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“That’s right, love.” Caleb—Essek’s Caleb, the one who loved him—whispered in his ear. It sent a delightful shiver down Essek’s spine. “He wants to take me away from you. He hates seeing you happy.”
The other Caleb, the one who would never be his, looked pained. “Essek, that’s not the real me. That’s a fiend wearing my face.”
“Is that how little you think of me?” Essek snapped. The other Caleb flinched as if from a physical blow. “I know exactly what he is.” He’s the one who will give me what you never would.
Essek’s Caleb kissed him sweetly on the cheek. It felt like benediction. “Be a dear and get rid of him for me, darling.”
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12 Feb 2026
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“What happened to there is always a way, Essek Thelyss?”
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In the Blooming Grove, Essek and Caleb talk about the future, or lack thereof.
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05 Feb 2026
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Two Hearts, Born to Run by seeingreverse
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
23 Jan 2026
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In a shocking display, the unfamiliar drow began to speak Zemnian: “Entschuldigung, aber mein Zemnisisch ist nicht gut genug für dieses wichtige Gespräch." He took one step closer, in small increments as if approaching a wild animal. “Bren.”
“How-” His throat caught as his heart seized. Fuck. He’d already slipped up. Master Ikithon was going to be furious. “No, you have the wrong-”
“No need to lie.” The elf lifted his palm. His violet eyes caught Bren’s frantic gaze, and he visibly came to a decision. “Bren, you are suffering from acute psychic temporal displacement. I highly suspect it is due to a magical experiment we just performed.”
“Amnesia,” he translated. “You- You’re saying I have amnesia. Memory loss.”
(Bren Ermundrud wakes up twenty years later and finds a Kryn drow living in his home)
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24 Jan 2026
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The Worst Monsters Were Once Men by InkDippedFeathers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
30 Nov 2021
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"At first they had thought it was a lost adventurer. The shape was right. It wore clothes of a sort. Then there was the fact that it was eating one of the Aeorian absorbers. Believing that it would not find them was their first mistake."
The wizards encounter a monster in Aeor. Its attack leads to larger problems than they could have ever anticipated.
Expect my trademark fantasy/adventure/romcom style, but in a shorter fic, now with a dash of horror
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21 Jan 2026
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21 Jan 2026
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Widogast's Caressing Tentacles by CherryMilkshake, eldritchmochi
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
14 Feb 2022
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While drunk at Jester and Fjord's wedding, Essek admits to a very… private fantasy. Caleb is eager to help him realize his dirty dreams.
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04 Jan 2026
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Shadowgast canon-divergent AU (in progress).
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02 Jan 2026
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Shadowgast post canon adventures in Aeor (complete).
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01 Jan 2026
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Essek goes home, and there is no one waiting at his door. This should be some manner of relief. But his towers haven't felt like a safe haven for a long time now, long before errant scourgers appeared to harass him with strange questions. He misses the immediacy of that threat, prefers it over the slow and indulgent terror of whatever punishment is coming for him, someday soon.
He tells himself that he misses only that, the simplicity of being unsafe in the company of predators, and that he does not miss the company itself.
(In which a pair of scourgers shows up at Essek’s doorstep and saves him from himself.)
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31 Dec 2025
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“I… I actually have a favor to ask.”
The reaction at the table was inevitable and it stung. Smiles grew wary and both Beauregard and Veth crossed their arms immediately, Veth sizing him up with a critical look.
“What kind of favor?”
Essek felt the blood shoot into his cheeks- by the luxon, this had been a terrible idea. But it was too late now.“I… my Den’s annual meeting is coming up, and I need a plus one, to put it simply.”
The Nein still all stared at him, brows furrowed.“Is it a political meeting?”, Caleb asked.
“It’s more of a family get-together, to be honest.”, Essek confessed, feeling very sheepish.
“But why do you need someone to go with you?”, Jester asked, scrunching up her nose.
Well, there it was. Essek fidgeted with his sleeve before he replied, as dignified as possible, “Frankly, because I am tired of my family’s burning questions about why I never bring any company.”
The resulting shriek Jester let out made him jump- and not only him it seemed.“You need someone to pretend to be your daaaaaaaate?”
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28 Dec 2025
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Cat’s Cradle by SeaGlass7000
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
11 Dec 2025
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The sexual tension between Scourger Bren Aldric Ermendrud and the Traitorous Shadowhand Essek Thelyss snaps.
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23 Dec 2025
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Recollections by StarsArePrettyCool
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
23 Dec 2025
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“I believe I had just blown up a window that you and Ikithon were standing next to.”
Caleb felt his eyebrows fly up to his hairline.
Even with his perfect memory, his recollection of that moment was muddied by the very powerful magic explosion that had preceded it. But still, he remembered.
In a daze, on his knees, looking up to see a soldier flying in through the shattered remains of the window. He remembered the dark lines of their armour, sharp and foreign to him. The sound it had made, as they’d landed before him. Not just any soldier. A Kryn soldier. He remembered his shock, surely evident on his face.
A cape had whipped behind them in the wind, looking for a moment like wings, marking them as more than just a mere soldier, as the leader of the attack.
And Caleb had watched, mouth agape, transfixed.
“That was you?”
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Or: Essek explains that their first meeting happened a bit earlier than Caleb had previously thought
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23 Dec 2025
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One regret Caleb was never able to resolve was that his life was so brief compared to Essek's.
But what if that wasn't the case anymore?
Maybe the Luxon priests don't know as much about how the beacons work as they think they do.
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22 Dec 2025
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Professor Widogast as Observed By His Third Year Transmutation Class by GoringWriting
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Oct 2024
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Exactly what the new Professor of transmutation is like is a mystery. Until now.
And he is... different would be the polite way.
Radical.
Fucking crazy.
H..he's okay.
Can't wait to mess with him.
He's Professor Caleb Widogast
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21 Dec 2025
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The chasm of the night and a matter of time by SkyScribbles
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 May 2021
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Essek loops the silver cord around his own wrist, like half of a handfast. ‘What I mean to express,’ he says softly, ‘is that this spell requires a degree of trust.’
Ah, Caleb thinks. Yes, that is always the issue, between the two of them.
(In which Lucien takes Caleb's mind, and in the aftermath, two wizards confront questions of trust and time.)
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19 Dec 2025
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There is a gravity that has pulled them together many times. It pulled Caleb’s lips to Essek’s forehead, and Essek’s hands to Caleb’s arms when a tower collapsed upon him. It pulled Caleb to Eiselcross, now, to be at Essek’s side as his life as the Shadowhand dies.
Now, it could pull them together into Aeor.
(Two wizards venture into Aeor - and find that something has woken in the dead city's depths. Something dangerous. Something that will force them to decide what their pasts mean to them, and what they mean to each other.)
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19 Dec 2025
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When Bren Aldric Eremendrud was a boy, whenever he felt small or lonely, he’d look up at the stars, wondering if there was life up there. Turns out, he was looking in the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world it was from the deep beneath the Lucidian Ocean, a fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between the dimensions, a breach.
To fight the Kaiju wreaking havoc on the world, mankind created monsters of their own. The Jaeger Program was implemented. Jaeger. Zemnian for hunter. Monsters designed to put these otherworldly abominations back in their place.
One pilot couldn’t handle the neural load to pilot the Jaegers alone, so a two pilot system was implemented, one on the left side, one on the right. The two pilots had to link their minds to work in perfect synchronous harmony to ensure that the mechs could run properly. With technology being advanced from cooperation and a worldwide ceasefire to stop this problem, the Pan Lucidian Defense Corps was born.
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16 Dec 2025
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Caleb wakes up on Rumblecusp with no memories of who he is or how he got there. The people around him seem to care for him greatly, and he wants to do his best to help them, even when they fail to return his memories with their divine magic.
Many things are confusing, but none more so than what appears to be his personal journal, written in a cipher he can no longer remember. Perhaps the handsome drow his friends brought him to in Rosohna may be of help.
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15 Dec 2025
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Essek has devoted his life to the axioms and metalogical functions of the field; he knows the complexities of internal calculations of weight, velocity and trajectory required to complete the spell with such finesse. Caleb Widogast just performed the somatics required to control eight vectors with the accuracy of submicroscopic deviation with one hand lazily wrapped around his cock.
He is utterly and completely screwed.
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09 Dec 2025
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Reports of my safety have been greatly exaggerated by ghosttopiary
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Dec 2024
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Something sharp and cold burrows between his shoulder blades and settles along his spine. The Shadowhand straightens his back, spits the blood from his mouth and steels himself for the second betrayal of the only friendship he’s ever had. The lie coats his tongue like quicksilver – it tastes a little like grief, and a little like victory.
»Hello Jester. My apologies, I could not contact you earlier. Sudden circumstances disallowed me the visit at last minute, but I am quite hale.«
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09 Dec 2025