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After Lucien, after Trent, after everything, Caleb finds himself at home. In this house he bought, that his friends urged him to get. His house. Only that Caleb hasn't had a home since he burned it, and he hasn't been alone for about as much, and he finds that neither is good for him.
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Caleb buys a house in Rexxentrum and spirals into some existential crisis. Beau and Yasha are nearby and try to help. And then Essek visits and it gets worse.
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- Part 1 of Caleb's Home
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20 Dec 2022
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Something led them all down here - to these cold, dark caverns with some danger always lurking just out of sight. They don't know what and they don't know why. All Ashton does know is how quickly it went to shit and how bad they are at picking up the pieces.
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17 Dec 2022
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Those Secret Worlds You Call Eyes by SweetSilentSteps
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
14 Apr 2022
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Among the spoils from their discovery of the Aeorian library, Essek finds a romance novel that gives Caleb the inspiration he needs to (slowly) show Essek the depths of his affections.
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- Part 1 of And I'll use you as a focal point
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16 Dec 2022
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Of Safekeeping and Wizard Towers by ThreeGremlinsInATrenchcoat
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Mar 2021
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The tower gets thrown up.
Essek gets a room.
And Caleb does what he does best - Seek out a conversation before he heads to bed.
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16 Dec 2022
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Part of him knows that Orym is still there. They can feel him watching, feel his presence, knows he’s probably biding his time or something. It’s just a matter of time.
Sad thing is… Ashton doesn’t care. He might, in a little bit, once he gets his breath back, but… if Orym wants to do something in a way that isn’t overly smothering, Ashton might actually just welcome it.
Maybe part of him just wants that, something grumbles in his brain, and Ashton just… they don’t tell it to fuck off, because things are complicated with how they feel about Orym in general and he’s just too godsdamn tired.
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- Part 2 of falling (in love) is fucking WEIRD, man
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14 Dec 2022
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But after tracking their stolen halfling back to this fancy-pants mansion with sentries and dogs and a beast Ashton has never even seen before, they’re finding he wishes that the Hells weren’t absolute fuck-all at planning. They’re still standing, arguing, emotional, terrified since Orym had gotten snatched away from all of them. And Ashton is angry, especially, because he hadn’t been quick enough, hadn’t been perceptive enough, and these fucks had taken Orym out from right under their fucking noses.
Ashton is pissed.
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- Part 1 of falling (in love) is fucking WEIRD, man
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14 Dec 2022
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There are about three things Beau actually likes about living with her brother. The first is that he's relatively quiet, he almost never plays music out loud, unlike her roommate from last year, the second is his boyfriend, who is a fucking incredible cook compared to both Caleb and Beau, and the third is Jester Lavorre.
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university isn't easy, especially when your annoyingly smart brother tutors cute girlsBookmarked by vaguelyfunctioning
18 Nov 2022
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M9 college AU with BJ and Shadowfjast (abandoned)
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a hundred years still in my pocket by burningafterdark (burningdarkfire)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
25 Sep 2022
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"Ah, you'll have to be careful with me," Caleb laughs, bringing his arms up to loop around Fjord's neck. "I don't know how many I have in me."
"Plenty still," Fjord breathes, "to hear all of our friends talk of it."
During his last semester at Soltryce, Caleb receives a visitor in his office.
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25 Sep 2022
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The Unprecedented Implications of Practical Arcane Experimentation by Cobbiest
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Aug 2024
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A fine dusting of chalk and charcoal coated his hands and chest from countless attempts to correct his blasted diagrams, a layer of grime and dried sweat sitting heavily on his skin. He ran shaking fingers over the bead of force hidden amongst his earrings and the nightshade capsule sewn into his shirt collar. The elven chain shirt sandwiched between his outer and undershirt rattled softly as he moved.
Resigning himself to another restless night, he stared up at the deep maroon canopy overhead.Essek dreamt of the Nein.
AKA Essek tugs on the strings of fate a little too hard and gives both himself and the Nein a bit of perspective as a result.
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15 Jun 2022
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You Don't Have to Cast the Amber Light by InkDippedFeathers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 May 2024
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'"It’s not a bad job for a person who likes to think. Each day presents new challenges. Each client is a new puzzle to solve," said Caleb
“Do you intend to solve me?”
The man fixed him with a look of such sharp intelligence that Essek was skewered by it.
“I’d like to.”
Essek felt his cheeks darken and his breath catch. He had come into this with no expectations of anything beyond putting up with things until he could make his excuses and then never letting Verin talk him into anything ever again. Now though, he had to know. This man was a fascinating enigma, his own little puzzle.
“Show me.”'
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16 May 2022
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latent echoes by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 May 2022
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He watched a resonant echo split from itself, the two walking diverging paths. Where the one ended, Caleb already saw. The thread unfolded before it—a short path with an abrupt end—glimmering like starlight, like the end of a noose.
He drew air into his lungs, held it until he couldn’t stop the words from tumbling forth. “At least one of these versions of myself killed Trent Ikithon in the Blooming Grove,” he breathed shakily, the relief not in finally voicing that unutterable truth, but in how easily it came. Here. With Essek.
“Do you think he regretted it, that variant?” Essek asked, just as quietly, in that precious little space between their lips where neither kings nor gods were privy to their words.
“I don’t know…” Then, because it did not settle easy, lying to Essek, Caleb cleared his throat. “I cannot imagine that he did.”
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The trial of Trent Ikithon is underway. Caleb thought this was what he wanted. He’d agreed. He was sure. Until he wasn’t.
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13 May 2022
Bookmarker's Notes
Honestly one of the best fics I've ever read.
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05 May 2022
Bookmarker's Notes
Lots of sad Caleb and him actually being loved and taken care of. :')
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Here is the one I love, the actress declared, turning away so quickly he thought she might smudge the stone painted on her partner’s face. Here is the one I love; and I, living, ache.
The statue didn’t move at all, quiet-faced and still, while the sculptor wept.
It’s the first thing he thinks of when he finds Caleb in the garden.Bookmarked by vaguelyfunctioning
29 Apr 2022
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"You just gotta – Nah, I'm not gonna say it." Beau raises her eyebrows, grinning, prompting the rest of the words to tumble from Fjord's lips unbidden. "Relax the throat."
There's a glint of humor in Caleb's eye as he responds, "Advice gained from years of experience on the sea?"
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20 Apr 2022
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Orym goes home for the first time in six years, and he learns that there are things he doesn't have to carry by himself.
Or: Orym tells Dorian and Fearne about Will
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31 Mar 2022
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“Widogast, we practically live in each other’s pockets. I was only gone for the day to run errands with Yasha. You could not have possibly missed me that much.”
A wave of uncertainty sweeps through Caleb. Essek… lives here?
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18 Mar 2022
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the walls kept tumbling down by quanshi (burningdarkfire)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
06 Jun 2021
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After a hard day, Caleb spontaneously visits Essek.
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16 Mar 2022