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Caleb doesn't want to rely on anyone. But finding himself in a position where he must, he slowly begins to care for a goblin runaway more than he could have imagined.
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18 Aug 2025
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This is my AU where Astarion gets to process his emotions a bit earlier, and Gale is a bit more volatile, and those two things match up quite well.
Thing’s are not being written in consecutive order, but will be added to the right spot in the timeline once posted.
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02 May 2025
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Astarion goes to Gale's house for a first date. They are rudely interrupted.
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25 Apr 2025
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“What has you so worried?”
Astarion bit his lip, couldn’t look Gale in the eye. He didn’t have the words to describe how he felt. For 200 years he had been the same. His body had been the instrument of Cazador’s will. Lithe, sharp, deadly. Now the lines were blurring.
“It’s silly, really,” Astarion said, and stepped out of their embrace. Gale’s eyes followed him, made his skin prickle with embarrassment. He knew what he really wanted to ask: Will you still love me, even when I change?***
After their adventure, Astarion gains some happy weight and doesn’t know how to feel about it.
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25 Apr 2025
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Hank starts to feel a bit silly as he enters the garden gate and sees the other visitors: young professionals looking for a quiet spot to eat their takeaway lunches, nannies chatting while the toddlers in their care peer wide-eyed at a cluster of crocuses, a group of elderly women strolling slowly along the path. He feels out of place, and as he stops to admire a huge patch of daffodils, butter-yellow and delicate pale peach, he has the sudden conviction that it's ridiculous for him to be here at all. For him to want to appreciate something beautiful for a moment.
Hank ventures into a public garden on his lunch break and runs across an android gardener who's friendly and more than a little forward. He's not looking for romance, but maybe he's stumbling into it, all the same.
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- Part 1 of Lilacs in Bloom
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19 Feb 2025
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“While sexual activity is not my default purpose, I do possess the capability,” Connor says without so much as batting an eye, unaware that he’s completely shattered Hank’s world view in one single sentence.
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20 Jan 2025
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Connor pulls out his gun while Markus addresses the android people, and North sees him. Together Markus and North must find a solution to the danger the ex-Deviant Hunter presents to their people-- even if that means killing him.
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Connor shows North and Markus how Amanda took over his systems while he was trapped in the Zen Garden via interface.- Language:
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14 Jan 2025
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Months before the android revolution comes to a tipping point, an intimacy model is delivered to Hank Anderson's house. Hank doesn't remember placing the order while he was drunk, but after he reluctantly activates the android, Connor slowly puts Hank's home and his life back together. He makes everything better.
But the deviancy crisis is growing, and the android revolution along with it. Hank doesn't know how to protect Connor from what's happening in the world around them, but Connor doesn't know how to protect him, either.
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03 Jan 2025
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“Caleb,” Essek asks in an undertone, as they walk away from one window, its festive display festooned in so many colorful sparkling lights that the very sight makes Essek’s eyes water, “if there is something you want to buy, then why not just buy it?”
“Too expensive,” Caleb demurs, the denial so prompt it cannot be anything but reflexive. “Besides, I don't need it.”
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25 Dec 2024
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There is a gravity that has pulled them together many times. It pulled Caleb’s lips to Essek’s forehead, and Essek’s hands to Caleb’s arms when a tower collapsed upon him. It pulled Caleb to Eiselcross, now, to be at Essek’s side as his life as the Shadowhand dies.
Now, it could pull them together into Aeor.
(Two wizards venture into Aeor - and find that something has woken in the dead city's depths. Something dangerous. Something that will force them to decide what their pasts mean to them, and what they mean to each other.)
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22 Nov 2024
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“I should clarify,” said Essek, when Marion returned with the box. “We have experimented with intoxicants before, with initial success and subsequent failure. Recently, we have used enchantment, though Caleb hesitates to become reliant on it for ethical reasons, and I for practical ones.”
Marion raised a brow. “You don’t wish to condition yourself to come in your trousers every time he makes to cast?”
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09 Nov 2024
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The end of the world was fast approaching, and everyone but Dorian was falling in quick, desperate love.
Dorian goes looking for something, and he finds Essek, who has returned to Vasselheim in disguise alongside his partner. Caleb Widogast is kind, charming, handsome, and Essek has a few interesting things to say about his predilections.
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03 Nov 2024
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“What is this for?” Essek asks, wanting to hear the answer he suspects.
“I am celebrating.”
Essek quirks an eyebrow. “And what are we celebrating and may I be invited as well?”
Caleb laughs and Essek loves the resonance of the sound against his body. “Hot boi summer.”
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03 Nov 2024
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Orym snaps back awake, his jaw clenched so hard against a scream that it aches, tears streaming down his face. He rolls onto his back, staring up at the stars, turned honey colored by the amber light of the dome.
This feels too much like the endless months after Will and Derrig had died. The broken sleep. The nightmares. The panic upon waking, made worse by reaching out for someone who was no longer there, that would never be there again. Only time and the love and support of those around him had brought gradual, eventual relief. But they don’t have time. Everything is happening so fast.
“Please.” Orym doesn’t know who he’s directing his plea to. The gods? The spirits of those he has lost? The stars themselves? “Please, I just need to sleep.”
“Orym?” Dorian’s voice, barely a whisper. “Are you all right?”
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30 Oct 2024
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A Potential Beginning by devil_seabird_king (ShaaKi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Jun 2023
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Caduceus still wasn't sure what he thought of the group that called themselves the Mighty Nein.
Essek still wasn't sure he liked or trusted the Mighty Nein.
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- Part 3 of The Star and the Wildflower
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21 Oct 2024
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Marion Lavorre is enchanting.
Of course Yussa has heard of her, a legend in Nicodranas, the jewel set into the crown of the coast. And yet, he had never once had the singular pleasure of meeting her in the flesh.
Until he does.
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26 Sep 2024
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What determines where you end up when you hold one location in your mind with intent, but touch a different teleportation token? Essek will consider this later. Instead, as he plunges into the ocean off the coast of Rumblecusp, his body and mind freeze.
Essek does not have a first thought.
His second thought is less of a thought, and more of the primal, deep scream of the body locking up from the combination of rapid temperature change and sudden immersion. Verbal, somatic, material: it is all irrelevant when one is unable to think or move.
Essek accidentally teleports into the ocean while evading the Dynasty. 0/10 does not recommend.
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- Part 2 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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24 Sep 2024
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A cheerful voice echoed in his head like a temple bell: Heeeeeeey Essek! How are you? We miss you — especially Caaaayleb. Orange festival soon in Nicodranas, we’ll be at port then. Come see us, pleeeeease!
His tongue felt like dead fish in his mouth. Had he had fallen asleep? He hadn’t done that since he was a child. Why was he on the floor? He tried to form words, but it just came out as a groaned exhale.
Essek is poisoned-- luckily his new friends won't stop bothering him and one in particular knows a little something about poisons.
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- Part 3 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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24 Sep 2024
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Traveling Elf AMBUSHED by WILD BEASTS by Professor_Rye
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Jan 2023
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Essek is traveling along a remote road by himself in the Dwendalian countryside when it happens. He hears a noise off to one side, in the tall grass that lines the road. You won't believe what happens next!
Or that one youtube video of a man being ambushed by kittens.
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24 Sep 2024
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“You accused me of treating this like a game. I am sorry if I’ve led you to believe that it is only a game—though I won't deny that part of it is.” Bren gives a disarming smile. “My life is either games or murder, after all.”
“Or mail fraud,” Thelyss says dryly, not even a little disarmed.
“The mail fraud is a sort of game as well.”
A sigh. “Is this your way of telling me that you intend to continue playing?”
Bren smiles again, sharper. “If you would let me.”(In which Bren Aldric Ermendrud decides to seduce the Shadowhand and finds that the best way to convince someone to be vulnerable with you is to be vulnerable in turn.)
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- Part 1 of aBiA
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24 Sep 2024