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[woobifiedvillain]

Big fan of characters realizing they don't get to die. They have to live. And grow. And be a person. And deal with shit they thought they'd never have to. And be fucked up about it. I would like more of this. Enough dying for honor or as redemption. It ain't. You're just a corpse. There is no moral value in dirt time.

[finalfantasy1997-moved-deactiva]

so many male characters are held back by the fact that they're not wearing earrings when they so clearly should be wearing earrings

[undead-knick-knack]

What I imagine Vax permanently coming back would actually entail

[isvaxstillanorb]

This has been an utterly wild ride with every one of you.

I did not expect so, so, so many people to come along for this bit. Nor do I think any of us expected it to last quite this long. There will be a few more posts, including a post mortem ... err ... post orbem ... to do the final calculations on exactly how long our guy was was in there.

but anyways ...

⦻ NO ⦻

Vax is no longer an orb!

[fangs-4-fags]

you and your dreadful little polycule haven't seen the last of me

[loveandevendeath]

literally him

[twoshortswords]

Vax in Keyleth's headpiece!🌼🧡

[acebender]

Orb'ildan is no more, Vax'ildan is back

[utilitycaster]

one last post about this but for real I think the fact that Vax has no death wish, simply accepts that death is a consequence of the choices he made, and genuinely is dedicated to the Raven Queen is what trips up the fandom and the cast because killing the Raven Queen, arguably, makes things worse. If the Raven Queen dies? he has failed in his duty. It's not a happy ending for him. If he leaves service, breaking his oath? It's not a happy ending for him. There is no ending that is happy for both Keyleth and Vax other than, I suppose, the Raven Queen simply saying "you know what, fine" which is a deeply narratively unsatisfying statement with no real cause and which feels out of character. You can't handwave or weasel or One Weird Trick your way out of it because the Raven Queen is stalwart in her tenets and Vax is stalwart in his conviction. and people hate that. I feel Liam gets this and this is why people get mad about Orym, too; you can't cajole or logic or intimidate Orym into supporting a single thing the Vanguard do no matter how much you wish he'd bend.

I think having a firm conviction is a great character trait in and out of game, and I love paladins and similar, so I think these characters are great for it, but like, a lot of people don't because they want there to be a secret way out where they get exactly what they want, and sometimes there isn't and it makes them really mad. And again, makes sense for Vox Machina to feel this way about Vax, but there is not a universally happy ending available given the choices that were made.

[maacbrem]

I think one of my favourite things about Lieve’tel as a character is how much she and Liam by extension loves the Raven Queen. It’s not just loyalty it’s not just faith it’s love, it’s finding comfort and beauty in the inevitability of death, it’s embracing the cold and dark but staying yourself warm and bright. It’s the part of Vax that Keyleth and to various extents all of VM failed to grasp - that maybe it’s scary and maybe it’s sad but it’s not something to fear or revile, it’s something to hold onto as the last great certainty in a chaotic world. The Matron isn’t comforting isn’t sweet isn’t even necessarily compassionate because those things are beyond her purview as immortal and divine, but her followers are, and that’s as much a part of their worship as anything. There’s just so much loved baked into the worship of death and Liam plays it so earnestly and beautifully.

[mylavellan]

[artemis-pendragon]

Ludinus: Don't worry, your husband died for the greater good

Orym:

[captainofthetidesbreath]

for nearly the entire campaign, there's been a lot of discussion asserting "being reluctant to get rid of the gods entirely and being content with the current dynamic of Exandria vis-a-vis the gods is refusing to imagine that a better world is possible"

but I'm still, after all this time, constantly asking myself: IS the current general state of affairs and catastrophes of the post-Divergence because of... the gods? if a better world for Exandria is possible, DOES that start with the gods when every large-scale crisis in the past eight centuries (that at least I can think of) has had little-to-no relationship to the gods?

at what point do we take responsibility for ourselves?

[essektheylyss]

the proportion of people prev-ing this means I could not let you leave it in the tags

#you wish to no longer be children and yet refuse to take responsibility for what you've done when your parents left you the house

[artistic-cocoon]

Saw someone on twt say they wanted to see Percy drawn like Yusuf Dikec and I couldn't help myself

[andi-o-geyser]

he is so so sexy with his bisexual swag, archangel raven wings, and tendency to throw daggers at peoples' throats

[nictumbra]

Dived into Baldur’s Gate 3 a few weeks back and… well, Astarion happened

[magnuspool]

A very angry frog 🐸

[passionesolja]

Yeah I guess the murder hobo Dark Urge run is cool or whatever but the good Dark Urge run is hilarious because is basically one of those “big city hot shot has accident, gets stuck in middle of nowhere, meets and connects with regular people, and learn to become a better person” stories. Like you’re basically Lightning McQueen in the Cars movie, if Lightning McQueen was the star player in murdering people