Rewatch Reax - C2E118-125

[rosemuse]

Reax!

- maybe it's just that i wasn't paying as much attention the first two times because i was so swept up in the emotions of the story, lolol, but i'd entirely forgotten that dagen is ranger class! he's a pretty decent dnd ranger!!!! and this helps the M9 a lot actually!

- kiriiiiii message <3

- dagen: 'you are my favorite weird wizard friend'
caleb: 'thank you'

- the creepy ring of statues :[ i still feel a bit bad for jester (just in terms of her losing a few years off of her life, and going home to her mom, who would definitely notice and say 'oh you're growing up so fast' and jester wouldn't know how to talk about it, looking at herself in the mirror and just wondering,) (ultimately it doesn't bother her much luckily! but still, it was kinda rough,)

- and fjord just so worried for jester ;__; and asking her to be more careful in taking risks, with lucien and the tombtakers targeting her as well due to her scrying and messaging abilities and just!! he loves her! and seeing her sacrifice herself, even if for the 'greater good' is terrible! he admires her big heart and her courage (and most of all her confidence and her ability to just be herself!) but he does want to see her value herself more. (also yesssssss the fjorester kiss. :''''''D)

- oh yes the giant horrific cherub baby monster

- holy fuck @ jester dealing 106 points of damage against it tho

- sdguh ugh the horrific not-quite-alive forest

- oh this is where the yasha misunderstanding sending and message spells starts lmao, i love herrr

- veth: *hiding*
beau (whispering): 'veth, i'm here, you bitch. i know you're fucking down here... you bitch,'
veth: *gives beau a wet willy*

- beauuuu asking yasha out on a daaate <333

- travis (freaking out about fjord getting impaled by the other automaton): 'i'll cast elfriich mayst'
matt: '??????'
travis: 'oh NO,' DD: 'i mean eldritch blast'

- aw sam's lit up menorah flask for the holidays i didn't notice that before because i was only listening

- looool caleb using cat's ire to scooch fjord toward the healers and away from the automaton

- kfjsdklafkl lmao yess the veth asking yasha out just to fuck with her (because she knows yasha has a date with beau the next day)

- beau having a chat with caduceus about the horror forest and considering burning it and then caduceus just getting a bit too cryptic in his musings for beau's brain to comprehend lmao and then caduceus telling beau congrats on her date with yasha (because he definitely overheard) and beau like 'wait WHAT?'

- lmao caleb brushing some cat hair off of fjord (which is just liam fucking with travis to try to get him to start to sniffle)

- veth still being an absolute menace to beauyasha <3

- caleb noticing fjord and jester got together,

- fuckin lucien being The Most Annoying

- lmao lucien calling molly 'the weird period'

- cackling @ the start of veth's mutual vendetta with otis

- but god this entire fucking standoff is SO stressful because lucien won't let the M9 fucking sleep! they're so depleted on spells!!!! he is SUCH A SHITBAG, and he knows this!

- lucien being a dick (not like molly's effortless dickishness but more like pointed dickishness,) (but lol him making scary ominous jokes)

- 'same dick'

- also lol veth: 'i love my husband but he has NO game,'

- caleb telling veth 'i love you' and 'thank you' (for coming with them) T___T

- aww jester cuddling up with yasha (and them talking about their respective love interests <3333)

- i do enjoy when liam brings up potentially playing a halfling someday (multiple times!) throughout C2. he did have orym in the works pretty early iirc!

- also lol veth trying to kill otis

- i just enjoy caleb offering cats as luxury it's so sweet and funny (cats ARE luxurious <3)

- yesssss JESTER'S TAROT CARD READING FOR LUCIEN it's so goooood

- and the FIRST NUMBER LUCIEN ROLLS IS NINE god it's just!! poetic (and i remember getting chills the first time i watched it)

- caleb's memorial rooms <3333 and his childhood home

- the space floor <333 which has so much beacon influence, so much shadowgast influence,

- lmao it just keeps hitting me how reticent they're all being about essek (SO anxious about hoping for his help and trusting him and just thinking that it's unfeasible)

- sad about jester and lucien just having fun as cats and exploring around the tower :( he still has some Feels, and doesn't know why

- the eyessssssssss :)

- liam (british accent): 'we'll throw all the spaghetti at the wall (re. the M9 trying all sorts of solutions to remove the eyes) oh that's vax,'

- all of the M9 so deeply exhausted (with actual points of exhaustion) and just wanting to sleep ;__; and not knowing (or remembering) that the tombtakers don't sleep. :)

- (obviously this becomes a Problem)

- *gelidon attacks*
ashley (with her notebook over her head): 'i rolled A DRAGON??????'

- also lmao @ the tombtakers continually like 'what the FUCK do y'all get into to have multiple dragons after you?????' at the mighty nein. (particularly after hearing about ukotoa)

- lol skdjklsdjfkl sam!!! 'i'm going to use a CATACLYSM BOLT'
someone: 'what does that do???'
sam: 'i don't know, i found them and they just sound cool!'
sam (minutes later): 'are YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. THEY ONLY CAUSE ICE DAMAGE.' (gelidon is an ice dragon immune to ice damage)
(please i hope this makes it into the M9 animated series,)

- more quotes from cake (the band)

- lmao every time beau does some dope monk shit and catches matt off guard and he's like 'fuckin monks'

- jrkjklhkh otis and veth BOTH trying to cram and hide behind fjord from the dragon

- jester: 'ok i'm gonna do it. only for you fjord!' *heals him for 70 HP*
the rest of the M9: 'oh shit dang'
matt: 'and that day, her heart grew three sizes'

- aww sam ;_; 'do you guys ever get that feeling when we're playing like 'aw fuck i don't want this to ever end' (and yes they all agree)

- fjord kissing jester and thanking her for healing him and veth just like 0o0

- also poor dagen!!!! just following behind the group, watching them all fight a dragon, being like 'is this wild shit really worth it???'

- the wildmother referring to essek as a safe and distant star always makes me want to cry T_______T and i wonder if caduceus ever told essek about that later (also laura's little 'aww' ;o;)

- loooooooooool bye tombtakers

- also lol veth SO mad she's like 'i shoulda fuckin' killed otis' and 'never trust a small person'

- tHREE ONES in initiative?? oof

- lmao liam in the middle of a break and the group trying to yell at him to cast counterspell during the triple counterspell and him quickly coming back like 'I'VE BEEN THINKING COUNTERSPELL FOR LIKE AN HOUR'

- i love that ridic battle bg music with the horn that the rest of the group always end up trumpeting along with

- also gosh them FINALLY getting away from the tombtakers

- no one on the cast being able to remember or really care what otis's pronouns are so matt's just like 'sure, any pronouns work for them'

- jester's sending to yudala fon is always a classic,

- mulan-ing

- jester: 'essek said no weapons out [when we arrive]'
veth: 'but... but... beau's body is a weapon'
beau (smug): 'yep ;)'

- jester hugging essek cries sobs cries and he's embarrassed but he's getting used to it, he likes her hugs. ;__; even if he doesn't feel he deserves them yet.

- essek ;________; feeling like absolute crud in knowing he's still not quite trusted yet

- and essek just filled with guilt and being unable to look caleb in the eyes, and anxiously drinking his whiskey hot chocolate after hearing everything

- i still always feel fucking feral over the shadowgast 'time' conversation. (not weeks, not months.) caleb telling essek to take a moment to breathe. knowing exactly how essek feels. caleb telling essek that it will take him, personally, more time to trust essek, wanting to see essek's actions and capacity to change. CALEB BRIEFLY CUPPING ESSEK'S FACE COMFORTINGLY, essek definitely leaning into it. and knowing that they're canon now! and they have lived in a cozy house together for years filled with lovely trinkets from their travels and art from their friends and books and cookies and caduceus's tea and they kiss all the time and also fuck and are letting themselves have a little happiness and are still working toward their goals of trying to Do Better, in mirroring each other with seeing the good in one another and calling each other out when they go too far in their hubris,

- artagan just popping in with a mai tai and testing out what his hair would look like straightened (he doesn't like it)

- also lmao caduceus's successful divine intervention SO good. (and the sheer amount of divine interventions the M9 amass after this)

- jester fixing caduceus's hair after all that lmao

- 'i love it when a woman i respect laughs at me for no reason'

- aww, them saying bye to dagen (for now) and him dad-ing beauregard and jester kissing his cheek and him bashfully going 'aww get out of here' and caduceus slipping him some of his hot cocoa balls and dagen accidentally eating one and almost inhaling cocoa powder lmao

- two nat 20sssss (also halas continues to be The Worst)

- lmao caleb saying 'eldritch bleeeeeehst' to prove it's him and not halas having taken him over

- kldfsjgkl beau rolling EXTREMELY HIGH (on a history check i think?) and matt just like 'holy shit bro' an d laura like 'if you ever need a dnd class, remember monks' and tal like 'wow no one liked you [beau/monks] in high school did they?' [re. them being insufferable know-it-alls]

- getting to visit allura! :''''D and kima!!

- the star razor being a vestige and allura just like 0-0

- the M9 just consistently trying so hard to meet the tal'dorei council (vox machina) lmao (but also it's SO funny to me that bells hells connect the trio of parties and communicate with both a lot in C3 and become friends! but the M9 and vox machina still don't know each other very well.)

- kima absolutely like i see you're also a lesbian here take my sword @ yasha

- jkljkl how did i never notice caleb pranking allura and kima by leaving a celebone on their tea tray and him just kinda winking at jester and veth

- NICE veth learning a mind protection spell from allura <3

- god. the whole discussion with beau and yudala fon ;__; and yudala telling beau and VALIDATING beau's skepticism of the cobalt soul by admitting that there was corruption in their ranks with zeenoth, who accepted bribes and allowed beau to be kidnapped into their organization, and that zeenoth will see justice for their crimes! AND APOLOGIZING to beau. as the head of the cobalt soul!!!!! and that beau's dad is also liable to be punished and jailed and beau may oversee some of that and also hold him to trial. and this just hitting beau all at once. that what she went through WAS UNFAIR, and she didn't deserve it! and that she CAN seek out justice for it. and it's just. so so good. it's so good! and that feel of realizing, when you're older, that shit you've gone through was actually pretty bad and it's okay to admit that it was and take action. ;o; it's just so many feelings.

- and yudala telling beau that they admire her sense of justice and that the cobalt soul is not infallible and it's just jsdkfjsklghasldgh augh!

- and beau just hugging dairon so hard, for telling her story, for standing up for beau and for being a good mentor to her and doing this much! cries!!! and beau needed someone on her side so much.

- kdgjklhl caleb a little stunned by how powerful allura's staff is and he's monotone like 'it is a wizard's best friend' and the rest of the M9 going '...ewh'

- also lmao veth just carrying around that cursed dagger for a little while and them finally just managing to separate her from it.

- caleb futzing around with figuring out some arcane shit and beau just bothering him with her date ideas and caleb being a VERY good wingman and agreeing to modify the tower for her date with yasha.