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The Critical Role Campaign 4 characters have been announced, and fans have been paying special attention to Thimble, the Tinkerbell-coded character that will be played by Laura Bailey. Specifically, fans have been wondering if there will be any similarities between that character and Jester Lavorre, a much-beloved member of Campaign 2's Mighty Nein, also played by Bailey. But as Bailey herself tells it, the characters are cut from two very different mystical cloths.

The quote comes form a recent interview that Popverse was able to do with some of the Campaign 4 cast (who? Well, Bailey, Robbie Daymond, Matthew Mercer, Aabria Iyengar, Marisha Ray, Alexander Ward, and Sam Riegel, if you're asking) in which we got to hear a little bit about the denizens of the mysterious land of Aramán as they will appear in Campaign 4. And when we asked if there were any similarities between Bailey's character and her fan-favorite tiefling from Mighty Nein, that mystery got even deeper.

"The thing is," Bailey clarified, "all you're seeing so far is the visual. [Thimble and Jester] they are both cute, and [Thimble]'s small and she's a pixie. That does not mean that their personalities are the same at all, or that their outlook on the world is the same at all. What I've created with Thimble is very individual, and not the same as Jester."

That said, Bailey knows that once the character exists in the world of the Critter fandom, other folks may find similiarities she wasn't thinking of while playing her.

"That's just for me!" exclaimed the Mary Jane Watson actor, "I don't know I don't know what other people are thinking."

"They’re the same character," joked not-quite-forever-DM Matt Mercer, "I've been meaning to talk to you about this."

A likely story, Matt. A likely story.

Critical Role's Campaign 4 debuts on October 2 on Critical Role's Beacon, YouTube, and Twitch channels. 

With two animated series on Prime Video, Campaign 4 in full swing, and so much more Exandrian lore to come, Critical Role is showing no signs of slowing down. That's why the adventuring party at Popverse are here to bring you everything we can from those nerdy-ass voice actors & Bo., including:

• How to watch Critical Role in order
• Travis Willingham on the differences between The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein
• Taliesin Jaffe on playing Mollymauk Tealeaf for Campaign 2 vs. playing him for Prime Video
• Matt Mercer's homebrew warrior class (created originally for Vin Diesel)

...and much, much more. Roll initiative, player. Magic awaits.