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.
EXACTLY. Like it’s not even that concealed that she and Vax had a rough time of things for a while there, and yet so many people are like “lol, greedy selfish weirdo.” What possible reason could a lower class woman, with no family connections to protect her, want with MONEY in a dangerous medieval-esque world? Money = food and safety = life.
It’s very telling to me that she never spent money on herself from the party funds, she used her own money. To the point that what she spent during the missing year cleared out her own savings.
That fucking broom, I swear to gods. I’m still mad about her getting slapped with an alignment change for that. Laura had never played D&D before and didn’t know that’s one of those old timey D&D “never ever” things and she got punished for it. For stealing a method of flight when they were facing down a group of terrifying evil FLYING dragons and had just lost their carpet. From a guy who was likely never gonna show up again. Made total sense to me at the time and I was really confused how many people flipped out like she’d murdered a child in real life or something, like that’s the degree of outrage that was flaring up around it and still does to this day. Personally I’m way more troubled by say, Scanlan’s rampant use of mind control on people, than I am by Vex stealing a broom from a rando one time.
But Scanlan is a man and that’s funny, and Vex is a woman so you gotta keep her in line, I guess?I don’t like that whole situation at all. It still really troubles me.Yeah we’re supposed to just forgive Scanlan for targeting his friends’ emotional vulnerabilities ruthlessly and running off, not letting them know if he was alive or dead for a year. But not ever let Vex forget about the damn broom. Because … um … reasons. Yeah.
Also. I mean. I was presented as a weak argument at the time, but she did steal from a necromancer. And it hadn’t been very long since they sorted out a necromancer’s mess. And before the dragons attacked, they were uncovering a necromancy cult. You know, the thing the plot is now about again.
What kind of damage you’d think Delilah Briarwood would have been able to dish out from a flying broom? Just throwing that out there.
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