It’s really important to me that you did not name one of the children after Vax. I think it is the instinct of people to do that, and I don’t think Vex would ever put that on someone. I think the only Vax that she will ever know is in the temple where she goes to talk, and the ravens she always feeds (it is illegal, in the Whitestone in my head, to kill a raven)
right??? i’m usually not as a rule a fan of the dead guy junior trope (one of several reasons that i have become…. not a fan. of the harry potter epilogue) because god it just seems like such a burden to put on a kid?? so much expectation and so much to live up to right from the start? with elaina i felt like it was more honoring vex’s mom and giving her a place in her children’s heritage, but i agree, i don’t think they’d name one of their kids after vax. maybe their kids will name a grandbaby, or a great-grandbaby, after him, years and years down the line, but i think for vex and percy it’s still too fresh.
Scholars of Tal’dorei history are uncertain as to where the archaic and somewhat nonsensical law against killing a raven within the bounds of Whitestone came from. Most sources date it back to around the time of De Rolo Restoration, but its true origins remain a source of much debate in academic circles.
(by which i mean: i love this very very much.)
Thank you!
Also I feel like naming a kid after Vax would mean they have accepted that he’s gone and this is just what you do now. And seeing how they both refuse to accept how this worked out, I don’t see them doing this.
Naming a kid Elaina however is kind of percetly appropriate – if only to annoy Vex’s father, which is basically their favorite hobby at this point.
listen, my prediction for percy’s retirement is that he gets to the “tired old curmudgeon” phase of his life by the time he’s like, 31. i mean, we already saw shades of it, and he’s in his mid-twenties, i fully expect him to be unbearable to anyone who isn’t family by the time he could theoretically run for president.
percy, in a rocking chair outside of vex’s mansion, bad news in his lap: if any young, upstarting adventurers come up the walkway to ask me to give them quests, i will fire on sight.
vex: darling, you are 43 years old. why are you like this.
combine this with your other post about sylas coming to yell outside whitestone every night to create a god tier post
sylas: FUCKIN GET OUT HERE AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN DE ROLO
percy, behind six hand-painted “no vampires allowed” neighbourhood watch signs: gIT OFF MAH LAWN
come visit fair whitestone! we have: two angry old men shouting at each other across a fence.
So I was going through my archive and I stumbled across this bit from his Suicide Letter:
“Erase my legacy wherever you find it, that silence would be the greatest eulogy I could ever hope for.”
We went from that … to what happened last night. He makes a clocktower. He never makes another weapon. He has kids. He starts an annual festival. He gets to LIVE. He has a legacy now, forever.
Okay you guys know that one episode of Ouran High School Host Club where Haruhi and Hikaru go on a date, with the rest of the club stalking them in increasingly ridiculous ways?
He never made a weapon again. He never had to make a weapon ever again. He missed his family and he built a clock tower. He helped his sister and his legacy lived on in his work and his children. His legacy was not the lives he took but all of those he saved.
God I am so proud of and have learned so much from Percival De Rolo
“Raishan Ripley von Musel Klossowski de Rolo, you were named after two women who lured us onto deathtrap islands and killed your father, but damn if they weren’t the smartest bitches we ever met.”
idk, even tho I’m the first to say that I HATE the Babies Ever After trope, and even more the babies being Dead Character Juniors, I’ve accepted that it’s gonna happen and I really do hope that Vex and Percy do name their first born daughter Elaina.
I think that would be a beautiful thing, for this low-born human woman, who had a one-time fuck with an Elf Lord or whatever who later showed up and took both her children from her, who likely doesn’t even have a proper grave, for her name to become part of Whitestone’s traditional names. And for part of Vex’s history to be part of Whitestone forever. Ten generations down the road, there could be a Lady Elaina the Third.
Can we just all make a suicide pact againt Harry Potter naming conventions now? Elaina is fine. Johanna is, too. But god dammit, no Vax’ildan Percivalsteins or Julius Olivers or Ludwig Whitneys or whatever the fuck else. Naming a kid after your barely dead twin creeps me out especially. Give it a generation or so.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 