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   reaching for stars, reaching for fire by lakrisrot (enheduane)

   Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   12 Aug 2022

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast
   • Caleb Widogast
   • Essek Thelyss
   • Jester Lavorre
   • Rosohna (Critical Role)
   • Pre-97
   • Pre-Relationship
   • hand trauma
   • broken fingers
   • I cannot in good conscience tag this with hand kink but Caleb is still very focused on Essek’s hands
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • the wizards are morally gray and that’s okay
   • Panic Attacks
   • Hand Feeding
   • the Temptation of Caleb

   Summary

   The strange object sits like a silver spider by his wrists, long jointed legs entangling his hands. It’s beautiful like finely wrought jewelry, but it wraps itself around Essek’s fingers and wrists in an undeniably threatening manner.

   Series

   • Part 1 of morally gray wizard love story

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   5,947

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   64

   Kudos:

   454

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   Bookmarked by moonwalkers

   04 Apr 2025

2. Public Bookmark 38

   tether essence by Laeveteinn

   Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   02 Dec 2024

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast
   • Essek Thelyss
   • Caleb Widogast
   • Trent Ikithon
   • Various Character(s)
   • Alternate Universe - Spies & Secret Agents
   • Mutual Pining
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Brazen Flirting
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Scourger | Volstrucker Caleb Widogast
   • Self-Destructive Behavior
   • Non-Consensual Voyeurism
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Invasions of Privacy
   • Additional Warnings In Author's Note
   • unsafe insane and consent has been subjected to the disintegrate spell
   • the 'unreliable narrator' tag is because essek fails most insight checks (even against himself)
   • you can tell this is an evil au from the prevalence of silvery barbs

   Summary

   Each time Essek returns to his towers, he searches them for new evidence of Dwendalian trespassing. He catalogues every rumpled cushion cover, every ink spot, every dunamantic text left slightly out of place.

   It is, he imagines, not unlike coming home to another person.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   16,327

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   49

   Kudos:

   142

   Bookmarks:

   38

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   Bookmarked by moonwalkers

   06 Mar 2025

3. Public Bookmark 71

   poisoning the well by saturdaysky

   Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   28 Dec 2021

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast
   • Essek Thelyss & Caleb Widogast
   • Trent Ikithon & Caleb Widogast
   • Caleb Widogast
   • Trent Ikithon
   • Essek Thelyss
   • Warning: Trent Ikithon
   • Self-Loathing Caleb Widogast
   • Emotional Manipulation
   • Character Study
   • of someone who learned to be manipulative and hasn't quite broken the habit
   • who may or may not perceive things accurately
   • POV Caleb Widogast
   • is a descriptive and relevant tag here
   • Sending Spell (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • attempted comfort

   Summary

   Ikithon’s voice presses softly into his head. I’m pleased you made use of him. You were always talented at bending others to your goals. Even far from home, you make me proud.

   —

   Old habits are hard to break, even if you have shed the skin that formed them.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,549

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   39

   Kudos:

   568

   Bookmarks:

   71

   Hits:

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   Bookmarked by moonwalkers

   29 Nov 2024