A reminder that Rosario Dawson is a transphobe who abused and violently assaulted a trans man, so I’d really appreciate it if you tagged your gifsets lovingly focused on her with something in addition to/other than just the name of one of my favorite characters so I can get her off my dash without having to banish Ashoka from my fandom life forever.
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AnonymousInteresting to see VM has grown used to be able to revivify but for a regular guy like kerr, it’s mind blowing
kerr the last couple of episodes has been fascinating. like, here’s this ex-adventurer clearly haunted by the loss of his old party, who tries to do good in little ways, whose response to the question ‘are you a good person’ is ‘i try’, who sees the beauty in the small things, but who knows that all things come to an end and all too often they do so in blood and pain– and he sees vox machina, who must be achingly like what he remembers of his old companions – even allura commented on their messing around with a ‘i forgot this is what it’s like’
and he’s ready to throw his life on the line to make sure they keep each other. ‘kerr came here expecting to die’, rothfuss said, or words to that effect. and he doesn’t die, but percy does – and scanlan does, but it’s percy that kerr tries to piece back together, a far away look in his eyes, no doubt lost in his own memories
he tells keyleth that ‘sometimes you lose people and they don’t come back’ but he’s proven wrong immediately; rothfuss specifies that the pep talk kerr is giving is the wrong one. kerr’s acceptance of grief and death and powerlessness is shaken in the face of vox machina’s absolute refusal to give up, saving allura and kima against all the odds
& so percy & scanlan getting resurrected must shake kerr not only on a religious/magical level, but also on an existential one – bc yet again it’s proving that his acceptance isn’t the only way, it doesn’t have to be like that
and for someone who must have worked his way through the five stages of grief to reach this point, discovering that he might not have had to, that his beliefs & outlook might actually not be universal or even right – it’s mind blowing, and it’s tragic, and it’s desperate
which means that the next time we see him, he’s pumping grog for information on resurrection rituals – ‘do they always work’, but also, far more tellingly, ‘do you need a body’
‘could i do this’ he’s asking. ‘should i have tried’
rewatching the vaxleth first kiss still pisses me off so much bc percy starts coughing like crazy and its so FUCKING annoying and it ruins the moment so much its literally infuriating
Everything you’ve ever felt
Everything you’ve buried
and now since im just all out crying i keep thinking about grog’s sweet little head shake when pike nonjudgmentally asks if he knows how to write his name and i dont know WHY that hits me so fucking hard but just the empathy and lack of judgement from pike, and like… this wholesomeness and wanting to learn genuinely from grog just makes me feel so emotional
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not me crying because i can deeply relate to vax and vex’s childhoods growing up
cannot stop crying because kerrek is like really the first person to validate keyleth’s sensitivity and her fear that as much good as they do, there’s still so much death they can’t prevent. the first person to truly understand the burden of responsibility she places on herself, and that is placed on her –– the stakes for her have never been the same as the ones for the rest of vox machina and he’s the only one who seems to understand that she has a whole long lifetime ahead of her to bear this weight onwards. it really makes me so emotional to see him call her sensitive, but in a demeaning way –– he says “he’s known people like her” and “been like her” which I understood as someone who is sensitive to being good. and by no means is keyleth perfect. she can be hypocritial, and awkward, and a bunch of other things, but she has so much weight on her shoulders, and she tries so hard to be positive, but she’s so afraid of doing wrong and of hurting innocents and what that means for her as a leader –– something she never had any choice in.
it’s just so so important to me that he says to her in plain words “you’re not wrong, and you’re not crazy” in a way that like, vox machna has always tried to placate her and make her feel better but in a way it helps to know that she’s not imagining this, that her fears and worries and valid. on the other hand, he also tells her it’s not hopeless, as someone who has been in her shoes and just… ugh, as a keyleth stan and a very sensitive person myself, that whole interaction meant so much to me.