#vm arc

[pikelansource]

gleeful reminder that Vox Machina’s first name as a party was The Super High Intensity Team, aka The S.H.I.T.s, which was — of course — suggested by Scanlan. later, when they were on their way to attend a parade in their honor hosted by the ruling monarch of Emon, they decided to rename themselves Vox Machina. however, in a Q&A where they talk about this, Ashley remarked that she still loves the original name and opposed the change.

what i’m saying is imagine...

one of the tall folk: Okay, so we’re decided on Vox Machina then?

Scanlan: are we decided on that? We should at least put it to a vote.

Pike: Yeah, yeah, it’s only fair!

tall folk, sigh:...Okay, raise your hand if, before the ruling monarch and ALL of Emon, you would like us to be introduced as The S.H.I.T.s.

and the tall folk of the party all look amongst each other, pleased to see no raised hands, only to look down and see two lil hands raised and matching shit-eating grins on Pike and Scanlan’s faces.

[gleefully-macabre]

Remember when Sam “I don’t understand DND” Riegel... Mr. Samuel Brent Oscar “How does magic work?” Tran-O’Brien-Riegel... Counterspelled Vecna after making a tactical move into range so smooth the seasoned DM of over 20 years didn’t even notice.

[thunder-lizarts]

Crinktober day 2: Campaign one or two

I took some of the most memorable things from the different arcs of Vox Machina’s story and made them into memorabilia, which I think was a pretty funny idea

*DO NOT repost or use without my permission*

[nikkesia]

Yeah I'm a huge fan of Vox Machina! I love Vex and Vax, Keyleth, Pike, Percy, Grog, and

*looks at smudged handwriting on hand*

[cractasticdispatches]

okay crit role fans, who else heard uncle ogden’s story about the “bloodcurse” and became immediately convinced that he had, in fact, murdered his own brother?

[pikelansource]

had these saved for some kind of project but don't remember lol so here's some scanlans i found

image id: a tweet from twitter user @skullmandible that says ""I wrote a poem," he threatened" over the official art icon for Scanlan Shorthalt from around level 10.

image id: a tweet from twitter user @jbbrammer that says "ok so it turns out I was in fact dressing up for other people and not "myself"" over a picture of Sam Riegel from a cr1 live show when he dressed up in Queyen's yellow spandex Kill Bill costume and stuffed a box over his crotch to represent "the cube."

image id: a tweet from twitter user @llamalnatux that says "how are we supposed to live mas in these conditions???" over a blurry double screenshot of Sam Riegel from cr1 with one image of Sam smiling like he usually does transposed over one image of Sam looking suspicious and hostile.

[pikelansource]

could u summarise what u like about pikelan? i’ve been trying to put it into words but i can’t quite find them

Mod Jables will start here by linking some of the expulsions of this sentiment we’ve made in the past:

personal growth

forgiveness

ships passing in the night, part 2

chemistry

being support mains as a lifestyle part 1, 2, 3* read this one, 4, 5, 6,

clowning, shenanigans, and tomfoolery

the most adorable love language of all time

For me, all of this is important. Like essentially I may as well tell you to just watch the pikelan supercut because that’s the appeal to me--the entire picture of this relationship.

I like that it’s not a straight forward arc of progress. I like that it’s messy and they don’t actually fall in love with each other at the same time, Or even good times to fall in love. Scanlan falls in love with pike immediately--bad idea and probably not really love, but it becomes that. Pike falls in love with scanlan after left and probably because he left-- bad timing and only fuels her bitterness.

They have independent character arcs that are like two inverse parabolas, bringing them separately to mutual and gentle conclusion. It was by no means a given that they would end up together and so that conclusion is made stronger by their own independent choices. They do not need each other-- they chose each other.

It runs the gamut from funny and flirty, to angsty, to soft and sure.

It’s extremely important to me that the themes of what it’s required to be a support pc on a team are strengthened in their relationship-- small acts of care, devotion, forgiveness.

“Thank you for saving us in the fight, Pike.” “Thank you for saving us all, Scanlan.”

“There’s no one I’d rather spend the rest of my days with.” “The most free I’ve ever been is with you.”

But also big themes and narrative sentiments are great, but there’s the simple fact that ships appeal through gut instinct and reactions and I simply am enamored with:

Sam and Ashley have great chemistry

they funny and soft

gnomes and gnome life is cute

grand champions all time most longest slow burn winners (115 episodes, something insane like a million hours of content??? i’m not going to look it up but there’s no possible way any other show (other than cr itself) could ever beat that slow burn time)

[pikelansource]

pikelan support quotes part 1