#Pikelan

[corali-studio]

Happy ten years, critters!

When the tenth year anniversary of CR I started this piece and...finally it's done!!

[setsailforthestars]

Absolutely screaming at this tweet exchange

[cringefaecompilation]

For every bit of terrible butch/femme discourse the critrole fandom goes through, I make another couple butchfemme. This week it's butch Pike/femme Scanlan.

that but scanlan is the femme

[undead-knick-knack]

[albaharu]

i just think they are neat

[andi-o-geyser]

POP A BOTTLE Y'ALL THE DND COUPLE OF ALL TIME HAD ON SCREEN SEX WHILE EVERYONE ELSE AROUND THEM GOT 0 (ZERO) DICK AND SOME MINOR HEARTBREAK GET FUUUUUCKED PERC'AHLIA WINS

[magical-girl-coral]

Pikelan

[imdcathsmeow]

Man I love Pike Trickfoot

[simplysparrow14]

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), Critical Role (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Scanlan Shorthalt/Pike Trickfoot Characters: Pike Trickfoot, Scanlan Shorthalt, Grog Strongjaw, Vex'ahlia (Critical Role), Vax'ildan (Critical Role), Keyleth (Critical Role), Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III, Zerxus Ilerez, Vecna the Whispered One (Critical Role), Wilhand Trickfoot Additional Tags: Violence and Blood, Manipulation, Mental Health Issues, Pike trickfoot is going through it in this one. stay strong queen, corruption angst, Heavy Angst, Mind Manipulation Summary:

Ever since Delilah Briarwood had struck her with magic during the Sovereign’s reception party, Pike had quietly known about the disturbingly tall shadow-at-the-back-of-her-mind. That was what she had called it; any other name seemed too permanent, too real.

Pike had heard of the superstition that if one gave something a name, it became a real figure, unwilling to leave. Despite being clearly well into her adult years, it seemed that some part of her still believed in such things. And who could blame her? She had seen it several times, often just standing menacingly in the distance, staring her down like a hungry beast. She had felt its presence, its sense of hunger and intensity warf off of its body like heatwaves, and in that moment, through its hissing, she heard one word: “Pike.”

My lovely discord group bascially enabled  encouraged me to create my own WHAT IF TLOVM Season 4 Corruption Fic. This was so fun to write! 

[olessan]

Everyone else: Bittersweet and heartfelt projections of their future, how they'll go on after all this

Scanlan and Pike: horsie

[skullmercy]

pikelan come home

[abitcaughtinthemiddle]

Photo credit @featherbow

We need to talk about this scene. Yes, I was taken aback by the ABSOLUTE WHIPLASH of flipping from Vaxleth angst to Scanlan pain to Perc’ahlia, -ahem, being together. What a bold choice and I think it’s bloody brilliant. Here’s why.

Not only was this scene a great way to showcase the Vox Machina romantic relationship drama all at once but it also foreshadows how we find each relationship at in the current canon.

First, we have our tragic, doomed-by-the-narrative couple: Vax and Keyleth (these two always break my heart). Each sitting on the other side of the door, alone, yearning for each other - so close but so far- the tragedy of Vaxleth is that Vax will never have enough time and Keyleth will have all the time in the world. Vax, blanketed by the sun doing down, nighttime creeping in. And Keyleth in her dark bedchamber: dark, cold, and alone.

Second, we have our short but sweet Pike and Scanlan. The future divorcees. From what we I know in the current timeline (admittedly I am behind in C3), after divorcing Pike, Scanlan is out traveling Exandria with his daughter. Pike is still connected with her found family of Vox Machina (again, as far as I am aware) while Scanlan has been more transient- him being the one to walk away after their miscommunication and missed connection. The sunset, beautiful and short lived.

Finally, we have my beloved Percy and Vex. We see them together (horny little devils those two I love them), in a moment of (to put it in a less sexually explicit way) connection and passion. They’re the only ones still together: ruling Whitestone with their horde of children (they’re just practicing that bit for now- haha). Perc’ahlia is the lucky couple of these three- defying their seemingly hopeless future together, becoming stronger through each other and helping each other grow and be loved. The warm glow of the light behind them.

Anyway, I can’t stop thinking about this. Well done, just well fucking done.

[bonisonline]

I love it when men in media blush

Like yas gurl, make that man a flustered mess ✊🏼🔥

[grvstnez]

oooh more scanlan !! who's surprised !? no one !? awesome🤞

[the-french-belphegor]

As a fellow gnome, I'll handle the talking.

Redraw of this great little moment in Vox Machina: Origins Vol. 2 when Scanlan, Keyleth and the twins are looking for Grog and meet Pike for the first time - and Scanlan is struck speechless :D (which is a huge thing, for a bard, especially this one!) He just stares at her with heart eyes in the two pages after this one and doesn't utter a single word until she scries on Grog and gasps (at which point he drops all pretence of chill and worriedly asks "Was it Grog? Is he all right?" GOD I LOVE MY BIG AND SMALLS.) (anyway.)

I'll just let the man describe this moment in his own words (ie. his "do not open till I'm dead" letter to Pike):

The moment I first saw you was not a choir of angels singing, nor silly butterflies fluttering in my chest. No, the moment I met Pike Trickfoot was the tragic moment I realized that my heart, my soul, would be forever incomplete without you.

That darn bard is good with words, huh :D Provided he has the brainspace for it, anyway.

Original comics page under the cut!

(art by the wonderful Olivia Samson)

[vigilante-apologist]

I think there should be a oneshot for every CR PC wedding. No, I don’t think it’d get old. Yes, I do think it’s entirely necessary.