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Avantika turns in her chair to look back at her, eyebrow raised, charts spread in front of her. She’s already holding a knife, Beau realizes. Heat stirs in her belly.
Definitely just doing this for Fjord. Yup. The fact that Avantika’s an elf with long red hair and tan skin and wiry muscles and knee high leather boots and fantastic boobs has absolutely nothing to do with it, nope.
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16 Oct 2022
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winter is coming (here me roar) by sansarogers (mintaejin)
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
08 Aug 2019
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Cersei marries Ned Stark and finds happiness in the cold North.
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02 Oct 2022
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…this was devastatingly sweet. Honestly this was everything I needed. Cersei was such a fascinating and complex character, and the notion of how her life might have been if she’d gotten away from her family and married someone good, and kind, and loyal and nothing like her father… ooph, wow, this was a big surprise and I loved it.
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i wish to sleep, (but not) to wake by Defiler_Wyrm, SaltCore
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Sep 2022
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Essek's life must be charmed. He has a flourishing career with nearly unlimited prospects, a group of friends who bring light and joy to his life, and a partner more perfect than he could have ever thought to ask for. Most days, he is astounded at his good fortune.
His life is a paradise, with no end in sight.
Of course, it is. It has to be.
Right?
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22 Sep 2022
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i know it's hard to breathe sometimes by KmacKatie (kmackatie)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
14 Mar 2021
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Essek makes it to the external door, slamming it open with a gesture as he ducks through. Squinting in the sudden brightness, he pauses, staring around at the empty snow and waiting.
Waiting, and hoping, remembering his own failed attempts, the phantom pain that spasmed up his back and cramped his leg, that he had to breathe through to dissipate. Teleportation was risky. He had warned Caleb…
No. Caleb will be fine. They will all be fine.
They have to be fine.
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Jester's divine intervention works guaranteeing them a safe teleport to Eiselcross, a conversation is had, and comfort is found. An alternative end to C2E128 - Cat and Mouse.
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22 Aug 2022
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All These Ghosts I've Grown With by A_Orbit for tianbuhenai
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 Jul 2022
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Caduceus has been home with his family for a month now, and it's been a perfect adjustment. Just great, absolutely wonderful. He definitely doesn't miss any of the Nein to the point of heartache and even if he did he wouldn't feel guilty about it. All of his siblings are also perfect and completely well-adjusted and trauma free, and everything is back to exactly 100% the way it was before they left.
A late-night argument leads to some spontaneous hair care and a much needed conversation.
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03 Aug 2022
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a wonderful, aching, and bittersweet fic about the lingering trauma of the Clay family, who — let's be honest — have really been through the wringer these last few decades.
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Essek has a moment to consider that gravity-based trust exercises have never worked for him, and then the spell hits. He leans back into it, falls, falls.
(In which Essek is resurrected by the Mighty Nein and framed for innocence.)
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08 Jun 2022
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The infamous ”Essek has done nothing wrong ever in his life” fic! So sneaky. So brilliant. So cupcake. I love it.
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It wasn’t consecution.
How could it be? Essek wasn’t consecuted. Even if he had been, consecution didn’t work like this. He’d know if it did; he’d spent years searching for any scrap of information about what was happening to him.
He found nothing.
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Every time Essek dies, he wakes up on the day he meets the Mighty Nein. He's tried everything to avoid, subvert or kill them, but so far nothing has worked. He's already died fifteen times. He refuses to die a sixteenth.
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08 Jun 2022
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Devastating, with a happy ending (two great tastes that taste great together)
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Shadowhand is an apt title, given Essek’s propensity for lingering at the fringes of the Nein’s conversations, responding politely when addressed but refraining from instigating. He frequently drifts into a room in the tower, reviews the contents as if not having seen them before, and then retreats to his room. The exuberance of late-night research and study into their discoveries in Aeor stokes a fire in Caleb’s gut so hot that it makes him sweat, and then Essek’s awkward distance each morning leaves him blowing on dying embers in the rain.
If Caleb spends one more minute sitting alone on the lounge in the salon, he is going to die.
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05 Jun 2022
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Soft tension from these sassy anxious boys. SO beautifully written.
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Like so many places Orym has been, the Hellcatch Valley is breathtaking from this high. The reason it steals Orym’s breath to look out at it, though…
Well, that’s a different reason entirely.
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18 May 2022
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Essek's shoulders are tense in a way that's gonna ache later, his frame drawn tight against the endless blue sky above the bay. He leans on the salt-crusted railing and stares out at the armada gathered for the peace talks.
"I am still a Thelyss," he whispers in Undercommon. "They cannot take that from us." To Beau's ears, it sounds like a prayer.
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Shadowhand Essek Hythenos celebrates a victory, and Beau untangles a truth.
[au where Den Thelyss was purged pre-canon]
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18 Apr 2022
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a beautiful and heartbreaking piece between Beau and Essek, particularly reflecting upon their relationships with TJ and Verin.
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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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10 Apr 2022
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my HEART, i have no words this is just... I... the...
a painful and beautiful exploration of their time after Cognouza, and then their time after the Grove, and then their time after the trial. In which Caleb slowly realizes there are two of him that exist: the one who has already changed the past, and the one who never will. One of them is a ghost, and Essek helps him figure out which.
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"Asa, just two nights ago we burnt Wulf’s paper by accident, and we stayed up all night rewriting it so that Master Ikithon wouldn’t find out. Yesterday was a normal day. And today I woke up older and found out that the master is dead and you are the Archmage of Civil Influence."
Astrid finds someone familiar standing on her doorstep. Wulf finds someone familiar in Astrid’s bed.
Bookmarked by Bardly_Working
21 Mar 2022
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OW. My Heart! Ow, this is so good! Some absolutely killer dialogue, only made more poignant by the silence surrounding it. Beautiful.
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Percy and Trinket, and a very polite discussion about their beloved Vex'ahlia, circa episode 59. Transferred over from tumblr by request!
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10 Mar 2022
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😭MY HEART AND SOUL, MY LIFE FOR THIS DARLING BEAR 💙🤍🤎
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Grief in general is a difficult thing for Fjord to wrap his head around. He hasn’t truly grieved a terrible loss before; never had anything he couldn’t bear losing before. Now—he can’t imagine losing Caduceus. Can hardly imagine a day without him. “Do you think it gets easier?”
“Oh,” Caduceus says, “Everything gets easier, I think.”
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After everything, Caduceus and Fjord find a little house on a cliff by the sea, and a life follows.
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02 Mar 2022
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Beautiful, haunting, terrifyingly atmospheric in the most peaceful of ways (for the most part at least) and too fucking real. Absolutely beautiful. I should read this again.
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Essek’s eyes flash in recognition. “Caleb, no!”
But it is too late. The platinum cord vanishes in a flash of grey light. The two wizards are bathed in it’s glow long after the binding has disappeared. The thrum of connection hums between them. Two souls vibrating at the same frequency. Together. Essek’s mouth is open in stunned silence and Caleb squeezes his hand. “If you go I go.”
Inspired by the Tethered Essence spell from Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount because it’s SUPER extra.
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22 Feb 2022
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how dare. how actually extremely dare.
this is real good and broke my heart repeatedly. -
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"Well someone's going to have to marry Yeza!" - Veth Brenatto, CR C2EP131
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After Veth's death, Yeza finds himself picking up the pieces of his life, helped by a dear family friend, Caleb Widogast.
Aka, a grief stricken Caleb takes care of his dear friend's family after her death.
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21 Feb 2022
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cried and sighed and loved it so much. SO sweet, a tender and heartfelt exploration of love and family after grief.
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19 Feb 2022
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This… hurts… so much… and it’s so beautiful.
Some of the most haunting and exquisite fic I’ve ever read. With a bonus dose of The Fey Are Deeply Weird.
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Looking down at Fearne with her clear-eyed stare, her grandmother asks, “You like him?”
“I do. May I have him?”
“So it shall be."
Orym is brought to the courts of the fey to fulfill a bargain his father made.
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Bookmarked by Bardly_Working
15 Feb 2022
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Best👏AU👏Ever👏
The sheer fey WEIRDNESS of it. I adoryme this.
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“Oh, ah. Hallo.”
Essek startles so badly he drops his levitation. He whips around, a hand thrown reflexively out to defend himself, a spell ready on his lips. He has to blink. And blink again. But no, he is not imagining this. Here is Caleb Widogast in the flesh, standing in Jester and Fjord's sitting room.
“Hello,” Essek manages, his throat very dry.
[Or: Four times Dynasty fugitive Essek Thelyss sought refuge with Jester Lavorre, and one time he found Caleb Widogast instead.]
Bookmarked by Bardly_Working
09 Feb 2022
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Heartbreaking and beautiful. A+ Jester characterization.