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CR Non-Endgame Ships Bracket Take 2

Hello my friends! Some of you may recall that just about 2 years ago now, I ran a series of polls for ships from Campaign 1, Campaign 2, and EXU Calamity that were not together at the end of their respective series. I excluded any Campaign 3 and modern era EXU ships, since at the time, those storylines were still open; Imodna weren't even together at that point. However, now that C3 has reached it's conclusion, I thought it was a good time to revisit the concept. I also didn't feature M/F pairings last time around and now is a good time to make that right too.

So! Let's get into the rules and paraments parameters:

The phrasing "non-endgame" was chosen as certain relationships present were together at some point in canon but are not longer (ex. Blumendrei) or there was an either mutual or one-sided attraction that did not result in a relationship (ex. Widojest). It doesn't feel right to me to simply call these ships "non-canon", though they are featured alongside plenty of purely fanon ships (ex. Verinwulf), so. Non-endgame. It's a little clunky, but it works.

I've reincorporated pairings from the first poll that lost in the very first round, potentially giving them an opportunity to shine further! Any ship from the first poll that made it further than that is not present this time around. These pairings are: Widofjord, Fjordwulf, Vaxmore, Fjolly, Jester x Reani, Polynein, Vexleth, Perc'ildan, Beaukeg, Vexahra, Beastrid, Beaureani, Polymachina, Beaujester, Lucigast, and Widomauk. Please do not ask me where they are.

Almost every ship will feature fanart of the characters in question, included of course with permission from the artist. Links to the original posts will be included and I highly encourage giving them some love if you vote! Any ship that doesn't have a piece of fanart has a little tableau designed in HeroForge by myself. Grogleth is the only exception, with a still from TLOVM.

This bracket is for fun. Ship hate will not be tolerated. You will be blocked if you act poorly in the tags.

Block “cr non endgame poll” if you don’t want to see this further!

Voting will begin this Friday, February 14th, at 3pm CST. All polls will run for 24 hours. The first round will take place over two days, split into Parts A and B.

Matchup links and breakdown below the cut.

Round 1 Part A:

Laudna x Dorian VS Widoyussa

Polyhells VS Blumenshadow

Scanvax VS Dashrym

Dariax x Deni$e VS Shadowmauk

Beauvasha VS Percylan

Ludinus x Liliana VS Laudna x Fearne

Yu x Laudna VS Orym x Dariax

Kashleth VS Imofearne

Chetanna VS Vaxlethmore

Verinwulf VS Grogleth

Liliana x Otohan VS Yashter

Percy x Tary VS PolyCrownKeepers

Fearnechet VS Imogen x Otohan

Jessek VS Veth x Devexian

Luciessek VS Jester x Calianna

Shadowmoore VS Fjeth

Round 1 Part B:

Fjarrow VS Dashrymwill

Fearne x Braius VS Pikeleth

Widobrave VS Doomstorm

Ashrym VS Percy x Pike

Shadowidomauk VS Laudmoore

Shadowfjord VS Fearne x Opal

Verleth VS Greystorm

Blumendrei VS Percleth

Bashter VS Rubygold

Grog'ildan VS Kashvax

Jestermauk VS Doriax

Essek x Ludinus VS Widoking

Widojest VS Zerxus x Azmodeus

Laerryn x Patia VS Lucien x Cree

Esswulf VS Mariking

Jestrid VS Goldenshadow

Round 2:

Widoyussa VS Blumenshadow

Dashrym VS Dariax x Deni$e

Beauvasha VS Laudna x Fearne

Orym x Dariax VS Imofearne

Vaxlethmore VS Verinwulf

Yashter VS Percy x Tary

Fearnechet VS Veth x Devexian

Jester x Calianna VS Shadowmoore

Dashrymwill VS Fearne x Braius

Widobrave VS Ashrym

Shadowidomauk VS Fearne x Opal

Verleth VS Blumendrei

Bashter VS Kashvax

Doriax VS Widoking

Zerxus x Asmodeus VS Laerryn x Patia

Mariking VS Goldenshadow

Round 3:

Blumenshadow VS Dashrym

Beauvasha VS Imofearne

Vaxlethmore VS Percy x Tary

Fearnechet VS Jester x Calianna

Fearne x Braius VS Widobrave

Shadowidomauk VS Blumendrei

Bashter VS Doriax

Zerxus x Asmodeus VS Mariking

Round 4:

Dashrym VS Imofearne

Vaxlethmore VS Fearnechet

Widobrave VS Blumendrei

Bashter VS Zerxus x Asmodeus

Round 5, Semi-Finals:

Dashrym VS Vaxlethmore

Widobrave VS Bashter

Round 6, Finals:

Dashrym VS Widobrave

[kal-theravenquing]

Anybody want a vax'lan fic where Scanlan pines for Vax?

Because uh, here -

[kal-theravenquing]

Aaaaa

"Don't speak. Don't even breathe. Be quiet." for a rare pair

It’s been a long time since Vax has felt helpless. Well… there’s the general unease of being tethered to a strange, ancient deity that frequently goes on monologues about fate, but that’s different. With that, Vax at least knows he’s responsible for himself, and that his own actions will dictate his own failings–and the resulting consequences of them. But this. This is someone else’s life. Someone else’s choices that lead to consequences Vax doesn’t know how to handle. This is completely different.

“Just hang on,” he whispers, fingers pressed firmly against Scanlan’s side. The Gnome’s once-bright shirt is sodden with blood. The wound is still bleeding despite Vax’s best efforts at staunching it. The creature responsible for the laceration lays dead in the darkness a few feet away. Vax can’t identify the poison on its talons. If Keyleth were here she might be able to find out, hell even Percival might have a clue. But nobody is here. No Pike to wash away wounds with Sarenrae’s warm light. No Vex with a handy stock of potions. No Grog with some hail-mary item buried and forgotten deep in the bag of holding. They’re alone.

“I guess this is karma,” Scanlan says, a weak smile on his face. He’s pale and covered in a feverish sweat. “Drop enough deuces on people’s beds, and the universe kills you in a sewer.” 

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CR Non-Endgame Ships Round 1a

Scanvax and Dashrym art by @oddthesungod

Rules, parameters, and poll links here

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CR Non-Endgame Ships Poll

Hello and welcome to the project that’s been occupying me all week! A showdown of sorts between 32 Critical Role ships that were not together by the end of their respective campaign! Some notes;

I’ve gone with the phrasing “non-endgame” as some of the relationships featured were together in canon at some point (ex. Blumendrei) or one half/both were canonically attracted to the other/had a crush (ex Widofjord). These are here alongside relationships that are purely fanon (ex. Verinwulf)

Since C3 and present-day EXU are still ongoing, open stories, no ships featuring those characters are included. Anything’s possible. Since EXU: Calamity is a closed story, it gets featured.

All relationships featured here are m/m, f/f, or poly. I have a running list for m/f ships and may do a bracket for them in the future depending on how this one goes. I am not ignoring them.

Each poll will feature art of the characters in question, included with permission from their artists. Links to the original posts will be included and I highly encourage giving them some love if you vote!

Let’s not do ship hate y’all, this is for fun. Please. Campaign for your favorites but keep it civil.

Block “cr non endgame poll” if you don’t want to see this further!

Voting will begin tomorrow (Feb 12) at 6pm CST! All polls with run for 24 hours

Matchup links and breakdown below the cut

Round 1; 

Widofjord VS Percy/Tary

Luciessek VS Fjordwulf

Vaxmore VS Scanvax

Fjolly VS Yussa/Essek

Verinwulf VS Jester/Reani

Polynein VS Blumendrei

Shadowfjord VS Vexleth

Perc’ildan VS Zerxus/Asmodeus

Beaukeg VS Jestrid

Laerryn/Patia VS Vexahra

Jester/Calianna VS Beastrid

Beaureani VS Yashter

Shadowmauk VS Polymachina

Mariking VS Beaujester

Kashvax VS Lucigast

Gilmore/J’mon VS Widomauk

Round 2;

Widofjord VS Fjordwulf

Vaxmore VS Fjolly

Jester/Reani VS Polynein

Vexleth VS Perc’ildan

Beaukeg VS Vexahra

Beau/Astrid VS Beau/Reani

Polymachina VS Beaujester

Lucigast VS Widomauk

Round 3;

Widofjord VS Vaxmore

Polynein VS Vexleth

Vexahra VS Beau/Reani

Polymachina VS Widomauk

Round 4 (Semifinals);

Vaxmore VS Polynein

Vexahra VS Widomauk

Round 5 (Finals);

Vaxmore VS Widomauk

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CR Non-Endgame Ships Round 1

Vaxmore art by @drawsmaddy

Scanvax art from the Vox Machina Origins comics

Rules, paraments and voting links here

[kal-theravenquing]

Also, a ship that completely blindsided me but actually makes a lot of sense to me -

Vax and Scanlan.

Will I elaborate?

No, I will not.

[kal-theravenquing]

Okay but Scan singing Vax a lullaby when Vax can't sleep due to nightmares?

Vax sees the puncture wound scars on his neck from Sylas one morning while doing his makeup and Scanlan sings to distract him?

Vax gets all sad and self loathing so Scanlan improvises a song about all of the reasons why it is he loves Vax to cheer Vax up?

Scanlan sings his proposal to Vax and Vax sings his reply???

They sing their wedding vows at eachother????

[kal-theravenquing]

Forget Scanlan x Vax appearing out of nowhere to steal my heart -

Grog x Vax just hit me like a freight train and I'm clinging onto it for dear life!

Also fuck Liam for making Vax so fucking shippable, it's going to actually kill me

[kal-theravenquing]

!!! 💙💙💙

Are you still doing the kiss thing? Could you please write one with Scanlan and Vax using the "one small kiss, pulling away for an instant, and then devouring each other?" Or the one about "staring at the others lips, trying not to kiss them, before giving in"? I couldn't choose which one I liked best

Honestly I could write about CR for ages.

Scanlan’s feet patter lightly across the top of the stone wall. He’d be surprisingly stealthy, footfalls barely making a noise, if only he weren’t playing… some ridiculous handheld pipe-instrument. Vax couldn’t name the thing if he tried, but be could hear it from a mile away.

Vax’s hand shoots out from the darkness and snatches the instrument from Scanlan’s fingertips. It’s in Vax’s pocket before Scanlan has a chance to react. The Gnome blows a few empty notes in to the air and then blinks at his equally empty hands.

“Well alright,” he says, and then turns on his heel on the stone wall to survey the darkness around him. His eyes dart over Vax twice before finally locating him in the shadows. “You know, if you wanted a different song, you could have just said so.”

“I want zero songs,” Vax hisses. “You’re drawing everything within a mile radius to our camp. We’ll get attacked!” Scanlan looks back at the low-burning embers of the campfire and the lightly illuminated figures sleeping around it.

“Are you mad at me?” Scanlan asks as he looks back to Vax. His eyes bright and gleaming even in the darkness. Vax can make out an infuriatingly unapologetic smile on the Gnome’s lips. “See something you like?”

Gods, he’s aggravating. Vax opens his mouth to quip out an angry reply, but Scanlan cuts him off.

“You know, it’s dark out here. We’re alone–”

“The others are twenty feet away.”

“–mostly alone. Are you sure you’re mad at me? Or is there some other reason you’re out here?” Scanlan asks smoothly. He’s grinning now, enjoying stringing Vax along, enjoying talking his way out of Vax’s ire.

“Scanlan, I swear–!” Vax’s words stop abruptly as Scanlan leans over from the top of the wall and gives him a quick kiss on the lips.

“There,” he says brightly with a contended sigh, “now that we’ve gotten that out of the way–” it’s Scanlan’s turn to be cut off. Vax, only momentarily stunned by the kiss, retaliates. He takes Scanlan’s face in his hands and kisses him back. It’s much more than a peck on the lips. At first Scanlan is caught off guard, a little taken aback, but doesn’t pull away. He can taste Vax’s frustration, and makes a small noise of surprise when the half elf nips at his lip before pulling away.

The resulting silence is punctuated only by their slightly winded breaths. Vax grits his teeth, watching Scanlan carefully. The Gnome’s grin slowly returns to his face, bright and wide. He pats Vax on the shoulder.

“Right, so… your watch then?” he asks, and he hops nimbly down from the wall. Vax turns his head to watch him go. In the darkness he sees Scanlan give a little jump and click his heels together before settling down by the embers of the fire.

Vax wets his lips, and then seats himself in the shadows of the stone wall–resigned to his share of the watch. Vax pulls Scanlan’s instrument out of his pocket and passes the night idly turning it over in his fingers.

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"Don't speak. Don't even breathe. Be quiet." for a rare pair

It’s been a long time since Vax has felt helpless. Well… there’s the general unease of being tethered to a strange, ancient deity that frequently goes on monologues about fate, but that’s different. With that, Vax at least knows he’s responsible for himself, and that his own actions will dictate his own failings–and the resulting consequences of them. But this. This is someone else’s life. Someone else’s choices that lead to consequences Vax doesn’t know how to handle. This is completely different.

“Just hang on,” he whispers, fingers pressed firmly against Scanlan’s side. The Gnome’s once-bright shirt is sodden with blood. The wound is still bleeding despite Vax’s best efforts at staunching it. The creature responsible for the laceration lays dead in the darkness a few feet away. Vax can’t identify the poison on its talons. If Keyleth were here she might be able to find out, hell even Percival might have a clue. But nobody is here. No Pike to wash away wounds with Sarenrae’s warm light. No Vex with a handy stock of potions. No Grog with some hail-mary item buried and forgotten deep in the bag of holding. They’re alone.

“I guess this is karma,” Scanlan says, a weak smile on his face. He’s pale and covered in a feverish sweat. “Drop enough deuces on people’s beds, and the universe kills you in a sewer.” 

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“Shut up,” Vax says, voice shaking, but unable to fight the upward twitch of the edges of his lips. “You’re not dead yet.” But as he says it he can feel that slight pressure at the back of his head. That cool, dark presence of the Raven Queen slowly creeping in like the rising of a tide. “Not yet.” Vax whispers desperately. “Please not yet. I can still save him.” The words were meant for the Raven Queen, but even so close to death, Scanlan’s still awake enough to hear them.

“Vax,” Scanlan says, faux-scandal in his voice, “I didn’t know you cared.”

“Of course I care, you idiot,” he snaps, “Put your hands here.” He moves Scanlan’s hands over the long claw marks and presses them there firmly before starting to tear strips of cloth from his shirt.

“Is this what it takes to get your shirt off?” Scanlan asks. He’s still grinning, but his eyes are starting to haze over, and his word slur slightly together.

“You know me, near death experiences are kind of my thing,” Vax says hoarsely, somehow coaxed in to joking along with Scanlan.

“Suddenly, so many things about you make sense–” Scanlan draws in a sharp breath as Vax starts to bind the strips of fabric over his wounds. His breathing is shallow and painful. He opens his mouth to say something more, but Vax shushes him sharply. The two freeze.

In the distance, a faint splashing can be heard echoing down the long sewage tunnels. Vax springs suddenly back in to action, tying off the bandages and hoisting Scanlan up in to his arms. The Gnome winces.

“You sure know how to sweep someone off their feet,” he says through gritted teeth.

“Shut up,” Vax repeats, moving swiftly down the opposite corridor. It takes a moment, but he manages to fade slightly in to the shadows, and match his footfalls with the constant sloshing sound of running water that fills the sewers. “I’m getting us out of here, but we have to be silent. Don’t speak. Don’t even breathe. Be quiet.”

“Might not have to worry about me breathing in a little while,” Scanlan points out grimly. Vax feels a pang of horror bounce through his body as he realizes his poor phrasing. The regret is so jarring that he missteps and sends a pebble clattering across the stone floor. Vax stops. He glances down at Scanlan, and finds the bastard still smiling. Though the expression fades a little when he sees the horror on Vax’s face.

“I didn’t–don’t you dare–” Vax takes a breath, “You know what I meant.” He starts to carefully move forward again, quick as he dares without making too much noise.

“I know what you meant,” Scanlan murmurs. Vax clutches him a little closer, fingers laid over Scanlan’s wrist so that he can be certain there’s still a pulse racing through his veins.

Not yet, he thinks as the distant sound of footfalls in water echo off the walls behind him.

Not yet, he thinks as he forces the presence of the Raven Queen from his mind.

One day, her voice echoes serenely, sadly through his thoughts.

Not yet.