Vaxleth Week

Hi everyone! We have started working on gathering prompts for this year's Vaxleth Week, so we would love to hear from you on a subject we have been discussing.

You know, I noticed, about a week ago? You were curious about my wings. […] We have one hour.

Vaxleth day 2: Champion / Tempest

Late submission for day 2 for @vaxlethweek! I'm still busy with day one and day 3. Dunno if I'm gonna do every day, but you can defs expect at least two more pieces from me

Continuing the late work for @vaxlethweek - my take on a classic for day 5, closeups below!

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Keyleth/Vax'ildan (Critical Role) Characters: Keyleth (Critical Role), Vax'ildan (Critical Role) Additional Tags: Post-Campaign 3 (Critical Role), Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Rating May Change, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut, Angst with a Happy Ending, Post-Campaign 1 (Critical Role), Hurt/Comfort Summary: Seven days after the end of the Era of Reclamation, Keyleth, Voice of the Tempest, gets a knock on her door that not only has been greatly expected, but that will also turn her world upside down.

“Who knows what will be of the Champions now that the Gods are gone. Will they be gone, too? Will they be able to live normal, mortal lives? Keyleth stopped wondering two nights ago. She stopped waiting every night for the knock on her door that will never come. Just last night, Keyleth resigned to the fact that all she had was just a fleeting night a week ago and that she will never have it back.”

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This is my submission for day 7 of @vaxlethweek Fresh Start / Reunion.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Keyleth/Vax'ildan (Critical Role) Characters: Keyleth (Critical Role), Vax'ildan (Critical Role) Additional Tags: Vaxleth Week, Day 7: Fresh Start, Post-Campaign 3 (Critical Role), Literally the day after, Happy Ending, Fluff, Starting Over Series: Part 7 of Vaxleth Week 2025 Summary:

If anyone were to ask Keyleth if she would ever be happy, or if she was ever going to move on from the past… Had it been yesterday, or even a week ago, she would have responded in the affirmative. But now? She couldn’t be happier to be proven wrong. For today is the first new day of the rest of her life. — @vaxlethweek Day 7: Fresh Start

At long last, the finale for Vaxleth Week 2025.

And so, for “Fresh Start”… I decided to literally place this story the day after, right after the campaign ended lol

A shoutout to everyone who made this event possible, including Soph, Del, and Raven.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Keyleth/Vax'ildan (Critical Role) Characters: Keyleth (Critical Role), Vax'ildan (Critical Role), Korrin (Critical Role), Derrig (Critical Role) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, First Meetings, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Rating May Change Summary: Vax’ildan meets Keyleth, the “princess” he is supposed to babysit as part of his new job. "So here he is, dressed in a set of clean, untouched black leathers with brand-new scratchy linen clothes and a black hooded cloak that can fully hide him from sight, waiting in what looks like a reception chamber in a building in the center of town."

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This is my second submission for day 6 of @vaxlethweek. I've established that I am an overachiever, so I wrote two fics for this day. This one is for the prompt First Meeting.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Keyleth/Vax'ildan (Critical Role) Characters: Vax'ildan (Critical Role), Keyleth (Critical Role) Additional Tags: Vaxleth Week, Day 6: “I’ll find you I promise”, Campaign 3 (Critical Role), Reunions, POV Vax'ildan (Critical Role), Angst with a Happy Ending, Catharsis Summary:

“I’ll find you, I promise.” Keyleth had promised that, three decades ago, just before his departure. She had found him, just as she said she would. Not the way she’d intended, but… even so, she found him. And now… it’s his turn. — @vaxlethweek Day 6: “I’ll Find You, I Promise”

Ooh boy, this was a doozy to write… but also cathartic.

She repeated it like a mantra in her head: I’ll find you. I’ll find you. I will find you. It kept her grounded, kept her focused. The world had already taken too much from her, from him, from all of them. She would not lose him. She forced herself to not consider any other option, because if she did, those freezing chains of fear would choke her heart and leave her paralysed. She had no time to lose, no time to fall apart. She had no time to consider the precipice she was on, how Vax was falling, slowly, slowly, away from her, and he could only go so far before he’d be lost from her forever.

With the life that they lead, Keyleth knows that she can’t stop Vax from getting hurt. But, she’ll fight with everything she has to make sure, time after time, he comes back home to her. When Vax disappears without a trace, she has to prove it.

Written for Vaxleth Week 2025, day 6: I’ll find you, I promise/ First meeting

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Keyleth/Vax'ildan (Critical Role) Characters: Keyleth (Critical Role), Vax'ildan (Critical Role) Additional Tags: Campaign 1 (Critical Role), Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Vaxleth Week 2025

Summary:

Vox Machina are trapped in a maze and the only person remotely within earring distance of Keyleth is Vax’ildan.

“The earring was eerily quiet. Keyleth couldn’t tell if that was a good or a bad thing; on one hand, Vax wouldn’t have to listen to her die, but on the other hand, Keyleth would die with her name being screamed so agonizingly by the half-elf as her last memory of him, and with the thought of Vax finding her mauled body (if he ever found her).”

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Keyleth/Vax'ildan (Critical Role) Characters: Keyleth (Critical Role), Vax'ildan (Critical Role) Additional Tags: Vaxleth Week, Day 5: Free Day, Episode: s03e06 The Coming Storm (Legend of Vox Machina), Developing Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Missing Scene Summary:

“You won’t risk anything for me.” Those words from Keyleth’s own mouth continue to haunt her even now. — @vaxlethweek Day 5: Free Day

Figured I’d include a “missing scene” where just before breakfast, Keyleth and Vax make SOME amends and at least repair their more platonic bond.

Their romantic bond, sadly, would continue to be shaky… at least until 311.