sweet the vine and sweet the fruit // deeper still pursue the root

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• starry-eyed child left behind (choose your favorite vice) by icenineporcupine

  Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  21 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Julien Davinos/Azune Nayar
  • Julien Davinos
  • Azune Nayar
  • enemies to lovers speedrun
  • except ‘enemies’ is way too strong - let’s call it nuisances to lovers XD
  • Getting Together
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • Sparring
  • Swordfighting
  • Shower Sex
  • Oral Sex
  • Anal Sex
  • Hair Washing
  • Hair Braiding
  • neurodivergent service top Azune
  • vaguely bratty bottom Julien
  • explorations of houses and homes and what defines them
  • following your crush to the house where their family was murdered and other great first date ideas
  • Julien: This man makes no damn sense! Compels me though...

  Summary

  When the Seekers return to Dol-Makjar, Julien wants to go back to the Palazzo. Thjazi’s whelp offers to tag along for—what? Moral support? Julien honestly has no idea, but he can’t be bothered to tell the lieutenant off.

  Or maybe he just really doesn’t want to.

  Series

  • Part 1 of sweet the vine and sweet the fruit // deeper still pursue the root

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  10,136

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  69

  Kudos:

  340

  Bookmarks:

  85

  Hits:

  2,135

• but when things can't be explained, superposition by icenineporcupine

  Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M, Multi
  • Complete Work

  27 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Julien Davinos/Azune Nayar
  • Halandil Fang/Bolaire Lathalia
  • Halandil Fang/Thaisha Lloy
  • Halandil Fang & Azune Nayar
  • Halandil Fang
  • Azune Nayar
  • Julien Davinos
  • Bolaire Lathalia
  • Thaisha Lloy
  • (the rest of the crew is here too)
  • POV Halandil Fang
  • Hal is having The Most Normal One a man has ever had
  • Character Study
  • What if we were dramatic foils and our lovers were dramatic foils and we were accidentally having the same relationship
  • Azune making moves like the absolute chessmaster he is
  • Accidental Voyeurism
  • Flashbacks
  • Identity Issues
  • Dissociation
  • All the world’s a psychosexual stageplay

  Summary

  In the depths of the night at the Lloy Estate, Hal watches Azune make a decision that doesn’t quite make sense to him.

  Or maybe it makes a little bit too much sense for comfort.

  Series

  • Part 2 of sweet the vine and sweet the fruit // deeper still pursue the root

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,033

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  27

  Kudos:

  197

  Bookmarks:

  32

  Hits:

  1,015

• what if this storm ends, and I don't see you? by icenineporcupine

  Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M, M/M, Multi
  • Complete Work

  20 May 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Julien Davinos/Azune Nayar
  • Julien Davinos
  • Azune Nayar
  • Thaisha Lloy
  • Vaelus (Critical Role)
  • Ilondria (Critical Role)
  • Shapeshifting
  • Shapeshifted sex
  • Identity Issues
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Alter Self Spell (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • Compassionate Cathartic and yet still deeply →
  • Inappropriate Use of Alter Self Spell (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • Genderfluid Character
  • Imagined Julien Davinos/Thaisha Lloy
  • Imagined Julien Davinos/Vaelus
  • Imagined Julien Davinos/Ilondria
  • Azune Nayar's pathological need to be useful
  • vs. Julien Davinos' violent need to be understood
  • I cannot begin to convey how much these two men need therapy
  • but instead they're having:
  • Porn with Feelings
  • Cunnilingus
  • Vaginal Sex
  • Miscommunication
  • Feelings Realization
  • Accidental Love Confessions
  • Unexpected Gender Euphoria
  • And also featuring Azune Nayar's neurotic behavior about food

  Summary

  Julien discovers that Azune Nayar can become whoever he wants.
  That really shouldn't be such a complicated sentence.

  Series

  • Part 3 of sweet the vine and sweet the fruit // deeper still pursue the root

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  8,540

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  20

  Kudos:

  128

  Bookmarks:

  15

  Hits:

  1,130

• the dusk, the dawn, and what they hold between them by icenineporcupine

  Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen, M/M
  • Complete Work

  30 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Julien Davinos/Azune Nayar
  • Azune Nayar & Alba Davinos
  • Alba Davinos & Julien Davinos
  • Azune Nayar & Thimble
  • Julien Davinos
  • Azune Nayar
  • Alba Davinos
  • Maya Davinos
  • Thimble (Critical Role)
  • Aranessa Royce
  • Augustus "Gus" Valian
  • Demodus Blix
  • Mayali Nayar (mentioned)
  • Explorations of Legacy & Memory
  • Siblings
  • Protective Siblings
  • Maya Davinos Has a Point
  • Alba Davinos Has a Better One
  • Found Family
  • Secret Relationship
  • Relationship Reveal
  • Idiots in Love
  • Mutual Pining
  • Dragon Azune Nayar
  • (The Dragon is Not a Metaphor but it is also Very Much A Metaphor)
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Self-Worth Issues
  • Identity Issues
  • Azune Nayar Needs a Hug
  • Azune Nayar Gets a Hug
  • Azune Nayar Gets a Whole Family Actually
  • Azune Nayar is Neurotic about Food
  • Jealous Julien Davinos
  • Touch-Starved Everybody TBH
  • Alba Davinos/Callowyn Royce (Heavily Implied)
  • One-Sided Azune Nayar/Demodus Blix
  • Banquets & Feasts
  • (these two men still need therapy but this time they're playing dress-up instead)

  Summary

  Julien runs off to chase Koral and break his sister's curse, leaving Azune & the Magpies to help Thimble escort the refugees of the Golden Orchard to Timmon's Rock. Despite promising to protect Alba on the journey, Azune can't bring himself to interact with her, too afraid of seeing another precious sister fade away.

  Alba Davinos, however, has her own idea of how this story goes.

  [Or: The Azulien period romance we have not been promised but deeply deserve...]
  [Or: Azune Nayar accidentally collects All the Sisters...]

  Series

  • Part 4 of sweet the vine and sweet the fruit // deeper still pursue the root

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  21,883

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  25

  Kudos:

  61

  Bookmarks:

  12

  Hits:

  385