Aelwyn: "That is...fucking awful." Loved their interactions across the season, love them being bitchy-loving sisters now. Earlier on, I was considering writing a little fanfic wherein Aelwyn would be chatting with Adaine and just without hesitation case Banishment when one of the Old Elves showed up. I practically cackled when that scene actually came to pass.
My favorite part of this is the idea that both Adaine and Aelwyn have come to the conclusion that leaving their mother in the woods was bad, not because it was their mother, but because they do not financially benefit from having done that. And out of context that sounds cruel but in context it is the most hilarious thing ever.
I love that Adaine is totally onboard, but just gets all squinty face when Aelwyn mentions that her first plan just isn't going to work, because their mother is smart enough to keep her two estranged daughters out of her will.
It's wild that we're listening a pair of sisters straight up contemplating matricide in order to claim their mother's estate and we as an audience feel genuine frustration that ultimately they can't. Like "Children plotting the murder of their parent to inherit their fortune" is legit like a plot that the major villain of a play would come up with and yet this time it's the heroes doing the plotting and the mother is such a Grade-A asshole that we're like "Yeah! Ice that b****!"
Adaine: "Did you just cast my Furious Fist spell?" Aelwyn: "Yes, Ayda showed it to me. Over when we we've been working at the Compass Points?" Adaine: "Oh, that makes sense." Aelwyn: "Was that alright? I know that was like a thing between the two of you and-" Adaine: "No, no, that's great. It's just- It's like my sister just cast the spell that's named after me. It's kind of-" Aelwyn: "It's weird, right?...I mean, it was a really fun idea when Ayda explained it to me. And the spell you made for her. But I wasn't sure if this was a thing just for you two-" Adaine: "You want to make a spell for me?" Aelwyn: "What? No, no, no...I mean, would that be-...I probably could?" Adaine: "That'd be great. You're like...a really powerful Abjurer. I would love more ways to not die in a fight." Aelwyn: "I think I might have some spare time to come up with something...not that you don't already have a great spell named after you. Adaine's Furious Fist?...Very satisfying to use." Adaine: "Right?! That's what Ayda was thinking...Also, super-cool that you just killed mum with it." Aelwyn: "Yes, absolutely...And I want you to know wasn't trying to be cute or...I don't know, poetic. It's just how it worked out." Adaine: "Absolutely. It was just the right tool for the job." Aelwyn: "But so satisfying." Adaine: "So satisfying punching magic into people you hate."
I Love these shorts because Adaine and Aelwyn have such a fun dynamic and it comes across really well with the added visuals. <3 It also reinforces how utterly messed up their situation is. So estranged from their parents that Adaine killed their father and the only reason they are talking about getting back to/at their mother is to hopefully inherit and help with their problematic financial situation. Not that the parents don’t fully deserve it, but it’s just messed up in general.
@@IzzBeingChaotic Yeah, I loved how over the course of the season they both admitted that they understand that they're coping with some truly messed up stuff. The conversation where Adaine instantly understood what Aelwyn was getting at when she was explaining how she found that Jawbone was being...too supportive was gold. Makes it all the more tragic that their parents squashed any potential of them being family to one another before this point.
not to get too personal but the dynamic of siblings becoming buddies after fighting in an abusive home is uh very relatable and I think they play it well
Their dynamic is so perfect. Plus Aelwyn's whole arc this season of "I'm learning to be nicer, but I'm still going to be a bit of a bitch in a fun way and I want people to respect that about me."
Love how Adaine's ears perk up when Aelwyn says "and I had you there." Just so happy that her sister likes her, and then immediately juxtaposed by Aelwyn's ears falling when she talks about Adaine leaving.
I really like Aelwyn. She is trying and she is getting better but she also spent her whole life acting prim and proper bitch and being both validated and forced to stay like this by her parents, it is not easy to just flip a switch and change that. Also her convos with Adaine, who feels similar about actually being loved (which tbf also applies to aelwyn), are great.
I think what's even funnier about this scene is that we don't know if Fig yelled to Porter for backup or bc she was mad and wanted to take it out on him instead of her best friend xD
Question for people who actually play DnD themselves instead of obsessing bisexually over Lou Zac and Siobhan. Do your tables actually... pay any mind to spell components? At all? Or do your spellcasters just get to cast spells because they're spellcasters and handwave the nitty gritty details?
mostly, if u have a spell, u can use it. depends on what u want to do, like for example fhsy minor spoiler: the bad kids made tinctures and needed every ingredient
Spell components only matter unless they have a gold cost - otherwise, you can just use an arcane focus. That said, I love them and I use them all the time. It's flavor! It's perfectly good flavor that we're throwing away, here!
For a lot of tables the necessity of getting the ingredients goes up with their cost and how advanced the spell is. For most low level spells, my table always played it as basically every general store has a small stock because every baby wizard is using these components and our characters keep full up. We have to go shopping for high level components and things that normal shops wouldn’t keep stocked
I don’t. I don’t like how accurate that “private school” comment was that hurt me emotionally. anyways goddddd this animatic is so cute they all look great! absolutely cackling at the expression work
It’s supposed to be metaphorical and whimsical I think If you think about it pretty much every single ingredient for a spell is some type of weird old saying Except for fireball which is literally just the ingredients for gunpowder
I love how creatively you incorporate stuff like Emily’s snickering with Fig in the top corner and the ad-libbed conversation as Adaine imagining the exchange. It reminds me a lot of deepblueink’s style of reinterpreting background noise or side convos to fit into the animated scene!
