[ID: A Digital Illustration Of Veth Brenatto From Critical Role. She Is Visible From The Shoulders Up

[ID: A digital illustration of Orym from Critical Role. He sits on the edge of the Silver Sun sky ship at night. Orym has recently healed claw scratches on his face from his and Fearne's fight with Chetney. He is holding his sending stone in his hands, looking down at it with a sad expression as he says "Glad you aren't here. Wish you were anyway." End description.]

"Oh Orym..."

but black is the color of my true love's hair

I did it again 😁 this ones a lil more goofy tho and played with some effects

Whoops™️

i draw lady npcs that i really like, from critical role, campaign 2, sporadically: part three (3)

the bright queen, leylas kryn! featuring more of my dynasty fashion and armor bullshit that i'm always on

Laudna

I still regularly listen to all of these but breaking benjamin is probably my favorite

till death do us part

Look my favourite 'Starscream joins the Autobots' concept involves him absolutely playing up his victimhood in a manipulative attempt to win sympathy. He's a Decepticon! He's Starscream. Of course he does! He will act however weak and vulnerable he needs to, in order to achieve his ends.

This gives him a fascinating duality. He's a Machiavellian selfish would-be-tyrant who fucking dares the Autobots to feel sorry for him; while at the same time, he's a wheedling, snivelling mess, making puppy-dog eyes as he cunningly reveals tailored scraps of his abusive relationship with Megatron to win over the 'soft-sparked' Autobots.

Everything he shares is true.

In fact, things with Megatron were probably even worse than he portrays, albeit more complex - i.e., with far more goading and violence on his side, but which in NO WAY justified the ghastly abuse he was subjected to.

This is a way for him to feel like he's in control of the shit that's been done to him. If he's using his victim status as a weapon, it feels like it's his. He's taken possession of it. He's made it into something more powerful, in his mind (even if this defence tactic kinda... prevents him from fully recognising that what happened to him was actually really really awful).

I wish more fics engaged with this aspect of his character, where he's PERFECTLY WILLING to go 'OH THE ABUSE. OH I HAVE SUFFERED' if it'll get him ahead in life, while perhaps not even fully understanding just how much trauma he's gone through.

[ID: A digital illustration of Orym from Critical Role. He is kneeling on the ground with a sword through his chest, splitting his armor down the middle. Orym looks down at the sword with a pained and alarmed expression, holding the hilt of the sword with his left hand. Blood is spattered across his front and pools beneath him where the sword juts out of his back. His blood spattered sword and shield lie on the ground next to him. End description.]

Well that can't be good