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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    "You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass.” -Margaret Atwood

     

    (Suddenly, breaking the world for the one you love doesn't seem so mad. It seems like the first step on an endless list.)

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    26 Aug 2025

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    It all starts because of Keyleth: Keyleth, who turns his apartment into a greenhouse within a month of knowing him despite his antisocial demeanor; Keyleth, who gathers up his awards show after-party invitations and plans out their itinerary like a travel agent; Keyleth, who walks up to her favorite band sitting at a bar and says, Hey, I love your music.

    But fame isn't quite so bad, Percy says to Vex with a smile, if it introduced him to someone like her.

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    20 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 83

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    He doesn’t know why he calls Vex. He barely sees the numbers as his fingers skitter across the screen. The light of his phone makes his eyes ache. There’s a tremor in his thumbs and he punches in one zero too many.
    “Percy it’s four am- whatever is the matter?”

    Her voice is sharp with annoyance or worry and gravelly with sleep. He tries to breathe but someone has filled his lungs with lead.

    “Cassandra is alive. Vex'ahlia - “ he thinks he imagines the catch in her breath “- Vex'ahlia, my sister is alive.”

    Alternatively, Percy only tells one person about his plan to cross state lines to find his estranged sister, but five other people tag along anyways.

    Alternatively, everyone knows that Percy has friends who love him except for Percy.

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    15 Jul 2025

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    “Swear,” she says as seriously as she’s ever before, “swear to me you’re telling us the truth.”

    Percy allows himself a small, upward bend of his lips that doesn’t reach his eyes.

    “What kind of man would lie to his wife?”

     

    an arranged marriage AU

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    13 Jul 2025

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    Sometimes, the universe course-corrects.

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    31 May 2025

  6. Public Bookmark 23

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    Vex’ahlia and her brother hunt monsters for gold.

    Percy, a vampire, has a bounty on his head.

    Vex is very good with a bow.

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    Vex slowly draws her bow as she hears the sound of quick and uneven footfalls far off on dry forest floor.

    She sees the creature she’s hunting at a distance. It’s dark enough that the world is melting into darkvision monochrome, but she can see that the monster wears a coat, that it’s in a terrible hurry, and that it’s limping.

    Vampires generally aren’t known for holding onto wounds. It was injured in the last minute or so—Vex isn’t the only one after the bounty.

    Vex nocks a holy arrow. She should take it out quick, one shot, so she doesn’t need to rush in with a silver dagger and make things messy. She’s so much better with a bow.

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    08 Apr 2025

  7. Public Bookmark 15

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    "And just like that, all the giddiness faded, as if her heart had been whacked by a fly swatter and sent careening towards the floor. In its place settled the truth and an awkward tension that had infected Vex for weeks.

    Tonight was simply Percy’s way of thanking her.

    This was not a date. No matter how much Vex’ahlia wished it was."

    After figuring out her feelings in a life-and-death situation, Vex'ahlia doesn't wish to get her hopes up and tries to come to terms with her relationship with Percy. The idea that they could only ever be friends and nothing more did hurt, but she could live with it.

    It's hard though, to not feel hopeful, when the man in question asks her out to dinner on fucking Valentine's Day! Will Vex accept the reality of their circumstance, or is there more brewing beneath the surface between them?

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    24 Mar 2025

  8. Public Bookmark 9

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    She feels cold. "Cut it off."

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    26 Feb 2025

  9. Public Bookmark 15

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    Imogen tucked her hair behind an ear as her apprehension grew. Laudna often remarked at her beauty, at the prettiness of her scars and the ease in which Imogen wielded her power. However, Imogen only saw her mother. Only saw that which made her like Liliana.
    It only proved how sometimes the most beautiful things could be poisonous.

    She pressed a hand to her mouth and then looked up at Lady de Rolo. “Do you know anythin’ about despisin’ your family? About bein’ ashamed of who your parent is? About wantin’ nothin’ to do with their name?”
    A shadow passed over Lady Vex’ahlia’s eyes. She was quiet for a moment before she said, “I know exactly what that is like.”

    ...

    When Bells Hells are in Whitestone during 3x76, Imogen wanders into the Greyfields away from her tether, from Laudna, and she begins to spiral thinking about the Solstice, her mother, Ludinus, and what all of it means. A conversation with Lady Vex’ahlia de Rolo helps Imogen ground herself, but perhaps Vex hadn’t appeared solely for a comforting conversation.

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    24 Feb 2025

  10. Public Bookmark 19

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    It is no secret in Whitestone that Imogen de Rolo was born underneath the red glaring light of Ruidus; a cursed child, with a cursed fate. When a terrible incident forces the second eldest de Rolo child to flee, she joins the only man who appears to understand her: her tutor. But years of learning and traveling with his compatriots has left her with little more information and an underlying yearning for more. Until she meets a pale woman with red string in her hair and a heart of gold... whose shadows intertwine them even closer than they realize.

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    15 Feb 2025

  11. Public Bookmark 25

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    “What’s the hurry Stubby?” He stumbles, legs still weak and weary from the battle.
    Vex smiles at him, “Aren’t you excited to meet your nieces and nephews?”
    “Nieces and nephews?”
    OR
    The Matron gives Vax one night.

    (Can be read as a stand alone)

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    15 Feb 2025

  12. Public Bookmark 11

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    Percy still looks like death.

    (aka a character study of Vex'ahlia post-canon/post-Percy-resurrection)

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    08 Feb 2025

  13. Public Bookmark 12

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    Percy loses everything - and then learns that healing can be the long way around.

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    06 Feb 2025

  14. Public Bookmark 46

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    Vex'ahlia and Vax'ildan have just escaped from a Marquesian prison after a year and a half abroad and return home to find their mother murdered and Tal'dorei under the grip of a conclave of sorcerers that brutally murder anyone in their path.

    Not willing to let the murder of her mother go unanswered, Vex decides to rally the support of a group of misfit outlaws in the woods, as well as the secret support of a mysterious nobleman to become the most infamous outlaw in Tal'dorei with one goal: To bring down the Chroma Conclave.

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    It's a Robin Hood AU!

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    13 Jan 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 52

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    “So: how much time did you buy us, before we sneak into your super-secret lab? Enough for introductions?”
    He grins, wry. “Just.”
    She takes his hand with a dramatic shake, delighted by the levity. “Vex’ahlia. Lovely to meet you…”
    “Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo the third.”
    Vex’ahlia laughs. “Sure! I’ll pretend I’ll remember that.”

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    Percival de Rolo, father of aeormatons and enchantment engineer of Aeor, finds himself with one last person on his list. He might be just the man Vex'ahlia needs for her blasphemous hope: to strip her brother of godhood.
    The Age of Arcanum has bountiful power to offer, little in the ways of gospel or morality.
    Updates every other Friday!

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    11 Jan 2025

  16. Public Bookmark 18

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    If you were to ask Percy, love was waking up in the late hours of the morning to the smell of freshly made coffee and freshly cooked breakfast, knowing that Vex always rose with the sun and let him sleep in a bit while she went with Trinket for his morning walk. It was also learning to cook Vex’s favorite meals so he could return the favor.

    If you were to ask Vex, love was Percy making her laugh with his unbelievably bad puns, especially when she was stressed. It was also doing her best to come up with even worse ones just to see the smile on his face.
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    OR: If you were to ask Vex and Percy what love is. Just two dorks in love and a few of their ways to show their love for each other (in a Modern AU version).

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    04 Jan 2025

  17. Public Bookmark 6

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    A look at Vex'ahlia's grief and heartbreak before and after Percy is returned to life.
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    Mostly angsty but also hopeful!

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    03 Jan 2025

  18. Public Bookmark *

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    It always snows at the edge of the world.

    It snows the day the Briarwoods take Whitestone, and the day Anna Ripley’s experiment with residuum kills him, and the day they pull him back up from the dirt to turn him. And it snows again, that fateful evening Cassandra grabs his wrist and runs.

    It doesn’t snow the day he meets Vox Machina.

     

    a Vampire Percy AU

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    03 Jan 2025

  19. Public Bookmark 19

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    Vesper Elaina de Rolo is the firstborn child of Percival and Vex'ahlia de Rolo and the first child born to members of Vox Machina. She's got some big footsteps to follow behind, but she has plenty of time before she has to worry about any of that.

    Little snapshots of Vesper growing up as a young Lady of Whitestone.

    A fic with a playlist!

    (Title from "Daughter" by Sleeping at Last)

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    30 Dec 2024

  20. Public Bookmark 21

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    Vex'ahlia is practically an expert at ignoring her emotions. It's being forced to face them that puts her off-kilter. (ep 63)

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    26 Dec 2024

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