#Bells Hells

[atlas-basil]

Happy lesbian visibility week to imogen temult specifically

[oddthesungod]

A good man at war

[dawning-skye]

"Is she your favourite?" still lives in my head rent free

[dangergggg]

Laudna.

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Orym and Dorian Storm from Critical Role. Dorian is carrying Orym, who has his arms over Dorian's shoulders and his legs around Dorian's waist. They're kissing and behind them is a colourful background with hearts and sparkles. Orym is also drawn with a long thin tail with a fluffy end. End description.]

Very self indulgent <3

[colealexart]

happy lesbian visibility week 💜

[art-of-eve]

I'm too excited and I was gonna post this reaction pic that I drew with something else but Laura Bailey just had to be possessed by Imogen like 😭

GIRL WE KNOW THAT'S YOUR GIRLFRIEND OKAY THANK YOU FOR THE CONFIRMATION ❤️❤️❤️

[leafspiritz]

happy lesbian day of visibility to imogen temult 🧡🤍🩷

[atleastweasel]

Finally finished this FCG I started the day after episode 92!

[thewhalelord]

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week Imogen Temult!!!!!

[kiiwiidrawer]

The Last Moment

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

One thing about Orym saying that he can't put down the lens he sees the world with is that he's completely correct, he's always going to be viewing the moon plot and the conflict with the Ruby Vanguard from the perspective of "a guy whose husband and father were murdered by the Vanguard", but the same could be said about the rest of the party. They all have pre-existing experiences and attitudes that have shaped their perspective on things. Orym isn't uniquely biased in this sense.

The most obvious one is of course Imogen, as her long-absent mother is a Vanguard general. She heard Liliana's voice in her Ruidusborn nightmares telling her to run as long as she had those nightmares, and she came to associate that with her mother trying to protect her from whatever the red storm was. It resulted in Imogen giving a lot of grace to Liliana once she found out she was alive and with the Vanguard, a grace that more recent experiences are now making Imogen start to believe was misplaced, but a grace that was born over what she considered her mother's voice to be for years.

Fearne was raised in relative isolation in the Feywild by Nana Morri, and as result her approach to a lot of the events she's now embroiled in has an oddly naive slant to it. The whole would is new to her and she's approaching it like someone who is new to it; there's a lack of understanding of implications that she has that goes beyond her simply being fey. This is best seen in how she's grappling with the reveal that Sorrowlord Zathuda is her biological father. She's aware that Zathuda is terrible and that the circumstances that led up to her birth are dubious but there's also a large part of her that desires a connection with him as her parent and feels like they could have a relationship. She's naive to what exactly she is to him, and also influenced by having grown up longing for the parents that left her with Morri.

Ashton lost their parents and found themself blown halfway across the world after a cult ritual went wrong, and had a spectacularly shitty life that he often found himself begging the gods to fix without answer, and as a result he's very down on the idea of gods and even more down on the idea of letting a cult do whatever they want in order to achieve the perfect world that is just beyond reach by whatever means they must. Especially after the entire shard debacle in which Ashton learned that their parents were definitely wrong to do what they did and there were no good ends for the means that they engaged in he's fallen even harder onto the line of, as he said himself, "I hope her ends are fucking great because these means are just not forgivable."

Laudna's sole experience with anything resembling a higher power for much of her 50-odd-years of life has been Delilah Briarwood, the woman who had her horrifically murdered and is still rather explicitly using her as a means to some unknowable-to-Laudna end. This has both made her one of the members of Bells Hells most open to the idea of there being no gods (no more puppet masters) but also the most broadly sympathetic towards Liliana's view of the Ruidusborn (that they are creations of Predathos with no choice but to be slaves to his whims). Her ardent belief that her lift ended on the Sun Tree thirty years ago also means that she often refuses to advocate for herself or her own needs, resulting in moments where she openly wonders if it's Imogen's destiny to join the Vanguard, despite having herself been at one point brutally murdered by a Vanguard general.

FCG made it his mission in life to help people; that desire drove a lot of what he did up to and including his final act of sacrifice for the Hells. They saw the people struggling against the Vanguard and with the world that the Vanguard created and chose to do what they could to help them. Their desire to help even extended towards the gods, as one of the first things they asked of the Changbringer upon gaining the ability to cast Commune was, "Do you need help?". FCG was also a character driven by a desperate desire to find purpose and to understand the "why" of their own existence, a desire that ultimately drove them towards religion as a means of shaping the meaning of his life, and made him the most openly religious member of the group up to the moment of his death.

Chetney, while the most able to look beyond his own biases by virtue of being the oldest and most emotionally mature member of the party, still carries with him the perspective of having been someone who ultimately made little impact on the world up until, in his twilight years, random chance granted him the power to affect change. He gained lycanthrophy, he met other adventurers in the Hells, and got caught up in an end of the world plot and is finally making a true difference in the world. It's made him, arguably, the most enthusiastic adventurer in the party because he views that adventure itself as a gift, and as a way to create a legacy. The desire of legacy is also the reason he made the bargain that he did with Nana Morri; to secure a legacy as a famous toymaker that would persist after he is gone.

Orym's right that he's biased, but it's fallacious to assume that an unbiased perspective exists, because everyone in the story has their lens through which they view the world that they can't put down, not just Orym.

[stupidlyinfatuatedonstorytelling]

Clips of Critical Role I saved on my phone part (34/?)

[samskelly]

This could be my Essek brainrot in me speaking but I often think about if Mighty nein hadn't redeemed Essek how that would've gone.

I keep thinking about Essek's last lines in episode 141 where he just says, "I'm scared to think what other terrible things I could've brought".. I feel like that was sort of Matt nudging that the Bells hells could've been fighting him instead of Liliana/Otohan..

Everybody say thank you, Jester Lavorre

[wizardweaves]

Couldn't help but make the comparison whenever this trio referred to themselves as "the witches"

[colealexart]

*90s-ifies your imogen temult*