#i am truly stoked by what they’re doing with vex this season so far

[shorthaltsjester]

vex fully saving percy’s life on three separate occasions in the first 3 episodes, being deeply bothered in the one occasion where she couldn’t be the one to save him. very tryst behaviour, very bad omen of her to be the person that keeps him from getting hurt both physically and who reminds him to forgive himself (while he is sitting at a desk tinkering in front of a model clock tower 🙃) and that giving himself over to — essentially — death in the name of his own guilt won’t get him anywhere. i would like to set syldor vessar on fire. vex has literally been at the forefront of things that have saved percy throughout the show, and in fact percy has been more of a bad omen for her than the other way around, between orthax trying to get percy to shoot her and the whole causing her death thing, and vex being so convinced that her potentially loving someone is a curse she gives them and not the blessing it has clearly been for percy. head in hands . i love their dynamic so far is s3 for silly it’s fun reasons like seeing the inversion of boring tropes by having percy be fully portrayed as a damsel in distress and vex taking on the protective knight role, down to her suave lines after saving him and percy being a blushing mess when she so much as flirts with him. that said i am gnawing on my cage about the fact that the show is clearly showing vex as percy’s protector in the actions she takes but also making it clear that to her she can’t be good.

i will forever mourn that the tlovm version of saundor didn’t include the emphasis on ‘unproven ally’ because i think that part actually carried the brunt of the weight for vex’s growth post-saundor in campaign — especially re: her morality and her role in vox machina — than unwanted daughter ever could, since she already knew she was unwanted by syldor, but having saundor call her an unproven ally was a confirmation of fears she’d had but, until that point, could be repressed and turned away from because up to that point they were just fears. but all that said, i’m really heartened by the fact that s3 does seem to be bringing up vex’s concerns re: her goodness and how that impacts the rest of the party, particularly those she’s closest to. do i think some of the weight is taken out of the sails of vex thinking she’s a bad omen by the lack of establishment earlier in the show that she was struggling with seeing herself as something that could be good? yes, but i’m also really excited to see how her view of herself might be addressed in (potentially) upcoming story beats like glintshore and bard’s lament.