#vox machina rewatch

[scattergoriesofevil]

C1E2: Squirrel Keyleth hangs out in Vex’s pocket during party shenanigans. She enjoys some ear scritches.

C3E71: Squirrel Keyleth hangs out on Fearne’s shoulder during party shenanigans. Fearne gives very attentive scritches. Keyleth feels a little more herself around such chucklefucks.

[mikaylacarlierose]

Keyleth: “I didn’t know you two had that kind of relationship.”

Percival: “The girth of what you don’t know could fill such a cavern.”

Keyleth: “Heh, you said ‘girth.’”

Percival: “I did […] I’m very proud of you.”

Keyleth: “Vex taught me that was funny.”

[mintlimeginger]

Hey the trip to the City of Dis wasn't all bad. At least they got to eat some soul food while they were there.

[thisnerdetteoverthere-blog]

I love found family even more, when said family is just a bunch of idiots in different fonts + one everyone thinks is the rational one but secretly is just also one font of idiocy

[ludinusdaleth]

"[Dragons] are egomaniacs. They hate being insulted and have tremendous vanity. [chuckles] Not that I can relate."

Shaun Gilmore in The Legend of Vox Machina Season 1, Episode 2, "The Terror of Tal'dorei, Part II"

[nightcatssketchbook]

Hey I actually ended up finishing that piece! Baroque-inspired Percy de Rolo portrait.

[shorthaltsjester]

downfall has me thinking about the prime deities far more than is best for my mental health and so i’ve been rewatching c1 just because so many of the pcs have relationships with the gods — even percy and keyleth who hold lower opinions of the gods still have relationships with them — and good grief . you ever think about whitestone as this bastion of love that the gods still have for one another and the love that a party of idiots have for one another. that the centrepiece of the town is a tree from the dawnfather, one used for the builders of castle whitestone to take shelter from the tumultuous lands of the alabaster sierras. a mountain range that came about out of the conflict between the dawn father and the chained oblivion.

the fact that the family that whitestone’s lost son found and brought back with him amounted to two temples being erected, and how fitting that after defeating the briarwoods, the two gods that are given new houses of worship in whitestone are the gods of death and redemption, fate and compassion. do you ever think about how many of vox machina are champions but how much the ones who are not are still held in good faith by the gods, whether or not that is returned? do you ever think about the raven queen telling percy he is broken and reminding him that does not mean he is alone, that means he is mortal, as are all those whom he loves. do you ever think about percy’s death letter, read by vox machina in a tavern as he tells them that the raven queen calling him broken finally opened his eyes to the fact that he has chosen his life (and thus, he might choose better), writing “one the lie [that vengeance would bring my family back] was shattered, I scrambled to find a solution, to make a deal, to undo my mistakes and balance the scales. I now understand that there are no scales. There is no redemption, and no ledger that judges me good or evil. I am free to simply be myself and live with the terrible mistakes I’ve made. Tomorrow, I start upon a path beyond the gods and demons who have tormented me, and it’s your friendship that makes this possible. […] I will try and do my best for you all.” and signing it Percival, of Vox Machina - the family he found and chose, not the one he lost and buried himself in vengeance to avoid. and fucking, vex having just heard percy forgive ripley also hearing those words and having carved the word forgive on the weapon she carries who has a conversation with him to remind him (and herself) that committing to forgiveness over grudges and vengeance means also forgiving the person he’s been that prioritized vengeance. the fact that one of the main things they bond over is that they have similar dispositions to justice and a similar unwillingness to forgive but they both see that in themselves as something they wish to improve at, and that when they eventually marry, each time is by someone devoted to a god neither of them necessarily worship but each of which oversees a domain particularly relevant to that connection - keeper yennen is a worshipper of erathis, and thus the justice that both percy and vex care to honour; pike is a worshipper of raei, and thus the redemption that both vex and percy seek (and see in one another). do you get it.

and god the entirety of the final arc of vox machina is truly some of the most interesting cr content for me just because you get the silliness and depth of vox machina in the face of these Beings On High and they all gaze at these idiots trying to save the world with fondness and the realization with downfall that in many ways those gods were just as much idiots trying to save the world makes that so, so interesting. and i wonder what might’ve happened if one of the gods they’d gone to see had been the lawbearer or the wildmother, what might have been made of percy and keyleth. i wonder if the lawbearer might have taken an interest in a calculating and curious man who loves to strike a deal and stick to it, even if manipulating the contents of the deal made to better suit his ends - especially given that percy was rejected by ioun for his propensity not to share his knowledge, and especially given that whitestone has a historical precedent for worship of the lawbearer. and i wonder what the wildmother would make of an angry girl who is fated to watch the people and places she loves be irrevocably changed and die, who wields her vestige, and who favours the world and it’s people over the gods and their rules — something i’m willing to bet melora would find some common ground with.

there’s also some beautiful symmetry between the relationships of the gods to which vox machina become champions and their own relationships with one another. and i’ve made my post about vax and vex vs. the matron of ravens and the dawn father, but i also think quite a lot about vex and scanlan vs. pelor and ioun. vex and scanlan who can be quite antagonistic to one another but also understand each other as few others do; scanlan who tells the dawn father that vex is not perfect but she is the most perfect among them, vex who hears the knowing mistress tell scanlan that his stories give vox machina strength and genuinely tells him it’s true and that he is very powerful, even when he tries to joke about it. ioun and pelor were the ones to take on tharizdun, ioun nearly perishing and having to hide away to recover. when vox machina asks pelor for her location he doesn’t know it. and fuckin. dalen’s closet. should be a silly little wedding oneshot ends with fuckin. vex glowing with the light of the dawnfather as her and percy, the living son of whitestone, are married by pike who is a cleric and is also the champion of the god of redemption, where the champion of ioun turns into a. dinosaur to walk his friend down the aisle and then grants a wish so that she can see her brother again and the champion of the matron of ravens comes to visit - something that is explicitly stated to be allowed by the matron of ravens. where a twin glowing like the dawn and a twin darkened by raven feather embrace. do you get it . do you see it. the fact that the first story we all heard in exandria was one of a family threatened by fate who could not beat it but did their best with it and that now downfall, the newest story but with parts of the oldest story in exandria’s timeline, is the same. a family who is doing the best with what they have, and what they have isn’t always great.

[earltealord]

My favorite thing about rewatching the Mighty Nein Campaign is how much they absolutely hated each other in the beginning and knowing how much they grow because of the grief and trust they finally found with each other is just so heartwarming to see

[fantasyverses]

I finally caught up with Critical Role!!!

I caught up with Critical Role...

I have to *checks notes* WAIT for the next session to come out?!

[to-to-karamba]

If Keyleth of the Air Ashari has a million fans i am one of them. If Keyleth of the Air Ashari has ten fans i am one of them. If Keyleth of the Air Ashari have only one fan then that's me. If Keyleth of the Air Ashari has no fans, that means i no longer draw breath. If the world is against Keyleth of the Air Ashari i am against the world

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

In celebration of me getting polls, let's do this !

Those titles are maybe not the true ones, and were invented by me. Also this is totally a dignified plea from me to Sam Riegel to PLEASE release the season 2 soundtrack !!

Please do reblog for a break of containment and subsequent larger sample of results, etc etc. you know how it goes.

[scattergoriesofevil]

Started rewatching Vox Machina and I had forgotten that in the first evening we are ever seeing them, everyone else is getting up to trouble or taking the night off except Keyleth and Percy. Their server at the inn asked for positive written comments after being very helpful, but they only had a little scrap of paper to work with. They spent much of the evening patiently creating very formal comment cards (with calligraphy!) and then made everyone fill them out. The future Architect of Enlightened Progress of the Chamber of Whitestone and the Voice of the Tempest, taking a small act of kindness and diplomacy extremely seriously.

[mikaylacarlierose]

K’varnn: “oh, you don’t wanna do that boy!”

Grog: “well I have an intelligence of six, watch this.”

[mintlimeginger]

After the K'ryyn reveal, and on the heels of Ogden's curse illusion for Pike, I would just be preemptively casting Dispel Magic on literally every NPC

[mangk0]

I miss vaxleth every day.

[flashhwing]

man i kinda miss being into critical role and wish i could watch bells hells but there's just like. a block there for me