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@fear-ne

chetney, I appreciate the effort, but I think you're just describing arson

The fact that half the time Vex & Vax's love language is "GIVE ME BACK MY BOOTS YOU WITCH!!!" "THE BOOTS ARE MINE NOW!!!" *literally fighting over a pair of shoes* *invisibly spinning her braid like a jump rope* *elbows him in the gut* "What did you do to my bear?!?" "Trinket loves me more!" "That's cause you let Trinket kiss your mouth!" *giggles like a little girl while tying Trinket's last bow* "GET YOUR FEET OUT OF MY FACE BEFORE I CHOP THEM OFF!!!" and the affection masked by barbs of "Your hair is a mess" *forcibly cleans, detangles, & re-braids it* or "Get some sleep, your feathers are all rumpled" And the other half the time it's *smothering eachother in affection* "Do not go far from me." "My fate string is connected to yours. Where you go I go." *over protective even about dating their shared best friends* "It makes me happy to see you happy" "I don't know how to live [without you]" "You're my heart, you're me, you're my other half" 'Mother would be proud of you... I'm proud of you' "TAKE ME INSTEAD!!!" "...save him..." And honestly, they're just one of the most accurate portrayals of siblings in anything ever

it really is crazy how dorian as a concept all stemmed from robbie saying he wanted to play a bard with stage fright bc he thought that would be interesting and funny and how he wanted to play a character that had a much different personality than him (hence why dorian is awkward and introverted bc robbie says he’s none of those things)

the fact that just wanting to play a silly bard turned into such a raw and honest portrayal of queerness and masculinity and i’d definitely say it very much veers into trans themes as well is INSANE especially for his first ever dnd character. i need to pick robbie's brain apart on dorian so bad dorian storm you will always be The character of all time and i love you

i suppose discussion of vax in c3 is inevitable in this rewatch, so, here's my piece: if cr was just c1, copping out of vax's death would be cheap. but after c3, after all these years.... vax's return, it works.

c2 onward cr has a sort of.... hope of the impossible that c1 has not yet developed. c2 sets up the m9 loving their friends so much that they are able to not only find a piece of molly again, but are also able to give keyleth her own fragment of hope through saving vilya. c3 is a story that on every level sets up a suicide mission and yet through sheer will and love the bells survive and find the impossible third option to the most impossible question. within that hindsight, vm should have been able to save vax with the incredible love they had for each other. and they did not get that chance. but in the era of what cr is now, a story about how love can save all.... they deserved a chance. to try. as the gods get a second chance, so too does those they damned. keyleth from the beginning knew that mortality was as powerful as godhood, and finally, she is proven right to herself, when the other parties have had it proved to them before.

there is also the fact even among that revival, still tragedy. fcg is dead, and would not return, per sam. kingsley is a piece of molly but the m9 see that he is not entirely him; he is also lucien, and most importantly he's himself, and molly as they knew him won't return. vax & vm are not who they were before, 37 years gaping between them, vax tortured in the malleus key for weeks and having to adjust to mortality again. grief exists, but second chances of the unfair do too. that is the gift of exandria. and i guess to me.... i like a world that has shifted to work that way.

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