Scanlan/Pike

Pairing
Pairing:	Scanlan Shorthalt/Pike Trickfoot
Alternative name(s):
Gender category:	het
Fandom:	Critical Role
Canonical?:	yes
Prevalence:	popular
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Pikelan is one of the most popular het pairings in Critical Role Campaign 1. It focuses on the canonical relationship between Scanlan Shorthalt and Pike Trickfoot.

Fandom

They have independent character arcs that are like two inverse parabolas, bringing them separately to mutual and gentle conclusion. It was by no means a given that they would end up together and so that conclusion is made stronger by their own independent choices. They do not need each other - they chose each other.

Fanworks

Fanfics

• Feel What I Feel by LeanTheBean - “It’s Pike and Grog, and Grog and Scanlan, and Scanlan and Pike, but that’s okay because it all makes sense somehow.” Or Scanlan marries Pike, loves Grog, builds a house, and writes a book. Also religious fanatics keep trying to kill him; what’s with that? (post-campaign)
• reverse maths by mia_ametista - “Pikey, we are geniuses.” Her face lit up in that beautiful way it used to do when one of his jokes amused her, and she chuckled. “Alternatively, we’re just the same brand of stupid.”
• maybe tomorrow by VexingDeRolo - Five times Pike and Scanlan snuck into each other’s rooms, and the one time they were caught. (post-campaign)
• The Sun Always Rises by tameila - In the quiet, mountainous town of Westruun, where nothing much happens, Pike Trickfoot leads her parish. She knows her work and does it well. If she has ever wanted for more, it has never been her place to ask. But, a new spring is blooming, and those longings may become too fervent to ignore, especially when one wears the face of popstar sensation, Scanlan Shorthalt. (modern AU)
• rejoice because you're trying your best by baehj2915 / Tumblr user jabletown] - Pike and Grog’s apartment has a direct line of audio to apartment 304, where the music comes from. (apartment block vm modern au)
• let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms by friendly_ficus - I could love you, Scanlan thinks, a little drunk but more delirious with longing. He’s so good at wanting things he can’t have. Let me love you, let me love you, tell me to love you. I could. I really could. When he blinks, his face still feels wet with Pike’s tears. His lips are still warm from her mouth. (also references The Legend of Vox Machina)

Fanart

• Critical first kisses - Pike and Scanlan, by offbeatworlds
• Jeez Pike Thats Pretty Effed Up (from "Escape from the Underdark) by amandalisbethanderson
• hi, by metres

Fanvids

• Pikelan supercut by tameila - A compilation of the many wonderful moments, both small and impactive, between Pike Trickfoot and Scanlan Shorthalt in Critical Role. Probably better known as "The Pikelan Movie."
• Pike Trickfoot health watch by tameila - The cleric watches after the party, but who watches after the cleric? Her attentive, consistently haggard bard boyfriend, of course!

Links

• Pikelan tag on Tumblr
• Scanlan Shorthalt/Pike Trickfoot tag on AO3