#veth’s rambling

[vethsoddities]

I love how all of us looked at Max and we’re like he’s a asshole but he wouldn’t dead name or misgender someone and made the whole school be accepting and town goers like Karen Chasity uses the right pronouns

And honestly I respect it

[vethsoddities]

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[residentinsomniacartist]

wait wait wait guys have you ever thought about how the Mighty Nein are everything they shouldn’t be upon first glance

no no guys guys listen to me they’re all the antithesis of what they’re meant to be and that’s why they’re such amazing and heartfelt characters

like, Caleb is a wizard who’s afraid of his own fire magic. his own power causes him to falter in battle. his strongest spells are his most dangerous to himself. wizards are supposed to be prideful of their magic, but Caleb’s is the reason he hates himself

Beau is a monk who never wanted to be. her job is one that people normally associate with being calm and collected and Beau was a wild rebellious kid who got dragged into this line of work against her will. she never wanted to be this!! but now she is and she’s gotta deal with it!!

Fjord is a warlock who never wanted power from his pact, which is why you’d think a warlock would make their pact at all. but no. Fjord made his pact because he wanted to live, not because he wanted power. he was a scared orphan who hated his tusks, not a buff, muscled, angry half-orc like people assumed

Nott is NOT, that’s the whole crux of her narrative! she wasn’t pretty, like a halfling girl was supposed to be. she wasn’t a goblin, she was just transformed into one. and not only that, but despite being a three-foot-tall alcoholic kleptomaniac, she’s the mom of the group!

Jester is a Cleric whose god isn’t actually a god and who would much rather bash bad guys over the head with her lollipop than have to stop and heal her friends!! she’s a bubbly, optimistic ray-of-sunshine, but you know when she says she’s gonna change the world with friendship she means it as a threat

Mollymauk is an amnesiac, but he doesn’t want to remember who he was. if you ask him, that wasn’t him! he might be a flirtatious hedonistic carnie, but he’s also single-mindedly devoted to making the world a better and more loved place than it was when he found it. he’s a liar, but he means well. he’s an arrogant fool, yes, but he’s right! he did it! he left it better!

Caduceus seems like he’d be creepy and grim from growing up in a graveyard, but he’s actually the most chill out of the entire Nein by far. he’s calm, he’s sweet, and he’s comforting, more than anything else. you’d think he’d be amazed by seeing the outside world for the first time, but he spends the whole time knowing that one day he’ll return home, that he wasn’t supposed to be the one to leave

Yasha is a barbarian with skeletal wings and a dramatic, monochromatic look, but she’s a complete sweetheart. she’s Molly’s best friend, she was a carnival bouncer, she’s a lesbian disaster who collects pressed flowers in a book out of love for the wife she lost. those black wings were actually hiding soft white feathers

Essek was born straight into the den of politics, he was a spymaster, he literally started a war for his own gain, and yet. he’s sounds irredeemable on paper, but. he’s not!! sure, the Nein kind of have to drag his alignment kicking and screaming into neutral, but they manage it. Essek learns and grows and he overcomes his nature. he becomes good, against all odds

guys guys guys don’t you see it!! look at them!!they’re such compelling characters!! they’re everything they’re not supposed to be!! dude y’all how didn’t I realize this earlier!! they subvert their narratives in the most interesting ways ever and I justhshsbhshshsjnsmshsnhsfn!!

[ruvi-muffin]

I am in need of veth & essek fics? (!!) The shenanigans they'd get up to half a decade into their relationship

Consider for a moment, this Not Even a ficlet probably:

Caleb: what do you say, veth? One last hurrah?

Veth: Caleb. Dear. It won't be a Last hurrah if you keep coming up with reasons to have one?

Essek, floating past, munching a cracker: She has a point.

Veth: Oh! He Speaks!

Essek: Oh i'm involved, oh no. Please pay me no mind. You can return to the moment.

Caleb: The moment is broken I'm afraid. I hope you did not interject out of a sense of feeling left out.

Essek: oh, Not at all. Believe you me, this is not my worst idea of a polycule.

Caleb: (scandalized) (!!)

Veth: Haha! (I'm in on the joke!)

Caleb: (betrayal!!)

Essek: I said what i said.

Essek: In fact..

(he floats up, wtiting on a piece of paper, out of view)

I have some ideas for this Last Hurrah.

(Blows on the ink folding the paper and hands it to Veth covertly)

Veth: oh ho ho owo !! I like your thinking, hot boi.

Caleb, nervously: Hooo boy. I'm in Trouble. owo;

What was on the piece of paper? Who can say.

Probably a very nostalgic, mock dangerous, wholesome caper as a gift to Caleb ♡

[evilpenguinrika]

Veth having a Minotaur kink will never not be funny

I am continuously wheezing at the hilarity of it

never change, Veth. never change

[vethsoddities]

Replying to this as I’m re-watching for the second time i watched it last night and Abstinence Camp at the end of it she says something like “I anxiously await Abstinence camp all year long, and I’m not going to let a few bumps in the road spoil my summer”

So I’d assume she has been their almost all her life because seeing how Mark and Karen are they’d send her because it’s kinda like a church camp and Grace likes bible study so I’d assume she goes their a lot

All and all I agree with you op

npmd hc/theory(?)

Grace has the "Dirty Girl" fantasy and knows how to hide a body because of her time at Camp Idontwannabang.

HEAR ME OUT.

I can't remember if this is something from abstinence camp or just a headcanon I have, but I feel like Grace has been to abstinence camp for more years than one, or that it's some sort of summer camp you can be a regular at.

Therefore, in the NPMD timeline, Grace knows how to bury a body because she walked in on Girl Jeri, Boy Jerry, and a corpse or two just like in Abstinence Camp, and they had her help them get rid of said corpse(s). And, maybe when she walked in, Jeri and Jerry were having one of their weird-repressed-sexual-tension moments, involving Jerry calling Jeri "dirty girl" like he did in Abstinence Camp. And Grace, knowing nothing about sex or what's sexy, absorbs that like a sponge and resurfaces it later in NPMD when she feels the same tension Jeri and Jerry had.

[thecavernsabove]

okay now i just want to talk about my expectations versus why i have ended up liking certain characters because i am just so intrigued by everything these people and characters do. for bells hells, i went into it knowing i would love ashton because they are the reason I started watching, i didn't think i would really latch onto any other character, apart from maybe fearne because she's a satyr and i am particularly partial to satyrs, and imogen because i mean it's laura bailey!

but what actually happened, is that yes i did get super attached to ashton of course i did, but my top three quickly became ashton, orym and laudna (and as someone who started being able to watch live at the split you can imagine how devastated i was). and recently chetney is really creeping up there. i do love all the characters dearly though.

ashton just reminds me of myself so much, apart from the fact that they are much braver than i could ever be, and blunter too. i wish i could be them and also see all my faults in them. its a lot.

orym was my first introduction to liam o'brien and his devastating little guys (more on caleb later), and just his backstory and the way he deals with people intrigues me so much and i want to see him happy so bad.

laudna oh laudna. marisha ray you have ruined me. even going into this with my minimal knowledge of the briarwoods, her backstory reveal was so intense and it hurt. also, creepy unnerving girlies stick together! she's iconic.

chetney is so wild to me i love him so much. he is so intensely gender as well i love him so much. i love gruff and grumpy characters that are actually nice once you are more friendly with them.

imogen. i will say it took a little bit for her to grow on me but i do love her. i think the bassuras dusk stuff really helped me like her more. also her immense power and lightning scars are pretty cool if you ask me.

fearne. i love how sweet she is and the stuff like being bad at lying and also just stealing little things here and there was really fun. but what made me like her more was when she got more serious and i didn't expect that (foreshadowing for later!)

fcg. now, i still have, mixed? feelings for fcg. in a sense of i dont hate the character but i think the character arc is not something im too interested in, but i do still like them. the stuff with frida was very nice, and i do like the bits that they do - but i think there still feels like there is something missing for me somewhat.

now, with the mighty nein, i had an inkling on who i would like. i thought caleb certainly because we seem very similar, molly maybe because i liked ashton so hey i might like this taliesin character too! and that was it really. going into it though, because i had seen so much of jester (talking about her and cosplays mostly) i thought that she would be probably my least favourite because her personality didn't seem to really gel with what i usually like in characters. but here i am, on the other side with my favs being caleb, fjord, and jester! it was so much watching everything for the first time, even with knowing the big spoilers and then looking at more minor spoilers so i knew somewhat what would happen - but i do that with a lot of things, its different knowing what happens versus actually watching and experiencing what is happening.

caleb. caleb widogast is such an intense character and i loved every minute i spent with him. i spent so much time checking when i would finally see the nein sided tower of his and watching liam describe everything for an hour was so incredible i was in awe. i truely love that dirt wizard so much.

fjord was a truly unexpected character for me to fall for. the first time i realized that i was going to love him though was when they were in the one politicians house early in the campaign and he held his sword to caleb to make sure he wasn't fucking with them. then seeing his growth, the accent change, and just his whole deal i was enraptured. i do miss the southern eldritch blast though.

jester oh my goodness did she creep up on me. i think her initial cuteness that i had experienced throughout just existing on the internet put me off for some reason but i don't know why. however i did quickly fall in love with her, when she had one of her more sinister/serious moments early on. i don't remember what it was but i remember thinking oh. /oh./ okay. i love her. and then her relationship with her mama, and artie, gosh i just loved watching laura bailey do literally anything. the cupcake bit! also the sprinkle bit is quite funny. i also just love doing her voice when im talking to myself. she is also the reason that i take a decent amount of damage spells with my current cleric.

beau. i think i thought that i would have liked her more than i did (don't get me wrong i liked her a lot but she is not in my top three), but she is incredible. as a fellow monk pc i do love going the extra mile with those stunning strikes, and also seeing her relationship with yasha blossom was so lovely. and her bro relationships with fjord and caleb were also some of my favourites.

yasha. after starting with campaign three, it was really hard to not see ashley all the time and i remember having to look on the wiki while watching to check when she would come back every time she left. i think i really started to like her more after her she got taken, and went through that big arc, and we were around her more often. i loved watching her dreams. i loved watching her so much.

veth was so unexpected are you kidding me?? i will say i have yet to have a sam character be in my top three but god he knows how to throw an emotional punch and i love that kind of stuff. i love her relationship with caleb, the detective agency, the chaos crew. i love her arc of getting herself back, of seeing her family again. ough. im a big lover of families.

caduceus. goodness gracious me what a character. i just absolutely loved the aesthetic and caduceus's whole relationship to how he approaches death. he is also the reason i started playing a grave cleric in a newer campaign. but truly, has made me think differently about death - which was especially needed for me this year.

mollymauk. i knew he was dead. i knew he would die. but that didn't make me any less upset when it happened! i think about him often, what could have been. especially since i was so sure he took the wrong amount of damage in that fight and should not have quite have been knocked out at that time. but his whole maximallist aesthetic is something i very much enjoy, and i love the through line of his cards with jester.

wow okay this has gotten to be very long but i need to get my thoughts about everyone out somewhere!! if you've read this far im so sorry this is so much of my own ramblings.

[bone--faerie]

Veth didn't "take" Luc to the Fey-Realm...

Clearly Veth wouldn't just go to the fey-realm just for fun, not without reason, she hints at the truth of the matter with the 843 Alfield incident, she just was embarrassed about what really happened. Clearly what happened was Luc snuck out one night and stumbled through a gate and ended up in the fey-realm for a day or two, which for Luc inside the Feywild was actually a few years thus the aging, his adventure through the Feywild would go on to spit him out near Alfield. By about this time Veth had contacted Kingsley who helped track the boy down, which led her to Alfield. this is the noted 843 Alfield incident hinted to by the halfling's mother, which gives reason to why Veth is unsure how much he aged as well as why none of the Mighty Nein were told about a trip to the Feywild.

[greenteaandtattoos]

Mmmm what if Veth and Orym met, huh? They saw two people much taller than them, who were troubled and traumatized and struggling, with questionable future plans and low self-esteem, and went, “So, I’m adopting them. I’m their parent now. I already signed the adoption papers.”

[vethsoddities]

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who noticed this because they’re a lot of motifs as like a preference is to the other hatchetverse

just finished abstinence camp and am listening to the axe man song in the credits again, and the melody and lyrics in the line "watching nerds run for their lives" in the axeman song comes back in nerdy prudes 😭 starkid forever impress me w their callbacks

[vethsoddities]

When Pete says “She’s Smarter than she thinks she is” I felt that and I will not explain it’s for me to know and you to find out

[foolofatook001]

it’s missing What Rests Between the Bookends hours

I live for the Volstrucker!Caleb characterization it’s so fascinating

And Veth!!!!!! She!!!! Also has fantastic 100/10 characterization this author just like. Lives inside her head she’s so interesting and full of conflict and odd bursts of rebellion and she’s so stubborn and I love her

And of course Jester and the Traveler they are both just sooooo !!!!

you can tell it is late at night because I can do nothing but the written equivalent of flapping my hands in the air

I have read and reread this fic at least three times all the way through now it’s just. augh

[infernalcrypt]

finally watching ep111. caleb caleb caleb caleb. gnawing at the bars of my cage screaming crying. i missed him so bad

[vethsoddities]

Haha just him being like “If you don’t use the right name I’ll burn down the church” because that’d be so funny

I’m going to be so real here you hashtags on your reblog of my post were so funny and when I tell you I didn’t mean for it to come off as Max threatening Karen Chasity but honestly it’s even funnier to think about him doing so bc that seems like something he’d do lol

thank you so much lmao

I've been trying to think about HOW he would threaten her though

like what would get to her like

"I'LL STOP PRAYING IF YOU DON'T CALL THEM BY THE RIGHT NAME AND PRONOUNS" ?????

[megthemariner]

Rules: Make a poll of your favorite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

Thanks @crabs-with-sticks for the tag! This was harder than I thought it would be but I picked out a handful.

I tried not to pick characters I only liked for their romance, or characters from media where I like male/nb characters more & would only pick them because they fit the category for the poll. Hence no Dragon Age, Mass Effect, etc.

Also I almost put Female V (Cyberpunk 2077), Female Hawke (DA2) and Female Shepard (ME series) but didn’t since they’re all technically just female versions of a character…but they’re my favourites otherwise <3

Oh & I tag @rosieofcorona @hajima-7 @arkhaminfinite @vulcanofmirkwood1701 & anyone else who wants to do this. No pressure of course and sorry if you were already tagged/already did this and I missed it!

[essektheylyss]

“Your delinquent child is outside, and I have assured him that he is very, very grounded.”

Between Yeza and the campers still waiting for their parents to arrive from around the coast to collect them, Veth wasn’t sure any of them saw her move between the dining room and the foyer before she’d thrown the front door open.

Outside, Caleb held Luc by the back of the vest, neither of them looking any worse for wear. Behind them, Jester and Fjord looked a bit sheepish, though not nearly as sheepish as her son, who had almost curled into himself beneath the venomous look she’d given him.

“I thought you were dead! You're never leaving this house again! I couldn't get in contact with anyone and I thought you were fucking dead!” she screeched, before any of them could move, but Luc almost kept pace with her, slipping from his godfather’s grasp and, to her surprise, likely to the others’ surprise as well, threw his arms around her.

“I’m sorry, Mom, I should’ve listened to you, I’ll stay grounded for as long as you want—“

Veth spluttered for a moment, though her arms wrapped around him in return. This had not been how he’d returned under Kingsley’s grasp, caught by the ear and cursing up a storm.

It took a long moment to realize that Luc was trembling beneath her grasp. Very faintly, but definitely trembling.

She looked over his shoulder at Caleb, then Fjord and Jester. “There have been… several lessons learned in the past thirty-six hours,” Caleb said, his tone even stonier than his expression.

Fjord nodded slightly in agreement, carrying the weight of agreement. Her grasp on her son tightened, and she kissed his hair. Her sharp tone felt empty and hollow even to her own ears.

“Don’t you ever run away again— Don’t you know what I’d do if you were killed—“

“I know, Mom,” Luc interrupted, and for the first time in weeks— months— a long fucking time— he didn’t sound petulant.

He sounded like her boy.

“I kept him safe,” Caleb said flatly, also without any defensiveness. There was, even for Caleb, a dark flame behind his eyes. It felt like a spark she hadn’t seen in quite a few years.

“He was very particular about it,” Jester agreed, and then, in a poorly-disguised whisper, “Trent.”

Veth’s grip tightened, and she pulled Luc aside, away from the doorway. “Come in, tell me all about it—“ she pulled back and checked him over as Caleb nodded and passed inside. “You’re all in one piece, you’re alright—?”

“Yeah, Mom,” he agreed, with exhaustion. “Uncle Deuce made sure we were all in one piece.”

Jester pouted as she passed. “I also made sure you were okay, alright, but Caduceus is so helpful, you know, and honestly, in the end, it wasn’t even that bad— we saved most of the town, and we had a great party, and—“

She stopped her rambling in the middle of the doorway and clapped both hands to her mouth as Luc ducked under both of them into the house.

“Oh. My. Gods, Veth, you will not believe— Fjord proposed to me—“

With the number of things Jester had just imparted to her, it was honestly a testament to her own intelligence that Veth managed to process them in time to turn to Fjord just as he started up the steps, stopping him in his tracks.

“You what? And I missed it—?!”

"You know, Jester, I think we can let Caleb debrief the Brenatto family alone—"

She had him by the ear before he could move, which was an impressive feat considering he was over half her height, but he was almost as slippery of a bastard as she was.

Within an instant, he'd turned to mist in her grasp and vanished to the other side of the street, Jester complaining behind her all the while. Veth shrieked after him. "You piece of shit!"

In response, he yelled, "That's soon-to-be Admiral Tusktooth-Lavorre to you!"