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Dinner date? Dinner date.
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- Part 1 of The Shadow & The Light
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When Caleb brings an unusual book to Essek for identification, they end up setting off a trap that leaves both of them pondering life without magic. As they learn more about each other, they begin to grow closer––and soon realize that some secrets are worth sharing.
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Essik has some thoughts while he watches.
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- Part 3 of The Shadow & The Light
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During Essik and Caleb's magic lesson in episode 62, things take a turn!
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Archmage Widogast, known as the Northern Hellfire, is given a task by the Assembly. On their behalf, he has the task of garnering peace between the Dynasty and the Empire. He is to come to an agreement, by any means necessary. If he should fail, then war will begin again, ending the time of ceasefire. He's lost many friends to this senseless war and he'd like nothing more than to end that streak.
Essek Thelyss, of Den Thelyss, is the Shadowhand that stands with the Bright Queen. Though young, he's already been given the gift of consecution, a boon that will allow him to reincarnate until his soul has become perfected. He is a prodigy, a master of Dunamancy. His skills for gathering information are among the best. He strives for his best in everything he does. He hopes this peace can be solidified with ease. If not, gather as much information as possible and return. Either way, he'd like to get back to his studies and Queen.
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Essek collects himself after the scene with the scourger.
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- Part 4 of The Shadow & The Light
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"May I have this next dance, Mr. Widogast?"
Based off of one of my favorite scenes from Pride & Prejudice (2005). It's my first shadowgast fic, hopefully there will be more to come!
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“Danke, come again.”
Caleb sighed. It was another one of those days, he supposed, leaning on the counter and fiddling with a little ceramic mushroom. Caduceus has asked him to step in for a shift at the cafe after Mollymauk called in sick, and who was he to say no? Caduceus was always well-intentioned, patient, attentive when Caleb needed his help, and Caleb could use the extra pay. Caleb couldn’t decide what was worse, though: the endless rush of a busy day, leaving his thoughts and hands preoccupied but bone-tired by the end of the day, or days like today. Days that just dragged on, with nothing to do but wipe down the same counters endlessly and glance at the door every two minutes. Days where his body was tired but his mind was wide awake and aching to do something, anything other than just standing here. He was left to count the minutes.
Bells chimed, signalling the arrival of a customer. Finally—
Caleb froze, his ears turning pink. Hot Boy was back.Series
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The Mighty Nein return to Rosohna defeated by Obann again.
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- Part 5 of The Shadow & The Light
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Vollstrecker Caleb is sent to infiltrate the Dynasty's Royal Court with the help of Expositors Beauregard and Dairon, accidentally falls in love with an enemy spy.
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“Don’t tell me you grew attached.”
Essek didn’t know what to think of the Mighty Nein when they first arrived, and that didn’t really change as he spent more time with them. They were foolish and impulsive at times, but each of them held a spark of potential. They didn’t deserve to die. With the help of dunamancy, he might just have the chance to change their fates.
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A Shadowgast Groundhog Day AU where Essek is just trying to keep his only friends from dying and that leads to some other discoveries involving his feelings for a certain wizard. (Canon compliant up to Ep. 89).
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Essek has made a new habit of spending the evenings with the Mighty Nein. And this new habit has led to him revealing that he enjoys poetry and writing. But it's not like any of the Mighty Nein can speak Celestial or Undercommon. Right?
It's not like they can understand his poems.
And it's not like Caleb will swoon at his perfect recitations like he sometimes does in his daydreams.
Nonsense.Or is it?
AKA: The author is a nerd with a theatre degree who loves Shakespeare and wants Essek to woo Caleb with a sonnet. So here it is.
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Hi my name is Shadowhand Essek Lucifer Absinthe of den Thelyss....
The Shadowgast Immortal nobody asked for...
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SPOILERS C2 E97
After Essek is caught by the m9 and tells them everything, Caleb requests some time alone with him.
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All This and Heaven Too by FragmentOfPossibility (Musaeum)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Mar 2020
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If I am damned, let me choose to leave this world with the taste of him on my lips, and the feel of his body against mine. And let this night be enough to change something for the better, even if it's only his memories of me…
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After c2e97
Caleb decides to check in on Essek on the boat.
“The wood creaks beneath Calebs feet as he walks to the other end of the hall. The evenings events left a lot running through his mind.”
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Post episode 97.
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Essek Thelyss is used to, well, discrepancies with gravity. He floats, of course, something only possible through his magic, and as he has become so accustomed to using it, it hardly phases him. What he didn’t expect though, was gravity to shift beneath him once again.
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- Part 1 of Essek Week 2020
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One-shots for Essek Week. Day 1: Anti-Gravity (Learning dunamancy + how to people). Day 3: The Man Who Sold the World (Twenty five years later, Essek reflects on his time with the Mighty Nein). Day 4: Bittersweet Blackberries (Essek brings cupcakes to the Nein as a peace offering; Jester invites him to stay forever. Birthday antics ensue). Day 5: I'll Be Your Mirror (Caleb sneaks away from the Xhorhaus because he wants another lesson. Essek is worried). May include top secret spells the government doesn't want you to know about, blood magic, and spoilers up to 97.
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Magic, Pastries, and Jester Lavorre by SatisfactionBroughtItBack42
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
27 May 2021
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In which Jester reaches out to Essek in the dead of night through repeated Sending spells, manages to secure a -date-not-date-but-totally-a-date, bearclaws, and Dunamantic tutoring from the borderline social recluse himself - and the implications of her studies with the Hot Boi Drow ensue a subtle feuding between Caleb and Essek.
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They are studying, and they are talking, and Caleb has been distracted by the gold of Essik’s eyes for a while now.
[Caleb and Essik, making out for science. The Mighty Nein are also there to walk in on them and embarrass them. A kissing fic, with some found family fluff thrown in to break the tension that could otherwise be carved up with a knife]
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- Part 1 of Caleb and Essik
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The Only Way Is Essik's by supersonica (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 May 2019
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Leaning a little closer so his breath could brush Caleb’s oddly round ear, Essik said, softly, “If you’d like, you could visit my library this evening, Herr Widogast.”
“Is that a euphemism?” Caleb asked, snorting. “It’s not a very appealing one.”
Essik rolled his eyes. “No, I—what do you take me for? I do actually have a private library, feel free to come by after dinner. And also,” he made a very quick decision about how good the hearing range of Caleb’s companions probably was.
“I don’t need a euphemism to say I’d quite like you to suck my cock.”
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Essek waits. Perhaps he is supposed to guess the likeliest offer and spare Caleb the embarrassment of asking? He keeps his mouth shut, waiting, watching Caleb wrestle internally with his shame and desires. It’s an engaging sight.
“I want you to use me.” Caleb says at last.
Ah. Ambiguous language, to a less discerning individual. Essek understands, but wishes to draw it out from Caleb’s own lips. “Use you?” he lingers on the syllables. “Yes, to ferret out spies from the Empire. We’ve discussed this.”
Caleb shakes his head in a twitching movement. “No. Not like that.” His hands fail briefly in agitation. He’s coming apart at the seams, this man. Essek very much wants to know what’s hidden underneath.
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It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) by OMGitsgreen
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Dec 2019
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This was all because he hadn’t seen the Mighty Nein in a month. He was...getting all confused and acting like some sort of lovelorn maiden from one of the trashy Empire smut novels that he definitely didn’t read after he confiscated them.
“By the Luxon, let them come back soon, or else I might really go mad,” Essek muttered to himself.The Mighty Nein have disappeared, and then reappeared deep within their enemy's territory. Essek deals with the fallout to their decision, and with the consequences of his own feelings.
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- Part 2 of Shadow and Fire
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Caleb and Essek had gotten married at the end of the adventures of the Mighty Nein's adventures. Unfortunately, humans don't live as long as drow do. Fortunately, there's always room for second chances...
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Essek navigates his feelings.
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the mortifying ordeal of being known by idontreallylikebutterflies
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Mar 2020
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The Mighty Nein love each other, but they also spend most of their time between insults and teasing. Essek wants to know them, and wants to understand their contradictions, but mostly Essek wants to deserve to be known by them.
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04 Mar 2020
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THIS IS SO GOOD, OH MY GOD..... Essek joins the Mighty Nein and travels with them and it’s LOVELY
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It’s foolish to love something you are going to outlive. Essek is far too intelligent for that.
And yet. And yet.
[Essek, the Mighty Nein, and the slow road to redemption. Mostly gen + Shadowgast]
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25 Mar 2020
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to love something small - jakia
Essek, the Mighty Nein, and the slow road to redemption.
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In that moment when Caleb squeezed his arm, something electric punched through Essek’s veins, spreading out from the point of contact - and he wanted, so badly, to believe that some part of it was real.
Now, Caleb’s hand rests warm over his heart, and Essek thinks, numbly, that this is very real indeed.
(In which Essek falls in love over a series of touches.)
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Something in Caleb's brain just clicks. As if his focus narrows down to nothing but his mouth, all thoughts ebbing even of his aching cock trapped within tight leather confines. All that matters is that Essek's cock is nestled in his mouth, nothing else; stretching his lips around it just so, as if he were meant for it.
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He has a soulmate, and he must manipulate them and use them. He has someone whom he cannot lie to, and he must deceive them.
He has someone he might be happy with, and he tore that chance asunder three years ago, when he slipped two Beacons into his wristpocket and teleported away to the Empire.
(In which you cannot lie to your soulmate. Which makes things difficult, if you are Essek Thelyss, and you were raised a liar.)
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[FANART] Caleb & Essek "exploring other things" by Tenaciousbirb
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), Critical Role
20 May 2020
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After weeks, months of pining, and a betrayal, two wizards finally reconcile.
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"How about this?" Caleb says to Essek. "You tell me everything. I tell you everything. And perhaps by the time the sun rises, we may trust one another again."
Essek raises an eyebrow. “And the alcohol?”
“For courage. I imagine the things we must talk about are not spoken of easily.”
[Caleb, Essek, and a revelation of backstories. Can be read as pre-shippy or as friendship.]
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Set post- Travelercon. Written as a coping mechanism for the COVID-19 Hiatus.
Caleb decides to make a move on his feelings for Essek, garnering a predictably variable reaction from the Nein. Essek is forced to re-evaluate his relationship with himself, his friends, and his alignment.
Plot with some sexual content. The porn serves the plot.
Bookmarked by Anika_Utoa
18 Aug 2020
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Complete as of chapter 15
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the fourth corner of the world by royalgreen (allyoop)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
12 Oct 2024
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Things have changed. Irrefutably. Essek has embarked on a new path somehow found in the tangled threads of possibility. And they have made it here together.
(This series installment can be read as a standalone fic with Essek and Caleb being a developing relationship.)Series
- Part 4 of Clock Hands
Bookmarked by Anika_Utoa
02 Sep 2020
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Essek travels with the Nein to Rumblecusp.
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Attraction is just a form of Gravity by ThreeGremlinsInATrenchcoat
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Sep 2020
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Caleb had caught Essek's attention immediately.
And ever since, this strange little neglected attraction has been bothering him. He initiates a mutually beneficial arrangement upon realizing that Caleb's interests match his own surprisingly well. A purely physical, transactional deal.That would be fine, if it were not for the dangerous implications and weaknesses.
Or for those many in-betweens when Essek is far too interested in what's beyond the boundaries of their agreement...
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Bookmarked by Anika_Utoa
11 Sep 2020
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Complete as of chapter 24
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Attraction is just a form of Gravity by ThreeGremlinsInATrenchcoat
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Sep 2020
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Caleb had caught Essek's attention immediately.
And ever since, this strange little neglected attraction has been bothering him. He initiates a mutually beneficial arrangement upon realizing that Caleb's interests match his own surprisingly well. A purely physical, transactional deal.That would be fine, if it were not for the dangerous implications and weaknesses.
Or for those many in-betweens when Essek is far too interested in what's beyond the boundaries of their agreement...
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He knew he was doomed. There was a sharpness in her gaze that only appeared when she was gearing herself up for battle. Tempers flared. And maybe… maybe he wanted to be caught. Maybe he wanted it to be his own people who decided his fate. Maybe he was just… Tired.
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- Part 1 of Lacunaverse
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Bookmarked by Anika_Utoa
16 Oct 2020
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Complete as of chapter 10
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Essik & Caleb both started life as talented young prodigies of nations now at war, but their loyalties are put to the test when either destiny or chance finds them working together. Mutual suspicion is complicated by mutual attraction, but to protect their friends and stay alive they both need to learn how to trust.
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five times Essek sees the Mighty Nein kissing Caleb, and the one time he tries it out for himself.
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five times the Mighty Nein realise that Essek has a crush, and the one time he does something about it.