#Kynan Leore

[bread-wizards]

Keyleth's relationship with Orym reminds me a bit of Vax's relationship with Kynan towards the end of the campaign. "This is my little guy. He's great, very anxious, a little messed up but I want to see him succeed in life."

[kill-a-man-for-kynan]

Keyleth: Imagine if someone handed you a box full of all the items you have lost throughout your life Cassandra: Self-esteem, haven't seen you in years! Percy: Oh wow, my childhood innocence! Thank you for finding this! Kynan: I knew I lost that potential somewhere! Vax: My moral code, is that you? Keyleth: Keyleth: I was just gonna show you this cool trunk my mother left me but do you guys need a hug?

[hinumay]

I wish more people would appreciate or remember Vax and Kynan's sibling, mentor relationship even though it wasn't really highlighted or explored sighh

ive been really sad lately, due to fears and stuff, so i wanted to latch on to these guys, because they're sad too, i want to be sad with them both they're smiling here tho

[manueltorresart]

It contains Spoiler traces if you've seen only The Legend of Vox Machina. Not a character you might know from @criticalrole, he isn't that relevant but Kynan's character growth it's cool to see.

Again, NPC voiced by Matthew Mercer.

[blorbologist]

This little space between us

Cassandra de Rolo/Kynan Leore, T, 16K, Hurt/Comfort

Giftfic for @burr-ell! <33

"... So, if you don’t mind - I guess that makes me your guard, now?” Cassandra does mind. Very much so. So at her first opportunity, when the stumbling and sighing and shifting becomes too much, she slips away. -- Cassandra de Rolo survived by hiding and still finds comfort in small spaces. Regrettably, Kynan Leore is pretty damn good at finding her.

Cassandra is used to jumping at her own shadow. It slinks too close to her heels, looms too tall overhead by candlelight. She will spy it out the corner of her eye and think it part of the castle’s literal skeleton crew. Worse - Sylas or Delilah. Unfortunately, her wallbound twin resembles the latter more than anything. She takes to wearing her hair down, or braided, or pulled back, just anything but the tight bun - 

She hates her shadow. Wishes she could carve it from her heels with a stolen kitchen knife.

So to find she has two, after Percival revealed a dragon hiding in their castle, she - she would scream, she should, but that habit has been cut from her successfully. 

He’s not Assum. Though that hardly matters, with a shapeshifter (can she trust the next Percival she sees to be her brother at all)?

Older demons, at least, she can identify. His flesh is not sloughing. His bones are all well-hidden. He is not Sylas. He is not Delilah. (She is not Delilah.)

And so Cassandra swallows enough bile to squeak “Who?” at this stranger. 

Her new shadow startles, backing some paces. “I - oh, I’m sorry, my Lady! I just - sorry, did no one tell you?”

It feels like a trap. Smells like one, too, but that might be the familiar cold sweat she breaks into at mind games. She swallows and feels the snare against her throat. The dagger in her corset. “Tell me what? Why are you here - and speak clearly, or I will - I’ll -”

What? Cry for help? Gut him like a fish? Die prettily? She isn’t sure. So she pretends it’s a hanging threat.

To his credit, however he takes it, he takes her seriously. 

[Keep reading on AO3!]

[criticalrolenpctournament]

ROUND 1, POLL 54

Which NPC is the best overall character?

[silversky-art]

Some Vox Machina doodles ✨

[captain-fflewddurfflam]

Oh no, Kynan really got to me. I agree with how Vax handled him - it would have been awful to see a bright teenager get killed in the brutal adventuring lifestyle and he definitely wasn't ready- but I felt SO bad for him.

I hope he comes back and Vax can train him!

[essayofthoughts]

Fic title of "This is fine. It’s even great"

So, as some people know, I'm not a Kyssandra shipper. I'm not really a shipper at all (except, of course, for the one true OTP, Perc'ahlia) but I also just don't find Kynan/Cassandra terribly compelling personally - we like what we like and it just doesn't do it for me. I tend to go more for Desmond/Cass - remember the carriageboy with the maimed hand? Whitestone native? About Cass' age? Also hurt by Percy's wrath and vengeance and selfishness?

Yeah. It Cromchy.

So anyway, the fic I'd write for this would probably be Kynan POV watching Cass and Desmond slowly figure out "oh. Feelings. Oh Dear" and perhaps also have some complicated feelings of his own about it.

This is fine, Kynan thinks, watching Cassandra and Desmond quietly get on with their paperwork, neither saying a word. Great, even. Definitely.

send me a made-up fic title and i'll tell you what i would write to go with it

[joyfulsongbird]

more kynan and cassandra!! for anyone who loves them as much as i do <3

[kill-a-man-for-kynan]

Percy: Are we really going to let Vax keep Kynan? Cassandra: We kept you.

[hinumay]

Another day another Kynan.. but also Jarett Howarth... I can't believe these guys.. Tal'Dorei is burning and they're just taking chilling at whitestone?? Smh tsk tsk 😞😔

[xombigirl]

I am once again begging the universe: Please give me Erika Ishii as Kynan Leore in The Legend of Vox Machina. PLEASE. I just think they have the perfect chemistry with Liam to make the Vax and Kynan scenes just so damn good. Please universe.

[blorbologist]

Two for joy: Chapter 29

(Per D&D 5e, creatures fall 500ft per round of combat, roughly six seconds. Poisoned, barely conscious, mechanically down to 1hp each. The fall means unconsciousness, death if luck is not with them, if Delilah deigns to finished the job.)

(One chance.)

--

(There is nothing Vex’ahlia can do. The wings are not with her. None of the spells at disposal are of any help.)

(She has time to consider shutting her mouth, facing death with dignity, denying an ounce of satisfaction to be bled from her and feed the bitch.)

(But she might live. But Percy might live. But someone brighter than her could bring Cassandra back.)

(And so: instinct does not draw a peep from her. Neither does surprise, nor fear.)

(It’s for Percy and Cass she forfeits her pride and screams.)

--

(There is something Percival can do.)

(Try to grab the scaffolding. By the games of the divine - a failure, he comes away with shards of wood. A surge of adrenaline, a second chance - )

(He makes it.)

(Percival watches her fall. Vex’ahlia, still living, falls so differently to Cassandra’s corpse. Corpse. Don’t think about it. Grab, grab, grab -)

--

(Out of range of the earrings, with the growl of thunder and gale, no one hears them scream. Only Percy hears the sudden quiet before he and the ravens pick up the wailing siren again. )

--

[One for sorrow] [Ch1] [Keep reading on AO3]  

[criticalrolenpctournament]

ROUND 1: POLL 16

Propaganda:

Andy: N/A (Although, if he does move on, I'll pull a Sam and use a new pic of Matt each round)

Kynan: N/A

[hayleysayshay]

Okay, Kynan is not necessary for Glintshore, and they could easily skip him, but if they wanted to, they could still introduce us to him. Instead of a specific moment we get Kynan’s backstory as a flashback, he’s a Vox Machina fanboy and hopes to meet them. Maybe they meet him very briefly and they brush him off, maybe he never meets them, but they’re important to him, which is why when he meets Ripley and she shows him evidence of them being bad he’s shook to his core and that awe turns straight to anger, betrayal. Again it isn’t necessary for the story, but it could show how Vox Machina’s name is so much bigger than them now, how they’re famous, and how this name can be twisted by their enemies. And now Vox Machina can show empathy and compassion to their enemies by getting Kynan on side during the Ripley fight.