replies – Overdressed & Underappreciated

replied to your post “So, that happened. Again.”

I hope it’s okay to say, but I’m a little at the
point where I’m just blaming Liam’s roleplaying and it’s not fun to
watch for me. Friction is good as is playing true to your character, but
this constant overblown melodrama (along with his weird treatment of
Jester) is a little exhausting and feels more a result of someone
positioning themselves at the center of roleplay. Obviously they can
play how they want, but, as a viewer, I feel weirdly similar to how I
did watching Tiberius

I get what you mean. For what it’s worth, Vax also had the tendency to go ass over teakettle into situations and just expect the rest of the party to keep up with him. The key difference is that Vax never considered himself to be the smartest person in the room and that thusly, the natural order of things has to be that people follow his commands without questions. So… A little bit of both, I suppose.

Liam just being oblivious to all of this is my worst case scenario. For now, I am soooomewhat willing of giving him the benefit of the doubt because it is… Consistent with what we know about the character. In an ideal world, Sam and Liam are assholes about loot and stuff to point out how little flak they get for it when the Internet basically had Laura crucified for stealing from a Necromancer looting the scene where a quarter of Kiki’s civilization was killed and having corpses from said civilization work and dance for him.

returnofismasm:

vohalika

The “you were always broken” line basically confirmed every single fear Percy had about himself. You see this reflected in his goodbye letter, which reads a lot like a suicide note, where he says that this has finally told him that redemption is just not in the cards for him. That’s not what the RQ MEANT necessarily, but given Percy’s headspace going in, is a very likely interpretation. The mother of Ravens isn’t exactly matronly, is she?

For some reason tumblr never tells me when you reply to my posts, which is weird because your replies are always good.

I do kind of get the impression that the Raven Queen is vastly out of practice actually speaking to living mortals. Usually by the time she gets her hand on them, they’ve moved beyond the need to strive for redemption, one way or the other. And her clerics and paladins (save Vax at first) are already well aware of her tenants, so no need to figure out the approach there.

And I know the Ioun Discourse has been done to death at this point (and holy god we still have six days!) but I already love the distinct contrast between her and the RQ. I have no idea if it was deliberate, but on one had we have Percy, at his most vulnerable, alone, naked, having just been forced through a phobia, with the Raven Queen looming out of the shadows at him. One the other, Percy is facing his potential god in the heart of her power, surrounded by his friends, having had a profound revelation about the nature of things, and Ioun is treating not just him, but all of VM, more or less as equals.

That’s funny, because tumblr didn’t tell me you tagged me! It is clearly out to sabotage our relationship, or something.

And hah, the Ioun discourse. Yeah. This is one of those beautiful thematic points that speak in favor of Percy. And honestly, the only way in which the Scanlan side justifies itself really is that they want Scanlan to get somebody, and are under the assumption no more gods will be visited after the next episode. Which will resolve the thing, finally.