#Vex’ahlia de Rolo

[likeappletrees]

pov you are delilah briarwood

[twinklestarss]

Campaign 3 Episode 112

[swordmahes]

Close-up of the percahlia doodle… silver fox Percy with Vex in his lap, im blushing. Also I’m still not done with my first ever watch through of VM so this was such a pleasant surprise!

[thewhalelord]

“All im saying, darling, is make her hurt.”

Bonus: Live Mog Reaction

[ohnohelpitsagain]

so idk if we’re getting a bard’s lament this season, but regardless of if we are or not i NEED to talk about my most favorite dynamic ever so i can get this convo back out into the universe before a bard’s lament happens because it makes me unwell.

vex and scanlan are, in many ways, the same. they’re deeply insecure, sad people that put on masks to hide it. they’re good liars. so that’s what they do. they stand in front of each other and they lie. and it’s not hard for them to know the other is lying. i mean vex LITERALLY SEES THROUGH HIS DISGUISE EVENTUALLY LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING?

and like, vex is snippy and she can be a bit of a shit and she says scanlan is just some guy without his magic. but he’s also the person she looks up to. she literally travels across the whole continent by herself to make sure his daughter can get to him and she sends kaylie back to him even though she’s distraught and terrified and alone. she’s the one person who actually gets through to him during a bard’s lament and she gets through to him by telling him to stop viewing his daughter as a sacred object. to fix his relationship with her. AND HE LISTENS. like again she is the ONLY person in that room who gets through to him and it’s because she implores him to fix his relationship with his daughter after he cruelly remarks that they went to the fey realm to “fix her daddy issues.”

and scanlan! he teases her and he deflects his seriousness around her with humor as much as he does to anyone. but he teaches vex how to use the broom and he gives her the hat to wear. and he ensures her success when he turns her into a dragon and directly tells a god that she’s mean and greedy and the most perfect one of all of them.

scanlan is a father with a fractured relationship with his daughter and vex is a daughter desperate for her father’s approval.

scanlan is not vex’s father. but when scanlan comes back she does everything she can to try and make sure he won’t leave again despite the way he hurt her.

vex is not scanlan’s daughter. but he walks her down the aisle and makes sure she can see her brother at her wedding and he’s happy to be like her father for a day.

scanlan is NOT vex’s father and vex is NOT scanlan’s daughter but really, aren’t they made of the same stuff?

[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.

[colealexart]

aaand last one. here’s how i think vox machina would write their names.

(sorry for the spam, i’m done now!)

[fearnesbells]

happy thursday. all you need is laura bailey to save the world

[sivsii]

happy Orphaned siblings’ house burns down day 2024 to all who celebrate

[wizardofsleep]

Laura Bailey and Delilah Briarwood are like the nemesis version of soulmates, a red string of fate connects them except Laura is using it to strangle Delilah

[hollowblossom]

personally, if my mother chose some old ass elf dude over me, i’d be pretty upset about it

[criticalbeauregard]

i love all the campaigns but keyleth, vex, pike, kima and allura all being in a scene together really reminds me how much they are the blueprint and The Ladies Of All Time

[twinklestarss]

Perc'ahlia x “I love You”

C1E42 | C1E43 | C1E94 | C1E115 | Dalen’s Closet

[thewhalelord]

A weird kind of kinship

[ohnohelpitsagain]

i need to talk about vex and percy and why their episode three arc made me cry genuine, real tears (not kidding, tears left my eyeballs and like, it made my tummy ache)

vex is a bad omen, she thinks. her love for anyone is ruinous for them and she genuinely views herself as unlovable. the closer someone gets to her heart, the more likely they are to see that there is something wrong with her and they will reap the negative consequences of that. there’s something sick in her and sooner or later it will rear its head, so she might as well beat it to that.

percy loves her regardless and he makes that clear to her. he doesn’t insist that she is wrong when she admits this because he wants her to understand that even if any of what she said was true? he would feel exactly the same.

he loves her intensely, deeply and he also sees that she is truly terrified and he respects her wishes. he doesn’t fault her for her inability to reciprocate the way he wants in that moment

vex is someone who thinks she is hard to love.

percy cannot think of anything easier.

like, there is nothing righter in this world than the woman he loves.

so yes she cannot say what he wants to hear. it hurts, it isn’t easy, it has every hallmark of a situation that would breed frustration but he still holds her.

percy does not ONCE get visibly or verbally frustrated with her even with the fact that she’s (in my opinion, very intentionally) pushing him away by being dismissive and a little bit of a jerk when they first set up camp and talk. because ultimately, despite vex’s insistence that she can’t love him (and that she cannot be loved), percy sees her and treats her as someone deserving of gentleness and understanding.

she deserves to feel safe, she deserves to feel heard and she deserves to be listened to and that would be true even if she didn’t reciprocate his feelings the way he wanted her to.

[alanatryingherbest]

The Lady of Whitestone! My first ever digital painting for my art history class.

Based on the painting Infanta María Luisa (1782–1824) and Her Son Carlos Luis (1799–1883)