Percival de Rolo

Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III is one of the main protagonists of the adult animated fantasy series , based on campaign one of the Dungeons & Dragons podcast web series .
He is a member of Vox Machina and a human gunslinger. His family were once the rulers of Whitestone, a city within Tal'Dorei. He barely escaped alive from a coup d'état led by the Briarwoods, and now seeks vengeance for the murder of his family. He is also the inventor of firearms and his creations revolutionize warfare. 
He is voiced by .
==Biography==
===Background===
Percy comes from a family of aristocrats who ruled over the city state of Whitestone. He lived a happy life there with his family, until that all changed when Sylas and Delilah Briarwood arrived to the town and initially presented themselves as allies to the de Rolos before betraying them and brutally killing most of them with help from their allies, including Percy's teacher Professor Byron Anders. Only Percy and his sister Cassandra survived the massacre but were imprisoned and tortured by the Briarwoods and their associate Dr. Anna Ripley for information about Whitestone. Percy and Cassandra managed to escape but Cassandra was shot down by arrows and was presumed dead. Percy began to go insane with grief and trauma from his familys murder and was approached by the shadow demon Orthax, who he struck a bargain with. Percy then designed a gun known as "The List" and swore to get revenge on the Briarwoods and everyone else involved in killing his family.
===Season 1 ===
====Briarwoods arc====
Percival joins his friends in a tavern in Emon, he spectates the drinking competition, nonchalantly announcing Grog as the winner. When a fight breaks out in the tavern, Percy does minimal movement as all he needed to do was aim his pepperbox at his opponents. One of the patron's however, throws him through a door that happens to be of the room Scanlan is trying to bed the barkeep's daughter in, much to the gunslinger's embarrassment. The barkeep breaks it all up though, and kicks out Vox Machina when they can't pay for damages.
Hope seems lost until Scanlan shows up with a wanted poster to kill a ravaging beast, they go to the council of Tal'dorei, who after some convincing, take Vox Machina to the area where a monster has been attacking. They pass through a humble village on the way.
As they travel further, they finally find their target, a blue dragon called Brimscythe. Percy, along with the others tries his best against the creature, but nothing he or anyone else did could phase it. Eventually, the dragon shoots his lightning breath at a mountain, causing rocks to fall down on Vox Machina before departing. The party manages to escape with the help of Keyleth's vines.
When Vax decides to abandon the mission, Percy objects since they gave their word to the Council of Tal'dorei and following through on their word would be prudent. But ultimately, the team agrees that killing a dragon was out of their league and they proceed to leave. They return to the village to see it had been destroyed by the dragon. Heart broken by their failure to save a village they had recently become familiar with, Percy and the rest of the party take it upon themselves to slay Brimscythe.
The party returns to Emon, showing Uriel that they did survive the fight. When Krieg asks how they survived, Percy openly admitted they hid until Brimscythe flew away. Uriel made the decision to bring the fight to the dragon, dismissing Vox Machina from the palace. Vex'ahlia then reveals she felt the presence of someone working with the dragon in the council, meaning one of them was a mole. She believed it to be Fince likely because of his creepy exterior. Percy agreed with this. Vex has most of the party members, including Percy split up to look for Fince. When Scanlan and Grog find him, the former gathers everyone to the palace, later revealed the be Krieg's home that they saw him enter. After Vax guides them to where they need to go, they find Fince stealing documents from Krieg's cellar. He tries to explain himself until Krieg shows up to murder him.
They give chase to Krieg until they wind up in a magic room. Percival suggests looking for a fulcrum, only to be met by a crass joke made by Grog & Scanlan, much to the human's annoyance. Grog suddenly becomes infatuated with a pornographic painting, much to Keyleth's disgust. She throws a book at him, which bounces off his head and into the painting, revealing a hidden portal, which they go through.
On the other side, a treasure trove is revealed. Unlike the other party members, Percy reacted with indifference upon seeing it. Krieg shows back up and reveals to have actually been the dragon all along. Another fight ensues. During it, Percy demands to know if Vax got any insight from Gilmore on how to beat the dragon. Vax and the others get tossed around before a though could be processed. When they have a moment however, the party devises a plan. Scanlan creates an illusion to trick the party. With Brimscythe hoodwinked, the party each play their part in killing the dragon. Percy helps begins the procedure by shooting a large stalactite to crush Brimscythe's right wing. Eventually they manage to kill the dragon. They then run as fast as they can as the place began to collapse. They return to the council, who congratulates and thanks Vox Machina for their victory, giving them a deed and key to their new keep as a reward.
That night, Percy has a nightmare reminding him of the time nearly his whole family was murdered. He woke up. Unable go back to sleep, he takes a walk down the hallway. Vex asks him if he had a bad dream. Percy retorted. "Is there any other kind?" The following morning, he is eating breakfast with his friends. He groans in displeasure at Vax & Grog's "ball-tag" game. Lady Allura shows up seeking an audience. She informs them that Sovereign Uriel expects them at his banquet. Percy becomes excited for another chance at gaining respect and promises Allura that he will make sure his friends are kept in line. They eventually make it to the banquet the following night. Begrudgingly leaving their weapons at the main booth. The others disperse as they get inside, ignoring Percy's suggestion to stay together.
Percy looks around with fascination at the various nobles. However, his mood is put at a screeching halt when the announcer introduces everyone to the Briarwoods, giving Percy a brief panic attack. Vex asks him what's wrong and Percy cryptically tells her the Briarwoods took everything from him just as the other members come back together. Upon learning they would be staying over night, Vax offers to sneak into their room. The party, excluding Vax then attend Uriel's table. Everyone notices Percy grimace as he sees the Briarwoods. Percy simply keeps his eyes on them full of hatred.
After Percy has an outburst from a lie about the de Rolos spewed by Delilah, the party takes him away to talk in private. Percy tells them the Briarwoods killed his entire family and conquered Whitestone, surprising the party. After learning who the Briarwoods really were, the party decides to leave and save Vax, as he was in the room they would be staying in.
After Vex sensed Vax was in imminent danger, Grog throws the guy who made them leave their weapons out of his booth under Pike's permission. They collected their weapons and ran out of the building to save Vax, who was just about to be killed by Sylas. Percy announces his presence to the Briarwoods by shouting their names and firing at them with his pepperbox. Delilah later calls for their carriage driver, Desmond. The couple then take off, leaving Desmond behind. Infurriated, Percy blames his friends for letting the Briarwoods get away. He then turns his anger on Desmond, demanding answers from him as to why Sylas and Delilah had left Whitestone. Desmond insisted he knew nothing and pleaded Percy not to harm him. But his pleas fell on deaf ears as Percy shot him in the hand, much to his friends' horror. As Percy gets ready to kill Desmond, the party is stopped and seized by Uriel's guards.
Percy and the others are taken before Uriel who reprimands them for attacking the Briarwoods and thus, ruining the banquet. Lady Allura calms him down, promising to handle the party accordingly, by putting them under house arrest. Vex'ahlia takes the time to ask him what was going through his head when the Briarwoods showed up. Percy states he didn't owe them information about his past. When Keyleth mentions they only wanted to know about rising smoke that was radiating off Percy, his excuse was that his pepperbox burns black powder. Vax retorts that he shot Desmond and intended to kill him. While Percy concedes he may have gotten carried away, but his friends didn't experience the Briarwoods like he had. He went into depth that the Briarwoods presented themselves as allies to his family, only to betray and murder them so they could take over Whitestone. He added that his tutor, Professor Byron Anders took the opportunity to betray him and his sister Cassandra and imprisoned them. They lived a few years being tortured by the Briarwoods and their henchmen. He then spoke about their escape attempt and how only he made it out and grew up rough. After telling this story, he finds a secret opening in the room that leads to a hallway, which leads to a way out, but Jarett catches them and has them separated. Percy is locked up with Keyleth.
Keyleth tries to make small talk with him, but the gunslinger remains unresponsive, simply working on a new and improved firearm. Picking up on this, Keyleth decides to relate to him. She informs him of a conflict she has with her own family. She explains she had to prove herself worthy to her family as an Ashari member. Percy tells her he personally thinks she is worthy regardless. While he is sympathetic, he points out the Keyleth's family is at least still alive.
Once Grog escapes from his confinement with Pike, he warns the others about incoming wraiths. Understanding they were under attack, Jarett gives them weapons to fend off the wraiths.
The wraiths gain the upper hand at the start of the battle as they were in darkness and could not by hit by their victims. Percy calls out to Keyleth to prove himself as the wraiths were drawing his blood. Keyleth finally conjures light, rendering the wraiths vulnerable. The party could finally hit and destroy them.
Percy and the others (save Pike) take off for Whitestone come the morning. They then devise a plan for getting what they need in order to start their journey. Percy takes part in stealing a humble horse carriage. Percy takes up driving the cart. He noticed Vex'ahlia was staring at him and asked her to stop as he was trying to focus on driving. Vex claimed she thought he was practicing his "resting bitch face". Percy claimed he made that expression because they were essentially on a suicide mission looking for the Briarwoods, but claims his "bitch face" is magnificent.
Vex has Percy stop the cart when she feels a disturbing presence. It turns out to be monstrous canine creatures sent by Delilah. They capture Scanlan as he had Delilah's book. The party chases after them all the way to a cliff. The party then notices how dangerously close they are to the cliff and they all jump out, losing their carriage and stuff they bought from Gilmore in the process.
They eventually find a spot to make camp. The gang ask about their strangest kills. When Percy is asked what the worst monsters he faced were, he answers that its the Briarwoods, and that they would be seeing them soon. Grog calls him a buzzkill. Percy barely gets a wink of sleep that night, knowing they would be facing his greatest enemies come the morning.
When they finally make it to Whitestone, they see it in the desecrated state that it is. Percy later gains their attention by pointing to seven corpses hung from the Sun Tree, each corpse dressed as a member of Vox Machina, showing them the Briarwoods were anticipating them. Though unsettled by this, the party had to move on as a resistance member called them over to hide with them as a zombie giant was heading their direction. When the resistance member notices Percy's de Rolo crest, she asks if he's another member of the resistance. The party assures her otherwise, but they share the same goal. Percy asks her to take them to keeper Yennen as she could be of great assistance.
They meet Yennen after she finishes a sermon. Yennen is surprised and grateful to see him again. Percy assures her he's only there for one thing, and that was revenge on the Briarwoods. Yennen told him the citizens want that too and he can lead them to victory. Percy however, does not have a leader complex. Yennen takes them into a secret hideout, where she informs Percy that his friend Archibald Desnay has been captured and is being prepared for execution.
A few members of the party devise plans to get Archie out, but most of them don't go over well after putting them to the table, so Vex devised one of her own. Percy, Vax, and Scanlan would break through the back door of where the prison cells were. While the latter two struggle to get the door open, Percy tries his luck with the window, only to fall out of it. A guard suddenly opens the door to empty a urine bucket. Vax kills him and they rush in.
They soon find Archie. Percy calls out to him, earning Archies gratitude, and glee to see his old friend again. After they free him, Kerrion Stonefell shows up. When Percy sees him, he is overflowed with anger remembering he helped killed his family. Putting on a mash, he approaches him as smoke rises off him, announcing himself as "vengeance for the de Rolos" Kerrion laughs and spits on their memory before attacking them. Percy shoots Stonefell in the chest. Percy removes his mask so the last thing Stonefell knew, was that Percy was his killer, before mercilessly shooting him.
Vax runs up to Percy, only for the latter to instinctively point the pepperbox at him. Vax asks him would do that and Percy rants about Stonefell's part in killing the entire de Rolo family. Archie however corrects Percy the his sister Cassandra was still alive, giving Percy a newly found level of solace. They all flee from the prison, returning to Yennen's hideout. Vax chastises Percy for pointing the gun at him earlier and actually threatened to kill Percy if it happened again. Percy explained the pepperbox's creation stemmed from constant dreams he had while he was on the run. And after trial and error, he perfected it. That way, he could finally kill those who wronged him, and Stonefell was the start. Later, the party run off on a rescue mission for Cassandra, while spying on Professor Anders when they find the building the two are located in. Scanlan suggests he lures the guards away from Anders' house.
Upon seeing a sign that Scanlan's solo mission was a success, the party runs to enter Anders' home. Grog impulsively bursts the door open, where guards were pointing bows at the party. Another fight breaks out and they kill all the guards. Percy runs off to confront Anders, who was assaulting Cassandra. Percy demanded Anders release her, but his orders fell on deaf ears as Anders gleefully slit her throat, as Percy watched with horror. Keyleth eventually catches up to him and sees his sister's throat had been slit. Percy begs for Keyleth's help and she complies, while Anders mocks Percy. Enraged, Percy angrily shot at Anders, who evaded Percy's firing, all the while expressing his hatred for the de Rolo family. When Percy got into another room, the professor brought large suits of armor to life and ordered them to kill the gunslinger.
The rest of Percy's friends showed up to help him and they managed to destroy the constructs. With that failure in mind though, Anders Possesses Percy's friends to kill him. When they all had him pinned, Percy apologized to Anders for his family's condescending him. Anders rejects the apology, assuring Percy he would still die. But this was actually a ploy to buy Percy time. She shot at Anders. The bullet tore through his face, severing his tongue as well as his lower jaw. His friends' mind control was broken. Percy angrily chastised Anders for betraying him and Cassandra when they needed him most, telling him, "You were the face I saw when murder entered my heart." He finally shot Anders in his mangled mouth, sending his body. flying out the window. His friends notice smoke rising from him a second time as this happened. After that, they reconnect with Scanlan outside, who warns them of a hoard of zombies heading their way.
They made a run for it to Archibald's hideout. Archie encouraged Percy to take up his position as leader and lead everyone through the battle, but Percy declined. They were not safe there for long however, as zombies burst through the door and attacked. They managed to slay the zombies, but Scanlan got bit. They eventually move out of the hideout, where they find a zombie giant heading their way. Percy managed to kill it in one shot with his rifle, but it got wrecked in the process. Unfortunately, Duke Vedmire showed up with two more giants, ordering them to kill Vox Machina. The party split up, not ready to fight them, before meeting back up at the Sun Tree. Percy fought by Archie's side, talking about the good old days. That came to a stop however, when Archie noticed Scanlan being chased by Vedmire. Percy watched as Archie rushed to the gnomes aid, but was chopped in half by the goliath. Mortified, Percy simply stood in place until Vex pulled him to the Sun Tree. Percy informed Cassandra that Archie was dead and sister told him it was his turn to lead the townsfolk. Percy then made an encouraging speech to the people that it was their time to shine and that Archie must be avenged.
When things seemed hopeless, Pike returned, coolly greeting the party, much to Percy and the others' amazement. The fight got easier from there. When the zombie hoard finally lets up, Vox Machina, along with Cassandra hunt down the Briarwoods. They go through an underground dungeon on the way, with Keyleth awkwardly complimenting Percy about it on the way. A prisoner calls out to them asking to be freed in exchange for helping them find the Briarwoods. But Percy recognized the prisoner as Dr. Anna Ripley, a torturer under the Briarwoods employ and the one who shot Cassandra. He aimed his pepperbox at her head.
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===Season 2 ===
====Chroma Conclave arc====
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==Physical Appearance==
Percy is a fair skinned human with white hair, green eyes, and glasses. He usually wears a light blue shirt with a gray vest and a blue trench coat, along with black pants, boots, and gloves. His hair was originally brown but due to severe trauma from his family’s murder and being tortured, his hair turned white as a result.
==Personality==
Percy is more quiet and secluded than the rest of the party members, preferring not to speak unless necessary. He also regards himself as slightly higher than the rest of Vox Machina in terms of status since he came from a noble house and sometimes feels embarrassed being seen with them in public because of their antics, something Keyleth acknowledges.
Possibly Percy's most prominent trait is his vengeance. Ever since escaping the Briarwoods with his life. His desire for revenge was so great, he would overkill those on his list like when he mercilessly shot Kerrion Stonefell. It would also get to the point where he would turn his pepperbox on those who didn't deserve it, such as when he shot Desmond, the Briarwoods' carriage driver, simply because he worked for them.It could be argued however, that Orthax was the one bringing the worst out of him by feeding his hatred. Percy even shot at his friends only because Orthax was showing him illusions of his enemies in their place.
Overall, Percy is a good man and values honor. He was the first member of the party to object to leaving the mission to kill Brimscythe after the dragon got the best of them since they gave their word to the council of Tal'dorei. 
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
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===Abilities===
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==Equipment==
*Pepperbox: Percy's original gun with six barrels on it.
==Trivia== 
*Percy's hair is white is due to Marie Antoinette Syndrome, in which hair turns white as a result of severe trauma and stress.
*Percy's eyes were blue in the campaign, but are emerald green in the animated series.
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