#yasha x zuala

[jmkonst]

oh, darling

[critterpages]

Girls when “I have so many flowers to bring to her”

[bi-vexual]

if you love vaxleth and/or yasha/zuala i need you to listen to every fallen feather by shayfer james rn

[jtr-99]

Wrapping up this year with some spooky Yasha/Zuala! Happy Halloween!

[shorthaltsjester]

one of the most infuriating parts of seeing people refer to cr as the “it’s love that saves people” show is that they completely ignore the context of that quote and that, yes, it is the “it’s love that saves people” show and that’s actually why c3 was a disappointment. because caduceus doesn’t just spontaneously say that to trent out of some pity for the fact that trent doesn’t have anyone, it’s that, as is central to caduceus’ journey and the mighty nein as a whole, when people love you they will challenge you and negate the foolish cycles of thought that can only emerge from a life lived in isolation. the mighty nein learned this lesson, with characters who notably and violently rejected the notion that they could be open to one another eventually realizing the only way to honour the friends they found and the version of themself that those friends came to care for required being honest with those friends about their motivations and feelings and desires. and in the c2 finale(s) we see the consequences of the choice each of them made to give up the lonely versions they’d sold themselves away as in favour of being a member of the mighty nein. fjord returns to an imperfect but cherished relationship with vandran that he’d previously committed to avoiding, beau finds her footing in the cobalt soul where her loudness isn’t just put up with but is valued for its keeping the institution true, caleb decides not to be the version of himself years of solitary confinement and abusive manipulation would have him be by electing to imprison trent, veth makes the choice to return to her family rather than see the empire bureaucracy through, jester opts to continue adventuring and helping her friends as they need it since she’s found her place in the world to be wherever they need her, yasha is finally able to make the choice to fully face her grief and bring the collection of penance stored in her journal back to zuala’s grave, caduceus returns to a grove recovering from a once-encroaching sickness attended by a family likewise recovering and commits himself to rebuilding the temple. there’s not a single outcome in terms of the character’s “happily ever afters” (which, as a side note, is why the claim that what people are frustrated with c3 for is the abundance of happy endings absurd and obvious in its refusal to actually take seriously a divergent opinion to its own — c2 was also a largely happy ending, likewise boosted by a an unlikely dice roll, the difference is the narrative earning) that is not mediated by literal years of character work and dming that orients that work toward the campaign plot (or that orients the plot toward the character work). c2 feels earned because it proves the implicit message of “pain doesn’t make people, it’s love that makes people”, where transformation happens in either case, but love is a transformation born out of choice, and pain demands a transformation for survival.

if you want to take seriously that c3 is part of a world constantly negotiating with the claim “it’s love that makes people.” you have to take seriously the initiating claim that’s it’s not pain that makes them, and that, in fact, in light of the love that one chooses, pain becomes inconsequential. given the frequency with which the fandom rolls out the “it’s not. x characters fault, they’re traumatized” i’d say it’s pretty obvious that bells hells have failed to qualify for, let alone pass, the “it’s love that makes them” test, since they are all still quite significantly defined by their pain and a refusal to choose love in the sense of transformation. there’s a bell hooks quote i used for this cr edit I made awhile ago that i’ve always felt really resonates with what caduceus says in that scene + what cr has tended to say about love through the characters and their journeys. and you can go to the link for the full quote but the pertinent part is that love is a commitment to being changed and a commitment to struggle to achieve that change even if it means letting go of the easier notions of ourselves as unlovable or broken to do so.

like, to be clear i’m not saying that bells hells don’t love people or each other at the end of the campaign, but that their love is a noun and not a verb. laudna goes to lieve’tel and has to be told she isn’t broken, ashton sacrifices himself and it’s not even the love of bells hells that saves them, it’s the deus ex machina of essek. bells hells are defined by their stagnancy, their refusal to give up on the definitions of themselves they’ve come to hold as a result of trauma. and while the initial creation of those identities is not on them, the continued maintenance of those identities such that they become bad faith habits that disallow any notion of growth to occur in the face of senses of self which assume their own brokenness is on them. and in all honesty that still could’ve been an interesting story, especially since it shows they’re of the same kind as ludinus, but it would not have ever been a story about the kind of love that caduceus is talking about when he says it’s love that makes people — let it not be forgotten that love (and fear) as a noun kept caduceus alone for years and love as a verb showed him the pay off of giving up stagnancy’s safety to pursue something else — nor the kind of love that c1 and c2 are built upon.

[freeyeung]

[lightat-the-end-of-thetunnel]

“I have so many flowers to bring to her“

To

“I brought you some things”

[runephoenix6769]

It’s been over two years and Campaign 2 has wrapped up and still some of you insist that the Skyspear had Zuala executed because...homophobia! Damn... Folks, never once was that said or even alluded to!  Yasha said herself that in her matriarchal tribe of warrior women. (think the start of ww2 but everyone is goth asf  wrestling in dull scrub land or whatever you imagine the Xorhasian plains/steppes to look like) your mate was chosen for you!  (Matt even describes them approaching Yasha and Beau like this)

You’re telling me that a gaggle of buff ladies like this, and Xena, that there wouldn’t be a few same sex couples?  Yasha and Zuala they were both avoiding an eventual arranged marriage with someone they didn’t love! That does not homophobia make! Or are you guys just locked into the homophobia angle cause its somehow more juicy/ angsty than an honest to Kord forced against your will arranged commitment ceremony?

Both are particularly nasty for obvious reasons, but don’t be shoehorning in your grimm dark fanon passing it off as canon when homophobia was never mentioned or implied! You can disapprove of two people being together without it being homophobic. As in you don’t disapprove of their sexuality but disapprove of say, your best warrior marrying a flowermaiden!  The execution was the punishment for breaking the Dolorov Tribe’s laws/customs, not because they liked to sip of the fluffy chalice!

[yashanydoren]

[mxmeiyun]

I love Yasha so much but she is such a useless lesbian, how on earth did she manage to get a wife

[pleasantsaladnerd]

A Few Years Later

After that amazing scene wih Yasha into he last episode I could not stop thinking about matts description its was so beautiful I could not help but draw it

Also I did a up close version of what I thought the seed would turn in to

Thank you to @ringwraith-4 for you inspirational help with you colour ideas 💜

The leaves are inspired by the angel wing (also known as elephant ears) plant with the flowers being hydrangeas

[lexa-lives-in-us]

What if they don't get Beau on time and...

Yasha, teleported away with a flower chain still in her hand, standing in Nicodranas with a stunned expression, knowing Beau has been left behind: "I have so many flowers to give her..."

[saintdollyparton]

I don't know how I'm gonna cope with seeing Zuala in the Yasha issue of TM9 Origins but I'm willing to bet I will sob. I can't wait, honestly.

[hwanton]

Am I the only one who gets such intense Yasha vibes from this song? I think it's just perfect for her, not the Yasha of right now mind you, I'm talking about the Yasha of back then who was chained and broken. I can feel her desperation in this song, while she's trying to survive because she no longer knows how to live. I can feel the loss of Zuala in this song, but I also see the want of being loved again, of feeling that warmth again, and the fear of it. The blame and the guilt that is anchoring her down and doesn't let her breathe, that is telling her no. The fight raging within herself.

"I was looking for a breath of life

A little touch of heavenly light

But all the choirs in my head sang no

To get a dream of life again

A little of vision of the start and the end

But all the choirs in my head sang no"

And then, amidst this feverish inner struggle that is tearing her apart, I see Yasha's dream.

"It's a harder way

And it's come to claim her

And I always say

We should be together

I can see below

'Cause there's something in here

And if you are gone

I will not belong here"

It's Zuala, the Zuala Yasha sees in her dream, the Zuala that tells her to not let her be shackles. And Yasha sees her, looking below, she sees her there, but also realizes that she's gone, and that she can no longer belong to chains made of guilt and shame. The harder way is self-forgivness. So she leaps.

"And I started to hear it again

But this time it wasn't the end"

And the pain is still there, the self-doubt still creeps in, but it isn't the end. No, it's a beginning.

"And my heart is a hollow plain

For the devil to dance again"

I see numbness and the hollowness of a heart so tired and yet I see hope. I see her finally let her walls be breached, letting herself love and be loved again.

And then again the last strofa:

"I was looking for a breath of life

A little touch of heavenly light

But all the choirs in my head sang no"

The way the last no drags itself to the end of the song and fades, I like to think that's the last breath of Yasha's guilt. And then comes silence. But this time it brings along a quiteness that isn't so deafening anymore, it brings along peace.

[straightasacirclestuff]

Impersonating Yasha writing to Zuala? More likely than you think

[atimeofbeing]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Beauregard Lionett/Yasha, Yasha/Zuala (Critical Role), Beauregard Lionett & Zuala Characters: Beauregard Lionett, Yasha (Critical Role), Zuala (Critical Role) Additional Tags: Temporary Character Death, mild e114 spoilers Summary:

Two strangers meet in the dark and talk about the love of a woman.