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What Lets the Light Pass Through by rosemaryandtime
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Jackson Movies)
25 May 2025
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“You are being very kind to me,” he said, subdued.
“Far kinder than you deserve, I daresay,” said Gandalf. “There's nothing like a Took for making trouble, but you have outdone all your family tree, my lad.”
Pippin did not answer. At another time he would have risen to the barb, offered up the wide-eyed wounded innocence that had gotten him out of many a scrape, perhaps even found a way to slyly imply Gandalf’s culpability instead of his own – but he was sick and frightened, and something still hurt somewhere deep, something he did not want to think about.
Pippin reckons with what Sauron left of him.
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02 Jan 2026
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On the Nature of Fire by rosemaryandtime
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Jackson Movies)
09 Mar 2025
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“Gandalf is going to turn me into a weasel,” Pippin told Boromir. “I shall need a pocket to ride in. May I borrow yours?”
Boromir blinked. “Oh,” he said. “Ohh. Yes, certainly, so long as you are a weasel-sized weasel and not a hobbit-sized weasel.”
Pippin turned to Gandalf, caught by this new idea. “Can you make me into a hobbit-sized weasel?”
“For mercy's sake,” said Gandalf.
In which Pippin has approximately sixty uninterrupted leagues to find out everything that can be found out from Gandalf and gets approximately sixty times more than he bargained for.
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29 Dec 2025
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between friends by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
21 Dec 2025
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Caleb stares at Mollymauk.
Had he… said any of that aloud?
Or was Molly smart enough to know to check for those things?
"I'm incredibly intelligent," Molly winks. "Honestly, it wounds me you would doubt that."
Jester snorts despite her obvious worry.
Caleb blinks, unsure whether to laugh or cry or simply exhale the breath trapped in his chest.The avalanche doesn’t kill them.
The cold nearly does.
Separated from the rest of the Mighty Nein and forced into shelter by a relentless storm, Caleb finds himself trapped in close quarters with Molly and Jester - and confronted with the unfamiliar weight of being cared for when he can’t care for himself.
A hurt/comfort fic about being held through the cold, and what it means when someone chooses not to let go.
Fluffcember 2025 Prompt Fill | Day Twenty | Avalanche
Fluffcember 2025 Prompt Fill | Day Seventeen | Cabin FeverBookmarked by Thealienarchivist
22 Dec 2025
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In Exandria, the dead don't stop. They continue in the outer planes, in whatever afterlife they've earned. And from the outer planes, they can watch the living.
Una Ermendrud watches her son. She tries to understand.
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16 Dec 2025
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Beau and Caleb understand each other better in code than they ever do speaking plainly.
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15 Dec 2025
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but we're so much more than that old, bitter law by grayintogreen
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
05 Aug 2021
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“What the fuck happened, Caleb?” She wasted no time. He didn’t expect her to. Expositor Beauregard, the patient defendant of the weak and oppressed, could only be expected to hold her anger and desire to punch and kick and scream back for so long before she exploded, and right now Beau was on the cusp of an explosion so phenomenal, Veth would be happy to call it a Fluffernutter.
He doubted, since there were medical professionals around who could keep his chest cavity from caving in from the force of a Beauregard-brand love tap (threat), that she would hold back if he dallied around the point.
He took a breath, which pained him immeasurably.
And then he explained.
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13 Dec 2025
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His palm is covered in ash.
It all drifts away slowly, floating on the slight breeze. He tries to watch it, but it disappears from his sight, his hands left bare and clean like nothing happened.
(what are you waiting for?)
(Or: Caleb has a moment, and then he and Beau Talk.)Bookmarked by Thealienarchivist
13 Dec 2025
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Caleb remembered the days when charismatic was a word which could be used to describe him. He could charm with a smile or a few words, could get anything he wanted because he looked at someone the right way.
Now some days, he couldn't even speak.
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13 Dec 2025
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Bren was there, did you see him?
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Or, the manticore.
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12 Dec 2025
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beneath a green sky thick with thunder and warning by Ford_Ye_Fiji
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
28 Jun 2020
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Before Caleb Widogast and after Bren, there is a man in the middle.
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12 Dec 2025
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It's been awhile since Caleb has had a large disassociative episode, and unsurprisingly, it's still not easy to deal with. The Mighty Nein have had experience bringing him back to the present, but there's still no cure all for a wounded mind.
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Everyone looked to the wizard, concern graven in each face differently. Jester clearly felt guilt, surely thinking if only about some spell or another being available to her. Nott reached for her flask before remembering she'd given it to Jester for safekeeping while she worked on her alcoholism. Fjord had a dark look on his face as he took in their situation, ever pragmatic. Caduceus seemed calculating in a way that wasn't typical of him. Beau reflected he hadn't seen this as much as the rest of them. Caleb had been getting better.
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- Part 6 of Fireside Chats
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12 Dec 2025
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Anything You Can Do (I Can Sorta Do, Too) by Schistosity
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Dec 2019
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Team Human Week - Day 1 - Similarities.
Beau discovers another odd thing she and Caleb have in common.
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12 Dec 2025
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Beau shudders and holds Caleb's hand, which he squeezes back tentatively. She can feel how it shakes in her grip. She does her best to steady him, despite the fact that she wants to shake apart herself and completely fall to pieces.
“I am going to hazard a guess here,” Caleb says softly, “that we may have been drugged.”
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Tonight was supposed to be a fun night off. Unfortunately for Beau and Caleb, the universe has other plans.
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12 Dec 2025
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They take Caleb out of the cell again. Beau swears and spits and tries to punch one of them, while Caleb gives her this Look - one that says stop making yourself a target as clear as if he’d used a spell to whisper it in her ear - and doesn’t resist.
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12 Dec 2025
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Caleb's eyes flew open, unfocused and wide. He didn’t see her. Not really.
"Bitte, Vater - nein… Ich kann das nicht -"
“Caleb.” Beau’s voice was sharp, low. She glanced toward the others - still asleep, gods willing. “You’re not there. You’re with us.”
He shook his head, still locked in the memory, eyes darting. “The fire - das Feuer - I didn’t - bitte, nicht - please, don’t make me -”
She gripped his shoulders, firm but steady. “Listen to me. You’re safe. You’re not in Rexxentrum. You’re in a freezing-ass cave with the dumbest group of powerful idiots in Wildemount, and no one’s going to hurt you.”OR
When Caleb falls ill on a perilous journey through the mountains, Beauregard and the others take care of him. But Caleb’s battle isn’t just against his sickness - it’s against the trauma that haunts him. In the midst of his struggle, Beau is forced to confront how far Caleb has yet to come in trusting his friends - and how much further she’s willing to go to make sure he does.
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12 Dec 2025
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the dream within a dream (aka: the truth doesn't set you free, it just hurts) by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
11 Dec 2025
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**MAJOR SPOILERS FOR 1x05 AND CALEB'S BACKSTORY (do not read below)**
the dream within a dream (aka: once upon a time, i murdered my parents) - but I couldn't call it that without spoilers, obviously.
“Let me tell you a story.”
Caleb never meant to tell the Mighty Nein the truth - not this soon, not like this, and probably not at all. But with his amulet shattered and the past closing in, silence is no longer protection.
In the clear, unforgiving morning light of a different farmhouse, he unravels the story of Bren Aldric Ermendrud: the dream he lived, the fire he cast, and the truth that broke him open.
What the Nein do with that truth will change everything.
This is the missing scene of how Caleb tells them his truth - and how they react to it.
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12 Dec 2025
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carry you home by LittleMissBookWitch
Fandoms: The Mighty Nein (Cartoon), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
11 Dec 2025
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set between the clearing scene and Caleb waking up in ep 5 of the Mighty Nein Animated. Beau is an asshole, but she’s not enough of an asshole to just leave him there. Basically just Empire Siblings feels that seized me during this episode and wouldn’t leave until I wrote them down 😊
Spoilers for ep 5 of The Mighty Nein Animated.
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12 Dec 2025
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Painted Across Your Skin by LessAttitudeMoreAltitude
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
02 May 2023
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In recovering from a bloody encounter, Essek gets a glimmer of Caleb's past
Whumpril prompt: "Who did this to you?"
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- Part 8 of Aeor is for Lovers: Prompt Fills
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12 Dec 2025
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Do Not Doubt Your Better Self by LessAttitudeMoreAltitude
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 May 2023
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Caleb has a nightmare. And for once, he willingly seeks out comfort from another.
Whumpril Prompt: Gaslighting
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- Part 9 of Aeor is for Lovers: Prompt Fills
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12 Dec 2025
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In the Eye of the Firestorm by LessAttitudeMoreAltitude
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
11 Dec 2025
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In the aftermath of Owelia's death, Beauregard helps carry Caleb back to the house. And Nott rewraps his arm.
They both have some private thoughts about Caleb
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11 Dec 2025