#and she’s sad she loses them and is disappointed when Percy’s already replaced

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Okay The Little Mermaid Vox Machina (perc’ahlia) AU (I guess if they’re not mermaids they’re human)

There are cities for the mermaids, and Keyleth is the only daughter and set to inherit the Kingdom and is going to marry Vax’ildan. Vex is not really as thrilled as she pretends to be, dodgy relationship with her father (as they’re illegitimate children) means that her and Vax only had each other. So she spends time on her own exploring getting closer to the surface until she starts to recognise a fishing boat in the area.

Percy is on the boat. He is the only survivor (that he knows of) of the massacre that killed his family. He’s been hiding out on a fishing boat with Pike, Scanlan and Grog (maybe some other PCs/NPCs like Kashaw or something?) But the Briarwoods figure out he’s alive and send a demon to attack the boat and it sinks. Grog Pike and Scanlan get into a life raft but Percy falls overboard and Vex saves him.

Beach scene, she sings, then flees as Pike and co get to the shore and scare Vex off. She’s been sight her entire life to stay away from humans but she found this group harmless. At some point she finds Percy’s lost glasses at the bottom of the ocean and decides she’d like to visit the human world and return the glasses.

She has heard of magic, so she asks for magic to turn her human for a bit. Everyone refuses; Syldor finds this embarrassing, Keyleth is suspicious of humans (they pollute the sea!) and Vax is sympathetic but does not understand this new fascination.

She finds herself with Saundor, who offers her legs in exchange for her voice. In this version Vex is not a teenager so is not so naive, nor is she going to the surface to make him fall in love with her to be able to stay on the surface. Vex goes to the human world because she is feeling lost and lonely and it’s a time she felt useful and seen (and she genuinely wants to check Percy is okay. And he’s hot). It’s a temporary deal; Saundor does it because having Vex’s voice accompany him for the time she’s away is pleasurable for him.

For contrived reasons she loses Percy’s glasses so she has no way of communicating to him that she is the one who saved him once she finds his crew recuperating in a small port town. Captain Pike takes one look at this confused voiceless girl and decides that she’s part of the crew now. She has no quarrels with picking up strays.

Percy and Vex begin to fall in love but Saundor falls in love with Vex’s voice so tries to get her completely permanently. meanwhile the Briarwoods also want to murder Percy after realising he isn’t dead. The magic involved could eventually alert the mermaids and they get involved. Big epic drama ensues, happy ending eventually, mermaids and humans are friends and Vex will visit a lot.

Also Trinket is Vex’s close friend who is a talking fish. He is the only backup she has and is included in her spell with Saundor, when he gets to the human world he is a bear (for reasons) who Vex can still understand but no-one else can.