Underrated moments:

Pike does a three point landing after obliterating an undead stone giant, picks up her shield, and tosses a glance at Scanlan.

Scanlan faints.

Pike: where are you at Scanlan?
Scanlan: mentally or physically? Because mentally, I’m in love with you!
Pike: no, I mean physically
Scanlan: physically I’m fine

Scanlan, talking about Pike: look at her Grog. She’s healing an innocent bystander. She didn’t have to, she’s just doing it because she’s so good

Underrated moments:

Grog going to fight a zombie stone giant with Pike and Scanlan sitting on his shoulders

Scanlan: hey baby!
Pike: hi!!
Scanlan: man I’m so distracted by your beauty. Do you wanna kick some ass together?
Pike: yeah!

And then she jumps off a wall, wreathed in the light of Sarenrae into a horde of undead soldiers. With a natural 20.

PIKE IS THE REAL MVP

In the middle of fighting an undead horde

Vax: what’re you doing here? How did you get here? What’re you doing here?
Pike: oh gosh, it’s a long story, I’m not sure if we have time for that right now
Vax: fair enough

I LIED, PIKE IS THE REAL MVP

Oh! How about ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’ for the fic meme? Please and thank you!

lorettafryingpan:

Oooh, okay! Thanks!

(So, this turned out to be quite more of a challenge than I anticipated, since the first few ideas that I came up with, which I LOVED, all had some pretty potent Vox Machina spoilers for you, since you’re still in the Whitestone arc)

Keep the Home Fires Burning-

Vasselheim is a beautiful city. It’s sparse, and austere, but it’s impossible to deny the grandeur of the cradle of civilization. The fact that Sarenrae has a temple within its hallowed walls should be a mark of unparalleled pride.

Pike hates it. She hates being stuck behind to tend to her duty as a cleric, when her duty as a friend demands she be by Vox Machina’s side. Every night that she goes to sleep in her temple, she knows her friends are waking up to another day without her.

It gets even worse when she starts seeing them in her dreams, dark dreams full of violence and danger and smoke.

She calls out to Sarenrae, looking for an explanation from the Goddess that she has, until now, followed without question. She does not expect an answer from the Everlight. She does not expect intervention either.

She gets both.

Pike: Since you won’t be able to contact me for a month, I’ve left a complementary bowl of advice.
Pike: For instance, “Vax, stop doing that.”
Pike: Just applies to everything.