So this couple walks in- a broad-shouldered man with an accent (Italian, I think) and a man that I can best describe as looking like Cecil Palmer.
“Okay- weird question. So you guys did our wedding- amazing by the way. And it’s been a month and just about all the flowers in the vases have died by now except for this one thing that’s really holding on in there. And we want to know what that plant is and how to take care of it to keep it alive. And we don’t know how to like… describe it and it sounds kind of weird to go to up to a stranger and say ‘hey what’s this weird wiggly green plant you put in our vases a month ago?’ but I guess that’s what I’m asking.”
“Sounds like curly willow. If you keep it in water it will eventually start rooting and you can grow a new plant from it from the cutting.”
“That is too cool! What do you suggest we do?”
“Well, you can keep it in the water for now, but eventually you’ll want to pot it in soil because that’s how it’s going to get its nutrients.”
“Can we,” the Italian guy asks. “Can we plant it in the floor?” I figure he means ‘plant it outside.’
I nod. “It’ll keep growing.”
“What does it look like when it’s bigger? Does it stay like a wiggly stick?”
“Oh, no, it’ll branch out. It’s actually a tree.”
The skinnier one turns to his husband and says:
“Did you hear that, honey? They gave us a tree! We have a tree now!”
They will look at fanart of the twins without knowing that they were each other’s halves and that they were only ripped apart from each other by Death herself.
They will read a post about a charismatic gnome that sung about the adventures of Vox Machina and never stopped Wishing for his friend to come back, and not understand what it means.
They won’t know that the Chosen of Sarenrae, good and kindhearted, was also a monstah that could crash skulls with only her hands.
Or how her best friend, a towering and powerful Goliath with an intelligence of 6, had a soft spot for tiny gnomes and loved to get into prank wars with the Raven Queen’s Champion.
Or how the Terrible Tinkerer of Exandria, who believed himself far too gone, found love and redemption and created a family in the home that was once taken from him.
Or how their other fallen comrade, from Draconia, lost his life to protect his kingdom and how he encouraged both violence and peace.
Or how another human noble swooped into their lives, and went with them during their Daring Trials and Tribulations and became part of their family as well.
Or how the Tempest found a voice, all powerful and wise, unkillable except by her own hand, or fin.
They will know who Vox Machina were, sure, but they won’t know them. And that makes me sad.
if you fucking think peter wet blanket parker can beat jean you are such a fucking idiot your single brain cell just bounces around the inside of your brain like a screensaver and you can never get it to float in the corner to form a coherent thought
like even considering that peter has i don’t know heart or gumption or something stupid like that jean is the literal strongest telepath in the ENTIRE GALAXY she’s been inhabited by the phoenix force (THE STRONGEST ENTITY IN THE GALAXY) multiple times and fucking left it limping home to it’s bird house on occasion…to even entertain the idea that a lanky manboy with bug powers could beat her??? i have to laugh
I want the Mighty Nein to just keep collecting clerics. They’ve got Jester back. Caduceus is chillin. Have Shakäste stay. Somehow recruit Pike. Yank Merle Highchurch out of the adventure zone world and onto Exandria. One of ‘em is bound to heal somebody at some point
