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When Caleb came back to Soltryce after many years, he didn't expect to meet his former friends again. Nether did he expect to meet a Drow from the Kryn Dynasty in his Transmutation class.
What started off as a stupid bet of getting close to Essek, endet in something unexpected and real.
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Caramel auf dem Feuer by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
12 Dec 2025
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The scent of caramel shouldn’t undo him. Gods, it shouldn’t.
But the snow is falling soft as breath, and Jester is laughing, and the sugar in the pot is turning gold -
and Caleb Widogast feels twelve years old and warm and safe for the first time in a decade.A winter storm pins the Mighty Nein in a quiet glade, and Jester decides the best cure for boredom is making caramel candy over the campfire. But when the scent of browning sugar sends Caleb spiraling into memories he hasn’t touched since childhood, Jester gently coaxes him toward something unexpected: the possibility that sweetness - not just suffering - might still belong to him.
Fluffcember 2025 Prompt Fill | Day Two | Caramel -
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The Zadash Opera House has been plagued by a ghost now known as the Nonagon, who stubbornly refuses to be caught.
Caleb Widogast, resident organist, is in the process of putting his life back together when the Nonagon takes a liking to him.
Meanwhile, Fjord Stone, one of the newest ensemble members, has just been hired at the Zadash Opera House. Little does he know that his long-lost, mysteriously-vanishing childhood friend is now working there too.
It seems unlikely that the Nonagon would appreciate that...
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‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.’‘I should have called it
Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.’—"The Death of a Hired Man," Robert Frost
When running stops working, the Blooming Grove is where Caleb runs to.
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- Part 2 of waystations
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Goth Vax Learns He’s Worth Loving After All by Tinyheart129
Fandoms: The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
26 Nov 2025
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Vax’ildan Vessar is a student at the University of Emon. His academic major is still undecided even half way into the semester of his sophomore year. He’s on the verge of failing his general algebra class for the third time. His advisor has assigned him a student tutor. Some freshman with a stupid long name. Vax just knows he’s going to hate it.
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Warriors: Fogged Skies by Tinyheart129
Fandoms: The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), Warriors - Erin Hunter
06 Nov 2025
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At the end of their journey many mysteries still linger in the minds of the young cats. Secrets from the Clan’s resent and accent history hidden in a shroud of darkness and half truths.
Fogpaw is trying to settle into his new life in Sky Clan when he feels his heart is pulling him across the Shadow Clan border.
Ravenpaw and Jaypaw are doing their best to live under their father’s paw.
Trickpaw is searching for answers with Strongpaw at her side.
Rowanpaw wants answers about what happened to her mother.
And Shorthalt is watching across the lake to Sky Clan territory. -
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What sticky situation could perpetual damsel-in-distress Yussa Errenis possibly get into at Fjord and Jester's busy wedding?
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A De Rolo Always Gets What They Want by CrystalWillowTree
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
12 Aug 2025
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The De Rolo family are protective of what they deem as theirs, be that an object, place or even a person…when a De Rolo asks something of you you don’t refuse, you don’t say no. They will always get what they want no matter how hard you fight.
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Benediction of the Broken Body by bluegreenamber for Luddleston
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
18 Jul 2025
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Ashton is stuck on a ship for two weeks with the other Nein Hellz on the way to the Shattered Teeth, which means that he's forced (partly by some agents of chaos and mischief on board) to confront his feelings for a certain halfling that have been bubbling under the surface for a while now. And because Ashton is Ashton, what better way to communicate that attraction than brawling about it first?
[Critical Role Summer Wildflowers Exchange 2025 Treat]
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Braving the Storm by bluegreenamber for Senor_Sparklefingers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Jul 2025
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It's only been a few months since Kingsley's "birth," and he can already tell that something is off with his… soul? Head? His something. Since no one on the Nein Heroez ship would likely be able to figure out exactly what’s wrong with him, he decides to return to the first place that he remembers as a place of healing and self-discovery—the Blooming Grove.
[Critical Role Summer Wildflowers Exchange 2025]
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The Wizard and the Hall of Mirrors by TheWedgeInDairy
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Jun 2025
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Out of seemingly nowhere, a horrible, massive, terrifying city of flesh descended from the Astral Plane, bringing along a gang of mercenaries who captured every arcanist on Wildemount and tossed them into the depths of it's towers. Stripped of their spellbooks, components, and focuses, almost nothing stands in the way of Cognouza's domination of the entire continent.
Essek Thelyss, somewhat-former Shadowhand to the Bright Queen, wants nothing more than to escape. And escape starts with stealing his spellbook back from Lucien's study.
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Okay, this was good. This was easy. Veth only had to kiss her husband and they would all be free. She just wanted to give her an encouraging nod when she suddenly saw that Veth's eyes betrayed her for a second and flickered towards Caleb.
Oh no.
Veth's whole body froze. Her eyes wandered back and forth between Caleb and Yeza.
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Beau knows she has a naturally analytical mind, a skill that has been further honed through years of work with the Cobalt soul. Her job is to find patterns, to pick through evidence and come to conclusions that are true, even if they are inconvenient or complicated or uncomfortable.
And though she has tried to dismiss the thought, the evidence is stacking up.
Jester is up to something.
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme by actiaslunaris (sawaruna)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
25 Dec 2024
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A handful of herbs and what they mean to both Caduceus and Jester.
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“Worried about me, circus man?” Caleb teased. Something about his tone made Molly stutter in their movements, face flushing.
Molly’s smile melted into a smirk. “That’s up to you. Would you like me to be?”
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It started as a simple quest. As most things do when it comes to the Mighty Nein, it went sideways almost immediately.
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No brothers left
And there'll be no more after meOR
Judgement day.
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- Part 3 of That Funny Feeling
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The surprising consequences of dirty talk by Beawake
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 Nov 2024
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Caleb and Essek are discovering the intricacies of their relatioship, both sexual and how a relationship works when one person is on the run.
This leads to both wanting to try dirty talk and finding their balance.Meanwhile, unrelated, Caleb wants to surprise his boyfriend by learning Undercommon.
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Even Blind, I See You by Professor_Rye for LuckyOwlsFoot
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 Nov 2024
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That’s what they had called this. A purge. It was the Dungeon of Penance after all. They were trying to save his soul, they had said. To burn the evil out of him before he eventually succumbed to his fate. To justice.
Even now, he found their practices foolish.
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- Part 7 of Whumptober 2021 Collaboration
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Imogen is a mess of nerves over her first trip to Tal'Dorei. First, she has to brave the heights of skyship travel. Then, she and the Bells will be trying out field lacrosse for the first time - against literal legends of the sport. Not to mention the ever-perceptive Orym has noticed something that Imogen herself isn't ready to come to terms with.
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Like the others in this series, the sports and loose mystery plots are really just there for interesting character development to happen ;)Series
- Part 3 of Bells Hells Lacrosse AU
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In the aftermath of Trent Ikithon’s capture, every member of the Mighty Nein settled swiftly into domestic life.
Everyone, that is, except Essek. For the former Shadowhand, it wasn’t until the commission of a portrait that he finally felt that he had found a home.
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- Part 1 of Days of Dunamancy and Domesticity