Travis talking about how playing Fjord he put so much of himself into the character and he loved it but it also means he felt more exposed and stressed with how much of himself was out there (in a good way)...
It was so clear during the campaign especially once you hear his real life story. I love Fjord so much and I hope Travis continues to explore more complex characters. As much as I love his goofy characters he is so amazing playing things more serious and I would love to see it more often.
The Matt fireside chat is pretty telling. So many interesting and cool concepts, ideas, and questions pertaining to C3 and the plot that he’s presenting. Yet most only got touched on lightly or not at all in the campaign despite being crucial to flesh the plot out but are now being left to deal with later down the road...
Why did so little of this make it into the campaign? At the end of it all it legitimately feels like this was a filler campaign that was stretched to 120 episodes and the actual interesting stuff is coming after.
I find it pretty funny and sad that of the very few people Bells Hell's actually asked and genuinely interacted with about what they should do who had ties to the gods. It was the Mighty Nein and all three of Caduceus, Yasha and Fjord talked about how much they meant to them and helped them.
Caduceus even going so far to say that he asks them to do, "What's kind".
Fast forward to the finale and Laudna is confused and even angry that people are mad at them stating they "saved them". As well as Ashton literally insulting them essentially calling them lazy for "Not wanting to work on themselves" as a person who had barely began to work on themselves.
These people are not kind they're not heroes, they are the villains when all things are considered. I wish the campaign would have highlighted/explored these themes more because right now it just feels like unearned self righteousness with minimal consequences or push-back from the world they just dismantled (for the worse imo but that's for another long form post).
It's hard for me to root and agree with the perspective of a group of people who barely interacted with religion. This should have been a significant element of the plot for the campaign but was somehow rarely engaged with by the party and yet they claim to be the heroes for mortals? So of course it makes sense Laudna is confused, she and frankly the rest of BH are genuinely unaware of what they did or even why they did it, even if conceptually some of them understand it.
It's like watching a child come into a gallery and destroy all the art because of a negligent parent. Then when confronted you're told by that parent "It's okay they don't understand what they're doing, it'll be fine" with no chance for a resolution.
For many of us as longtime viewers, we have a plethora of previous content that has shown religion in Exandria as a generally neutral/if not positive element. So many of us are sort of confused as we're being told actually it's bad and needs to change without really showcasing why and the people who did it just get to live happily ever after.
C3's biggest crime to me was despite focusing on plot so much at the detriment of the characters, we rarely ever explored the dozens of interesting elements that something this big should touch on. In fact many of those elements only got slightly touched on in supplemental content when answering questions outside of the game and the others either were ignored or shrugged off until the very end of the campaign.
I say all of this as a long time atheist too so I don't even particularity have any connection to religion myself. I don't even mind how it all ends up as a concept I just think they never sold to me (and many others it seems) why we should agree or care.
It was an ocean sized plot with the depth of a puddle.
it is wild that people read Fjord's vibes as hesitancy over marriage to Jester generally and not the fact that deep down, he as a person is the sort to have a private ceremony with friends on the beach, but he knows Jester is the sort of person to dream of a massive spectacle wedding and even deeper down he wants her to have that so his attitude is "please have this, it will make you so happy, but god I cannot think about wedding colors like that's literally not a thing my brain can comprehend, especially while we're on a mission to kill the mind control moon emperors"
Next oneshot is Isharnai and Celia "dickhands" teaming up to ruin Fjord and Jesters wedding
I'm just calling my shot now again cause it seems to come true sometimes. The moment they said magic wasn't working all the way back when Ludinus succeeded, I thought Trent was going to be free but then I also thought his ass was too old and died of natural causes so never said it and look what we got!
Look it's mostly wishful thinking but I have this small inkling feeling we're going to see more or the M9 soon. Savalirwoods are close to the Blooming Grove and Cad had talked about staying home for a while. This party of the BH need a ride across the planet and Fjord and Jester have a damn shipping company. Plus I'm gunna go out on a limb and say Yasha and Essek are very much wondering where their partners are. And Veth would get back out there for her best friend
Oh just me remembering that Travis is one of the people in charge of the animated series directions/scenes and how the M9 series is going to have some amazing Fjorester moments because how much Travis/Fjord loves Laura/Jester and we're going to get to see their feelings grow so well because of it
There is no way he forgets that heart eyes look he gives her every time she did something cute/amazing
