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I wake up more awake than I've ever been before by SkyScribbles
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Apr 2021
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‘Essek,’ Caleb says, very quietly. ‘Are you telling me that you went into this fight convinced you would never get up if you went down?’
Essek places a hand over the centre of his chest, the place where Lucien’s blade hit. The place where Jester’s diamond shattered. ‘Yes.’
(In the battle with the Tombtakers, Essek falls. His friends bring him back. And each of them has a request to make of him.)
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01 Mar 2026
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Essek uses more high-level dunamancy in battle, and Caleb tries to reverse-engineer it when he can't sleep.
AKA What if we were both wizards and I cast Tether Essence on us to save your life?Bookmarked by jaymaymo
01 Mar 2026
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the other things that make us by saturdaysky for LadyOrpheus
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Aug 2021
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Essek returns, when he can, to the sanctuary of Caleb's home. The peace of it is a balm against the tedious peril of the road, which has more misery to share than Essek had ever thought. It's nice to have a place where he can lose himself: in a book, in arcane study, in the confusing allure of Caleb's smile.
It's nice. And the cats miss him, Caleb says.
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- Part 1 of the other things that make us
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28 Feb 2026
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After a spellwork accident, Caleb slips through time. Centuries in the future, Essek Thelyss is waiting to catch him.
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28 Feb 2026
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Remus Lupin comes into Sirius' pub every single Friday night, and Sirius lives for those nights. Except one week he is missing, and Sirius realises he has to do something about it. When Remus returns the following week, he takes Sirius home where he discovers a few things about Remus' past. In the morning he meets Remus' son, and from that moment on, Sirius realises he's exactly where he belongs.
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12 Feb 2026
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“Beauregard – you said she is outside?” Essek half-turns in the direction of the front door. “Should we invite her in?”
It feels like there is something stuck in his throat. “In a moment. She is, ah – giving us some space.”
Essek turns back to stare at him. Repeats quietly, dangerously, “Space.”
Caleb forces himself to swallow. “Yes.”
Essek’s attention is a palpable thing now, sharp like a knife’s edge against his cheek. “Explain.”
One moment makes all the difference during the battle at Blumenthal. In the aftermath, the Nein grapple with what comes next.
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10 Feb 2026
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i know several lives worth living by neinofthem (greekphilosophress)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Feb 2025
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Beau begins by sighing exasperatedly, which is typically not ideal for selling a pitch, but what the fuck, right? “I wanted to ask you,” she says, carefully now, “If you would maybe be interested in working with the Cobalt Soul. In a more, uh, official capacity. Like with a salary and everything, or whatever.”
There is a silence which is somehow worse than the silence that they were sitting in before. Essek makes a small sound that must be unconscious, sort of like a death rattle. Beau didn’t know such an undignified noise was in his repertoire.
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08 Feb 2026
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“So,” she says, breaking the silence. “Not much of an adventuring type, are you?”
He tenses a little, clearly surprised to be addressed, but he recovers quickly. “Not particularly,” he agrees. “I have always been more of a man of research.”
Beau mulls this over, before deciding fuck it. “What are you doing here, then?”
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08 Feb 2026
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The first letter Essek receives from Caleb Widogast is secreted into his pocket at some point during a tense interview with the Bright Queen. For the life of him, Essek cannot figure out how it was done. He doesn’t recall so much as brushing against the other man as he escorted the Mighty Nein out of the Lucid Bastion.
Yet when he returns to his office, there it is, tucked into a nearly invisible pocket in his mantle — a piece of subpar parchment folded to vaguely resemble a cat’s face with tiny pointed ears.
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07 Feb 2026
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The Mighty Nein erupt into Essek's life, teach him to love them - and then leave him behind. As the weeks pass, and the people who changed him do not return, Essek learns to change himself.
(Or: five things that change in Essek Thelyss after he parts ways with the Mighty Nein, and one thing that doesn't.)
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04 Feb 2026
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what do i see in your eyes (besides my reflection, hanging high) by neinofthem (greekphilosophress)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
20 Jun 2022
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But no, she was here at Caleb’s shitty table, across from Essek, who’s boring holes into the rough-hewn wood with downcast eyes. The thing about Essek, she muses, was that he felt that he was so indebted to the Nein that he was willing to do almost anything to avoid being an inconvenience. Which might, she thinks, be sort of toxic.
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04 Feb 2026
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Caleb had not so much as met his eyes since arriving. And maybe the rest of the evening with the Mighty Nein had made him too optimistic, or maybe it was the vague ideas that had been swirling in his head since he’d first received the news that his friends were in Eiselcross, but Essek decided the moment was right to take a calculated risk.
“It has been a while since we’ve had a lesson in dunamancy.”
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03 Feb 2026
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Footsteps pad down the hall and past the stairs. Actual footsteps. Verin can’t remember the last time he saw Essek walk on his own two feet. He feels a twisted knot form beneath his sternum; something isn’t right.
Thinking only of justice and restoring his family's honor after Essek's betrayal, Verin Thelyss finds something he never expected, an Essek he never expected. A mission for justice turns into a race against time and a family finds their world upended.
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- Part 1 of Lay Your Bones
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03 Feb 2026
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When he imagined dying it was usually about his mistakes catching up to him, a kind of justice. Not like this.
Essek gets snatched by some people who have been looking to capture him. But possibly not looking for Essek Thelyss, specifically.
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02 Feb 2026
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Caleb Widogast has always been good with fire.
And despite what he thinks, he didn't always destroy with it.
Or: five times Caleb Widogast saves the people he loves with fire, and one time he doesn't have to.
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01 Feb 2026
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babe, there's something magic about you by hoper_dreamer
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 Jun 2021
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"Two very complicated, broken people finally able to find love after healing as individuals can take time..."
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What happens when two wizards quietly, deeply in love with each other move in together.
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01 Feb 2026
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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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27 Jan 2026
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He thinks maybe it should make him more frightened, that he should worry about the liabilities he has allowed these people to become. It does nothing to temper the joy of being trusted, of being someone worthy of friend. It does nothing to diminish the memory of Caleb’s spellbook in his lap this morning, its owner sound asleep before him; the sweet press of concern behind Jester’s words in his mind the night before as she reached out with sending.
A rabbit walks into a snare. The snare closes around its throat, killing it. What is responsible for its death, the stupidity of the rabbit or the viciousness of the snare’s purpose?
The Shadowhand of the Bright Queen walks into the T-Dock, he thinks, and feels sick.Two months after surviving the ruin of Aeor, Caleb and Essek return to tie up loose ends.
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19 Jan 2026
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Kingsley just wanted a pint in Bysaes Tyl. Or seven. He really didn't want to fuck with wizards. Being drugged by some fucking spell, dragged through the Pearlbow Wilderness, and deposited in a gross, cold torture tower wasn't his idea of a fun night.
But Da'leth's lackeys have Caleb so I guess no one can catch a fucking break.
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01 Jan 2026
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Essek has a moment to consider that gravity-based trust exercises have never worked for him, and then the spell hits. He leans back into it, falls, falls.
(In which Essek is resurrected by the Mighty Nein and framed for innocence.)
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14 Dec 2025