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Veth’s Journey as a Metaphor for Body Dysmorphia.

I was just thinking about how one would showcase different mental illnesses in dnd when I realized the perfectmetaphor for body dysmorphia has already been done without even intending it.

Veth Brenatto aka Nott the Brave was transformed by a hag (we’ll call the hag mental illness for the purposes of this metaphor) into “everything that [she] thought [she] was” before she was cursed the hag was told “make her suffer”. She covers herself in bandages to avoid herself or anyone else seeing her. She avoids reflective surfaces. Even being called “Nott the Brave” in her goblin form…some days it takes real bravery to exist in your own body. And that name reflects that.

But the real thing that gets me is her first scene with Yeza. When she’s seeing Yeza for the first time she’s under an illusion that makes her look like her true self. But underneath that illusion she knows she is truly a goblin.Yeza sees her but she is existing in her goblin form, her body still feels like a goblin. She’s afraid for Yeza to see her the way she is and afraid of what he might think of her. Yeza sees Veth, but she knows how she truly looks underneath this illusion. And when she talks to him he keeps saying “but it’s still you, right?” and she can’t understand how he loves her, grotesque appearance and all. She voices this and he asks “you think that matters?” and she says yesbecause how could anyone love her when she looks the way she looks? Even the scene where Yeza is touching her face to see bits and pieces of the goblin beneath, this could be beautifully equated to describing bits and pieces of how you see yourself with body dysmorphia and letting someone you love see how you see yourself bit by bit.

Going back to the hag being mental illness, this actually works perfectly with how the Mighty Nein v Hag went. They didn’t fight her. Nott made her known to them, and they did all they could, they were ready to defend Nott and do whatever they could to break her curse. But they didn’t fight her. The only person who can fight and defeat your mental illness is you. Jester offered this hag a cupcake. This cupcake is what allowed the curse to be lifted because what your friends can do is distract, be there for you, comfort you, and take care of you. Even after the curse was lifted, Nott didn’t transform back immediately because she needed time. She needed time to work on herself and make sure she was ready. Just because you know the problem doesn’t mean you can implement the solution. I know my body dysmorphia in and out but it still haunts me because I need to do some more work on myself. It takes time to unlearn things.

Eventually she transforms back into herself, into how she is truly. This is accomplished using friends sticking by her, loving her, being there for her, helping her find a way to become herself again. Still though, this experience as a goblin will always be with her. She won’t be able to forget it, not truly. I know that this metaphor isn’t flawless, that you can’t be cured of body dysmorphia. But I’m not looking at her transformation back to her body as a cure, more just her transition out of her darkest days. The days when it was the worst, when it was the hardest.

There’s more little tiny things that I can add in the comments because they’re not as moving as these points, but I just wanted to share. Feel free to add on.

i dont think caleb has to worry abt the m9 secretly not liking him when they follow him everywhere li dont think caleb has to worry abt the m9 secretly not liking him when they follow him everywhere li dont think caleb has to worry abt the m9 secretly not liking him when they follow him everywhere l

i dont think caleb has to worry abt the m9 secretly not liking him when they follow him everywhere like a hoard of stray cats ‍⬛


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 Finally caught up with Critical Role, what the hell is going on even XD Love it lol 8> [twitter] Finally caught up with Critical Role, what the hell is going on even XD Love it lol 8> [twitter] Finally caught up with Critical Role, what the hell is going on even XD Love it lol 8> [twitter] Finally caught up with Critical Role, what the hell is going on even XD Love it lol 8> [twitter]

Finally caught up with Critical Role, what the hell is going on even XD 

Love it lol 8>

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 t’s been too long since I drew some Critical Role!  Veth conjuring up Brenatto’s Voltai

t’s been too long since I drew some Critical Role! 

 Veth conjuring up Brenatto’s Voltaic Bolt! 

 I love Veth and @samriegel is a genius


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Just the best outdoor cafe reservations for the best halfling family

Just finished my Mighty Nein lvl 10 headshot designs!Emerald City ComicCon was unfortunately postponJust finished my Mighty Nein lvl 10 headshot designs!Emerald City ComicCon was unfortunately postponJust finished my Mighty Nein lvl 10 headshot designs!Emerald City ComicCon was unfortunately postpon

Just finished my Mighty Nein lvl 10 headshot designs!

Emerald City ComicCon was unfortunately postponed to who knows when so I am needing to pay some bills over the next few months.  I have vinyl stickers available of all the Mighty Nein, plus a bunch of other stuff too! Please check it out, and I’m also offering FREE SHIPPING for the month of March for all orders over $75 for USA/Canada and over $100 for International!  Shipping difference will be refunded over Paypal.

BUY VINYL STICKERS & MORE ON STORENVY! 


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Winter clothes!I drew this before seeing the official designs and I think I did a good and accurate

Winter clothes!
I drew this before seeing the official designs and I think I did a good and accurate job


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Makin’ my way through my Nein designs! Plus a color test on the wizards.Makin’ my way through my Nein designs! Plus a color test on the wizards.Makin’ my way through my Nein designs! Plus a color test on the wizards.

Makin’ my way through my Nein designs! Plus a color test on the wizards.


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(I missed them a totally normal amount)

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Veth has kind of come full circle in her emotional arc, from spouse and parent to adventurer and back. And if you follow it through, it makes perfect sense, but it’s still very bittersweet.

She was once anxious about having to choose between a future with the Nein, and one with her family, but over the last dozen episodes, the Nein have become so scared that it seems the choice is whether to die with the Nein protecting her family, or stay with her family and hope someone else somehow steps in.

Nott had accepted her old life and her love for Yeza and Luc as part of a past life - they were no longer current to her after she’d spent her time falling in love with the Nein and going on adventures. She was emotionally distant from her old family, because she’d accepted the loss of that closeness and consoled herself to watch from afar with a new family, for whom her love and life was current and vibrant. Even after she got her body back, she seemed to mostly interact with Yeza for sex, probably over-compensating for emotional distance, or to talk about their son and little else. Sure, the massive degree of emotional infidelity, both romantically but also just sort of generally, made her feel awful - but it didn’t make her in love with Yeza.

But as time has passed and she’s seen her son grow up, the danger has become more and more overwhelming, and Veth has been second guessing herself again. She’s gotten used to being able to occasionally see him. She’s resigned herself to the idea that either Caleb doesn’t return her romantic feelings, or he is so averse to disrupting a child’s family that he’d never act on them if he did. The excitement of adventure have been yielding less and less reward for their mounting risks, and the tasks they’re doing are becoming less and less optional and the results of failure more terrible. She’s stopped promising to always be with Caleb, and begun thinking about going back to Yeza and Luc - and has begun to see them not as distant people she loved in the past, and may see in the future, but part of her imminent future and present.

When Veth went to talk to Yeza before what happened in 129, it wasn’t clear to me if she actually wanted to go back to him, or had actually been considering calling for a “break” to whatever their relationship was, to make doing what she’s about to do feel easier. But nothing will hammer home how close and present your child is when he’s blown up and killed right in front of you. That relationship is now linked to his life and wellbeing and is suddenly the most important, urgent thing in Veth’s life.

She’s completed the journey from loving the Nein and wanting to be with them but feeling obligated to go back to her us and and son, to desperately wanting to be with her son and husband and feeling obligated to continue a dangerous mission with the M9. The adventure is now an obstacle to her being with her child. Caleb might be fried and unconscious on the ground but she’d step over him a thousand times to reach Luc. She didn’t spend a day talking about parenting, or guiltily spoiling Luc or fucking Yeza - she spent a day doing chemistry with her husband like she used to and spending precious time with her child - she even denied him excessive gifts in a world first for her.

I have a lot of feelings about it. I want the best for her but I also still want her to be curled up inside of Caleb’s grubby coat on the side of the road stealing trinkets and cracking cases with Jester and having little adventures with the M9 which didn’t threaten the world.

freshtwinkies: Finally finished! I had these sitting in my cr folder for a few months and I finally freshtwinkies: Finally finished! I had these sitting in my cr folder for a few months and I finally freshtwinkies: Finally finished! I had these sitting in my cr folder for a few months and I finally freshtwinkies: Finally finished! I had these sitting in my cr folder for a few months and I finally freshtwinkies: Finally finished! I had these sitting in my cr folder for a few months and I finally freshtwinkies: Finally finished! I had these sitting in my cr folder for a few months and I finally freshtwinkies: Finally finished! I had these sitting in my cr folder for a few months and I finally freshtwinkies: Finally finished! I had these sitting in my cr folder for a few months and I finally

freshtwinkies:

Finally finished! I had these sitting in my cr folder for a few months and I finally got them done. This is just a fun project where I chose outfits for the mighty nein based on stuff in my pinterest fashion board.

Edit: I’m seeing people point out that the caleb’s wearing a warrior cat shirt. Yall, I completely forgot that was the shadow clan symbol. The shirt that I based his outfit on just had a black square on it that I gave cat ears.

Hell yes to non-standard, alternative body shape designs!! I love seeing different interpretations of great characters!!!


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Been missing critical role, can’t wait to see their return!! Celebrating with some faves

all-pacas:

in no particular order and for no particular reason: best examples of fjord and veth fucking with one another

  • the whole saga of captain button beard, which veth fully realized was him being patronizing and sarcastically played along with, and then repeated and threw back at him in the tunnels to xhorhas, to which fjord not only played along but outright echoed her “this fucker!” line when he did.
  • the first use of veth’s disguise self being to turn herself into a mini version of fjord, arguably setting off their rivalry forever
  • the first use of disguise self after fjord regains his powers being to turn himself into a huge version of nott
  • fjord letting her cross a dangerous river and only then parting the waters, rendering the effort pointless, after assuring her he would do no such thing. (bonus: caleb, ever biased, using her rope anyway).
  • that time fjord woke her up by gently picking up her while she slept and then fucking dropping her
  • i will throw you in the lava… you couldn’t
  • when fjord got swallowed by that worm thing and veth tried to pull him out, failed her strength check, he made fun of her, and she decided to push him back in instead
 Veth fights to protect all those she loves….especially from big spooky living cities! Edits

Veth fights to protect all those she loves….especially from big spooky living cities!

Edits by R Karch Photography

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Heavy Critical Role Spoilers here

I couldn’t resist making a short hype animatic due to the current state of critical role lol, in both excitement and trepidation over what’s to come. 

The song is I’m Not A Saint by Billy Raffoul: https://open.spotify.com/album/2TV11OOFgdi1510wCreHH1

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