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Vox Machina

In General

A band of mercenaries, and the self-styled greatest mercs in all of the realms. Too bad that the reputation they have suggests otherwise.

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• Adapted Out: Tiberius was one of the founding members and parted ways with the group partway through the Briarwood arc in the webshow. Here, he is nowhere to be seen and never mentioned, due to his player Orion Acaba parting ways with the show and later being caught in a number of controversies.
• Anti-Hero Team: While they're the good guys in all of this and are ultimately good-natured, they don't always behave heroically. Scanlan is a shameless sex maniac, Keyleth is incredibly awkward, Pike is short-tempered and crass, and Grog is a Blood Knight Dumb Muscle who's quite socially inept. Even the more level-headed Vex and Vax are willing to steal, bribe, and even kill to protect themselves and each other, and while Percy appears collected on the surface, he's carrying a considerable amount of trauma and is obsessed with revenge because of it. The ruling class of Emon are thus dismissive of them at large, because Vox Machina don't act like traditional heroes.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Pike, Vex & Keyleth in respective order.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Vax and Keyleth's dynamic. He's a rogue with a Dark and Troubled Past who always wears black and is occasionally moody (especially in the period between his first and second encounter with the Matron of Ravens in season 2) and somewhat of a Pragmatic Hero, while Keyleth, by contrast, is a naive, sweet and shy Cute Clumsy Girl.
• Color-Coded Characters: All the members of Vox Machina have one or two colors associated with them.
  • Vax'ildan has black and charcoal gray befitting a Stealth Expert.
  • Vex'ahlia's is cerulean, a color associated with cooler temperatures.
  • Grog is associated with grey.
  • Percy mainly dons navy blue and black, mirroring his Dark and Troubled Past and his blossoming attraction towards Vex.
  • Keyleth has a strong association with forest and emerald green, quite appropriate for a Druid with a strong emotional and power connection to flora and fauna. The second color being autumn red going with her hair color and her color scheme when in animal form.
  • Pike is white and gold, befitting her status as a Gnome Cleric.
  • Scanlan wears varying shades of purple garb and casts magic spells that are purple.
  • Finally, Trinket has the closest associations with brown, the same as his pelt color and silver, mirroring his armor.
• Headbutting Heroes: While they care about each other like family, they're also prone to petty arguments and disagreements.
• Hunter of Monsters: They are a band of mercenaries who take all the kind of jobs for themselves, including killing monsters and dragons especially.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: More than half of the party fall into this in their own special ways. Grog is a violent meathead, Scanlan is a shameless sex fiend, Vex is cold and judgmental toward basically everyone, and Percy most of all is curt, aloof, and prone to spates of terrific cruelty. However, by the same token, all of the above are also ultimately very decent people balanced out by their respective virtues; Grog is deeply loyal and affectionate toward his teammates, Scanlan is chivalrous and absolutely stellar at propping up his party's morale, Vex is a loving sister who dotes on her pet bear, and Percy is keenly understanding of his companions' traumas and, like Vex, loves his remaining sibling above everything in the world.
• Magic Is Feminine: The three people who are capable of proper magic are Keyleth, a Cute Witch with Elemental Powers, Pike, a White Magician Girl knight, and Scanlan, a dandy Horny Bard specialized in Magic Music.
• Nice Guy: As for Keyleth, Pike, Vax and Trinket, who, despite their flaws (and being a bear, as the case may be), are very kind and compassionate.
• Nice Mean And In Between:
  • For guys we have the faithful, cuddly and affectionate grizzly bear Trinket and the kind-hearted, protective and supportive Vax'ildan as the Nice. Percy counts for The Mean as he's revenge-driven, tortured, and prone to violent shifts between calm and gentlemanly and hateful and murderous. Thankfully he gets better at the season's end. Then finally there's shamelessly horny, yet morale-boosting and ultimately respectful, Scanlan and axe-happy, short-tempered but ultimately kind and protective Grog as The In-Between. This dynamic changes in Season 2 with Percy becoming happier and more supportive especially towards Vex, even standing up to her racist, abusive father for her, making him more of the Nice. By contrast Vax grows colder, more hostile, sharper-tongued and withdrawn towards Vox Machina especially Percy and even Keyleth for a brief time after striking a deal with The Matron of Ravens to save Vex'ahlia's life becoming more of The Mean. Thankfully, after his second meeting with the Matron Of Ravens and learning that she means him and Vox Machina no harm and is one of the more benevolent goddesses, he reverts back to his friendlier self.
  • On the girls' side we have the insecure, adorkable, sweet Keyleth as The Nice. The aloof, sharp-tongued, fault-finding Vex'ahlia as The Mean (Like Percy she dials down these traits towards the end of the season) and the slightly coarse, yet nurturing and religious yet crass Pike as The In-Between.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They start out this way. The Bar Brawl from Episode 1 shows they've got three silver to their name, mostly from messing up various jobs. It's only by luck that they stumble into getting the eye of the higher-ups of the land. The trailer for the second season literally describes them as "the worst team ever assembled".
• Sibling Team: Vex and Vax tend to fight together while remaining part of the group, and this was played straight before they joined Vox Machina.
• Took a Level in Badass: Befitting the show's origins as a D&D campaign, each member of Vox Machina gradually becomes stronger and more powerful through overcoming massive challenges and their experiences as a team together.
  • In season 1, Percy subtly, then more and more overtly grows stronger as the season progresses, particularly when facing off with those whose names are on his List. Percy's bullets become stronger, gain improbable ballistics to hit a target and Percy doesn't need to reload as much. This is actually because of Orthax's increasing possession over him in accordance with the 'unspoken partnership' they forged when creating the pepperbox. When 3 names are killed, Orthax's possession becomes more overt, shrouding Percy's body in black smoke that can act as a shield or extended physical weapon, granting him lighting-quick movements and Bottomless Magazines, at the cost of puppeteering Percy's body to his will. These abilities all go away once Percy successfully excises Orthax from him and Scanlan destroys the Pepperbox in acid.
  • Once she overcomes her Crisis of Faith, Pike gains a massive power boost, gaining a summonable suit of Paladin armour, able to create a powerful mace and shield from holy energy to attack from close or mid-range, and becoming strong enough to remain the biggest threat to the Briarwoods even through Astral Projection.
  • Keyleth had powerful elemental magics and shapeshifting, but once she successfully completes her fire trial, she becomes capable of transforming into a powerful flaming titan that can be as much of a physical threat as Grog, making her more durable as well as harder to fight close-range.
  • In season 2, the vestiges of Divergence are implicitly sought out by the party to enable them to become strong enough to fight the Chroma Conclave, with several of them already fitting their wielder's fighting style.
    • Vax gains the Deathwalker's Ward, which grants him Super-Speed and enhanced agility, allowing him to run around the battlefield like The Flash and Speed Blitz opponents with velocity-enhanced blows. By season's end, he also figures out how to make it grow raven wings to enhance his agility even further.
    • Vex gains Fenthras, an elven bow that can create arrows from nothing and imbue them with elemental properties, enabling her to shoot flaming, freezing or electrified arrows non-stop and even shoot arrows that sprout vines from the ground to bind and restrain targets. She also gains access to a flying broom from Gilmore's shop that enables her greater versatility and mobility around the battlefield, as well as a necklace that can seal a living being inside for easy transport, enabling her to summon Trinket whenever she wants or quickly teleport her party members around.
    • Grog gains the Titanstone knuckles, which apparently make him stronger and allow him to imbue his fists with electricity for increased damage. Slamming both knuckles together also allows Grog to change his size at will, allowing him to grow large enough to briefly wrestle with Umbrasyl, a dragon.
    • Scanlan gains Mythcarver, a sword that is connected to all the myths and legends of the world, and can be used as a scrying tool to locate the other Vestiges. As Scanlan demonstrates to finish off Umbrasyl, harmonising his singing with the blade's low humming turns it into a Vibroweapon that can unleash a Sword Beam powerful enough to blow the black dragon's head in two from the inside-out.

Grog

Grog Strongjaw

"She told me you have dick for brains... Which doesn't seem possible."

Voiced by: Travis Willingham (English), Matti Klemm (German)

Race: Goliath

Class: Barbarian (Path of the Berserker)

A goliath with a large axe, a big heart, and a slow mind.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: He displays much more shame about the kind of person he was in the past than he did in the webshow, likely owing to the fact that Grog was younger and less of a direct participant in the Herd in the campaign, whereas the cartoon gives him a slight Age Lift.
• Adaptational Dumbass: A rare instance of this being Played for Drama. In the original webshow, after his first fight with Earthbreaker Groon, Grog understands that his strength comes from his friends, satisfying Groon with his answer. In the cartoon, Grog doesn't learn the lesson Groon tries to teach him, and is unable to give an answer. This leads Groon to tell him he has a lot to learn before he can truly consider himself a warrior.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Grog is clean-shaved here like early in the original campaign, except in the stream he had grown a beard by the time of the Briarwood arc thanks to the Belt of Dwarvenkind. He finally gets his iconic bushy beard in season two after acquiring the belt at Gilmore's which, combined with his facial tattoos, makes him look not too dissimilar to Kratos.
• Adaptational Curves: Slightly, but in the Critical Role livestream, Grog's height was stated to be 8 ft. and 7 in. tall. Whereas in The Legend Of Vox Machina while Grog is still the tallest member he's closer to Percy and Vax's height (who admittedly are not diminutive men).
• Age Lift: While Grog's age as an adult is unknown, during the stream he explicitly refers to himself as being a child when he's exiled from the Herd, while in the cartoon he's in his mid-teens when he goes to live with the Trickfoots.
• The Alcoholic: The man loves his ale. He handily wins several drinking contests in a row in Episode 1, and the fact the Briarwoods are cutting off ale to Whitestone sees Grog vowing to "fucking murder everyone" until he gets some booze.
• Alone Among the Couples: Downplayed, because nobody in the team is officially in a relationship, but Grog is the only member of Vox Machina who has no Love Interest of any sort while Scanlan/Pike, Vax/Keyleth, and Percy/Vex have all been repeatedly Ship Teased.
• And This Is for...:
  • "That's for Pike! And me and maybe Scanlan 'cause he probably won't survive!"
  • And, much more seriously, the one-liner by which Grog sends his uncle Kevdak off to his great reward:
  Grog: FOR STRONGJAW!
• The Atoner: Grog has spent his adult years trying to live a righteous life in line with his surrogate family's decency and principles, standing up for those smaller and weaker than him, in atonement for the carnage he wrought as a murderous, untethered teenager under his uncle's yoke.
• Ax-Crazy: Grog is a violence-loving nut job who enjoys slaughtering his enemies with reckless abandon. In season 2, Silas' black blood-drinking sword starts to exacerbate this to levels even Pike, his closest companion, is unnerved by, as he repeatedly stabs his enemies' corpses in front of her with bloodshot eyes. This all culminates in some unfortunate goliath-on-gnome conflict in S2 E6.
• Baritone of Strength: Travis voices Grog with nearly his max vocal depth, befitting of a nearly invincible barbarian wall of meat.
• Bald Head of Toughness: The physical strongest of the group with a shining head.
• Bash Brothers: As an adult with adoptive sister Pike and as a teen with cousin Zanror.
• Battle Cry: "I would like to RAGE!"
• Battle Trophy: Grog loves collecting reminders of his conquests whenever given the chance. It can be anything from a severed hand, to a dragon's tooth, to a giant's eyeball. He even takes Lord Sylas' black-bladed sword after assisting Keyleth in killing him. This, of course, turns out to be his worst idea ever.
• Bear Hug: He grabs both Keyleth and Pike in different occasions and leaves them without breath.
• Beard of Barbarism: Grog, a goliath, gains an instant beard once he wears the belt he found at Gilmore's place. And he is very proud of it. Whatever you do, don't cut it.
• The Berserker: An incredibly strong unarmored barbarian warrior who flies into a frenzied bloodlust in battle.
• Berserk Button:
  • Do not, under any circumstances, cut or touch his new beard. He won't react well to it.
  • Also don't mess with his ale or cause it to run short.
• Big Brother Instinct: A direct threat against his surrogate sister and best buddy Pike is enough to throw him into an immediate rage. Power of Love It's what gets him to shake off Craven Edge's curse and stand a chance against his Evil Uncle. Grog also demonstrates this towards Keyleth on occasion. He stood up for her when one patron called Keyleth a bitch and shoved her after he stepped in her alcohol-induced vomit puddle in the very first episode, they also worked together in the climatic battle between the gang and the Briarwoods in "Whispers At The Ziggurat" when he chokeholds Sylas as Keyleth channels the remaining energy from The Sun Tree and incinerates Sylas with it, and Grog softly tells Vax "I got her from here" and gently carried Keyleth outside the tomb when she was close to death from leaping in front of Delilah's curse to save Vex.
• The Big Guy: He's the most melee-focused of the group, wielding a greataxe to great effectiveness. The first few episodes show Grog using the axe to cut off someone's hand and split Brimscythe's head open.
• Black Swords Are Better: Seems to have had this trope in mind as he eagerly takes Lord Sylas' black-bladed sword, after seeing what it can do in their first fight. Once he sees what Craven Edge truly does and what it drives him to do, he destroys it.
• Blatant Lies: Whenever someone notices Grog behaving weirdly due to Craven Edge's influence in Season 2, he usually comes up with some sort of lame excuse to conceal the cursed sword's sentience and effects. Nobody is buying it.
• Blood Knight: Grog loves to fight and is very eager to get into any sort of brawl or battle.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior:
  • Due to his close combat style, he ends up covered in the blood of his enemies far more often than the rest of the party.
  • In season 2, seeing Grog covered in blood is not so funny anymore, as it becomes a sign something is off with him because he enjoys the violence and the blood a bit too much.
• Boisterous Bruiser: The loudest, physically strongest member of the party, but also a fun-loving, ale-chugging Manchild.
• Brains and Brawn: He is the Literal-Minded Blood Knight to Pike's Religious Bruiser.
• Brought Down to Normal: Less than normal even. The sword punishes Grog for refusing to obey its order and kill Pike and Scanlan, by absorbing all of its strength and turning Grog into a powerless lanky guy. After Depower, he looks as if all his muscles are atrophied and he doesn't even have the stamina of a mere human, being constantly exhausted and in need to be carried by Scanlan and Pike.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Grog is a goliath barbarian wielding a huge battleaxe, unadorned apart from a few notches and scratches.
• Chivalrous Pervert: His demeanour towards the female members of the team is warm and cordial, especially towards Pike with whom he shares an adorable, platonic friendship. Still, he appreciates a nice ass and is not subtle about it. In Episode 2, he practically drools over a "booty-ful" painting of a sexy, nude Dragonborn girl. In Episode 5, Scanlan inadvertently transforms himself into a very tall and shapely elven woman and Grog's first instinct is to reach for Scanlan's butt. And in Episode 9, as Pike explains to him that she is glowing because of astral projection — Grog, unfamiliar with the term, only hears the word "ass".
• Childhood Friends: He was raised by Wilhand and grew up with Pike after he was exiled from the Herd of Storms by his uncle.
• Cloud Cuckoolander:
  • Grog thinks that leadership should have a height requirement, therefore Percy and Scanlan do not qualify.
  • In season 2, this gets deconstructed. Earthbreaker Groon, whom he meets in ones of Vasselheim's temples, warns Grog that his weak mind will cost him dearly if he doesn't do something about it, which it shows once the black sword starts whispering and affecting him, and he doesn't even realizes that hearing voices from the sword is not a good sign.
• Confusion Fu: In his final showdown with Sylas, Grog closes his eyes to resist the vampire’s hypnosis and starts swinging his axe with wild abandon. Sylas is unable to predict the random swings and takes a massive hit to the stomach as a result.
  Grog: If I can’t see where I’m swingin’, then neither can you!
• Corrupt the Cutie: Grog is endearing like a child with his shenanigans and how stupid he can be sometimes, but since he acquired Sylas' black sword, he slowly becomes consumed and mind controlled by the sword's Compelling Voice. He is warned that the sword is a weapon of dark magic and is very dangerous for its wielder. This being Grog, he doesn't listen nor he can understand what it means. All he cares is that he got a cool sword. He ends up having to care a whole bunch.
• Cuckoosnarker: He can be surprisingly witty when he wants too. Percy comments that he did not expect Grog to say things with so much depth when he confesses he doesn't like losing nor the grief he feels over the village slaughtered by the blue dragon.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Grog is a sweet man underneath the mountains of muscle and rage, but even he has a troubled past, in which he himself was the villain. As a teenager, he reveled in the Rape, Pillage, and Burn lifestyle of the Herd of Storms just as much as any of his tribes folk, and was one of its deadliest and most ruthless warriors. Then he met Wilhand Trickfoot, Pike's great-great-grandfather, in one of the the Herd's raids - just an unfortunate old gnome with a beloved great-great-granddaughter, begging for his life. Not being a completely uncompassionate Blood Knight, Grog refused to murder the old man and tried to sneak him out, only to be caught by his uncle Kevdak and nearly beaten to death for his perceived weakness, only spared from death by Wilhand himself, with little Pike in tow to heal his wounds. Since then, Grog has been a surrogate grandchild and brother to Wilhand and Pike respectively, living his life according to their principles in order to atone for his past and, in his own words, look out for the little guy for once.
• A Day in the Limelight: Episode "A Test of Pride" explores his Dark and Troubled Past as a marauder in the Herd of Storms — and shows him, despite being in a severely weakened state, finally deciding to confront his vicious Evil Uncle Kevdak.
• The Dragonslayer: He deals the final blow to Brimscythe.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: After acquiring Craven Edge, he starts dreaming of killing his friends in an arena... Which starts to become reality after he impales Pike after she interposed herself between him and Umbrasyl. However, he manages to destroy the sword before he can do the same to anyone else, and Pike luckily manages to survive.
• Dumb Muscle: Grog is gloriously unburdened by intelligence, rarely having any deep grasp of what's going on around him and sometimes proposing strategies to the group that are straight-up batty. When Vex tells Grog that Scanlan had "dick for brains", Grog takes it literally.
• Easily Forgiven: Pike immediately forgives Grog for accidentally impaling her during a blind, Craven Edge-induced frenzy. Unlike a lot of cases, this is fully justified in that Grog is as good as Pike's brother and she knows very well that he'd never lift a finger to hurt her in his right mind.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Dumb Muscle obsessed with killing as he is, even Grog is disgusted by Scanlan's story about their worst kill.
  Grog: What the fuck?
  • In Season 2, while it takes him a while to catch on, he grows more and more uncomfortable with Craven Edge's desire for blood at all costs, especially when it tries to push him to take blood from Pike. When he accidentally stabs Pike through the chest in his battle rage against Umbrasyl, he snaps out fast and is utterly horrified, and is driven to destroy the thing.
  • Even in his teenage years when he was a bloodthirsty marauder, Grog didn't believe in killing people who weren't able to fight back.
• Facial Markings: Like all goliaths, he has tattoos over his face and shoulders.
• Fearless Fool: Except for zombie giants, Grog knows no fear. Immortal vampire with Healing Factor? No problem, engage with the excitement of a child. Blue Dragon? Charge at it even everyone would rather retreat. Guards pointing arrows at him? Climb the ledge they are on and grab them like sticks. Deadly acid pool trap? Jump in and swim in it.
  Vax: Grog, you dumb, brave asshole!
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Both Grog and Pike are Boisterous Bruiser Blood Knight types but Grog is especially reckless compared to Pike.
• Gentle Giant: Grog very much acts like a small, slightly feral child in an incredibly large body. He's huge, dumb, vulgar, and always the first member of the crew to jump to violence, but he's also very earnestly kind and protective toward the people around him, especially Pike, and is one of the first members of Vox Machina to give voice to their grief following Brimscythe's massacre of the village in the first episode. As he says in the second season, protecting the little folk is his job.
• Handicapped Badass: He breaks his leg after Umbrasyl drops him from a great height and has to fight with his leg barely splinted. During the fight with the dragon, he does well until he breaks his leg a second time.
• Happily Adopted: by his "Poppop" Wilhand Trickfoot.
• Heroic Build: Grog is the tallest member of the party and looks like a body-builder.
• Heroic Rematch: He loses his first battle with Sylas, but does much better in their second one where he even gives the vampire some serious blows like almost cutting him in half with his axe. Lampshaded by Grog himself.
  Grog: How's about you and me go for a rematch?
  • After Kevdak nearly killed him as a kid, he comes back for a rematch years later in The Kill Box.
• Heroic Second Wind: During his fight with Kevdak, Grog is easily beaten and impaled on a stake by his uncle, and Pike and Scaland are taken as prisoners. Just when all hope is lost, Grog has a vision of Earthbreaker Groon asking him again and again from where his strength comes, forcing Grog to finally find his resolve. As he screams "I would like to rage", he reverts back to his Heroic Build and starts to attack Kevdak again, doing better this time in the battle. It gets subverted because his uncle defeats him again.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Grog the goliath and his best friend Pike the gnome.
• Insane Troll Logic: When Scanlan and Keyleth rhetorically ask Percy how many dead people are in his town, Grog is quick to give dissertations on the question. According to a very serious Grog, dead people come from the ground because that's where they live.
• Iron Butt Monkey: This is weaponized more than once as Grog's endurance allows him to withstand much more punishment than his friends. He is often seen getting thrown, burned, brutally beaten and smashed to the ground by his opponents, but almost always gets up and continues to fight.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A violent brute who cares about his friends and innocent lives.
• Laughing Mad: Grog delves into this as he becomes more corrupted and goaded into brutal slaughtering by the Craven's Edge in battle. It all comes to a head when in his blood-lust Grog graphically stabs Pike, his best friend and sister in all but blood (pun not intended) and nearly kills her. Thankfully, Pike survives and is even well enough to walk the long trek to her Pop Pop's cabin.
• Leeroy Jenkins: The physical embodiment on charging without thinking.
• Like Brother and Sister: Pike acts for Grog like a Cool Big Sis. They were raised together by Pike's great-great-grandfather.
• Literal Disarming: Grog cuts off Kevdak's left arm, but it barely slows him down.
• Literal-Minded: Very, for example when Allura puts Vox Machina under house arrest a horrified Grog exclaims "How do you arrest a house?!"
• Malaproper: He cannot understand complicated words, and mistakes the word fulcrum for "fuck room".
• Manchild: Grog acts like a little toddler frequently. He throws tantrums whenever the beer runs out anywhere, and at one point, he begs Scanlan to get him a sandwich like how a kid asks his parents to get him food.
• Manly Tears: He misses Pike so much that he starts to cry like a child in her absence. Vax mistakes his wailing as him trying to take a shit on the cart.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Craven Edge's creeping corruption causes him to nearly murder Pike, the person he loves the most, Grog completely breaks and finally takes his ensuing rage out on the blade itself, shattering the cursed thing.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: His plan to save Archie from the prison is to kill every guard... and Archie too.
• Noodle Incident:
  • Sometime before the start of the series, Grog accidentally decapitated their last employer.
  • When Vex hears Grog crying, he exclaim that Grog better be not be shitting in another car again.
• Odd Friendship:
  • Grog, the boisterous giant goliath, is best friends with Pike, the kindly cleric gnome. They bond quite well over booze. Turns out, they grew up together after her great-great-grandfather effectively adopted Grog.
  • He is also good friends with Scanlan, a dandy gnome bard.
• Old Shame: Grog is very ashamed of the brutal killing machine he used to be in the past and never dared to open up about it to anyone. He talks with Pike about his past only because the extreme circumstances that are forcing him to come out clean. In Westruun, he choses to confront his Evil Uncle despite his weak state, because he feels that if he runs away one more time, it will just prove to his uncle that he is indeed weak as he always said.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: That's how he justifies wanting to fight Kevdak, in order to redeem himself of his shameful past. He provokes his uncle to a fight in his weak state despite Pike's and Scanlan's protests.
• Orc Raised by Elves: In this case, goliath raised by gnomes. After being abandoned by his brutal marauder herd, he was taken in by the kindly old gnome he spared.
• Pelts of the Barbarian: He wears pants and fur-trimmed pelt around his waist, making him to look savage in contrast with his more modern looking friends, especially Percy who is a Badass in a Nice Suit.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: He is very good at this. He gets Scanlan to bring him a sandwich by making sad eyes and whine like a pup.
• Power Fist: The Titanstone Knuckles give Grog the ability to grow in size and amplify the wielder's power.
• The Power of Friendship: Grog finally finds the answer for Earthbreaker Groon's question about the source of his strength during his fight with Kevdak.
  Grog: My strength come from my friends.
• Raised by Grandparents: Adopted and brought up by Wilhand Trickfoot, who he calls Poppop.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Normally Grog raging is a good thing, but a raging battle lust with bloodshot eyes is a sign that Craven Edge is taking control.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He is a berserker Manchild obsessed with killing, while Pike is mature and calm, making her a Morality Pet for Grog.
• Relative Button: Kevdak bringing up his father enrages Grog to the point of him blinding Kevdak in one eye.
• Screaming Warrior: Will gleefully charge into any fight roaring at full volume. And then there's his Catchphrase:
  Grog: I would like to RAGE!
• Serious Business: Grog does not swear vengeance on the Briarwoods to avenge all the innocence lives they have taken, but because they took all the alcohol in Whitestone.
• Shoulders of Doom: He wears a pauldron with an utility belt over his left shoulder.
• Simple-Minded Wisdom: Despite being the Dumb Muscle of the group, Grog occasionally has some great insight. Examples include:
  • Taking a tooth off Brimscythe to prove they killed the dragon.
  • Stating the obvious solution to Pike's disconnection to the Everlight.
  • Pointing out that the hordes of undead in Whitestone are coming from the graveyards.
  • Realizing that Sylas won't be able mind control him or predict his attacks if he closes his eyes and swings recklessly.
  • Choosing Zanror to lead the Herd after Kevdak's death after finding out he turned against Kevdak.
• Sizeshifter: After gaining the Titanstone Knuckles, Grog can smash them together to grow in size, strength, and durability.
• Spared by the Adaptation: His first death via Craven Edge devouring his soul is averted, instead "merely" having his strength sapped by the cursed blade.
• Squee: He's delighted to find out that the Belt of Dwarvenkind made him grow an impressive beard.
• Strong and Skilled: Despitte being the Dumb Muscle, there's several situations that show he's a lot better of a fighter than he would appear to be. Once he regains his strength, he proves capable of outfighting his uncle and forcing Kevdak to pull out his trump card to regain the advantage.
• Super-Toughness: Grog is incredibly resilient, capable of surviving things that would have killed any of his companions.
  • Being shot by arrows or stabbed with a knife only seem to annoy him.
  • He barely registered having a chair smashed over his head.
  • In Episode 10, Grog dives into a literal pool of acid, and manages to survive long enough to pull one of the three levers to drain the acid. Pike's healing magic was helping him survive, but the fact that Grog lasted as long as he did is still a testament to his durability.
  • In Episode 11, he takes a hit from Keyleth's blast of divine power in the form of a Wave-Motion Gun. While Keyleth was aiming at Sylas Briarwood, whom Grog was holding in a full-nelson armlock, Grog still took one hell of a hit and shrugged it off.
    • Before hand, he was thrown off the top of a stories high ziggurat and came back more annoyed by the experience than anything.
  • In Episode 19, Craven Edge's Dying Curse saps all his strength and leaves Grog so weakened, he can't even stand up by himself or move without assistance, leading to multiple example of comedic injury during the Travel Montage against the helpless Grog. The include getting used as a raft to traverse some rapids, accidentally dropped off a cliff into some very thorny brambles, half-drowned in a bog and being used as the rope in a tug-of-war with Pike and Scanlan against a wild wolf that has its jaws clamped firmly on his groin. Though painful, none of it leaves a lasting mark on him.
  • Episode 20 features what is probably the most brutal beating Grog has ever taken, repeatedly getting pounded into the ground by Kevdak before getting impaled on a wooden stake. Even after getting a Heroic Second Wind, Grog still takes more punishment, finally collapsing after falling from the sky & bisecting his uncle.
• Super-Strength: Grog is strong enough to crush a dragon's skull and move a giant door with his hands.
• Tempting Fate: Grog is really asking for it when he proudly informs Umbrasyl is gonna be very hard for him to shake Grog off and than haughtily asking the dragon to prove what else he has got. Umbrasyl answers by slamming Grog into tree trunks and a cliff. And he does get shaken off Umbrasyl the moment the dragon shoots acid on him.
• True Companions: With Pike. Being separated from her for even a fairly short period of time is enough to send him into a fit of depression. The Craven Edge manipulating him into stabbing her clean through her body is enough to snap him out of his rage immediately.
• Undying Loyalty: He cares about all the members of the team, but Pike Trickfoot, his adopted sister, is easily his closest friend. She is able to talk him out of a hypnotic trance that Craven Edge put him in and seeing Kevdak threaten to kill her instantly puts him into an Unstoppable Rage.
• Unstoppable Rage: In Episode 2, he screams "I would like to RAGE!" before charging Brimscythe, slamming his axe into the dragon's head and splitting it down the middle.
  • In S 2 E 10, seeing Pike crying for him to save her is enough for him to not only shrug off being impaled through the stomach, but to suddenly regain all of the muscle mass he'd lost to Craven Edge's curse. While once again bellowing "I would like to RAGE!"
• Victor Gains Loser's Powers: Grog makes a habit of taking powerful weapons from people he defeats. He claimed Craven Edge from Sylas after helping defeat the Briarwoods, and later takes the Titanstone Knuckles from his uncle Kevdak after besting him in combat.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Vax. They play painful pranks like hitting each other on the crotch and have Snark To Snark Combats.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: His default outfit is wearing furred trousers and a pauldron, not that anyone complains. After Craven Edge's Dying Curse saps all his muscles, his reedy physique is thin enough that Scanlan accidentally pulls him out of his trousers whilst dragging him along the ground, as Grog's too weak to walk by himself.
• Walking Spoiler: Of a sort - it's really difficult to avoid some black bars in the trope entries because of certain late developments in season 1 and how they influence season 2, with Grog's entire plotline revolving around his struggles to control Craven Edge, and struggling to make it not control him. And of course, the consequences for him finally failing to do so for a moment.
• Weak, but Skilled: In his atrophied state Grog was shown to fight with some technique and tactic against his uncle instead of just fighting like he usually would. Sadly none of his punches do any damage whatsoever because at that point he didn't have any strength.

Keyleth

Keyleth of the Air Ashari

"Come on, come on, come on, you've got this!"

Voiced by: Marisha Ray (English), Katharina Schwarzmeier (German)

Race: Half-elf

Class: Druid (Circle of the Moon)

The future leader of the Air Ashari, out on a mission to prove her worth.

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• 11th-Hour Superpower: Keyleth struggles for most of the season to use Sunlight spells, until the end of the Season 1, where with the help of the Sun Tree, she obliterates Sylas with the Sunbeam spell.
• Accidental Murder: Keyleth's strangest murder was entirely accidental. She was attacked by a Duergar and her wind attack sent him into lava, then she panicked and pushed him into the lava with her leg.
• Adaptational Curves: Inverted as a result of her de-aging. In the webshow, she is around 6'0" and a Statuesque Stunner, taller than the twins, but here she is almost a head shorter than Vex and Vax.
• Adaptational Deviation: In the original stream, during the battle at the ziggurat, Delilah hits Vex with a Finger of Death spell, nearly killing her outright. In the show, Keyleth leaps to Vex's defense and takes the hit instead.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: On par with her personality change, is also her views on morality and how she views the rest of the group. While Keyleth was still the nicest member of Vox Machina, in Critical Role she always lectures the team on their morality and usually viewed the world and people as being completely good and virtuous or inherently immoral and wicked which caused Keyleth great distress over not knowing what even is good and evil and believing she and the rest of Vox Machina are awful people who don't deserve happiness and at one point threatens to leave Vox Machina if they don't do at least one good thing. Here, lacking her Moral Myopia and Protagonist-Centered Morality that Marisha struggled with handling at the table, Keyleth goes along with her team's decisions (as long as it doesn't doom or screw anyone over), tries to sympathize with the group instead of just castigating them (like with Percy in the episode "Shadows At The Gate" and doesn't lecture anyone on morality, believing them all to be good people despite their flaws and bad decisions and standing by them through thick and thin.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Keyleth and Percy are good friends, but they are not close Like Brother and Sister as they were in the web show, where she would often hug Percy, butt-head with him, they would often disagree over the importance of morality, but otherwise being so close that even Vex considered they could start a romantic relationship.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the source material, many found Keyleth reckless, self-righteous and preachy due to Marisha's attempt to play into Keyleth's morality and background, while also trying to be in character as a somewhat naïve person. Here, Kiki makes bad decisions less out of lack of foresight, and more out of being usually in a state of panic, which lines up more with how Marisha was trying to portray her.
• Affectionate Nickname: Vax (and the rest of Vox Machina) call her "Kiki", and Kash refers to her as both "Antlers" and at one point "Earth, Wind and Fire." Both men display romantic interest in her.
• Age Lift: In the livestream, it was Percy who was the youngest member. Here, it’s Keyleth. Is shown even in her character design, she is the shortest among the "big folk" of the team, where in the show, only Grog and Percy were taller than her, and sports rounder facial features than anyone.
• Ambiguously Bi: Keyleth has feelings for Vax, but when Vex puts a hand on her shoulder and addresses her as "darling," Keyleth blushes mightily.
• Animorphism: Her Wild Shape ability allows her to shift into various beasts and birds. Keyleth turns into a hawk or an eagle to swoop down and attack Sylas in Season 1 Episode 3, She turns into a jackalope to escape the wraiths in Season 1 Episode 4, and in Episode 5 she turns into a squirrel and later lets out a loud tiger-like snarl at a wolf, complete with fangs in her mouth. In episodes 6 and 7, Keyleth also transforms herself into a hulking, white and red-striped saber-tooth tiger.
• Animal Lover: Given that the Ashari are deeply connected to the flora and fauna of Exandria, she has a strong fondness for animals and seeks to befriend and help them, though it doesn't always work out. In "Fate's Journey" the gang comes across a wolf hiding just out of sight and whimpering. Keyleth's first instinct is to coo at the animal and ask if he's hurt. However, it turns out it's not an ordinary wolf, but one of four or five undead, long-tongued, mold-covered wolf-like monsters with blood oozing from its mouth sent by Delilah to retrieve her notebook and stop Vox Machina from reaching Whitestone. Another instance of Keyleth's love for animals comes in "The Fey Realm" when she coos at a small, green-and-pink bird-like creature right before it gets torn apart and eaten by the nearby plants.
• Apologises a Lot: Going hand-in-hand with her anxiety and insecurities, Keyleth is very prone to nervously and rapidly apologizing for even the smallest of mistakes.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Keyleth certainly qualifies as she looks to be about in her very late teens and is rather sheltered and naive to the world outside her Ashari whereas the others appear in their mid-to-late twenties and have more life experience and street-smarts.
• Badass Adorable: She's powerful but also sweet. Her vines were able to subdue Brimscythe for a brief time; a wall of thorns she made manage to hold back the Briarwoods, she created light bright enough to burn some wraiths that attacked the group, she can turn into a giant white and red saber-tooth tiger and she can body-check and frighten off a mutant demogorgon-mouthed zombie-wolf. And she does all of it as a cute redheaded woman that becomes a stuttering nervous wreck when she's anywhere near danger.
• Battle Couple: With Vax. They always look after each other.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Not only is she the kindest out of the group and adored by everyone in Vox Machina — even Vex, who doesn't like the fact that Keyleth's flirting with her brother — but Kiki is surprisingly powerful when push comes to shove. Her vines hold down a dragon's wing in Episode 2, in Episode 5 she bodychecks and roars at one of Delilah's zombie-wolves causing it to sit and whine like a puppy, Keyleth can transform into a large, white and red-striped saber-tooth tiger which she utilized to attack Stonefell after he knee-capped and brained a rebel who bravely and whole-heartedly aided the gang practically every step of the way and would have likely killed Stonefell had he not been bodyblocked by two armed guards. and her sun magic takes the form of a Wave-Motion Gun to fry Sylas Briarwood to ashes in Episode 11.
  • This becomes more prevalent in Season 2 when spoiler: Keyleth unleashes her tiger form once again as well as her newly acquired Fire powers to graphically injure a hoard of goliaths who were cheering on Grog's brutal beating at the hands of Kevdak. As a tiger, she bites one herd member that was beating up Pike on the neck (most likely killing said herd member). Keyleth even snarls a warning to approaching herd members shortly thereafter as though to say, "Oh, you want some, too?"
• Black Mage: She evolves into this by the end of Season 2, once she learns to control her spells (except her medical abilities) far better and plays a more active role in combat by using many offensive spells like turning into a Fire Elemental Juggernaut.
• Blow You Away: She is part of the Air Ashari tribe, and uses strong spells that are associated with wind. If pushed enough, her wind spell can be so powerful it can freeze anything in its radius, including zombies.
• Bonding over Missing Parents: Subverted. She tries but fails to connect with Percy over the fact that both are missing their parents. Keyleth may have been sent on exile to complete her Amarente journey and believes she will never get to see them again because she feels unworthy of becoming the leader of her people, but as Percy points out, her parents will still be alive even if she'll never get to see them again, while his are dead forever.
• Book Dumb: While Keyleth's nowhere near as dumb as Grog, She admitted to often fell asleep during her ancient abyssal class missing out most of the lessons.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Apparently, Keyleth has a very low alcohol tolerance level as she gets very drunk to the point of vomiting constantly after she had just one ale in the first episode. This trait diminishes in Season 2 as Keyleth is drinking a decently sized pint with Vex and Pike after celebrating Kevdak's defeat. While she's clearly less inhibited than usual, she's not the vomiting hot mess who could barely stand like she was in the very first episode.
• Catchphrase: Of a sorts. When someone asks or suggests Keyleth to perform a powerful spell, she'll respond with "Me?" or "Who, me?"
• Celibate Hero: She chooses not to engage in any romantic relationship with Vax because she believes the duty she has to the realm and her people comes first. Season 2 also shows that one of the big reasons for her apprehension in the pursuit of romance with Vax is that as a druid, she will age 10 times slower than normal. Meaning that once fully realized, Keyleth's final life expectancy will be anywhere between 800 to 1000 years, so she'll outlive most of her friends by centuries. Those reasons make any romance for her impossible… at least for now.
• Character Development: At the start of the series, Keyleth was a crippingly insecure, socially awkward Inept Mage (barring her talents for vine creation, speaking to animals and plants and turning into various animals) who would often freeze in panic during the heat of battle, but she was also very sweet, helpful and willing to throw herself in danger to protect her loved ones and people who needed her despite being scared out of her wits. While still holding onto her kindness and heroism. as the series went on however, not only does Keyleth garner more magical abilities, but she also becomes more involved and formidable in combat as well as more self-assured and eager to leap into action to protect her loved ones with zero hesitation.
• Character Tics: Keyleth has a tendency to clench on her Magic Staff whenever she is scared or is nervous and will point to herself when saying "Me?" or "Who, me?".
• Chekhov's Lecture: Before she leaves on her own Aramente, Keyleth's mother tells her to listen to the elements and to never hesitate before them, as she was made to pass through fire. Keyleth embraces her mother's lesson to push through to the Plane of Fire, sealing it and completing her fire trial.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Though not to the degree of Pike, Keyleth has a compulsion to save anybody who needs help. In "The Terror Of Tal'Dorei" Keyleth is one of the first members to voice her approval for slaying Brimscythe after he destroyed a village and all its citizens despite openly admitting to being terrified out of her mind about it. She also wholeheartedly commits to freeing Whitestone from the Briarwood's reign of terror and magically healing Cassandra's slit throat despite her healing magic not being up to snuff. This trait carries over (and strengthens) in Season 2. The most prominent moment is "Pass Through Fire" when the Pyrah was overrun and destroyed by millions of man-eating snake-bat monsters from the Fire Plane and Keyleth leaves the group to save Pyrah by herself after Vax'ildan sternly tells her they have to stay the course. This decision ultimately paid off as not only did Keyleth save Pyrah and close the rift to the Fire Plane, but she also gained the power to transform into a Fire Elemental Titan and travel between planes.
• The Clan: She is part of the Air Ashari tribe.
• Classical Antihero: She is the typical insecure, shy and Socially Awkward Hero. She is always snapped out of her insecurities by the others in order to use her powers. Keyleth could easily be one of the strongest magic users, but is crippled by her low self esteem; she does become more confident in her abilities as the seasons go on, but still has a long road ahead.
• Coming of Age Story: Keyleth's Aramente is about having to prove herself worthy of becoming the leader of the Air Ashari and shaking off her sheltered upbringing, transitioning from an insecure Cowardly Lion to someone willing to take the matters into their own hands.
• Combat Medic: Keyleth is barely a rookie in terms of healing, so she does not have Pike's level of healing abilities nor wide knowledge about medicine, but she knows enough to save Cassandra and heal her slashed throat.
• Combo Platter Powers: Keyleth has the most random and widest range of abilities and magic spells; talking to animals and plants, manipulating vines, Elemental Powers, using crystals as shields, Sunlight magic, Weather Manipulation, heating and melting metals, transforming into animals, Healing Hands, and creating portals.
• Cool Crown: She wears wooden antlers that look like one. In the 2nd season, after becoming a Fire Elemental and passing her fire trial for her Aramente, Keyleth's antlers gain a ruby between the antlers making it look more like a simple crown.
• Cute Bruiser: Once she gathers enough nerve, Keyleth will attack with all her might, whether with her staff or her spells, or sometimes both.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: She has a habit to trip and drop her stuff.
• Cute Witch: Keyleth is endearing, insecure, went to a Wizarding School, and was sent on an sacred pilgrimage because she is The Chosen One for her people.
• The Cutie: Pike may have the size to qualify for this, but Keyleth has everything else. She's shy, prone to panicking, and seems more confident interacting with animals than people, all while being wholly adorable and unfailingly kind toward pretty much everyone.
• Daddy's Girl: Due to the disappearance of his wife, Korrin had to raise Keyleth by himself, and it's clear that he absolutely doted on his only child. They have a very close bond, and are overjoyed to see each other again in Pyrah, despite the tragic circumstances.
• Dimensional Traveler: Keyleth gains the ability to travel among different planes of realities in Pyrah.
• Druid: Keyleth is a druid of the Air Ashari, capable of wielding magic tied to the natural elements as well as transforming into beasts.
• Dude Magnet: Even though Vex is more of the flirt, Keyleth attracted the attention of two men without even trying by simply being a kind-hearted, adorable and clumsy Druid.
• Elemental Powers: Keyleth was shown being capable to manipulate almost all elements of nature; lightning, ice, fire, earth, the power of the sun, air, and manipulating the vines.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: Aside from beasts, Keyleth can also transform into elementals.
• The Exile: Of a sorts. Instead of the usual reason being the exiled character is cast off for an offense and never wanted to be seen nor heard from again,she has been unwillingly nominated by the Air Ashari for a sacred pilgrimage known as the Aramenté in which the druid chosen is to pass the elemental trials of other Ashari and become the ruler of the Ashari known as "The Voice Of The Tempest." She cannot return home unless she succeeds, and is riddled with anxiety over it.
• Expy: According to Marisha Ray, Aang's journey to become the Avatar was a big inspiration for Keyleth's Aramente. Keyleth too is part of an ethnic group with air-based powers, has Elemental Powers similar to Aang, and shares his affinity with almost every animal he meets.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: She can generate a wall of ice, use Sunlight magic, fire-based spells, and invoke thunders from the sky.
• First Love: When Vax confesses his love for her, Keyleth tells him this is the first time someone ever told her that, implying he is the first person she ever fell for.
• Flowers of Femininity: Keyleth loves to wear flowers in her hair for formal occasions, and invokes flowers when she is in a happy mood.
• Friend to All Living Things: She can talk to animals and trees. Pike and even Grog think it's weird when they witness Keyleth politely interrogating a tree about the mysterious attacks in Tal'Dorei.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: She is always on the receiving end from the others when she enters the Heroic BSoD in a fight. Vex especially tells her several times to get her shit together. However, this eventually all but vanishes as Keyleth gains more magical capabilities and self-confidence and as Vex warms up to Keyleth.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Keyleth is shy, peaceful, and loves flowers and animals, but she is not above participating in drinking contests and will battle just as ferociously as Grog if any of her friends are in danger.
• The Gloves Come Off: Keyleth is worried that she will mortally burn Grog too if she uses the Sunbeam at full capacity to defeat Sylas, but he encourages her to give it all while he still holds the vampire. Said and done, she obliterates Sylas without restraint, burning Grog's skin in the same time. Not that he's affected by it or anything, though.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Kiki's eyes will glow white if she uses a powerful magical attack, orange when she uses her Fire Elemental powers and green right before she turns into an animal.
• Good Is Not Soft: While Keyleth is undoubtedly the nicest member of Vox Machina and the one most opposed to killing, that doesn't mean she can't and won't end you if you attack her friends or innocent bystanders. In Episode 6 "Spark Of Rebellion", Stonefell makes the mistake of knee-capping and braining a rebel who bravely and wholeheartedly aided Vox Machina and the rebellion in general right in front of Keyleth. Keyleth sheds a tear but she doesn't sit there and cry, oho no. Her irises and pupils turn into slits and she transforms into a hulking, white and red-striped saber-toothed tiger launching herself at Stonefell, who would have been killed had he not been bodyblocked by two armored guards.
  • In the 17th episode, "Pass Through Fire" after Keyleth leaves the group to save Pyrah by herself after Vax shut down her pleas to go save the Fire Ashari she attacks a bat serpent monster that was about to eat a Fire Ashari girl and after gaining the powers to control/summon fire and transform into a flaming Fire Elemental Titan incinerates all the serpent-bat monsters and seals the rift permanently.
• Go Out with a Smile: She smiles while Taking the Bullet for Vex. Subverted, she survives Delilah's attack because Vax heals her in time.
• Green Thumb: One of her preferred spells involve manipulating vines to do anything from entangling enemies to creating a wall of thorns.
• Grew a Spine: In Season 1, Keyleth started as a Socially Awkward Hero, crippled by her own fears about the Aramente, struggling with spells that didn't involve tuning into an animal, talking to plants or creating and manipulating vines and constantly having a Heroic BSoD moment in the middle of a battle. In Season 2, she grows to be more confident in herself after mastering the power of fire in Pyrah and sealing the rift between the planes by herself. Keyleth is also more combat-involved than before, best seen how she bravely she dealt with Umbrasyl and the Herd of Storms, versus the Nervous Wreck she was in the battle with Brimscythe. She also holds her liquor better than in Season 1, and is a touch more inclined to profanity.
• Hartman Hips: Contrasting Vex'ahlia's buxomness, Keyleth's hips are a bit wider than her bust.
• Healing Magic Is the Hardest: Whike Keyleth can use healing magic like Pike, she absolutely sucks at it. When she uses what appears to be Cure Wounds on Cassandra, she has to sit down and take out material components to make a poultice first. She has to apply pressure to the wound in order to slow the bleeding long enough for the spell to work its magic. It takes longer than six seconds for Cassandra to heal. This is a lot more work than Call Lightning or shape-changing.
  • She does no healings on Season 2 despite having several opportunities when Pike gets too exhausted to do it.
• The Heart: She is more feminine than Pike or Vex, as well as the youngest, kindest and most naive member of the party.
• Heroic BSoD: She can panic quite quick to the point where she freezes, like when Vox Machina confronted a dragon and needed Vex and Pike to snap her out of it, or when everyone was attacked by wraiths at the castle, and all she could do was hop away in tears with Delilah's book or hide under an altar and tremble at first. These moments are all but absent from the 2nd season.
• Heiress To The Dojo: Keyleth was chosen to be the future leader of her people, which is the main source of all of her anxieties.
• Heroes' Frontier Step: Keyleth has two or three of these. The first one coming from the Season 1 penultimate episode, "Whispers At The Ziggurat". During the battle, Keyleth gets temporarily knocked out by Sylas and is still weakened when she regains consciousness. But seeing Grog down for the count, Pike and Scanlan getting dark magic blasted at their shield by Delilah, Percy struggling to fight off Sylas and Vex'ahlia desperately pleading with Keyleth for help while getting attacked by a mind-controlled Vax'ildan is enough for Keyleth to commune with the Sun Tree and receive the remnants of its power to incinerate Sylas to death.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Due to her insecurities and inferiority complex, Keyleth can get really down on herself.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: While everyone is partying with the Herd of Storms, Keyleth asks Vax to dance with her, but he outright rejects her because he was haunted by a vision of the Matron of Ravens. Keyleth, not knowing this, becomes quickly depressed and decides to drown her sorrows in ale.
• Incompletely Trained: The reason Keyleth can barely use most complex spells is that she never fully trained or finished her studies. She also has the complete her Aramente first.
• Informed Flaw: Initially, Vex would occasionally undermine Keyleth's accomplishments and mentioned that Keyleth would "get your shit together eventually" as if Keyleth is constantly making things worse in combat, but in actuality she proves herself to be quite useful in fights and, with Keyleth's ability to communicate with plants and animals, summon and manipulate air and eventually fire, and transform into miscellaneous animals, is even more powerful than Vex. This is justified, as Vex is jealous of her relationship with Vax (and possibly of Keyleth in general) and constantly snarks at her due to bitterness, but Vex abandons this animosity and urges Keyleth to admit her feelings for Vax.
• Ink-Suit Actor: She resembles her voice actress here even more than in Critical Role official arts.
• Innocent Flower Girl: Youngest and most naive member of the party, painfully shy at times, and a Nature Lover who invokes flowers when she feels happy.
• An Ice Person: She's able to generate a wall of ice to stop an incoming zombie horde.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: As the most important women in Vax's life, Keyleth and Vex'ahlia have this dynamic. Vex'ahlia (Dark Feminine) is world weary, confident and an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl. She loves to flirt with men and knows how to navigate the high society. She is a archer and always wears the color blue with black accents. Keyleth (Light Feminine), is her complete opposite, a ginger next door who wears green, a naïve Cute Witch with a lot of potential, but sucky social skills, with whom Vax is hopelessly in love. Vex is not very thrilled that her brother has the hots for Keyleth, but she warms up to Kiki in time.
• Light Is Good: Pike counts on Keyleth to become the light to their team in her absence.
• Light 'em Up: When Pike was unable to access her holy power, Keyleth filled the role by casting Sunlight to repel the wraiths that were attacking the keep. She also uses a Wave-Motion Gun of light on Sylas Briarwood in Episode 11, which is enough to burn the vampire lord to ashes.
• Little "No": Her horrified 'no' is the last thing seen before the arrival of the Chroma Conclave in Emon in the season one finale.
• Luminescent Blush: The twins always get Keyleth to blush.
• Kamehame Hadoken: She kills Sylas by using her Sunbeam spell against him after channeling the Sun Tree's life force.
• Magic Pants: Keyleth's uniform always changes when she shapeshifts and is back in one piece when she's returns to normal, as if it was part of her skin.
• Magic Staff: Is the owner of one. She usually uses it to fight in melee and to gather her power when she has to do a complicated spell, but also to lean on it whenever she is drunk.
• Master of the Mixed Message: For the entirety of Season 1, is implied but never outright stated that Keyleth has mutual feelings for Vax, only for her to reject him no less than twice, because she puts duty above romance. In Season 2, it looks like she was not so sure of her own decisions. She blushes around Kash the way she does around Vax, tries to improvise Vex's mood whenever he is feeling down, drunkenly asks him to dance with her and secretly follows him around. Vex'ahlia advises her to support him from now on because he is going to need her.
• Master of One Magic: Subverted in that while Keyleth struggles most of the time to use her Elemental Powers, except for invoking vines, which she perfectly masters and uses it in very creative ways, Keyleth also has a knack for communicating with various flora and fauna such as her communicating with The Sun Tree and it granting her the remainder of its power to destroy Sylas and transforming into miscellaneous animals, even growing in size as said animal like when she transformed into a hawk large enough to catch Pike, Vax and Vex from falling and to carry Percy and Pike on her back while they were chasing an airborne Umbrasyl.
• Missing Mom: Keyleth's mother left to fulfill her Aramente when her daughter was just a little girl. She never returned home. The only thing Keyleth knows about her mother is that she was seen alive in Pyrah, the home of Fire Ashari, a long time ago.
• Morphic Resonance: Whenever Keyleth morphs into an animal, some of her physical aspects (more specifically her hair color, and/or her eye color are retained. In the season 1 episodes 3, 4 and 5 Keyleth transforms into a hawk or an eagle, a jackalope and a squirrel respectively and all with red fur/feathers but, with the exception of the hawk, have fairly realistic black eyes opposed to Keyleth's trademark green irises. However, in episodes 6 and 7, Keyleth morphs into a large saber-toothed tiger with white fur but with green sclerae matching Kiki's irises and red stripes mirroring her hair color. Her Fire Elemental form has flames trailing from her head resembling her crown.
• Muggle–Mage Romance: Vax is a half-elf falling for Keyleth, who is more or less a princess for her people. This is even one of the reasons why she refuses to pursue a romantic relationship with Vax, she has a duty to her people. As well as the fact that once Keyleth completes her Aramente and becomes an Archdruid, she'll gain an extended lifespan, aging one year for every ten ultimately outliving all of Vox Machina by centuries.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Played for Laughs when it comes to the duergar bandit she accidentally gave a horrific death to.
• Nay-Theist: Keyleth has a vast knowledge about Exandria's gods and goddesses, but doesn't seem to worship any of them. However, she does acknowledge and respect their presence and influence upon the world such as when she's communicating with the Sun Tree and has a lot of reverence for their temples.
• Nervous Tics: She tends to mumble about anything and nothing whenever she is nervous, much to Vex'ahlia's annoyance.
• Nervous Wreck: Poor girl is as anxious as a chihuahua and has all the self-confidence of a flower pot.
• Nice Girl: Keyleth is a bona fide Nervous Wreck whose barely-contained anxiety frequently causes her to freeze, make mistakes, or unintentionally graphically murder Vox Machina's enemies, but she's also a complete sweetie who likes talking to trees.
• No Social Skills: Keyleth is gullible and not exactly the best at reading a situation, which can make her land on embarrassing situations, like asking Scanlan when did he ever owned beads. Yeah, she realized too late he meant anal beads.
• Out of Focus: Downplayed in comparison with Percy and Pike because she has her own episode where she gets a power-up. This being said, she has a rather supportive role, does not receive any vestige (just like Pike and Percy), her romance with Vax is side-lined unlike the first season where it was the main focus for both of them, and she does not have her own subplot or any personal conflict with other characters like Vax, Vex, Grog and Scanlan.
• Playing with Fire: In the episode "Pass Through Fire", she learns to master the power of fire. Needing to close the rift from which the dragons came in Pyrah, Keyleth concentrates all her powers, puts her hands into the rift, and walks into the fiery portal. She is instantly set ablaze and becomes one with the flames. This provides Keyleth with new powers and a new set of clothing as she decimates all the drakes in the vicinity, before closing the rift for good. Returning to the Material Plane, Keyleth receives the blessings of Pyrah for her efforts.
• The Power of the Sun: Uses sunlight in contrast to Pike's divine light (though in practice it functions the same).
• Precision F-Strike: Keyleth’s a lot more reserved about profanity, though she has her moments. For instance, after seeing Kamaljiori wipe the floor with Vax, Vex, and even Grog in subsequent one-on-one battles, she finally blows up and shouts, “FUCK his rules!”
• Redhead In Green: Keyleth is an Elvish princess with red hair who wears leaf-themed green clothing. The “green” part changes midway through Season 2, that is with her clothing becoming more reddish-brown with green trims.
• Rejection Affection: She receives two from Vax. And she rejects them both because duty comes first, despite returning Vax's feelings.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: While Keyleth would never dream of permanently abandoning the gang, she briefly pulls this in the fifth episode of Season 2 "Passing Through Fire". In that episode, Scanlan reports about a relatively nearby volcano that in his own words is "more pissed off than Vex." Said volcano happens to be an opening to the Fire Plane complete with armies of hungry, murderous salamander-bat monsters. This volcano also happens to be located in Pyrah, the home of the Fire Ashari and Keyleth's "cousin tribe", so to speak. When Keyleth anxiously urges that the gang has to help them. Vax shuts it down saying that Pyrah will have to figure it out themselves and they have to focus on finding Osysa's mate, to which everyone else reluctantly agrees with. Shocked at Vax's sudden callousness, Keyleth grunts in frustration and polymorphs into a hawk, soaring towards Pyrah with a screech. However not long after, Vax has a change of heart and Vox Machina catches up to Keyleth at Pyrah to help her save the village.
• Ship Tease:
  • Keyleth shares many romantic moments with Vax. He always praises and encourages his Kiki, making her to blush around him a lot. Too bad she rejects his love confession, twice only in season 1, before we see signs that she’s falling for him again in Season 2. Notably, when The Matron Of Ravens blesses Vax's newly acquired armor to sprout raven wings to save himself and Scanlan from falling to their deaths, Keyleth watches in awe and calls him "beautiful" when he lands.
  • In Season 2, Kash hints on her several times, making Keyleth to blush just as much as she does it when she is around Vax.
• Shipper on Deck: Keyleth can be seen smiling in the background at Percy offering his coat to Vex'ahlia.
• Shock and Awe: She's able to summon lightning from the sky and tries to use it against Brimscythe. Unfortunately, due to him being a blue dragon, it actually empowers him.
• Shrinking Violet: She's got the least nerve of Vox Machina. At least in the first season, Keyleth has to frequently tell herself that she's "got this", fumbles in combat, and needs to be talked into helping out when push comes to shove. However, her violent side is shown to be brutally effective in the right circumstances.
• Significant Green Eyed Red Head: Keyleth has emerald green eyes and autumny red hair and she's an exceptionally powerful and important member of Vox Machina.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Completing her fire trial rewards Keyleth with a new ensemble in autumn colors with a capelet and a red jewel affixed between her antlers. This makes her outfit look more like something a member of royalty would wear. Appropriate for a girl selected to lead the Ashari one day.
• Squishy Wizard: Keyleth's magical attacks have the most potential, but her lack of experience in proper combat puts her at a disadvantage against strong opponents. She can get knocked down quite easily.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Keyleth took after her mother in both appearance and role.
• Super Mode: She gains the ability to transform into a Fire Elemental on top of her previous animal transformations.
• Supernatural Floating Hair: Her hair starts to float when she channels the Sun Tree's life force to attack Sylas.
• Taking the Bullet: Keyleth willingly gets shot square in the chest by a necrotic bolt meant for Vex, preventing Delilah from killing her by a factor of mere inches and nearly dying herself in the process.
• Theme Music Power-Up: Turning Tides and “Blinded by the Light” serve as this for Keyleth when she invokes the Power of the Sun with the help of the Sun Tree and kills Sylas.
• Thinking Up Portals: Keyleth can open up portals only once a day through sentient trees.
• Took a Level in Badass: In Season 2, Kiki goes from an insecure Nervous Wreck who would freeze up in battle and could barely use most of her spells, to passing the fire trial and becoming a fire elemental as well as gaining enough courage and confidence in battle to take on an army of goliaths and a giant adult dragon.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Keyleth recounts her accidentally yet equally horrific killing of a duergar bandit with a blank smile and one of these. She's obviously trying to play it off for laughs to suit the moment, but her traumatized expression and the uniformly horrified reactions of her fellow party members massively say otherwise.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Keyleth is an incredibly powerful mage, but is not as refined in her magic as Scanlan or Pike, on top of being held back by her own self-doubt.
• Warrior Princess: She is never called princess, but she fulfils the role by being from a royal Ashari household and expected to inherit her parents' sovereignty one day. Her Aramente journey is all about becoming badass and competent enough to fill the role.
• Watching Troy Burn: Keyleth seems to be the most affected to witness Emon being destroyed by Dragons because that was the first place it felt like a home for her and her friends and where they were accepted as they are.
• Weather Manipulation: She's capable of manipulating the weather, notably using it to form the de Rolo crest with the clouds above Whitestone as a signal.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Sphynx Osysa reveals that Keyleth's other biggest fear beside failing her Aramente, is witnessing her dear ones dying because as a druid, she will age 10 times slower than normal once fully realized. The Critical Role creators state that when she becomes an archdruid, Keyleth will age one year for every ten, putting her final life expectancy to anything in between 800 to 1000 years.
• Wind Is Green: Being part of the Air Ashari, Keyleth wears mostly green. When she uses wind spells, the air currents have a greenish hue, while her staff and palms glow green.
• Youthful Freckles: She sports these in the animated series, which emphasizes her youth and naivety.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: She has rare moments, when her friends and especially Vax are attacked or hurt, where she becomes so enraged that sports a Death Glare and growls like an animal ready to attack, usually followed by her turning into an animal.

Percy

Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III

"And for the record, I have a magnificent bitch face."

Voiced by: Taliesin Jaffe (English), Arne Stefan (German)

Race: Human

Class: Fighter (Gunslinger)

The sole surviving member of the de Rolo family, out to find the ones who killed them and make them pay.

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• Accidental Murder: Despite Vax's warning to not mess around the Matron's temple, Vex and Percy don't listen, which leads to Vex'ahlia's accidental death when Percy activates a black magic trap from a sarcophagus. Percy earns a punch in the face from Vax for his troubles.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Percy is more arrogant due to his rich upbringing than he was in the original web show, Keyleth mentioning how he's embarrassed to be associated with the rest of Vox Machina. At least part of this seems to come from his simmering anger issues over his Dark and Troubled Past and tendency to bottle them up, rather than let them show, making him all-round irritable at his current circumstances.
  • In the original campaign, Percy has had more time to grow close to the team and is thus willing to admit to being frightened of what he is becoming, openly asking Vox Machina to restrain him if he goes too far. His awareness of his corruption also leads him to taking a Restrained Revenge on Delilah and at least attempting to reason with her before letting Cassandra have the honor of killing her. Here, he is much more repressed and less honest with himself about what's happening to him, trying to put off dealing with it until after the Briarwoods are taken care of, which means he more easily falls under Orthax's sway and he primarily spares Delilah so he can exact revenge on her by slowly torturing her to death.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Percy and Keyleth are good friends, but they are not close Like Brother and Sister as they were in the web show, where Percy would often get hugged by her, butt heads, finding themselves disagreeing over the importance of morality, but otherwise being so close that even Vex considered they could start a romantic relationship.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In both Kit Buss's original art for Campaign 1 and the Vox Machina Origins tie-in comics, Percy's eyes are blue; here, they're a light green.
• Artificial Limbs: He makes himself a prosthetic that covers the palm and index and middle fingers of his left hand after he shoots a hole through it to finally fight off Orthax.
• Animal Battle Aura: The smoke that emanates from Percy when he confronts a target of his revenge always takes the form of a massive crow.
• Anti-Hero: While this goes without saying due to the group he’s in, Percy really stands out with his moral ambiguity horrifying and even turning him against his allies.
• Ax-Crazy: Usually keeps his cool, but during his time seeking revenge against the Briarwoods, Percy reveals himself capable of going completely off the chain. He threatens his allies and innocent people, his threats to his enemies are graphic and terrifying, and he murders his targets in brutal fashions.
• Baritone of Strength/Tenor Boy: Percy gets much more use out of Taliesin Jaffe's lower register than he did in the original stream, while the German dub choice is an odd contrast, as Arne Stefan is a Tenor, making him sound far more intellectual and tragic.
• Badass Boast: After he kills Stonefell, Vax confronts Percy about running off. Percy responds that he's not about to stop with Stonefell.
  Percy: I am the sole surviving de Rolo! I will have my vengeance! And no one will stand in my way!
• Badass Bookworm: Most of his badassery comes from the fact that he invented his own guns. He was also shown in his teenage years being very studious.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Percy is the only one in his team who is sharp dressed.
• Badass Long Coat: He rocks one in the Victorian era fashion, emphasizing his aristocratic origins.
• Badass Normal: He is only human on the team and lacks any magical abilities, but this doesn't make Percival any less dangerous than his friends. He is very intelligent and skillful and one of the strongest combatants of Vox Machina, especially if he is enraged.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: Against Orthax who tries to take over Percy's mind and make him kill all of his friends.
• Blue Is Heroic: His attire is mostly dark blue.
• Becoming the Mask: The more Percival allows himself to be consumed by hatred, the more he becomes alike to Orthax. Whenever he is about to kill someone guilty for what happened to his family, the smoky entity that Percy made a deal with becomes prominent and his Plague Doctor mask appears on his face.
• Best Served Cold: Percy prepared for five years to finally get his revenge, and nothing could stand in his way. He was even willing to go back to Whitestone by himself to deal with those who wronged him once and for all.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Percy is mild-mannered and quite most of the time and becomes deadly quiet when he hunts down his enemies.
• BFG: He shows off the prototype of his famous rifle, 'Bad News', by blowing the arm off of an undead giant.
• Big Brother Instinct: He is fiercely protective of Cassandra, once he learns she's still alive. He flies into a rage when Anders slits her throat in front of him, and her calling to him is what breaks Orthax's control over him after he blows Anders' head off. He also shuts down Scanlan's attempt to flirt with her with a very firm "No."
• Black Eyes of Evil: Whenever Percy is in No Mercy mode (usually when facing one of the targets on The List), he sports some very sinister blackened eyes with fiery irises beneath his Scary Shiny Glasses. This is best shown when he takes off his mask just before killing Stonefell in Episode 6. This is a sign of being influenced/possessed by Orthax.
• Blue Blood: Percy is part of the de Rolo dynasty, the noble family that ruled over Whitestone until the Briarwoods took over.
• Boom, Headshot!: No Mercy Percy's favorite way to kill someone.
• The Bore: Can become this when he delivers long, intellectual explanations for his various plans and traps—almost everyone falls asleep after he attempts to explain the elaborate mechanism he intends to catch Umbrasyl with.
• British Stuffiness: Downplayed; although Percy is not British due to the fact that the series takes place in a fantasy world, he acts very sophisticated and well mannered and Scanlan describes him as an "aloof tight-ass". However, Percy harbors great anger towards the Briarwoods and their associates due to what they did to his family, and it's the first time anyone on the team sees a crack in his facade.
• Broken Ace: Percy is a handsome young nobleman, talented at many things: a skilled engineer and the first gunslinger in the world with a firearm of his own invention, with decent hand-to-hand combat skills to boot. Despite all the magnificent things Percy has done and is capable of, he’s also unstable and volatile thanks to his past once his trauma has come home to roost.
• But I Read a Book About It: Percy studied the Fey Realm as a child, and gets frustrated when it doesn't always function the way he read in the books. His knowledge is crucial at times, but not enough to fully navigate or understand the strangeness of the place, and because of this, he doesn't like accepting the help of Garmelie, one of the natives. By the end of the journey, Percy mutters to himself that he hates the Fey Realm.
• Byronic Hero: Just like his livestream version, Percival is handsome, a sophisticated young nobleman, snarky, intuitive and intelligent. He is also a talented brooder prone to wild mood swings, with a Dark and Troubled Past, whose entire arc is to get revenge on those who murdered his family. He is determined and self-centered enough to risks his friends' lives just to get his revenge.
• Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: An unusual version in that it's not played for comedy - Orthax's plague doctor mask can simply appear on Percy's face whenever Percy is obscured from the camera for a second.
• The Comically Serious: Percy is the typical aloof Only Sane Man in Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, who reacts with deadpan seriousness to almost all the wackiness Vox Machina gets into. Even when he falls out of a window and lands on Vax and Scanlan, Percy maintains his prissiness and upper-class way of speaking.
  Percy (flatly): I fell out of the window.
• Commonality Connection: Recognising that Vax has been deeply shaken by the horrific visions he's been experiencing after attuning to the Deathwalker's Ward, Percy lets him know in the Fey Realm that he's got his back, since he "knows what it's like to carry darkness" — reasoning Vax's deal with the Matron of Ravens may be akin to his own with Orthax. Fortunately she appears to be rather more benevolent.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Was subjected to torture for weeks at the hands of an assistant to the Briarwoods, Dr. Ripley. Percy would be cut open and beaten just to satisfy the sadism of his captors. He also tortures one of the Briarwoods' lackeys, ultimately maiming him, to the horror of the rest of the group.
• Creepy Crows: Orthax has a crow-like appearance, and Percy seems to have unwittingly modeled his rather unsettling face mask after it.
• Crush Blush: Percy blushes for the first time around Vex in season 2, after giving her his coat when she complains about the cold in Rimecleft.
• Cultured Badass: His intellectualism is emphasized several times in the show.
• Dark and Troubled Past: As he himself puts it here:
  Percival: The creation of the pepperbox begins five years ago. With my family murdered, I hand no way of striking back, so I did the only thing I could; I fled. Washed away to a new life, I feared the de Rolo name was a death sentence, so I disappeared, wandering aimlessly. My days spent struggling for survival, my nights filled with fear, blood and cruel nightmares. These unrelenting visions of my family's end. I worried I would go mad from grief.
• Deal with the Devil: Unwittingly made a pact with a shadowy spectre to exact his vengeance for his family, which inspired him to create his firearms. Said spirit’s influence emanates from him when he eliminates his mark. The spectre is a demon by the name of Orthax.
• Death Glare: Percy stares daggers towards the Briarwoods during the royal dinner at the palace, and nothing the rest of the party does can snap him out of it.
• Designated Bullet: Everyone who played a significant role in the Briarwoods' coup got their name written on his pepper box.
• Dork Knight: Starting with Season 2, he shows more of his geeky side. He is far more relaxed and enthusiastic to talk about the things he is passionate about, often leaving his friends confused because they are not used to seeing the sophisticated and stuck-up Percy becoming so dorky.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: In his flashbacks, it is shown that Percy had his bangs let down with a split in the middle, having the looks of a typical sheltered nerd. After his family was murdered and being forced to flee, Percy's hair turns white and changes his hairstyle to a brushed-up fringe cut, making him look serious and unapproachable.
• Facepalm: Percy's favorite reaction to his friends' antics.
• Fatal Flaw: His Wrath. Percy lets his anger cloud his mind and morals, which puts himself and others in danger and even lets demons takes over his soul. The plan to save Archie gets delayed because Percy didn't respect the plan and went after Stonefell, which resulted into several prisoners getting killed by the guards when they could have been saved. He also accidentally pointed his pepperbox at Vax's face in a fit of anger.
• Firing One-Handed: Percy has no troubles firing with his pepperbox one-handed, sometimes while performing various acrobatics without affecting his accuracy.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Comes with the territory given that Percy is an engineer. He created the first guns in Exandria and even a prosthetic. In season 2 he sets up a diorama to explain how to trap a dragon, complete with working mini-trap.
• Gentleman Snarker: Being an aristocrat, Percy has a sophisticated and dry sense of humor.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: It takes Vex slapping him across his face and yelling at him to get over his sister's betrayal.
• Gotta Kill Them All: Percy's gun has a magical list of everyone he wants to kill as revenge for the Briarwoods attack. A name is magically engraved on each barrel, and fades off when the target dies. Only five of these six people have been revealed as of episode 9: Lord Briarwood, Lady Briarwood, Professor Anders, Sir Stonefell and Dr. Anna Ripley. The whole concept gets Deconstructed when the list updates with Cassandra's name after she betrays them, despite it being due to a combination of Sylas' mind control and the years of abuse that made her subservient to the Briarwoods. And when Vox Machina get in Percy's way when Orthax is directly pushing him to finish off a badly-wounded Delilah, the list then includes their names as well, showing that Orthax will add as many names as it can to turn Percy into its personal killer and deliverer of souls. The more targets Percy kills, the stronger the vengeance demon's hold over him grows as well—when three names are removed from the list, Orthax can directly control Percy's body to an extent and manifest as Super Smoke to attack those around him. It's implied that if one more name had been removed, Percy's soul would have belonged to Orthax forever.
• The Gunslinger: Really sticks out in a medieval fantasy setting by being the first person in Exandria to develop guns. It's even suggested the very idea of black powder firearms in Exandria in general was demonically inspired.
• Haughty "Hmph": He is quite confident in his abilities and he does it in a smug manner.
• Heroic BSoD: He is so shocked by Cassanndra's apparent betrayal that he enters in a catatonic state and is ready to just give up on his life.
  Grog: Oh, great; Percy's broken!
• Hidden Depths: Who expected the stoic and Only Sane Man Percy to be such an enthusiastic geek for the Fey Realm?
• Hot Blooded Sideburns: Percy has well-trimmed sideburns, and can have a very explosive temper.
• I Call It "Vera": He likes to name his various arms and contraptions, such as his large rifle "Bad News" and his prosthetic arm "Diplomacy".
• Impaled Palm: Shoots a decent-sized hole in his left hand to throw off Orthax's influence. The epilogue shows him with a prosthesis that looks distinctly like his shock gauntlet from the web series.
• Implied Love Interest. For Vex in season 2. When she fights Saundor who wants Vex'ahlia all for himself, she tells him that her heart already belongs to someone else. Next shot is Percy reacting to her words.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Pinned against a wall during the fight against Anders, Percy pulls off a very impressive trick shot, firing a bullet that bounces off metal plates before impacting against and blowing off Anders' jaw. Possibly aided by Orthax; since this is after the first name (Stonefell) had been struck off the list, it's possible Orthax had enough control to give the bullet a little demonic assistance.
• It's Personal: All of his personal enemies' names are magically engraved on his pepperbox pistol: Lord and Lady Briarwood, Dr. Ripley, Professor Anders, and Kerrion Stonefell.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Percy is stuffy, emotionally distant, and a little arrogant, on top of being capable of nearly outlandish brutality when presented with an evil enough target. He's also a loving brother, loyal to a fault, and keenly understanding of his teammates' insecurities and traumas, which only makes sense when his personality faults are largely the result of the horrific trauma in his own past.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Percy visibly geeks out when he sees the Fey Realm for the first time. He spent his childhood learning everything he could about the realm and knows how to orient himself only from what he has read in books despite being there for the first time.
• Kubrick Stare: When he is angry, this becomes Percy's default expression.
• The Lancer: While Vex is the unofficial leader of Vox Machina, Percy often acts as her second-in-command. Being the most intelligent members, they usually work out plans together, and Percy backs up her decisions.
• Last of His Kind: Subverted. He thinks he is the last de Rolo, until he learns from Archie that his sister, Cassandra is still alive.
• Lessons in Sophistication: He tries to instruct his friends about manners and how to behave at a party with noble people. He gets almost completely ignored, though to their credit, Keyleth, Pike, and Grog at least make an effort, and Vex and Vax are already well-versed in etiquette from their time in Syngorn.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When he accidentally kills Vex, this is written all over his face.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Percy snaps a very firm "No" and gives Scanlan a Death Glare to keep the sex-crazed gnome away from his sister.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: In less than a day, he makes full use of his engineering prowess to build an elaborate trap for Umbrasyl in "Belly of the Beast", consisting of two giant wooden frames which spring out of the ground and pin the dragon down. He escapes in less than thirty seconds.
• Nonchalant Dodge: During the Bar Brawl, Percy sits down bored and makes the most minimal amount of movement necessary to avoid a pint thrown at him and a female orc attacking him.
• Non-Idle Rich: Even after gaining his ancestral home back, Percy refuses to settle down and prefers to work in the service of the king, and protect Tal'Dorei.
• Not So Above It All: While Percy believes himself to be above the other members of Vox Machina, he will occasionally join in on the fun; he facepalms as they initiate a Bar Brawl, but still ends up participating with a smirk on his face.
• Not So Stoic: He's usually fairly in control of his emotions. But when a target of his revenge comes up, Percy is angry and ruthless, frequently shouting and giving off indications that his target is about to die.
• Nothing Left to Do but Die: Implied. After explaining how his pistol has six bullets saved and names the five people he aims to kill in revenge, Scanlan asks who the sixth bullet is for. Percy doesn't say anything, but his shadow behind him looks like it's holding the pepperbox to his own head.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Enough is made of Percy's aloofness and uptightness in the first couple episodes that the sheer brutality he begins to display in Episode 3 and continues to show throughout the rest of the season manages to both shock his team members and indicate to them that something is very, very wrong, even without the Super Smoke and the Black Eyes of Evil. His pistol, the List, is also subject to this, its chambers bearing the names of five of the people who betrayed and murdered his family... and one conspicuously blank chamber.
• Only Sane by Comparison: Because of his aristocratic upbringing, Percy is the most visibly put-together person in the group; he tries to make them behave themselves for the feast and calls them out for behaving unprofessionally. No wonder he is ashamed to be associated with his team.
  Percy (as Grog and Vax fool around): Must you?
  Scanlan: We can't all be aloof tight-asses, de Rolo.
  Percy: I'm simply suggesting you could all benefit from some well-practiced restraint.
• Orphan's Ordeal: His parents' death put Percy on a journey of self-destruction for the sake of revenge. Good thing Vox Machina is there to stop him.
• Out of Focus: It's Downplayed, but in contrast to the majority of season 1 revolving around his Revenge against the Briarwoods and gradually falling further into Orthax's control he does so, to the point that the final battle of said season was to protect him from the vengeance demon rather than the Briarwood's machinations with the Whispered One, season 2 has his role reduced to mainly being a supporting character for the other members of Vox Machina going through their own Character Development arcs in their search for the vestiges, particularly Vex and Vax. By season's end, he's one of the only members who hasn't received a vestige or a major power boost like Keyleth.
• Overly Long Name: His name is a fairly accurate reflection of his entire lineage, as most of his middle names are the families that married into the de Rolo family.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Percy's life's work is to hunt down every name etched into his gun and slaughter them with extreme prejudice and merciless brutality. Considering said names are those of the people who murdered his entire family, his young siblings included, and then violently oppressed the people of his home for years, it's very hard to argue with his ends.
• Plague Doctor: The mask he wears when going for someone on the List is fashioned after a plague doctor, complete with the beak. It seems to be based on Orthax's demonic form, implying the demon subconsciously influenced him to make it.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Having resolved his anger issues, dispelled himself of Orthax's influence, and made peace with his Dark and Troubled Past, not to mention reconnected with family he thought lost, Percy is much more light-hearted throughout season 2, showing more emotion and being the subject of more than a few jokes at his expense, particularly during the jaunt in the Fey Realm. This contrasts with Scanlan, Vax and Grog, the usual offenders of said antics, having more serious storylines and Character Development throughout said season.
• The Power of Hate: Percy acknowledges that what kept him alive in the five years he was trying to survive was the growing and consuming hatred in his heart. He ends up unwittingly making a pact with Orthax, a demon of vengeance.
• Precision F-Strike: Percy swears even less than Keyleth because he was raised to be a gentleman, but even he snaps a 'For fuck's sake!" when something malfunctions.
• Prematurely Grey-Haired: Percy had reddish brown hair in his youth, but after seeing his family murdered and enduring weeks of torture, his hair turned completely white with the time.
• Preppy Name: His full name showcases his noble heritage — Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III.
• Princely Young Man: Percival is never addressed as prince or anything like that, just as lord, despite his family being explicitly referred as a royal house. He tries to use his impressive long name and status to achieve his ends with mixed results, not exactly impressing the people with his inheritance.
• Promoted to Love Interest: Inverted. In Critical Role early on, is revealed Pike used to have a secret crush on Percy, but here, she's never romantically attracted to him.
• Revenge: His main motivation. As Scanlan points out, Percy was 'insane with vengeance'.
• Revenge Before Reason: He yells at his teammates, gets them arrested, and abandons a mission for the sake of getting his vengeance. In Episode 3, Percy shoots off Desmond's hand to get him to talk, and he leaves the rest of Vox Machina to fend for themselves while he goes to kill Stonefell in Episode 6. Vax calls him out on it, but Percy isn't swayed.
• Reluctant Ruler: While he is the heir to Whitestone after the rest of the de Rolo line was massacred, he is uncomfortable with taking the position, arguing that not only did he flee instead of staying to try to help, he has also spent far too much time dwelling on his anger and revenge, and that he therefore lacks the temperament of a leader.
• Riches to Rags: From a member to one of the oldest and richest noble dynasties in Tal-Dorei to a Street Urchin for years.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Frequently used to represent when his darker traits are taking over; the shine to his glasses only shows up when he's discussing or enacting his revenge and it heavily resembles Orthax's Blank White Eyes, suggesting that these moments are when Orthax's influence is strongest.
• Science Hero: Of the engineering variety.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: If Percy wants to explain something, changes are that he's going to use scientific and complicated terms that only a Science Hero like him would know and go on a long rant about it.
• The Shadow Knows: His shadow occasionally moves on its own to take the shape of Orthax, notably when he prepares to kill Desmond in episode 3. When Scanlan asks him who the sixth barrel on the List is for, Percy's shadow is framed such that it looks like he's pointing the gun at his own head — though as it turns out, this is less literal and more a metaphor for how Orthax (and by extension Percy's spiral into vengeance) will eventually consume him.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Complete with Classy Cravat, Waistcoat of Style, and Badass Longcoat.
• Shock and Awe: The prosthetic he fitted to the palm of his hand is indeed revealed to be the animated series' counterpart to the shock gauntlet Diplomacy, and he uses it to kill a threatening fey creature while it's submerged in water.
• Shouting Shooter: He loses his cool while attacking at several points, particularly in episode 12 when he's attacking Vox Machina due to Orthax's possession making him believe they are actually the targets of the List.
• A Sinister Clue: Percy appears to be ambidextrous, using both of his hands interchangeably for different tasks, but notably wields his pepperbox primarily with his left hand, hinting at the darkness of his vengeful pact. As he marks more names off the list, he starts using his right hand more, showing how his own will is aligning with Orthax. When he finally expels the demon from his soul, he does so by firing a bullet through his left hand.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Gender-Inverted with Percy and Vex. If Percy's own words about Vex'ahlia having the rare quality of a pure heart are of any indication, he's attracted to her because she is a good person who does not get distracted from the right path.
• The Smart Guy: Percy is interested in science, engineering, and naturalism, and in his flashbacks, it's shown he was intensely schooled and enjoyed his tutoring. Dr. Ripley tries to appeal to him to let her live by reminding him they are both are engineers in search for knowledge.
• Sole Survivor: The only surviving member of the de Rolo family not killed by the Briarwoods. Or so he thinks; Episode 6 reveals that his sister Cassandra is still alive.
• Stoic Spectacles: Percy is the most level-headed and calmest person in Vox Machina and wears rounded glasses.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Percy more than often, is embarrassed to be seen around Vox Machina because of their shanenigans.
• Survivor Guilt: He always felt guilty for failing to save his sister.
• Teen Genius: He created his pepperbox as a teenage boy, after he ran away from Whitestone. Even as child, he was already very knowledgeable about engineering and the Fey Realm.
• Token Evil Teammate: Played with. The slaughter of the village in the Shale Steps moves him to fight as much as it does everyone else, and while he acts pragmatically it's largely to ensure everyone's survival. But as he is increasingly consumed by revenge, he becomes so wildly vicious and cruel at times he horrifies his already morally ambiguous companions and even shows willingness to hurt them for getting in his way. Thankfully, the breaking of the pact with Orthax marks the point where he drops this, as he begins healing and starts genuinely smiling and interacting with his friends more often.
• Token Human: The lack of pointy ears, giant size, or gray skin all make it clear Percy is the only human member of Vox Machina.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Now that Orthax and his desire for revenge don't weight on him anymore, Percy's cynical mood improved a lot since liberating Whitestone from the Briarwoods. He is far more relaxed and willing to engage with the shenanigans of his friends without feeling embarrassed. You can see how a part of his cheerfulness he had as a child returned only by how enthusiastically he is talking about the Fey Realm to his friends.
• Tranquil Fury: After meeting the Briarwoods after many years, Percy spends his time being mostly angry. No wonder he is called No Mercy Percy by the fandom.
  Percy: Please stop that. I'm trying to concentrate.
  Vex: Oh, is that what are you doing? I thought you were practicing your resting bitch face.
• Trap Master: To catch Umbrasyl, Percy devises an ingenious but complicated trap to keep the dragon on the ground. When he explains the physics needed and the mechanisms, he bores everyone because they don't understand the academic and scientific terms he uses. Make no mistake, his trap was very efficient and well executed, but Umbrasyl proved to be too powerful to be contained.
• Tricked-Out Gloves: Diplomacy, a gauntlet created by Percy. It has the power to generate electricity.
• Troubled, but Cute: An aristocratic Pretty Boy obsessed with revenge who is dealing with the unjust murder of his family.
• Unexpected Successor: As a middle child, he wasn't in line for the role of taking over as ruler of Whitestone; it was expected to go to his oldest brother Julius, who died in the Briarwoods' attack. This is one of the many reasons Percy feels Unfit for Greatness.
• Unstoppable Rage: Percy can become very unstable and bloodthirsty, when Orthax takes over. He pointed his gun even to Vax in blind rage. His rather youthful face gains wrinkles to emphasize his supernaturally-enhanced fury.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Percy couldn't to wait for Vex'ahlia to finish checking the traps from the sarcophagus, and as a result he accidentally activates a hidden dark magic mechanism which kills her. Vax'ildan has to trades his life to the Raven Queen in her stead.
• Unusual Eyebrows: Of the kinked type.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He was once a cheerful young boy who loved playing with his younger sister and enthusiastically pursued his academics. Then the Briarwoods murdered his family, tortured him and Cassandra, and turned him into the Runaway. Over the course of 5 years, the only things that kept Percy alive were revenge and hatred, and he is cold and cynical in the present. However once the Briarwoods are killed and Whitestone is liberated and he reunited with his sister Cass, Percy's mood very much improved and is nicer and more supportive of his friends.
• Voice of the Legion: Whenever Percy puts his mask on, there's a faint-but-distinct echo to his voice. This second voice is Orthax's, and as time goes on and the demon's grip on Percy grows stronger, so too does this effect.
• Weak to Fire: When his coat gets set on fire by the fire elementals, he panics and screams that he is very flammable—which he most certainly is, considering the amount of gunpowder he has on him.
• Wine Is Classy: While his friends usually choose to drink ale, Percy prefers drinking wine from fancy glasses. In Season 2, Percy celebrates the defeat of Kevdak with Grog and his cousin, and is served a mug of ale that he pours on the floor when no one is looking; he's later seen toasting Keyleth's tankard with his own glass of wine. (This is actually a departure from his stream counterpart, who regularly partook in the same ale and shots as the rest of the party.)
• Writing Around Trademarks: Percy comes off as a reskinned warlock, with the pepperbox being a focus for eldritch blast, his black smoke like the hex spell, and even comes complete with a deal with a demon. It's a subversion, however, as he was a gunslinger in the web series in both Pathfinder and in a homebrewed variant in 5th Edition.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: He tells Keyleth she is "damn worthy" to complete her Aramente, and encourages her to prove herself.

Pike

Pike Trickfoot

"Maybe we could try doing some good this time?"

Voiced by: Ashley Johnson (English), Lea Kalbhenn (German)

Race: Gnome

Class: Cleric (War Domain)

A gnomish cleric of the Everlight who struggles to find faith in an unforgiving world.

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• Adaptation Personality Change: In Critical Role, Pike is a polite, motherly Nice Girl who mostly kept her vices under the surface. In the show, while still a kind and compassionate person, she's also a crass, somewhat short-tempered lover of alcohol who's far more likely to be involved in the wacky antics of the party.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • She's far more open to Scanlan hitting on her than she was comparatively at that point in the campaign. In Episode 9, Scanlan exclaims "Marry me!", to which she playfully replies "Sure, let's do it right now" before Grog interrupts them. In the campaign, Pike spends most of the Campaign rebuffing Scanlan's advances, partially because she's put off by his womanizing ways, and it's only late in the campaign where she begins openly reciprocating his advances, following much character growth for both of them.
  • She is not secretly in love with Percy here like she was in Critical Role. That said, the original stream never shown her to be attracted to Percy either, with it only being revealed in the "Talks Machina: Campaign Wrap-up" special.
• Affectionate Nickname: She has a tendency to call Grog "Buddies" (yes, plural).
• Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: She wears a symbol of Sarenrae around her neck that she uses as a spellcasting focus. When the necklace is destroyed by Delilah, Pike loses temporarily all of her powers.
• Angelic Beauty: She certainly is perceived as such by Scanlan when she arrives in Whitestone encircled by light magic, illuminating the whole sky.
• Astral Projection: With the help of Everlight, Pike projects her conscious mind just in time to Whitestone, since going there physically would take too long.
• Aura Vision: With the help of her Everlight Amulet, Pike can detect magical objects and even demonic possessions.
• Badass Adorable: Definitely when she arrives in Whitestone clothed in an aura of light, and destroys an army of zombies. Scanlan even compares her to an angel.
• Best Friend: Grog calls Pike his best friend.
• Big Damn Heroes: She returns to the group and saves everyone just when they are surrounded by zombies and ready to give up the fight.
• Blood Knight: She confesses to the Everlight that she enjoys the violence and fighting.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: The Guiding Bolt spell she uses to destroy zombies and giants.
• Brains and Brawn: She is the knowledgeable Church Militant to Grog's Dumb Muscle.
• Childhood Friends: She grew up with Grog after her great-great-grandfather adopted him.
• Church Militant: She worships Sarenrae, and wears armour all the time.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: She always acts as voice of the reason and The Watson for Grog.
• Combat Medic: She is the doctor of the team. Her healing magic is powerful enough to keep Grog save while he swims through acid.
• Coy, Girlish Flirt Pose: Pike does this to Scanlan to encourage him to steal the Knuckles from Kevdak. Luminescent Blush ensues from Scanlan.
• Crisis of Faith: What keeps her temporarily away from the party for the middle of the first season—after Delilah's spell smashed her holy symbol, she begins to doubt herself (specifically, her choice of War Domain instead of Life) and her devotion to the Everlight, and the connection between them is temporarily severed.
• Dying Declaration of Love: Inverted. While not outright spelling out she is in love with him, Pike tells to an unconscious Scanlan that she always knew, even more than him, that he was capable of great things. She seals her confession with a kiss on Scanlan's lips. Luckily for her he wasn't dying, he was just taking advantage to hear Pike saying all those things.
• Dynamic Entry: Pike's divine intervention when everyone was about to be killed by zombies in Whitestone.
  Pike: S'up?
• Enlightenment Superpowers: She is gifted with new set of light-based powers from Everlight, after she resolves her Crisis of Faith and achieves spiritual balance.
• Good Shepherd: Cleric of the Everlight who suggests the party "do some good" at the start of the series. This trope is examined in season 1 as Pike struggles with the idea of being all pious and noble while also being violent and vulgar.
• Gold and White Are Divine: Pike prays to the goddess Everlight, and her powers are linked to light. When she projects her consciousness at Whitestone, she is dressed up in an golden armour, conjured by a white and yellow aura.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a small scar over her left eye, and is a holy woman of the Everlight.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Is visibly jealous when Scanlan is musically flirting with Kaylie. This later turns into disgust when she realizes their relation.
• Hard Light: Pike can turn her light magic into solid objects, like a mace and shields.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Grog the Goliath and Pike the gnome.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Pike is a lot more vulgar and short-tempered than most examples of this trope, but she's still the moral heart of Vox Machina and frequently their literal guiding light, with bright blue eyes to match.
• Instant Armor: Beginning in Season 2, Pike is able to magically don the plate armor outside of Astral Projection.
• Jack of All Stats: Pike is physically strong, but not as much of a brute as Grog, she is fast and agile, but she is not a McNinja like Vax, and while she is better at using magic than Keyleth, she does not have the latter's Combo Platter Powers. Her main standout talent in the group is as a healer.
• Journey to Find Oneself: After her bond with Everlight is severed by Sylas, Pike leaves the gang mid season to rekindle her bond with her goddess, but also to rediscover herself after being plagued with guilt for too long about whom she has became.
• The Lad-ette: She once swiped three champagne flutes off a tray at a fancy dinner, drank one like a shot, and smashed the glass on the floor. When the team finds Brimscythe's hoard, she celebrates with Grog that they could be "drunk for weeks". This becomes Played for Drama as she believes it's unbecoming of a follower of the Everlight, it being revealed that her self-doubt is the main reason why her connection is severed. However, after receiving the Everlight's blessing and astral-projecting into Whitestone to help fight off the undead, she's back to being an enthusiastic bruiser.
• Last Kiss: She kisses Scanlan on the lips thinking he died in the battle with Umbrasyl. Fortunately, he was just faking to get Pike to admit her feelings for him.
• Light 'em Up: Unlike in the campaign, Pike here does not usually carry weapons, and fights entirely through holy and light-based magic, or buffing/protecting her allies.
• Light Is Good: Wears mostly white clothing and her magic is linked to a goddess of light. When she arrives at Whitestone, she is encircled by her light magic, illuminating the whole town.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: One of her most commonly used spell is summoning a shield made of light, which she wields as a regular shield or even throws like Captain America.
• Mage Born of Muggles: Pike Trickfoot grew up in a family "with an unsavoury reputation" and used to live on the outskirts of town near the Bramblewood.
• Magic Knight: She wears a shining golden armour and wields a shield and a mace made of Hard Light.
• Mistaken for Romance: Poor Pike does not know that Kaylie is Scalan's daughter and gets jealous over their so-called chemistry.
• Mystical White Hair: Pike has platinum-blonde hair and wield light-based magic. Notably, Grog's flashbacks make it clear that this isn't her natural hair color; as a child, Pike's hair was a perfectly unremarkable darkn brown.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: When she and Vax go to Gilmore's Glorious Goods shop, Vax gets very touchy-feely with Gilmore, completely forgetting about Pike. She has to interrupts them just to introduce herself.
• Nice Girl: Pike can brawl and swear with the best of them, just like everyone else in Vox Machina, but she's also the most proactively good person in her party, swearing her loyalty to a goddess of love and being the first person in the group to suggest that they become actual heroes. Pike is the only member of Vox Machina to perfectly strike the balance between good intentions and the emotional maturity to unfailingly act on them. Notably, her response to Grog accidentally running her through during a blind rampage is to forgive and comfort him despite just being critically wounded, showing that her Poppop isn't the only one with monumental wells of mercy stored in a tiny body.
• Official Couple: Implied by the end of Season 2 when she kisses Scanlan on the mouth when she thinks he died, only for the gnome to wake up and troll her. She joyfully hugs him.
• Out of Focus: Downplayed. In season 1, she has a major Character Development side-arc going alongside the rest of Vox Machina's journey to Whitestone and investigation of the Briarwoods, and her power boost from overcoming her Crisis of Faith was sufficient to make her a major threat to the Briarwood's dark magics even through Astral Projection. In season 2, she instead becomes a supporting presence towards the other members of Vox Machina going through their own Character Development arcs as they search of the vestiges, particularly Grog and Scanlan. By season's end, she's one of the few that hasn't received a vestige or a power boost to her magical abilities.
• The Paladin: Pike fits the archetype despite not being a paladin in the context of Dungeons & Dragons; she wears armor, worships a God of Good, is an accomplished Combat Medic and has light-based powers gifted to her by Everlight.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's the only one other than Grog able to go toe-to-toe with Sylas, and she's the only one just as quick as him to try solving a problem with brute force.
• Plucky Girl: Pike is a brave and optimistic idealist who refuses to give up no matter what are the odds and allways inspires others follow her example. Vox Machina passes Osysa's Secret Test of Character simply because she stepped up and refused to leave, telling Osysa she and her teammates are willing to die for their ideals and goals.
• Power Stereotype Flip: A violent Lad-ette White Mage.
• Power-Strain Blackout: Before taking a level in badass, Pike would faint after simply healing Grog.
• Pstandard Psychic Pstance: While her powers are not really psychic in nature, she puts her hand up to her head sometimes, while trying to sense if magic was used around her.
• Raised by Grandparents: She was raised by her great-great-grandfather, Wilhand, since she was little girl.
• The Reliable One: Being the expert in magic in the team, the others always go to Pike for answers and solutions to problems involving magic. Scanlan screams for her to save him from being killed by the dragon's roar, and Keyleth asks her if she can save the king from Sylas' mind control abilities.
• Religious Bruiser: The crucial point of her character development in Season 1 is realizing that she can be both and still be accepted by the Everlight.
• Rugged Scar: She has a scar over her left eye.
• Savage Spiked Weapons: She is Blood Knight wielding a mace made of Hard Light.
• Scarf of Asskicking: She wears a blue scarf all the time.
• Seers: She can be granted visions from the Everlight of both present and future events.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Pike is attracted to Scanlan's brave and caring side, and gets easily disappointed whenever he takes that for granted and starts to make blatant advances towards her.
• Shock and Awe: She can turn her magic light into lightning, as seen in her fight against Sylas.
• Solemn Ending Theme: Episode 9 ends with a ballad about Pike's origins, sung by Scanlan in a soft and romantic manner.
• Strong and Skilled: She is one of the best hand to had combatants in the team, and the best magic user. Grog believes she is stronger than all of them.
• Team Mom: Pike is beyond any doubt the most nurturing member of Vox Machina, especially towards Grog and Keyleth.
• Token Religious Teammate: Seems to be the only explicitly religious person in Vox Machina.
• Took a Level in Badass: In the early episodes, Pike was barely capable of healing a single person per day, and she was more of a Support Party Member than anything else. After receiving the Everlight's blessing however, she essentially becomes a one woman army against the undead, and is capable of such feats as curing Scanlan of necrosis with a single touch, blessing the weapons of countless Whitestone citizens, and holding her own in a one-on-one fight against Sylas Briarwood, who is a vampire lord.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: While not exactly a couple, Pike warns Delilah to stay away from her gnome after attacking Scanlan.
• Warrior Therapist: She always comforts Keyleth and Grog.
• We Help the Helpless: As a cleric worshipping the Everlight, Pike's job is to help those in need. Her worldview clashes sometimes with the more pragmatic ways of her friends.
• White Mage: She is specialized in healing magic and is often called a holly person by other characters. In episode 1, she is asked by peasants to bless their children.
• White Magician Girl: She is extremely gifted at healing and protection magic compared to other users in the series.

Scanlan

Scanlan Shorthalt

"We're Vox Machina, we fuck shit up!"

Voiced by: Sam Riegel (English), Marius Claren (German)

Race: Gnome

Class: Bard (College of Lore)

A gnomish bard who travels the world for fun, profit, and hardcore loving.

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• Action Dad: He wants to be this for Kaylie by showing he won't run away anymore.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Zig-zagged. Scanlan is noticeably less crass than in the campaign and less of a Dogged Nice Guy in his pursuit of Pike. But when Kaylie reveals she's his daughter and rips into him for having a casual fling with her mom before leaving her to raise Kaylie alone, he was 100% ready to sleep with her to the point that he was in his underwear; in the campaign, he did invite her to his room for drinks but how much he intended to carry it further is anyone's guess.
• Adaptational Context Change: Scanlan tries to bed his daughter in both show and Critical Role, but in the latter the way he finds out Kaylie is his daughter is still different. In Critical Role, he doesn't take his clothing off and jumps directly on the bed, but instead, the build up to the reveal is much slower and emotionally-charged; they drink wine, share their adventures, and talk about each other's lives for hours. Kaylie reveals her true identity to Scanlan only after starting to talk about her past.
• Adaptational Wimp: While he does succeed in beating Vedmire and burning his manor by himself in the show, he does it by bumbling around haphazardly and chugging random potions and escapes by the skin of his teeth. In the stream, he starts the attack in his polymorphed triceratops form and seems far more in control during the entire operation, making a joke of Vedmire by pushing him off the roof before he even gets a chance to make an attack. Justified by the change in media - in the stream, Sam was rolling incredibly well and Matt Mercer very poorly, which was clearly expressed to the audience. In the show, having Scanlan devastate Vedmire so easily could raise the question of why he bothers with the rest of Vox Machina, since the audience would have no way of knowing it was almost all down to good luck.
• Affectionate Nickname: Grog and Vax call him 'Scanman' from time to time. Vax also calls him 'shorty'.
• Amazon Chaser: Scanlan literally goes all heart eyes for Pike when she defends him from Delilah.
• Animorphism: His animorphism scroll gives him the power to shapeshift into animals like Keyleth. In season 2, he turns into a dragonfly.
• Ass Shove: Happens twice in Season 2:
  • The remedy Wilhand creates to heal Grog of his condition has to be administered through the backdoor. Scanlan is more than happy to help because he knows how to work both ends.
  • In order to keep Umbrasyl from flying, Scanlan proposes to Vax to enter the dragon through the vent. He uses his magic hand to shove themselves up the beast's cloaca and into its stomach, where he uses Kaylie's enchanted sword to keep Umbrasyl from lifting off. It works for a while, but Umbrasyl ultimately powers through it.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: The anymorph scroll can turn people into their opposite gender if someone reads the spell written on it. Scanlan does this and is turned into a female elf version of himself. Grog, in his own words of wisdom, gets both confused and aroused by female Scanlan.
• The Bard: He has the campy looks of one and owns a magical lute, and is in charge of spreading stories about the legend of Vox Machina with his songs.
• Battle Amongst the Flames: He has a heated battle with Vedmire which takes place on the roof of a burning house in the rain.
• Beware the Silly Ones: At first glance, you wouldn't expect much from a silly, sex-crazed, singing gnome. But said gnome was also able to single handedly take out a squad of soldiers, burn Vedmire's manor to the ground, and fight toe to toe with the goliath himself with his wit and magic - and slay a dragon.
• Big Brother Instinct: Scanlan always cared for Grog, but in season 2, he shows more of his caring side, which surprises Pike.
• Blatant Lies: He lies to the guards that his lute is not a weapon, but a simple musical instrument.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Between his unusual magic and combat style, his cavalier self-confidence, and his prolific, often implicitly bizarre sex life, Scanlan is probably the flat-out weirdest member of an already weird party. It just so happens that that confidence is very deserved.
• Butt-Monkey: Scanlan is a magnet for troubles on a daily basis, and he is always in the middle of weird events happening. Who else but him could find troll genitals while searching for gold in the dragon's layer, or getting sprinkled with piss, ending up in the bathroom when someone takes a dump while trying to infiltrate in the enemy's camp? And in Season two, he almost bangs his own daughter. In his defense, he did not know.
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Played with, then subverted. The one and only sexual rule Scanlan seems to have is not sleeping with team members, which makes his crush on Pike a bit awkward. The moment she indicates that she reciprocates, Scanlan is overjoyed and starts saying some very nasty (muted) things while hugging her.
  Pike: Probably a good thing I can't hear you right now!
• Captain Obvious: He comes out as this to King Uriel and his advisers when he makes the big announcement that the creature who terrorized Emon was a blue dragon. They tell him they know, as they were already informed by General Krieg, whose troops were slaughtered by said dragon.
• The Caretaker: In Season 2, after Craven Edge depowers Grog and leaves him so weak he can't even walk, Scanlan carries him and attends to all of his needs.
• Carpet of Virility: In a series that also contains the perpetually shirtless Grog, Scanlan is the only man shown with visibly-detailed chest hair. Combined with his Hot Blooded Sideburns, it strongly gives him the vibe of an '80s film star.
• Casanova Wannabe: Zigzagged. While Scanlan does succeed sometimes in his flirting and seducing of people, he flirts with a Whitestone man in episode 12 only to be dragged away by Vax.
• Casual Kink: Scanlan owns anal beads and when Vex slaps him across his face, he finds it "kinda hot". Season 2 shows he's also into bondage (the receiving end).
• Catchphrase: "Scanlan's haaand!", sung when he casts his signature spell and summons a large purple hand (also a copyright-friendly version of the arcane hand/Bigby's hand spell from the tabletop game).
• Chekhov's Gun: His animorphism scroll. He initially treats the scroll as a joke, only for it to come in handy against Vedmire when it turns Scanlan into a rampaging triceratops.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Scanlan really loves receiving attention from all genders possible, but he is very romantic with his conquests. He is introduced in the show singing a lovely ballad to the tavern owner's daughter while bedding her.
• Cloudcuckoo Landers Minder: Whenever he is paired up with Grog, he has to put up with the big guy's childish antics.
• Cowardly Lion: He usually prefers to fight from a distance rather than put his life in danger, and feels completely outclassed against dragons to the point that he repeatedly pleads with the others to get away while they can. It makes him skirt the line to Dirty Coward late in season 2 when he almost abandons his friends to their fate against Umbrasyl. Once he stays, though, he fights tooth and nail, and even delivers the killing blow himself against Umbrasyl.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: You'd be forgiven for thinking Scanlan would perform poorly in a life-or-death showdown with an Implacable Man like Goran Vedmire. You'd also be dead wrong; with his potions, he single-handedly defeats Vedmire and his army and burns down his mansion.
• Crush Blush: Given that he's a shameless Extreme Omnisexual, it's quite something to see him blushing around Pike.
• The Dandy: Scanlan has both the looks and the personality. He is always immaculately groomed and wears a tailored silk shirt with a Navel-Deep Neckline to show off his Carpet of Virility. At the royal dinner, he goes over the top by wearing make-up, a flamboyant costume with a Tudor hat and a multicolored codpiece between his legs.
• Deadpan Snarker: His way of snarking is friendly and very joyful.
  Scanlan: It says "pyramid", "spirits of the dead", and right here in tiny letters it says 'Fuck you, Vax!'
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: He acknowledges to Kaylie that he's always felt empty on the inside, and that's why he always slept around so much, to fill that void, but now that he knows he has a daughter, his goal in life is to become the father she deserves.
• Disappeared Dad: Kaylie reprimands him for abandoning her and her mother. Subverted and justified in that Scanlan genuinely didn't know Kaylie existed, so he wasn't even aware there was a child to disappear on, though the fact that he can't even remember Kaylie's mother's name is still a legitimate sore spot.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Constantly. Chances are that if he sees an attractive woman or man, he will abandon the mission he was given to complete just to go and have some fun.
• Doppelgänger Spin: One of Scanlan's magic techniques is to create illusions of himself to distract his opponent.
• Dragged by the Collar: Vax drags him away by the lute from a man he was trying to romance.
• The Dragonslayer: It's him who deals the killing blow to Umbrasyl.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Scanlan is not in lack of male attention. At the royal party, when he sings, the same old noble he accused earlier of asking for advances, is shown shamelessly blushing and staring at Scanlan's manhood in front of his wife.
• Everyone Has Standards: He may be a foppish and ignorant bard obsessed with getting laid most of the time, but when the dragon kills the villagers Vox Machina vouched to protect, he is the one proposing to kill the dragon and bring justice to its victims.
• Extreme Omnisexual: Shamelessly wants to bed anybody he can in Emon. Anybody. He seems to gravitate mostly toward women, but he flirts pretty much without regard for gender, size, or species. At one point, a monster restraining him shoves a tentacle in his mouth, and Scanlan's almost immediate reaction is to begin sucking it.
• Eye Scream: He kills Umbrasyl by impaling his left eye with the Mythcarver sword.
• The Face: Shares this spot with Vex. He convinces King Uriel to hire Vox Machina despite all of them looking in a pitiful state and dirty, by singing.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: He wears tiny golden earrings on a single ear.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: While hiding from zombies, Scanlan complains that he will be the first to be taken down by them because they always eat the little guy first. Several seconds later the zombies break into the hideout, grab him first and bite his arm.
• Flipping the Bird: He has an exchange of flipping the bird with Vax over translating the book, and later he does it again after his battle with Vedmire - with his giant magic purple hand, to parry the blows from Vedmire's sword.
• Fun Personified: Nothing can seem to destroy the sex-crazed gnome's good mood. He is the main source of comedy in the show, but he is the one who initiates all the fun by being snarky or doing something depraved, like sucking a tentacle while being kidnapped by zombie wolves.
  Scanlan: When I die, it will be the way gods intended: choked to death by a disgruntled pimp.
• Gag Penis: Invoked when he presents his plan to save Archie and his idea of becoming a One-Man Army through the potions: to be turned into a Hunk with genitals so giant they drop down. (Although in a Blink-and-You-Miss-It moment of Male Frontal Nudity in the first episode, everything looks average gnomish standards down there.)
• Genre Savvy: Scanlan seems to know in what world he lives in and reacts as such sometimes.
• Giant Hands of Doom: He can summon a giant hand he uses to punch and throw things (or people). He can also ride on it, which gives him a limited range flight ability. In episode 1.02, he uses this hand to not only punch a giant boulder out of the air, but also throw Vax onto a falling stone. He may also shout "SCANLAN'S HAAAAND!" when he does it.
• Giftedly Bad: Zigzagged. Scanlan is a lyricist of questionable talent despite his lovely voice. Most of his songs are about bad sexual metaphors that seem to impress only his sexual partners and the king, while Vax and the rest of Vox Machina don't appear fans of Scanlan's songs. Out of universe, his music ranges from ridiculously fun to genuinely metal.
• Guile Hero: Going hand in hand with being a Master of Illusion, Scanlan shines at screwing with people's heads. Most notably when he was able to use an illusion of himself to completely throw off a group of the Briarwoods soldiers, despite the fact that one of them was actively holding him.
• Heel Realization: Kaylie revealing herself to be his illegitimate daughter and that her mother suffered trying to provide for her because Scanlan wasn't around causes him to realize the very real consequences of his careless womanizing, and he tries to make himself a more responsible man for Kaylie's sake, even if his daughter believes he will never change.
• Hidden Depths: Season 2 brings to light Scanlan's caretaker side, which positively surprises Pike.
• Horny Bard: One of his defining traits. Scanlan is both legendary with a lute as he is in the sheets, and he rarely lets anybody forget it. It's ultimately deconstructed, as Scanlan is regularly hit with the very real consequences of being a flippant, serial womanizer. His friends routinely doubt he'll actually come through when he's needed, he constantly disappoints the one woman he genuinely loves, and his illegitimate daughter hates his guts while he can't even remember her mother's name.
• Hot Blooded Sideburns: He has muttonchops.
• Indy Ploy: He's remarkably good at coming up with plans on the spot to save his own ass or cause a distraction, like setting a mansion on fire.
• I Should Write a Book About This: By the end of Season 1, Scanlan turns Vox Machina's epic adventures into a ballad about the dragon, the vampires they fought and the cyclops he vanquished.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: There is no doubt Scanlan is quite the perverted jackass, but his heart is in the right place.
• Ladykiller in Love: While he does bed a lot of people, there are hints Scanlan is very smitten with Pike. He eventually slips in a Love Confession disguised as a joke.
• Long-Lost Relative: Scanlan has no idea that Kaylie is his daughter.
• Longing Look: When the team departs for Whitestone without Pike, Scanlan doesn't tell her anything, but he is shown looking back quite upset that she chose not to join them.
• Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: As he confesses to Kaylie, he made lifetime of mistakes concerning his conquests, and perceives himself as an awful person for just using people for sexual pleasure only to leave them. It may be that Scanlan is desperate to find a meaningful relationship. When he realizes that he might have found that meaningful connection in Pike, he still approaches her like a Casanova Wannabe, turning Pike off, to the point where she tells him to just be himself for once.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Scanlan is a whole lot of pansexuality contained in a very small body, but he's an exceptionally good bard and a valued friend of the crew. He doesn't go after anyone who rejects his advances, though he can be fairly insistent about repeatedly trying.
• Magic Music: Generally uses music in his spell casting. Turns out it's something of a thing with him; the reason he couldn't get his Polymorph scroll to work the way he wanted was because he was saying the incantation instead of singing it. When Scanlan sings it instead, he transforms into exactly what he wants.
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places: In his Establishing Character Moment, Scanlan is bedding the tavern owner's daughter, and later he tries to initiate a menage-a-trois with two zombies he mistakes for lovers, in the middle of the night, right after his battle with Vedmire.
• Male Frontal Nudity: Scanlan is the only character whose private parts are explicitly shown. When he is thrown out of the tavern along with his friends, there is a Blink-and-You-Miss-It moment where his genitals are shown in all of their splendor.
• Manchild: The only really mature thing about Scanlan is his sexual appetite. Otherwise, he lacks the emotional maturity to handle a complex serious situation and just rambles about things he should be more considerate about. His answer to being told off by Vex was to mutter 'mi-mi-mi'.
• Master of Illusion: He has the ability to create some relatively deceptive illusions. He was even able to trick Brimscythe with an illusion of all of Vox Machina.
• Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: He cannot lose his right arm to necrosis, because he needs his arm for... stuff.
• Metal Scream: Most of the time he uses his magical hand in combat, Scanlan loudly proclaims it with a Power Metal falsetto.
• Metaphorgotten: After learning Kaylie is his daughter, Scanlan tries getting Pike's advice. However, not wanting to say what actually happened, he tells her a story about trying to have sex with a puppy.
  Scanlan: Say you just found out you had a puppy… and you tried to, uh… sleep with that puppy.
  Pike:…Please, god, tell me this is a metaphor.
• Moment Killer: Scanlan manages to kill his own moment with Pike by jokingly suggesting he could dress up as a naughty nurse if she likes "Scanlan the caretaker" so much, after she praised him for his unexpected caring side. Pikes lets out a disappointed sigh at his immaturity and leaves. Scanlan calls himself stupid for ruining the moment.
• Morphic Resonance: When he turns into a dragonfly to spy on the Herd, he keeps his skin color and different shades of mauve that he wears intact, as well as his beret, which is shrunken to the size of an insect. He also keeps his sideburns as a triceratops.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: A Gender-Inverted Trope. Scanlan's shirt is wide open to show off his Carpet of Virility.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He gets beaten to a bloody pulp by Vedmire off-screen. He saves himself through a Heroic Second Wind.
• Odd Friendship: After passing the Sphinx's challenge, Scanlan and Kamaljiori become fast friends. The other party members are perplexed to learn about this, to say the least.
• Official Couple: Implied. As Pike kisses him on the mouth believing he is dead, Scanlan reveals that he is alive by jokingly continuing Pike's confession with "and I am in love with you too, Scanlan". Pike calls him motherfucker for that, than hugs him with a big smile on her face.
• Only One Finds It Fun: His story about his weirdest kill ends up being so disgusting that he's the only one who finds it funny; the others are so revolted they'd rather never hear it again, and the game comes abruptly to a halt.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Scanlan's go-to reaction to overwhelming odds is to run the hell away, but after seeing the aftermath of Brimscythe's attack on Shale Shore, he's the first of Vox Machina to resolve to stop the Dragon before he can kill anyone else.
• Plucky Comic Relief: He always provides lighthearted moments when the things are dark and hopeless.
• Playboy Has a Daughter: Scanlan, the shameless gnome who declared he wants to bed anybody he can, has a daughter, Kaylie.
• Playing with Fire: One of the potions he took with him in Vedmire's house give him the power to vomit fire.
• The Power of Love: Weaponized to great effect by Scanlan. When physically wounding Kamaljiori proves to be impossible, Scanlan opts to sing a love ballad on Osysa's behalf, wounding him on an emotional level.
• Properly Paranoid: After Orthax is defeated, he opts to chuck Percy's pepperbox into the acid as he felt something was off despite only guessing. He turns out to have been right, as the demon had retreated to it afterwards, and the acid finishes him off.
• Proud Beauty: He has a high opinion of his looks. Early on, he concludes that Allura must be in cahoots with the dragon attacking Shale Steps because he never trusts anyone prettier than him.
• Purple Is Powerful: His magic is purple and can go from Hard Light spells to creating lightning. Also counts as an Actor Allusion given the time his actor (and creator) voiced Donatello.
• Queer People Are Funny: Most of the fun about Scanlan comes from his sexual preferences, especially if it's a male involved.
• Really Gets Around: Scanlan is a highly promiscuous gnome who has had sex with a lot of people, both women and men. He also mentions having spent a lot of time at brothels and went as far as trying to guess who Kaylie's mother was by blurting out past lovers' names, including a 'Burt'.
• Renaissance Man: In Scanlan's own definition of himself when Kaylie question his identity: "Sort of an adventurer. Rebel leader. Musician. Some would say philosopher".
• Rule 63: In episode 5, he reads a spell that turns him into a female elf version of him. Of course, he is attracted to his own female version.
• Sad Clown: Despite all his jokes, he admits to Kamaljiori that he feels unloved deep down, and wishes he could find someone to truly love.
• Safe Word: 'Mommy'.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Subverted. In several instances, he expresses that the group should give up instead of fighting Umbrasyl, but he ultimately follows them. When Vox Machina is all but defeated, he begins to run away, before remembering Kaylie's words about running from things. He then proceeds to steal Mythcarver from Umbrasyl, and One-Hit KO him by stabbing him into the eye with a powerful magic blast from the sword.
• Shameless Fanservice Guy: No nudity taboo here. In the first episode, Percy is thrown in the room where Scanlan is having sex with the innkeeper's daughter, and he couldn't care less being seen by everyone in the tavern pleasing the young lady.
• Signature Headgear: Scanlan the Revolutionary wears a beret like he promised during the mission to rescue Archie from the dungeons.
• Skewed Priorities: He genuinely believes the zombies will eat him first because they know how delectable he is.
• Smarter Than You Look: He can read Abyssal, but Delilah's script is so incomprehensible he can only make out a few words after days of trying. He still gets enough clues out of it.
• The Sneaky Guy: He may not be Vax, but Scanlan is quite slippery himself, which is why he was sent to spy on the Briarwoods forces in season 1. In Season 2, Pike asks him to sneak around the Herd of Storms and steal the Titanstone Knuckles.
• Spoof Aesop: During his battle with Vedmire, the latter insults Scanlan for being an insignificant small thing ready to be crushed. Scanlan agrees, but tells him that while he may be small, the brothels taught him that "size doesn't matter, it's how you use it". He then defeats Vedmire with a Shock and Awe spell... summoned through his dick.
• Stealth Insult: During the royal dinner, Scanlan tries to have a conversation with Lady Delilah Briarwood and tells her he owns beads just like hers. When Keyleth points out that she never saw him wearing beads and asks him what kind he owns, she realizes he meant anal beads.
• Stepford Smiler: Underneath all of that clownery, smugness and dick jokes, there's a gnome who has always felt hollow on the inside. Season 2 serves to highlight that Scanlan's Really Gets Around behaviour is a means to conceal his longing for deeper emotional bonds, which he's never really had, and that he knows that this hasn't made him a very good person as a result.
• Surprise Incest: Scanlan has quite the Ship Tease with Kaylie for a few episodes, and flirts with her the whole time.He almost has sex with her, until Kaylie reveals she is his daughter, making him to come out as an Pervert Dad to her.
• Tamer and Chaster: Make no mistake: Scanlan's still a shameless sex maniac who makes dirty jokes at the drop of a hat, but his crassness was pulled back dramatically compared to his antics in the livestream. It's most noticeable with his interactions with Pike where he's surprisingly respectful in how he flirts with her.
• The Power of Rock: When struggling to lift the party out of a rapidly-filling pit of acid, Scanlan finds that switching from lively lute playing into a heavy metal solo (a song, fittingly, titled Heavy), complete with conjured guitar pick, is enough for his conjured hand to take the strain long enough for the rest of the group to disable the trap.
• Too Kinky to Torture: When the undead hound shoves one of its tentacled tails inside Scanlan's mouth, he appears to be enjoying it.
• Unreliable Narrator: He openly admits to adding events that did not happen in Whitestone, like him killing a cyclops to make a better story. When Vax sarcastically asks what cyclops he fought, Scanlan adds he may have "taken some artistic license".
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Vax. They always snipe insults to each other, but will save each other's asses if the other gets in trouble.
• Wandering Minstrel: Scanlan in his own words, is both an adventurer and musician. He travels with Vox Machina and sings about their adventures.
• Weak, but Skilled: Combat-wise, he's the least capable member of Vox Machina, but he makes up for it with a wide variety of spells and some very clever ways of using them.
• We Need a Distraction: He offers himself to go and distract the prison guards and make a signal so the rest can go and rescue Archibald.
• Writing Around Trademarks: In the campaign, Scanlan's songs were parodies of pop songs. In the show, Scanlan's songs are original compositions to avoid any licensing issues.

Vax'ildan

Vax'ildan Vessar

"She's Vex."

Voiced by: Liam O'Brien (English), Jeremias Koschorz (German)

Race: Half-elf

Class: Rogue (Assassin)

A half-elven rogue who wanders Exandria with his twin sister Vex to find a new home.

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• Adaptational Superpower Change: An unusual case applies to his armour, that seems to be the result of an odd case of Composite Character with his enchanted items. The Deathwalker's Ward armour in the Actual Play granted Vax a number of useful buffs, including resistance to one type of damage per day (that he gets to choose), bonus to his AC, advantage on death saves, and an hour of flight every day. Though the animated version has the flight ability, no mention of its other advantages is given, giving him Super-Speed instead. The unusual part is that Vax in the game did have Super-Speed, but it was from his Boots of Haste, which gave the wielder the ability to use Haste (A spell that double's the character's speed and without the drawbacks the spell usually comes with).
• Affectionate Nickname: He often refers to Pike as "Pickle" Keyleth as "Kiki" and Grog, fittingly enough, as "Big Man".
• Amazon Chaser: Vax loses no opportunity to compliment Keyleth over everything she does, from simply throwing a book at a painting and discovering a portal by accident, to freezing an army of zombie.
  Vax to Keyleth: Have I mentioned you're amazing?
• Amicable Exes: Vax and Gilmore; while the exact nature of their past relationship is left in the air, they look like parted in good ways. Is it known that Gilmore still has a soft spot for Vax and is always courteous to him. He's even interested in Vax's own interest in Keyleth.
• Animal Motifs: The intro associates him with ravens. In Season 2, he becomes the Matron of Raven's new champion, being gifted by her with the vestige.
• Angelic Beauty: Invoked after his new cape displays the ability to turn into wings. As he stands with his back to the sun in front of Keyleth and Vex'ahlia, the rays encircle him like a Holy Halo. Usually a Nervous Wreck, Keyleth calls him beautiful.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: With the possibility of being killed by zombies, Vax finally confesses his feelings to Keyleth, only for Keyleth to point out that this is the worst time for a love confession and reject him for the time being.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: He is quick to link the clue he learned about dragons at Gilmore's shop about the twin rivers meeting to the dragon's neck veins having same shape as what he saw in the book.
• Badass in Distress: His mission to spy on Umbrasyl quickly goes South, as the dragon was expecting company. He is nearly killed before the rest of the party shows up just in time.
• Badass Normal: Only for the entirety of Season 1, compared to everyone else in Vox Machina. He doesn't have Grog's overwhelming strength, he is not possessed by a demon preying on desire for revenge like Percy was and owning a supernatural gun, he doesn't have any sort of magic, or even his sister's expert marksmanship. The only thing he had up until Season 2, was the ability to summon his daggers back to his hand from anywhere — and that's probably a property of the daggers, not his own magic. However, Vax is lightning quick, nimble, and so good with his knives that he can still keep pace with everybody else. He becomes an Empowered Badass Normal in Season 2 with the Vestige of the Matron of Ravens, which gives him a long array of supernatural abilities.
• Bargain with Heaven: He begs the Matron of Raven to take his life instead of Vex'ahlia's, not knowing what will happen as a result. She accepts and he becomes attuned to the Deathwalker's Ward, with no indication as to what she wants from him aside from frequent, nightmarish visions. When he finally confronts her about all the Mind Screw she put him through, she assures him that they were always fated to meet, and she simply wishes for him to become her mortal champion, helping her guide souls into the afterlife.
• Battle Couple: The Back-to-Back Badasses variety with Keyleth. He even tells her they make a good team.
• Big Brother Instinct: He is very protective of his sister.
  Vax to Vex: Do not go far from me.
• Blue Blood: He and his sister are the result of an affair between their human mother and elvish father. Syldor is part of the Elvish nobility but he considers his own children too "diluted" to be truly part of his world.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: During the battle on the ziggurat, Sylas mind-controls Vax through the bite he left on his neck and sends him to kill his own friends.
• Broken Bird: Pun notwithstanding, Vax's dark, roguish demeanor hides a man who's emotionally co-dependent on his sister, especially after they ran away from their abusive father. This is exacerbated even further when the Matron of Ravens takes him as her new champion and haunts him with visions of his inevitable death. After officially meeting with the Matron of Ravens however, he does get better.
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Vax is not above flirting with others and hinting at having a kinky sexual life, but when he is with Keyleth he always behaves very chivalrously with her and never makes any uncomfortable moves on her.
• Cape Wings: The Deathwalker's Ward's cape can be turned in a pair of raven wings at will, giving Vax the appearance of an Winged Humanoid. After escaping from Umbrasyl's stomach with Scanlan, they both fall from a great height. With Scanlan unconscious, Vax asks for the Matron's help and she gifts him with the wings, saving himself and Scanlan in time from becoming scattered guts on the ground.
• Chekhov's Skill: He helps Keyleth heal Cassandra's slashed throat; later he uses the same herbs and magic Keyleth used to save her life.
• The Chosen One: The Matron of Ravens chose Vax to become her mortal champion and guide the lost souls in the afterlife.
• Clingy Costume: Vax tries to take Purvan's armor off, but he cannot remove it. He is not very happy about it.
• Collateral Angst: When Vex'ahlia dies temporarily and is brought back, she is barely affected by it. She looks immediately back to her high spirits, cracking jokes about it. It's Vax'ildan's reaction and adjustment to what happened to his sister that get all the focus for the rest of season two.
• Combat Parkour: He can jump on rocks mid-air like Legolas.
• Cool Big Bro: While initially shocked to discover he has a younger half-sister, Vax immediately loves her, affectionately rubbing her head at one point.
• Cosmic Plaything: The Fey Realm is really out for Vax because of his armor. All the creatures Vox Machina met there, attacked only because of Vax's presence.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Downplayed. Vex has an annoyed look on his face every time Kash makes a move on Keyleth.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Witnessing the destruction of Emon, the death (albeit temporary) of his sister and becoming a Matron of Death's champion proved a little too much to take even for Vax. After all those events, he exchanged his Mellow Fellow and Comic Relief persona for someone more somber, stoic, somewhat a brooding loner, and is far more concerned with the events going on around him. Vex tries to comfort him that despite what happened to her, everything is still the same. He disagrees.
• Dance Battler: He makes his escapes with graceful leaps and spins.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He wears mostly black, but is one of the nicest people in Vox Machina.
• Deadpan Snarker: Less so than his sister, but Vax still has a very similar dry wit to him, contrasting him against the absurdity of the rest of his party in the same way as Vex.
  Vax: These people just survived the apocalypse, Scanlan. They don't need your gonorrhea.
• Devious Daggers: Primarily uses daggers, one of which will magically return to his hand after it is thrown. As a rogue, he largely fits the archetype as well.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Poor guy confessed twice his love to Kiki, and got rejected every time.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Since becoming The Matron's of Death champion, Vax receives weird, cryptical visions from her about future events. He doesn't fully understand the matter with those visions nor why the Matron shows him those visions.
• Drunken Master: In his Establishing Character Moment, it is shown that Vax is a good fighter even while drunk. He finds time to drink and steal a pouch with money during the Bar Brawl.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Despite being married to Delilah, Sylas gets very touchy feely with Vax and calls him interesting and delicious. And then there's his mutually-flirtatious relationship with Gilmore...
• The Fatalist: Becomes this after fully committing to his role as the Matron's champion, sharing her philosophy that all things are tied by fate and it is their destiny to face it.
• Flash Step: After gaining the Deathwalker's Ward and becoming the Matron's champion, Vax has gained a serious speed upgrade, allowing him to move faster than the eye can see.
• Flat Joy: Vex'ahlia cracks jokes with Pike about how she is a whole new person, and more mature after her death experience, and asks Vax if he agrees. Vax flatly agrees and cynically ads that it's a whole new perspective.
• Foreseeing My Death: In the Fey Realm, Vax sees a rotting reflection of him in a floating stream of water. Naturally, Vax feels scared and confused and doesn't fully understand what he is looking at.
• Fragile Speedster: Vax is very light on his feet and quick with his knives, but a blow from someone physically imposing will leave him incapacitated.
• Friend to All Children: He easily befriends the children of Shale Steps and shows them his tricks.
• Friends with Benefits: It's strongly implied that he may have had this sort of relationship with Gilmore.
• The Gadfly: He often teases Grog and Scanlan just to get a reaction out of them.
• Genre Savvy:
  • Once he gets bit on the neck by Sylas, he expects to turn into a vampire.
  • To his knowledge, authentic zombies are supposed to be slow.
• Half-Breed Angst: Implied in his childhood and Vex. Their father was Elvish nobility while their mother a mere human. After their mother's death, they were taken in by their father, who was openly contemptuous of them for being half human.
• Half-Identical Twins: In his song trying to introduce Vox Machina to king Uriel, Scanlan sings that he cannot tell the twins apart.
• Hates Their Parent: During their search for the Vestiges of Divergence, Vex remembers that Vax never liked their father for his mistreat of them, nor her need for his approval. In the end, he convinces Vex to leave with him, because their father will never accept them anyway.
• Held Gaze: He is the one initiating all the gaze with Keyleth, who becomes easily flustered every time and breaks the moment.
• Heroic Bastard: He and Vex were conceived out of wedlock by their parents. Nevertheless, they are both good people.
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Becoming the Matron of Raven's Champion gave him enhanced abilities, but it also gave him terrifying visions, a suit of armor he can't remove, an enmity with everything in the Fey Realm, and as he admits to Percy, a creeping fear that whatever the Matron will require from him will take him away from his sister and friends.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Vax'ildan is usually the first to oppose helping every Character of the Week with their problems, as he views it as a distraction from Vox Machina's main objectives. In season 2, it seems that getting Purvan's armour made Vax dourer and more salty than usual. His banter is not as jovial as it once was, snarking with at people with bitter one-liners. Only by the end of Season 2, he regains part of his idealism back, after making peace with the Matron of Ravens.
• Lady Killer In Love: Downplayed in comparison with Scanlan. He flirts with two men in different occasions, but is in love with Keyleth.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: A tall, trim half-elf with long black hair, elegant facial features, and black gear. Oh, yes.
• Manly Tears:
  • He cries over Keyleth when she almost dies from Delilah's attack.
  • He is in complete and utter distress and sobs his heart out when Vex dies from a trapped sarcophagus.
• Master of Unlocking: He's got a series of lockpicks that he can use to break into just about anything. He once broke into a giant door with a sturdy lock using just a toothpick.
• McNinja: Vax wears black, is stealthy and very agile. He even uses his knives akin to kunais and shuriken stars.
• Mellow Fellow: He is a laidback fellow, and much more approachable than his sister.
• Missing Mom: She was murdered by a dragon.
• More Experienced Chases the Innocent: He occasionally flirts with other men and was involved with Gilmore in the past, certainly having experience with how romance and intimate relationships work. He chases after the socially inept and timid Keyleth for most of the show, for whom Vax is implied to be the First Love.
• Muggle–Mage Romance: He is a half-elven falling for Keyleth, who is more or less a princess for her people. This is even the reason why she refuses to pursue a romantic relationship with Vax, as she has a duty to her people.
• My Fist Forgives You: He punches Percy for accidentally killing Vex, but does not forgives him.
• My Greatest Failure: Not killing the blue dragon Brimscythe, who went to destroy a village the party had been investigating, including a family whose son Vax had bonded with and taught a simple magic trick.
• My Suit Is Also Super: After asking the Matron of Ravens to take his life instead of his sister's, he becomes attuned to the Deathwalker's Ward, which grants Vax Super-Speed, Super-Reflexes, and, later, flight.
• Nice Guy: A bit snarky and willing to go along with the group’s antics, but he gets along well with most people and regularly defends Keyleth.
• The Nicknamer: He's constantly applying affectionate nicknames to his fellow party members—Pickle for Pike, Kiki for Keyleth, and Stubby for his sister.
• Not Himself: After his bargain with the Matron of Ravens, Vax became distant and closed-off due to the horrific visions he kept receiving as a result, which was quickly noticed by Vex and his closer friends. He becomes something like his old self agains after he communes with the goddess in S2E11, discovering that her intentions are far from malevolent.
• Now or Never Kiss: Believing they are going about to be overwhelmed by zombies in Whitestone, Vax finally confesses his love to Keyleth and tries to kiss her. She nearly reciprocates, but then decides that she doesn't want a relationship, and criticises his very awkward timing.
• Only Sane Man: Vax, more often than not, is the most normal person in his team at any given moment. He's relatively friendly with everyone, is mostly firmly grounded emotionally save for some snark and trickster tendencies, and he's the least prone to petty bickering with the others.
• The Only One I Trust: Vex tells Vax that he is the only person she trusts even after all the time spent with Vox Machina. Vax doesn't buy it and he's annoyed at the fact Vex is happy that Keyleth rejected him.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He has an extremely good reason for it, but after literally selling his soul to a god who basically amounts to the Grim Reaper to undo his sister's death, the characteristically friendly, well-balanced Vax becomes quiet, taciturn, and palpably sad for a long stretch of episodes. Once he learns to embrace fate and comes to peace with the thought of death, he starts to go back to being the Vax everyone loves.
• The Paladin: He become the new champion for the Matron of Ravens in Season 2, and his job is to guard the line between life and death.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: In a flashback about their childhoods, Vax is searching for Vex'ahlia and when he finds her, he begs her to never leave him alone again because he is the one who needs her. When she dies, he's left weeping and begging her to stay.
• Power Gives You Wings: While falling from the sky with an unconscious Scanlan, Vax calls on the Matron of Ravens for help, who gifts him with the ability to turn his cape into a massive pair of wings. He is then able to save himself and bard, and uses the power again while fighting Umbrasyl.
• Pragmatic Hero: Vax has moments of this, but in the end he's usually the most ethical out of the Vox Machina men. When Allura makes a speech about how only the most noble an honorable people could complete this mission, Vax interrupts her and tells her that him and the others are in just for the money. Though not so much after Brimscythe demolished a small village killing everyone living in it. Including a mother and two children..
  • This also shows up again in the fifth episode of Season 2 "Pass Through Fire" when Keyleth anxiously urges Vox Machina that they have to save Pyrah from becoming devastated and overrun by the millions of man-eating, bat salamander monsters emerging from the rift to the Fire Plane Vax interrupts Keyleth by saying that they need to find Osysa the Sphinx's mate and later tries to justify his statement after Keyleth flew off to save Pyrah by herself by pointing out that all of Tal' Dorei is in danger and they can't wander off to save everyone they run into. However, Pike and Vex correctly point out that the Fire Ashari are Kiki's family and that she'd drop everything to help any of Vox Machina if any of them needed help with anything, especially Vax. Given his sad expression watching Keyleth fly off and after Vex and Pike's pep talk, it's strongly hinted that Vax was kicking himself for rebuffing her and ignoring her troubles.
• The Prankster: In Season 1 mostly, where he hits Grog on the groin in the most unexpected moments.
• Price on Their Head: In Season 2, is revealed that Vex and Vax have a bounty of 12000 gold pieces on their heads after stealing the head of a hydra from the Slayer's Take. Due to this, the twins had been avoiding the monster-hunting group for some time.
• Queer Establishing Moment: His flirting with the orc in the first episode.
• Race Lift: Vax and his sister go from having Raven Hair, Ivory Skin to being olive-skinned.
• Rejected Apology: Vax does not takes kindly to Percy's accidental murder of his sister, and when he comes to apologize, Percy is met with a fist in the face. Over the course of Season 2, though, they seem to start coming to peace with each other again.
• The Sneaky Guy: As a Rogue, this is his specialty. Unfortunately for him, he is usually traveling with others who lack his skill.
• Starts Stealthily, Ends Loudly: His mission to sneak into the Briarwoods' guest room and search for clues goes South when he gets caught in action by the Briarwoods.
• The Stoic: As of Season 2, Vax'ildan matured a lot, become more aloof and serious, outgrowing his Manchild tendencies.
• Stylish Protection Gear: He wears black fur over his cape in the Jon Snow style.
• Summon to Hand: Vax's daggers immediately teleport back to his hand after they land on something.
• Super-Speed: The first and most consistently-used power Vax gains from the Deathwalker's Ward is superhuman speed, almost appearing to teleport with how fast he can move.
• Take Me Instead: When Vex'ahlia dies. Vax sees the Matron of Raven coming to reclaim her soul. He shouts to take him instead, thus becoming her new champion.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Checks all three categories by being a world weary, black-cladded rogue and having the wit to match with his twin sister Vex.
• Took a Level in Idealism: After formally meeting the Matron of Ravens in "The Belly of the Beast", he fully embraces being her champion and all it entails. He starts smiling again and taking comfort in her presence, and has faith that she is leading him and Vox Machina where they need to go.
• The Sneaky Guy: As a Rogue, this is his specialty. Unfortunately for him, he is usually traveling with others who lack his skill.
• Vagueness Is Coming: Even before becoming her champion, Vax started to have weird visions of the Matron of Ravens. He keeps on having vague dreams from her that he doesn't understand even after their deal, which affects him on a deep psychological level. Vax knows she wants something from him, but not knowing want frustrates him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Grog. They play painful pranks like hitting each other on the crotch and have Snark To Snark Combats.
• Vocal Dissonance: Vax has a deep voice, even in flashbacks about his and Vex'ahlia's childhood. Despite being shown as a boy in his late preteen years or early teenagerhood, he still has same deep voice, with a barely noticeable higher pitch. Vex by comparison, has the matching voice for that age.
• You Are Not Alone: He is on the receiving end from Vex'ahlia and Percival. Vex promises him they will figure out what the Matron of Ravens wants from him, and Percy assures him he will have his back no matter what happens.

Vex'ahlia

Vex'ahlia Vessar

"He's Vax."

Voiced by: Laura Bailey (English), Julia Kaufmann (German)

Race: Half-elf

Class: Ranger (Beast Master)

A half-elven ranger who wanders Exandria with her twin brother Vax to find a new home.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Vex always refers to people close to her as 'darling' or 'love'.
• Aloof Archer: She is an Ice Queen and a talented bowman. She acquires the legendary Fenthras in season 2.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Vex is a tall, beautiful and cold as ice half-elven woman. She is always calm and dignified and rarely loses her composure. Keyleth and Scanlan get easily intimidated by her.
• Angst? What Angst?: In-Universe example. After being revived, Vex takes the knowledge that she has been dead for a few minutes surprisingly well and starts to describe how the experience was for her. She doesn't get upset, angsty or frightened at all at the thought of being temporarily dead, and even cracks a few dark jokes about it later. The same can't be said for the rest of Vox Machina, especially Vax.
• Animal Lover: On a lesser level than Keyleth, but Vex'ahlia does care about the wild too. When she was a child, she and Vex tried to escape a band of human traffickers and hid into a bear cage where she discovered a heavily wounded mother bear. At her request, Vax Mercy Kills the animal. She than adopts her cub, who grows to be Trinket.
• Arrows on Fire: Vex shots arrows on fire at the mutants dogs send by the Briarwoods to kill them.
• Back from the Dead: She is accidentally killed by a dark magic trap when Percy was meddling with a corpse in a tomb's sarcophagus.Vax saves her by asking the Matron of Ravens to take his life instead, which she complies, returning Vex'ahlia's soul back to her body while claiming Vax as her new mortal champion.
• Bastard Angst: Unlike her brother, Vex'ahlia cares a lot about her father's opinion of her, even while knowing he never had any love for her and always felt a need to overcompensate for her half-human side in her childhood. Even as an adult, she confesses to Percy she feels she hurt herself more than her father by telling him off.
• Beneath the Mask: Vex always pretended to be this mature, callous and confident young woman. Come Season 2, Vex'ahlia reveals that under all that smugness, she is a sensitive woman who always yearned for the acceptance of her abusive father.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: She is impressed by Percy defending her in front of her father and later thanks him for what he has done, telling him than nobody has done that before, except for her brother.
• Best Served Cold: She studied everything about dragons and prepared for years until the day she will find the one who murdered her mother.
• Better the Devil You Know: After Keyleth warns everyone that if Percy kills Delilah, his soul will be consumed by Orthax, Vex tries to stop Percy at any costs from killing Delilah.
• Blatant Lies: When Pike asks her how it was the quest for Fenthras, Vex answers it was so easy, than proceeds to drink all of her ale, forcing a smile on her face. Well, a story about a brainwashing yandere Plant Person having a Villainous Crush on her is not an adventure to share at any moment.
• Blue Blood: She and her brother are the result of an affair between their human mother and elfish father. Syldor is part of the Elvish nobility, but he considers his own children too diluted to be truly part of his world.
• Bottomless Magazines: She never seems to run out of her arrows.
• Braids of Action: She has a single braid in the back.
• Brainy Brunette: She has raven hair, studied dragons all her life and is a very good planner.
• Broken Bird: In present day, she is a cynical and a troubled young woman, much more affected by the death of her mother and the emotional abuse she and Vax were subjected to by their own father than her twin brother.
• Brutal Honesty: Vex does not mince her words.
• Calling the Old Man Out: In season two, after her father insults Percy, Vex lashes out at her father and calls him out on his negligence of her and Vex and tells him he failed as a parent. Syldor couldn't be more bothered by Vex'ahlia's speech.
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Something that she shares with her brother, Vax. She's charming and flirtatious, and not above trying to seduce people, but when it comes to Percy, she is always sincere and confides in him all of her insecurities.
• Character Tic: Is prone to delivering a flirtatious wink, which may or may not aid her in persuading others into helping the party.
• Cold Sniper: More or less the fantasy equivalent of this. Vex is by far the most distant member of Vox Machina toward everyone else in the party not named Vax or Trinket, and she's an absolutely lethal shot with her longbow.
• The Conscience: She acts as such for Percy. She calls him out on attacking a kid just because they were working for the Briarwoods, and later she tries to snap him out of being possessed by Orthax.
• Cool Big Sis: She becomes this after learning she and Vax have a younger half-sister resulted from their father marriage to Devana. Vex dotes on Velora immediately and doesn't resent the little girl for the obvious favoritism of their father toward her. Vex even gifts Velora with her blue feather.
• Deadpan Snarker: This woman's wit and tongue are as sharp as her arrows. Not hard to see why, considering her company.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Slowly becomes friendlier and more personable with Vox Machina over the course of the first season.
• The Dragonslayer: Trained her entire life to slay dragons ever since one destroyed her and Vax's childhood home.
• Do You Want to Haggle?: She strikes a bargain with Gilmore for potions and weapons to defeat the Briarwoods, and to her chagrin, apparently, Gilmore charged Vox Machina with a lot of money.
• Dude Magnet: Vex'ahlia, a raven-haired beauty, does not lack the attention of the opposite gender. It's enough for her to just flirt or wink to have men drool all over her. Scanlan acknowledges that Vex slapping his face was hot, Saundor develops a Villainous Crush on her, and she has tons of Ship Tease with Percy.
• Elemental Weapon: Fenthras' arrows can turn into flames, electricity or vines once they hit the target.
• Emotions vs. Stoicism: She believes that emotions are not meant to be bottled up and advises Percy to cut loose in a while. It backfires spectacularly later when Percy blows up at the Briarwoods during the banquet in the third episode.
• The Face: She is the one leading the negotiations with Gilmore.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: Is Vex's default expression, as seen in her character picture.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: She carries her white fur on the left shoulder.
• Flying Broomstick: Vex makes good use of a broomstick that Scanlan found in what remained of Gilmore's store after the dragons' attack. The flying broomstick proves to give her a lot of battle advantage against the drakes that attacked Pyrah, making her job to kill them far easier.
• Hypocrite: Is strangely upset that Percy didn't brief the group on the Briarwoods before their encounter despite the fact that not only was Percy blindsided by their appearance and powers, but Vex herself didn't warn the group when her Primeval Awareness detected a dragon in the Council room.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: She may be rough around the edges, but she is always the one to call others to snap out when they go through Heroic BSoD, like Keyleth, Percy and Scanlan, and even slapped the latter two on different occasions.
• A Girl and Her X: Vex has had Trinket since she was a little girl and he was a bear cub.
• Half-Breed Angst: Implied in her childhood and Vax. Their father was Elvish nobility while their mother a mere human. After their mother's death, they were taken in by their father, who never lost the chance to show how much he despises and blames his own children for being half human.
• Half-Identical Twins: In his song trying to introduce Vox Machina to king Uriel, Scanlan sings that he cannot tell the twins apart.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She enjoys drinking alcohol contests because it's the fastest way to get drunk.
• Heroic Bastard: She and Vax were conceived out of the wedlock by their parents. Nevertheless, they are both good people.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: She tries to reach Percy when he finally succumbs to Orthax.
• Implied Love Interest: She and Percy appear to be quite close and while Vex has a habit of addressing people as "darling". In Episode 1.12, she tells Percy (who is under the influence of Orthax) to take off his mask, and her use of "darling" seems to have more meaning and sincerity compared to her other uses of it.
• Important Hair Accessory: Her trademark blue feather.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: She can fire her arrows from huge distances, even while doing flipflops and flying on a broom.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Downplayed because Vex'ahlia often indulges herself with drinks and male attention, on top of being a very pragmatic person interested in money. At the same time, she is a good person, and she does not let insecurities and those distractions to stay in her path of doing what's right. Percy tells her that she a pure heart, a rare quality among people; he is proven right later when she snaps out of Saundor's poisonous words on her own.
• Jerkass Realization: Vex'ahlia has a minor one when Keyleth takes a near-fatal curse to protect Vex from Delilah's wrath since beforehand Vex had been fairly suspicious and derisive of Keyleth. However, while Vex had initially been a bit frosty towards all Vox Machina beforehand sans Vax, Trinket and Percy to a degree, she does protect and stand by Vox Machina regardless and Vex did compliment Kiki's magic when she formed the de Rolo crest in the sky with the clouds.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Vex is largely chilly and frequently critical of everyone else in the party save for her brother, and has a particular disdain for Vax's love interest Keyleth. Nevertheless, she looks after her people to the best of her ability, proves a reliable shoulder to lean on for both her brother and Percy, and is completely beside herself when Keyleth takes a seemingly mortal wound protecting her from Delilah.
• The Joy of First Flight: She laughs when she flies for the first time on the broom and it gives her immense joy to kill the drakes while flying.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She fights the Briarwoods in Emon while wearing a blue Sexy Slit Dress.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: As she calls for Percy not to remove the Deathwalker's Ward from the Champion's coffin, Vex says "Stop. We need to wait for my broth—" and is hit with a burst of necrotic energy, which instantly kills her.
• Ladykiller in Love: Is implied that the sensual and flirtatious Vex is in love with Percy.
• Lady of War: Vex is a tall, graceful martial artist whose weapon is a longbow.
• The Leader: While Vox Machina has no official leader, Vex is the smartest and most level-headed member of the party and thus tends to fall into the role. This is particularly evident in Vox Machina's battle against Delilah's wraiths in the fourth episode, where Vex directly issues commands to her companions.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine:
  • As the most important women in Vax's life, she and Keyleth have this dynamic. Vex'ahlia (Dark Feminine) is world weary, confident and an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl. She loves to flirt with men and knows how to navigate the high society. She is a Aloof Archer and always wears the color blue with black accents. Keyleth (Light Feminine), is her complete opposite, a ginger next door who wears green, a naïve Cute Witch with a lot of potential, but sucky social skills, with whom Vax is hopelessly in love. Vex is not very thrilled that her brother has the hots for Keyleth, but she warms up to Kiki in time.
  • With Zahra based on their unspoken rivalry. This time, Vex'ahlia is the Light Feminine. She may be brooding and have hard time trusting people, but Zahra is an opportunistic and callous woman who promised to help Vox Machina only to betray them later. Vex is an example of Blue Is Heroic, but Zahra is Red and Black and Evil All Over, wielding dark power.
• Little Sister Instinct: Is very protective of her brother, especially when he starts showing interest towards Keyleth. The "little" part comes in because she's the younger twin by two minutes.
• Living Emotional Crutch: It is made clear early on during season 2 that Vax depends a lot on his sister, admitting to her in a flashback that she doesn't need him, but he needs her. Being separated from her for just a few moments when they were kids leaves him a sobbing wreck. When she dies during "The Sunken Tomb", the grief completely overwhelms him.
• Long-Range Fighter: She is an expert with her Archery fighting style.
• Magical Accessory: She is gifted with a special necklace from Zahra, which contains a Pocket Dimension where different creatures can be safely kept there and invoked in the real world at need. Vex decides to keep Trinket in the necklace for his safety.
• Master Archer: Comes with being a well-trained ranger. She manages to shoot a blessed arrow into Brimscythe's neck from quite a ways away, despite the dragon thrashing in pain.
• Missing Mom: She was murdered by a dragon.
• Ms. Fanservice: Vex'ahlia might not show a lot of skin, but she is the most well-endowed and flirty character of the main female cast. She's beautiful, confident, charming, and her favourite method of getting her way is turning on the charm.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Gender Flipped. Initially, she disapproves of Vax's feelings for Keyleth because she perceives the girl as an invader coming between her and her brother.
• Passive-Aggressive Kombat:
  • She shows her disdain for Keyleth by making snide comments about her.
  • With Zahra as they have a visible rivalry. Unlike Keyleth, Zahra can return Vex'ahlia's snide remarks and even beat her.
• Price on Their Head: In Season 2, is revealed that Vex and Vax have a bounty on them of 12000 golds for stealing the head of a hydra from Slayer's Take and ditching everyone. For that, the twins were on the run for some time.
• Race Lift: She and her brother go from having Raven Hair, Ivory Skin to being olive-skinned.
• Rage Breaking Point: Vex'ahlia swallows and endures every jab from her father and stops Vax from confronting him in order to keep an appearance of respect. She keeps it to herself until Saundor starts insulting Percy, her Love Interest, causing her to finally snap and start Calling the Old Man Out. Not that he is impressed by her words, but at least Vex'ahlia finally found the resolution to confront her father about his less than stellar parenting.
• The Rival: With Zahra — they get very (and somewhat foolishly) competitive while fighting the fish-people, and engage in a lot of Snark-to-Snark Combat to boot.
• Shipper on Deck: Eventually warms up to Keyleth's feelings for Vax towards the end of Season 2, quite probably after seeing the elf's concern for her brother due to his dark mood following his encounter with the Matron of Ravens, and encourages her to pursue him, knowing that he'll need more than just her for support.
• Shipping Torpedo: She disapproves of Vax being in love with Keyleth, often taunting Keyleth about her insecurities. Later develops into a Shipper on Deck during season two, encouraging Keyleth to not let Vax get away.
• Show Some Leg: Will often attempt to get Vox Machina something they need/out of a sticky situation by turning up the flirtatious charm. Its success rate is somewhat variable.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: A tough fighter and excellent shot who wears a sleeveless blue tunic.
• The Snark Knight: She's hard to approach and dishes out snide remarks about all her teammates, especially Keyleth.
• The Sneaky Gal: Not quite to the extent of her brother and not showcased as much as in the source material, but Vex makes it clear that, compared to the rest of the group, she would have no problem keeping up with Vax if they decided to escape their house arrest together. Vax doesn't dispute this.
  Vex: The guards might catch the group, but not you and me.
  Vax: True.
• The Social Expert: Vex knows to behave herself in high society and play dumb if the situation asks for it. She also easily seduces two Briarwood guardians to distract them.
• Spider-Sense: How her "primeval awareness" manifests in the series. Vex gets sudden migraines when she's close to a dragon or anybody who might have been in contact with dragons.
• Statuesque Stunner: Vex stands at 5'9" tall, and this time, she is taller than Keyleth.
• Stepford Snarker: Vex is a prime class snarker who hides all her pain behind her sarcasm.
• The Strategist: When Grog, Scanlan and Keyleth come up with a plan to save Archie from prison, Vex brushes them over for being impossibly stupid. Everyone ends up executing her plan.
• The Team Normal: Among the girls, Vex is the only one lacking any sort of magic abilities.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Throughout most of the first season, Vex was quite frosty, sharp-tongued and critical towards almost everyone in the gang, especially Keyleth whom she initially sees as an incompetent fighter and a threat to her sibling bond with Vax. This comes to a head in the 10th episode of the first season when Vex took Keyleth's rejection of Vax's love when they were cornered by the zombies as an opportunity to playfully punch Vax in the arm and joke about how she warned him "those vines had thorns". At first, Vax dismisses her with a "yeah, yeah" but then Vax insinuates that Vex doesn't trust anyone, not even him, indicating that Vex's comment was a low blow. However, in episodes 11 and 12, Vex gets a major wake-up call about her behavior when Keyleth throws herself in front of a necromantic curse aimed at Vex and smiles as she sees Vex alive and well this causes Vex to break down in tears out of fear for Keyleth's life and possibly guilt for her prior treatment. Thankfully, Keyleth survives the curse and from this point on, Vex is more compassionate and supportive towards Keyleth, even calling her Kiki and encouraging her to confess her feelings for Vax.
• True Blue Femininity: She wears blue all the time and has a rather dignified and snarky personality. At the dining party with the royal family, she wears a blue Sexy Slit Dress.
• Tsundere: Unlike her brother who is more open up about his feelings, Vex acts very rough and frosty around Keyleth, but she looks after her, nevertheless.
• Twin Telepathy; It's implied that Vex'ahlia can feel whenever her brother is in danger, as she is asked by Keyleth if she feels Vax in danger, after he takes too long to return from spying on Umbrasyl. This is yet to be actually demonstrated, however, as Vax was in danger in this situation, and she remained unaware.
• Undying Loyalty: She expects this from her brother and makes him promise to never let pretty things (Keyleth) get between them.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Scanlan. They have an almost antagonistic back-and-forth, they're almost never nice to one another, but they care a lot for each other, and each is visibly crushed when one thinks the other is dead.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: As a child, and hinted that even as an adult, Vex'ahlia was always hungry for her father's approval because she desperately wanted him to love her and brother and accept them as his children despite being only half-elven. She would often overlook his Fantastic Racism and blindly believed making him proud would be enough. The cursed Archfey Saundor knows this is her greatest weakness and almost mind-controls her into giving him her heart.

Companions

Trinket

Trinket

Voiced by: Matthew Mercer, Cheech Marin ("The Fey Realm")

Race: Grizzly Bear

Class: Ranger Companion

Vex'ahlia's loyal animal companion.

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• All Animals Are Dogs: He’s super cute, friendly, treated like a Big Friendly Dog and obeys Vex like any dog would. Safe to say, he is this to a T.
• Badass Adorable: Just about the cutest enormous, monstrously strong, plate-armored grizzly bear you'll ever find.
• Bears Are Bad News: To any of Vex's (and by extension the Vox Machina's) enemies, he is definitely something to be feared.
• Beary Friendly: To his allies, especially Vex, he's the Team Pet by virtue of being a cute creature. Vex treats Trinket as if he's a big dog, and he's oddly friendly and receptive to her orders.
• Cuteness Proximity: Seems to have this over Sovereign Uriel and a couple of the king's guards.
• Demoted to Extra: While he tended to be Out of Focus, Trinket was much more involved in the original stream than he is in the show. The biggest example being how in the original stream, he accompanies Vox Machina during the Briarwood arc, while here, he's left behind in Emon for the majority of the season.
• Establishing Character Moment: The "Terror Of Tal Dorei" 2 parter showcase the basics of Trinket's character. In the bar brawl of "The Terror OF Tal Dorei Part 1" after Vex'ahlia whistles for Trinket due to being cornered by a thug, he rams through the wall and lets out a huge roar as though to say "Leave my Vex alone!!", but he doesn't attack until Vex tells him. This cements his protectiveness, loyalty and obedience towards Vex. Afterwards, Trinket is seen sleeping by Vex even after the commotion showing that he's normally calm and laid-back when there's no danger present. Another trait established in the first part is his dislike of being separated from Vex and the gang for any reason. When Vox Machina go to implore Sovereign Uriel and the Council to be hired to kill the beast terrorizing Amon, the guards open the doors for them but say that Trinket has to stay outside. Trinket is visibly sad by this despite being comforted by Vex. In "The Terror Of Tal Dorei Part 2" The castle guards who at first barred him entry to the throne room are now giving Trinket scratches, belly rubs and words of praise when no one's looking and Trinket loves this and enjoys being with the guards, showing that Trinket is eager to befriend anyone who shows him and his loved ones even a smallest bit of kindness. Finally, when Vox Machina is discussing who in the council who might be in league with the blue dragon Trinket goes around to all the members of the gang greeting them: nuzzling Pike, getting a nose rub from Vex'ahlia, sniffing Scanlan and walking up to and listening to Keyleth. This demonstrates Trinket's loyalty and affection for all the members of Vox Machina, not just Vax and Vex.
• Team Pet: Serves this role for Vex and the entire team by proxy. Several times, his Cuteness Proximity causes them goodwill they're otherwise struggling to earn on their own merits, with Sovereign Uriel offering them the job of killing Brimscythe in part because he liked the bear.

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