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“I just—! I don’t know!” Imogen sinks onto the bed with defeat, looking just shy of miserable as she scrubs at her face. “They said they’d get back to us as soon as possible, right? I didn’t imagine it?”
Laudna gives her a sympathetic look, pausing in her undressing and making her way over to sweep a gentle, spindly hand over Imogen’s forehead. She urges Imogen’s head back, tilting it up and out of her hands so their eyes meet, and then she smiles, somehow sweet even as unsettling and slightly inhuman as the width of it is. Her fingers begin to card through Imogen’s hair, soothing as they comb through the tangles that formed during the day’s errands, seemingly deep in thought.
“Laudna—” Imogen starts, but Laudna cuts her off with a gentle shushing, so she obediently settles, slouching where she’s sat.
After a few long moments of silence and gentle petting, Laudna speaks:
“You stress too much.”
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Laudna’s always told her she was beautiful. Even before their companionship turned into something more — gentle touches, dark nails raking across pale skin, sharp bites and a wet mouth against her pulsepoint — she’d always been complimentary. She’s never quite figured out if it’s just her nature, the constant praise and respect, or if Imogen’s… different. Special.
Of course you’re special, Imogen, she can almost hear Laudna saying. It makes her smile as she looks back at the mirror, her fingers nervously fidgeting with the knot of the silk robe she’d put on over her surprise. Her heart is beating out of her chest, heat crawling up her neck and burning at the tips of her ears as she shifts from foot to foot, hemming and hawing as she looks at the perfectly conservative pair of pajamas folded on the bedspread and then slips a hand under the robe to feather over the lace edge of her first purchase with Lord Eshteross’ money.
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“We’re indecent!” she had called to who were certainly employees of The Weary Way checking up on the commotion. It was the first thing that popped into her head, and it seemed to make something click for Imogen who grabbed Dorian — why would she grab Dorian? What made him so special? Why didn’t she grab her? — and opened her vest. Laudna could only stare back in shock before Imogen gave her a loaded look, her words projecting straight into her mind as she deepend the cut of her neckline:
Get them out of here.
She could hear the conversation from the bedroom area as she helped the others down, feeling the bubbling of something deep inside her body. The slow beat of her heart felt immeasurably heavy as she listened to the suggestive comments being thrown between Dorian and Imogen, and she felt a white hot stab of jealousy (jealousy, gods, it feels so immature, but that has to be the feeling) when she turned back and saw Dorian’s hand resting on the small of Imogen’s back as she waved the guards off with a sultry “toodle-oo.”
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- Part 3 of for research purposes
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rest & relaxation by marleybone
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
13 May 2022
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“The Feywild can wait,” Vex says sharply.
“Can the dragons?” Percy fires back. “Keyleth and Vax are strong.”
“My brother just almost died at the hands of some— some backwards handed tiger fiend with a revenge kink,” she spits out, heart thumping at the reminder of the way the robe had pulled at his skin, the wounds she could see on him bleeding sluggishly. “And Keyleth barely survived her own run-in with that motherfucker’s assassins. If he’d been just a bit more precise, she might not—” and her throat closes, choking off the rest of her sentence.
She can’t even imagine that reality.
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- Part 4 of for research purposes
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hard pressed by marleybone
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
22 May 2022
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“Someone’s excited,” Vex observes, sounding breathless where she’s crowded up against the wall.
Keyleth stifles a groan at the purposeful arch of Vex’s back, the way she grinds her ass back into her, and she flexes her fingers over Vex’s hips and tries not to whine. “You planned this,” she grumbles.
“Can you blame me?” Vex replies. She presses her forehead into the wall and sighs when another grind is met by Keyleth tightening her grip and jerking against her. “You’ve been so busy, and you know how horny I get when my period’s coming.”
“You couldn’t have just asked?” Keyleth asks.
“Where’s the fun in that?” Vex chuckles. “Asking wouldn’t have you pinning me to a wall in our front entry with your hard-on against my ass.”
And maybe she’s right, but Keyleth doesn’t have to like it.
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- Part 5 of for research purposes
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“I told Quay that if he felt so unfulfilled in our marriage then maybe we should… separate,” she whispers. “And he agreed, so I… left.”
Patia’s eyes widen marginally, and she thinks that perhaps only her closest confidantes in the Ring of Brass would be able to sense the shock evident in that slight reaction.
“I just wish I could turn it off,” Laerryn mumbles, resting her face in her hands as she tries to control her breathing. “I keep replaying it, over and over, and it just makes me mad because he doesn’t understand, and maybe that’s my fault for not telling him, but I— he can’t know, not yet, so maybe this is just… this is my only option.”
“It’s not an ideal option, that much is obvious,” Patia observes quietly, reaching out to stroke a curl behind Laerryn’s ear with a gentle touch. “But as much as I am unable to trade in advice for this situation, if it were… amenable—” her hand traces down Laerryn’s temple, to her jaw, around to her full lips, thumb pressing on the bottom one lightly— “I could assist in dealing with those pesky, runaway thoughts.”
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- Part 6 of for research purposes
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self-indulgence by marleybone
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
28 Jun 2022
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"I’d love to stay for dinner, but I don’t want to intrude.”
“You’re never intruding, Keyleth, but if it alleviates your nerves, it’ll just be you and I,” she informs. “And I hope you’ll be okay with the attention I plan on paying you,” she continues, voice lowering as they sidestep a cart coming toward them, bodies pressed together for a short moment, but long enough for Vex to murmur that. “Because while I have a gift for you, it isn’t entirely altruistic, and I hope you’ll return the favor by being a good, obedient girl for me tonight.”
She steps away once the cart passes, smiling slyly at the flush rising in Keyleth’s cheeks, eyes a fraction wider than before.
“Can you do that for me, darling?”
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- Part 7 of for research purposes
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affirmation by marleybone
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
05 Jul 2022
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Keyleth has always struggled with intimacy.
On one hand, she knows that’s kind of a hallmark of being on the ace spectrum — something she’s known since she found the terms gray-ace and demisexual on a colorful queer website as a teen — and then on the other it’s kind of a hallmark of the trans experience.
Ever since she started transitioning, the hormone replacement, the electrolysis, the laser, everything she’s done to make her body a place she can love to live it’s gotten easier, but at that point she’d still never been with anyone. She’d hardly kissed anyone, and certainly hadn’t gotten close enough with someone to bare herself and all of her insecurities, both physically and emotionally. Her dysphoria is even on the milder side, but it still sends a shock of anxiety through her sometimes to think about someone slipping a hand up her skirt or through the open zipper of her jeans and recoiling at something… unexpected.
With Vex, though… with Vex it’s different.
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- Part 8 of for research purposes
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Imogen always thought that jealousy was an ugly emotion. That to be possessive over someone you love, to be envious of the attention they pay to others, is a sign of some much needed introspection.
In Gelvaan she knew relationships that crumbled from the inside because of jealousy, hearing the venomous thoughts of husbands who began to resent their wives for even deigning to speak a few minutes too long to a vendor in the marketplace, the poison simmering just below the surface of a girl about her age when her boyfriend mentioned another girl’s name. Much as she tried to block the thoughts out, they still crept in, and maybe nosiness was ugly too, but she couldn’t help it then. All she could do was watch as tensions boiled over into arguments, break ups, even divorces with the most insecure people blaming their spouse for not prioritizing them enough.
She never considered herself a jealous person until she saw Dusk interacting with Laudna.
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- Part 9 of for research purposes
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hard hitter by marleybone
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
26 Aug 2022
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If there’s two things Keyleth knows about Vex, the first is that she’s an awful tease.
Beneath the blanket they’re sharing, snuggled together on Scanlan’s couch as the rest of their ragtag little group shouts and throws popcorn at the projected movie playing ahead of them, a warm hand rests lightly on her thigh, fingers curled around the denim of her jeans as she scratches absently at her inner thigh. It should be a perfectly chaste touch, but Vex is mere centimeters from the apex of Keyleth’s legs, and she’s been creeping ever closer throughout this whole movie, hardly paying attention as she buries her face in Keyleth’s neck, kissing and nipping at the fair, freckled skin she finds behind the curtain of her hair, perfectly poised to bring Keyleth to attention.
“Vex,” Keyleth breathes softly, warningly, when fingertips skate up the seam of her jeans, over the slightly uncomfortable tent growing there. “Don’t.”
“Hm?” Vex hums back as if she doesn’t know exactly what she’s doing, as if Keyleth can’t feel the smirk against her skin, the hand against her cock. “Don’t what, darling?”
“You know.”
“Do I?”
The second is that she’s a fucking brat.
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Laudna likes to feel useful.
She mends tears in clothes, cracks in stonework, splinters in wood. Her hands have returned numerous hovels to finer states than they began, and then left them for the next wanderer. There’s never a moment she wouldn’t drop anything if someone asked for her assistance, certainly not if it was her landlady, certainly not if it was anyone else in Bell’s Hells, and most important, certainly not if it was Imogen.
Laudna likes to be useful.
Imogen knows this.
Intimately.
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- Part 11 of for research purposes
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hard to contain by marleybone
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
26 Sep 2022
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“Keyleth, dear,” Zahra says, leaning her elbows on the counter as she levels her silver eyes on Vex. “Your girlfriend seems a bit antsy.”
Keyleth turns on her then, eyebrow quirked slightly. “Something wrong, Vex?”
Yes, I came here with the express purpose of being railed by my girlfriend in front of my best friend and none of that has happened yet, she thinks to herself.
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- Part 12 of for research purposes
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and all at once (you are the one i have been waiting for) by marleybone
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
01 Apr 2023
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Imogen is afraid of a lot of things: heights, other people, and at one point, fire.
Imogen isn’t afraid of Laudna.
“Copper for your thoughts, dear?”
So lost in thought, she hadn’t noticed the humming stopped, nor had she noticed Laudna coming to sit beside her on the ground. She looks gorgeous in the glow of the campfire, the keen angles of her cheekbone and jaw throwing flickering shadows on her cheeks and neck that almost seem to giggle and snicker as Imogen catalogues all of her favorite parts of her companion.
Maybe Imogen is more than just not afraid of Laudna.
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“I didn’t expect I’d ever get the chance to see you in such a flattering light,” Laudna says once they’ve completed a turn, her full skirts coming to a still swishing calm around her feet. “It seemed we were always destined to meet in the darkness.”
Imogen smiles as they each step into each other’s space, and then back, switching their arms. She looks resplendent in her suit; dark breeches tucked into tall, leather boots with a fitted periwinkle shirt accented with a deep purple cravat and a long, embroidered grey coat. Their skin does not touch when their hands slip slightly, Laudna’s lace gloves simply brushing off of Imogen’s white silk ones.
“I wish it didn’t have to be that way.”
(or, the one with the knight and the princess... sorta)
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- Part 14 of for research purposes
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not-so-secret admirer by marleybone
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
04 May 2025
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It feels wrong watching Keyleth like this when she likely had no intention of putting on such an enamoring show, but Vex can’t tear her eyes away. She’s frozen, peering like a peeping tom in the scant window space outside a girls locker room, and her mind is screaming for her to back off, to leave Keyleth to her devices, to her getting off… and then there’s another part encouraging her to watch.
When else will she ever see her crush like this, disgusting and creepy as it makes her feel when she thinks about it. It’s almost enough to turn her away, that thought, but then Keyleth’s lifting her head, the peridot eyes that Vex sees in her dreams where she’s helping her in this situation opening as she glares down her body, frustration deep in the taut lines of her expression.
“Fuck, c’mon,” she whimpers, head falling back again as her hand clumsily tries to speed up.
(or, Vex catches Keyleth getting intimate with herself, and the object of her desire may be closer than she expects).
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- Part 15 of for research purposes
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prey drive by marleybone
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
08 Jun 2025
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Her ears twitch, the sound of soil shifting alerting her to a new presence, and she lets Fenthras drop with her arm to her side as she turns.
Keyleth is ethereal, her shoulders weightless without the symbol of her leadersip and responsibilities across her slim, freckled shoulders in a cascade of umber leaves. All that rests across them, in a waterfall of flame, is her hair, shifting and flickering with the light breeze and her steady approach. She's only wearing a dress, white and sleeveless with a neckline so deep it disappears behind the leather corset laced around her waist. It's a look she's grown fond of, and one that Vex is very familiar with and very attracted to at this stage. Her feet are bare, and she carries nothing with her, not even her staff, nigh nude for Vex.
"Hail to the Tempest," Vex breathes out teasingly, taking her hand and brushing her lips across the knuckles as she bows.
She can practically feel the eyeroll as she straightens out, but Keyleth smiles at her, fond and sweet and a little blushing as her hand retracts.
"Hi, Vex," she greets.
(or, Keyleth and Vex play a game of predator-prey in the Parchwood Timberlands.)
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- Part 16 of for research purposes