where's that one post somebody made a million years ago about how vax and vex in syngorn would have been surrounded by elves accustomed to 20-hour days. but as half-elves they can't trance and would have had to get 8 hours of sleep, thus limiting their productivity compared to their peers. and making them look worse or lesser by comparison to their dad who already hated them. cause that post fucked me up a little. i'm still haunted by that.
so idk if we’re getting a bard’s lament this season, but regardless of if we are or not i NEED to talk about my most favorite dynamic ever so i can get this convo back out into the universe before a bard’s lament happens because it makes me unwell.
vex and scanlan are, in many ways, the same. they’re deeply insecure, sad people that put on masks to hide it. they’re good liars. so that’s what they do. they stand in front of each other and they lie. and it’s not hard for them to know the other is lying. i mean vex LITERALLY SEES THROUGH HIS DISGUISE EVENTUALLY LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING?
and like, vex is snippy and she can be a bit of a shit and she says scanlan is just some guy without his magic. but he’s also the person she looks up to. she literally travels across the whole continent by herself to make sure his daughter can get to him and she sends kaylie back to him even though she’s distraught and terrified and alone. she’s the one person who actually gets through to him during a bard’s lament and she gets through to him by telling him to stop viewing his daughter as a sacred object. to fix his relationship with her. AND HE LISTENS. like again she is the ONLY person in that room who gets through to him and it’s because she implores him to fix his relationship with his daughter after he cruelly remarks that they went to the fey realm to “fix her daddy issues.”
and scanlan! he teases her and he deflects his seriousness around her with humor as much as he does to anyone. but he teaches vex how to use the broom and he gives her the hat to wear. and he ensures her success when he turns her into a dragon and directly tells a god that she’s mean and greedy and the most perfect one of all of them.
scanlan is a father with a fractured relationship with his daughter and vex is a daughter desperate for her father’s approval.
scanlan is not vex’s father. but when scanlan comes back she does everything she can to try and make sure he won’t leave again despite the way he hurt her.
vex is not scanlan’s daughter. but he walks her down the aisle and makes sure she can see her brother at her wedding and he’s happy to be like her father for a day.
scanlan is NOT vex’s father and vex is NOT scanlan’s daughter but really, aren’t they made of the same stuff?
Today I present three of Marisha Ray’s love interest admiring her. This one of my favorite moments of campaign 3. I just love the way they look at her. It’s just so cute. It’s the little things that count. It started with Ashley. Then Liam. And lastly Laura ended it by speaking up. Also I love that all of Marisha’s love interest can fly 😂😂. Vax had wings. Yasha has wings. And Imogen has the ability to fly.
It's really funny watching people who have only seen the animated show be like... I really think Keyleth is the avatar. This feels like an avatar rip off. What's up with that?! Meanwhile in the stream there's constant air bending jokes and them straight up saying oh yeah we homebrewed it so I could go on a quest to master the 4 elements because Avatar the last Airbender is awesome lmfao. This is a feature not a bug. Keyleth's mom is voiced by Janet Varney very much on purpose!
i will always be confused by people who hate artagan for choking out vax like that wasnt the funniest sequence in the entirety of c1. an archfey walks up to you and says he'll bend reality for you if he can kill you so he can learn if he has a choking kink and he kills you and goes "damn i dont actually. anyway"
I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful Champion. There is much to fear. But not death. For it gives meaning to life.