#critrole headcanons

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£20 says The Slayer's Cake makes the Kimallura wedding cake

Yes absolutely! It’s gorgeous, iced in golds and blues, arcane and divine symbols for blessings and love and prosperity curling around the sides. 

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Anon Friend, imma put all your message about Celestial!Percy and RQ! Twins in one post so we don’t clutter up the tag 😊

Anon: *nods* Celestial!Percy does not want the smol babs to get hurt. he's gonna bring the paaain to this pit fiend asshole (and thus how Percy learns how to channel Smite into his bullets for the first time. It's slightly less of a harrowing clusterfuck of a fight. but not by much). and aaaaaah. And Percy wants to keep them with him - or rather, take them to whitestone because it's safer there and he wants them to be safe and is Not Happy that thier mother sold them. neither are vex and vax

SPOILERS in this answer for newest episode! Honestly I feel like in this AU, Percy and the twins would be much more likely to try and keep the boys with them, or in Whitestone while they deal w/the Conclave, instead of the boys eventually going back to Emon? Like that worked out pr. well in CR w/Salda taking care of them, but I feel like both the boys themselves and VM would want to keep them close in this AU 😊   I assume by the time Percy reveals being celestial, Allura/Gilmore/Kima etc kind of find out as he learns to fly/deal with his abilities/etc. So maybe they take the research they did on celestial beings to help VM and keep an eye on the boys while VM are fighting goddamn dragons lol

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Anon: I can imagine such trips to the store such as "Percy, we've only ever heard about celestials that are bound to a certain god... Are you bound to anyone?" "No. I don't think so. If I am that god is an asshole because an abyssal creature was trying to eat me." queue frantic running to the library to research it* ...I imagine there are some questions that they come up with that they can't find answers to. like that one. or like "Percy do you have any thoughts as to a god you want to serve?" *HISS*

Lol Percy would not react well to someone trying to control/bind him. At all. Ever. 

Anon: Ohh nooo. I just had a terrible, angsty idea. How... How would Scanlan's Departure go down in the Celestial!Percy + RQ!twins verse go? or would it be worse. because the twins are literal Demigods and percy is an Angel and he feels so inadequate - or like would he have a better handle on his abilities by then and be able to heal party members some and thus save scanlan from getting mulched by Raishan twice. in the space of 24 hours. Aaaaugh. But if Scanlan did leave and then. And then Tary.

:///////// oh nooooooo

Maybe Scanlan felt...doubly inadequate, or unloved, or whatever, bc half the party was technically partially divine? And deep down he feels like....what can he offer, when these kids have literal celestial powers? So that’s his side of things. Scanlan still leaves. The twins send a quick prayer to their goddess, asking her to...keep an eye on Scanlan. Not to do anything! Just keep an eye out. Just in case. Percy has some serious abandonment issues, we know this, and I wonder if being celestial would make that worse. Because, like how he couldn’t use his abilities to save his family, he could use them to convince Scanlan to stay? Needless to say, it wouldn’t end well :(

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yes! I love the idea of vex and vax both having wings! and lots of cuddles for everyone. and wing pets are not only wanted but actively encouraged! Because it feels nice and percy especially gets v sleepy and cuddly. OHGOD could you imagine what Celestial!Percy's reaction to finding hunin and Kior would be? (apart from much the same as canon!Percy's reaction was) and just. so ready to fight this pit fiend asshole. and the twins are right there with him. aaaah I just had the mental image of percy

--gently talking to Hunin and Kior - who have hidden themselves somewhere deep within Scanlan's mansion? like - lets his wings out and softly sings to them in celestial, just outside of whichever door to the room they've hidden themselves in, waiting for them to come out? and the rest of VM invariably finding the sleeping cuddle-pile later

aaaaaAAAAAHHHHHH anon you have killed me this is. Too Cute. Help. 

Omg yes tho, like the twins & percy would be like 3000x more protective of the boys. Remember how in the episode Percy was like “help or stay here, idc” to the boys mid-pit fiend fight, but like Celestial!Percy is all “NOPE. Y’ALL GONNA STAY IN HERE, WHERE UR SAFE, WHILE WE KICK HIS ASS” which they do, and it is frankly terrifying for everyone who witnesses it. 

Then yessssss omg Percy completely understanding the terror of being separated from your family, and stuck w/monsters, and he just waits for the boys to feel safe enough to approach. Just patient and gentle, and eventually Hunin and Kior come out. And there are many cuddles. Soon they feel safe enough for the twins to join, and its just a big winged/celestial cuddle puddle. Yes pls

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those four flying around sounds really sweet!... it also brought into mind how Percy and Vax learning how to fly - flapping about and wobbling around clumsily while Keyleth enthusiastically tries to help. They probably find out that Percy is celestial just after he's ressurected after the ripley fact as whatever he's using to hide his celestial nature breaks

Ooh, like maybe when he was a kid in Whitestone, he wasn��t too cautious about hiding his celestial nature, but post-Briarwoods he just...refused to ever let it out? Like kept it in until he almost forgot it existed, bc it reminded him of his family, and how they were gone, and how maybe he could have helped them. Wasn’t he born with these abilities to help people, somehow, but how can he help anyone if he couldn’t even save his family? Save Cassandra? Why didn’t his celestial parent/s or ancestors come help?

So Percy locks it away, tucks it all away where it can’t remind him of his failure. And by the time Vox Machina breaks him out of prison, he’s pr. much forgotten how it worked, back then. Sometimes, he can almost convince himself it wasn’t real. That it was just a childish dream. 

But then the Briarwoods happen again, and Ripley. Cassandra was v. young when they first came, she barely remembers Percy being different at all.

Then Ripley, a second time. And when she shoots him, and Percy falls on Glintshore, there’s a sudden explosion of light and heat and instead of ringing in everyone’s ears it’s almost...singing. Celestial singing, even. 

And when Vox Machina looks down at their fallen family member, there’s something different - a pair of wings, outstretched underneath him. 

It takes a little while post-resurrection for Vox Machina to gently tug the story of Celestial!Percy out of their boy. But he’s tired, and he loves his found family, and he trusts them a little more these days. So he tells them.

Cut to: The twins and Keyleth trying to teach Percy to fly (imo if both the twins are the RQ’s then both get wings :D). Lots of questions about his celestial nature answered with “I....don’t know?” and frantic library trips. Vox Machina cuddle puddles where 3-4 members snuggle around everyone else w/their wings. 

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so have you seen the idea where the raven queen is vax's and vex's mother (a la gilgamesh, so they had three parents) and they were raised in Shadowfell for a time but the other gods insisted that they go to the material plane bc they are partially mortal? and have you seen the AU where percy is some sort of celestial being? I kinda like the idea of smushing both of those AUs together, in part because the twins were the ones who found percy, bound and imprisoned pre-stream?

Yooooo, I love this idea! Both the RQ-twins AU and the celestial!percy AU are so good, mixing them together could be super interesting! Like, did their divine/angelic parents know each other? Were the twins secretly searching for Percy all along? Or when they came across him, completely by accident, did they all recognise each other in an instant? Suddenly realising they weren’t the only demigod-types in Exandria? 

God, there are so many possibilities w/this, I love it! And what would the rest of Vox Machina think? Assuming Percy can conceal being celestial, does the rest of the party suddenly find out that almost half of the group has otherworldly parentage? I love it!

Also: Vax and Percy and Vex. Flying together! Spending time soaring across the skies, and sometimes Keyleth joins them in a polymorphed form. So good.

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Something I just thought of:

Despite the Raven Queen saying she’s not calling Vax to come to her right fucking now, Vax is pretty wary of directly placing himself in her presence. He’s worried, despite how RQ has treated him so far, that if he goes to her temple he might be required to stay. 

My thoughts: What if this has something to do with Syldor? When the twins were kids, Syldor forcibly took them from their mother and made them stay in Syngorn. He was an authority figure in their lives who took them away from someone they loved and made them stay in a place where everyone looked down on them. 

Vax doesn’t really have a good history with authority figures. The Raven Queen, being a) a goddess and b) Vax’s goddess now, is absolutely a kind of authority figure to him. It would not surprise me if the reason he’s struggling with trusting her and believing she’s not going to steal him away from his loved ones, is because that’s exactly what Syldor did. It’s not something you get over easily. 

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pyrohydriscence: I have to think that is part of the story of them falling in love.

YES omfg. Allura and Kima when they were still a part of their old adventuring party, a little awkward and unsure of each other. They all go out drinking at the close of another harrowing adventure, and Kima is sure the tall, elegant Allura Vysoren is going to be a total lightweight, probably only drinks like one fancy-ass cocktail or smth. 

Boyyyy was Kima w r o n g. Drake buys everyone a round of beer, Allura drinks it along with the rest of them, not quicker, but not slower either. She volunteers to get the next round - and comes back with shots. 

Shots? Kima’s not sure if this is, like, Allura’s “I just almost died time to toughen up” moment; or she just wanted to order something she’d thought everyone would like, but Kima knows it has to be one of those. 

It’s not either option. Half the party says no thanks, realising that the particular drinks Allura got were, like, the equivalent of a ridiculously high proof moonshine or something. Allura shrugs, splits the shots between her and the rest of the party, meaning she has like 3 in front of her. She downs them 1, 2, 3, while Kima just looks on in shock. Kima drinks one of the shots in front of her and is fully aware she needs to pace herself because of how strong they are. 

By the end of the night Allura is barely even slurring, somehow still as elegant and refined as ever. Occasionally she will stumble over one or two words, but if it gets to more than that she will abruptly stop talking, as if slurring her sentences is the worst thing to ever happen. 

Kima is so very annoyed by this stringbean blonde wizard, somehow still upright while the halfling is swaying side to side. 

Annoyed...and maybe a little interested too. Just a little.

(When they get together, one of the first coupley things they do - after kicking ass together obviously - is go drinking and find out once and for all who can hold their alcohol better. It’s a tough battle, but Allura wins eventually.)

(She carries a passed-out Kima back to their lodgings, bridal-style)

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She has the biggest bed, whether it's in the magic Mansion, the rebuilt Greyskull Keep, or the comfortable new house in Whitestone. All three of them sleep in it, every night - Percy and Vex lie tangled on one half, and Trinket takes up the other. There are nights when Percy's body twitches and his face contorts. Trinket thinks he must be dreaming about his Dead Day, when Vex cried. Trinket rolls forward and nuzzles his nose into Percy's chin until his breaths calm and his body stills once more.

Sorry it took me so long to answer this, anon! But in a word: Y E S

I still can’t decide which I like better: that the mansion is somewhat magically aware, like Hogwarts, and therefore makes Vex’s room bigger exactly when she needs it; OR immediately upon finding out Vex and Percy got together Scanlan gives her room a truly awe-inspiring remake and turns Percy’s into, like, a secondary study or something without so much as a by-your-leave lol. But wherever they are, and whoever’s idea it was, there is always room for Trinket Snuggles. 

And Trinket and Percy, ahhhhHHHHHH!!!!! Yes please! Trinket being almost overprotective of Percy at times, and when Percy has a Bad Day, Trinket picks up on it and just stays with him, this hulking ball of fur that doesn’t speak, just exists in Percy’s space so he’s not alone. Also head scritches and snuggles and 8/10 times Vex will come looking for them to find Percy sound asleep, Trinket curled around him protectively