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Essek was never having a good day, and from the appearance of the Mighty Nein onward it just keeps getting worse.
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01 Jul 2026
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Refracted Potential by Architectural_Antibodies
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
06 Jul 2026
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Despite what the Dynasty, the Empire, and his own family might believe, former Shadowhand Essek Thelyss does love. He loves his mother, despite their disagreements, his brother, despite their distance, and he loves the Mighty Nein despite all that has happened between them. Moreover, even if the Nein don’t believe it, Essek has loved them to the point of abandoning his work, his life, and chasing after them in the frozen fields of Eiselcross, into the horrors of the Astral Sea, and wherever else their adventures might take them. And Essek, despite himself, loves Caleb Widogast most of all. However, he would never admit such to the Nein, who he knows still hold him at arm’s length for his crimes. Still, he is determined to earn their trust back, even if he knows they will never love him back. Not the way he wants them (or more specifically, one of them) to.
However, someone else has taken notice of his affection, lurking in the shadows of peace times. Someone whose plans were almost ruined from Essek’s love. Someone who wouldn’t mind enacting a bit of revenge.
Or, what if someone took all the love Essek has for the Nein and redirects it?
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01 Jul 2026
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A house of his own.
The thought slams into Caleb with the force of a sledgehammer, the enormity of it nearly knocking the breath out of him. It's over twice as large as the cottage where he'd spent his childhood—a kitchen separate from the dining room and the sitting room! Not one, but two bathrooms! And best of all, three whole bedrooms! Enough space for Caleb, his books, and whichever of his friends would deign to visit him. The height of luxury indeed. Back then, Bren’s parents could only afford one bedroom, and young Bren himself had slept in the loft. Frumpkin would curl up on the foot of Bren’s mattress, and he'd wake to the smell of breakfast, the early morning light in his eyes, the rafters brushing his hair when he got up.
Or so it had been once, an entire lifetime ago.
“Veth,” he says.
She looks up at him. Then she grins. “Isn't this exciting?”
“I think so,” Caleb says, a split second too late.
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01 Jul 2026
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irrational and neverending by ambervaults (trivialtrivial)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
29 Jun 2026
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Caleb and Essek are interrupted on their 28th of Brussendar date by a small group of Caleb's students. Caleb has some emotions about it.
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29 Jun 2026
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We always burned brightest when no one was watching by PryingBlackbird
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
25 Oct 2021
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Essek and Caleb get hit by an anti-magic blast in Aeor and have to hide from the dangers there while Caleb can’t see, and Essek can’t walk properly.
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- Part 25 of Whumptober 2021 Collaboration
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28 Jun 2026
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We always burned brightest when no one was watching by PryingBlackbirdSummary:
Essek and Caleb get hit by an anti-magic blast in Aeor and have to hide from the dangers there while Caleb can’t see, and Essek can’t walk properly. -
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The Mighty Nein have settled down running the Mighty Moonshine Saloon. Caleb and Beau continue hunting down the Assembly, their horses haven't died or run off, and life is simple and good. Then Essek floats into their life and turns everything upside down for a certain wizard.
in which there is romantic dancing, slightly awkward wizardly flirting, lots of Empire siblings, horses, and a dash of betrayal
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28 Jun 2026
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under the shadows by jolychettaSummary:
The Mighty Nein have settled down running the Mighty Moonshine Saloon. Caleb and Beau continue hunting down the Assembly, their horses haven't died or run off, and life is simple and good. Then Essek floats into their life and turns everything upside down for a certain wizard.
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we learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts by vagabondfirelily
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Oct 2021
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In. Out. In. Out.
Essek’s chest rises and falls in perfectly timed intervals. An artificial design of a foolproof mechanism.
Caleb clutches a limp hand in his, two fingers on the pulse point, counting the flickery heartbeats. The gentle hiss and beeping of the machines hum a ghostly lullaby.
He keeps his eyes fixed on the moving ribcage. There’s a heart there, tucked safely under the flesh and bones, with which Caleb has chosen to leave his own.
Inhale. Exhale.
He needs the reminder.
Essek is still breathing.
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18 Jun 2026
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we learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts by vagabondfirelilySummary:
In. Out. In. Out.
Essek’s chest rises and falls in perfectly timed intervals. An artificial design of a foolproof mechanism.
Caleb clutches a limp hand in his, two fingers on the pulse point, counting the flickery heartbeats. The gentle hiss and beeping of the machines hum a ghostly lullaby.
He keeps his eyes fixed on the moving ribcage. There’s a heart there, tucked safely under the flesh and bones, with which Caleb has chosen to leave his own.
Inhale. Exhale.
He needs the reminder.
Essek is still breathing. -
room to grow by firefright, KmacKatie (kmackatie), lakrisrot (enheduane), mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi), VillainIHaveDoneThyMother
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
14 Dec 2025
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"Every room is the sex room."
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28 Apr 2026
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They do not talk about the clone buried in the garden. Essek buried the materials and cast the spell when Caleb was out on a particularly dangerous venture with Beau. He did not do much to conceal what he had done, only shifted the picnic table over the disturbed ground. Caleb raised an eyebrow when he returned. They were not so rich that he had not noticed a certain sum of diamonds missing; he could guess what had occurred.
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- Part 6 of Exercises & Drabbles
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18 Feb 2026
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Strange Roots by InanerialSummary:
They do not talk about the clone buried in the garden. Essek buried the materials and cast the spell when Caleb was out on a particularly dangerous venture with Beau. He did not do much to conceal what he had done, only shifted the picnic table over the disturbed ground. Caleb raised an eyebrow when he returned. They were not so rich that he had not noticed a certain sum of diamonds missing; he could guess what had occurred.
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It is still cold, and will probably get a little bit colder through the night. It is awkward, but… from a logical standpoint… he might be used to roughing it but Essek– no matter what he says– is not. So he worries.
“Um, this might be a bit… forward,” he says shortly, “but… if we were to sleep close together, it would help us keep warm throughout the night, too.”
Essek’s hands pause in smoothing his bedding.
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04 Feb 2026
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things no ears have heard, things no eyes have seen by LittleMissBookWitch
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
23 Dec 2025
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“One thing Caleb had learned was that Essek’s moods were often sudden, and vicious, and shocking even to him— and often, nothing to do with Caleb at all, squabbling over components and a jar of orange juice in stasis aside.”
Or, Una Ermendrud and Deirta Thelyss continue to haunt the narrative even after the world has settled.
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26 Jan 2026
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i was so sure (until i wasn't) by allmadeofstardust
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
04 Dec 2025
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Father, did you know me? Mother, would you be proud?
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06 Dec 2025
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still I claim "I will retain composure" by allmadeofstardust
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
27 Oct 2025
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Julien is still injured from the fight at the Palazzo. He has also just witnesssd a slaughter. So why should he care? Who even was he now?
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28 Oct 2025
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“I had to take precautions, you see. I lost seven men bringing him in, so best not to take risks,” Sorn said.
“Feeblemind,” Essek whispered through numb lips.A Dynasty mage with a personal vendetta imprisons Caleb to get revenge against Essek. They must escape and then unravel the damage done.
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- Part 5 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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26 Oct 2025
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we're kings among runaways (on the bus mall) by NotAFicWriter
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
07 Aug 2025
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The night before Easter break, I went with you to the clinic for your abortion, and we weren't even friends. It was the last time I saw you.
OR; Harrow Aborts That Thang.
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22 Aug 2025
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we're kings among runaways (on the bus mall) by NotAFicWriterSummary:
The night before Easter break, I went with you to the clinic for your abortion, and we weren't even friends. It was the last time I saw you.
OR; Harrow Aborts That Thang. -
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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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06 Aug 2025
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children have no dignity by hanapSummary:
“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.” -
whims and days colored orange by lakrisrot (enheduane)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
14 Jun 2023
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Caleb reunites with his traveling husband in a bright seaside city.
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05 Aug 2025
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whims and days colored orange by (lakrisrot) enheduaneSummary:
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with the war of the fire (my heart moves to its feet) by neinofthem (jeyneofpoole)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Feb 2023
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Once, when Essek was very small, he lit himself on fire.
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05 Aug 2025
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with the war of the fire (my heart moves to its feet) by (neinofthem) greekphilosophressSummary:
Once, when Essek was very small, he lit himself on fire. -
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It was still there when he made his way back to his assigned patch. And still there once he’d pulled all the low, creeping weeds from between the thick, woody stems of the lavender bushes.
“If you are dead, you realize I will pull up this weed,” he muttered to it on his fifth pass.
It, naturally, did not reply, though whether due to a lack of investment in its chosen home or a lack of vital signs was unclear.
In the aftermath of Aeor, in the Clay Family gardens, Essek encounters, speaks to, and has a mild existential crisis over, a bee.
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30 Jul 2025
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Bee!! A favourite. For emotional rereads.
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A Good Name is Hard to Find by CitizenMocha for Senor_Sparklefingers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 Jul 2025
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Kingsley sighs. “Does it ever occur to you people just how bloody infuriating it is that every conversation I have with this group, I’ve got you all waiting for me to be someone other than myself? Do you have any idea what that’s like?”
Essek laughs, just a little chuckle that seems to take him just as much by surprise as the rest of them. He quiets and fixes his cloak. “I do, actually,” he says.
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20 Jul 2025