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Rewatch Reax - C2E90-97
Reax!!
- encroaching on some of the BEST episodes, bathhouse shenanigans, essek coming over for dinner, the shadowgast fliiiiiirting, the researching at essek's place, FINISHING THE SPELL, ISHARNAI, BEAU BACKSTORY AND BREAKDOWN, the cupcaaaaaaaaaaake, VETH VETH VETH, the absolutely buckwild liveshow with all of my favorite scenes,
- SNEA SNAKE
- beau's ninja stars that say 'bob-bob'
- STAY ON TASK WIDOGAST
- jester crying realizing she's looking at molly's own art for his tarot deck ;____;
- sdfkhsjhg just all the bathhouse chaos,
- one of the silliest caleb moments gosh I LOVE HIM SO MUCH,
- aw essek laughing at caleb's little practical joke on fjord i didn't notice that the first time
- jeez essek exhausted and explaining about adeen tasithar being the traitor to the dynasty and jester like 'oh so that's why you're so tired' and GIRL YOU DON'T KNOW THE HALF OF IT,
- caleb asking essek a question about the whole situation and then interrupting himself to say hello to essek and essek returning the greeting before caleb continues on,
- beau learning undercommon <3
- god essek is SUCH an asshole god i love it, just blatantly lying to their faces, leading the M9 along on his entire fake spiel, fucking with adeen's memory, JUST THE WORST. AND I LOVE HIM.
- fjord pretending to be vence to interrogate adeen and the guards fake!dragging him out of the jail. and fjord loudly fake!protesting 'you'll never take me alive, you floating fuck!' and essek just: 'you're overselling it you're overselling it... what was that?' fjord: 'i take it back, i'm sorry.'
- the fucking pinnacle of dead sprinkle jokes
- essek you owe the M9 so much for bringing about peace talks between countries and cleaning up YOUR mess (and he knows this so so much) (you owe them in friendship and trust and hugs and kisses ok)
- sdjklghaklgh the M9 realizing they hardly know anything about essek beyond him ferrying them around and him often being annoyed by that. beau: 'ooh i'm aloof i'm essek'. and jester just messaging him again like 'pls come to dinner we just realized we don't know anything about you??? single? kids? swipe right? mom's name???'
- also lol matt just so sideswiped by the M9 completely befriending essek, the guy that was supposed to be a traitor to their trust and just part of the antagonistic hierarchy, and instead he's like. practically married to caleb by C3,
- and them M9 just having a nice little house party and playing instruments and drinking and caleb summoning frumpkin lol. also nott noticing essek being ~funky~ YOU ARE SO RIGHT, GIRL,
- jester playing piano and yasha playing harp and caduceus playing flute (all loudly) and everyone just having fun and dancing weh
- essek visiting and them just inviting him right in sobs sobs T___T he is a mess and he's lonely and he likes them so much and he's being eaten alive by his guilt, GOD I LOVE IT SO MUCH
- caduceus puttering off to cook and them all just chatting and drinking wine and yasha awkwardly like 'i'm gonna go build a fire'
- lmao fjord awkwardly talking to essek and frumpkin jumping into essek's lap ;o;
- i just love their chats with essek so so much, it truly felt like such a breath of fresh air
- lol jester asking essek if he lives alone and grinning when he says he does and looking between him and caleb CUTE
- the bottom half of the table eating cookies... fig newtons? i've gotta go grab some cookies of my own now, lol
- beau like: 'fuck... fuck i like him' re. essek after he admits to really liking the M9 for who they are and what they represent. and jester immediately like 'do you wanna go get in the hot tub?????'
- yasha: 'do you ever get lonely in your solitude?' essek: 'i didn't think so, until recently.' T______T
- jester just sketching essek <33
- i nearly forgot about caleb giving essek the dunamantic potion to study and jester like 'see this is what people get for being nice to us' and caduceus like 'plenty of people are nice to you' and jester just hugging caduceus :')
- i STILL want to know what kind of leyline research essek was doing
- caleb: '...and i think you and i share interests' [to essek] and laura and sam nodding and smiling to each other SUCH big shadowgast shippers lmao
- T___T caleb talking with jester and telling her she's being too hard on herself re. her rocky feelings about who she is and her involvement with the traveler and telling her that he's a transmutation wizard, he deals with change all the time, and he can see that jester has the ability to change people and that she's a good friend and that she moves people and does it every day. T__________T and just thinking about how jester has gotten through to essek already and is such a dear friend to him in the end and that he helps the M9 and seeks out solutions and atonement and grows into a caring and kind person because of her, because of them!!!!!!!! she is so important!!! I LOVE YOU JESTER <3 and also!! the way that jester always tries to find the good in things and continues to hope and believe in the good and how this carries her through life and through her own challenges - in reuniting with her family members, in thinking about what she wants to do with her life! how she wants to express this through her art!!!!!! and she does!!!!!!!! ;___;
- and jester just hugging calebbbb
- i smell like a crayon
- essek: 'so uh... howdoidothis... how was your day?'
- lol beau pressuring essek a bit too much and caleb just like 'hey you're making him a little uncomfortable'
- also jester trying the very boring cookies essek has. gosh his towers. i have so many thoughts, still. the modern austerity and the rarely-used furniture and all the doors locked and barely any good food vs. his house with caleb that's warm and cluttered and lived-in and open and filled with books and odds and ends from their travels and jester's paintings and good (if stale) almond cookies and a cozy sitting room with couches and guest rooms that are used!! and essek and caleb have had sex in everyyyyy roooom,
- ooooh essek's multipurpose arcane circular ring and caleb just admiring it and telling essek it's beautiful! and also lol caleb taking out all of his artifacts from the happy fun ball and essek instantly engrossed with looking over them while half-listening and caleb immediately recognizing that slight distraction, lol. nerrrds <333
- :''') love it when essek just rolls up his sleeves and gets super invested in the nitty gritty of his research (propriety be damned) and he's down on the floor looking over research with caleb and nott <3
- finishing the transmogrification spell!!!!!!! and caleb just hugging essek and nott. ;o; (and thinking about how he does the same at the end after kingsley is brought back wahhh, just drawing the two of them into the biggest hug)
- caleb, to essek: 'we work well together, we should explore other things... other things.'
laura: nods suggestively
- (i am very much a massive shadowgast fan and i'm only slightly sorry my bias is showing)
- them just trying so hard, and essek being willing to dig up his lawn and all of them reassuring nott, even if the spell didn't work. <3
- jester: 'your pastries could use some work, though'
essek: 'i accept the critique, i will punish the bakery'
jester: 'DDDD:'
essek: 'i... i was joking'
- lmao essek taking caleb aside by the shoulder to ask him to remember to cite him on the paper as well for the formation of their spell, and caleb like 'of course!' and beau half teasingly eyeing them like 'you two talk so closely together, it's kinda...'
- beauuuuuu ;__;
- jester: 'we're going to find the evil laughing lady, we'll still be at the peace talks, breakfast was nice!'
essek: 'of course, i have some things to do as well.'
jester, to caleb: 'he said he loves you so much, caleb. he was like 'ooh, caleb,'
caleb/liam: 'insight check 23'
jester: aww :[
- lmao jester mimicking isharnai was oddly cute/creepy
- sam singing sweet caroline in 'abyssal' (BUM bum bum)
- 'the leaky nip'
- jester and her daaaaad ;o; (and how much he cares about her ridiculously, in spite of everything!)
- and beau feeling absolutely AWFUL, having to go meet her own shitty dad for the first time in a few years, and seeing jester happy with her dad,
- jester and nott and the bandit meetup lol,
- beau crying over meeting her brother ;_______;
- but ugh just! lol i have gone on entire tweet threads about beau's parents, the subtlety of their difficulties with each other and beau's dad not valuing his family and only really ever seeing them as 'assets' - and his love is for the 'assets'. and! how whatever misery he brought upon himself - whatever he gave up to isharnai - very well could have been the love for his family. because he was sure it wasn't something he needed.
- and beau just so obviously upset and hurt by being there at her old home! she was hurt! and she wasn't 'loved' as she'd wanted to be!!!! and her father, as always, twisting her words, and making her sound like the 'difficult' one. for as much as she made trouble, she wanted to be useful! she wanted to be loved! and beau just crying!! because he sounds so reasonable, makes things sound so simple. when it's not. to the point that it's almost indiscernible that he's the asshole. that her mom is a doormat and enabling of this behavior. (and is likely treated similarly, in other ways.)
he still abused beau, hitting her for breaking his 'ideal' template for his family. in bribing zeenoth and the cobalt soul to take her in. and he absolutely deserves jail time for that.
- and god. just. yasha falling in love with beau here. at rock bottom. when beau is crying and hurt. knowing how strong beau is and how smart she is and seeing all of the amazing things this woman has done, her accomplishments, how hard she works and how much she puts her trust in her friends and how much hope she places in them. and yasha telling beau's dad to learn how to value beau. it's so good. ;____;
- harpy fiiiight (but also lol RIP their horses again)
- oooh resonant echo for the first time
- beau being willing to exile herself out of love for her friends and just crying and, GOD @ nott considering reigniting an entire war,
- yasha already too miserable and has no misery to offer ;o;
- have you ever had a blueberry cupcake? :)
- (laura bailey tho. WHAT a dnd player, GOD WHAT A MOMENT. I STILL LOVE IT SO SO SO MUCH. I LOVE JESTER SO MUCH!)
- and it just completely catching marisha off guard, just utterly devastated as beau, considering making a horrible choice, and then jester just sweeps in with the cupcake and leaves her, and everyone, completely flabbergasted to the point they ended the episode just a bit early lmao
- when yasha yells or screams in her rages and thunder crashes and lighting flickers way off in the distance: good shit
- shakaste's brother, war caster
- nott deeply debating whether to return home or stay with the M9 after getting her body back and!!! there is no 'right' answer! she loves both of her families! and it's complicated! and that's sometimes not okay! and she will have to live with that! <3
- also lol beau leading a meditation teaching session for nott in the dome in the middle of a zombie swamp.. and also caleb and jester being purposely annoying to fuck with beau and interrupt it loooool
- jester reassuring caleb that she won't ever use modify memory on him or any one in the group ;_____;
- jfdskg jfdkj
jester: 'does anyone have a crush on me?'
beau: 'jester... you KNOW everyone does.'
- essek having to deal with suffering in the bright sunlight and jester painting the parasol for essek T____________T and marisha genuinely just like 'oh he's so cute with his parasol' ;o; and how he definitely keeps that parasol among his most treasured posessions. T__T
- caleb putting his hair up in a ponytail nice nice and lol fjord like 'i can do that too' and it's just a little awkward topknot lol
- loooool artagan, WHAT A MESS, but he's such a fun character,
- you really do have to feel for jester, though, ugh ;__; such a huge chunk of her life dedicated to the traveler, not realizing she was being tricked by a fey. it WAS unfair! and she realizes this! and it's hard and it hurts! and her easily forgiving artie and still caring for him because he WAS still a friend to her and one that she'd needed desperately while growing up, and knowing that somewhere inside artagan, he cares for her, too. (although he's shit at showing it lmao, and has very fey morality. but he does.)
- nothing happens for a reason. it's ~absolute fucking chaos.~
- jester: 'are we a cult? oh mannnn :('
- problitunity
- insect fights
- i like big beaus and i cannot lie
- clay faaaaaaam ;__;
- jester: 'i don't wanna be a good cleric i wanna hit him :('
- caleb getting the hdywtdt on the gorgon!
- finallyyyyy caduceus reuniting with his family T_______T augh. the clays are just so good and i love the ridiculous sibling interactions.
- fdsjklgj caleb and nott admitting that they sometimes find jester a little creepy (and the traveler creepier)
- chaos crew playing harmless pranks on the petrified people <3 (nott: 'let's put pinecones in their hands so that when they wake up they're like 'why the fuck am i holding a pinecone??')
- caduceus and calliope ;~;
- cackling @ yasha like 'how about we rearrange their furniture?' and fjord (the only 'responsible' one who is deeply disappointed and thinking yasha was above this): 'yasha' and yasha like 'what? it's harmless,'
- jester: 'well, i'm asking you to open your heart to chaos'
- agh @ caduceus just hugging his family tight and so deeply happy to be with them again ;__; knowing he isn't ready to come home just yet. the last to leave and the last to return. <333333333
- god. fucking episode 97. IT'S. so much. one of my favorite episodes tbqh,
- hhhhhhh THE CONVERSATION~
- esseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
- 'maybe you should try friends sometime' TO ludinus's face
- and! it's just!! you KNOW caleb was slowly letting down his walls around essek. thinking 'maybe this is okay and i think i kind of like him'. and in this episode you can just see those walls INSTANTLY slamming into place again. ;__; and caleb afterwards just busying himself and pouring a ton of his time into magical research (including building the tower) to distract himself, god. it does take him a while to trust essek again! but he sees the potential there!
- yasha getting all flustered by jester saying she'd have intimate knowledge of her bicep if she tattooed it and yasha just BLUSHING and awkwardly laughing, like 'i'm going to keep carrying this clay'. she is just a big lesbo. <3 (also also i do like to think she was included in the number of the group who have crushes on jester lbr,) (the only ones who don't are nott and caduceus lol.)
- jester's entire discussion about the traveler with her mom is just. amazing.
- veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeth <333333
- i still get teary over this part every time ;___; she's herself!!!!
- veth just hugging caleb T0T and the both of them being so proud of each other and teary and they are so important to each other and love each other so so much!!!!
- veth planting THE biggest kiss on yeza lol
- the awkward beauyasha fish taco date with fjord third-wheeling is just so, (so much lesbian innuendo,) (beau, you're so beautiful,)
- and jester and caduceus going outfit shopping THE BEST <3 SO MANY GOOD OUTFITS. THEY ALL LOOK SO HOT. caleb in his classy understated wizard robes with the burgundy lining, yasha in her gorgeous black velvet dress with the slit up the side, beau in her snazzy looking gray suit with blue accents, fjord in his naval-style fit, veth in her SO CUTE yellow dress with double paneled buttons up the front, caduceus in his seafoam justacorps (so GOOD) AND jester in her flouncy pink dress and marion in her more understated darker pink mermaid gown in a similar cut. I LOVE IT SO.
- fjord's RIDICULOUS hat <3
- 'where do you live?' 'around'
- he CANNOT lie to jester to save his life lol. claiming he has IBS, saying he hates parties,
- ESSEK. just drinking all of the petrification poison out of pure anxiety and just chugging alcohol, and veth and jester having to drag him out of the party like a sadly deflated helium balloon,
- fjord being so unused to being the recipient of a sending from jester lol
- WEHH ESSEK <3 just terrible but i love him so
- and HE IS MISERABLE AND HE'S REALIZING HE'S HEAD OVER HEELS FOR CALEB (WHO IS LOOKING SO HOT) AND HE LOVES THE M9 SO MUCH AND HE'S A FUCKING DISASTER,
- YOU WERE NOT BORN WITH VENOM IN YOUR VEINS, THE SHADOWGAST FOREHEAD KISS, THEY ARE EACH OTHERS MIRROR, ESSEK HAS SO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR GOOD AND IN TURN CALEB HAS TO START SEEING HIMSELF AS A GOOD PERSON BECAUSE HE SEES IT IN ESSEK, AND ESSEK IS GOING TO TRY SO HARD! AND FEEL SO GUILTY! AND WORK FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE TO DO BETTER AND REPAIR THINGS AS MUCH AS HE CAN. AND ALSO KISS CALEB A LOT.
- encroaching on some of the BEST episodes, bathhouse shenanigans, essek coming over for dinner, the shadowgast fliiiiiirting, the researching at essek's place, FINISHING THE SPELL, ISHARNAI, BEAU BACKSTORY AND BREAKDOWN, the cupcaaaaaaaaaaake, VETH VETH VETH, the absolutely buckwild liveshow with all of my favorite scenes,
- SNEA SNAKE
- beau's ninja stars that say 'bob-bob'
- STAY ON TASK WIDOGAST
- jester crying realizing she's looking at molly's own art for his tarot deck ;____;
- sdfkhsjhg just all the bathhouse chaos,
- one of the silliest caleb moments gosh I LOVE HIM SO MUCH,
- aw essek laughing at caleb's little practical joke on fjord i didn't notice that the first time
- jeez essek exhausted and explaining about adeen tasithar being the traitor to the dynasty and jester like 'oh so that's why you're so tired' and GIRL YOU DON'T KNOW THE HALF OF IT,
- caleb asking essek a question about the whole situation and then interrupting himself to say hello to essek and essek returning the greeting before caleb continues on,
- beau learning undercommon <3
- god essek is SUCH an asshole god i love it, just blatantly lying to their faces, leading the M9 along on his entire fake spiel, fucking with adeen's memory, JUST THE WORST. AND I LOVE HIM.
- fjord pretending to be vence to interrogate adeen and the guards fake!dragging him out of the jail. and fjord loudly fake!protesting 'you'll never take me alive, you floating fuck!' and essek just: 'you're overselling it you're overselling it... what was that?' fjord: 'i take it back, i'm sorry.'
- the fucking pinnacle of dead sprinkle jokes
- essek you owe the M9 so much for bringing about peace talks between countries and cleaning up YOUR mess (and he knows this so so much) (you owe them in friendship and trust and hugs and kisses ok)
- sdjklghaklgh the M9 realizing they hardly know anything about essek beyond him ferrying them around and him often being annoyed by that. beau: 'ooh i'm aloof i'm essek'. and jester just messaging him again like 'pls come to dinner we just realized we don't know anything about you??? single? kids? swipe right? mom's name???'
- also lol matt just so sideswiped by the M9 completely befriending essek, the guy that was supposed to be a traitor to their trust and just part of the antagonistic hierarchy, and instead he's like. practically married to caleb by C3,
- and them M9 just having a nice little house party and playing instruments and drinking and caleb summoning frumpkin lol. also nott noticing essek being ~funky~ YOU ARE SO RIGHT, GIRL,
- jester playing piano and yasha playing harp and caduceus playing flute (all loudly) and everyone just having fun and dancing weh
- essek visiting and them just inviting him right in sobs sobs T___T he is a mess and he's lonely and he likes them so much and he's being eaten alive by his guilt, GOD I LOVE IT SO MUCH
- caduceus puttering off to cook and them all just chatting and drinking wine and yasha awkwardly like 'i'm gonna go build a fire'
- lmao fjord awkwardly talking to essek and frumpkin jumping into essek's lap ;o;
- i just love their chats with essek so so much, it truly felt like such a breath of fresh air
- lol jester asking essek if he lives alone and grinning when he says he does and looking between him and caleb CUTE
- the bottom half of the table eating cookies... fig newtons? i've gotta go grab some cookies of my own now, lol
- beau like: 'fuck... fuck i like him' re. essek after he admits to really liking the M9 for who they are and what they represent. and jester immediately like 'do you wanna go get in the hot tub?????'
- yasha: 'do you ever get lonely in your solitude?' essek: 'i didn't think so, until recently.' T______T
- jester just sketching essek <33
- i nearly forgot about caleb giving essek the dunamantic potion to study and jester like 'see this is what people get for being nice to us' and caduceus like 'plenty of people are nice to you' and jester just hugging caduceus :')
- i STILL want to know what kind of leyline research essek was doing
- caleb: '...and i think you and i share interests' [to essek] and laura and sam nodding and smiling to each other SUCH big shadowgast shippers lmao
- T___T caleb talking with jester and telling her she's being too hard on herself re. her rocky feelings about who she is and her involvement with the traveler and telling her that he's a transmutation wizard, he deals with change all the time, and he can see that jester has the ability to change people and that she's a good friend and that she moves people and does it every day. T__________T and just thinking about how jester has gotten through to essek already and is such a dear friend to him in the end and that he helps the M9 and seeks out solutions and atonement and grows into a caring and kind person because of her, because of them!!!!!!!! she is so important!!! I LOVE YOU JESTER <3 and also!! the way that jester always tries to find the good in things and continues to hope and believe in the good and how this carries her through life and through her own challenges - in reuniting with her family members, in thinking about what she wants to do with her life! how she wants to express this through her art!!!!!! and she does!!!!!!!! ;___;
- and jester just hugging calebbbb
- i smell like a crayon
- essek: 'so uh... howdoidothis... how was your day?'
- lol beau pressuring essek a bit too much and caleb just like 'hey you're making him a little uncomfortable'
- also jester trying the very boring cookies essek has. gosh his towers. i have so many thoughts, still. the modern austerity and the rarely-used furniture and all the doors locked and barely any good food vs. his house with caleb that's warm and cluttered and lived-in and open and filled with books and odds and ends from their travels and jester's paintings and good (if stale) almond cookies and a cozy sitting room with couches and guest rooms that are used!! and essek and caleb have had sex in everyyyyy roooom,
- ooooh essek's multipurpose arcane circular ring and caleb just admiring it and telling essek it's beautiful! and also lol caleb taking out all of his artifacts from the happy fun ball and essek instantly engrossed with looking over them while half-listening and caleb immediately recognizing that slight distraction, lol. nerrrds <333
- :''') love it when essek just rolls up his sleeves and gets super invested in the nitty gritty of his research (propriety be damned) and he's down on the floor looking over research with caleb and nott <3
- finishing the transmogrification spell!!!!!!! and caleb just hugging essek and nott. ;o; (and thinking about how he does the same at the end after kingsley is brought back wahhh, just drawing the two of them into the biggest hug)
- caleb, to essek: 'we work well together, we should explore other things... other things.'
laura: nods suggestively
- (i am very much a massive shadowgast fan and i'm only slightly sorry my bias is showing)
- them just trying so hard, and essek being willing to dig up his lawn and all of them reassuring nott, even if the spell didn't work. <3
- jester: 'your pastries could use some work, though'
essek: 'i accept the critique, i will punish the bakery'
jester: 'DDDD:'
essek: 'i... i was joking'
- lmao essek taking caleb aside by the shoulder to ask him to remember to cite him on the paper as well for the formation of their spell, and caleb like 'of course!' and beau half teasingly eyeing them like 'you two talk so closely together, it's kinda...'
- beauuuuuu ;__;
- jester: 'we're going to find the evil laughing lady, we'll still be at the peace talks, breakfast was nice!'
essek: 'of course, i have some things to do as well.'
jester, to caleb: 'he said he loves you so much, caleb. he was like 'ooh, caleb,'
caleb/liam: 'insight check 23'
jester: aww :[
- lmao jester mimicking isharnai was oddly cute/creepy
- sam singing sweet caroline in 'abyssal' (BUM bum bum)
- 'the leaky nip'
- jester and her daaaaad ;o; (and how much he cares about her ridiculously, in spite of everything!)
- and beau feeling absolutely AWFUL, having to go meet her own shitty dad for the first time in a few years, and seeing jester happy with her dad,
- jester and nott and the bandit meetup lol,
- beau crying over meeting her brother ;_______;
- but ugh just! lol i have gone on entire tweet threads about beau's parents, the subtlety of their difficulties with each other and beau's dad not valuing his family and only really ever seeing them as 'assets' - and his love is for the 'assets'. and! how whatever misery he brought upon himself - whatever he gave up to isharnai - very well could have been the love for his family. because he was sure it wasn't something he needed.
- and beau just so obviously upset and hurt by being there at her old home! she was hurt! and she wasn't 'loved' as she'd wanted to be!!!! and her father, as always, twisting her words, and making her sound like the 'difficult' one. for as much as she made trouble, she wanted to be useful! she wanted to be loved! and beau just crying!! because he sounds so reasonable, makes things sound so simple. when it's not. to the point that it's almost indiscernible that he's the asshole. that her mom is a doormat and enabling of this behavior. (and is likely treated similarly, in other ways.)
he still abused beau, hitting her for breaking his 'ideal' template for his family. in bribing zeenoth and the cobalt soul to take her in. and he absolutely deserves jail time for that.
- and god. just. yasha falling in love with beau here. at rock bottom. when beau is crying and hurt. knowing how strong beau is and how smart she is and seeing all of the amazing things this woman has done, her accomplishments, how hard she works and how much she puts her trust in her friends and how much hope she places in them. and yasha telling beau's dad to learn how to value beau. it's so good. ;____;
- harpy fiiiight (but also lol RIP their horses again)
- oooh resonant echo for the first time
- beau being willing to exile herself out of love for her friends and just crying and, GOD @ nott considering reigniting an entire war,
- yasha already too miserable and has no misery to offer ;o;
- have you ever had a blueberry cupcake? :)
- (laura bailey tho. WHAT a dnd player, GOD WHAT A MOMENT. I STILL LOVE IT SO SO SO MUCH. I LOVE JESTER SO MUCH!)
- and it just completely catching marisha off guard, just utterly devastated as beau, considering making a horrible choice, and then jester just sweeps in with the cupcake and leaves her, and everyone, completely flabbergasted to the point they ended the episode just a bit early lmao
- when yasha yells or screams in her rages and thunder crashes and lighting flickers way off in the distance: good shit
- shakaste's brother, war caster
- nott deeply debating whether to return home or stay with the M9 after getting her body back and!!! there is no 'right' answer! she loves both of her families! and it's complicated! and that's sometimes not okay! and she will have to live with that! <3
- also lol beau leading a meditation teaching session for nott in the dome in the middle of a zombie swamp.. and also caleb and jester being purposely annoying to fuck with beau and interrupt it loooool
- jester reassuring caleb that she won't ever use modify memory on him or any one in the group ;_____;
- jfdskg jfdkj
jester: 'does anyone have a crush on me?'
beau: 'jester... you KNOW everyone does.'
- essek having to deal with suffering in the bright sunlight and jester painting the parasol for essek T____________T and marisha genuinely just like 'oh he's so cute with his parasol' ;o; and how he definitely keeps that parasol among his most treasured posessions. T__T
- caleb putting his hair up in a ponytail nice nice and lol fjord like 'i can do that too' and it's just a little awkward topknot lol
- loooool artagan, WHAT A MESS, but he's such a fun character,
- you really do have to feel for jester, though, ugh ;__; such a huge chunk of her life dedicated to the traveler, not realizing she was being tricked by a fey. it WAS unfair! and she realizes this! and it's hard and it hurts! and her easily forgiving artie and still caring for him because he WAS still a friend to her and one that she'd needed desperately while growing up, and knowing that somewhere inside artagan, he cares for her, too. (although he's shit at showing it lmao, and has very fey morality. but he does.)
- nothing happens for a reason. it's ~absolute fucking chaos.~
- jester: 'are we a cult? oh mannnn :('
- problitunity
- insect fights
- i like big beaus and i cannot lie
- clay faaaaaaam ;__;
- jester: 'i don't wanna be a good cleric i wanna hit him :('
- caleb getting the hdywtdt on the gorgon!
- finallyyyyy caduceus reuniting with his family T_______T augh. the clays are just so good and i love the ridiculous sibling interactions.
- fdsjklgj caleb and nott admitting that they sometimes find jester a little creepy (and the traveler creepier)
- chaos crew playing harmless pranks on the petrified people <3 (nott: 'let's put pinecones in their hands so that when they wake up they're like 'why the fuck am i holding a pinecone??')
- caduceus and calliope ;~;
- cackling @ yasha like 'how about we rearrange their furniture?' and fjord (the only 'responsible' one who is deeply disappointed and thinking yasha was above this): 'yasha' and yasha like 'what? it's harmless,'
- jester: 'well, i'm asking you to open your heart to chaos'
- agh @ caduceus just hugging his family tight and so deeply happy to be with them again ;__; knowing he isn't ready to come home just yet. the last to leave and the last to return. <333333333
- god. fucking episode 97. IT'S. so much. one of my favorite episodes tbqh,
- hhhhhhh THE CONVERSATION~
- esseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
- 'maybe you should try friends sometime' TO ludinus's face
- and! it's just!! you KNOW caleb was slowly letting down his walls around essek. thinking 'maybe this is okay and i think i kind of like him'. and in this episode you can just see those walls INSTANTLY slamming into place again. ;__; and caleb afterwards just busying himself and pouring a ton of his time into magical research (including building the tower) to distract himself, god. it does take him a while to trust essek again! but he sees the potential there!
- yasha getting all flustered by jester saying she'd have intimate knowledge of her bicep if she tattooed it and yasha just BLUSHING and awkwardly laughing, like 'i'm going to keep carrying this clay'. she is just a big lesbo. <3 (also also i do like to think she was included in the number of the group who have crushes on jester lbr,) (the only ones who don't are nott and caduceus lol.)
- jester's entire discussion about the traveler with her mom is just. amazing.
- veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeth <333333
- i still get teary over this part every time ;___; she's herself!!!!
- veth just hugging caleb T0T and the both of them being so proud of each other and teary and they are so important to each other and love each other so so much!!!!
- veth planting THE biggest kiss on yeza lol
- the awkward beauyasha fish taco date with fjord third-wheeling is just so, (so much lesbian innuendo,) (beau, you're so beautiful,)
- and jester and caduceus going outfit shopping THE BEST <3 SO MANY GOOD OUTFITS. THEY ALL LOOK SO HOT. caleb in his classy understated wizard robes with the burgundy lining, yasha in her gorgeous black velvet dress with the slit up the side, beau in her snazzy looking gray suit with blue accents, fjord in his naval-style fit, veth in her SO CUTE yellow dress with double paneled buttons up the front, caduceus in his seafoam justacorps (so GOOD) AND jester in her flouncy pink dress and marion in her more understated darker pink mermaid gown in a similar cut. I LOVE IT SO.
- fjord's RIDICULOUS hat <3
- 'where do you live?' 'around'
- he CANNOT lie to jester to save his life lol. claiming he has IBS, saying he hates parties,
- ESSEK. just drinking all of the petrification poison out of pure anxiety and just chugging alcohol, and veth and jester having to drag him out of the party like a sadly deflated helium balloon,
- fjord being so unused to being the recipient of a sending from jester lol
- WEHH ESSEK <3 just terrible but i love him so
- and HE IS MISERABLE AND HE'S REALIZING HE'S HEAD OVER HEELS FOR CALEB (WHO IS LOOKING SO HOT) AND HE LOVES THE M9 SO MUCH AND HE'S A FUCKING DISASTER,
- YOU WERE NOT BORN WITH VENOM IN YOUR VEINS, THE SHADOWGAST FOREHEAD KISS, THEY ARE EACH OTHERS MIRROR, ESSEK HAS SO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR GOOD AND IN TURN CALEB HAS TO START SEEING HIMSELF AS A GOOD PERSON BECAUSE HE SEES IT IN ESSEK, AND ESSEK IS GOING TO TRY SO HARD! AND FEEL SO GUILTY! AND WORK FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE TO DO BETTER AND REPAIR THINGS AS MUCH AS HE CAN. AND ALSO KISS CALEB A LOT.