Nott The Best

When Percy failed his stealth check and Scanlan kissed him

so, i like things that are emotional and messy and difficult because they can be incredibly human. and a bard’s lament is one of these things! however, i also think there’s, a lot of times, a sort of inherent misunderstanding about what is actually happening there. and to be fair, i think it’s totally natural to misunderstand on instinct and that’s kind of the point.

it’s easy to get caught up in what scanlan’s saying because sam delivers it all so well, but i think what gets missed a lot is why scanlan is actually saying it.

i think most people’s instinct is to say “oh it was vox machina’s fault for being bad friends, they reacted poorly” and “oh it was scanlan’s fault for only ever lying or joking when they questioned him” but the thing about situations like this is that both things can absolutely be true. no one won in a bard’s lament because no one ever wins in a situation like that.

scanlan was in a situation where he says most of what he says because he’s in an absolutely awful place mentally. everything has been building up and has lead to this exact moment and it was a perfect storm of across the board miscommunication and emotions and confusion. he says things that he knows will hurt the others because he’s angry and embarrassed and deeply depressed and the safe thing for him to do in that moment, in his head, is to push everyone away.

and yeah, vox machina react somewhat poorly to his outburst but at the same time why wouldn’t they! they were terrified they were going to lose their friend and now they also feel extraordinarily shitty and guilty and they’re faced with a reaction that none of them have the tools to handle. depression is an extraordinarily powerful and immensely illogical force sometimes, so yeah! scanlan said stuff about situations that he was interpreting in the WORST possible way and yeah the group didn’t know where to put that. so it’s not really about them not knowing his mother’s name. and it’s not even fully about the pudding or the prank. it’s about how it, to him, reiterates what he feels about himself. that he’s embarrassing and useless and no one really cares about him. BUT THAT’S WHAT MAKES IT SUCH AN INSANE PIECE OF RP!

Here are the Literally Anything Widobrave documents:

Episodes 1-25

Episodes 26-50

Epsidoes 51-75

Episodes 76-100

So much happening in this clip.

Robbie hears Veth’s voice for the first time (gold)

Chetney tries to flirt. “Hello, good lookin’.” “Oh.” “How are you?” “I’m… good. What’s your name?” “Chetney Pock o’Pea, but you can just call me C-Papa 😏” “Hmhm 🙂 No I don’t think I will.”

Sam describes her fierce catwoman suit, to everyone’s excitement

Veth tells Braius she has an open relationship sometimes and Caleb makes an insight check. “Did that feel authentic to me or like bullshit?” “No!!!”

Fearne accidentally talks over Caleb and goes “I’m so sorry sir-”

Widobrave / Imodna, part 1