I've Drawn Eight Billion Esseks But Never My Version Of His Shadowhand Outfit That He Wore When Tm9 First

[ID: A digital illustration of Orym from Critical Role. There are four drawings of Orym, all bloodied, wounded and distressed. The Orym in the top left grimaces, he has a bloody nose and a cut on his right cheek. The Orym in the top right has a dagger stabbed through his right cheek, the blade having stabbed through from the inside of his cheek outward and the blade is still held between Orym's gritted teeth as he grimaces with pain. The Orym in the bottom left is splattered with blood, looking alarmed. The Orym in the bottom right has blood streaming down his face from cuts on his forehead as he looks up to the left with pain and alarm. End description.]

This is terribly self indulgent <3

Thinking about the shadowgast crumbs we got in the Lucien boom. And how Essek was holding Caleb’s body. So he was literally guarding Caleb until Jester killed Lucien and her and Cad came over to revivify him.

What’s very “fun” to think about it based on the in game combat and combining the new info we got, this is how that scene went down:

First Essek gets pulled away from his original position by Caleb due to Elatus. Then Caleb gets impaled like 3 times in front of him and tossed aside. He then would have to have run back or floated back to get to Caleb as the book says since he was pulled away by like 15ft(?)And then be holding onto Caleb’s body so the city didn’t consume him until Jester deals the killing blow and was waiting for the healers to come and help.

So….if Yasha had to literally rip the city away from Veth cuz Veth was prone on the ground and it was gonna swallow her, we could feasibly say either Essek did the same and just kept ripping away the city until it died.

Or! Essek was holding Caleb in his arms bridal style to keep him off of the ground.

I love how so many trans men (especially gay trans men) in the Critical role fandom have collectively decided that Orym is our blorbo. We all just took one look at him and were like, "Ah yes, this is the ideal of masculinity we aspire to." One that involves flowers and gentleness and fierce protection of those he cares about.

GUESS WHO'S CATCHING UP

IT'S ME

Spoilers... kinda? 8 episodes behind?

Anyway I adore Aabria and Christian with all my heart, y'all bring such glorious chaos to the table ♥

HAVE SOME DOODLES OF THE BEBES

[ID: A digital illustration of Ashton Greymoore from Critical Role. They stand leaning forwards with their hands in their pockets, sticking his tongue out and grinning. Behind him is a saturated pink background with bright blue and yellow triangular sparks around their head. End description.]

I need to stop believing it won't take me long to draw Ashton

*Yasha voice* how do you get it so pointy

Essek of this week (that's number 3) is a sketch cause honestly friends i have been manically overworking for the past several months and need to pace myself ffs. Essek is still fancy tho!

(there's nothing quite like prestidigitation to keep your curls in check)

[ID: A digital illustration of Vax'ildan and Keyleth from Critical Role. They are kissing while Vax flies, his wings partially wrapped around them both. End description.]

Smooches 🖤🧡

Do you feel like Ashton and Orym are avoiding speaking to each other? I've seen a few others mention it and it feels like they have plenty of opportunities to talk but don't

OH YEAH ABSOLUTELY.

i feel like ever since their talk in ep 40 there's been smth off between them versus before. extremely long rambling under the cut i am so sorry these two change my brain chemistry

personally i think on orym's side he doesn't like someone who's able to read him this well. i think it's esp interesting cause ashton in ep 40 said "i know you're not okay." rather than asking if orym was okay, feel like that makes orym uncomfortable. someone not evening giving him a chance to continuing putting on his strong exterior. probably last person able to read past his bullshit was well...will, derrig or his mother.

ashton i think seems afraid of how easily they open up to orym. just like ashton sees through orym's, orym sees through ashton's bullshit. they've almost started to say things to orym & just abruptly cut off (and it's killing me!!! ashton i am shaking you by the shoulders what were you gonna say!!!). they want to be ready to talk to him but they aren't cause once they start i don't think they'll be able to keep everything in. knowing how much this group is players who embody their character nearly 24/7 (i do it too agfgh), i was esp sad seeing ashton after the battle. look like they were holding back fuckin tears man (orym too).

both of them are feeling small and lost and i think once they do talk? it'll be big for them internally because they read eachother so well and are a lot more similar than they originally thought. ESP seeing even slivers of how orym copes with things this awful. seems like ash & him cope more similarly than i would've figured. also makes me worried for those 6 years orym was lost for....girl what happened...

in general i think their talk in ep 40 made all their similairties and abilities to just see straight through eachother more apparent to them both. and that's sorta scary for both of them, hence why they're just avoiding it. easier to ignore it than sit down and talk to someone who you know will see a very vulnerable version of you whether you like it or not.

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decided to give Bells Hells some proper winter clothing <3