PALADIN TRAVIS SUPREMACY

Because she's wanted the title/status of a noble basically forever, or at the very least to be treated like one (Do I look like I come from nobility?) But I think that second part (to be treated like one) is really the key to her character. Because what she really wanted growing up was love and respect from her father that he could never give. To be treated as an equal instead of judged by society. And because of the way her father lived his life, she came to see being noble as the only way to get there.

Except it's not. And her time with VM teaches her that. When Percy gives her that title, she doesn't fall for him because of the title itself or even the life it represents. It's because he respects her, values her—he thinks she is worth standing up for. That's something nobody but Vax has ever done (as she says) and something she's always sort of longed for.

And if you look at her relationship with Percy, it's never the wealth or the extravagance that makes her fall for him. That's not to say she doesn't find any fun in it, but it's the little moments camping in the woods, or protecting one another in battle, or having heart-to-hearts between fights. It's authenticity and trust and yes, mutual respect

But these things take time to unlearn, and I do think Vex needed to spend that time as a noble to learn what she actually values. Yes, the balls are fun. Yes, there is a part of her character (& more so in campaign I think) that is very attracted to wealth having grown up without it. But society isn't what she really wants because she's learned that wealth and high society are not the only pathway to love and respect.

Plus yeah, she's an adventurer. She's a Ranger and she belongs to the woods and she longs to be free, but she's also spent her life thinking she needs to give up that part of herself to be treated with care and to be valued. And because she always needed to be on the road, she never had the chance (until now) to consider that maybe she actually wanted to. She is very much herself in that life, and I think Percy taught her that that version of her — the one who runs through the woods with her bow and looks messy and gets in trouble — is just as deserving of adoration as the version who can dress up and look sophisticated etc.

I think if she'd really succumbed to the life of a noble her wedding would have been super opulent and over the top. I think season 1 Vex might have gone for that. But that's not who she is anymore.