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quantummindclassicalheart · 1 year ago

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Here's my plug for Essek/Jester (donutmancy), because it's just a delightful dynamic.

Consider: Jester is big on physical affection, cuddles and hugs and all that. Essek is learning to like it (especially when it's coming from her).

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Jester's all about the pranks and chaos. Essek likes things well-organized, but he's not above messing with other people if he thinks it will be funny ("I don't actually like soup."), and (post-campaign) he's definitely willing to spend a high-level spell slot to cause some mischief.

Essek spent a lot of his early life crafting a facade to keep himself safe, building a persona so other people wouldn't ever know how vulnerable he was. And Jester? Jester knows a lot about what that's like.

I was chatting with some friends about some other M9 rare pairs and came up with this list, enjoy

#it's funny that caleb is so shippable that op had to exclude him from the poll #anyway. i do enjoy fjeth (njord vpn) but i gotta give this one to jessek #essek/jester definitely is a rarepair but just. a charming one #essek thelyss #jester lavorre #the thing i love about jester is: she genuinely does have wonder for the world and is full of love #but she also knows that people will underestimate her for it #we see this with isharnai and lucien and ludinus #she weaponizes her charm and leans into that expectation #and essek? essek really is an extremely powerful and dangerous mage #but he also takes that expectation of prodigy and calculating political agent and uses it as a tool #the difference being that essek's persona deeply isolates him while jester's makes her fast friends with those she meets #i imagine that essek grew up lonely too. he also had a famous mom. but he also had these big expectations to meet #in her loneliness jester found a would-be god and loved him so hard it became true. in his loneliness essek became a closet atheist #and one day... they met #and in the pit of his deepest despair-- her kindness and love and honesty saved him #not to discount my boy caleb's contribution here. we love a ginger wizard in this household #but that moment in the fancy and the fooled where jester (with a single sentence) causes essek's self-deception to come crashing down?#that's the start. that's the point when he realizes he's started to believe the lies he tells everyone else. and he has a choice #to bury himself deeper in the lie or to start the long and painful road to coming clean. and that choice makes all the difference #so yes. donutmancy for the win #Youtube

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