#this is about the nein and only the nein

[mightyneinrewatch]

Welcome to the Mighty Nein Rewatch!!

Beginning on Sunday, February 2nd of 2025, we will be rewatching campaign two from start to finish, one episode per week!

(Yes, that's Groundhog Day for the US... obligatory "help, it's again" joke)

I'll do my part on this little sideblog by posting which episode we are on every Sunday

Please use the tag #nein again if you would like to join me on this ride so we can all follow along and chat about the episodes like we did the first time!

[erandraws]

Are you normal or did Matthew Mercer tell you to your face that Essek Thelyss grew his hair out because he felt like he could finally settle down for a normal life and also because his boyfriend looks hot with long hair so why not him too.

[olileigh-art]

This image has been stuck in my head since I first watched episode 76 back in early January but I was busy with uni so it had to wait

Tip Jar

[revvethasmythh]

it's so funny to me that caleb and veth really did just trade off the job of intensely pining for the other at like the halfway point of the campaign. like, imo, nott in the early days did not behave in any real romantic or even romance-adjacent ways toward him--I imagine it would be very hard to even think in that way when you hate what you look like so much, have such low self-esteem, and are actively lying about your entire past, including a secret husband. caleb, on the other hand, is kind of diving directly back into the sort of relationship he had with astrid and eadwulf. very close, very intimate, we-huddled-for-warmth-together-and-oops-it-led-to-something-else sort of thing. he is the one who expresses that he's fine with it if people think he and nott are romantically together when they're talking to keg. nott is the one who pushes back on that. he calls her his life partner. unknowingly, he compares his feelings for nott to nott's feelings for yeza. his behavior only really starts to change after he finds out about veth's husband because suddenly all of that other stuff is rendered inappropriate in retrospect. but even then he compliments her to yeza over dinner in the most awkward of ways, he admits to being jealous, he calls yeza "a lucky man" to have her, he stares at veth and yeza closed bedroom door for far too long, he creates an entire arcane tower with room for her family just so she'll stay with him. in general, his behavior is not, um, totally and completely platonic about it, you know?

like, veth's feelings for caleb are canonical and therefore indisputable in their existence, but caleb in the early days was not that dissimilar to how veth was acting near the end of the campaign. it really paints a picture of "right person, wrong time" in the way things just didn't line up for them. or, as veth would say: "in another world, maybe"

[luna-the-cretar]

Yall ever love a character/ship/piece of media so much that you start shaking because you physically can’t contain all the love and adoration you have for them within your body

[abitcaughtinthemiddle]

Listen- do these BH/M9/VM mission preparing episodes feel like fan service? Yes, yes absolutely.

But I am a fan and I am being serviced

[symphonysiren]

6 years late to the fandom with a new malewife.

[ryllen]

live up ur sillies

[shorthaltsjester]

Fjord & Jester // on Adventure and Finding Home

I want to explore the world. I want to see the lands we haven’t seen. I want to find things that people are scared of and solve them or do whatever anyone else needs to do. But – I hope she’s a part of that.

The Mighty Nein Origins: Fjord Stone - Kevin Burke and Chris “Doc” Wyatt || The Mighty Nein Origins: Jester Lavorre - Sam Maggs || A Moon or A Button - Ruth Krauss & Remy Charlip || “first letter to véra” (26 july 1923) - Vladimir Nabokov || Hadestown: “All I’ve Ever Known” - Anaïs Mitchell || Critical Role Campaign 2: “Fond Farewells” - Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham || Antigonick - Sophokles, tr. Anne Carson || Critical Role Campaign 2: “Domestic Respite” - Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham || Herakles - Euripides, tr. Anne Carson || Changing - Liv Ullmann || “Lover” - Taylor Swift || Critical Role Campaign 2: “Dinner with the Devil” - Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham || tumblr user @/dimpledthings || The Mighty Nein Reunited: “Unfinished Business” - Laura Bailey

[lulu-draws-stuff]

This was gonna be a comic, but I wasn't having fun drawing it, so I scrapped it

You get the cover and outfits section

[flashhwing]

my life for a Volstrucker book. we have the Caleb backstory comic but that only gives a very cursory view of the blumentrio only. I wanna see more, more of the training, the work and dynamics of full fledged scourgers. who are these guys when they're not being ~Mysterious or specifically Astrid and Eadwulf in an incredibly specific and narrow scenario that is not at all indicative of the rest of the bunch

[lizzorasaurus]

a spark

[essektheylyss]

I am SO vindicated about Fjorester wedding colors. Pink and blue, babeyyyy

[softbean]

everything she deserves 🌼

[dent-de-leon]

Do not think I'll get over the fact that Molly encourages the idea that he's always had a string of lovers, lets people believe he goes off with someone new or visits brothels every night, and the whole thing is just...just because he doesn't want anyone to find out he's got this bleeding heart.

That his "choir practice" is him risking his life to save some strangers he's never met. That he's this compassionate, fiercely loyal protector who believes, "The truth is...How do I put this...the world is harsh and cruel, and I don't seem to be able to just walk on by."

That he has this reputation for being a shameless flirt with countless partners, and just...as far as we know, he only ever had one relationship. And after she died, he carried her cards and wore her coat every day, kept her close to his heart and never said a word about it. Not until he admits to Yasha that he's lonely, that he wishes he still had someone. The way Molly is grieving and mourning a partner just like Yasha, and no one ever knew.

The way Lucien couldn't believe that Jester found him "dreamy," the way people only ever saw him as a demon and monster for so long. Waking up as Kingsley and still looking for the love he lost. Still falling for Caleb. Tealeaf keeping so much close to the chest, afraid to let himself be too vulnerable. Only ever trusting his heart with a few. Wanting so badly to be good, to be loved, to be whole. Worshipping the goddess of love herself. Writing down, "Love. It binds us. It frees us. What more needs be said?"

[astralleywright]

i love when people get on the internet and lie. what do you mean the mighty nein are good and altruistic and bells hells are not.