The Winter’s Crest Gifts collection is live! Here are the incredible stories that were written for this challenge:
Bad Ideas, Percy/Vex, 9.6k
AU in which Percy is possessed by Orthax, and Vex makes a deal with Saundor. An exploration of ways things might have been different.
First Punch, Kima/Allura, 3.5k
Kima knows that Allura will get mad if she starts a tavern brawl, so she won’t. She won’t. Oh, well.
Go Not Gently, Percy/Pike, 9.2k
It’s a rare day that Pike falls ill. It’s also a rare day that a de Rolo loses presence of dignity. That these two occasions coincide is of course completely by chance and should not be considered closely. Not even slightly. At all.
Good Company, Gilmore and Vax, 2k
After the fight with Thordak Gilmore gets his well earned Spa day, Vox Machina brings back the Hot Springs Cannonball Contest, Jarett has nice assets and no luck. Vax is a sneaky bastard and Gilmore couldn’t wish for better company.
I’ve been in this place before, Kima/Allura, 1.3k
In the months leading up to this, amidst all the adrenaline-and-wine-induced confessions, Allura had forgotten why she and Kima had kept their distance after they stopped adventuring.
Inimitable, Keyleth/Vax, Keyleth/Gilmore/Vax, 1k
The time for waiting is over. This is it.
Knowing, Kima/Allura, 2.5k
Kima is possibly dying in the Underdark, and Allura is realizing she has left important things unsaid.
Like stone we are, we stand together, Vax/Vex, 10.5k
“So you want me to go to this party as … your date?”
Vax squirms behind her. “As my wife.”
The Origin of Chocolate, Vex, Vax, and Trinket, 1.4k
(or, what to do when your sister brings home a bear)
Set just after the short story Laura posted about Vex’s first meeting with Trinket. Vax becomes an uncle and all is right with the world.
Out of This World, Delilah Briarwood/Sylas Briarwood/Vax, 2.5k
When he accidentally enters the Briarwoods’ room in Emon, Vax gets more than he bargained for. AU.
Percy’s Little Workshop of Horrors, Percy and Cassandra, 1.4k
Percy’s workshop is a place Cassandra has never been allowed to enter. What sort of wonders could be hiding in there?
the resolution for survival, Jarett/Kynan, 11.7k
Kynan quickly realizes that Jarett must have settled himself where he’d been before he had barged in: back to sitting outside his door and making sure Kynan doesn’t do anything rash. A heavy, satisfied feeling settles in his gut, and Kynan finds himself both ashamed and pleased to note that someone actually gives a damn if he survives the night.Well, at least someone is being paid to make sure he survives the night. Maybe that’s enough.
Revelation, Kima/Allura, 2,5k
The ramifications of Kima’s and Allura’s first encounter with Thordak go beyond what either of them imagined.
Sibling Rivalry, Percy and Cassandra, 2k
Percival and Cassandra sometimes have different ideas about how much information she needs to have to properly rule Whitestone. A conversation, a fight, a reconciliation.
Solving Riddles, Keyleth/GIlmore/Vax, Keyleth/Vax, Vax/Gilmore, 1.4k
The decision itself had been much easier than Keyleth had expected.
The Southward Star, Percy/Vex, Kima/Allura, Zahra and Kash, 2k
A star shines over the world, and all eyes find it. Three stories in one night.
The Spirit We, Percy/Vax, 5.3k
“Wake up handsome,” he says, as if they haven’t been here before.
OR: What if Percy and Vax met well before the events of the stream?
tidings of comfort and joy, Polymachina, 4.4k
When their relatives can’t make it in for Winter’s Crest, Vox Machina devises a system to keep them from becoming holiday Scrooges. Modern AU.
Trinket knows best, Percy/Vex, 1.2k
Trinket’s humans are stubborn. There’s only one thing to do.
Trying, Keyleth/Gilmore/Vax, 2.5k
Keyleth wished things could be as simple as making a choice and not having to worry about what would come next. The thing was, that wasn’t what it happened. If you made a hard choice, a complex one, you gotta make it work.
When a plan comes together, Percy/Vex/Jarett, Percy/Vex, 3.8k
“I’m sure Jarett likes us, Percy, but there is a difference between enjoying our company and well … enjoying our company,” Vex waggled her eyebrows suggestively.
Winter’s Crest Eve, Percy/Vex, 1.1k
Percy and Vex bantering while others play.
the wolves are the window, the wolves are at the door, Percy/Vax/Vex, 13.5k
When Vax takes a job from the Clasp that sends him and his sister to the far northern city of Whitestone, the last thing he expects is for both of them to fall for the Lord of Whitestone’s son.
Your Wounds Are Where The Light Shines Through, Percy/Vax, Pike and Vax, 1.3k
Vax struggles to come to terms with his feelings following Percy’s death. Eventually they talk things out.
You’re Not My Savior (something’s wrong inside of me), Percy/Vax, 2.9k
Set during the early traveling days of Vox Machina, Vax and Percy find out they have a little more in common than they thought. Or, guard duty makes fast friends.
