#vax'ildan

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Keyleth and Vax'ildan from Critical Role. They're both wearing their outfits from their official C3 art. They're stood very close together, Vax's left hand is on Keyleth's shoulder and his face is turned down with his eyes closed. Keyleth's right hand is gently holding Vax's chin and she's looking down at him with a troubled expression. Vax's wings encircle them both. End description.]

You're the love of my life

[villadiodatis]

(I didn't include things like Ripley's death because, while that was incredibly satisfying, it wasn't "this is the perfect moment due to the luck of the dice landing on this character")

[nightwingadmirer]

Catch me starting a new fan fic to explore the complexities of their new relationship and how they learn to live with each other again. How to be alive again, how to know you can hold the one you love and not be afraid they will disappear.

I’m so mentally ill about all of CR… but them… they cause so much of my suffering

Also while I'm on my Vax/Keyleth bullshit. I understand the criticisms that CR3 somehow took away the tradgedy of CR1's ending. But I have to disagree

And while I don't agree that Keyleth should've been Not Coping for 30 years, that was ultimately Marisha's decision and I respect it.

However CR3 didn't change the ultimate ending of Vax and Keyleth's relationship. Keyleth was always going to reunite with Vax, she even remarks upon it herself in CR1 "I'll see you again, Vax." -because while Keyleth is going to live for thousands of years she knows she will eventually die. And she knows that Vax is out there, waiting for that moment, just as in love with her as he was when the matron stole him away.

I mean if you know the love of your life is out there as a quasi-Death god, the afterlife is real, and he is still desperately in love with you wouldn't you find it hard to move on too?

What I'm saying is, the ultimate ending of Vax and Keyleth was always going to be reuniting. It was the time they were seperated that was the tradgedy. All CR3 did was shorten that time.

And you know? 30 years of mutual yearning is still tragic enough. On top of that, they are fundementally very different people than who they were when Vax died. Keyleth has 30 years of confidence, leadership, and life experience under her belt. Vax spent 30 years as the Grim Reaper and has forgotten what it is to be alive. They are different. They don't exactly fit together any more. They have to relearn who they are to each other and there's beauty in that but there's grief and tradgedy as well.

The Vax'ildan Keyleth knew died. The Keyleth Vax'ildan knew grew older & changed. They are strangers to each other and so very much in love. And they are reunited, as they always would've been. It just took several decades instead of several millennia.

[prankprincess123]

The fact that half the time Vex & Vax's love language is "GIVE ME BACK MY BOOTS YOU WITCH!!!" "THE BOOTS ARE MINE NOW!!!" *literally fighting over a pair of shoes* *invisibly spinning her braid like a jump rope* *elbows him in the gut* "What did you do to my bear?!?" "Trinket loves me more!" "That's cause you let Trinket kiss your mouth!" *giggles like a little girl while tying Trinket's last bow* "GET YOUR FEET OUT OF MY FACE BEFORE I CHOP THEM OFF!!!" and the affection masked by barbs of "Your hair is a mess" *forcibly cleans, detangles, & re-braids it* or "Get some sleep, your feathers are all rumpled" And the other half the time it's *smothering eachother in affection* "Do not go far from me." "My fate string is connected to yours. Where you go I go." *over protective even about dating their shared best friends* "It makes me happy to see you happy" "I don't know how to live [without you]" "You're my heart, you're me, you're my other half" 'Mother would be proud of you... I'm proud of you' "TAKE ME INSTEAD!!!" "...save him..." And honestly, they're just one of the most accurate portrayals of siblings in anything ever

[ludinusdaleth]

something something bisexual liam characters parralels something

Critical Role Campaign 1, Episode 43, "Return to Vasselheim" // Critical Role Campaign 2, Episode 136, "Hell or High Water"

[blocodibujo]

TWINS

[samuraiko]

You know what? Now that we're at the end of C3, this thread needs an update. So here are some MORE of my favorite Orym thumbnails. BECAUSE.

IT ONLY TOOK 92 EPISODES BEFORE HE GOT A SOLO THUMBNAIL.

ALL HAIL DORYM.

YES I KNOW IT'S VAX AND NOT ORYM, BUT LET ME HAVE THIS ONE, OKAY?!

HUZZAH FOR SECOND SOLO THUMBNAIL... AND YES I KNOW IT'S CALEB.

You know what? Screw it. I want an Orym thumbnail collection. Here are my faves.

For whatever godsdamned reason, there is *NO* solo picture of Liam for Campaign 3. Laura Bailey, this is an absolute injustice and I am OUTRAGED.

I WANT MY SOLO LIAM THUMBNAIL -- EVERYONE ELSE HAS GOTTEN AT LEAST ONE SOLO THUMBNAIL AND I WANT A FUCKING ORYM-CENTRIC EPISODE SO HE MERITS HIS OWN THUMBNAIL.

[quinn-of-aebradore]

CR Non-Endgame Ships Round 5

Dashrym art by @oddthesungod

Vaxlethmore art by @dreaminginpencil

Rules, parameters, and poll links here

[variouspolltournaments]

Anti-Propaganda is not allowed. Please only give reasons to vote for something and not give reasons to vote against something.

Propaganda

Vax'ildan: "dagger, dagger, dagger!"

[counterspelling]

Endless TLOVM

[kyo-mei]

Twinsies

reference:

Liam and Laura laughing at Matt's brain fart in C3 E106

[jadequarze]

I'm so normal for the twinsies urgh

[yudol-skorbi]

its forever missing the twins time again :(

[fairymonk]

Percy's Walk of Shame

[isvaxstillanorb]

[ludinusdaleth]

"The hand reaches out towards you, Vax. There's a nod, and the specter vanishes.

Breath fills Vex's lungs."

-Critical Role Campaign 1, Episode 44, "The Sunken Tomb"