CritRole Fic WIPs & Ideas

Listed in rough order of how much I have written/planned out for each. 

Current Projects (AKA, these have a lot written already):

Side Projects (AKA, I’ve written parts of these already):

Oneshots to finish. One day:

Ideas? (AKA, I’ve got an idea. And maybe two lines?):

Kinda want to write... maybe? (AKA, a concept. idk):

General rough list of fandoms I can vs will talk about:

For the most part, you can ask me about any of these but HP, because I've got a messy grieving process going on there. That said, unless it's marked as a Will talk about fandom, don't expect the kind of essays you can get for the Will talk about fandoms.

You can ask about the "Hogwarts" CR AU, but remember that I'm using Hogwarts as a shorthand for "magic school with some ideas cribbed from HP, some general magic school ideas, and a lot of independent worldbuilding", and not to expect much that's actually that recognisable as canon HP.

Hope that helps!

The coat is just due to propriety and etiquette and proper dress - but the fact it enables him to better hide his tail does not go amiss. Not unlike gloves - it's one of those things where old expectations help him hide the parts of himself he doesn't like. In canon, all this proper dress enables him to hide his torture scars - here it allows him to hide that and some of his tiefling aspects.

Usually, Percy's tail is kept coiled around his waist or leg, or otherwise tucked out of the way and obscured by his coat. It's usually only out when he's so emotional he doesn't have the focus to hide it, or when he actually needs it for balance.

I certainly do have other angst and lore snips for this AU, but I am presently focussing on other WIPs (Ghost Cass, Delia AU, a set of Kash & Zahra fics) so I'm hesitant to share more until I get Tiefling AU more firmly hammered out.

I've never tackled it before but we all know why he stabbed "Seeker Assum"? It comes up both on stream and in Talks Machina - Percy knew exactly what he was doing and did it entirely on purpose.

He did it because not that long before it'd been revealed that "Assum" was actually Raishan in disguise (the real Assum had never reached Whitestone but rather was still away investigating as he'd said he would the last they saw him), Percy was relatively newly back to life (and Ripley was dead so he's feeling extra great) and so he was kind of riding the high of that and so being way more reckless than usual, and I imagine he figured if it was the real Assum after all, then Pike could heal him and if it was Raishan - as it was - he could use the attack to force things out into the open and prevent their from being secrets between anyone on the war council. Secrets like that can often be leveraged to cause distrust, paranoia and enable one like Raishan to gain power or even just escape.

Percy grew up in a ruling noble family; he knows these kinds of games. He may not have had Raishan's hundreds of years to get good at it, but while he's reckless and arrogant and at times a dick, he's also not actually that stupid. Allowing Raishan to keep holding all the cards and dictate her help and how much others knew was dangerous. They know she's amoral at best - she decimated the Fire Ashari in order to get Thordak out of the Fire Plane, in doing so destroying Emon (both the populace and the place) purely for sake of a possible cure for her illness.

She is selfish and self-serving, manipulative and power-hungry and these are all established facts about her. Even if she wasn't an ancient green dragon, Percy has plenty of reason to distrust her and not want her to have any power over them - especially in his own home, where he and his family had been attacked and massacred before! Of course he'd want to prevent that from happening again and so forcing the truth into the open would help with that.

Percy canonically has panic attacks each time he deals with Raishan 1:1 - she's someone who's powerful, dangerous, manipulative, and has insinuated her way into his newly regained home, full of people he's trying to see protected. Leaving her with any power over him and the rest of VM in turn gives her power over the people of Whitestone - and he fought the Briarwoods and helped gain Whitestone it's freedom. Percy's a lot of things - he wasn't fighting the Briarwoods solely to free Whitestone, after all - but he does have a massively overgrown sense of responsibility. He helped free Whitestone. Ergo, Whitestone is his responsibility. Ergo, he cannot let a giant ancient green dragon have any more power over it than absolutely necessary.

Coupled to everything else, and his new elation at being alive having faced Ripley - yeah, he was a bit more reckless. But he knew exactly, 100% what he was doing.

He was taking a risk to force the truth into the open.

I'd hardly say I'm "part of the fandom" - I read the books, enjoyed them, and moved on. Occasionally I go back and reread them, but I've never felt any urge to seek out fanfiction of the series.

But no, nothing in the books as I read them suggests anything more than friendship between Johannes and Leonie, and they disagree on quite a bit. Zarenyia is far more flirtatious with him but nothing happens there either - one, she's a succubine spider demon and it's just part of their dynamic and two, Johannes is pretty single minded in his focus.

You need to understand, when I first read Johannes Cabal I was yelling to @chamerionwrites every few chapters with some new snippet that just felt so fundamentally Percy.

They're both arrogant, self-assured young men with a hefty bundle of issues and deep emotional repression, a tendency to see themselves as tools for their purposes and a liking for Guns. I would describe Cabal as Percy if he lost Vex and pulled a Delilah in trying to get her back - hells, Cabal is a necromancer!

So yes, in short, they're so alike they'd rub each other completely the wrong way and it'd be absolutely hilarious to observe from the outside I'm sure, but ... yeah. They wouldn't get along.

This is probably gonna sound kind of arrogant but for the most part, none of them? Like, certain things have influences on how I tend to envision the characters but I'm not a terribly visual thinker or writer; if you look at my fics you'll note I tend to dwell much more in emotion and tactile senses than I do visual. It's kind of why I envy people like my dear friend @cosmonauthill or the excellent @exhaustedwerewolf - both have this fantastic knack for creating a single striking visual that helps you build out a scene or a character in your mind from that.

Like. At the end of the day there's only one art piece that I tend to really look to as a visual guide for any of the characters and that would be This Fantastic Piece of Percy and Orthax from the lovely @agarthanguide, and that's more to do with the artistic style of the piece (which. I just love) and the fact Hannah is a dear friend who's art I've enjoyed for a long time, meaning I'm biased towards her art anyway.

As it is, I don't particularly care for the animated series - I find the designs too simplified to the point that they're boring to me, and I'm someone who likes the animated shows I watch to have a clear style; to me the animated series looks altogether too much like many other shows.

The comics are fine, I guess, but they don't really stick out much to me, and I have nitpicks about a few things in the fanart of others - namely that a lot of people draw half-elves' ears like they're full elves. If they're half elves, then elven ears would be like those of the World of "we have an ear fetish" Warcraft elves and I find those kinds of ears just to just... beggar belief. I need a bit of verisimilitude and the ear size/prominence is a nitpick for me.

I certainly take cues from some art. I used a mixture of the comics art and the group picture done by AnenomeTea to judge the height differences of Vox Machina, which, yes, I did sit down and do, I'm like that, and I love @crithaus' golden freckles idea for Vex, I like the sheer ludicrousness of Vex's hair in @alienfirst's art, and I like how long and awkward Percy's face is in the comics, but I also like the art of @2impostors which always makes him look like his nose has been broken at least once (a headcanon I share) and I also like just how young he looks in the original stream portraits with that round face. It really brings home that he was only a teen when he went through so much. That's another reason I really like alienfirst's art as well, because they similarly give Percy a rounded, young looking face - though I personally tend more towards how Hannah - agarthanguide - draws Percy's hair than anyone else.

And that's before we get to specific AUs of mine - Percy's differently weathered and worn in Delia AU and Ripley's Assistant because he wasn't physically tortured; in Ghost Cass he's much better rested and doesn't look so sleepless, and of course for Tiefling AU, I lean very much towards the lovely art @blorbologist did.

So... yeah. What visuals I do have are very much a mishmash of personal opinion and specific AU, and while I might take cues from this and that it doesn't really create a single coherent image so much as a few specific details I can then write in for people to apply to their own image of Percy. Hope this answers your question!