Wise Old Mentors

Wise old mentors

i love how Critical Role plays with tropes.

Mr book smart, cat loving, timid, made-of-wet-paper nerd is clearly harmless and doesn’t know how to get his hands dirty, right? Wrong. He will fucking blast you into oblivion and oh, he also used to be an executioner in training. Did we mention he’s the most likely to suggest torture as an option?

Punchy angry jock with douchey rich parents is like, a stereotypical bully waiting to happen, yeah? Clearly she’s the mean dumb one. Nope, she’s the most emotionally in touch member of the team and ALSO right up there with the nerd looking for libraries. She WILL know your shit, or figure it out, plus – first in the campaign to earnestly say “I love you,” bitches.

The second smartest character, you ask? Probably that put together, charming green man over there who’s always so polite – oh wait it’s the other green one, the manic three foot tall alcoholic goblin who has been known to claim that there’s only one planet in the universe. And she DOES know what the fuck is up. Nott “it’s just thermodynamics” the Brave.

That gentle vegetarian cow man who loves nature and heals people is probably a pacifist, right? Try again. He has no qualms at all with slam dunking you directly into your grave and making sure you stay there. He knows for a fact that corpses grow lovely tea. Yes, our calm and kind healer IS the judgiest person here.

That absolutely ADORABLE leetle bloo tiefling who has a safe, loving, ALIVE parent, paints lovely pictures, and just wants to make everyone smile is a happy go lucky waif who – second strongest member, you say? Oh, she’s beating everyone at arm wrestling. Shit, now she’s crying. She’s repressed her trauma and sadness. Can someone hug her? Thank you Beau.

Wild and muscular barbarian lady from an enemy land with a mysterious past who’s signature move is literally exploding into rage in battle? Gentle. Soft. Awkward. Loves flowers. Just wants to Rest. Has never raised her voice at another member. Please let her pet the purring kitty.

That charming, polite green man we mentioned earlier? He’s responsible, right? He makes good decisions, right? He seems an open and honest sort. What do you mean he keeps touching shit and getting sucked through magic portals. What do you MEAN he spent months talking to his friends in a fake accent. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HIS DEFAULT SETTING IS “LIE HIS ASS OFF.” Okay so he clearly has ulterior motives – he’s just insecure? At this point that tracks, I guess.

And that’s not even getting into the whirlwind of subversions in how they interact. You’d think the serious, grim scholar who wants to break reality would be irritated by the energetic, relentless ray of sunshine, but he loves her to pieces and is the second most likely to actively aid and abet her bullshit for absolutely no reason.

You’d think the amazing talker who can read social cues and manipulate them like no one’s business wouldn’t have any time for the absolute social disaster who has trouble smiling at people, but he considers her one of his best friends and was the first person to actually try to HELP HER with socialising. He’s literally never been anything but encouraging to her about it.

You can tell how ingrained these tropes usually are when one character offers another flowers as a gesture of peace, and it’s a plot twist when they’re appreciated. Because the muscle-y broody goth would OBVIOUSLY sneer at flowers, duh.

Wrong. Welcome to “we took your one dimensional character stereotypes and played jumprope, enjoy” with a strong side of “fuck your contrived interpersonal tension, actually they love each other.”

Guys

Shirtless Sanji!!!!!

That’s all I have to say

I’m watching One piece live action and as for now I really enjoy it.

Of course it’s not anime, and we all know it will never be. But that’s good. Because if they made it literally the same, there would be no point in making it at all in my opinion.

The casting is really good. I especially liked Garp, Rodger, and Zoro. Nami, Coby and Luffy are also really nice.

For now I watched the two first episodes and I hope the rest of them will be just as good.

I’m in loveeeeeeeee😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Doodlin while rewatching rebels in preparation for ahsoka/season 5 🥰