#rip rolo

[unfinishedrambles]

tfw they sneak like half of the iconic ship moments into 20-ish minutes and give me a heart attack

[burr-ell]

funniest part of ripley's revenge is that it mostly backfired and percy blames HIMSELF for spreading guns. he's out here like 😫 this evil weapon has spread it's all my fault and ripley's in hell like I DID THAT YOU ASSHOLE

[andi-o-geyser]

hey sorry um. bad news just reached you. now you're dead. you just got shot by a sniper rifle. yeah it's percy de rolo's sniper rifle. sorry.

[your-turn-to-role]

i talked last week about how percy in c1 is often the grog translator, now lovm has given us grog as the percy translator!

[twicetolivetwicetodie]

If those IMDb listings are correct we're probably not getting Percy back until s4. Which is insane! I need him back NOW

[knife-like]

WHITESTONE ENDURES . . . / knife-like ⸻ a mutuals-only multifandom multimuse blog ft. vesper, wolfe, leona, vax'ildan, & gwendolyn de rolo from critical role. as loved by monarch, 22 & any/all prns.

[thestreamweaver]

Considering how Logan was absolutely READY to adopt Laura, if he found out that Evan was his child in any way shape or form...

That man would be feeling SO many emotions at once!

Yes!! He'd probably feel like he'd never live it down if the others were there to being that he would literally be like:

[variksel]

TLOVM s3 ep8 spoilers//

THEY PUT PERCY IN A FUCKINHBH GUN,!?@?@,!?×?×

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Reading over a talk script and realizing the structure is so clunky that there’s absolutely nothing to sink your teeth into

[sad amateur actor sounds]

[storiedhistories]

THEY’RE A 10 BUT… // Accepting

@missallanea asked: [ THEY’RE A 10 BUT … ] he continues to try and argue about himself being the better shot. You can say it until you're blue in the face, darling, it won't become true. / vex for percy uwu

"I'm only the better distance shot," he amends, glancing over at her with something of a smile. "You're far more accurate than I am, especially when my guns blow up in my face."

[flygefisk]

does anyone have a good character dev ask game/question list they could link me... im not being normal abt a couple of my guys rn

[burr-ell]

If the De Rolo children ever decide to become adventurers in their own right, what class would each kid be....... and how would Vex and Percy react when they tell them.

So to begin with, I honestly think Percy and Vex encouraged their kids to be adventurers, or at the very least encouraged them to pick up the skillsets and travel. I don't think they want them actually doing anything dangerous, per se, but I think they're both practical and self-aware enough to know that the things they learned about the world as adventurers made them better leaders who could be more responsive to the needs of their people. (See: the passage in Tal'Dorei Reborn that mentions them rehabilitating criminals instead of punishing them; Percy and Vex both know from firsthand experience that the root of most crime is poverty and suffering.) So I don't think they'd necessarily want them slaying dragons or traveling to the Nine Hells or anything, but I think they're probably aware that their kids will both need and want to go off on their own eventually, so they'll give them the tools to defend themselves and encourage them to do so responsibly.

Now I feel fairly confident we'll find this out one way or another when the short story anthology comes out in March, but I have my guesses!

Vesper: She could go a lot of different ways! Based on 3x112, where she's seen with a bow over her shoulder and telling Vex she's going to bring back a few more rabbits, she's a hunter in some capacity. Taliesin mentions that she's going to be taking Cassandra's place politically and Cassandra is a Fighter, which raises the potential that Cass and Vesper have a close relationship; to me it's between a Ranger or a Fighter. My guess? Probably a Hunter Ranger, just based on what we saw in C3, although personally I'd love it if she was a Fighter/Rogue like her aunt.*

Wolfe and Leona: We saw them in 3x36 coming back from a hunt with Vex, bickering about who caught more, and Leona claims Wolfe is terrible at it "every time", so it's safe to say they regularly learn hunting from Vex. When Vox Machina leaves Whitestone in 3x112, Vex specifically asks Leona to keep an eye on Gwendolyn and not to let her follow, and we know from 3x36 and 3x76 that Gwendolyn is particularly sneaky, so Leona is probably in turn particularly perceptive. That doesn't necessarily mean Wolfe is not, though; Matt notes that out of all the children, both Wolfe and Leona are the ones who seem to most understand the gravity of the situation. So all that to say, they're the ones I think are the most likely to be some distribution of Ranger/Rogue, probably Hunter or Monster Slayer and Scout, combining the best of their mother and what she learned from Vax (maybe with some lessons from Aunt Cass on the side). They're the ones likely to properly join the Grey Hunt.

Vax'ildan: Freddy's a bit of a wild card here, because the only things we know about him so far are that he's an outrageous little shit and that he's close with Trinket's cub Charlie. I've enjoyed the headcanon that he's close to his Aunt Keyleth and is learning to become a Druid because of it, but I think that holds less water as of 3x112, where neither he nor Keyleth really react to each other. He doesn't appear to be particularly sneaky, either, so I'd rule out Rogue. We do learn in 3x112 that he was on a bit of a holiday with some friends nearby, and between that, the attitude, and being the fourth of five children, we can reasonably infer that he doesn't have a lot of responsibilities and that he's mostly just a sociable teenage boy, so he probably isn't worried about optimizing a skillset (read: being a little munchkin like Dad). With all of that in mind, my guess is he's a Beastmaster Ranger who, if he were to be a proper adventurer, would be more of a laid-back sandbox kinda guy.

Gwendolyn: Rogue. At a young age, she's sneaky in a way that only Orym can detect. According to Taliesin, Percy and Gwen have a game they play every time strangers visit the castle where she has to find out three things about them that they haven't spoken aloud and then report back to him. Vex tells Leona to keep an eye on Gwen and to not let her follow them. She also doesn't seem to have much interest in the outdoors, which would rule out a Ranger multiclass (she knows who Galdric is, but he's also the protector of the city and there's a gate named after him). @rightpastnowhere and @snowthelostgirl have both suggested Arcane Trickster, which I personally really like and would pair well with her Thaumaturgy, but it's also possible she's Inquisitive or Mastermind, given the aforementioned secrets game and that Vex switched to the Inquisitive subclass as well.

*I do, however, have a soft spot for Nova's headcanon that Vesper is actually a Divine Soul Sorcerer.

[ahmoseinarus]

But I will point out that Vax was not present at the moment of Percy’s death, either, like he was with Kash. Percy was already gone when they got to him. I think the glow to Ripley’s gun right in front of his face, and Orthax swirling over him kind of covered it, especially after Ripley said multiple times, that Orthax would claim the souls of all killed by the guns that were built with his involvement. Would Vax know something was off? Was the jump-scare she gave him, waking him from sleep with Keyleth,the Matron trying to tell him something? Or was the death of Kash, the only one we have seen capable of bringing someone back, removing him as an option for them to reach out to, thus setting us up for a big moment for Pike?

And they seem content to accept Percy’s death, for now… What will make that change? Perhaps it will be Vax bringing up the concern that he did not see the Matron take Percy. Or, perhaps, they intend to go after Ripley to finish what Percy started. Perhaps they have absolutely no idea, until the moment they confront Ripley & Orthax, and the demon decides to taunt to them by dangling a screaming, tortured soul in their face, and it is only then that they realize what terrible thing has happened, and Percy’s soul is not at rest.  And perhaps that is what motivates them to decide they want their brother back in.

Perhaps that is the only way to set him free, returning him to life. Perhaps it will simply be a case of a furious Pike, wrestling his soul away from this demon and now she’s holding it, and well shit, what is she supposed to do with it? “Well, I can try to put it back where it belongs?”

So many intriguing possibilities…. But I will say, I was so thrown, and so stunned by the death of Kash, I kind of want it to mean more than just something to trigger a lightbulb for Vax that something was off with Percy… especially if this death is a permanent one!!!  especially considering how they are cutting deaths out of this animated series because they want to give more emphasis and respect and gravity to the ones that they keep in. Why add one in that never happened, unless you’re planning on keeping it, and making it a permanent change with no plan for resurrection and the return of the character. Especially a side character, as beloved, as they are. Cuz then…. What the ACTUAL FUCK??????

Like, I know that we don’t necessarily know whether or not the series is going to go all the way through to the final arc with the final, big bad at the campaign, given copyright issues, and shit with Wizards of the Coast but Kash was fucking there, dammit. Unless this was specifically requested by Will, who said he would be unable to commit to any further seasons, and would rather Kash go out with a bang, I am not OK with this, if this is a permanent death for Kash that serves no other purpose.

I'm pretty sure this scene is why Kash died. I think it served to show the audience that Vax didn't see the Matron of Ravens take Percy with her, and I think that is because she doesn't have his soul, Orthax does.

[roguelioness]

less than two minutes into this playthrough and I have to nope out because bioware doesn't know what real eyebrows look like

[revvethasmythh]

RIP to Vesper de Rolo, eldest daughter of five, categorically not her father's favorite and everyone knows it

[princeinsomniavoid]

I did me n Percy :] i would've done some others but like my brain wouldn't cooperate 💀

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