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Set during the early stages of Orym's recovery in 'A Leg to Stand On'. You should probably read at least to Chapter 5 of that one to understand what's going on in this one.
Bell's Hells was successful on their mission to Ruidus, but barely made it back to Exandria alive. With Orym severely injured in the wake of their mission, the Hells spend some time in Zephrah to rest and recover. Ashton visits the library, and receives a rather odd book recommendation from Orym's nosy neighbour.
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- Part 2 of A Leg to Stand On
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06 Feb 2026
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A deep melancholy crosses Orym’s face for a moment, but then he seems to shake it off. Or maybe he just shivers. Ashton pulls an extra blanket off the foot of Orym’s bed and tucks it carefully around him. The grateful smile they receive in return warms them to their core.
There are so many more passages in this that made me melt and squeal in delight at how much everyone - ESPECIALLY Ashton - cares for Orym; this was comfort to the MAX!!
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Temporal Shunt (The Art of Vanishing in Place) by Inanerial
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 May 2025
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Essek's stomach whined at him like it too had been cast back into the memories where a grumble would have been too forward. The aching hollowness felt somehow reassuring, even though it was unpleasant. It was a little bit of home—and what has home been for him in recent years but a dull ache?
Essek tries to undo the tangled web of ambition, guilt, and alienation that brought him to steal the beacons. He is, after all, his own punishment.
(Detailed ED warnings in the notes of the first chapter)
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04 Feb 2026
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FANTASTIC!! Moving and profound and so healing; 12/10!!!
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World’s Saddest Breakfast Club by motleyfam for batmoniker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
31 Jul 2021
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Following a couple of Very Bad Weeks™ (which may or may not have involved being kidnapped and mildly tortured), Jason decides the best way to cheer himself up is to break into the Manor for a 3 a.m. snack.
Turns out he isn’t the only one awake.
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01 Feb 2026
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Definitely a new comfort read, the different kinds of care in this are PERFECTION!!
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After a kidnapping, Tim ends up stranded in the middle of the desert with a sprained ankle, no signal, and no gear. Oh, and his rescuer.
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After an ambush by bandits on the road leaves Dorian nearly dead, Dorian, Orym, and Fearne are desperate for a little bit of safety. They find an inn, take care of their wounds, and figure out some sleeping arrangements.
(AKA one way that the EXU trio might have started sharing a bed)
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- Part 2 of Big Spoon, Medium Spoon, Little Spoon
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27 Jan 2026
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Orym had sat behind Dorian. Without asking or waiting to be asked, he wrapped his arms around Dorian’s waist and pressed close, not seeming to care about the blood that was probably getting all over his armor.
“Is this helping? Are you warmer?” Orym whispered after a minute of travel.
Honestly, Orym didn’t provide all that much body heat, and it was painful to have the pressure against the mostly-healed wound, but Dorian wouldn’t have told him that for anything. “Definitely helping,” he said. Helping you, he added silently.
I want to put them in my pocket and keep them safe and warm!!!! 😫
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Caleb and Essek's research trip to Aeor is going swimmingly - until it's not. Stuck in a region of the city where magic doesn't seem to work at all and surrounded by numerous dangers, things are liable to get worse before they get better...
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25 Jan 2026
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They’re having a baaad time, so the comfort later hits EXTRA hard 😌
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While on a mission post-Predathos, Orym suffers a grievous injury. Seedling's magic can heal him, but Ashton will have to go to extreme lengths to get it back - and it soon becomes clear that he lost more than just his arm in the fight. Orym, Dorian and Ashton lean on each other for reassurance in the aftermath.
(If I had a nickel for every time Orym lost and regrew a limb in one of my fics, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t much, but it sure is weird that it happened twice. But then they had to go and canonically give Seedling the ability to restore severed body parts. What was I supposed to do, really?)
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24 Jan 2026
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Dorian sighs and moves to get up, “I should–” Ashton catches him by the arm when he wobbles.
“Easy. Don't bother getting up all the way. He’s right there. Just– kneel and shuffle, alright? There you go.” Ashton steadies Dorian as he closes the short distance to Orym’s side.
Ashton supporting Dorian, while both of them support Orym is the soft poly I’m here for, man!!
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While escaping from Ruidus on their recon mission, Bell's Hells is attacked and Orym is grievously wounded. Ashton holds him together in more ways than one.
Ashrym Week: Free Day. Now a multi-chapter fic because reasons.
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- Part 5 of Ashrym Week 2023
- Part 1 of A Leg to Stand On
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23 Jan 2026
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This was soooo fucking good!! Protective Ashton is my JAM!
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Eadwulf seems to consider, for a moment. Just Essek, disregarding the storm brewing otherwise. He is a professional at this, just as much as Essek had been taught to be. Then, he rests his hand at his belt. “Train with me,” he says, and draws his blade.
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- Part 7 of altogether infinite, possibilities
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19 Jan 2026
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He kisses his hair again and pulls back. “I’ll be back in a little bit. Take it easy.” He palms at Mollymauk’s shoulder. “Make sure he takes it easy.”
“I’m not letting him out of my sight.”
Molly is SO protective in this, my GOD!
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Caleb is silent on the walk. The others clearly don’t expect him to talk, which is lucky, because he can barely put one foot in front of the other at the moment, let alone formulate a coherent thought.
Or, Caleb has a breakdown, and then another, smaller breakdown. It's been a long day.
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18 Dec 2025
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Their time in Rexxentrum was PEAK protective!M9 🙏
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“I am pretty fucked, Essek.”
He doesn’t intend to let the spell go, but it unravels along with his concentration as the pain becomes overwhelming. Wincing, he lets his arm fall back to the ground. He’s been trained to take this. Nothing ambitious for a moment. Just breathe.
Prompt: Caleb and Essek are separated in Aeor and Caleb gets blinded.
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18 Dec 2025
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Caleb ADORES that purple wizard!!
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we never do go over (we always gotta go through) by Chrome
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
06 May 2021
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In the last fight with the Tombtakers, Essek Thelyss bends reality to keep them all alive and pays the price. As he copes with the aftereffects of his own magic and the party takes the long journey back to the surface, Essek and Caleb finally confront what they are to each other.
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Five times Essek woke up with level(s) of exhaustion and one time he didn't.
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05 Dec 2025
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His reflexes are still bad, and his hands are still shaking.
Caleb notices the latter, and folds Essek’s hands in his own. “We take care of our own. Do not worry.” He says this as though it is obvious. The idea of being their anything is a warm one. Whenever Caleb calls him friend there is an ache inside him, but a good ache, like it’s stretching a muscle he didn’t know he had.
The SOFTEST Shadowgast I have EVER read, they are so precious to me!! Get found family-ed, Essek!!
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And I May Yet Fall Apart by good_old_fashioned_lover_boy
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
24 Sep 2025
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Whumptober Day 8: "Oh horror, oh horror, what did you see?" [Self-inflicted Injury, Held at Gunpoint, Disassociation]
Molly's shirt sticks uncomfortably to his skin, his coat trapping more heat with every passing hour. He could take it off. Should, really—he doesn’t need to be sweating this much, especially considering that water may or may not become a limited resource. But the thought of its absence, more of his skin bare to the dirt that surrounds them….
It stays.
(Or, Molly is still alive and with the group when they start on their way to Xhorhas. He doesn't do well underground, especially not when certain illicit substances are involved.)
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- Part 2 of Lover_Boy's Whumptober 2025 :)
Bookmarked by moon_will_sing
21 Nov 2025
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Putting Molly underground is EVILL, I fucking love it!! Also, Frumpkin is best cat, as always 😌
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Held and Holding (aka How to Train Your Party to be a Mount) by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
06 Apr 2025
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5 times members of Bell's Hells carried Orym.
Plus one time he carried them all.
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- Part 1 of Strength (Check) In Numbers
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08 Nov 2025
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“You’ve got this twisted idea that you have to be the one holding the rope when we’re dangling over the void. That if we fall, it’s your fault.”
Orym can't sleep. Not really. Not when the weight of loss and responsibility keeps tightening around him like a noose.
Ashton isn’t exactly the gentle type - but he’s not about to sit back and let Orym break quietly.Series
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06 Nov 2025
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“I don’t want to fall,” he whispered.
“I know,” Ashton said—and damn if there wasn’t actual softness there. “That’s why I’m here.”
Just… wow. Every line in this feels heavy in the best way. Like you can’t help but feel the importance of the conversation they’re having. I am in awe and in tears.
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“Now please repeat what you just said. I think I’ve finally had an aneurysm and misheard you.”
“I don’t think that’s what an aneurysm does,” says Nott, tilting her head. Caleb glowers, and her eyes crinkle at the edges as she rushes to add, “I’m your teaching assistant this year!”
“I… am not a teacher.”
In which the majority of the cast works at an elementary school. The life of perpetually tired librarian Caleb, who—among other problems—has been dealing with his developing feelings for a co-worker for the past year, gains yet another complication when his semi-estranged adoptive sister Nott becomes his colleague, and that's only the beginning. Featuring bonding moments, solidarity, found families, hopeless pining, multilingual flirting, and copious alcohol consumption.
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- Part 1 of kid gloves
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Bookmarked by moon_will_sing
02 Nov 2025
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Delightful!! Peak humor and extremely heartfelt; all that good stuff 🤗
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The Outcome is not so Clear by ArbuscularMycorrhizal
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
26 Jan 2019
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After the talk by the river and the talk in the cart it's harder to get through the night than they thought.
Beau comforts Caleb and Caduceus comforts them both.
Tag to episode 49
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Remembering her childhood isn't the greatest, for Beau. Least of all when remembering is preceded by not-insignificant blood loss in the middle of the night.
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25 Oct 2025
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My dear Beau, you need so much therapy 🥲
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23 Oct 2025
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This made me feel alive in the best way. I also cried, but that’s neither here nor there. Molly’s thoughts on Caleb (and vice versa) made me wanna screech in delight, this was so beautiful to get to read!!
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Ashton collapses after dropping his Titan form. Orym hovers.
Coda to Campaign 3, Episode 86.
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20 Oct 2025
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“It was after we fought off that first wave of Shade Creepers. You were telling everyone to take a rest for a moment, and I asked how long a moment was supposed to be.” Ashton can hear the smile in Orym’s voice, “You said a moment is however long it takes to make sure we’re okay. Ash, we want to make sure you’re okay.”
Everyone should have an Orym in their lives. For like, emotional support.