Taliesin & Co. affectionately shit-talking Percival for over 6 minutes

[@grantsvoiceongames1992]

“I could fix him” “I *COULD* fix him, but honestly whatever the hell’s wrong with him is way funnier” Vex, probably.

[@xatlern]

I feel like the first one is pike and the second one is vex 😂

[@magiv4205]

"I could make him worse"

[@toddalexander5015]

@@magiv4205 this one's Grog

[@SingingSealRiana]

@@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

[@thevoidlord1796]

"Torture my whiny little 1%er, please"

[@DarkhalfBreed]

I think one of the best things about Percy inventing the first gun, and making it a wheellock Is that he bypassed a hundred years of development

[@tearay1073]

I mean, if your research partner was a literal Unholy Fiend, you'd definitely make a lot of progress

[@michaelwebster3124]

The lord of Whitestone can hardly walk about with something as pedestrian as a match lock

[@jaffarebellion292]

I know Taliesin loves the idea of Percy self-destructing, but it's immensely satisfying to see Vox Machina, and Vex especially, save him from himself.

[@Clairembify]

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.

[@sparklegemrose]

Oh man, I feel this

[@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll]

4:38 really sums it up: "Everybody loves Percy, and he's like the worst!" XD

[@shreknet]

Every team member cept Grog wanting Percy at some stage was so hillarious. Hot Boi Percy breaking hearts.

[@SingingSealRiana]

yeah, the one aro straight guy, the did that again with jaster

[@corybalitewicz1941]

“An interesting barrel of issues…” well, that’s one way of putting it.

[@guy84838]

c1 everyone falls in love with percy c2 everyone falls in love with jester- c3? fearne said she'd make her way through the group and i believe her.

[@procrastinator99]

Makinherway

[@guy84838]

@@procrastinator99 makinherway indeed

[@lebadger019]

1:28 vex @ percy "chill out, eat a moon pie, have a seven up, stop killing people."

[@acetraineraster5171]

HAVE A MOON PIE OH MY GOD i loved moon pies as a kid!!!!

[@ScreamingInTheV0id]

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

[@bellringer53]

The whole cast: we love you! Now self destruct!!!

[@joelrobinson5457]

Creating a character you love, really is like having a child. I can relate

[@GoblinLord]

I love how like, they were committed to making the List LOOK like a shitty gun, I find that hilarious

[@gabrielamedeirosribeiro3223]

“Wheel locks are great! They blow up!” 😂

[@toddalexander5015]

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.

[@rubberd0512]

I’m amused by him rubbing his newly fuzzy head

[@lacewings]

Having shaved my head several times, I can attest that it is indeed irresistible

[@rubberd0512]

@@lacewings oh, same, it’s just adorable to see him do it, especially during an interview

[@Just_Tyree]

When Mica said “i can fix him” about Percy’s repressive nature, i think i fell in love with her, girl fix me! 😭

[@dapprligtnin98]

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.

[@anthonydavis5288]

Alright you ill rewatch campaign 1 just for this video.

[@catherineelmore2004]

The “torture my whiny little one percenter” had me dying laughing!

[@ryanjones_rheios]

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.

[@catherineelmore2004]

I kinda love the fact that, in the first two campaigns the characters that were designed by their players to be intensely flawed and *maybe* not come to good ends because of their self destructive behavior - Percy and, of course, Caleb- are the ones that *definitively* get dragged into redemption arcs and happy endings, when their players didn’t originally see that happening, because the party’s just like “no, youve got good in you, we see it, we’re making this happen!”

[@johnmarkarth2249]

As a British I concur.

[@dnf-dead]

Percy was great 👍

[@MemphiStig]

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.

[@zachmartin5876]

How on earth is Percy Neutral Good?

[@lacewings]

I’ve personally never been a fan of alignments 🤷🏼

[@BBBness]

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).

[@mayaenglish5424]

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.

[@kl-1447]

@@lacewings Neither is Taliesin so that makes sense as well

[@thevoidlord1796]

Because Taliesin doesn't really care about alignment

[@Elizabeth-x8c3g]

No one would agree with those statements more than Percy himself, but even for fictional characters I have trouble saying someone is inherently a bad person. This is very “I can fix him” but people do change

[@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll]

Adding another comment For The Algorithm

[@justarandomartist6502]

Can you link the video where the cast was talking about tLoVM?

[@cynical_chai8922]

what interview is 1:27 from??

[@JenRave]

Sources for the clips, I'm begging...

[@MaddysinLeigh]

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.

[@Metrion77]

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.

[@squeezie_b8895]

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).

[@Metrion77]

@@squeezie_b8895 fjord and vex? Those two had great character arcs supported by cadeucus and Percy respectively.

[@kichitosunow1025]

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.

[@frostreaper1607]

”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.