give it all up for new rebirth | ~1.7k, Critical Role, Perc'ahlia
His words ring through her mind all the same.
No matter what today, I forgive you, but I cannot let you leave.
AKA: the Vex POV Glintshore fic no one asked for.
Read @ AO3 for @percahliaweek
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Being deeply invested in Critical Role is so weird. I'm really glad I'm home alone right now, becasue I don't want to try to explain that I'm crying over a character who I know doesn't stay dead in someone else's role-playing game from close to seven years ago.
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I thought "if you're not careful you'll not find yourself on our side" was an omnious warning to Do Better, but considering he had realized Ripley was out there and what happened to his soul after glintshore, this might as well have been a clumsy, well-meaning "uh, dude? I don't know how to tell you this..."
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things I loved:
we got ‘they’re not worth you’, the title, a post-syngorn heart to heart and ‘my heart is someone else’s’
percy making her an arrow!! FINALLY!!
and she used that arrow to kill saundor. 10/10 poetic cinema
vex refusing to stand up against syldor for herself but snapping the minute he went after percy
the camera panning to percy right after ‘my heart is someone else’s’
and his anguished ‘vex’ahlia!’ when saundor cut them off
vex finally really getting the spotlight, showing the vulnerability behind her walls, her softness with velora and diving into her issues with rejection through saundor
like streamlining that interaction with saundor to be all about her loneliness and longing to be loved? perfect
vex actually getting to go one-on-one with saundor and getting the killing blow
‘no one apart from my brother’s ever stood up for me like that before’
things I loved less:
the ‘they’re not worth you’ conversation came off as a lot more casual, and I feel like it could have landed better if they’d had vex trying to fix her hair or her clothes or something (similar to how she was polishing her armour in stream) and percy noticing rather than it starting with his comment on his furniture
they also cut one of my favourite lines from that conversation, vex asking percy to stay by her side, which I can kind of see might not have made sense in context but I think was just so important for their dynamic and showing how much percy’s support meant to vex
the titling was perfect from percy’s end, but one of the things that made it land so well on the stream was that it did rattle syldor and I would have liked to see him thrown off even for a moment or two before going back to being snide
also feel that particular moment with the arrow would have held more weight if they’d had some lighthearted arrow flirting previously so it was emphasised how that one meant just that bit more
overall though my perc’ahlia heart is well and truly fed and I can’t wait for the slowburn to build up to glintshore
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Vex'ahlia is no stranger to death. No stranger to things she can't fix. But maybe it's not about fixing - maybe it's never been about fixing, but about what can be saved.
(Percy dies, and then he doesn't. Vex finds herself tangled in the past as she watches him sleep.)
@percahliaweek Day Four: Shoot/Reborn
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wait. tlovm vax can see the souls of those who recently died and is meant to shepherd them. and glintshore is coming up
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I gotta say, one of my favorite things about writing Briony and Darius in tLBT is their relationship being of a nature where, looking from the outside, you can't really tell if they're
a) really good friends/comrades in arms who are comfortable being casually affectionate(well, Briony is. Darius is more withdrawn but lets her get away with it)
b) friends with pining on one or both sides they just haven't dealt with/recognized yet
c) already in a relationship but don't make a big deal about it
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