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I think it's a great choice for Occtis to do this for a few reasons. As someone who has little patience for fandom woobification and no interest in being nice to a character just because bad things happened to them, as they are pretend and have no feelings to be hurt, it does make my life in fandom a little easier if neither Occtis nor Julien can reasonably be treated as "perfect guy who is sad and had bad things happen to him and did nothing wrong in his life ever." The second is that I think the power dynamics of the Sundered Houses on both a broad political level and an individual level are incredibly important to the story being told, and showing them is a good thing. On some level, the point of Gaya Seremai being fired doesn't work if Occtis isn't like this. I also think that while Occtis had one time hoped his family would let him, as he said, fade into obscurity, the fact that he was killed specifically for being a Tachonis makes it feel very fitting and natural that he is, in fact, a Tachonis.

Also with Critical Role, Candela Obscura Crimson Mirror

LA by Night, Vampire: The Masquarade TTRP (DND but Vampires) (Also features Luis! Aka Azune! as well as Matt, Brennan, Taliesin and Marisha as side stars)

NY by Night, Vampire: The Masquarade TTRP (also features Aabria!)

Private Nightmares, also VTM but with Alex as a DM! (also has Aabria and Luis!)

schemers: all know each other and are generally friendly at least, all in it together in seven layers of an espionage plot

seekers: shakespearean level drama, everyone distrusts each other, everyone wants something from occtis and he’s unsure if he’s capable of wanting anymore

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.