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Fjord stone who regularly avoided talking about his trauma and redirected attention to other people so he didn't have to address things? The fjord stone who only talked about things when directly pressed for it and often lied to avoid dealing with it? Fjord stone who lost his powers and was straight up going to abandon the team to get them back, who told not a soul about it until 11 episodes later?

Fjord stone who used a fake accent for 70 episodes and only jester got confirmation it was fake earlier because she figured it out? Fjord who would've kept hiding the fact that he shaved down his tusks if in episode 15 matt hadn't pointed out blood on the corner of his lips leading to jester being more invasive and taking it upon herself to see his tusks were gone?

Fjord who took 118 episodes to work up the courage to ask a girl for kiss because he believed she didn't like him and was too afraid to get any response?

Fjord has ALWAYS been bad at communicating and a skilled liar. He was raised in an environment that punished him for trying to be open and more transparent. He's always had to mask himself. He's not weaponizing incompetence by not knowing how to do shit when he got the powers 2 days ago that he didn't even know existed.

Yes he's more obviously insecure in the show, which has a lot to do with them crunching the timeline so he has no chance to get used to things. They also claimed his content wasn't changed much when originally fjord was much more in a leadership position and more confident/willing to take charge.

Also: he's not using weaponized incompetence because he has in fact on several occasions helped save the team and been the reason the Tides have turned. It's not "weaponized incompetence" to not want to use an item that has given you horrible visions. It's not weaponized incompetence to not know how to use abilities you just got. He'd have to actively be doing things wrong to get other people to compelte his duties for him to be using weaponized incompetence. And since he very much wants the team to think of him as useful, that isn't want he's doing.

Fjord, a character who is proficient in charisma and is the go-to for deception, rolls a nat 1 deception at the Overcrow right after losing his powers for the first time. A nat 1 so perfectly timed it might as well come with a sign that says “YOUR CHARACTER HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM”. And this is where Travis’ rp really shines because mechanically, losing his powers doesn’t change his charisma, yet he turns it into a genuinely devastating moment for Fjord, reinforcing Fjord’s already troubled mindset that he’s worthless without his powers. He panics and encourages the group to go on without him and runs away (which Travis confirmed was Fjord genuinely wanting to leave the party had Yasha not followed him). Then he continues to build on it when he tries to summon the little bird for Yasha, with that desperate delivery of “wasn’t it?”.

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