@@xatlern nah, if she truely belived that much in herself, Pike would have approached him instead of letting Vex do it and step back herself, but the second is absolutly vex
Haha I remember me and many fans being so stressed during the entire second half of campaign 1 (and right until the finale) that Taliesin would snatch Percy’s path towards a happy ending away at any point.
When my friends and I binge watched Vox Machina, I told them nothing about the De Rolo’s, the Briarwoods, and all the death and stuff. I only told them the character names, classes, and races. Needless to say they were adequately horrified when these things were revealed so fantastically
The meta in this is that Wheelocks had a bad habit of chain firing where one cartridge's spark ignites the next one and then that one the next and because of the shape being a wheel, some of those cartridges are pointed back and to the sides. They were quite literally built to hurt yourself and everyone around you and that is the most Percy shit ever.
I feel like he could have gone through some good ol’ character development, or better yet, personal growth, if they took the time for his character to do so. Hell, I think Percy should’ve taken a “me time” arc like Scanlan did. Inventing things in Whitestone, reconnecting with Cassandra, grabbing some Artificer tricks, some Good Will Hunting therapy. I’m picturing it and I like what could’ve been.
Percy should always make the gun trade because its an alloyed good. Guns, especially for this time period, becoming ubiquitous is the death of monarchy.
He started as true neutral (because he just did not care) and VM made him start caring about things (admittedly it got easier once the Briarwoods died).
Because after his revenge trip he is genuinely trying to do the right thing... usually... mostly... lol. It's just that sometimes his methods are questionable, or he falls off the "Good person" wagon sometimes in the name of practicality or expediency or because frankly the suggestions of the moral compass side of the team are doomed to failure occasionally.
Tal, at least, if not Percy, was smart enough not to create a gun that everyone would want to imitate, in functional terms. History will teach at least some of us something, after all.
So he made pop guns for at least some of his kids. My first thought was “aw that’s cute” but then I remembered kids are dumb so great parenting move on Percy to get his children to associate guns with toys. He invented guns but I doubt he invented gun safes.
To me, Matt is a bit hamfisted with player agency in the character arcs. Grog's arc of "protective rage for his friends" over "just being angry" was mostly done TO him, not BY him. Beau and Percy really stand out as characters who solve their own personality problems.
Not really. I’m sure Matt knows his friends and quite frankly, some of them don’t do character arcs very well (Travis and Laura being particularly bad at showing character growth).
But you gotta remember, Fjord was Travis' second go round. He had both experience and a more emotionally layered, intelligent character to explore some sort of development with, so it makes sense he was better at it. I think Travis may have expressed a lack of growth off-table for Grog and was confused as to how to implement that in the day to day travel so Matt went "here, we'll give you a fight and a lesson" since Grog always loved a challenge and naturally headed there. For Vex, I think it's less obvious growth. She doesn't develop any major new interests or skills, she falls in love with a heavily damaged compatriot and most of the major progress in that story is done off-screen and through time skips. Most of their "love" is lust-filled jokes and cutaway gags. They had great moments, don't get me wrong, they just weren't as consistent as they could've been. Most of Vex's personal development was getting revenge and closure on trauma from years ago but that's highlighted maybe once with the "that was him" bit after seeing Thordak for the first time, other than that she just gets better at stuff she was already good at and instead of wholely being money-hungry for personal reasons, she co-owns a business and becomes slightly less money hungry. I love Vox Machina, they're my favourite of the three so far but even I can recognise that some characters got more development for a variety of reasons. And again, doing some of this off-screen or during timeskips isn't inherently bad, it just has the result of not meaning as much on a think back.
”I know people hate it when I say that” Because you've either not shown him like that, or perhaps he became a different person after the Brairwood arc. Lol at Marisha hogging the question again, seems like she has the nature of mimicking other peoples awnsers.
