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1. with its wings pinned by goldenthunderstorms

   Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)  

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

   19 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast
   • Trent Ikithon & Caleb Widogast
   • Trent Ikithon & Bren Aldric Ermendrud
   • Essek Thelyss
   • Caleb Widogast
   • Bren Aldric Ermendrud
   • Light BDSM
   • Light Bondage
   • No Smut
   • Mild Hurt/Comfort
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Flashbacks
   • Verbal Shutdown
   • Caleb Widogast Needs a Hug
   • Caleb Widogast's Backstory
   • Self-Loathing Caleb Widogast
   • Caleb Widogast Has a Dissociative Disorder
   • implied dissociative disorder
   • Character Study
   • Sort Of
   • Established Relationship
   • Vergesson Sanatorium (Critical Role)
   • Light Dom/sub
   • Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort

   Summary

   When Essek first pitched this, Caleb was not opposed. The idea of being bound did not arouse him the same way that binding Essek does, but it wasn't abhorrent to him. He was willing to try. He could tell, despite Essek's carefully neutral tone as he asked, that the idea appealed to him very much. Caleb wanted—always wants—to make Essek happy. So, even as Essek assured him that he would not be upset if Caleb refused, Caleb agreed.

   Now, Essek sits perched at the end of their bed, grinning wickedly as he unwinds a length of glistening silver silk rope

   "Excited?" Caleb teases, raising an eyebrow.

   Essek bites his bottom lip, which does nothing to stifle his smile. "Perhaps. Are you?"

   "I am intrigued, certainly," Caleb says. "It will be a learning experience one way or another."

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   Essek wants to try tying Caleb up for a change. It dredges up unwelcome memories for Caleb in ways neither of them expected.

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