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Magic Doesn’t Come From Talent. It Comes From Pain

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Ashley.Millennial.American.
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Where is my Bridgerton/regency era Vox Machina fanfiction?

It is time for the ladies, whom have never met, to be presented to society and in front of Queen Allura who will decide who is the Diamond of the season. And for the suitors to find their future brides.

Vex’ahlia and Vax’ildan are the “bastards” of Lord Vessar but because he has given them his name, they are expected to up hold it and become parts of high society. That includes marriage. While Vex wants no part of it, if she is going to be forced into this she is at least going to make sure she has the best options. Which means being the Diamond of the season.

Vax has no desire to appease his father, or inherit the family holdings. But has the only son with two sisters he loves, he knows he must eventually settle down. And he refuses to settle for anything less than true love. He thinks it may be impossible until he sees her.

Keyleth has always done what she could to make her family proud, to her best abilities. She isn’t the perfect wife for a lord, she talks too much, is clumsy and hates the attention that comes with nobility. But she knows she must find the best match, for her family as she is the only child. She doesn’t see love being in the cards for her.

And the biggest news of the season, Duke Percival De Rolo is finally looking for a wife. After losing most of his family in a tragedy all except his sister Cassandra who is a couple years off from marriage, Percy locked himself away to commit to his studies. Now he has finally decided to take a wife, for the family legacy in Whitestone. He doesn’t think much will come of it, until he meets a woman who challenges him at every turn.

Also making her debut is Pike, a petite lady who doesn’t take the whole thing very serious. She is more than happy to live out her days with her best friend and grandfather’s ward Grog, just having fun. Grog, a man who stands above all the rest, only agreed to it all so he can make sure Pike doesn’t end up with anyone undeserving. Which is everyone in his mind.

Then there is the original rake, Scanlan. Who’s reputation has made him fairly unwelcome, especially to those who have daughters.

Edit: oh Vex and Percy will end up being a marriage of convenience at first. They like each other enough, she gets a grand title and he gets someone that will care for Whitestone as he does. And then of course they fall in love but with either admit it? Of course not!

And during the stay in Emon, Percy is staying at the Ashari house because his family and hers goes way back. The two are good friends and when someone comments about it being improper for him to stay at the same home as Keyleth he basically threatens them if they try to disparage his friend’s reputation again.

Vax falls hard and fast for Keyleth, and tries every way to woo her. Keyleth, while her feelings grow for him, knows she has to marry for her family’s status and that having feelings involved will only make it more complicated. She sees marriage as a job, not something out of love, much like Percy does. She also has another suitor Kashaw Vesh trying to win her hand, though against her better judgement she can’t take her eyes off Vax.

AND PIKE IS LADY SARENRAE ! Aka lady whistledown lmao

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EDIT 2:

A Perc’ahlia and Vaxleth excerpt

I enjoy the drabbles, I should do more of them

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The thing is, they could’ve pulled Javi out of the water and he still would’ve died. They were so far from the cabin, it was so cold and the water was freezing. He wouldn’t have made it back.

If they had saved him, it would’ve been the same end result with less guilt.

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After two vanilla perfection runs (and 1/2 a run heavily modded which I hated), I've found that I really enjoy the game as it is. I've put these mods into three categories: beginners, post-perfection, and bonus. This is because I truly recommend doing a completely vanilla run to perfection before modding. This game is a gem already! These are my must-haves to enhance Vanilla game play, rather than replace it.

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danglovely

There are a few Game Changer things this season that went pretty unused in the episodes that seem so intentional that I have to assume they're going to come back.

  • The swear jar in Sam Says 3 didn't pay out. You would think that they would just dock points if they were meant to disappear.
  • Sam checks his hands during announcing every episode.
  • Grant has been supposedly replaced twice, which didn't necessarily bear mentioning -- now this could just be an actual thing and Zac thought it would be funny to play Grant, but trust nothing on Game Changer.
  • Zac dropped several bits of Turner Classic trivia for no reason.
  • Every time they did the Wenis, the people participating in the dance changed -- thought it was supposed to be a time loop.
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I can’t stop thinking about Game Changer and if Sam is leading up to something.

But also Sam saying “bunch of goose eggs” now maybe I’m over thinking this but it made me think of Brennan’s infamous “I can’t win speech” with his big old goose egg. Which I feel like is the only other time someone has used goose egg in reference to a zero on the show.

And it’s like I have a tiny Sam Reich whispering in my ear “this means something..it has to..it’s all connected”

So now I’m thinking about rewatching all of Game Changer so I can find anyone else lay some eggs. And also for any other call backs I may have missed. Like maybe “Sam says everyone touch your wenis” in the Sam says episode.

I will crack your code, Mr. Reich and when I do I will have cracked Game Changer.

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