#burr-ell

[ariadne-mouse]

idk if this will help you feel any better but. here are some photographs of my cat soot in his various boxes

omggggggg I love him 😭 so sleek. so shaped. so smug

Thank you, my day is indeed improved by Mister Soot and his boxes 💛

[revvethasmythh]

first they came for the allos and i did not speak up because i was anti halaire 😔

ALSJGLAGALLGJANL

[utilitycaster]

for the character asks, neve!

Favorite thing: honestly this is also a favorite thing for Vex and it's hard to find, in which a woman is allowed to be angry or cynical but is still ultimately a very kind person, simultaneously. A lot of works have their female characters soften up and while Neve does warm up to you, she's allowed to be tough and closed off through the whole game while still being a friend (or romantic interest).

Least favorite thing: unfortunately she has one of the weakest companion questline completions. She's great during it and there's highlights (the blood puppets are good) but even having read Tevinter Nights, the overall Aelia storyline is kind of ehhhh.

Favorite line: I'd have to look it up to quote it directly but I do really love the small wins line from her companion first mission.

brOTP: I really like her and Davrin's whole deal. They immediately come to an understanding and then slander rhubarb pie. But honestly she's the companion who really does get along with basically everyone - literally, all of her relationships are good.

OTP: Lucanis. I did romance Neve once, and it was a good time, but like, I found I'm way more interested in a video game in watching companions romance each other. I do like Neve/Rana a lot as well.

nOTP: this is another case of like. sorry I get the desire for femslash (and would recommend, in that case, Neve/Rana or you know. romance Neve as a female Rook, which I did) but Neve and Bellara is a Vex and Keyleth situation. They're a great friendship, but I do not think this would work out at all.

Random hc: first met Elek at the cat cafe. both of them will deny this.

Unpopular opinion: I am a Treviso Saver and think it makes Neve's story more interesting but like. A lot of people go very Cool Mafia Girlboss with her after that and like, it is a difficult and to an extent tragic choice for her to make! It's not the one she wants; it's the one she had to take. I like that, storywise, but like, allow the suboptimal option its bittersweetness.

[rightpastnowhere]

catching up on my tagged things oops-

tagged by @burr-ell !!

rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone’s favorite.

pick one of my blorbos of all time

Vex’ahlia (Critical Role)

Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Bishamon (Noragami)

Kainé (Nier: Replicant)

Wanda Maximoff (Marvel)

Voting ended onApr 25

the first 3 are my strong favorites: i can’t really discern a top 5 but ive been thinking about kainé and wanda recently (i may or may not have written a paper about wanda for one of my classes)

also not included are rhea (fire emblem), lucina (fire emblem), kyoko kirigiri (danganronpa), and erza scarlet (fairy tail), and saber (fate) if anyone’s got strong feelings about them

tagging (no pressure): @ringofnightshade @absoluteocellibehavior @celestialpinay @tulliolamonster @golden-helian @tooturtly @dragonfire-popped-popcorn @gyaa-fish tagging more than 5 bc i’m a rule breaker or whatever

[flowersforthemachines]

i'm curious, do you know if there's any kind of freecam that allows you to record footage, not just photos?

For Veilguard, you mean? You can freely make video with the existing Otis freecam - just set up the right angle (pause in the cutscenes pressing Esc if needed) and then use whatever screen recording software you prefer. I use NVIDIA overlay personally, but only because I already need to have their app installed for drivers and stuff.

Please feel free to elaborate on what you meant if I misunderstood the question!!

[essayofthoughts]

what do you think percy and vex's favorite food(s) are

Well for a start on that we'd have to think about what the cuisines of Tal'Dorei are like, especially the cuisines of their homes. Then we'd have to think about their formative influences and traumas and how that might intersect. Let's start with Percy.

Given Whitestone is located in the north, I imagine they tend to hearty food, especially in winter - plough puddings and beef stew with dumplings and hefty roasts. Stodgy foods meant to line your stomach and keep you cosy. Of course, the wealthy can afford to heat their houses better and provide better food, but I imagine the underlying principle wouldn't differ too much. They might show off by importing some things, but usually that would be fruit and spices more than a lot else, at least based on history. With teleportation, of course, one could import a great deal else, but I think the ease of magic would also have a messy effect on pricing and value.

Besides which... I don't know that the standard winter foods would be Percy's favourites. Winter would be when everyone's stuck inside and likely when he would be most expected to interact with his little siblings and cousins; I think he'd prefer the lighter summer foods when the castle has more visitors, certainly, but also fewer people inside constantly - with the better weather, more cause for people to be out in the gardens or down in town.

I think Percy retains a fondness for good butter shortbread, the sturdy kind that isn't so flaky you can't dip it in your tea. I think it was a preferred favourite for him when he was studying or experimenting and I think he would have rather an emotional response to getting to have it again once returned to Whitestone.

Other Whitestone foods I don't think he terribly appreciated growing up, simply because they were always there. And, of course, after the Briarwoods' feast, some almost certainly have very bad memories attached for him. I think returning to Whitestone would give him cause to appreciate the old dishes again, and while I don't know if any of them might be his favourite I think he'd be glad to have them again.

After the Briarwoods, he was canonically a mess for several years, then made the List, tracked down Ripley and got himself locked up, starving to death in a cell. I don't think he really remembers what he first ate when he was freed by Vox Machina (I think he was too out of it still, thinking it was all a near-death fever dream), but I think he remembers the general tenor of his first meals with them: a mix of field rations of dried meat and fruit, and occasional stews made of what the twins could hunt and the twins and Keyleth could forage up and whatever Pike and Grog could turn that into it. Game stew I think is something he associates with Vox Machina and a sense of place and security, and is a comfort dish for him.

So, there's Percy. I think his favourites are a good butter shortbread for dunking in his tea as he works, and a game stew that fills him with nostalgia and feelings of security.

Now: on to Vex.

I know a lot of people associate Byroden with the Southern US states and while I don't know if I wholly agree (given Syngorn, and the general riffs on medieval Europe for fantasy worlds I might take a pinch more from Southern Europe) it's certainly not a bad place to take a culinary cue from: no one can deny there's several distinct cuisines through that region. We also have snippets of details from EXU and Kith & Kin.

I think Vex has deeply fond memories of fresh fruit (peaches and apples especially, perhaps at times stolen from orchards they weren't meant to be in) and of her mother's cooking. I feel like they made the most of every bit of food they had so there would be lots of leftovers - cook some chicken one evening, have it cold in a salad the next day, for example - and I think there was some Elvish influence in the area just due to Syngorn's proximity. Given the twins' history, I think the things they recognised as having Elvish influence have rather soured the memories later - fruit pies and turnovers I could see as often having Elvish influence - but I can see Vex having deeply nostalgic memories of her mother's breaded chicken and a stew made from a mixture of vegetables and what fish they could get from the local waterways.

I honestly think Vex also has a nostalgic fondness for game stew. Partly due to her frugality - even as head of the Hunt in Whitestone she'd have access to game meat and likely wouldn't want it to go to waste - and also because... she and Vax had game stew when they got free of Syngorn and Syldor. They had game stew when they got Trinket, and Vex realised she could save others. They had game stew when they met the rest of Vox Machina and built a new family.

I think it's at times hard for her, with how tied it is to Vax, but I think it's also important, if that makes sense? And the fact that she and Percy both like it means it's something they might occasionally cook for themselves (singed bits of meat and veg, and a slightly charcoaled taste is de rigeur and just means they got it right, after all).

Thinking further, I'm inclined to say that Percy is... not picky, exactly - after everything he's been through I think he eats what's put in front of him and I think his upbringing taught him not to complain (much) - but I do think he's very very selective of what he actually likes. This plus his privacy makes pinning down what his favourite foods might be a bit difficult. I can't really think of anything, fancy or not, that he'd be so delighted by he'd call it favourite and seek out, and given how he tends to avoid being overbearing or even weighing in unless he thinks it matters (and remember, for a long time he's not so sure he as a person matters. As a de Rolo or a member of Vox Machina, certainly, but as a person? Not so much) I don't think he'd necessarily give away any favourites of his easily.

Vex, meanwhile, likes what she likes and as long as she's not being made to feel ashamed of it, won't really care much. I can see her having a moment of thrilled delight at an early meal at Greyskull, after they employ Laina as a cook, perhaps some kind of herby chicken pie with savoury scone topping, and frequently wanting more. However, I suspect she'd rarely ask for it until much later - after she's titled, perhaps even after Percy get together. After being so convinced her own wants and desires are secondary to everyone else's, I don't think she'd want to request it if she wasn't sure the others would want it too. I can also see her having a particular fancy Elven foodstuff as a guilty pleasure, one she avoids due to cost, bad memories, and worries of what Vax might think, but which she finds too delicious to not enjoy any chance she gets. I'm thinking some kind of ludicrously fancy Elvish patisserie with fresh berries, probably, but could be convinced to something else.

[the-velvet-worm]

"Percy is one of my faves but he doesn’t always do the right thing because he thinks he’s a terrible person so he acts on instincts that validate that belief." YOU. YOU GET IT

We love a self-loathing king 😌

Percy is such a personal character for me. I can relate to most of Vox Machina for one reason or another, but Percy is the one that I attached myself to like, right away. Also, abandonment issues... I just want good things for him and for him to believe he deserves those good things ♡

[x-i-l-verify]

im into critical role now and my conclusion is that i love percy for all the same reasons i love stanford pines, no i will not elaborate, thank u and good night

There is no need for elaboration, because I Understand you, friend. I Get It.