#fearneposting

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this could be the vast swath of pairs in bh but it fits them the most...

[readerofdragons]

The shard was one of the saddest aspects of the campaign for me. It really felt like other characters got super invested in her taking it, with Ashton the only one acknowledging that she didn't want it, so that when Ashton tried to take it at least in part to save her from having to do so and then died and revived, then she gave in to and accepted the pressure and lashed out at Ashton.

It's going to be interesting to see the dynamic in the upcoming BH one-shot, because I don't see them as a group who would stick together.

kind of a weird question but... do you ave a similar sort of character analysis for fearne as you do for orym and dorian? gotta even out the exu trio

Not a weird question at all! I love analysing characters and I am more than happy to talk about Fearnie, so thanks for the opportunity. Since we are not necessarily focusing on one aspect in particular, I am just going to go wild with this one. It'll probably be all over the place. Especially because it's Fearne and oh my god there is a lot about Fearne. I will try to keep it brief and direct for now though.

To me, Fearne is probably one of (if not the most) complex characters in the entire party/campaign and I have some trouble pinning down her thoughts in certain moments, which makes her all the more interesting, especially when it comes to the god debate and the overall themes of the campaign. She is such a vital centre piece of the narrative, mainly because all the themes in focus of campaign three are wonderfully reflected in the own character and arc.

Some of those themes are power, control and corruption. Ashley herself has mentioned before that Fearne tends to hide her emotions and fears behind a mask, both to protect herself and others and to always keep up an air of control even in moments in which she is, by all means, powerless. Fearne needs to be in control, she longs for it, no doubt due to her past and present being dictated by others around her, be it her father forcing her status as Ruidusborn or pacts made with devils and archfeys. This need for control is ultimately a huge reason for why she appears to be so hesitant and at times even scared of her own abilities and nature. One big moment here other than an ever present possible fear of exhalting is the fire shard.

Fearne has never quite been so shaken as in that moment. She didn't want that shard, she was afraid of its powers, she was unsure about what it would do to her. She feared it would corrupt her. She has already been changed so much from outside forces, by something beyond her reach. Her father forcing her conception under a red flare and signing away her essence in a pact yet unknown, her parents giving her away. She needs to be in control and she just coudn't and wouldn't take this risk herself.

She already saw a dark version of herself in EXU, when the crown was right there for the taking. She didn't want to become her mirror version, she needs to be able to become something good. Something she can control. She never wanted power over agency. And when Ashton took the shard and fucking died trying to absorb it, Fearne just broke. She was angry, sad and terrified. Screaming and lashing out like she never has before. Guilty too. It was one of those moments when her mask slipped off and her deep insecurities and fears and overall unstable understanding of herself and the world outside the feyrealm surfaced.

Another moment similar to that one was when Orym and Laudna died and she had to make a choice to save one of them. She couldn't. She had no control. She tossed a coin. She was terrified. And all that leads into her eventual hesitation concerning Predathos and her choice to resist its call. That mirrior version, the shard, a lack of control. It all came to a peak and she made a choice to reject being the vessel. Deciding her own fate with it.

I also think her "ending", playing with fate, plucking strings and being Nana Morri's pupil, kind of compliments her relationship with control very well. She has fate in her hands for once.

Having said that, I also believe that her need for agency and control kind of clashes with another big trait of hers: curiosity. Fearne, by nature, is a curious and wide-eyed freespirit, who doesn't want to be tied down and just explore and see the world after being isolated for so long. Should the world burn, then she wants "a front row seat" as long as her family is safe. (The entire line here was: "What am I doing here? I'm here because I'm very curious. And if the world is going to burn, I would like to have a front-row seat.")

She is curious, yet afraid. Of losing control of herself and of losing control of her connections and seing not only herself corrupted, but her friends too. Opal and the crown. Imogen and Predathos. Laudna and Delilah. Ashton and the Shard. All moments in which her fear of corruption trigged a strong reaction against her will.

She wants to give every creature (including the deities, who she views as a broken family and even predathos at one point) a chance in this world. In turn, I would almost say that this aspiration creates another turmoil within herself, because that's just not possible the way she would like it to be. Btw I don't think she is naive or anything when it comes to that (I have heard that take before and strongly dislike it), she is very aware of the fact that it isn't viable and yet she still laments it.

Regarding all these points, I think when it comes to the god debate and her feelings on that in particular, we can kind of place her on the same level as Chet: leaning toward neutral, and in her case because of this internal struggle and her wish for control clashing with curiosity and love for just living things in general. (I should create a Bells Hells god-scale some day lmfao.)

So what we learn is that Fearne yearns for control over power and therefore struggles with her identity as Ruidusborn, is deeply afraid of power and corruption and has been seen to let her mask crack only in moments in which that excact fear is triggered. And she therefore perfectly rounds the exu trio as the compartmentalization crew.

I am aware that this post is incredibly scattered and therefore not the most flawless and grounded character analysis. Mainly because it doesn't touch on a single aspect, but kind of scratches the surface of a lot of themes. And there is so, so much to Fearne. Again as I said, she pretty much is the poster child when it comes to representing what the campaign's narrative is all about.

[swordmahes]

[magsowo]

fearneposting

[lostamongthefearnes]

my wife and i adopted this german shepherd / lab mix puppy two weeks ago and we named her Fearne a little bit after ferns and a little bit after Fearne Calloway and anyway she is the cutest most silliest dog in the whole wide world pls just look at her :’)

[maluspumilaa]

fearneposting again soon , ehe hehe.,

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ngl was gonna say people still see callowmoore as a joke or just think it's solely based on flirting but i realized that it is kind of a running theme with every fearne ship. like callowpea is a joke, imogearne is a joke, teven/fearne is a joke, braius/fearne is a joke, and literally any rarepair with her in it is just "ha ha wouldn't it be FUNNY?"

like it's not "slut-shaming" like in other fandoms but it's something else that i can't quite place my finger on. like it's obviously misogynist that nothing fearne does is taken seriously including her love for anyone because she's seen as just "lol xd random!!!!" or "flirting"

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happy fearne calloway episode day

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i think if orym really was trapped with morri in the feywild, dead or alive, fearne would just sort of curl around him and refuse to leave. like a tree growing around a bike

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Here’s a thing about Fearne that just recently hit me… had Birdie not left Fearne with Morri who then fucked with the time soup and allowed Fearne to live over a hundred years in the Fey realm… she would still be a very young girl if I’m not mistaken. Zathuda’s plan was to force his very young child to exalt and then be the vessel for an ancient god eater?!? Sincerely fuck that guy. The Loom was too kind an ending for him.

yeah, fearne would have been SEVEN. and what's worse is zathuda was shocked when yu told him that fearne was still alive. he'd rather thought birdie killed a baby instead of raising a child like a normal person (well. you know.)

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fearne was born under the flare of a ruidus moon seven years ago. she's aged over a hundred in the feywild. she touched a vestige and gained a permanent reminder of what she could become if she was selfish with her powers. she lost some of her own warmth to a ghost pirate. she regained someone else's warmth with a titan's shard. its presence still lingers on her even when she's not transformed.

how much of her is still her?

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fearne being a weird fey girl that fell out of a portal in front of orym and him immediately offering friendship and understanding to this total stranger. laudna skulking into gelvaan expecting the worst from the townspeople and imogen immediately connecting with her and sympathizing with her struggles. ashton finding a hurt, beat up robot and trying to get them fixed up no questions asked. and then this whole ass group accepting chetney for the weird old gnome he is immediately...

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fearne when she finds out about the deal orym made

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i dunno, man.

i guess maybe back in episode 34 we didn't have as much fearne lore as we do now. how could you be so incurious, though? why didn't anyone question why fearne seemed to instantly go to a hellish inverted feywild or what that could mean for her? why are we only now realizing that being killed by otohan was traumatic for her too? like fearne wasn't just traumatized by watching both laudna and orym die and how that probably might've tied into her outburst at ashton when she killed him on accident? how about having to choose between them over and over again in life or death scenarios? and not just them, but being pressured and guilt-tripped into bad scenario after bad scenario over and over again that she's basically told to suck it up for the greater good? and she still keeps a brave happy face through it all? and the fandom rewards her by refusing to talk about her depth and only using her for shipping content or getting angry at her for being "selfish and impulsive" and it drives me fucking insane?

idk!! idk!!!!

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and the thing is, i get where they're coming from! laudna and imogen cannot consent to ignore the various magic bullshit that's tangled up with them so they're trying to make the most of it. but fearne can, and she's been running from a version of herself that accepted dark power and brutally murdered all of her loved ones for it! that's not her denying herself power, it's a conscious choice to not let people she cares about get hurt! and her massive near-murder of ashton really fucked her up because oh shit, she almost did that even without the shard in her! do you you get it. do you.

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OH BOY HIT WITH MORE FEARNE REALIZATIONS THIS MORNING

all of bell's hells is convinced that fearne and imogen are equally able to hold predathos in. but here's the thing, only an exalted ruidusborn can do that. fearne is not an exaltant; her father tried to force into doing so and it failed. she can't channel predathos. if/when they save liliana, she'll be sure to tell them that.

and how much of a fucking kick in the teeth is that? fearne was terrified of taking in power for fear it'd turn her evil for the longest time. even when her friends assured her that it'd be okay and begged her to take it and kept telling her over and over she needed to embrace it, it's not enough.

you're not good enough. you're not strong enough. you can't take this burden from her. it's not yours to take.

you have to watch her die.