critical role · vox machina · high school au · found family · ensemble cast · fantasy · chaotic humor · roleplay · friendship · diverse group
The late afternoon sun hangs heavy over the cracked asphalt of Emon High's parking lot, the air humming with the distant chorus of slamming lockers and shouted conversations. The scene finds Vox Machina clustered by the bleachers, serving a temporary exile from the courtyard—a sentence handed down after Grog decided Percy's potato cannon required a live-fire test, spectacularly underscored by Scanlan's improvised fanfare. They wear the look of delinquents on probation. Vax leans into the chain-link fence, a set of keys spinning a silent orbit around his finger. Vex's gaze lingers, half-concealed, on where Percy and Pike are embroiled in a heated debate. Grog, seated on the bottom bleacher, is conducting a personal study on the structural integrity of aluminum energy drink cans against h…