#vaxxy shut up challenge

[vaxyl]

would people be interested in a series of short stories about Simon the magical snake belt?

i have ideas and headcanons im dying to write right now

one being that Simon is even older than The Calamity is

another being that he can telepathically communicate with Vax when in snake form

no promises, but... if anyone was interested?? maybe?? 👀

[vaxxy-after-dark]

I'm pretty sure that the song "Vampire Smile" by Kyla La Grange is the Syvax anthem...

Just screams Sylas charming and corrupting Vax - change my mind.

[vaxyl]

Decided to play BG3 again after burning out and not playing in a while... again.

Yeah, this game is murder on the spoons not gonna lie. 😅

ANYWAY

I've decided to go after the Jack-of-all-Trades achievement and have made myself a new cutie just for the achievement.

Meet Skye, a nonbinary rogue Mephistopheles Tiefling.

And meet their guardian, Soleira, a Zariel Tiefling.

I'm going to aim for romancing Karlach, so hopefully I can get the Hot Date achievement too.

I'm really excited for this one, but I already miss him...

[vaxyl]

bringing this bad boy back out

and how cute, one of my old names is on it - Bonnie was such a good name and I loved being called Bon, but I think Vaxyl might have it beat lol

(originally drawn a long ass time ago, not sure when)

[vaxyl]

AND IT'S DONE

now just to format it on AO3...

😭 sobsob this is gonna suck

I'm not even totally happy with the ending, but IT HAS TO END GODDAMMIT 😭

[vaxyl]

Laura Bailey as The Matron is so fucking amazing - not my Matron of Ravens, they are very different, but Laura's is still amazing and beautiful and fun

she has an imp in her boobs??

she's possibly bisexual??

she's ambitious and ready to protect herself??

she has boots of haste???

Purvan was her guardian when she was a mortal child??

she's accidentally hilarious when she gets angry??

when she threatens S.I.L.A.H.A in his own tavern???

she's so fascinating

i want to be her friend

[vaxyl]

btw, seeing Vax in purple has broken me in the same way seeing him in red broke me

Imagine Gilmore seeing Vax like this, he'd probably faint

He looks like he stole one of Gilmore's 'lazy day' robes

AND THE PONYTAIL AGAIN

FUCK

gods im so gay for Vax

I wish he was more scrawny, but still, he's so pretty

[vaxyl]

Something, something...

Vax'ildan's mother was a seamstress when he was little...

Something, something...

Vax'ildan being Fate Touched and at the centre of his loved ones' Threads of Fate, altering them to save their lives in moments he would otherwise lose them like he lost her...

Something, something...

A seamstress and her thread altering son... Reunited in death after being apart for years...

I'm not crying, you are.

[vaxyl]

Vex calls THIS scrawny???

Either that armour beefed our boy up or a certain elf needs his ass kicked for giving his children body image issues.

(Does feed into my headcanon that Syldor withheld food as a punishment though- Fucking Syldor!)

[vaxyl]

Sometimes I think about all of Vax's story and it's so wild?

Especially now Campaign 3 has ended and his story, seemingly, has finally ended as well?

Idk what Critical Role plans on doing next, maybe we'll see him again later on, who knows. ����

But like... Vax'ildan went from a child born in poverty to a single mother in a small village in the countryside with no future...

To a wealthy but unloved and mistreated heir of a nobleman and city ambassador in a city that never dared to care for him...

To a scared run away struggling to survive while grieving his mother after learning she was killed by a dragon while he was away, trying to keep his sister safe by any means necessary...

To a criminal by force to continue protecting his sister, witnessing horrors beyond his wildest comprehension and doing things that surely break your mind...

To a witless adventurer who stumbles from one fight to another, trying to make enough gold for a bed every now and then, now trying to protect so many more people while not necessarily feeling like he really belongs with those people...

To an accidental hero, killing a dragon and demons and other things you can't understand...

To a victim of something so rawly intimate and strange and scary while trying to help a friend...

To a saviour of a city lost to evil years ago, but broken inside by the things he's gone through just to get close to this point...

To a refugee in a world torn apart by dragons who he may have unknowingly had a hand in waking up and pissing off...

To becoming the champion of the god of death unwillingly after his sister died and he tried to sell his soul to save her life but it didn't go the way he had imagined...

To killing the very dragon who had killed his mother, having now accepted his championhood...

To dying during his relatively new girlfriend's magical trial in the elemental plane of water, being brought back soon afterwards...

To living peacefully as what is essentially a trophy boyfriend for the length of one whole year...

To hunting down enemies once thought dead, trying to stop them from helping an evil litch ascend as a tyrannical god...

To being killed by said litch, the litch ascending anyway...

To coming back, undead, to banish the litch as part of a new deal with his goddess...

To leaving, ascending almost himself, to serve his god as her divine and somewhat undead champion after the litch is gone...

To being unable to be with the ones he loves most, but breaking rules to protect them anyway...

To one day being trapped in a magical contraption, ever in pain, to further a plan to kill the gods after his girlfriend he's not been with for 30 years was used as bait in the trap built for him...

To suddenly being freed by his girlfriend and his sister and their old adventuring party turned family, but it's not over yet...

To being granted one night of relief and catching up before being pulled away again...

To... Nearly losing his god... But not... And being made mortal again... But with extra life?...

And his goddess is also mortal now, now a child that he needs to find and protect with the help of another champion of his god...

But he gets to be with the sister, the family and the girlfriend he had to leave about 30 years ago when he ascended again...

He has to learn how to not be dead anymore, and he needs to start all over again with his girlfriend, and the work is never finished... But he's happy again.

Vax'ildan is home again.

GODS, HIS STORY IS WILD

Like... WHAT?! HELLO?!

This is like... Insane?!

My poor sweet boy went through so much shit... Oh my gods...

But he's home again.

He can be with his family again.

Oh my fucking gods.

😭😭😭😭😭

[vaxyl]

Can Nick, Noshir and Abubakar stay forever?? Pretty please??

I adore everything about the way they played in Downfall.

The Emissary was so sweet, his conversation with The Matron of Ravens before he moved on absolutely devastated me???

S.I.L.A.H.A was stunning and funny??? And that fucking meteor strike??? HELLO???

And then Nick??? Nick mother goddamn fucking Marini??? Everything he fucking did??? Taking all that damage, Ayden's 15 year old body battered and drained to protect his family??? Obliterating everyone with that sunburst, aging into the man - The Dawnfather - we know now??? The grief he felt???

I AM SCREAMING SIR

WHAT THE FUCK

I would happily watch a million more episodes with these 3 in them, even if I don't really enjoy watching live play dnd now.

We can keep them forever, right??? Right, Matthew???

Please??? 🥺

I loved every minute of them, Ayden and The Emissary especially stole my heart.

Would love to see them as guests on the show again.

[vaxyl]

Thinking about Vax'ildan.

Thinking about Vax and hair.

Thinking about a small child running to his mother crying because a bigger kid pushed him into the Gladepools and his hair is all messed up now.

Thinking of him sat in front of the fire as his mother dries and untangles his hair, singing to him in her mother's tongue.

Thinking of him and his sister sitting on stools at the kitchen table waiting impatiently as their mother braids their hair all prettily for the Harvest Close Fair, the pair giggling and kicking their feet as they're asked to "please sit still for just another minute, you two."

Thinking about Vax asking to brush his mother's hair and braid it, so she teaches him how to do it and Vex asks him to braid her hair as well.

When Syldor takes the twins, aged 10, to Syngorn, he forces them to have their hair cut according to Syngorn's bizarre Family Hierarchy Hair Rules;

waist length hair is indicative of political status

hair just above the waist is indicative of being the head of your household

just above the elbow length is indicative of being the household heir

just below the shoulder length is indicative of being respected by your household

hair that's shoulder length exactly is indicative of being from a wealthy household but of having little respect

just below chin length but just above shoulder length is indicative of you coming from a non-wealthy family

hair at chin length or shorter than chin length is indicative that you have been disowned by your family's household

Syldor has waist length silky black hair, which he usually leaves undecorated unless he's hosting or attending a ball

Vax also has silky black hair, Syldor having it cut from just above the elbows up to exactly shoulder length - while Vex has curly brown hair that had also been just above the elbows before it was also forcibly cut to shoulder length exactly

Vax would continue to help his sister with her hair, brushing it and braiding it for her

Whilst Vex slowly earned a modicum of respect through her hard work at school, her hair allowed to grow longer, Vax never gained any respect as he flunked his classes and started to act out, so he had to keep his hair shoulder length

By the age of 16, Vex had her hair back to just above her elbows to show that she's now the household heir - while Vax has rebelled and cut his hair into a choppy pixie cut in an attempt to piss off Syldor

He's forced to wear a wig to social events and he's banned from using sharp objects, but its worth it to him

When the twins run away from Syngorn and end up living in the woods when Byroden is gone, Vex has Vax cut her hair to match his as a symbol of her love for him and Vax cries while doing so because his sister's hair is so important to her

from then onwards, Vax comes to consider both of their hair as incredibly sacred to him, taking as good of care as he can of both of their hair even while living out in the wilderness

they both grow their hair out to be waist length, almost as if to spite Syldor and Syngorn

Vax braids Vex's hair in a way that protects and maintains her curls, while he likes to decorate his hair with small braids with colourful beads through them

When they join Vox Machina, Vax accidentally becomes the resident hairstylist as well as the resident cook - Scanlan, Pike and Keyleth all go to him for hair cuts, hair styling & help with shaving properly

Percy wouldn't start asking for his help too until after they've dealt with the Briarwoods and freed Cassandra & Whitestone

Cassandra also goes to Vax for help with her hair, having him cut it to her shoulders for her after years of Delilah not letting her style it how she wants to

when Grog gets the belt and grows a beard, Vax helps him to style and maintain it

Vax and Gilmore do each other's hair, teaching each other different styles and hair care tips as they gossip - just two boyfriends who have "caring for the other's hair" as a love language, so cute!

Vax and Allura, who are best friends with messy feelings in my fanon, love to gossip over tea and take turns braiding each others hair as they do

and I can so see Vax starting a hairdressing salon in the back of the 2nd floor of Gil's shop

just...Vax'ildan and hair 😭

(I will never forgive TLOVM for the fuckass ugly hair they gave Vax, let him have pretty hair!!!)

[vaxyl]

SO READING THE TAGS AND KNOW MY BOY IS ALIVE AGAIN AND WITH HIS FAMILY AGAIN BUT STILL THE MATRONS' CHAMPION??? AHHHH????

But I have an important little question for everyone...

Was it specified if Vax was reversed to how he was when he died, or to how he would have been if he had lived this long?

Is 50/60 something Keyleth dating like 29 year old Vax or is Vax properly in his 60s now?

This is important if lifespan angst is going to be a factor here-

Or does he still have the more revenanty body and is just allowed to be free once again???

A little confused here ngl.

EITHER WAY MY BOY FINALLY GOT HIS HAPPY ENDING! *

(I'm sure it won't be so easy to readjust and catch up, but this is really big for him regardless!!)

[vaxyl]

crying over Vax at 7am instead of sleeping and honestly fuck canon - i remember why i stopped watching the show now lmao fuck this so much

no "one night" - he's earned his rest, just let him stay home

I'll appreciate the story some day but not today. not rn

fuck canon to hell and back

idc what the canon is, Vax is mortal again and he gets to go home to his girlfriend so he can be her pretty trophy husband and bake and garden forever

let his soul heal and rest, let him and kiki be happy

im actually fucking crying it hurts so fucking much

he is gonna be the best uncle ever and maybe even a dad

cause lets be real Kiki is not letting him out of her arms for a very long time and i think Vax was meant to be a dad

don't come at me im mentally ill and I hypervixate on Vax, he means a lot to me and im just so angry and sad rn

im being silly i know but i haven't been sleeping well for forever and Vax is my baby

let him be safe and happy and free and home and alive and 😭

i knew it wouldn't happen but please just let it happen cause i actually hate this feeling

im not even watching the stream im just following the live blogging in the tag 🤪

ignore me im not okay

[vaxyl]

I have so many thoughts and feelings about TLOVM, but honestly seeing all of the shit being spewed on here I think I'm just gonna keep it to myself and my polycule because...

DAMN

Instead, here's a sneak peak of my AU fic where Orthax is able to ensnare Vax's soul during Percy's resurrection ritual. 😇

I'm already loving it!

[vaxyl]

i wish there was more albert and charlotte side missions...

i wish we had more stuff to do with charles...

i wish Arthur, Charlotte, Albert and Charles could all just hang out together... appreciating nature together... being silly...

they just seem like they'd all make very good friends...

or a really cute polycule...