#also i have not seen the live show but gifs of marisha and ashley going 'BABYYYY'. i felt that. i would not separate them

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🔥 unpopular opinion on the ships Vexleth, beaujester, and Percy/Vax?

Vex/Keyleth and Vax/Percy are the worst of the three ships between their respective actors just because I almost feel like I'm being gaslit whenever people try to hype them up.

Like, if we're being charitable, Vex and Keyleth took until episode 59 to have a conversation that passed the Bechdel test, and until episode 90 to have one that fully occurred on-screen. Now, the Bechdel test isn't the end-all-be-all, but it's worth noting that the substance of those other conversations involved them supporting each other in their choice of romantic partner—i.e. openly cheering each other to get together with their actual canon love interests. As I've discussed elsewhere, for the most part Vex and Keyleth just do not get each other and aren't particularly close, and that's okay, but not really conducive to shipping. (Besides, if anyone could plausibly be in a FWB relationship with Keyleth, it's Pike.)

Vax and Percy have more substance to their relationship, but again, it's mostly in the sense that they just don't really get each other and most of their attempts to do so wind up with them just talking past each other. I mean look, I like a good Belligerent Sexual Tension ship as much as anyone whose mom read them Anne of Green Gables as a kid, but like, there has to actually be sexual tension. This is just two dudes who don't get along, and seeing posts out in the wild about how they're "best friends" has given me whiplash.

Re: Beau/Jester, I'm...really not sure how you interpret the "I could be her beacon" scene as a sign that this ship was endgame, if I'm being honest. There's something interesting there about it as an indication of incompatibility and what could never be, but as a full-throated "no this is romance" scene? Not so much. The characters not seeing eye-to-eye on their general outlooks, as I discussed in another post, certainly doesn't help...but simply put, if Beau was meant to be Jester's beacon, she would have been on the other side of that tavern actually comforting her friend when she was distraught. But she wasn't—Fjord was.