13 Bookmarks by sussussurus
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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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10 May 2022
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OPERATION: HOT BOI LIBERATION (or: How I Spent My Spring Break in Rexxentrum, by Verin of Den Thelyss) by CatgirlTheCrazy
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Apr 2022
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The more Verin dug into it, the more convinced he became. Essek had spent an inordinate amount of time with the Mighty Nein when they came to Rosohna. Done all sorts of strange favors for them. Ferried them all over Wildemount. Arranged visits with prisoners in the Dungeon of Penance. Let them dig up his yard. Descended into Aeor with them, unaccompanied. Accepted invitations to dinner. Let one of them hug him. In public. More than once.
Mind control. It had to be.
Verin gets it into his head that Essek has been kidnapped by the Mighty Nein (specifically Caleb), and sets out on a solo rescue mission to Rexxentrum.
Hijinks ensue.
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17 Apr 2022
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“Do you ever want the things you know you don't deserve?”
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13 Apr 2022
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The first time Caleb woke up on the 13th of Fessuran, it was with a dreadful sense of finality.
The second time Caleb woke up on the 13th of Fessuran, it was with a crushing sense of grief.
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13 Apr 2022
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Reaction fic to Episodes 48 & 49, set during the gang's long rest at the inn in Felderwin, after the big backstory-revelation talks are done in the first half of 49. Caleb and Nott talk about where they're at with each other and hug it out.
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- Part 3 of Mighty Nein Episode Reactions
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04 Apr 2022
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"because they won't just hurt me, or hurt you, they will make me hurt you in order to hurt me, and I will not survive that. Because you are my best friend, and I like you more than I like anyone."
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i cannot shake the taste of blood in my mouth by Princex_N
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
13 Aug 2021
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He should be better than this, so that others do not, cannot, continue to do this to him.
You are more than this, something inside him whispers, but is he? Decades an object, an animal, a tool, a weapon. What is he worth now? Truly?
Even furniture is granted more dignity than this.
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25 Mar 2022
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i have been praying to the god of giving up by Princex_N
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
13 Oct 2021
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Caleb tries not to taste bitterness on his tongue as he leads Nott back to their room. Tries not to imagine how this dance might have gone if he was the one to lash out so publicly. They already think him untrustworthy, a risk, not even worth the effort to be spoken to face-to-face about these doubts, already labeled a problem in one way or another.
No, they would not miss him at all.
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25 Mar 2022
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Nott takes another try at comforting Caleb, after the things he told her and Beau in "Whispers of War"--but Caleb isn't the only one to find some reassurance in that conversation.
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- Part 1 of Mighty Nein Episode Reactions
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25 Mar 2022
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I wanted to edge Caleb so I made Essek do it.
Half written before C2E122 and half written after. Not canon compliant.
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28 Feb 2022
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He kisses Essek’s jaw, then the soft spot just shy of his ear. Essek hums and tips his head to guide his lips.
“I can tell you do not want to talk about it,” Caleb mumbles. He kisses the torn lobe of Essek’s ear where Jester has healed it closed; he’ll need to pierce it again sometime if he wants to replace the earring. Caleb thinks this, and moves to kiss his neck again. “But I am going to find it hard to sleep if I don't feel you next to me tonight.”In broad daylight, Essek is attacked. His friends do not know why or by whom until it is too late.
E rating in chapters 1, 5, and 11.
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28 Feb 2022
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Nott smothered a yawn behind her free hand, the other still loosely tangled in Frumpkin’s fur.
Several things clicked. The berries. The bacon. The staring, the dropped twigs, the quiet.
Nott wasn’t upset. She was tired.
Stupid that it had taken him so long to notice. (Some friend.)(or: Nott falls ill, and Caleb is useless.)
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23 Feb 2022
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The last intact copy of Avantika's journal exists in one place only -- the mind of Caleb Widogast. Those who would follow the Cloaked Serpent will do a lot to get it from him.
A lot.
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23 Feb 2022
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Brave was not a word that was used when describing Caleb. Brave in all its prestige and strong letters would never adorn Caleb’s shoulders.
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23 Feb 2022