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Three ex-Volstrucker and one Dynasty fugitive couldn't possibly have normal relationships with each other, so they don't. They have something else entirely.
“You look like a fucking porcupine,” Astrid said. She picked her way across the corpse-studded floor of the gloomy cavern.
Eadwulf glanced back over his shoulder as he parried a blow from an undead warrior. His view was slightly blocked by the volley of arrows encrusting the back of his armor.
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may i have this dance? by ArtificialHaunting
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
24 Sep 2025
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Day 3- Waltz
Separated by a lifetime and a continent, Caleb and Essek had two very different experiences when it came to learning how to dance. Years later, Essek is willing to try again, and it just so happens that Caleb is an excellent teacher.
A series of vignettes about dancing and two wizards' different personal connections to it.
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the cold heat of memories by ArtificialHaunting
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
28 Sep 2025
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Everyone knows Caleb Widogast's complicated relationship with fire, but few know his challenges with the cold. A few days before they are set to reach the T-dock, Caleb and Essek are forced to camp in Aeor. Essek asks why Caleb chose to specialize in fire, and instead learns why Caleb is fascinated with time.
Aka: the wizards finally have the Caleb Backstory Conversation, and Caleb is caught in that odd in-between, wondering if the T-dock has already worked before they even arrive.
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She cares about them both, she’s realizing. Her mouth is sour with the learned dread of it. The world is not kind to those she loves. And even these days, when Trent’s voice in her head is her conscience and not the man himself, to love is a dangerous thing.
(Astrid and Eadwulf meet the Shadowhand. Later, they meet Essek)
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coming are the nein by soda_poppers
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series), Dimension 20 (Web Series)
04 Oct 2025
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all my critical role campaign 2 fics in one place!
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Heat of Battle by ArtemisPendragon (ArtemisPendragyn)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Oct 2025
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Yasha and Beau spar and make out and love each other so much it's embarrassing. Also they're married with kids. WLW we won so hard with this one
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romance novels: a scholarly approach by justlikeswitchblades
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
13 Jan 2025
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Kai Willowfright, a disgraced wizard, finds himself fleeing the Empire in the midst of a budding war. Captured by Xhorhasian soldiers, it is soon discovered that he is in possession of a Luxon beacon. He surrenders to the Bright Queen, and is granted protection in Rosohna—on one condition.
Supervising this human foreigner falls to Hassan Threll, a high-ranking drow mage of the Kryn Dynasty’s court. Though repulsed by each other at first, the human and the dark elf begrudgingly work together to ultimately fetter out the ugly truth behind the war. They shift from enemies, to friends, and begin to wonder if they have discovered something even bigger—love—in A Heart Brighter Than the Beacon.
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“I would like you to know me,” Caleb says.
It feels like a secret. Like the darkest part of him cracked open; all his months and years of hiding, of wrapping his arms and scratching the bindings, of not loving, not loving anything but an unkillable cat — it’s unraveling around him. He feels naked. He feels the way he did the first time Pumat Sol spelled him clean.
“I find that — I would like you to know me,” he says, again.
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the tragic flaw is that they hide the truth by CoffeeAndArrows
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
24 Dec 2023
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"So you think it's worth it?" Beau asks after too many hours to count, her voice cool. “Training Volstrucker? Children?”
Out of the corner of her eye Astrid sees both Caleb and Eadwulf’s backs straighten, a reflex left from a world they no longer have to live in, although neither of them intervene. All three of them know it has been a long time since she's let anyone else fight her battles.
Her response is eerily calm even to her own ears, but brittle. "It has to be."
or, astrid's attempt at letting beau document pieces of her story
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- Part 3 of these little words, they're changing us
- Part 3 of slipping off the course that we prepared || blumentrio collection
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"What happened," Caleb asks, voice ever so slightly hoarse, "to the Astrid who wanted to change the world her way? The Astrid who wanted things for herself, rather than blindly chasing whatever the Empire demanded? That Astrid?"
She stares at him as if he's grown a second head. "You really need to ask?"
Caleb nods, lost, and Astrid chokes on a hysterical laugh. If she were Eadwulf, maybe she would leave him to put the puzzle pieces together alone. Maybe she would kiss him. But she is not Wulf so instead she spits the truth out between them, incredulous. "She lost the thing that kept her steady. She lost you ."
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Tenderness to You is Only Talk About a Bruise by thetickingclock
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
01 Oct 2023
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Mollymauk had woken up empty, but Kingsley is full to the bursting. It is so easy to be alive. It is hard, sometimes, to understand how much they love him. It is harder still, to let them.
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Tenderness to You is Only Talk About a Bruise
Mollymauk had woken up empty, but Kingsley is full to the bursting. It is so easy to be alive. It is hard, sometimes, to understand how much they love him. It is harder still, to let them.
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Drow Is Bugs!
(or, Essek is acting strangely and Caleb is worried. Then, when he gets answers, he's worried and confused.)
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eusocial by VillainIHaveDoneThyMother
Published: 2025-08-23
Work/Series ID: 69673381Relationship Tags:
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Drow Is Bugs!
(or, Essek is acting strangely and Caleb is worried. Then, when he gets answers, he's worried and confused.)
(Approximate) Last Read: 2025/09/28
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“Finally,” a woman grumbles.
Fjord pauses in his tracks. He forces his eyes open.
Sitting at the chipped and stained table in his kitchen— and it takes him a second to remember their names— are Astrid and Eadwulf.
They’re dressed in dark leathers, dotted with pockets and wearing utility belts filled with spell components. Eadwulf’s sword hangs in its scabbard, slung across the back of the chair. They’re drinking his tea.
“Given that you’re a sailor, I expected you to be awake earlier,” Astrid says, making direct eye contact. There’s an undercurrent of disappointment to her tone, like she’s rolling her eyes.
“And I thought you shaved everywhere,” Eadwulf adds. His eyes are not on Fjord’s face.
Fjord pulls Jester's tiny pink housecoat closed over his hips.
“Get dressed, we’re behind schedule already,” Astrid orders.or
Fjord is recruited for a mission. Strange times make for strange bedfellows.
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Adventuring might be behind Caleb, but danger is not.
Late in the night, someone comes to settle a score with him on behalf of their mutual teacher. They did not account for Caleb playing host to someone with very strong opinions about that, and the magic to back them up.
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- Part 1 of sun stained violence
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I hear the music and it takes me by surprise by icenineporcupine
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
20 Sep 2025
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“Jester’s here. The wedding is off. I had a dress and this huge prank planned for Fjord, and now nobody will see either one!”
The Sending blasts through the ordered calm of Caleb’s thoughts. Veth. Her shrill delivery is flippant. The message itself is a fluffernutter: an unmitigated bombshell.
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"I'm not offering to participate, if that's what you mean," Essek said. "But…" What exactly was he offering? Just to be in the room? To watch? That felt too much like voyeurism, which wasn't what he'd meant to offer. "I'd just like to be with you. Hold you, maybe. While you... take care of things."
From the hitch in Caleb's breath and the widening of his eyes, Essek knew he'd hit on a good idea. "You… you would be comfortable with that?"
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Essek's libido was an annoyingly unreliable thing. Caleb, on the other hand, was pretty much always open to sex. Making that disparity work was not a simple matter.
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- Part 4 of Strong Enough to Bend
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There is a science to killing wizards, but Caleb is not easy prey.
Whumptober 2021 inspired fic for the following prompts:
No. 2 - TALKING IS OVERRATED (garotte)
No. 6 - TOUCH AND GO (bruises)Series
- Part 2 of Whumptober 2021
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If only it were easy! to wish and want for nothing.
If only you weren't less human for it—wishing and wanting for nothing
-Amrit BrarEssek wants, but he's not sure he is needed.
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the benefits of the slower route by ArtificialHaunting
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
06 Jun 2025
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For Jester’s birthday, she gets Caleb a gift; a surprise gift that she won’t tell him anything about. The rest of the evening passes in strange ways but a mage hand is cast, a party attended, and a night is well spent, even if the Nein tease Caleb relentlessly for it in the morning.
Caleb and Essek try to find some time alone at Jester’s party. Essek promises grand plans for the night, but even the best laid plans are no match for the Nein.
Written for Shadowgast Week 2 2025: Hands
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- Part 1 of Shadowgast Week 2025
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Kingsley is just settling into his role as a sailor and a member of the Mighty Nein when his captain's past catches up to them all.
[Day 1 of Whumptember 2023]
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- Part 1 of Whumptember 2023
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two (or three) morally-dubious wizards concoct a plan and plan a concoction
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- Part 3 of prepositions & propositions