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CRITICAL ROLE 4.27 Complicated Questions

+ bonus Laura reaction:

At least according to the old continuity, the Wookiees were skilled explorers, and their Clatuuvac Guild had the secrets to a number of hyperspace routes, especially through the Core (it's why the Separatists were so keen to take the planet in Revenge of the Sith)... And Chewbacca was one of the people who knew these hyperspace routes.

so like two decades after launch, stratt gets a call that's just grace being like

You are JJ and you have two best friends. They room together all the time and that's fine-- they need it more than you do. You're a black guy from an immigrant family in a very white sport and you survive what is probably the second-most evil locker room in the entire league by being very very friendly. You can handle rooming with your teammates.

One of your best friends comes out and it's awkward as hell in the room but you do your best to help. Scott Hunter is getting married and he's doing just fine so maybe if you can find your friend a guy he'll be less stressed all the time. It doesn't work.

He starts a charity with Ilya Rozanov of all fucking people but whatever, you support it, you go coach at his camp and YOU USE YOUR CUP DAY FOR IT because he's your best friend and you are supporting him.

He has a crush on Ilya Rozanov and your heart is breaking for him so you try even harder to find him a guy. It doesn't work.

A video comes out and your two best friends have had this secret the entire time and they didn't tell you. You comforted Shane after the plane thing and asked him to tell you the truth and he didn't. He trusted Hayden and he didn't trust you.

You are JJ and you thought you had two best friends but it turns out they had each other and you were just some dude.

You go to your friend's house and you say some shit and he says some shit and he throws your less-than-perfect reaction in your face and you ask if Hayden took it well and he has nothing to say because Hayden has been talking serious shit about Rozanov the entire time, but sure, you're the guy Shane can't talk to.

And it turns out your friend has been hurting under this secret the entire time you've known him and you could have helped because you are a goddamn master of surviving a hostile situation through social grace and you thought there was trust between you but there wasn't.

You'll build that trust back in time, probably, but it hurts, and you're angry, and you have to put it away because you have a playoff to win. So you make a joke to make him feel better and you put your feelings away. And then it's game seven, and he trips, and for a second you wonder, and you ask him about it, and he says no, and you believe him.

But the rest of the room doesn't, and it seems the rest of the fucking city doesn't, so you apologize for even asking, because that sucks.

And you build back your friendship and he abandons you to that evil-ass locker room and you get why he does it but it still fucking sucks and you show up at his wedding because you're friends even if maybe your friendship never meant as much to him as it did to you and he's already replacing you, probably, with his non-evil team who is going to beat you every single time with like, the power of love and friendship and the two best players in the entire league because your team is evil and also stupid.

RYAN GOSLING as RYLAND GRACE