#(spoilers for cr1)

[otterlyart]

An Eleventh Hour Ally

[llysaan]

The Deathwalker’s Ward

I just had to paint him in his new armor 🥺🤲 but also this painting has changed me as a person it was so difficult 😭

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Endless TLOVM

[demigoddessqueens]

Love my girls!!!

[shorthaltsjester]

sorry not to always make everything about vex’ahlia de rolo (everything is always about her actually) but something that i have been gnawing on for the past 20 hours is nick’s beautiful narration of the dawnfather with a tear streaming off his face into the ocean and taking with it the part of ayden that hoped. and then centuries from that moment, another mortal spun up in his hubris threatens the balance and the protection of mortals that the dawnfather once cried over and a group of loving idiots walk into his realm looking for and to help and he looks upon a woman who once prayed to him under a tree to help protect the city of her beloved — to protect her city — and who jumped into a purifying flame uncertain if she was worthy of survival and when the people who love her argue for her worth, when she comes out the other side unharmed, he smiles and he says “there is hope.” what if i lost my mind. what if the symmetry of stories told by different people in different times with hundreds of interconnecting threads ruined my life actually.

[mslaudnatemult]

Every ad bit:

[ilanarose7]

"Don't trust a man who just kissed somebody! That's a man who's saying fuck it." - Taliesin Jaffe, Vox Machina Campain episode 73, The Coming Storm

This was originally was said in reference to Percy kissing Vex, but it 100% applies to Ashton kissing Fearne now too

[its-your-mind]

Say what you wanna about the legacy of vox machina across exandria, but fucking NOBODY is haunting the narrative like Percival “I made the world’s first gun (with help from a demon (and then the idea was taken and copied by an unethical scientist who sold the plans and spread the invention worldwide, leading to artillery-based warfare))” Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski “my family’s estate is the sole-exporter of an extremely rare substance with untold magic-enhancing power (and when control of our home was taken from us by force that powerful substance made it into the hands of dangerously unethical magic users determined to use it to increase their own considerable magical power (and also to experiment on young and impressionable mages to attempt to increase their power artificially))” de Rolo III

[lyaholya]

"We're going to start with the Courage"

[andi-o-geyser]

babe hey babe wake up. babe. babe they got them. they got the barriers. babe listen to me they have the toothpick barriers. the fucking toothpick barriers.

[xxwillowpotatox]

As promised I present to thee: old man grog

[otterlyart]

Do not go far from me...

[sunstarelanor]

Broke: Ludinus knew that Keyleth would draw out Vax because it was common knowledge that they were in love. if you knew about Vox Machina you knew this about them.

Woke: Ludinus knew that Keyleth would draw out Vax because he did his research on any and all possible champions of the Gods. Vax was the easiest to draw out.  

Bespoke: Ludinus knew Keyleth would draw out Vax because he read The Daring Trials and Tribulations of Sir Taryon Darrington.

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Endless TLOVM

[pocketgalaxies]

everyone: *talking about whether chet actually murdered some kids*

marisha: look at us trying to justify kid murder

(me: lol like that time keyleth killed a kid or whatever)

taliesin: i should point out it was seven years ago you were trying to justify some kid murder, i'm just saying

(me: :O)

marisha: i didn't justify it. it was an accident.

travis: are you talking about dread emperor stuff?

marisha: YES!

travis: 12 years ago?

marisha: 12 YEARS AGO. (tearful) that shit was off-stream and YOU ALL won't let it DIE!!! TT__TT

[shorthaltsjester]

doing questionable things like rewatching a bard’s lament for “fun” and scanlan and vex you will always be famous. the fact that scanlan brings up that they’ve travelled across planes to fix vex’s daddy issues but then it’s vex’s daddy issues that ground her rebuttal to scanlan when she tells him to stop treating kaylie like an object. and god. vex’s “fuck him! fuck him for not saying anything sooner. and fuck us for not asking.” in the immediate aftermath, and then once she has time to put her walls back up, vex’s “my take-away from scanlan is that we all talk too much.”

the fact that vex was the one who made that comment that without his magic scanlan is just some guy but he’s also the some guy that vex spends the campaign looking up to (even if she does it through barbs and snark), the fact that when vex was fighting against saundor hearing things like “unproven ally” scanlan was all jokes until he realized how much vex believed what was being said to her. the fact that when scanlan comes back, it’s vex who literally sees through his disguise.

what do you mean scanlan was a deadbeat father who discovered a daughter that he did love but loved only as an object until vex called him out on it? what do you mean vex was a woman who struggled to forgive in part due to her crapshoot father and she was the first to forgive scanlan when he came back?

vex and scanlan also have such interesting interactions in terms of the balance of snark, silliness, and sincerity. it’s not uncommon from any characters of sam or laura’s since they are both silly little guys who also love drama and roasting each other especially when it comes to character rp, but as always it’s so dynamic when it’s the two of them bouncing off each other, especially when they’re doing so through scanlan and vex who are already bitchy characters (affectionate) with humour as a deflection method. but it’s a silly and deeply sincere moment when vex finally puts the witch hat scanlan gave her back on with his promise that he won’t run away from the final battle. it is one of my favourite laughable moments in c1 but it also reeks of sincerity when scanlan asks vex if she prefers planetar scanlan or normal scanlan and vex tells him he is fucking hot as a planetar, but she loves him like he was and he’s her favourite when he’s just himself.

like. they’re insane do you understand. the dawnfather asks vex to prove herself and scanlan turns her into a dragon to help her succeed, pelor asks vox machina what vex means to them and scanlan says she’s greedy and mean and the most perfect of them all. the knowing mistress asks scanlan to prove himself and vex escorts him on a broom he unlocked for her and then she picks an impossible lock for him, ioun tries to remind scanlan that his strength is the joy he provides to his friends and he makes a deflective quip that he’s really powerful and vex undercuts his deflection with a sincere assertion that he is. scanlan cast his last wish spell letting her see her brother on her wedding day. vex sent herself across the continent alone with her worry and grief while scanlan’s corpse lay awaiting resurrection to ensure that his daughter could be there to either bring him back or say goodbye.

they are the platonic chosen soulmates of all time to me. i make a post like this like once a year minimum and it’s because they Haunt me. both sam and laura said what if we made high charisma characters using their charisma as a shield and humour as a weapon and they saw through each other’s masks but they never explicitly talked about it to one another. good riddance to talks machina but i will never forget the episode post bard’s lament with laura and sam where sam revealed that vex was the only one who said anything that actually got through to scanlan and another episode where laura revealed that the reason vex was so angry and sad when scanlan left was that vex felt like her and scanlan had a unique bond where they were the only two who really saw one another’s masks for what they were. also laura providing the insight that while vex was actively working on being more forgiving, another reason she was so open and happy with scanlan when he came back was that vex didn’t want to scare him away again.

what am i supposed to do with all that? be normal about scanlan and vex? literally impossible