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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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06 Oct 2025
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When a house is both hungry and awake, every room becomes a mouth.
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Nobody was okay after Cognouza. This has consequences for the Nein-Sided tower.
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03 Oct 2025
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The T-Dock, 10 Minutes Later by WretchedArtifact for mixtapestar
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Aug 2022
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After Caleb destroys the Aeorian technology that would allow him to manipulate time, he and Essek retreat into the dome and face the magnitude of what they've done.
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03 Oct 2025
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The first letter Essek receives from Caleb Widogast is secreted into his pocket at some point during a tense interview with the Bright Queen. For the life of him, Essek cannot figure out how it was done. He doesn’t recall so much as brushing against the other man as he escorted the Mighty Nein out of the Lucid Bastion.
Yet when he returns to his office, there it is, tucked into a nearly invisible pocket in his mantle — a piece of subpar parchment folded to vaguely resemble a cat’s face with tiny pointed ears.
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10 Aug 2025
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the breath before the phrase by KmacKatie (kmackatie)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Sep 2022
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The ringing note of a concert A is played by the oboe, echoing on its own in the space. It’s picked up by the wind section, followed rapidly by the brass, and the familiar feeling of an orchestra calibrating takes over Caleb. The tonal adjustments as each person brings their instrument into alignment sinks into him and something inside Caleb shifts in recognition as Essek leads the strings into their own tuning.
It’s like something is waking up, like something unfurling and firing across long-unused paths of memory. His hands shake slightly, as he raises his bow and joins them, fingers fumbling against the pegs and fine tuners that give him control over his instrument.
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Essek Thelyss is a leading violinist, his spot as Shadowhand of the Rosohna Philharmonic Orchestra has been uncontested for over a decade. Caleb Widogast is a recent arrival to the city, convinced by his friends to audition for one of the vacant violinist positions.
After starting off on the wrong foot, Caleb and Essek get to slowly know each other, discover what brings them joy, create while defying expectations, and find out that what they can produce together may just be better than anything they can do separately.
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07 Aug 2025
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wishing for rain as I stand in the desert by SweetSilentSteps for wanderingmindpalacetales
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Jul 2022
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After a fight with some bandits in Tal'dorei turns sour, Essek runs to the safety of Caleb's Rexxentrum home.
He then has to deal with the reasons surrounding why that was the first place he turned to.
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06 Aug 2025
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What happens when you're on the run and cornered and out of spells with your narrative foil? You try to blend into the environment in the least inconspicuous way possible, and also maybe fulfill one last wish...
A kissing as distraction fic.
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17 Jun 2023
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“I am pretty fucked, Essek.”
He doesn’t intend to let the spell go, but it unravels along with his concentration as the pain becomes overwhelming. Wincing, he lets his arm fall back to the ground. He’s been trained to take this. Nothing ambitious for a moment. Just breathe.
Prompt: Caleb and Essek are separated in Aeor and Caleb gets blinded.
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04 Jun 2023
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It has been two months, three weeks, four days, and nine hours since he saw him last. Sending helps, but it doesn’t quite do him justice.
Twenty-five words parcelled out in moments. In energy saved just in case. In beats and fragments that just left him wanting more.
It pales to the vision of Essek whole, though he is still unsure if he is hale.
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A coming together and an exploration of what makes a house a home, told in twenty-four parts.
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11 Feb 2023
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After they explore Aeor together, Caleb asks Essek to move in. It takes Essek ... A while to figure out exactly what he means.
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24 Sep 2022
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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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09 Apr 2022
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It is late on the Lucidian Ocean and Caleb's mind is restless. There is so much that needs to be done, so many plans to make, he doesn't have time to dwell on anything else, least of all his feelings.
Of course this is when Essek chooses to visit.
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written in the stars that we are swimming in by LadyOrpheus for Cers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Aug 2021
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Caleb delves deeper in the beacon than he planned and finds something unexplainable and familiar all at once.
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11 Sep 2021
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Essek's a secluded wizard occupying a lonely tower in Rosohna until he stumbles across a runaway mage from the Empire seeking sanctuary. Legends say he sold his heart to a demon for power, but Caleb wants to free him from his pact. (Howl's Moving Castle AU)
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06 Sep 2021
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*I’m just saying you should either kiss him or come get some healing potions so neither of you dies before you get your happy ending—*
Caleb inhaled sharply. For all her hamster unicorns and bright colors and dick jokes, Jester had a knack for slicing painfully at truths his logic worked hard to shield him from.
“I… appreciate the encouragement. Maybe someday, if Essek is of a mood to, we will be together for a while. But a happy ending? Impossible.”
The day after destroying the T-dock chamber, Essek overhears Caleb’s predictions about their future and has Things To Say about that.
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06 Sep 2021
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Caleb has a habit of slipping back into Zemnian when his guard is down.
Or: Five times Essek didn’t understand, and one time he absolutely did, the little shit.
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15 Aug 2021
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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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24 Jul 2021
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The Nonagon is no more.
It's time for the Mighty Nein to return home, but not before the two nerdy wizards get a minute to themselves...Bookmarked by Kalieryn
24 Jul 2021
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After a victory in the Astral Sea, the Mighty Nein finally get a long rest at the Xhorhaus. Due to the danger of scourgers Essek stays with the party. He and Caleb finally figure some things out.
All explicit content is in chapter 2 for the reader's convenience.
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21 Jul 2021
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When Bren Aldric Eremendrud was a boy, whenever he felt small or lonely, he’d look up at the stars, wondering if there was life up there. Turns out, he was looking in the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world it was from the deep beneath the Lucidian Ocean, a fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between the dimensions, a breach.
To fight the Kaiju wreaking havoc on the world, mankind created monsters of their own. The Jaeger Program was implemented. Jaeger. Zemnian for hunter. Monsters designed to put these otherworldly abominations back in their place.
One pilot couldn’t handle the neural load to pilot the Jaegers alone, so a two pilot system was implemented, one on the left side, one on the right. The two pilots had to link their minds to work in perfect synchronous harmony to ensure that the mechs could run properly. With technology being advanced from cooperation and a worldwide ceasefire to stop this problem, the Pan Lucidian Defense Corps was born.
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12 Jul 2021