it's my epithet erased OCs birthday tomorrow, but im posting today because that's homestuck day
her name is vee bea leventree, and her epithet is string!! she's the most proficient player character in the entire campaign at like 96 proficiency. shes turning 21!
have been thinking about the recent interview about the mighty nein animated series where it was mentioned that the series as a whole would be more of a departure and that vox machina s3 is a similar change versus the more canon retelling they started with in s1 and i’ve seen some negative reactions to it but honestly i’m Psyched to hear that is a change they’ve committed to in their writing and storytelling for the animated series because like. we have the campaigns. and for me the moments in the animation that have fallen the most flat or haven’t felt as fulfilling is when the show has tried to capture the Same Thing as the campaign without having the hundreds of hours of context that supported the moment in the campaign that made it Significant. and it is much much more exciting for me to have a changed story that is changed because it is now. a episodic television show and not a recording of actors playing dnd. like . yes actually Please change the storylines to be storylines and not the whims of game players. yes actually please make a good story in the medium it’s being told in.
Ok so these two are characters from @dingodoodles 's amazing ongoing DnD campaign Fools Gold Sands and I have not seen enough fanart of them so I made some myself.
THEY ARE SO FUN TO DRAW AND ARE SO SILLY TO ME I LOVE THEM.
PLEASE GO WATCH/LISTEN TO THE CAMPAIGN IM BEGGING YOU!!!
You can find it on dingo's YouTube channel which is the same name as their tumblr please please please check them out! <3
Also, can i just take a moment to appreciate just how good of an actor Mikey is!? The difference between Gricko (who i believe is supposed to be somewhat of a “comic relief” character, in how he acts) and Barnabos (who very much is a serious character) is fucking ASTONISHING. And with the way Derek and Mikey both were telling Barnabos’ story, I almost felt like I was there, oh my GOD that was so good.
I am SO fucking glad i decided to watch Icebound (especially since Tumblr was actually the reason why I even knew about it and it intrigued me). Oh my fuck.
There’s a surprising number of people in the CR fandom that seem to think interest in an AU must derive from disappointment in canon, and it’s like. Wow. Not every AU is a fix-it.
Some AUs are break-its. Swaps of all kinds: gender, sexuality, status, background, backstory, race, nationality. Suspiciously specific genre setting. Modern AU. Coffee shop AU. Prohibition AU. Bad Guys AU. Those aren’t fixing something. Those are exploring characters and story themes in another light.
I’m writing a Molly Lives AU. Those who know me best already know the answer to this question: Am I writing this story because I wish Molly had not died?
Excitement about potential AUs or canon divergences in the animated series is not necessarily stemming from “I wish X had[n’t] happened in canon.” For me and many others, the core is “it would be so cool to see what the Critical Role cast would have done if X had[n’t] happened.” If you can’t appreciate the different between those, maybe stay in your lane.