#cr2e103

I'm so late to the party with this, but y'all... I couldn't resist having a go at this scene, and I'm very proud with the results! Here you have Fjord holding Caduceus back from the torchblooms from CR2E103 🌺 Also a process gif!

"I'm useless..."

it’s like, not even that she’d be in danger?? like, yes, there is of course that, and not being sure that artagan wasn’t Also trying to get rid of her along with everyone else, but it’s also:

jester’s always, always had a throughline of empathy and genuine caring even as a trickster. she’s spared her friends, or pulled tricks for their sakes, or otherwise realized they weren’t sustainable in that same way. at the end of the day she doesn’t want to hurt people, and doing so doesn’t sit right. even moreso if she’s close to them.

and artagan, her best and oldest friend, her teacher and her god, of sorts.... he doesn’t seem to have that. he cares about her, but he KNEW this island would take everything from people, from the people that pledged themselves to him, and because they weren’t jester, that was just. okay to him.

after he tries to reassure her, she says a line like “hey, maybe a couple ships will get eaten by a dragon turtle” and just sounds. absolutely unenthused. it’s not really so funny, to envision? what kind of a prank is that? artagan could sleep at night after letting that happen— could she?

The rest of the group is so used to Jester and her charms that sometimes you meet a new person interacting with her and it just strikes all over again how good she is at the specific type of comfort involving just distracting and diffusing someone before they can spiral. I loved how she was able to get Vilya to laugh with the stupid Vokodo butthole plans.

I love that Vilya keeps scooping up Fjord without warning him first. It somehow gives her a lot of character with just how like, awkward and pragmatic and absent-minded that is. It makes me want to know more about Keyleth, tbh, because I think it would be fun to look for similarities between the two if I knew her at all.

Hey that conversation between Jester and The Traveler was so heartbreaking?? Because my takeaway wasn't that he didn't really care about Jester, but that he is so very selfish and, I would call it immature if he was human but he's not, so I'll just say alien. He's more apathetic than malicious. It must be so heartbreaking for Jester to go from having this comfort of an all-knowing presence who knows how to keep her safe to this person who, while still a friend, is immature and amoral and depends on her now instead of the other way around.

Caleb and Veth?? I have cried over them so many times and I'm doing it again here. I know she doesn't leave after this, but I also know that the question is still up in the air. I genuinely don't know what I'd do if she left the show, and I think Caleb doesn't, either. I have attached so hard to this weird disaster woman and her deeply felt but vaguely defined trauma wizard.

Caleb barely admitted to liking any of these people for such a long time, and look at where he is now! In some ways he guns the most hard the most explicitly for this family recently. I think he was the first to call it a family with Nott a little while ago. There's also his anger in the 'nobody leaves' moment with Beau after Ishrani, and the conversation and commitment he showed with Fjord. I think maybe Nott's change and the reality of losing her coming closer and closer is making Caleb like. Introspective about the good things he has, and maybe also wanting to make a point of reminding Veth more, too? He can't ask her to stay bc that would be selfish, but he can do his damndest to make sure she remembers what she'd be giving up and how much he loves her.

Yasha falling asleep to the image of her and Zuala was so interesting. It's been so long since Yasha lost her, and the grief of all that seems to have settled into her comfortably enough to be able to enjoy looking at images of them together and things. I don't think you ever get over a loss like that, but maybe it becomes easier to live alongside.

AAAA people losing their memories is so upsetting. What must that feel like? To know that something important is missing but not be able to conjure up what it is in your mind? and what happens if one of these days all three people with greater restoration get got? Will enough get remembered to defeat Vokodo without personal life details?

Yasha's wings are growing back! I didn't realize it was something that happened gradually, but I love that!

I also love her just chatting with Veth while she floats 30 feet in the air. I'm picturing her doing a cute little gentle bob up and down like an astronaut in zero gravity. I love how supportive she is of Yahsa, even if there's still little edges of fear in her somewhere.

I love Liam treating polymorph like the beginning of an Animorphs transformation where you have to wrangle the instincts of an animal and sometimes you lose and end up biting your friends bf the human brain kicks in entirely.