Why Gilear Is Integral to Fantasy High (Fireside Chat Clip) 

Make a miniseries for gilear

7:44 it’s his daughter saying I hate you and saying “you aren’t my father”.

is dropout still a thing? im wondering about buying more access to d&d stuff

Yes, PLEASE senior year is needed!

Clear answer is the party is his nightmare

evertime123 with some of the worst luck

He’s just a regular guy! Some people just have to be normal!

lol he some of the few normal people shown in the campaign everyone else is able to do cool junk

Finally watching this series for the first time - just came across this part a few moments ago and I damn near died seeing how many hit points he had. What a great character lol.

Tbf normal people don’t exclusively eat yogurt

Good ol' Life of Brian. "I'm not the Messiah!" "Only the Messiah would deny his divinity!" "Fine, I am the Messiah!" "HE'S THE MESSIAH!"

Realistically he could have served as their spiritual guide through the forests and been the chosen one if he didn’t die in the ritual.

@@emilynelson5985 lol I can see it now, they do the ritual and Gilear is strangely unaffected. Turns out that Gilears normal life is far more terrifying for him then anything the forest could conjure and since he is always moving towards his greatest fear (what tomorrow brings) the forest automatically guides him to its heart.

@@helios5752 Yeah if they hadnt given up at the threshold Gilear would have been perfect for the forest. Like he is so good for the conditions of the nightmare forest

Campbell's stage 2: Refusal of the Call He *IS* the chosen one!

Just Brennan’s grandiose wizardy elf voice talkin about foot fungus

It’s like the bones guy from Escape the Blood keep 😂

AC:10 and HP:5 Yeah, Gilear should not be anywhere near danger.

Followed up by the Barlgura s ganging up on him, even though he's the least threatening, probably looks like a bystander, with both a dodge action and sanctuary on him.

@@ttttillermand still better than a commoner.

@@someusername9591 He was CLEARLY casting a huge important spell tho! xD (At least the gorillas thought so)

“HE’S JUST A GUY!”

Implication, you can see it on Gilears face that it ain't no implication

Thats why hes the CHOSEN ONE

I would love the series to end with Gilear waking up in the nightmare forest as some impressive hero and the entire series WAS his nightmare: being a weak timid nobody constantlt being dragged out of his depth.

I think would be super cool see all kids (pcs) loose their shit on the nightmare forest and Gilear super chilled being like "nah this isnt worst than my life, why are you kids complaining?"

Relatable

I love that he's her dad and yet she's got that classic mum of an angsty teenager thing of "I don't know what to do about Gilear, I feel really bad for him"

I wonder if she realized that has a "pit fiend" she could have gave him a level of warlock.

@@Pixel11235 holy fuck season 3 gilear is a level 1 warlock semi against his will/best instinct

@@Pixel11235 that would be hilarious considering his charisma modifier is -2, and warlocks are charisma based spell casters

@@Pixel11235 she tried. Brennan didn't allow it

And it was just mashed potatoes lol

Zac deadpanning "that's potatoes" in response absolutely fucking levels me every time I see it

Hey

when did he say this?

Glowdude in the same livestream

Wait why did he say that though? What was the context?

@@noahsalvio9649 probably exactly the context it seems to be. he wants him dead.

Senior Year: the Bad Kids hire the fantasy equivalent of Queer Eye, and gets his life back on track

Oh he is SUCH queer eye hero material

CAN WE PLEASE GET HIM ON QUEER EYE

I would love to see him open a shop where he sells things like Turkey crackers and yogurt. People visit his shop and think he's a kind guy and does well. He isn't rich, but not poor and is doing well.

Gilear Eye

He should have made him less awesome then. Gil is love. Gil is life.

With the sheer number of times he’s tried to get Gilear killed, I can see it.

Man, as a DM, I LOVE it when my players attach to an NPC like that. It means I've done a part of my job well.

@@HollowGolem I had my party quite literally killing each other because of their disagreement over whether or not a very underwhelming NPC should die. He was just an aspiring merchant that somewhat helped the party once and was raising a family (AC: 11, HP: 4). Until the Vampires the group were hunting threatened to kill the NPC's family in secret, so he gave them bad intel and got them imprisoned to save his family. Half the party wanted to kill him, the other half adored him, his wife, and their daughter. And that's how we had to roll up 3 new characters the next session and had to dig 3 graves

@@tatersalad76 But the merchant and his family was fine tho, right? They're fine? Totally fine, right?! O.O

THAT WAS SO WHOLESOME

Everyone else was like, “yeah, that’s probably true”

At which point, Gilear's asexual reproduction season will be complete

Or maybe like the therapist in Escape from the Bloodkeep who had a session with Keldriel, Librarian of Madness, then promptly turned into a swarm of bats that hanged themselves.

The bad kids would probably try and set Jawbone up as Gilear’s therapist which is a whole other kettle of fish considering Jawbone is dating gilear’s exwife

That's the Halloween special

@@pop-tartdepression393 They definitely would and I have no choice but to believe jawbone could handle it. I do think most therapists would struggle but jawbone came from such a dark place, I think it would be difficult to bring him down too much.

The worst part is that I can see this happening

@@GamerJosh2611 i think you mean best part

I low key want it

What's he doing in Junior year? What's the next step up from Vice Principal?

@@connerscott2687 becoming principal i guess. Maybe he tries to get a job and start a career so he can support himself.

I mean, why not both?

@@hellostrangers7016 “Count no man happy until he is dead.” Herodotus, The Histories

@@hellostrangers7016 "First time I've seen him smile in years' George Jones

brennan has said in a reddit AMA that he wants to kill Gilear because he wants to turn him into a Planetar, but everytime he dies everybody else do everything in their power to revivify him 😂

Like Usopp Vs Perona

I'm pretty sure his nightmare has 300% come true. He quit his prestigious job for a promiscuous woman, fathered a daughter who is not his, fig literally saying she's the manifestation of the betrayal of his marriage, letting down his daughter he still loves by existing in his miserable state, ex partner is THRIVING, man who cuckolded him also THRIVING. Someone please assist me I am missing so many things

Claire Wright The current woman who claims to love him forced him to sleep in a cot in the garage until he can “prove himself worthy” of her, the son of that woman was desperately trying to kill him for a while, his car got repossesses by fantasy Uber, he somehow got forcibly wrapped around the axle of the hang-van and at some point had ants crawling all over him, and no one noticed he was missing until much later. He has died three times, and one of those times was by the pure force of nature his current paramour was married to. Also, I think the biggest nightmare for Galear would be a normal day where everything went suspiciously well, like, everything goes just as he hopes, leaving him in a state of constant anxiety waiting for something to go wrong, for the other show to drop, and it gets to the point where he is obsessing over all the bad things that could happen that he can’t even enjoy what is happening.

I think his nightmare is a world without Fig.

@@MakeVarahHappen that broke me and i love it

HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA OH RIGHT HAAHAHHAHAH HELP

Wait what

yeah because emily thought he was kinda funny so wanted to get him a job at the school so they’d see him more and maybe start making up with him as a character arc and then that moment really just accelerated it and everyone needed more of him

@@DeathnoteBBthe group is hanging out at Gilear’s sad, run down apartment and someone decides they want to know what he’s thinking so they cast detect thoughts on him and rolled a nat 1. Brennan decided that merited the hearing Gilear thinking about how he felt so lonely last night so he tried jerking off but he ended up hurting himself. It was so incredibly out of left field and just hilarious

He gets upgraded from garage to master bedroom at the end of season 2 soooo...

That or fig straight up dying infront of him

@@sirlightningpotato I can’t imagine he thinks or fears Fig could ever die before he does

@@DeathnoteBB the thing is, he knows how useless he is and the only one who has never hurt him was fig not counting the begining where he says something stupid and she gets angry at him, and he always thought he would die before her, that if she was to die first he would really crack.

@@DeathnoteBB he is essentially immortal and Fig is not, barring violent intervention, so I imagine it is a fear of his

@@AlyssaRicks Why not? Isn’t she mixed with immortal Hell demon? Or Tiefling, at least.

Worse, things would be _better_ for him up until he realizes what’s different. Much like Fabian’s (Leviathan) nightmare, he’d get the “… I thought this was a nightmare?” vibe up until he realizes exactly what has changed.

Ice (cream) lad has a nice ring to it.

Gilear will try to hoping to be granted frozen yoghurt-powers only for Basrar to start crying about only being able to make icecream...

Lunch Lad to Dessert Dad.

YOGURT LAD

Frozen yogurt only

It’s the genre mismatch problem, when you think of it through the lense of a high school/coming of age story of course fig isn’t going to end up with the first person she dates But if you recontextualise that to the epic fantasy genre of course fig ends up with the woman who leapt into (and tried to flood) the 9 hells to save her

@@jacobclements3652 I would like to take the epic fantasy genre route PLEASE

@@jacobclements3652 100% they separate at some point but come back together later. It just feels better to me if they have experiences outside of the first ever date

​@@DeathnoteBB if they broke up on anything less then stellar terms I would be legitimately worried about Hell and Solace going to war

Meanwhile in junior year, she’s the only one of the bad kids still in a relationship. They’re gonna last I know it.

This is the saddest but most true answer

hey dawg why would you make me experience emotion

I dont think it would be Fig dying. She's an adventurer, she's going to die, and I feel like Gilear would accept that. I think it would be Fig saying that he isn't enough, an embarrassment, and her abandoning him.

@@noahwesterberg8566 No she’s never going to die

THAT'S HOW HE'S THE CHOSEN ONE!

I kind of want a scene where all the PCs are paralyzed with fear over their own nightmares thanks to the nightmare king and Gilear just strolls up. Looks at all their fears and laughs saying t:his is what you guys fear after all the stuff you've done this is what your afraid of." Calling out how stupid the fears are giving the party strength then walks up straight to the king and says "You may controlled the nightmares but I've lived through mine everyday of my life since I've met them and to me you are nothing"

@@phantomlord77 then he tries to hit the nightmare king rolls a nat1 whiffs it falls on his face and has to make death saving throws

it's crazy that the elf sketch is now considered "old classic collegehumor"

we seriously need a side story campaign for him, how and where do we pay to make that happen, i want to see him doing better at some point.

For how frequently it may happen, we also need a separate mini for when Gilear is inevitably knocked either dead or unconscious.

Figaroth Faeth will not rest until she has an entire adventuring party of dads.

She's gotta get her kisses in.

@@nobody5333Fantasy High Spinoff but it’s just Fig’s dads

why nott thouugghhh??? We would all love it!!!

Well, what he said was, “not that we’re going to,” suggesting that they’re keeping their options open.

Didn't rule out a high level Reunion in later seasons

I don’t think Brennan has fully considered what would happen on discord if he didn’t. We would just have to tattle and daddy (Sam) would make him. We learned that trick from Ally.

Senior year is all that's going to be left now. We will sit and hope

You just spoiled the ending of a crown of candy omg

That implies the nightmare king wears a crown of yoghurt

@@liamross340 truly I haven't seen crown of candy but if that's the case then wow, all this quarantining is making me psychic (or just crazy)

a truly chaotic stream if there ever was one

I'm sorry-- _what happened?_

Huh????

@@glowmilk7948 they hadn't cleaned their chimney. Ever. So when they lit a fire their house filled with smoke

@@mixmastermind i love two (2) Disaster Humans

Helios575 I mean he’s already an elf so as long as he’s not instakilled again he is just stuck being alive forever

@@berkleypearl2363 he is granted basically infinite hp but can’t do any damage Even with enchanted weapons he does like negative damage

“Now even death is rejecting him.” This might be one of the most caustically beautiful thoughts I’ve heard expressed about the folly of immortality.

Breezey357 so you’re a Divination Wizard right?

He'd make it become the armor of self respect, changing the magic from his own depression.

Unfortunately he's taking levels in commoner, with no class buffs

I agree! I think his nightmare is Fig gives up on him. If he didn’t care for her, he wouldn’t have gone on the adventure

👀

Being over five feet tall is, one might say, *massively* overrated!

Murph? Murph, right.

@@dimension20show Update: Murph is in fact, very tall. The curse has been broken.

@@tasmaniantortoise and yet, EMOTIONALLY...

Just FYI, there is no set design, because season two has been played live on twitch, with no miniatures or set. Its all been pure roleplay. Defiantly still worth it to watch though. In my opinion, in some ways it is actually better then the first season, because the lack of set lets Brennan really go wild. The only restrictions are the players imagination, its really great!

Alslfj

One of those things is true.

The chosen one

i kind of wish that happened because in episode 1 of freshman year she says “is my dad the nightmare king? he’s the nightmare king!”

How is this edited and you still got the completely wrong name for Ally

@@trueaidooo I'm only human... As far as you know.

@@mistertea603 Like ironically Gilear was actually perfect for the given threat conditions of the forest once they actually got in it.

Gonna be 100, I side with Zac on this one. If the entire group can survive an 100 ft drop with no physical harm, I'm not thinking I'm not enough I'm thinking my group is full of superheroes and I need a nap.