#some nice

first things first lots of freaking out from the fandom right now like I understand I freaked out when matt ended the episode with Molly(?) being alive too, but I think there definitely is some over reacting happening. we have two weeks to stew over this cliffhanger and I really don’t need this running in circles in my head for that long so now you get this post about my thoughts on this whole thing. 

I have four things I wanna talk about The hate/anger towards Cree, who is in Molly’s body, what those people are like, and the future of some of the party members (probably not in that order)

1. Heard a lot of people talking about about how excited or worried that evil molly is walking around (Lucien) and this confuses me, we know very little about Lucien definitely not enough to be calling him evil. I’m not gonna say he’s sunshine and rainbows because we do have that quote from Cree 

“ He was very charismatic in his cruelty at times”

but this doesn’t mean evil just like how some of the fucked up shit the mighty nien have done don’t make them evil, non-evil mercenary groups exist. I don’t know what Lucien is like if I had to guess I’m guessing similar to Molly in personality but more withdrawn and careful but we won’t know for who knows how long it might not even be Lucien in that body. 

2. who is in that body? most people seem to thinks it’s Lucien, a new person, or a mix of multiple people with a very small chance of it being Molly. I personally think it’s a mix, but that Molly is very much still there mostly because of how Matt described his smile “a grin full of confidence and purpose” does that not sound like Molly? Matt is really good at showing when a character is not in their right mind using facial features and his voice (ex- Caleb and Yasha getting charmed, Yasha under Obann’s control, the whole thing with the bridge) but with Molly(?) who else would be smiling in a blizzard other than him.

3. Cree really doesn’t deserve to be getting the hate she is.

imagine this the leader of your friends the person holding you all together dies you bury him, your friends split up and you’re alone until you get employed by some guy, for 2 years you work and try and build something for yourself until one day that same leader walks in they look and act a bit different but they’re alive you’re so happy you can get your friends back together now. except they don’t want that they want to go off with this other group and the more you talk to them the more you notice how clueless they are about things they should know. they leave on a job that's ok you’ll talk when they get back but they don’t come back you lose them again.

I think Cree has been through a lot of pain she knew Lucien for what 4-5 years from what Beau found that's a lot longer than the few months the nien (except Yasha who had 8 more months with him) had with Molly. We don’t know what Cree’s objective is could be bad could be good it’s probably a mix of both, I do think that Cree buried his coat but I can understand wanting to have your friend back hell we fucking saw how much Caleb wanted to bring Molly back even with some of the group being uncomfortable with it they were both being selfish. whatever Cree is doing I doubt it has anything to do with the Nien other than she’s maybe heading to floating city place and they might meet the party there. She’s not that different from the Mighty Nien in my opinion.

4. ok so this I expect to maybe get some hate for, I think Cad will leave the party for Molly’s return and I think that’s a good thing. here’s why when we first met Cad (please don’t make me spell the whole thing) he told us he wasn’t staying till the end and yeah things change but when brought up again after his arc was done things still have that temporary edge to them “I’m not ready to go home yet” “Some of them still need me”. Cad is a great character and Im so happy we got to see him but I think Taliesin wants to play Molly again like seriously his face when they brought up Molly and everything that followed he doesn’t look like someone upset at having to possibly play their dead character.

I’m probably a bit biased towards this because Molly is one of my favorite characters and I miss him so badly. In the recent episodes the possible leaving of Cad and Veth kept coming up and I think that’s on purpose coming from Taliesin to get us used to the idea of Cad leaving (Veth I think for the moment will stay but that may change). I could easily be wrong Cad might stay till the end of the campaign with Molly dying again or becoming a Npc or disappearing never to be seen again (or in the next campaign) if he stays I won’t be mad and if he leaves I’ll still be sad.