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holy shit where to even begin

#5

pretending that his crossbow has a deep dramatic dark backstory when it‘s literally just. his ex made it and it‘s named after her and criminals want her to make more like it and also he’s legally not allowed to see her

#4

saying This to sebastian (this might be the Most Insane but i couldn‘t rank it higher bcs i refuse to applaud varric‘s homophobia/transphobia moment for even a second)

#3

comparing blackwall to sebastian and treating him similarly to how he he does sebastian - he does this multiple times, but i specifically want to point out this comment he makes:

which specifically references THIS INSANE CONVERSATION

IT‘S BEEN LIKE HALF A DECADE VARRIC HOW ARE YOU STILL THINKING ABT THIS REGULARLY

#2

saying This about solas

VARRIC???!??!!!!???

#1

everything abt his relationship with sebastian, from sebastian being 100% dtf and varric hating him for it to all the antagonism. but number one HAS to be when varric says THIS to sebastian COMPLETELY FUCKING UNPROMPTED

YES LET‘S ABSOLUTELY GO

yexie:

(this was unintentional but i checked ur response after making this and we chose the same answers lmfao our brains are linked)

wenzhou:

oh HELL yeah a fun lil treat for max

What made you ship it?

well they have literally like One Interaction, so i was like surely this isn't as big a deal as i've seen ppl on my dash saying. and then ye baiyi called xie wang a GOOD BOY and i short-circuited and woke up with 10 new ao3 bookmarks.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

it just works SO WELL like... they are canon To Me yk bcs i think they fit the themes of word of honor very well and their dynamic would be so insane, which. well, insane men who are insane about each other is another theme of word of honor so.

no but rlly like.. the core concept of i'm awful and want to die, but then i saw you and now i kinda wanna live again, actually. post-canon ye baiyi pulls an angry, hurt, violent twink out of the snow and he bites his way into ye baiyi's lonely, never-got-over-my-dead-first-love, immortality-is-too-long-for-me heart.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

idk in terms of unpopularity, bcs since we get absolute crumbs in the show a lot of characterization for their dynamic comes from fanwork yk, like apart from them admiring each other's work and that EXPRESSION yby gives xw at the feast. im not a daddy kink kind of person so ig that doesn't really do it for me tho i know lots of people love it lol but you can want to fuck an old man without him being daddyTM yk, and i think it's important for there to be a clear distinction between what they have and whatever fucked up awful shit xw and Worst Man Alive had. To Me, at least. for the narrative.

Iced Chocolate : Do you have a crush on someone?

uhh excellent question! maybe? im notoriously bad at distinguishing between platonic and not-platonic feelings as well as determining if i have a crush on the actual person or just the idea of them i have in my head yk?

Sparkling Water : Describe what qualities you look for in a person

i do!!! my eyesight isn't HORRIBLE but my right eye is a lot worse than my left skdjfghsjfd

thank you for playing hehe >:3

How I feel about this character

knifecat personified. evil murdery boi who i want to pat on the head.

no but really, at the end of the day he's a metaphor for much bigger, systemic problems right! like when we find out why his fingers are broken and what happened to him as a kid that made him go off the rails (spoilers: rich assholes), it's like... okay that doesn't excuse anything, but i'm always fascinated by characters like him.

also fascinated bcs i read this meta about him that was talking about how he feels everything at 100%, both love and hate and everything else, and man!!! i love that in a character. he loves so much it's destructive. he feels so much he'll committ mass murder over and over again. that drives me insane lads.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

no one. genuinely, no one. he's so fucked up y'all.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

him and a-qing have an incredibly wonderful messed up "handshake meme but it says 'lying to xiao xingchen so he'll keep loving us'" dynamic. they are so similar and i wish that would be explored more often, both in canon and by fans, because like what the fuck.

My unpopular opinion about this character

idk if this is unpopular but like... i feel like a lot of people forget/ignore/don't acknowledge just how fucked up the whole yi city family is. i always refer to it as "nonconsensual found family" and that's what it is!! we've got two people who see xiao xingchen and how kind he is and are like yk what i will keep lying to this man so he keeps loving me and like... what the fuck mksdjfhgskjdfgh i get why people love it and i love it too, it's such a fucked up dynamic and i'm obsessed, but.

but. i know that people like. write smut and romantic fics for him and xiao xingchen set during the time where xiao xingchen thinks he's someone else and is blind so he can't know that the guy he's making out with or w/e is xue yang, the man he has vowed to kill, the man he hates. besties that's sexual assault!!!!!!

so yeah unpopular opinion: that's really fucked up and gross actually (and i get that's the point, that dynamic is supposed to be fucked up, but like besties then don't romanticize or sexualize it pleaseeeee)

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

OH NO

Favorite character

The problem with Critical Role is that there's so many characters. The answer however is Mr Essek Thelyss because I continue to be predictable (he's a pretty elf with white hair what do you want from me)

Second favorite character

The one the only Cassandra Johanna von Mussel Klossowski de Rolo (I think I got that right lol). Cass is my absolute favorite NPC from Campaign 1 and I still have a long-ass meta to write one day about her and everything that happened to her, because I feel like a lot of it gets overlooked

Least favorite character

See this is difficult bcs obviously like... Trent Ickythong, but I do find him super fascinating as a character? Like yeah he's absolutely horrible as a person and everytime he speaks my skin crawls off my body and down the street, but I still like him as a character.

Oh wait, the creepy guy that hit on Yasha that one time. And the other creepy guy who hit on Yasha that other time.

The character I’m most like

Once again I wish I knew what I was like lmfao I wanna say I relate to Beau quite a bit because I too have much anger and feel like an asshole and am sat here like "wow didn't think I'd get this far", but unlike Beau I am made of anxiety and the need to please people and the desire to take up as little space as possible, which... no idea which character best reflects that lmfao

Favorite pairing

Bad! News! Bears!

Whatever Laudna and Imogen have going on

Also as a special mention bcs I've been thinking a lot about them: The Vax/Molly crackship has my heart and soul

Least favorite pairing

It's not necessarily my least favorite (bcs I can't think of one off the top of my head lol) but I was never really a fan of Caleb/Jester. I love the way Caleb understood her even when others fundamentally misunderstood her sometimes, I just think their dynamic works better as friends.

Favorite moment

CALL ME CHILD ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME

Rating out of 10

once again a 10/10 because I just... man. the hours I've poured into this D&D show lmao it's so near and dear to my heart and man, what a time.