Some kind of writer of fanfic...

I know we joke about him a lot, but Charles is an under-appreciated character in this fandom and I think he deserves his laurels. I don't want to call him a full on foil to Laurent, but he's one of a vanishingly small number of characters who isn't familiar with the scheming of either countries' courts, but is still forced to play the game for a short time. He allows us to see what a novice looks like. Nikandros does as well, but he's too confused and incredulous to fully participate. Charles is enthusiastic. He doesn't catch on to certain things, but he's generally effective, and his blunders allow us to look closer at what Laurent is doing. On a fundamental level, Laurent isn't much better at improv than Charles; he's just learned to cover his choices with a convincing affect. But "Lamen" isn't all that different from "Charles!" at least not fundamentally. Charles is how the reader gets a glimpse at the magic trick (or in this case, Laurent's impressive command of bullshit). He's like the coin trick. Except we were introduced to Laurent's brand of deception first, and only see what the baby steps look like after the fact.

wow dude jts so awesome that your car is loud as fuck and smells worse when it drives past. thags fucking epic man. i really like how it hurts to listen to you drive past and it scares people. thats awesome man. i really like your car that makes a loud as fuck fart sound. fucking epic dude

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.

something to be said for the way nott clearly begins to rely on alcohol more and more after reuniting with yeza. it gets to the point that the whole party has noticed and start making comments about getting her to drink less (all of which culminates in jester taking her flask), but it feels very important that this happened right after she had the "what is wrong with me? i just ditched my husband to go adventuring with you!" conversation with caleb. her reliance on booze skyrockets as she's trying to figure out what the fuck she's doing and how she can be yeza's wife and luc's mother and nott the brave of the mighty nein and if she can ever even become herself again

caleb always has the craziest ideas about what to do with veth's family. he unironically wanted to bring luc to xhorhas to just. live in the house they were given by the people who kidnapped yeza. he builds an entire room for luc specifically in his tower because he somehow thinks this will be a practical way to cart veth's family around with them when they're traveling. *caleb voice* i made this place for you, so that you could stay with us and-and see your husband and child but...but also to be with me. it's interesting to see when logic fails him, and he tries to fruitlessly invent solutions to a problem that can't be fixed (the reality that one day veth will leave. that she will not always be with him)

oh no. once someone tells secunit that you can use facial expressions and body language to subtly diss people in a socially acceptable way we are done for

Among the sizeable portion of humanity who would believe the Eridian footage to be faked, I wonder if “yeah, and Dr. Grace went to live on Erid in a beautiful biodome” becomes the new “we sent your dog to live on a farm upstate”