#when Brennan doubles down with ''got a butthole?'' and Lou starts to look actually a little worried

[seawitchkaraoke]

I'll never get over this scene from starstruck, not bc it's hilarious (it is) but bc to me it really like. exemplifies trust at the table? Bc the moment Brennan (as the npc) asks: "You've got a mouth?" of course everyone at the table immediatly assumes this npc is hitting on Riva creepily. Which.... I mean there might be games where an npc creepily hitting on the incredibly naive, barely an adult by the standarts of their species, Riva would be appropriate but it doesn't really fit with the general vibe of stody or even D20 as a whole. And most players (and viewers) probably wouldn't be comfortable with that. The shocked reaction from the table is totally appropriate, in fact if someone (especially Siobhan) called for a timeout and went what the fuck Brennan, what are you doing, they'd be perfectly justified.

But they don't do that. Siobhan takes literally like 1 second to process what Brennan just said

then quickly remembers that she trusts him not to actually go anywhere that would be genuinly inappropriate or make her uncomfortable and jumps straight back into character

and she doesn't break or get flustered when Brennan follows it up with "you got a butthole?" either. And of course the punchline of "you can eat sandwiches" is very funny. But it takes trust to even get to that punchline.

It's a simple thing and you might say I'm reading too much into it but idk. It's simple and small and a laugh bc they all trust each other. Siobhan trusts Brennan not to actually bring actual sexual harrassment into their fun silly dnd game and Brennan trusts her to know that and keep going to see where he's going with it.