#lawrence darrington

[loquatius-seelie]

DARRINGTON BRIGADE MINIS!

and it includes Lawrence!!!!

(also they called The Owlbear "The Dark Owl" in this probably to avoid copyright but man that's really funny)

[rightpastnowhere]

fluffy HCs as requested bud <33

Vesper is absolutely spoiled by VM - they get better with it as time goes on [the Trickfoots have their own kids, and the rest have their responsibilities really settle in, and Vex and Percy learn that maybe spoiling a kid rotten isn't the best way to go] but this kid gets everything. Partially because she's the first baby and SO cute... partially because Vax just died and Vex is A Mess so they're all rallying to defeat this for her, for themselves, and it's very healing to make a lil baby smile and laugh.

Scanlan actually isn't the best at lullabies - the kids turn to Pike's huskier and softer voice at bedtime. Which Scanlan is Very Dramatic About, but he has the best songs for games and chores and good times and such. But Pike lulls them right to sleep, and also offers up sea shanties when they're working on chores as a family that require a rhythm.

Sorry, but you know Willhand'ildan absolutely fucking hates his name. He and Vax'ildan (Dan) bond over not really... knowing how to deal with being named after dead people, especially the same guy their parents feel guilty about not being able to save. So Dan and Wills actually end up being very close friends, and I HC they're fairly close friends too. I HC Dan as becoming a Druid in Zephrah, and if so he and Wills either send letters regularly or Wills works as a Tempest Blade there too (shhh hes FINE hes FINE he comes out COMPLETELY UNSCATHED SHHH).

Juniper's feelings are less complicated, because Scanlan had a lot more time to come to terms with his mother's death, and her name is a lot more common / namesake less well known so people don't immediately bug her about it. She feels really touched she has this connection to this woman only her dad knew.

Not v relevant but imagine an AU where Tary and Lawrence adopt a lil Fjord. (They both settle down in Port Damali, which is where Lawrence was living, and where Fjord grew up!) Consider Fjord with gay dads who absolutely trounce on standard ideas of masculinity from the word go, and also are prolific authors. Jester would get absolutely fucking starry-eyed when he tells her lmao

OH MY GOD VM BABIES ;;;;;

vesper being spoiled by a vm who feel guilty about vax and paranoid about this small fragile lil babbu and also who want to see her have more than they ever did... they overcorrect but it's so earnest and i love them oh my god

PIKE SINGING LULLABIES!! HELP!!!! OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS

poor wilhand'ildan was fucked over for LIFE (sam and ashley are giggling as they ruin this fictional child's life it's hilarious) and i do think that would be SUCH a heavy burden, but the thought of vax'ildeux and wills being buddies........ that warms my heart sm. AND LIVING IN ZEPHRAH WITH AUNTIE KEEKS......... BLESSED

juniper <33 she has no idea how much drama her named caused LMAO

OH MY GOD THAT'S SUCH A CUTE IDEA THO ?!?! AWWWWWWWWW

thank you so much for these,,,,,,, heart full of warm happiness <33 thank you

[pocketgalaxies]

the canonization of fuckin nobody in vm remembering who tary's husband is

[dollarstoreartsupplies]

see the thing about taryon darrington is I adore him as is... a thirty year old pathetic wet golden cat of a man... but its so much fucking funnier when people write him as like a dramatic 19 year old.... sometimes I like to think he’s fully lied about his age and he’s just a little guy whose convinced he’s such a good actor that vox machina has been fooled into thinking he’s a full adult and they’re all like no yeah this is tary he’s our kid dont tell him though

[hayleysayshay]

The vibe I get that from Lawrence is that Tary is like ‘isn’t this man the hottest, most charismatic man in the whole entire world?’ And Lawrence is like the most plain-looking bookish man ever. The only person who laughs at his jokes is Tary. Excitement for him (other than what Tary and the brigade bring) is trying out a new jam for his toast. He’s just some guy. Tary is completely besotted though.

[silentassassin21]

no y'all don't understand how much i fucking adore taryon darrington, like maybe nobody loves him as much as me. he just loves vox machina so fucking much even when he's a little bit of a dick about it. like the way that from the start he thinks keyleth is so cool and capable and powerful and obviously that's kind of a joke from sam because keyleth is a bit of a mess (affectionate) but also it's so sweet when tary sees keyleth like jump off a boat and he decides that if their fearless leader is doing it then of course he must too. and the deep, genuine love he has for doty as his first and, for a long time, only friend and how hurt he is when he dies and, even though he can rebuild him, it wouldn't be the same. and while it's always funny when tary brings up his father because sam is funny, it's also so goddamn heartbreaking how scared tary is to go home and feel like he's failed his father again. and the scene where tary tells the group about lawrence and that he couldn't possibly have a future with him because all the adventurers in stories go home to beautiful maidens not older men is just so fucking real and while it's a little funny (because once again: sam), the way the group fucking melts and assures him that none of that is true and comforts him. not to mention his friendship with vex and how much they come to love and respect each other even when tary is being such a little shit. and the way that he immediately finds a kinship in percy and clearly considers him his friend so quickly even when percy is being standoffish and falls a little in love with him even while knowing he won't do anything about it because he loves vex and percy too much. and just the development of his relationship with the whole group who he never really understands are hesitant around him at first because of how much they have their own personal shit that has nothing to do with him but they end up opening up to him and loving him so dearly. shit this ended up being a lot of rambling about tary, i just love him so much, he's one of my favourite cr characters and i never see enough love for him. when i bought a bunch of keychains from an artist at avcon and the first one i asked for was the tary they looked so surprised and happy and said "nobody ever gets taryon" and i just. guys. he means so much to me and i'm not at the end of him being with vox machina but i'm getting close and as much as i love scanlan i'm going to be so sad when he leaves <3

[essayofthoughts]

📓 Who is the first member of Vox Machina to die after Vax (excluding Bertrand he doesn’t technically count anyway) and how do they die? What are the reactions of the rest of VM? How is the death honoured/grieved/commemorated among VM? Is the death grieved by any wider public? For example, if it’s Percy, how does that grief play out in Whitestone generally?

Tary is older than Percy and also is choosing to continue to adventure! So I think he's actually more likely to be the first to pass. That said, I do think he retires before he gets too much older - but I still think he's had rather more wear and tear and he's not as well known as the rest of VM, and certainly not as wealthy as Percy and Vex, so I do think he's likelier to die sooner.

I imagine it's probably a bit unexpected for VM? Tary being over in Wildemount means they probably don't see him quite as often as they do the rest of each other, and given Percy is... Percy, they probably expected him to go first - even Percy, probably.

I think they show up for his funeral, of course, and comfort Lawrence, Tary's sister, and (if alive) his mother. Howaardt Darrington most likely would have passed before and if not... well. I don't think he made a great impression on VM.

I think Vex, out of fondness for Tary, might help fund the Darrington Brigade, if any part of that was still extant, or otherwise support Tary's other endeavours - though probably makes sure that a capable accountant is handling those funds, most likely Tary's sister Maryanne. I also think, as a memorial, they all get very drunk and proceed to read excerpts from his books, even if it makes them burst out laughing at times, because better to remember someone with laughter and joy than with tears and grief alone.

I don't know that Tary's death would have a huge impact beyond VM and the Brigade - though I have a feeling that Tary leaves Doty to Percy and Vex. Percy did after all help Tary make Doty 2.0, and Vex is Tary's best friend - I could see him leaving them his last incarnation of Doty, and leaving Percy all his notes on creating automatons.

send in “📓” and I’ll roll a d10 and ramble some worldbuilding thoughts

[belphegor1982]

One of the things I love best about the whole tavern scene in CR1E94 ("Jugs and Rods") is that it's the opposite of a bi awakening - it's just Tary coming to the realisation of "Oh, nopenopenopenope. I'm gay. I am very very gay and women are fine but Not For Me."

And, you know, at this point this man has had sex with exactly two people (I'm choosing to believe he and Lawrence got to that part of their romance before Darrington Senior happened) and will (spoilers) spend the rest of his life with one of them and nothing can stop me from headcanoning him as a demisexual gay man. Because fuck yeah, ace headcanons 💜🤍🖤

[blorbologist]

💥💥💥💥💥

oh boy LMAO, let's do this!

💥 I HC that, post campaign, Gilmore remains in pretty close contact with Keyleth. Even though the polycule of our dreams never happened in canon, they do share this common pain and hole in their hearts that's a bit different to Vex's. Besides: Gil can Teleport and Keyleth can Transport via Plants, so it's trivial for one to pop by on a bad day and just... take quiet comfort in a friend who gets it (and isn't currently juggling a baby). So Keyleth will often be sequestered in the back of Gil's shop, or Gilmore will quietly work on an enchantment while walking through Zephrah with her.

💥Beau's father, Thoreau Lionett, and Tary's father, Howaardt Darrington, absolutely know eachother. The two most dickish, fucking huge asshole dads we've seen on CR, vaguely homophobic vibes (even though I know there isn't homophobia in Exandria they have the VIBES) and they're both rich assholes in Wildemount? Oh, they know eachother. Ugh.

💥Beau's 100% been to some of the Tal'Dorei and Marquet branches of the Soul, post-campaign. Just doin a little research and abusing the fact she can have Caleb Teleport her around. It's totally for research, Yasha is coming with to read. No they don't have sunglasses. It's not a vacation on the Soul's time and dime. Shut up.

💥I have a stupid HC that Tary and the Brigade have come very, very close to accidentally running into the Nein a few times over the campaign, only to miss meeting eachother by chance and a sliver of time.

💥I! Have briefly touched on this before, but Ima do it again because I'm so tired and only have one more lab report to grade, but. Gilmore would abso-fucking-lutely be Tary's type and I'm forever bummed we never got a scene of him having a Gay Panic. Because come on: Lawrence and Percy are both very intelligent, and Gil has the charm to blow both of them out of the water and make Tary's whiskers to a lil cartoon curl. It would also be funny to see Vax lose his mind laughing.

Hey people! I'm trying to finish grading lab reports and need motivation!

Send! Me! Some! Asks!

[essayofthoughts]

A note to add - I’ve not seen C2 or C3 and cannot speak to them, but there is some canon homophobia in C1. Tary’s dad is shitty to him regarding Lawrence and in general Tary’s attraction to men, and is generally a pretty awful individual, and there seems to be more normalisation of straight romance than queer, based on what Tary says:

TARY: Well, I'm a dashing adventurer, and I'm supposed to attract all of the lasses of the kingdom, right? ALL: Well. TARY: They throw themselves at me because of my derring-do and bravery and my hair. KEYLETH: Have you experienced that once? TARY: No, but I feel that-- in all the books I've read, they never tell of the adventurers who go to bed with older men. PERCY: Do you know why? Because those adventurers are busy actually having a good time. -- Episode 96, Jugs & Rods.

However, I think this does still stand in line with what else you’ve said, OP? Exandria as a whole is pretty gender equal and doesn’t really have significant transphobia or homophobia - why would it? The world has magic and magic is the great equaliser. It’s why you can see past adventurers, of various backgrounds, climbing to high status - magic enables much more drastic shifts in fortune and influence than we get in our world. But it also suggests there’s more normalisation of straight relationships than queer, possibly because that general ease of mobility and, that there’s been less societal rejection of queer relationships and identity and so, in turn, less of a push to gain visibility.

It also suggests that any such bigotry is 1. Limited to personal examples (Howaardt Darrington), 2. Not enforced societally but not necessarily hugely or uniformly pushed back against (Queer relationships and identities allowed amongst people of various classes, but not much media around it), and 3. Something that is being pushed back against in-universe nonetheless (At least from what I understand, there’s a lot more queerness and queer rep as the campaigns go on).

Besides which, such bigotry is usually an attempt to control those around them - it makes sense for Howaardt Darrington, who seems to be a controlling, toxic man, to be so shitty about his son being gay. He places a lot of stake on his personal worth and pride and, for him, his son is an extension of that - and a let down to his personal standards. However, it would make less sense for, say, Syldor to be queerphobic because, even though he’s a shitty dad, he is also Extremely Elvish and Elven culture seems to enshrine queerness because their primary deity, Corellon the Archheart, is non-binary.

Of course, lots of people don’t know about Tary - he’s a late-appearing character in Campaign 1, both of which minimise people’s awareness of him, and he’s a man, and we’ve seen how the fandom seems to fixate more on F/F ships these days. But, I mean, if people do want a character dealing with homophobia in their stories... Tary is right there guys. Right there.

I’m I the only one who finds it alarming that most of this fandom who ship Imogen and Laudna (especially on twitter) don’t realize the unhealthyness thats going on in their relationship? They literally see two women to are affectionate with each other and say “ENDGAME!” “GIRLFRIENDS!” “MARRIED!” “KISS KISS KISS!” Then they focus on quotes that are kinda alarming, and Imogen’s Jealousy is pretty fucking Alarming! Saying that they are in love and just haven’t realized it yet. (Don’t get me started on that one blog on here counting down the days “till imodna realizes their in love.” I find it so fucking annoying.) Loving someone and being IN love with someone is two different things. Also another thing! I HATE THAT PEOPLE CALL THEM LESBIANS! THE BOTH HAVE EXPRESSED FEELINGS FOR MALE PERSENTING PEOPLE! I dread the day when the campaign ends and they don’t end up together or during the campaign fall IN love with someone that’s not each other. Especially if it’s a male persenting person, because the Laura and Marisha will be harassed and the shippers will yell Queerbait, also the men hating/haters will be in full force. 

Hi anon,

I agree with most of this; I'm answering under a cut in the hopes that people who will be upset by an answer will be able to avoid it, without me having to explicitly discourse tag it and in doing so throw it to people who troll that tag to get mad at things. Also this is SUPER long and covers a lot of the thoughts I've had percolating on the CR fandom/shipping culture in general.

I think I and a lot of people who primarily deal in meta/analysis in this fandom have been inching ever closer to a lot of the points you've made here, and I am generally very willing to be the one who snaps and says "yeah has anyone noticed the emperor has literally no clothes on like what the fuck".

Let's start with the end and work backwards: It's happened before, it will happen again if Laura and Marisha's characters do not get together, and it's irritating, but like, I will take a good story and the consequences of a shitty segment of the fandom rather than the path of least resistance every time. I almost said something to this effect on the positive vibes ask last night, but like...there will always be people who are hateful and stupid on the internet, so you may as well stand in your own truth rather than fear their consequences. (Not that I don't respect the choice to quietly avoid harassment; I am the way I am because I know at this point I can take a pretty hard hit and shut it down, but that has not always been the case.) Anyway, people called an actual canon ship between lesbian characters queerbaiting last campaign, so it's not like those accusations hold any weight or need to be taken seriously; outside of their tiny circle, everyone thinks those people are idiots.

I do, as a bi woman, hate the tendency among hardcore shippers to erase bisexuality. They do it because a bi character's competing ships cannot be as easily dismissed as 'obviously can't happen, they're gay or lesbian', and they don't care how biphobic they look doing it. You are absolutely correct: Imogen and Laudna have both indicated interest in men or masc nb people. (Others have also pointed out that people tend to exclusively use he/him pronouns about Ashton when they are being critical of them, so they don't care how transphobic they look doing it either, apparently; also I don't think Ashton identifies as a he/they lesbian but there are in fact people who do identify as such so like...if your goal is to eliminate Ashton/Laudna as an option by saying Laudna is a lesbian, against all evidence to the contrary, you also need to make a number of presumptions about Ashton's sexuality and gender identity as well.)

This brings me to a tricky section about fandom in general but I think it's worth saying. In the real world, homophobia and transphobia are very real. They negatively impact our lives in heartbreaking and deadly ways. It is still the norm in most US media for the bulk of relationships shown to be between a cis man and a cis woman, and for protagonists to be cis and straight (note: also often able-bodied, male, white, etc but the focus of this discussion is queerness so I'm not covering all axes of oppression). However, in many fandom spaces, queer characters and ships are the fan favorites. Tumblr's userbase does skew heavily queer, and additionally, tends to skew towards women. In other words, a lot of things that are very true in real life do not hold in fandom spaces.

Which is to say: we're in a situation where an F/F ship is the massive juggernaut for the fandom right now. It does not mean that lesbians (or bi women who enter into relationships with other women) are not oppressed in the real world; it does mean that within the highly specific space of the Critical Role fandom, people are more likely to be in favor of this ship than not. It also means that a lot of the people who aren't into it are not homophobes, but are queer people - often even wlw - who are saying "I would like F/F ships! I would like them to actually be good." Like, to me, the only difference between Imogen and Laudna and every M/F canon relationship on network TV that's made me go "you're telling me they should be together, but I don't see it" is that they're both women (and I would bet a large sum that for a lot of people, this isn't about the dynamic, but purely about the gender of the people involved, ie, if Imogen were a man played by one of the men in the cast people wouldn't ship it, where as I personally can comfortably say I'd ship any of the canon ships from past campaigns regardless of character gender. This also admits that biological essentialism is fake and that Exandria is pretty gender equalthough, which some people don't want to do.)

Part of why I've been so frustrated is that, at least from my perspective, the overwhelming majority of hate and harassment I've seen within the fandom in Campaign 3 - and in Campaign 2 - has been from people who have shipped Marisha and Laura's characters. There has, in fact, been pretty considerable hate as well as measured criticism levied towards M/F ships (we're seeing some with Ashton/Laudna here, but both Fjord/Jester and Caleb/Jester, the latter of which I actively dislike and have openly criticized, received pretty vehement hate last campaign and most of it came from people who shipped Jester with Beau) and M/M ships (less harassment per se but people who shipped Caleb with Jester said some truly awful things about Caleb/Essek; also while I have not, you know, harassed people, I have said essentially the same things about how Taliesin and Liam's characters are shipped every campaign despite often having little connection as I have about Marisha and Laura's. I just don't talk about it as much because while I think and have said that Ashton/Orym is basically nothing - and that Widomauk, which most people vaguely classify as M/M, and for that matter, Percy/Vax, all are basically nothing - no one who ships those has called me a cunt or reblogged my posts in an abusive manner or called me out for the grave sin of preferring canon to fanon, so I respect the ship and let ship of it all.) For that matter, the bulk of hate towards Beauyasha came from people who shipped Beau and Jester. Like...I am confident there are people who dislike this ship specifically because it's between two women, and they are homophobic, but that is not the quarter where I think most of the criticism on Tumblr or Twitter is coming from.

So let's get to the last point. Why do people ship two women simply because they're standing next to each other? Why do they ignore countless red flags - and I am specifically talking about treating Imogen and Laudna's relationship as healthy and loving; not about shipping it in general. I cannot stress enough that if you treat Imogen/Laudna as some kind of toxic Briarwoods situation and are into that, I support that entirely.

There are a few reasons. First and foremost, I think a lot of people project onto characters rather than letting the characters provide them with differing perspectives. I find this deeply sad. It's not that you can't draw parallels between your own life and that of fictional characters or see yourself in them - you're supposed to! But it says something depressing about your empathy if your qualifications for which characters speak to you are only those who match your demographics. Like, I've said before, but my favorite characters from past campaigns are Vex and Fjord, and they have a lot in common! If you relate to one based on their themes of Who You Are In The Dark and the mask you present to the world over a face you don't particularly like, you will probably relate to the other! But also...I am a cis bi woman, I am not a person of color as both those characters are often considered coded to be (though am an ethnic minority), nor did I personally experience extensive emotional abuse and poverty as a child. I think there's value in wanting to see people like you! But also...representation is not just "I want to see people like me"; it's also "I want to humanize people who are not like me". If you cannot relate to someone simply because they don't match your gender or sexuality, then that's a really shallow and cold way to interact with the world. And, specifically in relation to queerness within Critical Role: this is a world that has consistently been depicted as not having homophobia or transphobia. I understand wanting to explore these themes and seeing characters who have experienced them, but like...this is not the media that will reasonably have a one-to-one portrayal of homophobia or transphobia, and you often will need to bend over backwards and project a lot of stuff that simply isn't in the canon to read that into them because the worldbuilding simply doesn't support it. And, to be clear, you can do that; but at that point you're applying a lens that only you can obtain, so you shouldn't be surprised if few people come along with you. (I also think it's kind of dumb to watch a show with 5 cis men on it, four of whom are married to women, and be mad that the story has men in it and that those men sometimes are attracted to women; unpacking this would easily double the length of this already incredibly long post though.)

So: this sets a stage for people coming into the show saying "who looks like me, or can I make to look like me" rather than engaging with what's actually going on. Part of why I've been hesitant on Imogen and Laudna the whole time, though started out much more open to it, is in fact that it was heavily shipped from quite literally the moment that Laura and Marisha were indicated to be playing two women who knew each other from before. We knew nothing about their dynamic other than "existing friendship". So I think a lot of people put the cart before the horse and started shipping, and I do think - and I could be entirely wrong - a lot of them, deep down in their hearts, know that they are twisting their interpretations to match an idea of these two characters that has increasingly been proven not to be true onscreen. Like, I think a lot of people kind of realize that Imogen is putting Laudna in a horrible position here; I think a lot of people realize that their so-called 'unconditional' love that transcends words means there's no room to resolve or even express conflict. Perhaps they don't, but like, I'd like to give people the benefit of the doubt. It's just...I think that because this ship is so all-consuming within the fandom, and because so many people have staked their identities within the fandom on it, they don't know how to leave it and are scared of retaliation if they do.

This is backed up by the slow shift I've described - Imodna started out with "they're already girlfriends" or "they're already in love but just haven't said it" or "what could ever happen other than they become ever closer and eventually kiss" (as witnessed by these questions) to "they realized they were in love during the campaign" to "Imogen is in love with Laudna but Laudna isn't aware" to "god remember how they used to talk, I'd give anything for it" to "I guess a QPR is okay" (which is itself bizarre, like, the issues I see in their relationship are still just as much issues in a nonsexual partnership as a sexual one; honestly, it's not a healthy friendship though it is an interesting one and the problem's I have are not going to be fixed by kissing.) Like, it's not the normal evolution of feelings one might have about a ship as the show goes on and more information is revealed, or rather, it's a ship that's becoming less and less confident as time goes on which is the opposite of how canon ships tend to go. (Which, I need to stress, does not discount that it could not be canon; it's just that I think it would require a pretty profound shakeup and conflict to do so). The signs and signals are becoming more and more tenuous and the shippers keep lowering and lowering the bar.

Since I've already brought up past campaigns and ships, let's do it again for the sake of illustration; this feels like how people who shipped Caleb and Jester went from ENDGAME to "Caleb is pushing away Jester to protect her" to "I think Laura is biting her lip when she's looking at Liam! This is a SIGN" even in episodes where Jester was like, actively making out with Fjord, to, and I am not making this up, posting pictures of the CR shop showing Laura in Caleb merch as evidence. Or how the bulk of Vex/Keyleth shipping in TLOVM rested on a scene in the trailer where Keyleth was staring dreamily and drunkenly into space while Vex was across the table only for the show to reveal Keyleth was staring at Vax. Like, all shipping does require a certain degree of cherrypicking, but there is a point where you are focused only on subtext and never text, and while that was how one had to interact with queer stories in the past, it's ridiculous to be doing it on a show where Marisha has openly RP-ed Beau eating Yasha out. Like, if they wanted to show two women being romantically involved, they will. (There's been a lot of Xena comparisons thrown around, and like...not that Xena isn't an important part of the history of depicting F/F relationships in media, but it is also a syndicated show from the 90s and couldn't show an explicitly lesbian relationship, and Critical Role very much can and has.)

I do think there are a subset of people who don't realize how unhealthy this is. Like...this is a whole psychological thing that I am unequipped to unpack, but I do think there are people for whatever reasons genuinely do believe that love means never having to say you're sorry. I am hoping this is because of youth and inexperience, because being able to communicate and advocate for yourself is a crucial part of relationships, as is the ability to express and resolve conflict. As you've noticed, the people who ship this have all said "well, obviously, Imogen won't betray Laudna" - but we don't know that. Honestly I think it could go either way. But they have to make that assumption to keep shipping it, because if Imogen might betray Laudna, then that does mean that there would have been more meaning and value in Laudna speaking up and that conversation was deeply flawed.

I also think some of this comes from unconditional love being an unreasonable expectation foisted upon us all at large. There are always conditions, or rather, you might always in some way love someone, but there are conditions under which you'd leave or boundaries you will draw. You can love someone who (for example) is dealing with an addiction but still refuse to let them drive while intoxicated or steal your stuff to pay for drugs. You can love someone who cheats on you but still want to end that relationship. I mean, while fear, self-doubt, and resources/logistics are all factors in people leaving abusive relationships, it's also true that a lot of people have some affection for the good times and that is a factor as well. Love is not a simple on/off switch. You can feel multiple things at once - honestly, that's what Ashton basically says this past episode, that they both love and hate the party! I think Imogen and Laudna do genuinely love each other, though I don't interpret it as romantic; I just also think that there's a lot of stuff they don't like about each other but are unable to express, and which will only become more and more of a threat to a potential romantic (or queerplatonic) relationship if left to fester unresolve. And, to be honest, I suspect real-world homophobia and fandom purity issues are part of why people are so unwilling to discuss why Imogen and Laudna's relationship is unhealthy; because it means admitting that queer relationships can have most of the same problems as straight ones, and possibly admitting that you still find an unhealthy relationship interesting and want to see it played out.

[quinn-of-aebradore]

VM Relationship Moodboards

Perc’ahlia

Kimallura

Pikelan

Tary/Lawrence

Vaxleth

Grog & Pike

Keyleth & Percy

Vex & Vax

[tarydarrington]

vax: what was her name? tary: his name... it’s embarrassing.

[worryfornaught]

This passage about Tary in the Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount made me smile so much

[heart-aflame]

For the prompts (even though the timelines wouldn't add up) Lawrence Lorelei is Tary's Lawerence, after Tary returns to Wildemount and they start dating again Lawrence wants to introduce him to his family and let him in on the family secret.

Guess who had this in my drafts for like a year or two and forgot about it and only just saw it again! It’s me! This is what I am deciding is a prologue or short first chapter now. Someone else suggest a name for it please. 

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“You taught this kid right? Did your tutor thing and dated this kid, whose father fired you and tried to kill you? For dating his kid or whatever?”

“It was much more complicated then that, and neither of us were kids or children, but that is the jist of it yes.”

Benicio chuckled, making lawrence regret his word choice, “Ya sure you dont want me to…fuck him up a little? Father guy deserves it probably.”

“I would rather you not, from what Tary has told me, his father is a bit better then he had been before.”

Beni shrugged and stood, slapping Lawrence hard on the back as he left, “Whatever bro, offer stands either way. See you and your chew toy nerd later.”

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Lawrence tells his father first of his plans of course, once he returns to the castle grounds with the idea already fully formed and considered. It won’t be hard, he reasons, to introduce Taryon to him and his siblings when most have moved back into the house after the ordeal with their grandfather. Aurra visits, he’s sure that she will visit to meet his boyfriend. 

The concern on his fathers face isn’t disapproving, more weary as he always has been whenever the threat of their secret is concerned, Lawrence chooses to take that as a good sign once he’s done explaining everything, “You believe this man to be trustworthy, Lawrence?” he asks, after a few seconds contemplating. 

Lawrence nods without even considering hesitating. Why would he, when he had known and loved Tary for awhile, even while apart? “Of course. He even has grown a little more kind and caring, since I last saw him. I trust him with this father.” 

Haldor nods, worry not gone even as he stands from the chair to place a hand on his shoulder, “If you believe this is a good idea to pursue, I trust your judgement, both in entrusting him with this, and in dealing with the aftermath if it proves to be a problem.”

Lawrence nods tersely, understanding despite how his mouth dries at the thought, “Of course. I don’t think it would need to come to that, truly, he wouldn’t have anything to gain using it against us.” 

Haldor steps away, worry melting away as he slowly smiles, “Perhaps, but that is no matter right now. Invite him over for the day after tomorrow and I’ll arrange for a feast be made. If all goes well, I look forward to meeting who you have chosen to court with. Be sure to mention to you’re siblings of your intention so they also may meet him.” he instructs as he carefully ascended the stairs, out of the sitting room and towards his room. 

Lawrence watches him go, staring at the stairs for a minute as he considers his father’s words and the knowledge that he’d soon share everything he was with Taryon while his siblings would surely tease him about his crush.

“Well, shit.” he mutters, leaving the sitting room so he could find one of the staff to send a letter to where Tary said he was staying, before he searches the grounds for Benicio. 

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It's too bad Tumblr doesn't have polls but I still want to hear people's opinions

Which is better?

Liam plays Tary's nerdy boyfriend, Larry.

Or

Travis plays Tary's nerdy werewolf boyfriend, Larry.