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nefarious anglerfish

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«Every now and then, your champion comes to visit.»

Art by @loliwobbles

I have SO many unfinished drawings... I think it's because I get lost in the color. Maybe doing some b/w stuff with help. Like, I have 3 or 4 Shadowgast drawings, more Vaxleth, Caleb and Nott, Caleb with Astrid and Eodwulf, some Dorym... (All Liam related, don't judge me)

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Vax'ildan's and Keyleth's first onscreen kiss was Liam saying "and I kiss her" and their last onscreen kiss was Marisha saying "And I kiss him" I'm unwell.

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Little doodle of them sweet and tipsy 🖤

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vaxleth meme redraw!

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The newly-mantled Voice of the Tempest and her purely decorative bodyguard (some closeups below :)

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some cheesy romance for the new year 🖤🍂

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Keyleth braiding Vax's hair. I looked up spoilers for vaxleth, and now I'm drawing them happy to cope :)

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doodled kiki and vax in modern au outfits hii

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How is Keyleth doing with the return of Vax? To have him back but only for one night is both a blessing and a curse.

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«And every day that raven comes to visit.»

Art by @loliwobbles

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I'm so normal for the twinsies urgh

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Gardenia for Vaxleth?

Hi!!! Thank you for the prompt! I hope you like it :D This is set in a modern au. Gardenia (secret love)

I don't love you any less just because no one else can see it.

Keyleth had never had a boyfriend before she met Vax’ildan – she barely even had any kissing experience, considering that a boy in her class had stolen her first and only kiss – but she and Vax had been dating for over six months, during which Vax had been the most caring and patient person she had ever met.

When Keyleth told him about her lack of experience, she thought he was going to make fun of her or maybe leave. But he surprised her by staying, by making her feel loved and cared for, by ensuring she was safe with him, and that he would never rush or pressure her into doing anything she didn’t want.

Keyleth had gradually started feeling more comfortable with Vax, so when he invited her to go over to his apartment to watch a movie, she knew that, just like the few times they had done that in the past couple of weeks, there was not going to be any movie watching.

Keyleth’s legs were draped over Vax’s lap as she sat sideways on the couch. One of his hands was tangled in the hair on the back of her head, while the other was inside her green t-shirt, caressing her breasts, as Keyleth lifted her neck to give him better access to kiss and nibble on her pulse point. The noise of the movie on the TV was loud enough to muffle her soft pants of pleasure but not to muffle the sound of keys unlocking the front door. Thankfully, Vax’s trained ear caught the soft thud of the door, and he quickly broke contact, much to Keyleth’s disappointment, who barely had time to compose herself before Vex’ahlia crossed the threshold of their living room.

Vex heard the noise from the TV when she walked into the apartment, and she knew right away that her brother was not alone in the house. She petted Trinket before she closed the door with a thud, making sure that her brother and Keyleth – whatever she was to him – heard her and stopped whatever shenanigans they were doing. 

She was not particularly fond of the scene in front of her: Vax was sitting on one end of the couch with one of the pillows meticulously placed on his lap and a look of mortification on his face; on the opposite end sat an extremely embarrassed Keyleth, who was red from the roots of her red hair to the neckline of her crumpled t-shirt. As if that wasn’t gruesome enough to be etched into her brain for all eternity, Vex noticed from the corner of her eye the pink bra that had been forgotten on the floor underneath their coffee table.

Keyleth sighed in relief and slumped against the soft pillows of the couch when Vex left without a word – which was abnormal. But nothing in the entire situation was normal. 

“I take it you haven’t told her yet?” Keyleth asked Vax, who was staring at his hands in embarrassment. “Maybe I should go? Yeah, I should go.” 

“I’ll tell her. I just–”

“It’s fine, Vax. I understand,” Keyleth said, standing up and grabbing her bag. “Maybe this was a mistake.”

Vax shot up and grabbed her wrist before she could leave, the pillow he had on his lap falling to the floor. “Keyleth, I don’t love you any less just because no one can see it.”

“Maybe it’s time they see it.” Keyleth wrapped her free hand to the back of his head and pulled him in, kissing him deeply. 

“Are you sure?”

Keyleth nodded confidently. She had been the one to ask him to not tell anyone about their relationship. At first, Vax thought she was ashamed of dating him – his record wasn’t the cleanest, after all – but then she explained to him how she was scared of being in a relationship because of what happened to her parents. Vax had understood her reasons and waited patiently, as he always did with her. Hearing Keyleth say she was ready to tell everyone about them brought him relief and happiness.

“Are we still on for lunch tomorrow?” She asked as they reached the front door. Vax nodded, and Keyleth gave him a chaste kiss before she left.

Vax returned to the living room – the movie still playing in the background – and chuckled as he noticed Keyleth’s bra on the floor, remembering the face of shock she made when he dexterously took it off without her noticing. He sat down on the couch with a sigh of frustration, combing a hand through his hair and hiding the bra behind his back.

Maybe it’s time they see it.

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*deep breath*

[please note: I'm not fully caught up on C3, so my understanding comes mostly from tumblr posts and reading the episode recaps on the wiki, so some of these details might be wrong, but the end results is what I'm concerned about.]

So I have two potential outcomes I'd kind of like to see from this night of having Vax back on Exandria with his family.

Option 1 (most preferred). The first part of next week's episode is basically just roleplaying that night and then as the Raven Queen appears once more to take back her champion, Matt cuts for break (before Vax actually goes), and when we come back, they're back in C3 seating and we're on Ruidius watching that end of things (over the same time frame) play out, because we can't actually be sure the Raven Queen WOULD be there to take him back until we know for sure whether The Nein Hells are able to stop the Gods from being destroyed. That is probably going to take the rest of next episode and at least 1-2 more episodes afterwards, possibly even putting us to the holiday break, to leave us in suspense for several weeks, on the very last moments of the battle, to not know whether they win or lose, save the gods or not. Then instead of actually showing us that result (or even playing it out entirely), the very next thing we see is them back to the C1 seating with the Raven Queen's hand outstretched to her champion, beckoning him back to her realm and his duties.

Matt/DM: And then, just as suddenly as she appeared, she's gone.

[long pause of looking at each other in confusion.]

Laura/Vex: Is my brother still here?

*Everyone staring at Matt*

Matt/DM: He is. [long pause] Vax'ildan, you hear and feel it occur, as your vision of the Matron before you vanishes, there's a sense of disconnect that you've never felt before. The memories and abilities of the Champion begin to fade, even more quickly now.

Liam/Vax: Is... is she... gone?

Matt/DM: It's unclear, but you definitely feel a wider divide between yourself and her presence than you felt even as a mortal the first time. [long pause] Lieve'tel, you also feel this separation set in a disconnect from your deity, your source of divine magic, a wider gap than ever before.

Liam/Lieve'tel: I'm going to step so I'm more than 5 feet from everyone else and then attempt to cast Word of Radiance, to see if I still have my powers.

Matt/DM: You take a few steps away from everyone else, your mind reeling at what any of this might mean. You attempt to cast the cantrip you've used on so many occasions... [dramatic pause in which people, especially Liam start freaking out] It works as it always has, a bright burst of radiant light erupts from you into the five foot radius around you.

Liam/Lieve'tel: "So, she can't be totally gone, then, right?" She looks to the Champion. "You're still here, you wouldn't still be here if she was really gone, right? You'd just be dead. She's the only reason you're here to begin with, right?"

Liam/Vax: "I think. I do not know. I've never felt this disconnected from her before." I start looking at myself, concentrating on my heartbeat, making sure I'm not withering away.

Matt/DM: You feel as alive as you did before this moment. Almost as you once were before she even sent you back the first time.

Liam/Vax: Wait, am I... alive-alive?

Matt/DM: You certainly feel alive.

[silence as both Laura and Marisha stare back and forth between Liam and Matt]

Matt/DM: Pike. [long pause] You, too, a few minutes into this begin to feel your connection with the Everlight pulling away until it is more disjointed than you've ever felt it before, her presence suddenly... missing.

Ashley/Pike: Similar to what Lieve'tel just did, I'm going to attempt to cast Light on the end of my mace.

Matt/DM: It works.

Ashley/Pike: "Everlight????" EVERLIGHT!?! Are you still there?!?!"

Matt/DM: There is no response.

Ashley/Pike: "Oh no."

Matt/DM: "What would any of you like to do?"

[This continues on for the first half of that episode, then eventually determining through medicine checks and other such things that Vax is in fact alive-alive, by some strange happenstance. It's later revealed to Liam, off camera, by Matt, that he now has celestial blood beyond his own though, so he also has some of the racial characteristics that Aasimars or similar beings would. The second half of the episode would be back with the other group as they fail to prevent the Gods from being destroyed, though they seemingly aren't actually destroyed so much as banished more permanently and further away from the mortal plane(s).]

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Option 2 (also valid, but extreme amounts less likely/plausible - this is just me being delusional, okay? just go with it): The same through cutting just before we know if the Nein Hells have succeeded or not, and then again back with Vox Machina. [just note: for this one to fully work out, Keyleth will have to give completely in to accepting that Vax is back for the short while that he is because certain things would need to occur during that night *cough*.] In this instance, the Raven Queen does, indeed reclaim her champion as Vex and Keyleth both sob in his wake once more. [flash to the nein hells succeeding.] Then I'm gonna need a time jump to a couple months later when Keyleth shows up in Whitestone feeling not quite herself, hoping to see Pike and that perhaps she would know what was wrong. Pike does a medicine check and maybe even tries a greater restoration or something, but determines that there doesn't seem to be anything "wrong" with her, per say, maybe it's just something she ate? But Keyleth tells her that she's felt like this for weeks and Pike has this a-ha moment with one last medicine check (or something of that nature) and well, do you see where this is going yet? Pike becomes noticeably overwhelmed and that of course freaks Keyleth out, but Pike insists they have to go find Vex before she tells Keyleth what she saw, which Keyleth is confused by, but they set off for the castle where they locate Vex (and Percy, probably), and Pike makes Keyleth and Vex both sit down before revealing what she saw/noticed/etc., which is that Keyleth is pregnant. And, yeah, that unravels a whole nother thing to contend with, but it could be very interesting and an almost poetic end, but does not feel like something that will actually happen even though it would be very interesting indeed.

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vaxleth matching shirts (inspired by this)

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"Just for one night" THIS IS NOT OKAY.

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