Erika Taught Brennan Something About Himself in Misfits & Magic
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Evan Kelmp's flaws weren't entirely planned #shorts #dimension20
For select free seasons of Dimension 20, clips, and more, visit the Dimension 20 RUclips channel: / dimension20show
For every Dimension 20 season, new episodes, and talkbacks, subscribe to Dropout: dimension20.dr...
Subscribe to the Dropout newsletter here: newsletter.dro...
His description and expression at "oh that's not good? We- we don't do that...?" Is so painfully relatable
+
Yup. 😂🤔💀
It makes that scene they talk about so much better.
"Wait wut? Honk if you like pizza isn't actually about pizza? I've honked for so much pizza."
I love Brennan so much, everytime he's on screen it's like free therapy
As a therapist, same. It's actually shocking how much he understands personal journeys. I learn a lot from him, and I incorporate it in my sessions. Now I focus on making each client the hero of their own story.
@@Drekromancerwhat being a philosophy major, camp counselor, improv master and legendary DM does to a mf
But really, his levels of introspection, self accountability, empathy and emotional openness is truly aspirational!
@@Drekromancernobody talks about this enough, Brennan has so clearly done his own work and it is SO OBVIOUS to me as someone who has gone to years of therapy. It’s truly incredible and admirable
@@Imperial_Squid I honestly think that history might regard him as a sage. I have learned so much about life from him.
@@professorhazardand he always pokes that curiosity wide open. I think that's why I loved the D20 season of Mentopolis so much!!
I would love to see a season 2 or a different person's Mentopolis. I would definitely love to see an ADHD or Autism's mind (as I am both). But also, I often wonder what sage things I could learn as to how he deals..
Sorry I should say helps with Izzy and her ADHD mind.
Gotta remember the acceptance of these things. Not continue to be so negative when I speak about it. 😅
Aabria said most DMs are service tops and she shot me with that line.
TIL I am a service top. Thank you for introducing me to this term. XD
Fuck 😂😂😂
@@heycarolcrazy but also they're sometimes power bottoms, according to the same segment. 😂
Damn... That was a useful term to look up 😳
@@heycarolcrazy learning the term and then being like “oh hey that fits” was very funny for me
They found a character flaw that was truly just a Brennan flaw 😂😂😢
This line goes hard
It's one of the fascinating things about RP. We're always somewhere in our characters, and sometimes in ways that we're unaware of.
@@Iamtk777 I hate how true this actually is. Lol
@@Iamtk777 and in a similar way when we basically make the character just ourselves with some world based additions we find out odd things about ourselves but that just feels like a normal day in our heads really 😂
It's not a flaw, it's a feature.....
I’m pretty sure Erika/K came for A LOT of viewers with that sniper shot.
erika ishii was put on this world with one purpose and it was emotional assassination
Like fish in a damn barrel. We were _not_ ready for that one
TRUE
Not so much a sniper shot as a carpet bombing
What sniper shot because I'm completely lost and confused
I had a player who has an edgelord character tear up because the "responsible moral compass" player's character said some truths to him and the edgelord later confessed to me he heard his own dad in those words... Talk about silly games to escape reality.
Everyone who has played a TTRPG before knows the real reason you keep coming back is for the free therapy.
It is pretty impossible to make a character with so much detail and care and NOT accidentally leave a little piece of yourself in there.
As someone with a people-pleasing thing... That moment spoke to me on a spiritual level. That it also poked Brennan down to his soul was something I didn't expect.
Couldn't agree more!
I expected nothing less from Brennan.
I'm also a people pleaser and 100% agree. I was like.... "Damn, Erika"
Reminds me of when Brennan and Sam were on the project for awesome and Brennan told a story about how he and Izzy were out in public and someone was rude to Brennan. He was like "oh thank you" and Izzy SCREAMED at the stranger at the TOP of her lungs "DONT FUCKING DO THAT"
I don't consider myself a "pleaser". I do however look at it like if I enter an environment, both for the benefit of me and others it's important to me that the environment is comfortable or enjoyable. And part of that is not adding negativity by me being there and if I do I have a responsibility to equalise by contributing something to the situation or as I most often do, remove myself from that shared environment. If I feel like shit and can't maintain a neutral air, as soon as my problems weigh into negatives I can just remove that from the equation.
That moment in Misfits and Magic hit me so hard. So relatable. You could see on Brennan's face that Erika's comment rocked him as a person, not a player.
What episode was this?
@@whynaut1I'm not sure, but Misfits and Magic isn't long. You should watch it.
@@whynaut1Episode 4 iirc
It's really giving "that's not a character flaw, it's normal... we're all like this... why are you looking at me like that?" and I think that's incredible. and the blatant way he shared that here
"You understand!?"
Yall that was terror in his voice because someone saw his heart! Which, as a human being, is the most terrifying experience if you weren't expecting it.
As someone who also doesn't think of themselves as good unless they're useful, Erika sniped me too
100% got me too 😅
She hit a hewdshot that's for sure
As someone who is medically frail, I was also definitely sniped. I'm really glad this showed up in my news feed, because my boyfriend literally had to sit me down TODAY and tell me that I don't have to be useful in order for him to love me. I've always measured my value in my inability to work or make money, and so I've not thought of myself as very important to others, but he brought up that I'm good company and that he genuinely enjoys me in his life and I just 🥺🥺🥺💕💕💕😭😭😭
Truly I absolutely felt that one. And it's one that I still haven't addressed.
@@papa.scabby awww good boyfriend. Best of luck to you both
Raise you hand if in addition to this you never ask for help and want to be totally self reliant because you don’t want to feel like a burden.
I once spent 4/5 months basically blind with cataracts because I didn't want to be a burden to my friends and family... I think I fall into this group 😂😅😅
Hands up over here too. 😅
I've always been self reliant and overtly useful cause the second im not helping someone else they go why didn't you do more of this thing for me you must be lazily or something and it pisses me off that people that ARE less useful are so ready to judge me poorly I feel the need to work to a point where I can tell anyone else to check themselves and be quite cause they are obviously wrong
I know im useful but its annoying that no one else takes anything like years of experience as proof you have to prove everything to everyone even though those people always end up sucking and dragging others down there's no more mutual respect cause other people never get to a point where they understand how much work being useful and staying that way takes
Can people stop sniping me through all these god damn duplex doors, thank you?!
@@adamsharp9081hmm that’s not the same… and I think you might want ro be hyper aware of making sure that this mindset doesn’t accidentally make you the type of person you hate as in - check yourself regularly because you’re likely to get jaded and become prone to OVER estimating the effort you’re making compared to others and perhaps even the value you bring and UNDER estimating those things in others
Damn she was coming straight for that “gifted kid” energy in a lot of us 😂
For those curious when this takes place during the show: It's episode 4 of Misfits and Magic
Brennan says "I'm okay being magic, I can help my friends" @ 32:40
Erika says "He seems to believe that if he can be of some material use to us, that that validates his friendship with us in some way." @ 48:01 w/ Brennan's reaction @ 48:09
I had to scroll so far down for this context. Thanks!
the hero I needed thank you
thank you!
Thank you kindly sir
My friend you gave a done a great service
I grew up with a mentally disabled sibling, and loving someone like that is a pretty powerful antidote to this way of thinking. They will never "contribute to society" in any way that makes money or any material goods. That doesn't matter, you love them just like any other person because they're there, they're a full-time person and they're not going anywhere else. They have the full range of human emotion. You can't live with that person every day and still think that your worth is in your ability.
I totally see your point and it's absolutely true. However, as someone who grew up (and still struggles with) feeling that I am only worthwhile and good if I am useful to others, this is absolutely not something that I apply to others. I can be extremely cruel and harsh towards to myself, and a big part of therapy for me has been identifying the hurtful things I tell myself that I would never say or allow to be said to friends and loved ones.
I spent about ten years doing equine therapy with kids and adults with a range of disabilities, some of whom were never going to 'contribute' in any tangible way to society, and that was totally ok; they were absolutely worthwhile human beings. I fully recognize the logical disconnect in this way of thinking, but this kind of deepseated self-loathing or low self esteem defies logic.
Nah as someone who has mental disabilities, I still feel this way about myself.
I don't want anyone to think that I'm saying I'm immune to feeling low self worth, or that I never dealt with depression or anxiety or any of that stuff - I absolutely have dealt with it for a long time. I have the toxic inner voice that I would never allow to speak to others I care about.
I'm really talking about this undercurrent of negging that runs through capitalist society, that starts when you're a small child, that tells you that you might lose points on a test or have a less shiny car or you might "disappoint" others, and it seems to create this anxiety where people believe they have to earn everything. They grow roots and tap into that current and they become dependent on it.
I grew up asking myself questions like, why my sibling and not me? What is it like to live in a mind like that? Do they know how different our experience is? What would they be like without their disability? What kind of conversations might we have had? To be clear, their disability was profound to the point that they can't read or write, and they can barely hold even the most basic conversation. You take one look at them and it's instantly obvious that they're impaired.
Growing up with that deeper psychic undercurrent there's a kind of ego death that you experience, to the point that all the negging seems pretty trivial. Oh someone says I won't measure up? Well then they must think my sibling is pure garbage, and one thing I've learned is that that is the lowest bar anyone has to clear. If they can't accept my sibling then they're not worth thinking about. I never grew those roots into the negging current.
@@excrubulent I think, though, that there's a difference between that nagging from society that expects up to have value through contribution and the expectation that some of us develop that we need to be of help /to our loved ones/. Because I deal with both of these, and they are very different. And having to take care of someone from a young age can often lead to this second one. Growing up, my older brother was more sensitive than I was, so I would sometimes feel that he needed my protection from our dad, who was not great. Dad's disapproval bothered my brother, while it just made me dislike Dad. This became intensified when our baby brother got old enough to start receiving Dad's harshness. This pattern continued when I got a best friend who had abusive parents. She was suicidal and I felt like I was responsible for making sure she was okay and didn't kill herself. (A belief she encouraged, turns out she was actually a manipulative abuser.)
All of this has led me to have much the same issue Brennan has. It's not so much that I don't think that I don't have worth unless I can perform (which is what capitalism expects), but rather all of my needs are secondary to those of my loved ones and I gain a sense of purpose and stability when I can help them.
In this hellscape that we live in where everything sucks and our friends are rarely just okay, that idea that we are somehow responsible for or at least required, if we are to consider ourselves anything approaching a good person, to do everything we can to try to help them becomes very hard to get away from. After all, I can handle it. I'm managing. And I'll always manage if I need to. And I need to because they need me. (Or, I'll deal with my stuff later or on my own, because they are possibly in a worse place and I want to make sure they are okay because they are the world to me and I don't know how to balance taking care of them and taking care of myself.)
So it's less about the need to produce and contribute and more about the need to do everything in our power to help.
@(it's excrubulent) I love your perspective so much, its really made me think. Bless ya!
The way Brennan had Evan make the decision not to leave the school and lose the only friends he ever had with the VERY on the nose line “I’m not leaving, I can help my friends.” and didn’t realize that was a character flaw until Erika pointed it out is fucking hysterical. Boy who doesn’t do something incredibly self destructive because he realized he can be useful and therefore valuable is DEFINITELY not a character flaw what are you talking about???
YEAH LOLLL I WAS LIKE 0_o
But the fact that he would’ve run if he didn’t feel he was useful was the flaw
@@braydenchadwick9836 He wanted to run to save his friends. For his whole life, everyone and everything in proximity to him has been hurt by his magic, and he felt like a ticking time bomb around his new friends, like it was only a matter of time before he seriously hurt one of them. He only decided to stay when he felt like this sheer amount of dark power could be useful to his friends and not just a liability.
@grey8288 I think the point Erika was making, if I'm understanding it right, wasn't about Evan. It was about _Brennan_ , the player. _Brennan_ doesn't feel like he's doing well unless he's useful, and that shows in his characters.
Brennan also is agreeing with this. The point she called him out on, he was playing Evan how Brennan would react (with Evan justifications).
@@PointsofData she wasn't making a point about Brennan, she noticed that trait coming in on Evan, but the trait wasn't intentional on the part of Brennan, it was one of Brennan's traits squeezing it's way into Evan. That's what I've interpreted from what I have seen (haven't seen the episode in which it happened)
This sort of thing is why D&D is being used as a therapy and social skill building exercise. I know someone who runs games specifically with the goal of better mental health, and they ROCK. I had so much fun at one of their one shots.
Wow, that is so, so cool. I would love to do that for people someday.
god thats such a great and sensible idea id love to join one 😭 but i dont know anyone who plays around me
My roommate used it with one of her social skills students!
Sometimes I can be harsher on myself than my strict parents to be the most useful, the best version of me. And to hear that I can actually have worth without having to prove it to myself or someone else is just mind blowing.
I don't know you, *but* I don't need to know you to know that you're an _incredible person,_ I hope you'll know that about yourself one day too 💜
@@Imperial_Squid thx kind person. Really needed to hear that
Tbh I understand that I'm somehow intrinsically valuable, but I don't understand how. I just know my friends love me. But I just can't understand why. Crazy thing is I probably love them the same way but just can't make sense of it for myself.
No but like my brains just intrinsically rejecting this!!! And I really dont want it to because it sounds like a nice way to think of things.
How can you possibly have worth if you arent useful? Those two things are an overlapping venn diagram, no?
I appreciate @Imperial_Squid 's kind words, but it just sounds so trite, because how can you be an incredible person if you arent valuable, useful or of worth?
How do you get over that mental hurdle of not having your self worth rely on your productivity, or your usefulness? On a daily basis, you have to be better than the day before, and be more useful, and how do you NOT have to prove that to yourself with tangible efforts and results?
@@Thiccyg I feel like it's still important to feel useful, to feel as if you did your best
But it's also important to let yourself fail and relax sometimes. Cause I'm always hurrying somewhere to prove my worth and sometimes it gets tiring. But I can never relax without feeling like I'm losing time and that's kinda not healthy I think
"No, no Erika, they're laughing, stop" gets me every time.
I love how he introduced Erika, because they are amazing and wonderful
I fuckin loved and was horrified about how there relationship between there characters made me understand myself more xD
She didn’t just snipe to the duplex door she sniped straight through the fourth wall clear through to my self image
Erika be yelling
""BOOM HEADSHOT""
I love the idea of her being like "Hey, this thing you're roleplaying? That's not healthy man" and Brennan being like "... That's not roleplay, that's just *_me"_* 😂😂😂
Ultra kill 😂
erika's casualties count on that single snipe is damn high
Got Brennan and the bullet ricochet right into the fourth wall
For the people confused: Brenan makes characters with flaws, but Erika exposed a flaw that wasn't about the character but Brenan.
The door thing is the same as saying "4th wall"
I feel you Brennan, I feel you
I’m the same. I love being helpful and all I want is to be appreciated. I had a girlfriend who became distant and stopped appreciating the gestures of love I tried to give her, and it completely tore me apart. This went on for 7 months until she finally broke it off and the whole time I was trying to figure out what I had done wrong and trying to better show my love for her while at the same time trying not to be clingy. Turns out she just didn’t love me anymore but cared about me and felt guilty accepting loving gestures while not feeling love for me in return. The worst part was that back when she did love me she said my outgoing and helpful nature was one of the things she loved most. I don’t think it’s necessarily a character flaw to want to be useful, but it is difficult for those of us with that personality trait to understand those who don’t, and when our attempts to be useful go unappreciated it can really hurt us.
Erika 360° no scope sniped Brennan
I was checked in the game I'm in.
The subject was/is orphans. Every time I have encountered someone something that is orphaned, I would immediately try and take them under my wing. I was like, "What do you mean? It's my character doing this." And all the other players and the dm were like "no no, this isn't a character thing it's a *you* thing." Properly checked.
Found IRL Batman.
What'd it teach you? Pitying "I gotta fix them" behaviour or?
@cbunny6671 no just that I care for people who have been lost or neglected by others and the society around them. I don't want to or need to fix them, there's nothing wrong with someone in those situations. Nor do I pity them. No one's pitiful for being orphaned or abandoned. All I feel is the want to help. If then don't want or need help then thats fine. I won't force myself into someone's life.
Not everything is cynical. People can just be kind.
@@afernandezaf55af I wasn't implying that, not everyone's questions are cynical.
Did your desire to help them go away when they indicated they didn't need or want help, and that their life was fine.
If it didn't, that's a form of pity.
The degrees of assault on my person that just occurred. That pierced Brennan and hit several other people, myself included.
Ricocheted off of Brennan into the camera hitting multiple viewers at home
Damn! I totally thought that was a character decision on Brennan's part! Gotta love it.
Brenan took psychic damage
Those two have been around each other so long that they’re telepathic- they know full well how to get at the other in and out of character simultaneously
This was an interesting thing that was brought up in my recent game. I asked what the thing everyone's opinion of what they always put as part of a character. Everyone had an answer for themselves. One was a secret kept from everyone, one was to be the best, one was to always ask questions and another was to be as quiet as possible. I asked about me because I didn't know it, unanimously everyone said "to be good and helpful".
I asked my wife later and also all of my other friends in other groups that I play in. They all gave me a version of this. My wife even continued to say " you try to make people sleep over if they drank too much. You make dinner for all of us. You literally gave someone your coat because they were cold and you didn't know them."
I thought this was fitting because I never thought about it until that moment.
It's a boon, because it pushes you to become more useful in often amazing ways. Brennan, with his amazing memory and creativity, is an exemplar of this.
As most boons, it comes with a curse. The curse is...well, exactly what it says on the tin.
Oh. Well that pierced the Core of my being
Awe Brennan 🥺❤️ he's so precious.
As much as I love Brennan Lee Mulligan, I realize we are not the same. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE TIMES. I think about this CONSTANTLY
That happens to me, too, when I'm playing D&D. Usually the same frickin "not good unless you're of use" thing, too lol
"That's not really a character quirk, that's just my personality shining through my characterisation-wait, you said character flaw???"
Erika living up to their reputation as a woke goblin
🥰 iconic honestly
Bisexual gargoyle 😂
amazing learning moment for brennan. good job erika.
I think Erika got some kind of Killtacular with how many of us she hit.
honestly same. i keep my backpack full of anything anyone could need like hair ties and tampons/pads and gum even though i don’t use any of those things because i want to be helpful and it’s the only way that i feel like i’m needed
Dude 🥺
Just remember that being helpful and kind isn't the problem, it's feeling like you're worthless if you're not. Don't stop being kind, just extend your kindness to yourself too.
It's not a bad thing to help people. What is a bad thing is when you place your worth in the context of how much you can help/do for people. Because people who are your friends because you make it so they don't have to do as much preparation when you're around/think overmuch about what things they may need and just "wing it" or etc aren't really friends because they see value in YOU, but they see value in what you can provide, what money you can save them, the time they can have to do more fun stuff rather than consider the responsible stuff and be prepared.
Your worth isn't something that requires outside validation. You should never want someone to "need" you, because "need" means they don't have a choice, and what you should want is people to "choose" you, to be a friend or a partner or a lover or just part of their adventure. And if you want to really find out how many people value YOU, rather than what you can provide to them, stop providing things.
Personally, I much prefer being around people who I value because of things that can not be bought or traded or stolen... The things that can only be given and received... Acceptance of the person I am, love - both given and received, compassion, understanding, a shoulder or a helping hand... These things are far more prescious... and, unfortunately, rarer, than things that are tangible or obtained with money.
Your value doesn't come from the amount of money you make, the connections you have, the opportunities you can unlock or offer someone... That can increase their appreciation or how much they thank you for whatever service you provided, but those are not why you should want someone to want to be around you.
I normally find that people who want to show their value to others by gifts or etc... Those people are less likely to see their value because they are scared that they don't have any, so they want to, and I don't mean this specifically to you, but I think it might apply (you tell me), they many times would rather buy someone's affection by providing them things than to risk putting themselves out there and being rejected.
But I'll tell you a secret, all men want 1 thing. And all women want 1 thing. It's funny that women and men, that one thing is the same thing... Love and acceptance for who they really are. And I think that once a lot of people realize that they aren't alone in worrying that people won't like them, that maybe they need to hide something they feel might annoy people or be unattractive, maybe they need to pretend to be something else to try to fit in... That those thoughts are not just in one or two peoples heads, they don't just haunt the minds of people who don't seem to have any friends or aren't super popular or aren't a sports star or whatnot, they haunt us all, and we all wonder those things. It's, unfortunately, a huge side effect of living in a society where material possessions, "hustle culture"," and the marketing departments knowing that if you don't feel like you have value, or that something is wrong with you, that they can sell you that missing things that will change your whole life, give you the value, the beauty, the friends, the adoration, the life you've always wanted but never felt good enough to have a shot at. And when they break people, by making them feel less-than-adequite, lonely, unpopular, etc... Well then, you'll be wanting to buy that specially bottled water in the pretty bottle that's straight from the tap of a small towns water supply. Or the makeup that promised to make you look like you've got a glamour filter on in real life. Or the workout equipment so that you can have abs like this guy who spends 15hrs a day working out cos that's his job. Or this new tech device that will make everyone envious of you and want to be your friend so they can borrow it....
Value doesn't come from anyone but yourself though. Your value is not based on anything outside of yourself. What it will determine though is how you allow people to treat you. And people won't treat you better than you value yourself usually. And most will treat you as poorly as possible.
Value is something you determine for yourself. Your value as a human being is not determined by your job, wealth, toys, looks, iq, etc. It can be determined what value you add to a certain project or action, maybe you're great at sports but suck at cooking, so you're not going to be very valuable in a cooking competition, but you're gonna be highly valued in a dodgeball match. And just because you don't add a ton of value to one aspect doesn't mean you don't have value, it's just your skills lie elsewhere, and the fun thing about that, is we also can choose what skills we want to learn or improve or reject.
Erika absolutely does stuff like that all the time, she is so good at looking through things
I feel this on a very deep level. It’s something that’s definitely hard to work through
It’s like getting therapy through a sniper rifle, hits you hard and out of nowhere but damn if it wasn’t impactful
Ugh I love this cast so muchhh
In fairness, I reckon the world would be a better place if more people had this attitude instead of the people who don't think they're good unless it's relative to someone they perceive as lesser.
we can't help but to put a little bit of ourselves into the characters that we make
Erika was just getting back at Brennan for the Seven, he basically did the same thing to Danielle
I was sniped by both of these comments, and I have literally only seen clips.
Just saw this, my Kobold Ranger and I are just on our last legs with that snipe
Brennan is the only person I have consistently liked since college humor. He's hilarious and great doing characters
Wait, that's not how the world works?!?!
I mean, it is, when your life sucks. Source: My life sucks
non. think abt ppl who cant contribute to society bc they have disabilities or disorders that make it hard for them to. they deserve love and to be accepted as much as everyone else does. unless ur a bad person.
@@Verylengthyapple But what about everyone that's not in that situation?
@kriskiritsugo535
That's the problem. What you're saying by that statement is "it's ok if you're useless because you're disabled."
or in other words "you're ALLOWED to be useless."
No only is that a horrifying thing to tell someone who's disabled, it's also just not how the world should work.
We shouldn't measure the value of everyone's life on a ranking chart like that.
There is no leader board.
And by othering disabled people, you're innately saying you don't think they're your equal.
I saw this clip first, and I just watched the episode of Misfits and Magic he was talking about. So, I paid attention Brennan’s face when Erika said that, and you can really see that shot land.
baby, you didn't get checked. You got READ
I'm glad comments exist, I understand this moment thanks to you guys
Erika also called me out through me watching that interaction
Reminds me of realizing that a recent character I was playing in Changeling: The Lost (great game for traumatized people, gotta say) was actually being used to express anxieties I had about myself as a romantic partner and I wasn't ready to reconcile that.
the loop fecked with my brain for a sec
Making a good character to roleplay as doesn’t require you to put aspects of yourself in them, because they’ll always be told from your subjective worldview, your biases will creep in no matter what.
Erika is a gift to the world
I love TTRPGS. In what other context could this even be a coherent conversation? Wonderful
Erika Ishii taught me that even though I don’t think I’m good unless I’m useful that I can just rest assured in knowing even then I’m probably never good.
You can change your outlook on life though. That's not immutable, you can choose a different core value
That's actually really common for men. We are told our entire lives that we are not good unless we are useful.
It's common for everyone.
That's just living in an amoral society that doesn't care about life and wellbeing. Women are objectified for the artistic value of their bodies, men are objectified as tools, no one is a person.
It is so funny there are SO many people that focussed on the words "sniper shot" to the complete exclusion of all the context that makes it clear it is metaphor.
Evan Kelmp is such a good character.
This is just the entire plot of Evangelion compressed into a personal revelation mid-D&D.
Yeah ttrpgs are great for recognizing lil bits of yourself like that. I think most of us have had revelations along those lines. You’re not alone, Brennan!
Our DM told us on our first game that every player has at least one trait that shows up in every character they play. I was determined to play unique characters. And mine wasn’t even subtle. I play “characters who think they’re the best at something, but are actually comic relief” (because then you’re not failing at being the best, you’re succeeding at being comic relief)
My friend who was tooootally over their religious trauma (Mormon) picked, as our dm called it, “religious trauma monk background”- shadows or something? Which is apparently the only monk background like that. And multiclassed with rogue. Which… is just Charlie, in real life. Charlie is a *practicing* anarchist (in the economic/political sense) and more of a klepto than their character was.
Actually, our party was so impulsive that our Rogue was our voice of reason. Which is also Charlie. Chaotic mom friend.
Lmao, I’m the chaotic neutral rogue in my party, and once I yelled “really? Really guys? I’m the voice of reason here?!” 😂 but I always play chaotic neutral halfing rogues, pretty much… which I’m really not sure what it says about me… I’m related to a pirate, so I just think it’s in me blood, arrrr.
This is such a goddamn mood
This hits me so hard it makes my depression worse when i think about it.
Brennan got read lol 😂
I need to find the scene so I can rewatch and relive this
Damn, Brennan got fucking called out
Aabria looks really good in that hat.
Nah but Erika's comment sniped straight through the duplex door THEN through the screen and hit ME
I wasn't expecting to have my existence and perception of self-worth questioned today, but here we are.
I need a context clip
Don't worry, Brennan. We all think like that.
... Right?
😭🫂
Brennan goes deeper about this flaw in an interview by Hank Green on the Study Hall YT channel.
I love that the party decided in unison that Torbek is absolutely strapped
For people who feel worthless if they don't feel useful, remember that people spend time with you because they like having you around - that's a use that fills one of the most important psychological needs people have. Even if you don't see your own usefulness, the mere fact that other people subconsciously do proves that you aren't useless - and even if you don't see that happening, the potential for it to happen in the future still proves that you have value in the present. No matter how hard it is for you to see it at the moment, you have value.
I constantly have moments like this, because almost all of my Dnd characters I play as a hyper specific aspect of myself kinda as pseudo thought experiments
everyone talking about the emotional assassination and feeling personally attacked and here I am, somehow only learning now that apparently you pronounce both of the i's at the end of Ishii
Lol Erika's shot was so good it came straight through my computer screen and hit me😅
god Aabria looks INCREDIBLE
Honestly I feel this. I felt it the whole show
I've been waiting for this clip to happen for so long 😂
What episode is this clip from?
I would love brennan even if he was a worm with no skills or talents
An example of the true beauty of tabletop 😂
Oh man I feel him so much on this.
I love how in the Seven he makes the exact same point about Erika/Yell. Something similar happened in LA by Night when Brennan played an Inquisitor. They have each other's numbers, man.
it's hard to feel good about yourself unless you are useful...hard truths
"Only you can find your own worth" -Yui Ikari
I remember that line and OOF i felt that one too
Aabria is so fucking beautiful.
For context, Erika said something about tying your self worth to how well you can serve others when talking to Evan Kelmp
Impressive shot
I relate to this so much. So many of my relationships growing up - friendships, how i interacted with teachers, etc - were highly transactional because I was an undiagnosed, under-supported afab autistic kid. The people who interacted with me always required me to act like this to "earn" any affection. Now I'm doing much better and am far from any kind of transactional relationship: but it's still hard sometimes to remember that I'm worthy of the love I receive regardless of whether I can Do Things For Them.
We all got sniped. When I got shot, the tears started pouring. The pain was real 😅
This was painfully relatable
Ouch. This hits too close to home