![]() They’re saying: perhaps i can concede that i am not always awful, but let’s at least agree that sometimes (like specificaly, oh, i don’t know, LAST NIGHT) i can be. ashton knows this, which is why he amends his original statement: ashton: they can be. after what ashton just put her through less than 24 hours ago, laudna has every reason to affirm ashton’s assertion that they are, in fact, awful. ![]() Which! first of all, is so insanely generous of her. ashton is saying 'i’m awful’, and laudna is emphatically saying 'no you’re not.’ where before they were dancing around a metaphor, it becomes immediately clear what’s really being talked about here. Whether or not laudna intended that original comment ('you’re a child’) as an insult, we can pretty safely assume ashton took it as one. their associations with childhood are overwhelmingly negative, and likely associated with feelings of helplessness and loneliness. he was a part of a shitty cult that he barely remembers, and after that they were in an ophanage. for a variety of reasons.Īshton’s childhood sucked. for laudna there is safety – both emotional and literal physical safety – in a childlike perspective.ĪLL THAT TO SAY: laudna’s associations with childhood are, generally, positive. there is an innocence there that laudna needs! she needs people who haven’t been hardened by assumptions and pre-judgements and all that bullshit. we don’t know anything about that story except that she exists, but i’m willing to read between the lines and make an assumption that laudna – on average – has better luck getting children to be kind to her (when they’ve not yet been taught to be cruel) than with adults. we also know (via a 4sd episode that i don’t care to dig up right now) that laudna had another friend before imogen, who was a little girl.Īnd i think it’s that little girl that’s the most important piece here. there’s also the parallel scene that mirrors it (with a happier ending) back in episode 38, when laudna first visits the sun tree after her resurrection. ![]() i don’t know that we could entirely call it a compliment, given the context, but at the very least, i think she intended it as a point of connection.Īfter all, our data re: Laudna And Kids is not limited to that one scene from episode 1. despite the bite of her initial comment to ashton, she doesn’t necessarily mean it as an insult. marisha, the god of intentional rp showed us this within the first few moments of laudna’s screen-time way back in episode 1. She likes children! and we knew this, of course. I don’t know if this reaction melts laudna a little (if it does, she doesn’t show it visibly), or maybe she was already coming to the conversation with a more nuanced definition of ‘child’, but either way, the conversation shifts immediately – and the next two sentences clarify where they’re both coming from here. this is the nicest thing anyone’s ever given me. then ashton’s response: i’ve never had a doll before. but laudna’s idea of a child is much more expansive than just a cheep insult, as she makes clear shortly. The way she says this is not nice! it’s biting, it’s snarky. she definitely seems to mean it as an insult – and she probably does! – at first. (buckle up, it ain’t gonna be short.) laudna: i made you a doll. i can’t sleep and i need to talk about this scene from the last episode of critical role.īecause holy shit if this ain’t some of the best rp – nay, storytelling in general – that i’ve ever seen.
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