Vexleth

Vexleth is the femslash ship between Vex'ahlia and Keyleth from the Critical Role fandom.

Canon
Vex and Keyleth were initially friends, but Vex started to feel some resentment towards the latter due to her relationship with Vax. Vex believing that Keyleth was just leading her brother on, and that Keyleth needed to figure out her feelings. They started to mend a bit once Keyleth's relationship with Vax became more clear.

Fanon
Vexleth is a relatively popular pairing in the Vox Machina fandom. The ship has a decent following for femslash fans. Being the second most popular femslash ship to come out of Vox Machina. Many fans of the ship thought that there was more chemistry between Vex and Keyleth than there was between either of the women and their love interests. Many fans point out how Keyleth was always a bit interested in Vex, and that she's probably overwhelmed from both twins being incredibly hot. While there were initially fans during the live airing of the series, most started to ship the two once the campaign is over. With a few even coming when the animated series came out, as the two had some flirty moments in it.

A lot of fan art of the two typically has them cuddling outside on top of Trinket. The two often being very sweet with each other. Many people believing that Keyleth would get along the best with Vex's bear due to her ability to speak to animals. Many shippers also depict the two getting together after the campaign is over. Some even just having Keyleth being added to Pery and Vex's relationship as a third.

A common occurance in the fandom is for some fans to ship all three sets of Laura and Marisha's charcters, though not out of intention. Many people finding that the two have a natural chemistry that just lends itself well to shipping their characters. Many fans who ship their characters in later campaigns tend to go back to campaign one and realize how easy it is to ship Vex and Keyleth.

On AO3, Vexleth is the second most written ship for both Keyleth and Vex. There are currently 290+ written works.

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Trivia

 * Marisha (Keyleth) and Laura (Vex) sit on opposite sides of the table during Campaigns 1-3.
 * Marisha's second campaign character, Beau, had a crush on Laura's second campaign character, Jester.
 * Marisha and Laura's third campaign characters, Laudna and Imogen, are a couple.

Variations

 * Vekleth refer to the ship between Pike Trickfoot, Vex and Keyleth