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“Beau.” A laugh burbles from Jester’s throat. “Beauuuu. I know you’re trying to tell me you had a crush on me. I’m trying to tell you I had a crush on you, too.”
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or: Beau and Jester's waltz becomes a confessional
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Jester has waltzed through life assuming it’s like living out a story.
Now she stands before a real beast, more ancient than she can comprehend, and she knows real life is different. She’s known for a while, whether or not she’s wanted to admit it. Adventure is gruesome and terrifying and sad. These are not things she’d ever imagined nor things she’d planned for.
Nothing has felt less like a story than the moment Jester sees Beau dangling limp from the mouth of the dragon.
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or: The Nein's encounter with the white dragon ends in a fatality, and the resulting ritual
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it's my soul (it isn't yours anymore) by onceuponawar
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
26 Jul 2019
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Fjord began this day in the comforting heat of Nicodranis, on the coast, so close to home. He ends it here: across the continent, standing atop the snowy Kavaarad, before the Kiln of the Allhammer, with his own sword buried in his chest.
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or: how it feels to finally be free, and what comes after
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how I wish our last time wasn't really our last by onceuponawar
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
23 Jul 2019
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The second day dawns. Beau’s neck hurts from the way she slept against the window of the carriage.
Yasha is gone. Again.
It’s not like she expected much less. But maybe she hoped, just the slightest bit, that they could all scream and mourn together and forgo the storm chasing, if even for a day.
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(The Mighty Nein’s breaking and binding in the wake of Mollymauk Tealeaf, and their reflections on the road back to Zadash)
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Jester’s voice ricochets through his head, careening straight through the lingering traces of the charm spell’s haze. It’s an octave higher than normal, he notes absentmindedly. She’s scared; she’s angry.
Why shouldn’t she be? He’d almost killed her. He’d almost killed them all.
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or: Caleb in the aftermath of the succubus's charm, and a confession he makes to Jester.
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Allura invites the Mighty Nein to attend a Winter's Crest celebration in Tal'Dorei as a thank-you for their help in rescuing Yussa. Beau's never been to another continent, much less a place like Whitestone, but she's determined to have a bad time, just on principle.
She doesn't succeed.
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02 Oct 2025
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He could tell her that her prefrontal cortex was the revelation to the thief on the cross.
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18 Apr 2025
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Samantha, to Scully, is a collection of feelings.
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08 Apr 2021
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There are times she thinks that she could love him.
(Or: Chocolate and a Supermarket Scene.)
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25 Oct 2020
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A dance for two in the key of highways. Seven parts.
(Content warning for suicidal ideation, mental illness issues, and the aftermath of a death.)