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Time pulls them together, again and again.
Lucanis and Emmrich keep running into each other by chance. Fate denies any and all involvement.
*Featuring sassy Emmrich, bitchy Emmrich, mortal-dread-stricken Emmrich, oblivious Emmrich, soft Emmrich, injured Emmrich, and references to unhinged younger Emmrich (he is an academic).
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26 May 2026
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One Hit, One Kiss by Dira Sudis (dsudis)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role: The Mighty Nein
15 Oct 2022
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Unwinding the night after their fight against the gnolls, Caleb would rather be hit than kissed. Mollymauk Tealeaf has a confounding habit of doing both in rapid succession.
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10 Jul 2025
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Lucien regards Essek. “You know I steal things for a living, don’t you? You know I’ve got a few dead men to my name, too?”
“I am aware of these facts, Mr. Tavelle. I considered them to be among your highest qualifications for this job.”
“And yet you came here alone?”
“...Yes?”
Lucien digests this. “Okaaay. Well, how’s the pay?”
“200 gold."
Lucien bursts out laughing. “Nope! Nope. Absolutely not. Do you think I was born last night?”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Lemme get this straight.” Lucien leans forward, staring Essek down. “You’re telling me you came to a distant kingdom, arranged to meet a known criminal in a bathhouse, and thought nothing of stripping nude for a parley—but now you’re telling me that you need protection for your meeting with some spook? You’re dangerous enough on your own, my friend. If you’re in the market for a merc, it’s because you are about to walk into some fucked up, unsound, insane shit—and I’m not getting flayed alive and broken on the rack for 200 gold. For 500 gold? Sure, fine, that’ll get you some light flaying, maybe a turn or two on the rack—but not for 200.”
Essek sighs. “Do you prefer it in gold or platinum?”
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15 Mar 2025
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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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25 Jan 2025
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“Would you be able to give me any advice on,” Dorian tried, failed, and restarted, “well, the thing is—"
“Polymorph?” Essek suggested, with just the barest upward curl of his lip. “To keep you largely the same, yes, but with certain anatomical changes, for the sake of—"
“Gods, yes, yes, what in all—did Orym tell you?"
“He didn’t need to.”
Essek gives Dorian Polymorph lessons, and both of them have an educational time. Then, Caleb and Orym help test the results.
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25 Jan 2025
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sleep awake by thatapostateboy
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
22 Dec 2024
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lucanis falls asleep making breakfast, and rook orders him to rest, under davrin's watch - a confusion of feelings ensue
this has no set place in the timeline, it's pure vibes only, all you need to know is that rook and davrin have been hooking up since weisshaupt, but she's also a lil in love with lucanis
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23 Dec 2024
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Rungs of Gold by Nerdanel (telanaris)
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
22 Dec 2024
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“That’s not part of your grave dowry.”
Because a grave dowry—as Rook understood it—was gold that Nevarrans took with them when they died. Rook had seen some of the undead thralls in the Necropolis, bangles of gold stacked along their wrists and ankles, just like the bracelets Emmrich wore nearly to his elbows.
But, with a shock that had nearly stopped Rook’s heart (but left other parts of their body clenching, deliciously, in anticipation)—when Emmrich had undressed in front of them for the first time, unfastened his trousers and pulled himself free, he had revealed certain jewelry that Rook could not possibly imagine any skeleton wearing from beyond the grave.
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22 Dec 2024
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A Bow and A Staff by TrashbagTim27
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
10 Feb 2025
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Rook liked the way he talked. Emmrich liked the way they laughed. Fate might have thrown them together, but the two idiots will fight it before it’s all said and done.
A look at Rook and Emmrich’s relationship between the scenes. Good moments and bad, but ultimately, two fools in love. They just don’t know it yet.
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18 Dec 2024
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Being back in Bassuras is some bullshit, even with the Hells along to distract Ashton from the wounds of their past cropping up everywhere they look and the weight of their irrational fear that they weren't gonna be able to break out of this town a second time.
Will says Ashton's on edge. Of fucking course Ashton's on edge. There's no fixing that, unless he can manage to get drunk, get laid, or get in a fight.
Will has a solution for one of those things, and it's not the one Ashton expects.
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30 Jul 2024
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Astarion heals in the shade after the final battle.
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- Part 2 of Echo
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27 Jun 2024
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Perhaps Beauregard said it best.
"Oh my fucking god. Jester sent us to some fancy Xhorhasian sex club."
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08 Jun 2024
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A remix of Act 2 in which Gale gets more of a character arc resolution.
“Gods damn it Gale!”
Astarion leaps over him. The guard, poised to land an entirely excessive final blow to Gale’s skull, topples backwards with a knife in his gut. The second pierces his neck, sending him crashing to the ground. Astarion yanks his blades back, and drops to his knees beside Gale.
“Oh no no no, you are not dying on me now.”
Gale attempts to express something, but it comes out as a gurgle of bloody bubbles. The world swings to the side, black and spinning.
“I swear, if it turns out I did just watch you spend the last of your magic sending your cat back to safety instead of saving your own damn skin-”
The threat remains unfinished. A healing potion trickles between Gale’s lips.
“Tressym,” Gale says, when he can finally trust his voice.
Astarion is still crouched over him, cheeks flushed, sweat running down his brow and someone else’s blood smeared across his cheek. Gale has the sudden urge to kiss him.
“What?”
“She’s a tressym. Not a cat.”
Astarion makes a noise of such furious, pained exasperation that Gale half expects the dagger to end up in his neck next.Series
- Part 1 of First Light
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13 Feb 2024
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where's the point in hurrying (when waiting feels so great) by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 Jul 2021
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"You weren’t paying attention." That was Essek’s justification, delivered in a perfectly even and reasonable tone, when he entered Caleb’s study for the second time that evening, wearing nothing but jewellery.
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17 Jan 2024
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Experts can find no discernable cycle, only that drow who experience heats can expect to do so every decade or so, provided they are in the right environment. Roughly, this means adequate nutrition, lowered levels of stress hormones, and mildly increased levels of sex hormones. Food, calm, and attraction.
It should really be no surprise then that Essek went through exactly one heat at the peak of puberty and never again. A fact that never bothered him much until recently.
Or Essek has finally found someone he wants to share a heat with. Now if only his heat would get the memo.
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16 Jan 2024
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Inside is not a heart, but a kaleidoscope by LadyOrpheus
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 May 2022
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Dynasty Salons are parties of legend. The politics. The gossip. The orgies.
The Mighty Nein decide to throw their own party and invite the usually reluctant Essek to join them. Somehow, with the Mighty Nein, Essek finds he wants to want.
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16 Jan 2024
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“D’you ever miss pussy?”
Caleb – who has been known to keep copying spells when the curtains have been on fire – looks up from his books. “Wie bitte?”
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08 Jan 2024
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Gale, free of his curse and enjoying an evening with the dearest friends he's ever shared brain worms with, is beginning to suspect that Astarion is attempting to ask to drink his blood.
Given that the noxious sourness of Netherese magic no longer taints him, Gale understands the curiosity Astarion might have, and is quite willing to indulge it.
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02 Jan 2024
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Astarion asks Gale about introducing some recreational sex pollen to the bed room. Gale agrees, with some conditions. Negotiations ensue.
(Set after "let me know and i'll take you there," and sometime before the last part of "cutting through the cracks of the concrete," but more or less can be read as its own post-game established relationship fic!)
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- Part 3 of by the sea, that's the life i covet
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31 Dec 2023
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Bram Stoker's HANNIBAL by DBMars
Fandoms: Hannibal (TV), Hannibal Lecter Series - All Media Types, Hannibal Lecter Tetralogy - Thomas Harris, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)
09 Jan 2024
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Love Never Dies.
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
Hannibal + Bram Stoker's Dracula + the classic novel = a new version of the seductive vampire legend.
Count Hannibal Lecter loses the thing most precious to him -- the love of his life. God is beyond measure in wanton malice, and matchless in his irony. And so Hannibal renounces God, and becomes an immortal monster that feeds on the blood of the living.
400 years after losing his beloved, Count Lecter meets a man who looks exactly like the husband he lost -- reborn and returned. But who could learn to love a monster?
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30 Dec 2023
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Whomever You Call Out to in the Night by Dira Sudis (dsudis)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Jan 2022
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Their first night in the Xhorhaus, Caleb finally has a moment to remember how badly he hurt the others when he was controlled back in Asarius. Caduceus helps him get through the night.
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29 Dec 2023