I’m so sick of people harping on Vex’s “greed.” Fans, trolls, even fellow party members. Tonight, it’s the very first thing Scanlan says about Vex to a God asking if she’s worthy of his blessing and divine gifts.
Vex and her brother ran away from their abusive father when they were teens. They went back to their hometown, to find their mother and entire village dead from a dragon attack. They had nowhere else to go.
Then they lived on their own, scrounging, scraping by. Vax became a thief and Vex lived in the woods. At one point she was captured by hunters and had to kill her way to freedom, something she never told Vax about and harbored a lot of anger and guilt over for years. They starved. They had next to nothing. They had to struggle for every bit of coin they got.
But sure yeah lol she’s so greedy and she hoards money, how ~hilarious~
You know that Vex, she’s greedy.
Everyone calling Vex greedy has never had to worry about whether they’d make rent of have enough food on the table next month. She’s never spent a single copper for herself, always just party funds for the party, who she tried to get the best deals for.
The only time she took something for herself was the broom. Which. Yeah. Okay. And now the business with the boots. But I mean, we forgive people for insulting all their friends in the most personal way possible after they just died, so why can’t we cut her some slack because of emotional trauma, geez.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 