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Just one look is all it takes sometimes.
How much life's trajectory can be catapulted around from a single look, a single word, a single touch.
Jester Lavorre was the new student, and trying to get a grasp of how things work around here
In next to no time her world starts to crash around herself as one thing after the other goes wrong, gets confusing, and perhaps a little bit steamy.
Would she survive the year in the same manner in which she began?
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She plays the grieving comrade well. He can play the unrepentant executioner better.
Bren schools his expression into something cold and resolute. He forces his breath even, his muscles loose.
He gives her nothing. Nothing but a condescending sort of pity, built from rot and rancor, as he meets her eye.
“Don’t be naïve, Astrid."
Written for two of whumpster-dumpster's prompts for Whumpril 2025.
Chapter 1 is inspired by Day 24: Sensory Overload.
Chapter 2 will come in a few days.Check author's note for very brief context to this story.
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- Part 1 of Whumpril 2025
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Caleb was a sentimental idiot to stay with the Nein as long as he has, and it's time for him to go—it's the only way to keep them (and himself) safe from those forever chasing him. He needs to vanish into being nothing once more.
But Trent Ikithon is a determined figure, and without the Nein at his back, Caleb is no match.
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- Part 6 of 2025 Event Fics
- Part 125 of Q's Rarest Rarepairs
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All You Have (is your fire) by withthekeyisking for venndaai
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Nov 2024
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Caleb is finally ready to kill Trent Ikithon.
It doesn't go as planned.
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- Part 22 of 2024 Event Fics
- Part 119 of Q's Rarest Rarepairs
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When forced to flee the Dynasty's wrath, Essek Thelyss slowly grows closer to Caleb Widogast.
I wrote this back in 2021 with pen and paper while at a job that went nowhere, forgot about it, and now found it again while tidying by room. Time to release it into the world. I'm gonna split it in two parts and publish as I finish typing up each chapter.
Rating and some of the tags are for the final chapter only. Chapter length will probably vary wildly since it's hard to count words on paper.
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- Part 1 of Essek the Wanderer
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Don't give it a hand, offer it a soul by ATrashMammal
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Jul 2024
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He could almost smell the ozone in the air around him as his palms itched and crackled with a held potential. He could do it he thought, he would do it, if it meant that Nott might be happy, after all she had done for him he could do this for her if only to see her smile once more. It might break him, would break him, of that he was sure, but it would be worth it if it only meant she could be herself as she was always meant to be.
What was a little more broken to a man who hadn’t yet pulled all the pieces of himself back together again? One more nail in the coffin of someone already doomed would be worth it for the life he might be able to give.
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In which Caleb makes a deal with Isharnai
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"Uh... Is he... crying?" Beauregard asked the rest of the Nein as Kingsley and Essek ran out from the Chateau to comfort a ratty-looking Caleb being held by Caduceus.
"Maybe he's just that touched?" Jester winced.
"Why is he in his pajamas?" Yasha pondered aloud. Fjord scratched his chin.
"Not sure, but he looks like shit."
Veth squinted, leaning closer to the window, and caught the expression of Kingsley falling. Grief and sympathy filled the frown on King's face, and Veth's heart sank, watching as Essek's illusory form leaned its forehead against Caleb's temple.
"Essek told us he'd been poisoned and really struggling when he found 'im." Beau was grimacing. "I didn't expect he'd look this bad."
"Should we go out there too?" Yasha asked. Everyone considered it, staring at the scene.
"Maybe just one of us." Fjord suggested.
"Veth?" Beau piped up. Veth's lips pursed.
Caleb pulled away from Caduceus and began wiping his eyes, his back to the window of the Chateau. Essek and Kingsley were both smiling sympathetically. She didn't want to get in the way, but Caleb looked so beaten down and tired, and she was worried. That was her boy.
"Yeah, alright."Series
- Part 6 of Two Wizards and a Blood Hunter
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Essek and Caleb have a conversation about Caleb’s history
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Choking on Diamond and Vomiting Gold by Ineedtocomeupwithausername
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 May 2024
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Caleb is flat broke thanks to Trent and his interference. Fjord is rich thanks to an 'inheritance' that he doesn't love going into detail on. They meet through a mutual friend and hit it off, but each of their pasts still haunt them.
AU set in a modern Exandria. Basically there's still fantasy races and magic but they also have like. Cell phones and cars I guess.Series
- Part 1 of Choking on Diamond
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Deine Vergangenheit Brennt (Your Past is Burning) by ThreeKoboldsInATrenchcoat
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Apr 2024
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Essek was taken by Trent and his allies. Caleb calls on the man he used to be to get Essek back. It isn't very good for him.
Bren’s hands are red. Metaphorically, yes—they have been stained red for years. But, at present, the metaphorical stains that mar him are mirrored by his physical reality. Blood is dripping from his fingers.
Written for whumpster-dumpster's day 3 prompt for Whumpril 2024, Shame.
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- Part 1 of Whumpril 2024
- Part 1 of Dein Leben ist ein Feuersturm (Your Life is a Firestorm)
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show me your magic (tell me your secrets) by mell0bee
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 Mar 2024
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She watches Caleb’s mouth curl upwards into an almost-smile, so close , she thinks, and before he can tell her to go draw dicks in someone else’s spellbook she sits down cross-legged in front of him. Too bad for him if he wants to have some peace and quiet for himself, she decides. He’s traveling with Jester Lavorre. Peace and quiet was never an option.
She’s watching his face, now. “Hi, Jester,” he says slowly. He’s clearly still embarrassed, and she clearly needs to diffuse even more.
“Hi, Caleb.” She leans forward and waggles her eyebrows some more. “What are you thinking about, Caleb, all alone in the dark~ ?”
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Caleb and Nott got themselves hired as staff for a masquerade ball held by a local nobleman, in order to get the opportunity to help themselves to his valuables. Caleb was surprised when a person in an absolutely stunning outfit walked in, but never thought he’d actually get the chance to meet this mysterious Lord Tealeaf… or that he might have ulterior motives of his own.
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“I used to be you, you know? Guilty and trying my best to make up for it any way that I could"
Caleb knew what he was seeing immediately when Yasha went into the ring still and quiet.
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- Part 13 of critical role stories
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Caleb’s spell required a delicate component he had scoffed when he first read. Doubting his translation, he cast Languages again, but the inkbled scrawl read the same. “Heart of a fae”. Literal or figurative, he almost did not care. He would seize both to be sure. -
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A month after Aeor, once Caleb has all his errands done and work prepared for, he finally walks across the deck of Fjord's ship, ready to tell the Captain hello and goodbye in the same breath before whisking his new partner away for a long-awaited first time together. That is, until he hears his new partner's voice on the breeze calling out to him, "Magician!" And he turns around, searching the deck for him with a racing heart, deciding without conscious thought that Fjord can wait.
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- Part 3 of Two Wizards and a Blood Hunter
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“I am…happy.”
Essek paused for a moment, before clearing his throat, “Well, that’s good. However, that doesn’t fully explain why- “
“- I have good friends. A family again.”
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For some inexplicable reason, Mollymauk seems to be interested in Caleb. After one too many compliments, Caleb decides to confront him.
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Four months after Caleb's No Good Very Nice Day, and soon after the events of the fight with Uk'otoa, Essek darkens Caleb's doorstep. Rumors are getting worse and it's now or never to explore Aeor. What Essek doesn't realize is that he'll be exploring more than just Aeor with Caleb, discovering the hard way that he doesn't know Caleb as well as he thinks he does, both the good and the bad.
The differences between them are, as usual, thinner than a razor.Series
- Part 2 of Two Wizards and a Blood Hunter
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"You said that we could have whatever we wanted, for saving your friend" Astrid says, eyes flicking over to Molly as she makes the point, "We said we wanted Bren. So why do you still fight?" she demands, but her voice isn't angry.
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- Part 10 of critical role stories
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A bloody smirk says a lot more than words ever could by siren_of_the_ocean
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Aug 2023
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"You wanted them to take you"
His lips are numb as he says it. Like Nott's flask had spilled across his face. He almost wishes she had it.
But the way Caleb's eyes look him over, calculating whether he can lie or not, wash a whole different sort of cold numbness across his body.
Caleb sighs, the Nein's attention frozen on him.
"This is not the first time I've been interrogated. And it probably won't be the last. I'm actually...quite used to this. I had assumed I would be the best person for this...excersize" he explains without question.Series
- Part 8 of critical role stories