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somewhere between threat and mercy by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
19 Dec 2025
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**MAJOR SPOILERS FOR 1X06!! DO NOT READ BELOW!!**
“Do you have any idea,” Essek demands, voice breaking at last, “what it is like to murder your own mother?”
For a heartbeat, Caleb does not move.
Then he nods.
“Yes,” he says. “I do.”A re-imagining of the confrontation from episode 97 from the original campaign, with this new alternate Essek backstory from the animated series, told from Essek's POV. Mostly Caleb and Essek focused, with some canon Jester and Caduceus dialogue.
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21 Dec 2025
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If he could scrub it off, he would.
It takes a while for the name to turn up at all, as it often does when one or both souls are not consecuted. That alone is enough to disappoint his parents - even more so when it becomes apparent that he is not a returning soul. By ten, Essek has begun to wonder if he will never have a name at all. By thirty, watching all his peers struck with new distractions, he has begun to hope he won't.
It lasts until he’s nearly ninety. Essek has been convinced for decades that he’s managed to escape the matter altogether; perhaps, he had thought, the lack of interest he has always felt in that direction has spared him from the entire ordeal. But there it is, one morning, engraved across his chest as though it has been there since birth.
Bren.
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04 Aug 2025
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I shine only with the light you gave me by SkyScribbles
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Jul 2020
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There are certain things that an Umavi's son should not do, if he wishes to avoid his mother's rage and the disgust of his Den.
Dancing with a human is most certainly among them.
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04 Aug 2025
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it's strange what desire will make foolish people do by GammaRey
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Apr 2021
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For some reason, there was something more intimate about sitting upright and half-naked in front of Caleb Widogast. He felt his shoulders rise up toward his ears, fighting the instinct to cover himself. Evidently, the other wizard noticed and his hands went to touch Essek's shoulders lightly, burning like a brand.
“It’s alright,” he said, whispered, so softly. Essek wanted to cry, but he nodded.
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- Part 1 of Essek Week 2021
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06 Jul 2025
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“I care for you, Caleb,” Essek says suddenly, as Caleb walks towards the door to the rest of the outpost. “I expect nothing from it, but, ah. We are heading into peril tomorrow, and...honesty is a new habit.”
There’s a bitter edge of amusement beneath his words.
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A conversation after the Nein return to Eiselcross, the day before the expedition. Feelings are hard for the unlovable.
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31 May 2025