#beaujesterweek2020

Beaujester Day 1 - Resurrection & Fave Canon Moment

I'm a little late, but I redrew my first beaujest drawing for beaujester week!!

[ID: The first picture is a digital drawing of Beau and Jester from Critical Role. Jester is pulling Beau in with her robe and kissing her on the cheek, leaving a blue lipstick mark behind. Beau is leaning into her with an arm around her shoulder. She is smiling and holding onto Jester's wrist with her other hand. They are wearing close to their canon outfits, although Beau is missing her sash and arm wraps and Jester is missing her gloves. Jester also has curly hair and sparkly pink eyeshadow. The image has a soft purple background.

Beaujester Week 2020

This is a fan-run celebration of everyone’s favorite blue girls, Jester/Beau! It will be running from November 8th to 14th

Each day will have two prompts, and participants can choose one, combine them both, or come up with some other creative twist. However, you are encouraged to use the prompts any way you desire!

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Beau pulled the chair to the center of the room and picked it up briefly to sit it on the towel. Jester was excited, hopping a little on the balls of her feet, and it made Beau a little nervous.

“Now, you have to be careful,” she stressed. She pulled off her shirt so that she didn’t have to clean it and took a seat on the chair.

“It’s no big deal, Beau,” Jester said with glee as she turned the razor around in her fingers. “If I cut you I’ll just heal it real quick.”

“Alright,” Beau said, pushing herself to her feet. “If you’re not gonna take this seriously-”

“No no no! No, I’m taking it so seriously, I promise!” she said, hiding the razor behind her back when Beau reached for it. She took several quick steps backwards and pressed her back against the wall with the razor trapped behind her and Beau pressed a hand against the wall beside her head, leaning into her space.

“Jes,” she said, her voice deep and calm but her eyes alight in laughter. “If you cut me-”

“I won’t! I promise, I won’t. Go sit back down.”

Beau hesitated, one eyebrow raised, but she finally pushed off the wall and went back to sit in the chair. “Alright. I’m putting my trust in you.”

Jester grinned and flipped open the razor. “Your trust is safe with me, I promise.”

Beau gave her a dubious look and pulled her hair up to the top of her head then tied it out of way. Jester picked the creme up off the floor first and gently pushed Beau’s head down so that she was staring into her own lap. “A little bit of that goes a long way,” Beau said, eyeing to creme in Jester’s hand. “It foams up so you don’t need a lot.”

Jester smeared it on liberally and Beau rolled her eyes as she felt it dripping down her bare back but she didn’t say anything. She resisted the urge to flinch when she first felt the razor press against the top of her undercut.

“Do you want a cool design? I could do a squiggly line, or a zigzag, or a-”

“Let’s master straight lines first maybe?”

Jester sighed and started slowly dragging the razor along the curl of Beau’s head in a straight line. “You’re boring.”

“Yeah, I know.”

She could tell that Jester’s pressure was uneven and she’d definitely have to go back over it, but she let herself relax, sighing at the feeling of Jester’s soft fingers brushing over her neck. She lost track of how long she sat there and nearly jumped when Jester spoke.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand…. done. Hey, no blood!”

Beau snorted and picked up the wet rag off her lap, gently cleaning herself off. “Good job. Thanks for not slitting my throat.”

“Yeah, I was right there, I coulda done it so easy.”

“I know. I applaud your restraint.”

Jester laughed and started brushing hair off her shoulders. “Can I do it again sometime?”

“Maybe. Maybe practice on Fjord.”

Jester opened her mouth to speak again, but paused and frowned as she looked over her handiwork. “It’s kinda patchy. Did I do a bad job?”

“Nah, it’s an easy fix. You shoulda been there first time I shaved it. Blood everywhere and no cleric. Patchy is better than bloody.”

Jester still looked disappointed but nodded. “Alright. I guess.”

since it’s the first day of beaujester week 2020 and I have some fanfics for some of the other days, but not this one, I’m just gonna talk about my favorite beaujester/sappheau canon moments in the show in no particular order.  

1st the moment on the ship in ep 46.  It was just really sweet that after the disaster, Beau going to talk to Jester and make sure she’s okay.  She also goes there with the intent to let Jester know that she’s sorry for calling her a bad liar, she just wants Jester to know that she doesn’t have to put up a front for them.  She talks about Jester as a person on her own instead of a jester, that she will care about Jester and wants to see her when she lets loose.  It’s very respectful from the beginning to the end where Beau makes sure that Jester is okay with talking or would be willing to give her space if she wanted some alone time and in the end Jester hugging Beau around the waist from behind.  It was the first pc I love you drop and I think it was what turned me from a pure beauyasha shipper to a multishipper who ships beaujester as my second favorite ship

2nd I would say the talk in the Cameruth Cottage after Beau gets back form the library in ep 89.  It’s just really sweet since Jester seemed really down at the prospect of Beau not wanting to be her roommate and thinking Beau was mad at her for whatever reason, while Beau doesn’t get why Jester thought she could do anything to make her mad at her.  It’s just a really sweet moment because it’s already been revealed a couple eps ago that Beau has a crush on Jester in canon and it’s Laura who initiated it.  Whatever choices they’ve made since, it was a huge boon for the beaujester shippers because it made it seem like it wasn’t completely onesided.  Even though they end up disagreeing on a lot fo things, they still hammer out that they respect each other and care about each other.

3rd in ep 48 with the wizard tower, Nott/Veth is just insulting Beau out of nowhere and Jester immediately comes to her aid disputing all of Nott’s claims, telling her that she doesn’t ruin everything and when Nott says Beau is unappealing to look at Jester insists that Beau is Beautiful.  as she does Beau/marisha blows Jester/Laura a kiss, making her stumble in her defense of Beau in a really cute moment.  It was short but it really highlighted their relationship, Beau would often get shit on by other members of the party or shit on herself because of her low self esteem issues and then Jester would come in and both argue with the person and reassure Beau that she is amazing and beautiful.

4th all of Kamordah and meeting the Lionetts, as someone whose favorite character is Beau, it was hard to watch, but really good to get her backstory and see the family that made her into the woman before the Mighty Nein helped her be the woman she could be. it’s hard to get through, but Jester is always by Beau’s side checking in, she does the most consoling Beau with her awful father, Marisha even saying on talks that Jester saved Beau. Just the whole arc is Beau feeling awful from meeting her parents to offering to go away as an offering to Isharnai and Jester checkmating her all over the place with love, support, and a brilliant use of cupcake is the one to save Beau and stop her from leaving.  The way she says it wasn’t okay for Beau to offer up leaving, that they would be miserable if she left, it was just a really good example of how 

5th and last because I have to get back to writing for the other days, the crush admission that Beau has for Jester with Nott in ep 85.  The whole ep is just a great ep for Beaujester shippers, from trying to protect her against the Inevitable End and helping her with confronting the Gentleman with him being her father, but Beau’s admission that she as a crush on Jester out loud in game.  There was a growing attraction with Beau getting more and more comfortable with complimenting Jester, not just her being great at magic or a good friend but also on her looks.  This cumulated in Beau confessing to Nott that she has a crush on Jester.  it is just a really sweet moment and the way Beau just lists the things she loves about Jester, she fun, she makes beau laugh, beau likes her ridiculous plans, she thinks Jester is complicated and layered. She doesn’t even mention Jester’s looks or her muscles, it’s just a far cry from the mostly superficial interests Beau has had in most other women other than Yasha. Beau saying that she’s had the fantasy of Jester realizing she likes girls and being Jester’s sapphic awakening was really funny and really sad since it’s a feeling a lot of sapphic women feel growing up when they realize their feelings towards their best friends isn't’ so platonic. 

just my favorite moments between our favorite blue girls.  Beaujester/Sappheau is my 2nd place ship in the mighty Nein campaign, only Beauyasha is a higher ship and only slightly.  my pie and the sky dream would be for an ot3 between them but I doubt that’s going to happen, can’t hurt to dream. I know it kind of hurts that it seems like Beaujester isn’t going to happen now that Ashley is back and Travis has kind of accepted Fjord and Jester together, but you don’t need a ship to be canon to love it.  Honestly, as much as I love Ashley being back, if Blindspot was on for another year, I have no doubt that Beaujester would be on of the biggest ships in the fandom, it was one of the biggest after all and I personally believe it’s the best Jester ship

I realized very suddenly last month that I'm a sap for hurt/comfort. I love when characters tend to each other's emotional needs, especially if that energy's reciprocated when the other character eventually needs help.

Thus, my favorite BeauJester moment comes from two interactions that I group together. Near the end of "Home Is Where the Heart Is" (C2E92), the Mighty Nein arrived at the Lionett Estate. Over time, Beau felt close enough to the Nein to tell them about her father's superstitions and their strained relationship.

Even so, no one was prepared for the tense environment their presence created at the estate. While Beau talked to her family, Jester checked in on her multiple times when she noticed Beau reaching her limit. 

Outside the estate

Jester: Beau. Whatever happens, he was an asshole for being mean to you. You're a wonderful person. [Nott gives Jester a skeptical look, which Jester dismisses.] You're a wonderful person, Beau. He was lucky to have you for a daughter. Hopefully, he will realize that now. If he doesn't, remember what you told me: Fuck em.

Beau: [laughs under her breath]

Jester: You have us, and we love you so much. Okay?

Beau: Thanks, Jes. [hugs Jester and exhales deeply; gestures toward the estate] They added an arch. It's even more pretentious now. Okay, let's go.

After Thoreau makes an awkward toast to Beau's accomplishments

Thoreau: I know you well enough, Beauregard, to assume you haven't come for the sake of pleasantries.

Beau: [anxiously scratches her neck]

Jester: [stands next to Beau, puts a hand on her back, and whispers in her ear] Do you want us to stay?

Beau: [tearfully, whispers back]: Please.

Jester: Okay.

[While Beau asks Thoreau to retell his story of meeting Isharnai, Jester glares at him.]

In these moments and others, Beau is at her most vulnerable. Beau's insecurities about her place in her birth family—mainly, how they chose to send her away after failing to connect with her, and how easily she was replaced—are laid bare in front of her new, chosen family. And each time she's on the cusp of losing her shit, Jester assures her that the Mighty Nein loves, cherishes, supports her, and will be there for her every step of the way.

The fact that this is coming from Jester, who has confronted her own father for abandoning Marion and herself, adds another layer to this. Later in that scene, the two very briefly talk about just that. But I'm already stretching the prompt to include two moments when it's technically meant for one.

The bottom line: Beau was returning to a headspace no one wants to be in. Jester recognized that and offered Beau the reassurance, comfort, and attention she needed in that situation. Jester also did all this while putting on an accent for Thoreau so he didn't recognize her voice from the cryptic Sending messages.