#cassandra de rolo

[keefechambers]

The Patented Vox Machina Dead Sister Clutch™

#vox machina #critical role #tlovm #credit #percy de rolo #cassandra de rolo #vax'ildan #vex'ahlia #grog strongjaw #pike trickfoot

[hinumay]

Because..... Cassandra de Rolo 😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌

#digital art #character art #digital aritst #art #commisions open #drawing commissions open #digital commisions #dnd #critical role #cassandra de rolo #de rolo family #whitestone #vox machina #vox machina fanart #the legend of vox machina #criticalrole fanart #critical role art #critical role fanart #criticalrole #critical role campaign 1

[lesbianneopolitan]

Commission of Cassandra de Rolo for @daemonofrazgriz, from The Legend of Vox Machina, thank you! 🤺

A giftie for @timid-hound!

Long haired version under the Read More!

#My art #the legend of vox machina #cassandra de rolo #Critical Role

[harusuki]

the legend of vox machina gifset per episode season 1 episode 11: whispers at the zigguraut

#critical role #the legend of vox machina #critroleedit #critteredit #tlovmedit #dailyanimatedgifs #cartoonedit #flashing gif #percy de rolo #keyleth of the air ashari #sylas briarwood #pike trickfoot #scanlan shorthalt #cassandra de rolo #vex'ahlia #a: lovm #gpe: lovm

[infinityoftwo]

perc’ahlia pride and prejudice!au anyone??

#legend of vox machina #vox machina #vex'ahlia #percival de rolo #percy de rolo #cassandra de rolo #vax'ildan #critical role #pride and prejudice #p&p #i've got another one but that one needs lined and colored so its gonna be seperate

[pansexualnoodle5]

Oh my god I just realized

He waits for her approval.

Every time Percy needs to leave Whitestone with the rest of Vox Machina, he always looks to Cassandra first, almost like he's asking if she’s okay with him leaving.

He doesn’t want her to feel like he’s abandoning her again, like he's gallivanting off on another adventure and disregarding what she wants.

No matter how important it is that he leaves, no matter how much Vox Machina needs him, he’ll always wait for his sister to approve of it first.

He waits for her to say, “It’s okay. Go.” And then he leaves.

Because of that simple gesture, Cass knows that if she ever needed her brother, he would choose to stay with her in a heartbeat.

#THEY DON'T GET A LOT OF FOCUS AND I GET IT BUT #IT'S THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL #SHOW DONT TELL #THIS SHOW EXCELS AT IT #the legend of vox machina #tlovm #vox machina #percy de rolo #cassandra de rolo #critical role

[essektheylyss]

This was entirely tangential to this post from @utilitycaster which is why this is its own post, but the tags made me think about what feels most compelling about Liliana to me, and it's really because there's such an interesting approach to redemption in terms of the sunk cost fallacy to be had there.

There have been plenty of comparisons between Liliana and Essek, but I don't think they're really situations that can be compared. Essek had done one horrible thing (that was of relevence to the story; it is implied that he's taken other actions that he feels were wrong, but we don't know what those entail nor do the Nein care enough to ask, so per narrative convention, they do not matter for analysis) and was only still involved in it to the extent that he couldn't take it back, so to survive he had to continue covering his tracks. But he was also incentivized to otherwise act in alignment with the group that was not those on behalf of whom he had made terrible choices, because he was still living in the Dynasty, and as such wasn't actively perpetuating those actions beyond the cover up.

Liliana on the other hand is acting with the Vanguard and has been furthering if not personally committing atrocities on their behalf for a number of years, continuing to the present. Like Essek, she believes her involvement in the cause to be a difficult choice that was made for noble reasons, and now can't see a way out. But she is also relieved to be told to stay, though at the point that they discuss her leaving, she is alone and outside the immediate range of contact or oversight from the Vanguard. It seems reasonable that she could disappear with a decent headstart, and perhaps become untraceable quickly enough to be safe from anyone following. With this context, returning to the Vanguard with the intention of feeding information to the opposition feels like the riskier choice, but crucially it is the devil she knows.

I actually liken this more to Cassandra de Rolo than Essek. Cassandra was manipulated against her brother by the Briarwoods, but this was also spurred by having watched Percy seemingly leave her for dead. There are legitimate reasons why the Briarwoods, as the people who rescued her and then kept her alive for many years, are the easier option in which to place her trust. She knows what she's getting from that vantage point and how to handle it. She doesn't inherently have faith that someone she only knew as a young and helpless child, who ran from the hardships she's faced, would have the strength or willingness to do what she has found necessary for survival.

I think that Liliana's actions are more willful, not least because she was not a child nor in mortal peril when she joined the Vanguard, but she sees herself as having made difficult choices when only faced with difficult options, and I do think they have been difficult. She didn't want to leave her family; she doesn't want to hurt the young Ruidusborn under her care; she is probably genuinely sorry that innocent people were considered a necessary sacrifice for what she sees as the greater good. It is psychologically taxing to feel as though one is always picking between bad options, which is a significant contributing factor for why people buy into a sunk cost for so long. And over time, those hard decisions become easier, because you know what to expect from the outcome. Though Liliana is well aware that she might be killed for a misstep among the Vanguard, she already knows how to act to maintain their favor, but how she might be received on Exandria by those fighting the Vanguard, even with the Hells vouching for her, is anyone's guess.

This is a very real reason why people remain in cults and struggle to push back against this kind of conditioning: because the decision to leave feels more immediately perilous than the decision to stay. (On a certain level making these kinds of choices and actions habitual is a fundamental basis behind a lot of military conditioning.) And if you are acting in the interests of your own survival, but that survival comes at the cost of that of countless others who have not, in fact, made any threat or harm against you to begin with, then is the nature of your survival morally defensible?

This analysis isn't a question of whether Liliana will commit to her role as double agent and turn fully against the Vanguard, or even which one of these is a "better" story; this is about what the story might say if she doesn't. Yes, she might commit to a different path than the one she's on and make an effort to redeem herself, but it is also a perfectly coherent and interesting story if she doesn't.

#sometimes it really feels like people just. pick a character name out of a hat #and then decide that that character must get what the person feels they deserve regardless of the rest of the existing text #instead of like... considering the text for the story that has already been told and what it might still say from that vantage point #cr meta #liliana temult #essek thelyss #cassandra de rolo #critical role #anyway do not know admittedly how coherent this is but I gotta finish up my work day so I'm posting it. yolo

[duganator01]

Beep boop cameras action

#legend of vox machina #vox machina #critical role #percy de rolo #scanlan shorthalt #keyleth #cassandra de rolo #mine #my art #actor au

[spect-era]

Watching LoVM and listening to the actual campaign is so interesting and fun I think. Also I love you origins comics Percy he’s so real to me

#my art #vox machina #legend of vox machina #cr1 #percy de rolo #percival fredrickstein von musel klossowski de rolo iii #cassandra de rolo #vex’ahlia

[skrimblo]

Doodles this week

#critical role #vox machina #critical role campaign 1 #percy de rolo #vexahlia #keyleth #cassandra de rolo #doodle #my art #critical role fanart

[yudol-skorbi]

i am marathoning trough critrole rn as you probably can tell

#critical role #sketch #vox machina #critical role fanart #cr1 #god there are a lot to tag... #vax'ildan #vex'ahlia #pike trickfoot #percy de rolo #cassandra de rolo #scanlan shorthalt #grog strongjaw #keyleth #taryon darrington #isnt it basically all of vox machina??? #i think so #those guys are honestly just make my life a little bit better #i dream of the day when i finish all of my deadlines so i can make some proper fanart

[lemasquerade]

The more I think about it, the less interested I am in Vex’s reaction to Laudna. Like don’t get it twisted I definitely want to see that, but to Vex, Laudna is just a symbol of the pain the Briarwoods caused. The pain Vox Machina endured to achieve their goals. She’s a reminder of the casual cruelty that the Briarwoods were capable of before they were destroyed. And admittedly, that’s not nothing.

But Cassandra.

To Cassandra, Laudna is a physical manifestation of everything she did to the people of Whitestone while under the Briarwoods influence. Laudna was someone who lived during that time where Cassandra was actively working to make their lives worse. Laudna never got to see her atone. Launda died thinking the only de Rolo left was ambivalent at best.

Unless Cassandra was at The Dinner.

Laudna’s never brought up whether or not Cassandra was there, but if Delilah never introduced her why would she know? Laudna was a farm girl, why would she ever have had cause to know a de Rolo by sight?

It’s entirely possible that Cassandra was there, if not at the table, just waiting in the wings. It’s entirely possible that Cassandra was part of Laudna’s torture and murder. It’s entirely possible that Delilah would have taken the stringing up of her brother’s and friends effigies as a test, as proof of Cassandra’s loyalty to the Briarwoods and their vision of Whitestone. It’s entirely possible that Cassandra had a literal hand in Laudna’s death.

And then to find out that, not only did the blood on your hands (literal or metaphorical) live unaccounted for for another 30 years, unburied and uncared for while you slowly rebuilt the trust of your people, but did so with Delilah in her head the whole time? When, after only five years, your own understanding of yourself was so fractured you didn’t know where you started and Delilah ended for years afterwards?

Laudna is the stuff of Cassandra’s nightmares. And I so deeply, deeply hope they get to meet.

#critical role #critical role spoiler #cr spoilers #vex'ahlia #cassandra de rolo #percy de rolo #vaxildan #vox machina #bells hells #laudna #imogen temult #keyleth #keyleth of the air ashari

[blorbologist]

my DARLING my BELOVED CASS my BABY GIRL

Thank u mr de Blorbo for checking in w your sister before fucking off on adventure again 

#LOOK AT HERRRRR #CASSSSSS #cassandra de rolo #tlovm #critical role #tlovm spoilers #tlovm s2 #the legend of vox machina

[lesbianneopolitan]

Sketch CM of Weiss Schnee and Cassandra de Rolo, for @daemonofrazgriz! ❄✨

Another giftie for @timid-hound! ❤

#My art #weiss schnee #rwby #cassandra de rolo #critical role #the legend of vox machina

[vaxilfan]

Vax interacting with Cassandra in the stream is so sweet and I wish we saw some of that in the show. He finds out Percy has a sister and apparently instantly decides this isn’t just Percy’s sister anymore, this is Vox Machina’s sister.

#vax'ildan #cassandra de rolo #vox machina #cr1 #tlovm #each season needed at least twice as many episodes #we could have gotten so many more of the smaller moments between the characters

[sukunasbabygirl]

They deserve all the happiness in the world and maybe a little murder as a bonus.

#critical role #vox machina #percy de rolo #percival fredrickstein von musel de rolo iii #cassandra de rolo #pipart #just a little messy doodle I did while trying to figure Percy out #still trying to figure him out mind you but I think I’m getting closer