#vaxilorb

[ashleyinwondrland]

Summary of episode 65

[amsayshi]

...soooo when are we getting the Vox Machina saves Vax one shot??

Just saying Matt's alluded to Keyleth going to save a friend a few times now...

Gimme old, retired Vox Machina with a rage filled Keyleth, divorced Scanlon/Pike, Grog (probably the same?), and old man Percival + his beloved Vex'ahlia taking up arms to save their boy.

Let my bird boy be free of his orb! 🐦‍⬛⚫

[thessiastars]

Drawing them like nothing bad happens to them ever they are and will always be completely happy and safe.....😀

Also this is a redraw of that one laura and liam ss

[leafmebeeplease]

vax my beloved

[hiyaluronic]

so my brain after hearing Keyleth talking about bringing people out of retirement went straightt to “Yes! Kiki is getting the band back together for a Vox Machina one shot where they go bust our boi outta his torture orb and beat the holy crap out of some bad guys while doing it.”

because while I love the thought that bells hells will rescue Vax — I think it’d have more meaning if Vox Machina saved him. Kind of like a do over for the Vecna battle. A nice bookend if you will.

[mary-claire-art]

The Raven Queen's Champion is IN SHAPE and ready for the Solstice

[five-bi-five]

“Do not go far from me…”

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I designed some Vex and Vax tattoos for my sister and I and they came out SO COOL so I’m sharing ‘em!

[chocolatecoveredbrusselsprout]

Okay would LOVE to see some discourse/hear other people’s thoughts (respectfully plz no one be rude for no reason) cuz I HAVE SOME.

I have never liked the Raven Queen. The Matron of Ravens. I wanted to so badly! Her aesthetic? Iconic. The way she OUSTED the previous god of death? KILLED him? As a mortal? And she ascended to godhood? A total flex. Like damn fr. BUT

I can’t get over what she did to Vax. If she just hadn’t taken advantage of him, I could love her so much. But I can’t. My disdain has also grown the further into Campaign 3 we get and the more I read.

Some Reasons!

1. She took advantage of Vax when he was in a weak spot. He was struggling, depressed, and desperate at the sudden loss of his sister. She used this to make a deal with him.

2. She took Vax immediately after they defeated Vecna. Why could he not live out his life as her champion? (I do know that because of the Disintegrate spell, there was no body to revive him so this would kind of “go against” her rules?)

3. Why make Vax her champion? He wasn’t willing. Yes, he offered himself, but that was more so coercion. Consent should be enthusiastic! Vax’ildan was desperate and afraid to lose the ones he loved, so he made deals with a god previously unknown to him. We’ve seen that the Matron has MANY followers in Campaign 3. There were so many she could have chosen to be her champion. Who would have WANTED to be her champion. Why Vax? Are we to truly believe that in all of Exandria, no other follower of the RQ was fate-touched? (If that was her reason)

4. She also made him her *eternal* champion. (This is part especially where I’d love to hear others’ thoughts). Vax does not get to die. Not like most people. He is now stuck in that same limbo as the Raven Queen. Yes, he gets to shepherd souls to The Other Side. Purvan did. But Purvan GOT TO REST. He served his time, and then got to pass on. As of right now, Vax will never know rest, and I hate that she stole it from him. If Vax has died-died, eventually he would be reunited with his loved ones in the afterlife. Now, when they die, they’ll see him, but only briefly as he must go back to his ETERNAL DUTY. May I remind you that he did not ask for that position?

Also, doesn’t that kind of contradict her whole “death is a part of life” thing, having an eternal champion? Yes, Vax is now a celestial and he did “die,” but he never passes on to the afterlife. Some blurry lines there.

5. The Matron has punished Vax for visiting/“interfering” with his loved ones. In latest 4-sided dive, Matt clarified that the first attack on Zephrah/Keyleth, Vax showed up and saved her (that’s how Otohan knew he would come again). Matt continued that his actions were technically against the RQ’s commands, and that she punished him for it (we don’t know how). Now, Vax’ildan is stuck in a painful orb as a lens, and she has done nothing to help.

So that’s all I have at the moment. What do y’all think? Please share your thoughts or tag me in stuff cuz I want to read more on it. It continually bugs me that the Matron was lonely in her task (fair) and that she may have not realized that before ascending, but that does not mean that she should force Vax to the same fate/keep him to herself.

(Also, I think Gargo/Shithead may have been her animal companion? That will be another post though)