Date Night ❤️ [C2E126]

beauyasha as Meeting on the Turret Stairs because why not?

That’s the best thing I’ve ever heard.

you love so fiercely you make me feel stronger you make me feel safe

Self indulgent critical role art moment. Beau and yasha said lesbian rights 💪😔

If you hadn’t seen your soulmate in ages you’d cry too

That’s romance, baby!

unpopular opinion: beauyasha is good wlw representation

got a little snow + scarves theme going tonight

forget everything that happened in ep 127 for a moment, let’s just think about beauyasha being cute and making each other daisy chains.

beau didn’t know how to make them at first, yasha taught her how, and now they’re just having fun.

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As someone who’s trauma has greatly impacted on the way I’ve navigated relationships and love, I deeply respect and appreciate the slow and conscious steps Yasha and Beau are taking before they decide to make this official.

Perhaps someone could read this and think ‘Yeah, it’s not that deep.’ - and Critical Role, with couples in the past, in many cases may have moved more quickly, or with a pace that encouraged conversations that we’re used to seeing in most film and television. But, Beau and Yasha feel more like a book. Or, to take it further, real life.

I mean that in the sense that their entire journey hasn’t been always an outward and clear expression. It’s been the ‘I toss and turn, hoping to hear thunder’. It’s been the way Beau insisted they never speak about Yasha again when she left. It’s been the way Yasha has watched Beau, has seen Beau, has healed Beau. It’s been the way Beau filled a bath to read Yasha’s letter, and cried and sank into it once she was done. We get glimpses into their state of mind, like POV chapters. Beau, in this episode specifically took a very long and sad glance at Yasha when Jester mentioned that Yasha was holding on to Molly’s coat. 

The fact that they are taking this so slow is intentional. If we consider Beau’s past, it’s riddled by a lack of a stable foundation. She can’t trust those who were closest to her. They rejected her. She left her first love in a prison cell, and since used intimacy as a no-strings-attached band-aid. Yasha’s past is similar in some respects. Her tribe wanted to kill her and Zuala. Didn’t care for her happiness. She also couldn’t trust those closest to her. They rejected her. She left her first love buried in the wastes of Xhorhas as she ran. 

These two, beautiful and broken women find safety and strength in one another. But, they also find a load of fear in what that means. Beau drowning herself was the perfect image of this. She didn’t hop out of the bath and knock on Yasha’s door, because what she read both moved her and terrified her. And those fears take time to process. Yasha revealed to Jester only a few weeks ago that thinking of kissing Beau still makes her feel bad, and she’s probably still dealing with that. This is a realistic pace. 

As much as I agree with Cad, when he said ‘patience can curdle into apathy’, I don’t think Beau and Yasha’s journey has become apathetic. Rather, it’s just different, and their patience is necessary. When Beau approaches Yasha next, it can’t just be about the letter. They will also need to have a level of vulnerability that they haven’t shared before. Yasha will need to speak more candidly about Zuala and her process of moving on, and Beau will probably need to speak about the way she’s felt something for Yasha from the moment she saw her. 

When that moment happens, it will be wonderful. It will also be earned, and true to these two beautiful people who understand shared trauma, fear and grief. Beau and Yasha work so well because it isn’t just two souls finding one another. It’s because their growth together is intertwined with their individual steps into learning to love and trust again, on levels that go beyond just romance. In the same way that we understand fear, regression or hesitance in individual characters, we also need to respect it in evolving relationships. I appreciate Marisha and Ashley representing that complexity, dedicating to this story, and taking it at the pace that they deem necessary.

“Ugh you all know CR isn’t above criticism right?!” yeah but your criticism is just always stripped down to “The ship I like isn’t happening and here’s why that’s somehow problematic” 

The reason you constantly hear the argument “This is THEIR game and their characters” is that your arguments are not actually anything remotely close to valid criticisms of anything. It’s you being disappointed that your own head cannon is not being honored. 

I know because when your ship is happening, you aren’t complaining.