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Vax'ildan Vessar ([personal profile] donotgofar) wrote2023-09-27 01:21 pm

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Vax
Vax'ildan Vessar NAME
Cis Male SEX/GENDER
Critical Role CANON
Campaign 1, Episode 113 CANONPOINT


HISTORY
This section will have spoilers for Critical Role Campaign 1.

LEAVING HOME
Vax and his twin sister, Vex, grew up in a little town with their mother. They were poor, but happy. Around their 10th year, their father - an elven ambassador - appeared in town and offered to take them for a few years, to provide them with an education and lifestyle their mother could never afford to give them. Heartbroken but hopeful of learning more about the other side of their family, the twins make the journey. From the start, they are considered inferior to full-blooded elven children and are treated like they are hopelessly behind their peers. Their father provides private tutoring, and while Vex works hard to prove herself; Vax... doesn't. He does for a while, but he hates the way their father treats him and his sister, hates that he's considered a second-class citizen here when he'd been happy in Byroden, and he hates that Vex's struggle to earn approval is met with condescension and callousness. Harboring a growing bitterness and resentment, it's in this city that Vax first learns how to pickpocket. He goes out at nights and steals things, not because he needs them, but because he can.
LOSING HOME
Unable to take their father's continued cruelty and the knowledge that they will never be good enough for him or anyone else in the city, Vax and Vex run away. With Vex's ability to navigate the wilds, they make it back to Byroden only to find it a smoldering wreck of the town they remember. Their mother dead, their father disappointed, Vax realizes he has no one but Vex in this world. The twins promise each other to stay together, no matter what. This creates a kind of mutual codependency between them, though Vax is convinced that Vex would be much better able to survive without him than he without her. He is willing to do anything to make sure she is safe. This changes their lives when he agrees to join the criminal organization the Clasp in order to get a contract to kidnap her revoked, leaving Vax in their debt.
THE RAVEN QUEEN
Before meeting Vox Machina, Vax felt depressed and aimless for a long time. He thought of himself as "lost and a wanderer," his goal being to find some purpose in his life. After traveling with Vox Machina for a few years, he considered becoming a follower of Sarenrae, the goddess his friend Pike serves. But life had other ideas. During a treasure hunting mission to find a powerful artifact in the tomb of the Raven Queen's champion, another party member set off a trap that killed Vex'ahlia. Nothing the clerics did could revive her, and in a fit of desperation, Vax begs the Raven Queen to "take me instead." It worked, and Vex comes back to life. Vax'ildan was afraid of the Raven Queen at first, uncertain how to shoulder this new connection. He resists their new connection before finally giving in. In order to save his friend Grog, he begs for her to intercede and makes a promise: "I know you are not what I want, but you are what we need. And I will put aside my reservations and serve you. Please." By accepting that role and coming to an understanding, Vax found what he had been lacking and became more at ease with his fate and his purpose in life.
DEATH
Serving the goddess of death does not guarantee one will avoid it themselves. During a pitched battle against a lich trying to become a god, Vecna, Vax is disintegrated and immediately killed, with nothing left of him for a revival spell to bring back. His soul in limbo, the Raven Queen offers Vax the eternal rest that she says he has earned. But Vax protests, saying he still wants to help his friends. She makes him an offer: he can return to life as her champion, for the sole purpose of hunting down Vecna, so long as he returns to her forever when he has finished that task. Vax agrees immediately and returns to the Material Plane as the Champion of the Raven Queen and a revenant.


ABILITIES
Half-Elf Abilities Dark vision - Vax can see in complete dark for 60 ft; he can see in dim light for 120ft.
Resistance - Elves are resistant to some charms and magically induced sleep; as a half-elf, Vax has inherited these traits.
Revenant Abilities - Returns to life within 24 hours after death
- Knows the distance and direction between himself and Vecna while they are on the same plane of existence
- He doesn't really need food or air, but prefers to have both and can be killed through suffocation
- He will slowly begin to heal after sustaining a certain amount of damage
Paladin Abilities [figuring out how being in this new setting will impact these, check back later]

PERMISSIONS
Definitely. TOUCHING Yes - how he reacts depends on CR. KISSING It's his favorite coping skill. SEX (Mind control, telepathy, etc.) Yes, just check in first so we know what your character wants to see. POWERS USE Have at it. INJURY Yes, let's discuss first. death
Bring it on. FIGHT SCENES Vax loves his friends so you can certainly try. SHIPPING I would prefer not for this game. FOURTH-WALLING Yes! Everyone gets busy, happy to backtag and boomerang. BACKTAGGING Generally yes, just check in first. THREADJACKING Scat, hard/extreme gore, hard vore OOC HARD LIMITS


PREFERENCES
SMUT Full kink list here!
Given the nature of the game I'm definitely willing to go dark, so if there's something that's not on the list that you want to try, I'd be happy to talk as long as it's not on the OOC Nos list above.

Vax is a versatile guy, open to all gender identities and body configurations. He's a switch and he likes the whole spectrum of smut vibes from fluffy to filthy.
HORROR corruption
torture
mind control
corruption
transformation
imprisonment
body horror
haunting/possession
Honestly there's not a lot that I'll flat out say no to and I'm always open to discussing something if you have an idea!


MONSTER
appearance
Prior to complete transformation, Vax's hybrid form has his face looking more like the porcelain mask the Matron of Ravens wears. When fully transformed, Vax's monstrous form is that of a monstrous raven, the corrupted symbol of his patron goddess. His body is lean and long with heavy black wings; he has long, sharp claws that can easily cut into flesh and muscle and a wicked beak full of teeth.


POWER_LIST
Flight | Both as a hybrid and fully transformed, the valravn is capable of flying.
Telepathy | When its mouth is less capable of human speech, the valravn relies on rudimentary telepathy, mostly communicating in flashes of thoughts, feelings, and sensations. Any person experiencing this telepathy will find it's accompanied by a faint sense of dread.
Invisibility | The valravn fades into shadows when stalking potential prey or other hunters to scavenge from.


behavior
Depending on how bestial he's feeling, the fully transformed valravn will walk on four legs or two, his forepaws are more dexterous and able to be used like hands. He lurks on rooftops and in trees, slinks through shadows. And if there are any graveyards or cemeteries, he'll most certainly find his way to them. The valravn is a scavenger, for the most part, and tends to investigate the leavings of other horrors.