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Cobowlt -> Expowlsitor
Another CritRole fakémon; this time, Beau! Pokédex entries below the cut.
[ID: 2 digital illustrations in the style of Pokémon. 1: A small, brown owl-like pokémon, with blue eyes, black pants-like marking, and blue, sash-like tail and forehead feathers. It stands ready to fight. 2: Its evolution. It’s taller, has a black crop-top-like marking on its chest, and holds a long stick with a blue ribbon tied to one end behind its back. It stares you down, waiting for you to make the first move. End ID]
Tuskor -> Falcheye or Melorazor
A fakémon line based on everybody’s favourite warlock, Fjord! Pokédex entries below the cut.
[ID: 3 Digital illustrations in the style of Pokémon. 1: A small, turquoise sea serpent with small tusks, yellow eyes and a yellow dorsal fin. 2: A longer, darker sea serpent with a brown falchion-like tail, larger, hooked tusks, and bright yellow eyes. 3: A longer, turquoise sea serpent with long, straight tusks, a sideswept, golden dorsal fin, and a gold, longsword-like tail. It is decorated with kelp. End ID]
Purrstrecker -> Whisard -> Kitogast
It’s time for some edgy, emo fakémon: Caleb Widogast edition! Pokédex entries below the cut.
[ID: 3 digital illustrations in the style of Pokémon. 1: Purrstrecker. An orange catlike pokémon with blank, yellow eyes, a flaming tail, and large gemstones embedded in its legs and forehead. 2: Whisard. A larger, brown, catlike pokémon. It no longer has gemstones in its body, and its eyes are focused. Smoke pours from its head and tail, like hair. It faces away, glaring back at you. 3: Kitogast. It looks like the previous pokémon, but bipedal. Purple, robe-like sashes hang from its shoulders, orange and purple flames rise from its tail and head, like hair, and its eyes are blue. Above its front paws float a pair of hollow, purple dodecahedrons. Kitogast looks down at you, inscrutable. End ID]
Vethcelain -> Nottlin -> Braveth
I hope you’re ready for the smollest CritRole fakémon: the Notts! Pokédex entries below the cut.
[ID: 3 digital illustrations in the style of Pokémon. 1: Vethcelain, a small, stocky doll-like pokémon with a blank expression, green dress with a large button, hair over its face, large, pink cheeks, and green, pointy ears. 2: Nottlin, a small, skinny, goblin-like pokémon, with yellow cat’s-eyes and downcast black, pointy ears. It wears a black cloak over the large button on its stomach, and a porcelain doll mask covers its mouth. It looks uneasy. 3: Braveth, a slightly taller version of the previous pokémon, except it lacks the mask and cloak; instead, it wears a yellow dress and a small brown poncho with a large button. It has large, pink cheeks, a brown button nose, and upturned, green pointed ears. It smiles. End ID]
my FAVORITE tropes compiled thanks to some suggestions from others
- a character gets a sick burn and doesn’t realize it immediately, at some point later there’s just “HEY WAIT A MINUTE”
- the double take. this one’s an oldie but a goodie
- the injured character makes the killing shot that saves everyone else in a dangerous situation
- a character who isn’t speaking is doing something weird in the background, it’s subtle and never acknowledged it’s just there for those who notice it (pulling another character out of something they got stuck in, making a huge sandwich, etc)
- the beleaguered assistant inches away from smacking their boss
- “quick act natural”
- in that vein, the leader character was just in a shouting match with someone and when they come back the rest of the team scrambles to look like they weren’t listening at the door
- never forget: “he’s standing right behind me isn’t he”
- When a character mentions a normal past event and someone else mentions an absurd detail (”Don’t you remember what happened last time you went to the dentist?” “Those deaths were nothing to do with me”)
- Multiple characters banding together to lie about something
- Characters being split up for questioning
- Really stoic characters briefly becoming happy, freaking everyone out
- “I think that went well!” *Distant explosion*
-“quick act natural” *everyone scrambles to do completely random shit that looks anything but natural*
Always a good one:
- Character A is talking, saying something like “It’s not like anybody would ever be so stupid to do that, right”
*scene changes, Character B is shown doing exactly that stupid thing*
Consider also:
- Character A telling the rest of the cast to “relax, I have a foolproof plan” and then scene immediately changes to show all the cast fleeing for their lives after the failure of the Definitely-Not-A-Plan-Let-Alone-A-Foolproof-One.
- The stoic/sensible character breaking character to do something Completely Reckless and Dumb and then only realizing later that the usually Reckless and Dumb character is rubbing off on them-oh-no-.
Don’t forget suspiciously specific denial
