Yeah. You can feel how hurt he is about what happened to Frumpkin BUT that he’s also very pissed at the Crownsguard who kicked his familiar and best friend!
Caleb: I’ve done horrible things. I’m not a good person. Also Caleb: who kicks a cat?! what is wrong with you?! I know this moment is meant to be funny, but I feel like it does such a good job of highlighting the fact that in spite of his past, Caleb truly is a gentle, kindhearted person...to good people/animals at least. (remembers the snowman)
The screen filling with fire while Caleb rants about the cat-kicking guard and the others just watch like ".....you okay?" gives me so much life holy shit
I like to think, in my own head canon, the first guard that Caleb Gravity Crushes was the cat kicker and that's what set him off to keep doing the others lol
My DND group and I spent every last ounce of will and resources to keep a cat alive when Strahd kicked the poor familiar, the cat lived and Strahd didn't.
the event itself . campaign 2 episode 9 . 3 hours - 6 minutes in . MATT: As Frumpkin begins to (meowing) run on its way, and one of the guards goes, "Piss off," and kicks Frumpkin about ten feet off, and stumbles and skids, and then gets back up. MARISHA: No! Not okay! LIAM: Does that take any damage? MATT: I'd say take one point of damage. LIAM: Gone. LAURA: No, you said one point? LIAM: I rolled hit points for him when I made him, and it was one, so he's gone. TRAVIS: (Explosion) MARISHA: You kicked his cat into oblivion! TRAVIS: You kicked his cat until it burst! MATT: I didn't. TRAVIS: He kicked his cat so hard! TRAVIS and LAURA: He kicked the highlights out of his hair! LIAM: Who's laughing now, Billy? Who's laughing now? MATT: Stray cats can't just wander into-- LIAM: Caleb curses to himself and wanders around, and does what he says, suddenly looking very noble. I'll let that go and then I'll follow up. TRAVIS: You guys, I kicked this cat today, and it fucking evaporated.
I’m in love with all of their expressions omg, the way Caleb is kind of just defeated but also about to burst into tears but also filled with rage? And how Fjord IMMEDIATELY regrets asking and Beau trying not to laugh- this is so great I love it
1. This is amazing. So well-drawn. Funny, cute, all of that. 2. My heart, poor Caleb trying to hold back tears. You cutie. 3. Soooo... I haven't really revisited this moment ever since (SPOILERS) we learnt that Frumpkin 1.0 met his untimely end during the Ermendrud family barbecue... So... This is kind of heartbreaking when he tears up. And also... either a little hypocritical/in denial, or very self-aware and self-loathing in those teary moments. O.O Liam O'Brien, making me feel pain even when watching adorable animatics since 2012.
Knowing what we know about Caleb, extremely self-aware. In that moment, he placed that guard that kicked his cat into oblivion onto the same level of contempt as his own self-loathing, which is a hard bar to pass because as far as I know he only holds Icki-thong with higher contempt than himself.
@@lizs2546 Snarky answer: This joke is really old already - I'm definitely not the first one to use it. ;) I'm pretty sure the cast made some jokes like that too. More genuine answer: Dude, Caleb's backstory has made me cry countless times and will again. The visual confirmation of Frumpkin 1.0's fate in the Origins comic kind of broke me and made me compulsively pet my red tabby to the point where he is very annoyed with me (the offerings of tuna help though). If I always referred to it in a serious manner, I would go insane. Gotta use some morbid humour to cope with the emotional damage Liam O'Brien inflicts upon us.
*The Ermendrud Family Barbecue* . I mean I believe you when you say it's an old joke but I hadn't heard it before, and... I'm not sure how to feel about it XD
Literally turned a man to stone because he thought kicking my fucking cat was a good idea, left that statue standing in the center of our main town as a warning to all cat kickers
Caleb: "Oh he had such a face - I will never forget his face." did he have keen mind yet? or is this the reason he got it. so he could remember that one guards face for all eternity.
You NEVER kill the familiar. This is why our ranger's pet is a hummingbird. Homebrewed based on real hummingbirds- incredible speed and high dex for a high natural defense, but barely a half hit point. Every battle, the FIRST thing that happens is to command that bird to fly to safety and wait until it's over. I may have killed PCs before, but you don't kill the familiar unless it's a 'No Items, Fox Only, Final Destination' run.
I never related to Caleb more than I did in that moment of the campaign lol. His rage was so legit. I know it's acting and him being in-character and wasn't real life rage, but you get my point yeah?
I Love The Idea Of The Mighty Nine Being Harled As The Heros Who Helped Stop The War & Like A Parade Being Thrown For Them Through the City & That One Guard Just Seeing Caleb & Frumpkin Up There & He Remembers & Just Starts Sweating Bullets. Also, If They Ever Animate CRS2 I Want This To Be One Of The Moments They Add In. It Establishes Just How Passionate Caleb Is About Frumpkin.
@@commenteroftruth9790 In my experience, it helps some people who have difficulty with dyslexia get what they want to say written right, so, ehh… do one.
I feel bad for familiars. had a campaign where my owl familiar as a witch in pathfinder 2e kept getting mauled to death every other day. First it was a demon mansion whose attendants slaughtered our familiars when we got seperated from them, then a random ceiling hanging stalagtite monster decided to eat it in almost one fell swoop, followed by actually eating it with its second attack, and then a random guard lit the poor bird on fire for being even remotely near a different mansion we were staying in. I resolved never to let that poor thing out of my magical spell filled sleeves ever again.
Caleb, “Oohhhh he had such a face, I will never forget that face.” But Caleb, he is be seeing, beyond the frame of his animation, and he stare directly into face of Matt. Caleb, he see through fourth wall, and he see through Liam. WHO KICKS A CAT??!
Spoilers I bet you that whenever Caleb is in Zadash, he goes by that particular guard and does the “I’m watching you” gesture and glares at him. You simply do not kick a man’s cat nor do you kill said cat. Look at Lorenzo. He killed the cat, he dies via fire bolt. Moral of the story: be kind to cats or else you will end up like Lorenzo.
I remember being told a story by an uncle how, annoyed at a particular cat, he literally kicked it across the road into the neighbors screen door. Where it slowly slid to the ground. It was so fantastic I had to laugh but so horrified at the cruelty to an animal that can't know better. I have terrible relatives.
THIS IS SO GOOD…. your style is perfect at portraying this moment and your expressions & designs for everyone are soooo charming im in love.. such nostalgia for the early episodes.. WHO kicks a CAT
I literally just finished rewatching this episode today. I'm so glad this came into my feed now and not 12 days ago because of this. Loved this scene Amazing animating!!
I almost kicked at cat. When its walking through your legs wanting attention it gonna happen. With luck it was just bump and then i apologized with lots of pets. Also it was early morning and not even my cat.
Can you do an animatic of Dani's Narrative Telephone story where Frumpkin is making his report to his superior in the Feywild and his superior lists all the times he died?
Funny story actually, one of my old characters I played in dnd did kick a cat. Even funnier is the fact it also was a magical familiar. He was a jerk, but a smart one.
Yup, who kicks a cat, what kinda trained guard on duty shoots a random owl out of the sky that just so happened to be Frumpkin, who grabs a cat, throws it down and beats it over the head, what kinda gelatinous cube decides to ignore everyone else in the room and go after the tiniest lifeform, what kinda heavily armored dudes see a random little spider and decide to go on a really long hunt to kill it, ignoring their posts, and why would that lady with the magic weapon randomly choose to kill a 1.oz owl either? I don't know why but Matt seriously had a thing with killing Frumpkin constantly, whether it made sense to do so or not.
I mean... if a cat makes those crazy eyes at me (You know the one's), and decides to climb my leg like a damn tree... I'm going to punt that cat like its the deciding point at the superbowl. Really, the second those claws dig in, it's on. The sky is the limit.
Honestly? Cats (Like regular house cats) have killed people. If the cat is attacking you unprovoked, defend yourself. It being cute does not excuse it ripping you to shreds and/or killed.
