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Gifset of Candela Obscura, Chapter 2, Episode 3. Brennan Lee Mulligan as Sean Finnerty: I killed so many of those dogs. And not one of them put my Ma in Grayslate.

Brennan, narrating: And I’m gonna turn around and shoot Arthur Duffy in the face.

Sean: You know, we all do monstrous things from time to time. It’s funny, y’know, when I tried to be a hero, that’s when I was really a monster.

Sean: So, y’know, I never went to college or nothing, but maybe if I try to be a monster, I’ll be a hero. And I’m gonna shoot Dr. Orlov in the face.

Sean: What I don’t get to this day is why you kept lying, after you knew that we knew, and were still too scared to do anything about it.

Sean: Well, it was a surgery you recommended, so what’s good for the goose, right? And I'm going to shoot Oliver Nero as well.

Sean: Jimmy died by firing squad. You know, you ordered it. So, y’know, it doesn’t feel kinda right for you to die the same way as him.

Brennan, narrating: I’m gonna pull a chair leg off and beat Douglas Vanderfeld to death with it, over and over again, in front of William.

Sean: Open your mouth. And I’m going to shove the baseball into William Clyburn’s mouth.

Brennan, narrating: Take the chair leg. Sean begins to sing the "Charge!" song, holding the imaginary chair leg like a baseball bat. Sean: Batter's up.

Spenser Starke, narrating: The creature lights up the room. And you see that you are in the basement of Grayslate Sanitorium.

Spenser: And sitting in a chair, watching from the corner, is your mother.

Know that I am working every day to leave this place so I can be with my boy again. I hope to be there to tuck you into bed again real soon. Until then, with all my love, Mom.

November 6th #candela obscura #candela obscura spoilers #brennan lee mulligan #spenser starke #sean finnerty #critical role #critical role spoilers #candelaobscuraedit #criticalroleedit #basil.gif #long post #circle of needle and thread #literally this whole scene is incredible and the TWIST. anyway watch candela it's so good

Gifset of Candela Obscura, Chapter 2, Episode 3. Brennan Lee Mulligan as Sean Finnerty speaks to his mother, Peggy: I don’t know how to be around things that are soft and growing anymore.

Sean: The world doesn’t need me, and it’s better for me to go away.

Sean: I hope things stay green and growing for you.

Sean: I’m really sorry. I don’t know where I’m going, but if I find Tony and Jimmy I’ll tell them you said hi.

Offscreen, Spenser Starke as Peggy Finnerty: She smiles, and says, My boys, back together again.

Peggy: I can see you now, running in the field, playing soldier. Sean: No. No, Ma.

Sean: I don't wanna play soldier no more.

I love you.

November 3rd #candela obscura #candela obscura spoilers #critical role #critical role spoilers #criticalroleedit #candelaobscuraedit #brennan lee mulligan #sean finnerty #basil.gif #circle of needle and thread #will never be over this tbh

Gifset of the Circle of Needle and Thread from Candela Obscura, Chapter 2. Spenser Starke as Lucas Suarez: Are you saving the world or are you hurting it?

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Sean Finnerty: We were told they were dangerous, otherworldly horrors. Their faces looked perfectly human.

Marisha Ray as Beatrix Monroe: We don't have to be defined by our past. It’s the actions in the hardest times, what we choose to do, that's what defines us.

Travis Willingham as Nathaniel Trapp: You know, the thing about people that leave us... they can always see what we do. Remember that.

Zehra Fazal as Dr. Jinnah Basar: Time isn’t running out for you. Not while I'm on watch.

Luis Carazo as Marion Collodi: Don’t close your eyes this time. I want you to see everything.

We hear the snip of scissors as the needle and thread are pulled up and removed, and we see them dangling in the air. The Circle of Needle and Thread.

November 2nd #candela obscura #candelaobscuraedit #circle of needle and thread #critical role #criticalroleedit #basil.gif #TWO HOURS.......

Gifset from Chapter 2, Episode 2 of Candela Obscura. Brennan Lee Mulligan as Sean Finnerty: I have Marion in my arms who’s been injured…

Sean: And I’m running through trenches, trying to get back to the lieutenant. It’s a total route.

Sean: The lines fall into either side of us. I’m running and can see enemy soldiers running the same direction as me, ahead of me.

Sean: It’s total fear. And then I just start hearing, ♪(baseball stadium “Charge!” vamp)♪

Sean: And I start to… I’m gone. I’m fully gone, and LT’s words are the only thing I can hear.

Sean: In the moment that I’m listening to Nathaniel’s commands, I get to die.

Sean: I get to not be myself. I get to just be someone who’s doing what he’s told, and I don’t have to think about what I’m doing.

Sean: And it’s the first rest I’ve had in a long time.

What is it like for you being back in this moment, with the two of them?

September 30th #candela obscura #candela obscura spoilers #brennan lee mulligan #sean finnerty #critical role #critical role spoilers #criticalroleedit #candelaobscuraedit #basil.gif #circle of needle and thread #i don't even have words for this like. yeah. yeah

Gifset from Chapter 2, Episode 1 of Candela Obscura. Travis Willingham as Nathaniel Trapp reacts as Spenser Starke narrates: You see Sean down below, a dog on his arm. Nathaniel: Finnerty, up the rope!

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Sean Finnerty: The ump’s nowhere to be found! It’s chaos out here, folks!

Spenser, off-camera, to Brennan: I’m going to have you make a Move roll, to try and get to that rope in time. Nathaniel: Move it, move it!

Spenser, off-camera: Are you trying to get to the rope in time? Brennan: I think with LT, I think with my lieutenant yelling, “Move it, move it…”

Brennan: Something autonomitc—my spine moves, of so many drills over and over again.

Brennan: But I think without him there, I don’t go for the rope. I just stay here fighting dogs until I’m dead.

Nathaniel: That’s an order, Finnerty! Up the rope!

What a bunch of bums. They got no batters, they got no pitching. You did good, Finnerty. Very good. Five for five, batting a thousand.

September 2nd #candela obscura #candela obscura spoilers #candelaobscuraedit #criticalroleedit #critical role #critical role spoilers #travis willingham #brennan lee mulligan #nathaniel trapp #sean finnerty #basil.gif #circle of needle and thread #i have so many feelings about this like. the Dynamic. sean's ptsd & the adrenline rush mechanic. nathaniel immediately yelling out to him.#anyway. i'm super normal about this circle

Gifset of two episodes of Critical Role. Aabria as Deanna, in Episode 64: Are you worth saving?

Sam, as FCG, in Episode 68: Are you worth saving?

Matt, narrating: You are thrust out of your communion.

Matt: She leans in close, and the perspective seems to shift, where she feels like she's right in front of you and your height.

Matt: With enough force that you hit the back of the wood, and your eyes burn like you had been staring into the sun itself.

Matt, as Avandra, the Changebringer: Of course.

Are you scared? Yes.

August 13th #critical role #criticalroleedit #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #aabria iyengar #deanna leimert #sam regiel #fcg #matthew mercer #basil.gif #cr3 #bells hells #love a good parallel love how matt is portraying all the gods

Gifset of Critical Role, Episode 65. Taliesin Jaffe as Ashton Greymoore: There were little sections of my life where I prayed.

Ashton: And I begged. For anything, to all of them, to any of them.

Ashton: And the only time they’ve ever spoken to me… was the one who tried to fucking kill me less than a week ago.

Ashton: So. I’m here to save us. I’m here to save the people who live here.

Ashton: Hell, [a giant pile of earth] was more responsive and made me feel better and connected me to something bigger than anything in my fucking life.

Ashton: Just the ground itself did more.

Ashton: So, yeah, y’know what? I am all for faith. And I’m not gonna pick a god. They can pick me.

Ashton: It’ll be the first one that actually prays to me, and then maybe I’ll fucking answer.

Ashton: I’ll wait. They can fucking beg.

Ashton: And I will listen, which is more than they ever fucking did.

I’ve had a life. I think a lot of us here have had a life. And I can count the really good days practically on two hands.

July 14th #critical role #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #criticalroleedit #ashton greymoore #taliesin jaffe #basil.gif #cr3 #ashton #bells hells #ashton 'abandonment is the neverending theme of their existence' 'one of the reasons i allow myself to get the shit kicked #out of me is in the hope that people are actually watching' 'character who nothing good has ever happened to'#greymoore's response here just makes so much sense & others have said it but it rlly is so fucking compelling #in regards to also being like. 'main priority is fuck ludinus we Live Here.' anyway character of all time to me

Gifset of Episode 2 of Candela Obscura. Robbie, narrating Howard’s actions: Howard comes to, looks about. Doesn’t say a word to any of his friends.

Robbie: He pulls his little kit out of his jacket. It’s his laboratory equipment. He sets it on his lap.

Robbie: And he removes a scalpel, and he removes his hat.

Robbie: And he makes a small incision in the top of his own head, about three inches or so wide. Parts it with his fingers.

Robbie: Sets it back down. He pulls out a small handsaw with a crank, like a drill. It’s got a circular drill bit in it.

Robbie: He puts it on the top of his skull, and just begins to crank. And crank. And crank.

Robbie: You sort of smell that powder, that earthy powder of bone mixed with blood.

Robbie: And then you just hear a (pop) and a tiny piece of his skull comes out. He puts it inside of his surgery equipment.

Robbie: Blinks his eye. Squeezes his skin back together. It’s bleeding pretty good. Puts his hat back on, and says…

Howard: Ah, well. Sometimes you just have to expand your mind.

An ancient cultural tradition. It’s been around for millennia. I never thought I’d try it myself, but it just… it was in the moment!

+bonus:

Gif of everyone at the table reacting to Howard's previous line. Ashley as Auggie, Anjali as Charlotte, and Laura as Arlo all stare in shock while Matt smiles.

July 1st #candela obscura #candela obscura spoilers #co spoilers #candelaobscuraedit #vassal and the veil #robbie daymond #howard margrove #critical role #criticalroleedit #critical role spoilers #i don't know how to tag co edits forgive me lmao #basil.gif #i literally can't get over how cool this was. AND taking the point away from focus and putting it into sense. incredible

Gifset of Campaign 3, Episode 63 of Critical Role. Liam, narrating Orym's actions: Orym lingers by the body, and after half a minute of just staring at him...

Liam: Reaches into his belt and pulls out the locket that he took from someone he killed by the Malleus Key.

Liam: Took it as a reminder because he felt bad for it.

Orym stares at the body of Bor'Dor, holding the locket.

Liam: Tosses the medallion out onto the body.

With what’s at stake, there’s no second guessing. There’s only going forward.

June 24th #critical role #critical role spoilers #criticalroleedit #cr spoilers #liam o'brien #orym of the air ashari #basil.gif #cr3 #orym #bells hells #i was waiting for the locket to come up again and this was so chef's kiss

Gifset of Campaign 3, Episode 63 of Critical Role. Marisha, as Laudna: “They went back to where it all started.”

Ashton: “Yeah. Come on, family. Let’s go get the rest of the kids.”

There, in a torch-lit tavern inn interior, you see the figures that you saw scryed on once before, gathered around in conversation with a bit of anxiety and hope in their eyes.

June 23rd #critical role #criticalroleedit #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #cr3 #laudna cr #ashton greymoore #marisha ray #taliesin jaffe #basil.gif #bells hells #ashton #laudna #it really is so sweet to me that they're about to reunite where they started :(