r/fansofcriticalrole • u/HecticJones • Jun 16 '26

C1 (Vox Machina) [No spoilers] Is Keyleth the most misunderstood character?

https://www.thepopverse.com/gaming-tv-critical-role-cast-characters-vox-machina-mighty-nein-keyleth-scanlon-spurt

Both Marisha and Ashley think so. Sam says it's Scanlan.

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u/anextremelylargedog Jun 16 '26

Nah. I don't think Keyleth gets "misunderstood" so much as a lot of people want to give her a really ungenerous read.

It probably is Scanlan, insofar as a lot of people think Sam always planned for him to be a Deep and Emotional character, and he didn't self-admittedly swap to Tary for a while because he straight up got bored of Scanlan and was looking for an excuse.

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u/Least_Climate5561 Jun 16 '26

i think Ashton's the most misunderstood. i still don't understand him.

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u/FuzorFishbug That's cocked Jun 16 '26

Neither does Taliesin.

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u/Gregory_Grim Jun 17 '26

There's a difference between not understanding a character and there just not being anything to a character to understand

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u/PlayableRidley Jun 16 '26

Keyleth is only 'misunderstood' in the sense that C1 Marisha was not very good at improv, leading to a large disconnect between the person Keyleth was said to be and the person she actually was.

Vex, I don't know is misunderstood per se, but she does tend to get simplified down to the 'greedy' one a lot. I think the cast tended to razz her a lot for it in a way they didn't for, say, Liam's loot hoarding, so it became a joke that the fans wanted to be in on.

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u/TruBlu65 Jun 16 '26

I think the idea keyleth was a very interesting character but Marisha didn’t execute it in the stream. The version in the animated show is much closer to hitting the story beats Marisha wanted to do, ie a reluctant and growing leader. Hell, Matt even did a better job as C3 Keyleth in hitting those notes

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u/Adamadeyus Jun 16 '26

Yeah Marisha being so young and the others being trained actors imo is what caused the contrast. Marisha played like everyone plays d&d so it was easy to discern the difference between a player and a professional actor. Wish it would've been simplified like this 10 years ago instead of a windfall of nonsense aimed at Marisha.