ever crashed? No, knock on wood.

what was the last book you read? I think it was one of the Basil of Baker Street books

do you like the smell of gasoline? I don’t like it, but I don’t hate it either. It’s nice when it’s in your own garage / driveway.

what was the last movie you saw? I watched Lupin iii: Farewell to Nostradamous!

what’s the worst injury you’ve ever had? An iron candle holder fell on my head & split it open. It wasn’t as bad as it looked though.

do you have any obsessions right now? o h boy, can you tell it’s Lupin?? and Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice has not let me rest.

do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong? Not normally. We usually part ways. I can’t let go of some of the stuff my sister’s said to me though.

in a relationship? I really, really wish I was. it’s peggyphobic I’m not hopelessly in love with someone rn.

Tagged by @lloronala (thank you dear!)

Tagging: @bitofthisandthat, @heedingcalls, @wellactualities, @pyroteched, @wcrldlyadventures, and anyone who would like to steal it from me!

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princessamericachavez · 6 years ago

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Fjorester in Episode 46

We had some wonderful character development, tension, pining... listen, guys, this was such a good episode and I don’t understand how anyone could think this was a step back for these two when in reality this was a much-needed switch in the dynamic.

Like, okay, let’s review:

Fjord: “Where’s Jester?”

He’s already worried.

Good start. Fjord’s not blind and you could tell that he noticed her being upset the night before, so having him of all people ask for her was such a good detail that warmed my heart.

“How are you doing this morning, Jester?”

“Oh, I’m okay.”

“...yeah?”

HE’S SO WORRIED. LOOK AT THAT FACE. SOMEONE HOLD ME.

“You wanna... go out and explore a bit?”

“...sure.”

She’s not giving him a lot to go on, being distant and he looks so confused and nervous and unsure on how to proceed. Even with everything they’ve been through, Jester being distant towards him is uncharted territory.

But, Fjord, bless him, doesn’t back off, he tries again.

“A-Are you okay? I-I know the... the day’s escapade was a little much. A little close.”

“A lot. Yes. You disappeared, Fjord,” she says, and even in her soft voice, there’s a heaviness to the statement, the nucleus of the tension between them. And she smiles when she says it, but there’s an unusual seriousness in Jester as she says it, almost an accusation, saying a million things that she’s not voicing yet out loud.

Cue: Panic.

“Yeah, well, you did... too. Every time I poped wherever I was I could see you PFT in and PFT out. And I kept wanting to, like, make sure we were getting the fuck out.”

It’s like he’s trying to scream: I never meant to leave you behind. But this dumb boy doesn’t know how to say it. He just needs her to know she wouldn’t.

But Jester’s not talking about that.

“Oh, that too. I was talking about the library.”

Think about it for a moment, though. Jester, who was so utterly broken-hearted over being left alone, is actually lingering over the moment he got sucked into a window when he left and she had no way to follow, when she didn’t know if he was alright.

She’s more concerned about his impulsiveness putting him in danger than her own brush with near-death.

And you can see Fjord’s surprise over it, too.

“Oh, yeah, well it was the darnest thing. I just touched it, you know? Didn’t know if it was rough or smooth...”

It’s harder to make excuses for his own impulsiveness though.

“I didn’t expect it to AHHHH none of that shit?”

And this is classic Fjord and Jester. He’s trying to make her laugh, to ease the air, because he knows it’s what Jester does, search for a way to be happy and it works... for an instant only.

“Maybe I won’t do that so much,” he offers, still trying to find a fix.

“Sometimes you just need to touch things,” she offers back, in understanding, but there’s the lingering sadness in her voice.

And as they keep talking about what happened the day before and they start describing the room, Fjord asks:

“Wait a minute, so when I disappeared you didn’t immediately try to come out and find me?”

NOW NOW NOW I’ve seen some people online giving Fjord grief over this line, calling it self-centered or dickish, but you gotta think in context. This is Fjord who didn’t expect any of them to come after him when he was taken by the Shepherds. Fjord who has grown very attached to the group, who did everything in his power —including sleeping with Avantika— to keep them safe, who is never sure why they even follow his lead into the ocean... Fjord who landed himself accidentally in front of a big blue dragon and tried to talk his way out of it, unsure of whether the others would show up and expressed his relief when they did.

This line isn’t about Fjord believing he deserved an immediate rescue.

This line is Fjord’s doubts and vulnerability coming out in a slightly abrasive way because it’s easier to be defensive than admit the idea hurts.

“I did. Beau did,” Jester points out.

And they did, truly.

And this trio has been together from the start and they did run after him.

“Yeah, you know. It isn’t as if everybody left you,” Jester says, and you can feel the implicit like they did me.

“You left... us.”

That pause.

That pause right before she says us kills me.

Do you think she wanted to say me?

You left me.

And all he can offer back is “Yeah that’s true.”

And it’s so hard to see them act like this, to see the ice wall between them, the tension in every unspoken accusation.

And Fjord can tell, he feels that cold between them and is still trying to fix it.

Now, historically, what they do when the other is sad/upset is acts of service, try to offer help or attention that will cheer the other up.

“Jester, can I make you a plate?”

Look at this dude.

He’s trying.

He can barely look her in the eye.

And Jester blinks and pulls back and you can see the confusion written all over her face.

(can you imagine how she would’ve reacted to an offer like this early on in the campaign???????)

“Um, no. I think I’m okay, Fjord. Thank you.”

Her voice sounds so tiny, so distant, too polite like she’s talking to a stranger. She’s not being rude or snapping at him, but there’s maybe even more sting to that kind of ice between them.

“Okaycool... sh- should we bring Caleb some food?” He tries to recover quickly.

He pulls away and retracts back as if he’d touched burning iron.

“Do you want us to go to this temple?”

Jester is clearly not happy with the idea, but this is important to Fjord, and she nods along and doesn’t question him. Because they are a team, right? And even if things feel wrong between them, Jester always wants to help him be happy. She loves him, after all, anger and all.

Nott: He’s being very nice today.

Jeter: Yes, I think he feels guilty.

Nott: I know he feels guilty. He asked you to, like, accompany him off the boat. He offerd to make a plate of food for you. He is being nice to me. Oh! Is he hitting on you?.”

Jester: No.

Nott: I think he’s hitting on you.

Jester: No, he’s not.

Nott: Are you sure?

Jester: ...yeah.

SHE SOUNDS SO SAD, SO HEARTBROKEN, SO SURE THAT THERE IS NO WAY HE LIKES HER BACK.

Travis:

I SEE YOU. I SEE YOU TRYING TO HIDE THAT SMILE. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’VE DONE MISTER. I KNOW.

I’m Liam. Liam is me.

MOVING ON

Okay, so Fjord nearly pleads for the party to go to this temple, to see this through because he will otherwise live the rest of his life wondering what would’ve happened.

And Jester, anger and distance and heartbreak aside, is still concerned over his wants and happiness:

“Plus, we still haven’t found out about Vandren.”

And you can see the effect immediately in how Fjord melts a little, opens up.

“Right, but I- it could be fucking anywhere. I just wanna do this ‘cause we’re here. We can- we can worry about that later, it’s a wide wide world,” he says and there’s a particular softness in his voice that only comes when he’s talking to Jester. You can see he’s replying to her. Don’t worry about me. That will come. It’s fine.

Beau: So, we find the temple and then, what? I guess... go back to Nicodranas, first.

Fjord: We might have to go through Port Damali, actually. Nicodranas is a little hot for us- but we could. We could let your mom know you’re okay.

You can see the moment Fjord’s brain goes from ‘practical’ and trying to protect the party to ‘uh, Jester. Yep. That’s more important’.

LOOK AT THAT FACE!!!!

“I mean, I-I can message her. I’ve been messaging her.”

She says but she looks so sad.

And Fjord can’t take sad Jester.

So he goes SOFT

“Well, maybe see how you feel when we’re on our way back. We wouldn’t wanna go round the southern tip, that’s where the troops are heading. I feel like danger might be that way It might be best to go the way we came.”

LOOK AT THOSE PUPPY EYES.

And can I just say how I love that even when there’s tension and they are in the outs they still primarily care about each other’s happiness and want to help and this is both of them bringing up the other’s need to see their parental figure because they both know it’s important to each other, like, they are a team no matter what.

She brings up Vandren.

He brings up Marion.

They look after each other. Always.

“Okay.”

“So, maybe we get some supplies, something to buff us up a bit?”

“Some bees!”

“Some... bees, sure.”

At this point, this man would’ve gone head-on to a beehive if it meant Jester would forgive him. Whatever Jester wants she gets.

And then Fjord points out he wants to buy some healing potions and Jester shrugs it off and she says he has healers with them and Fjord —looking straight at her— says he’s had to use his potions in the party before.

Because if the healers go down, if she goes down, if she had gone down during the dragon fight... without a potion he wouldn’t be able to help her.

Fjord is feeling so protective of her

Which takes us to

“JESTER GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE.”

Travis Willingham came after my whole life with that shout.

He didn’t have to sound so desperate and worried.

In the middle of a storm like the one in which he drowned, watching Jester from afar getting in the midst of a giant lightning ball, getting herself in danger, while he needs to keep the ship going and can’t do anything to help.

But Jester doesn’t see this as worry, she sees it as anger directed towards her.

“I didn’t know, I was trying to help!” She calls back.

“Jester, what’s going on down there?!”

“Yasha fought a ball of lighting but everything is good, she’s good. We’re gonna get some tea, though. The mast looks like it maybe got burnt a little again.”

“Maybe see to the repairs first before you get your fucking tea!”

“Why don’t you stop being a dick?!”

Now, this is one of those exchanges that I’ve seen people talk about and complain about Fjord being rude, but listen the dude was stressed out, exhausted, in the middle of what’s probably a familiar storm, he had no idea what just happened and he just paid for this ship to get repaired.

I think he’s got a right to be pissy.

Plus, Jester’s reply is wonderful in that it gives us two things from her:

a. Anger (only a taste of what, when released, will surely be “a sight to behold”)

b. Less distance between them.

You don’t call your crush a dick if you idolize them, but you also don’t act angry like this towards someone you’re trying to be cold to. This moment of banter between friends —because that’s what it is— almost feels like the air is a little clearer.

I mean, the first 2 episodes Jester called The Traveler a dick a lot, too. You know, The Traveler? Her freaking deity? Her best friend? Her childhood crush???

To think this exchange would be somehow closing a door on the possibility of a relationship between these two would have to be based on misreading the way Jester interacts with people.

Overall, this episode gave us a very interesting shift in their dynamic. There’s a rift between them, sure, and it’s been building up steadily ever since they stepped into Avantika’s ship for the first time, and it will probably reach a breakage point as this arc comes to an end in January inside the temple.

I expect them to still stick by each other’s side and help each other as much as they can in there. Perhaps we’ll more of Fjord’s protective streak, hopefully, a callback to the first temple and the kiss between them, and most probably once Fjord gets the next sphere he will still find himself torn between the search for power and... everything else.

With a timer on their shoulders to go back to the Empire now, though, things will probably smooth over once they are back on land. I’m hoping we’ll get some more Jester backstory if they go back to visit her mother, but it will likely not be that big, considering they have their sights set on checking on Beau’s family soon.

Things between them might not be the exact same upon their return, too much has happened and shifted, but I do believe even these disagreements are a way for the two of them to move forward and grow. It will help them see each other in a different light, getting to know each other’s faults and darkness, which will definitely bring them closer together in the end.

At the very least, we got pining Fjord and distant Jester and that’s a fun new dynamic to explore.

Can it be 2019 already???

#fjorester #fjord #jester lavorre #critical role #cr spoilers #meta #sofia's nonsense

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