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Alone and in hiding after the destruction of his family, Percy de Rolo hopes he'll be forgotten in the ancient, dilapidated lighthouse his family used to own.
Now Percy's own memories are finishing the job the Briarwoods started. That and a fall from the top of the lighthouse on a stormy night.
But someone is looking out for Percy de Rolo.
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10 Feb 2026
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Bren Aldric Ermendrud has lived with Trent Ikithon as long as he can remember, suffering under his tuition for years, turning him into the strongest wizard possible- and the most miserable young man in Rexxantrum.
Until the circus comes to town, with one Mollymauk Tealeaf as it's ringmaster. And Bren sees a way to a new name, a new life and a chance at happiness.
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An AU based on the story of Kvothe's parents from The Kingkiller Chronicles
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10 Feb 2026
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i got to admit it's getting better (better) by softlyblue
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
08 Feb 2021
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"Oh!" the social worker says, brittle and bright, her voice reedy in the wide room they've given her as an office, "I like your socks, Caleb!"
He blinks at her and then down at his socks. "I like cats," he manages, after twenty-four seconds staring at the little cotton kittens dancing around his ankles. He sees her type: expressed interest in cats. only occasion of verbalisation during meeting. some interaction.
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- Part 1 of it can't get no worse
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09 Feb 2026
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“Bren,” Veth whispers, and the nurses grouped in the door like bubbles watch on, “It’s Veth.” She climbs onto the chair by the bed and touches his elbow, very, very gently. “You said you wanted to see me.”
Across his cheek, so small she might have missed it, she sees a tear escape his eye and fall from his skin to the hospital pillow below him. “Hello, old friend,” he says in a voice that rasps sandpaper, “It is good to see you. I’m sorry it’s been so long.”
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- Part 2 of it can't get no worse
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09 Feb 2026
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Lucien laughs again, and then bends, his fingers replacing his sword at Caleb's throat, "You make pretty sounds when you're hurt," he tells Caleb, like a compliment, like Caleb should be happy, "I will admit, I'll miss your little kitty-cats."
And he wraps one firm, strong hand around Caleb's throat, and hefts him into the air, his grip so tight that Caleb can't even scream anymore. He's bruising. "They'll miss them more, though," Lucien whispers in his ear, and then he opens his mouth, and Caleb can see something black and brackish, like a gas, like a poison, like cursed blood, and then Lucien is pulling Caleb towards him like a ragdoll and then Caleb can feel nothing but pain, a maelstrom of pain, and blood-hot fingers on his jaw.
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09 Feb 2026
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Today I Love You Even More by Bardly_Working for A_Orbit
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Sep 2021
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or; “Oh No, I Like My Wife’s Boyfriend”
Yeza Brenatto is a creature of infinite anxiety, but he’s not blind. He can see how much Veth loves Caleb. He can see how much Caleb loves her back. And he can also see that Caleb is really attractive. But it’s not like he’s not going to do anything about that…
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08 Feb 2026
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Beau couldn’t believe what she was witnessing. It frankly fucking figured that Jester “Best Detective” Lavorre would stumble on the most irrefutable evidence to date that the wizards were—no, nope, she wasn’t going to think about that, no thanks—and manage to be totally fucking clueless about it.
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08 Feb 2026
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OPERATION: HOT BOI LIBERATION (or: How I Spent My Spring Break in Rexxentrum, by Verin of Den Thelyss) by CatgirlTheCrazy
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Apr 2022
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The more Verin dug into it, the more convinced he became. Essek had spent an inordinate amount of time with the Mighty Nein when they came to Rosohna. Done all sorts of strange favors for them. Ferried them all over Wildemount. Arranged visits with prisoners in the Dungeon of Penance. Let them dig up his yard. Descended into Aeor with them, unaccompanied. Accepted invitations to dinner. Let one of them hug him. In public. More than once.
Mind control. It had to be.
Verin gets it into his head that Essek has been kidnapped by the Mighty Nein (specifically Caleb), and sets out on a solo rescue mission to Rexxentrum.
Hijinks ensue.
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08 Feb 2026
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"Unfortunately, our progress has stalled out somewhat," Ikithon says, slowly circling the beacon on its stand. Under any other circumstances, that would be the thing that drew Essek's eye.
Instead, his gaze is fixed on the man sitting in a chair at the circle's center. A picture of misery, he is bound hand and foot to the chair with thick iron cuffs. His face is mottled with bruising, his rust colored hair hangs in limp, tangled clumps, and his clothes are torn and burnt. Wide, frightened eyes the color of daylight sky whip frantically back and forth between them.
Essek knows that face. He knows it all too well. Not two months ago, that face kissed him on the forehead and told him that he was still capable of good.
The bottom drops out of Essek's stomach. Please not him.
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After the peace talks at sea, Ikithon approaches Essek with an offer he can't refuse... But dearly wishes he could.
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08 Feb 2026
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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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07 Feb 2026
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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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03 Feb 2026
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Beau doesn't know where they are. Not quite and not really. She can remember something going wrong but not how it led to here.
What she does know is Caleb is hiding something and both of them are running out of time.
They need to keep moving. They need to get back to the others.
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02 Feb 2026
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Lightening flashed over head.
Great. He was going to die alone in the most cliched way possible. He was going to be the cover of one of Jester’s romance novels. Backlit by the storm, captured in the arms of some horrid monster, swooning with his tiddies out.
A hunt doesn't go to plan but Molly takes it in stride.
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02 Feb 2026
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Lucien takes control of Beau and Caleb, leaving Yasha and Essek desperate for a way to break his hold.
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02 Feb 2026
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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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02 Feb 2026
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Caleb pressed his palm into his chest. The weight of this affection grew and waned in intensity while Essek drifted in and out of his life, like a moon and her tides, but they never showed signs of withering in spite of the uncertainty of their relationship.
As it stood, Essek was a satellite. He seemed happy enough to remain as such, as far as Caleb could tell, and Caleb was more than happy to be blessed by the tides of his love.A series of meetings between Caleb and Essek across the Wynandir galaxy.
Written for Shadowgast Week 2021 - Day 1: Gravity/AttractionSeries
- Part 2 of the wine dark sky
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01 Feb 2026
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Essek Thelyss, lonely and ambitious prodigy, comes to Nicodranas to make a risky gamble with the Assembly. At the water’s edge, he finds himself swept up in another dangerous entanglement he can't seem to escape — and as time goes on, he's less and less sure he wants to. Will his treasonous alliance or the sea itself devour him first?
(Or, the one where Caleb is a merman.)
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- Part 1 of till human voices wake us
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31 Jan 2026
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Fjord’s voice rang through the intra-craft speaker system. “Mighty Nein, report to the main deck.”
Caleb, Beau, and Veth all flinched to attention at the tone of his voice. Yasha reflexively put her hand on the heavy energy-pistol at her hip.
“We’re being hailed by a Dynasty vessel.”A day in the lives of the Mighty Nein, the seven crewmembers of a spacecraft currently in flight somewhere between the space station of Alfield and the planet Nicodranas.
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- Part 1 of the wine dark sky
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27 Jan 2026
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Beau risked a glance over her shoulder as she ran. The thing was following her, tumbling over itself with unnatural angular movements, and was catching up.
She didn’t need to wonder what would happen if the thing reached her; there was a bone-deep intuition letting her know that this thing was wrong, that it should not exist, and she should do anything in her power to avoid touching it. Perhaps a dumb animalistic instinct woken from where it had been sleeping between the coils of DNA by her sheer terror.
Geneva, Switzerland. February 1989.Both Beau and Caleb are quite sure that they understand the way of the world, be it scientific or a tad more pessimistic. But when strange and unexplainable occurrences begin haunting them they are both forced to confront the new reality: that magic is seeping into their world from another, far more dangerous one.
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26 Jan 2026
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Was du liebst, das lass nicht gehen by maedre13
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
12 Jan 2026
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There are uninvited guests at the fundraising. Three, maybe more people, with calculation in their movements and silent messages in their glances. Without a doubt, they are not part of the crowd of nobles.
Bren observes them silently.
The drow makes eye contact with him, and he suppresses the shiver that threatens to go through him at that.
The problem, he muses, is not that an unknown group of intruders has infiltrated the gala.The problem is that they seem to be here for him.
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20 Jan 2026