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Verin goes to the temple of the Luxon to confess his inappropriate feelings about his brother to a cleric. He unknowingly confesses to Essek instead, and Essek is not content to just let it lie.
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Caleb Widogast was a man of simple needs. All he required to be happy was a roof over his head, the company of his best friend and roommate, and constant intellectual stimulation. So he bought an old house. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Chantilly Lace and a Pretty Face by Chiaroscuro for groffiction
Fandoms: Crash Pad (2017), Logan Lucky (2017), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
09 Dec 2018
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“Your nose is always in your line of sight, but your brain chooses to ignore it. For the same reason, you don't focus on the frames of your glasses or the red strings that connect a person to their soulmate. Scientists call it ‘unconscious selective attention’. It would be awfully difficult to function if your eyes were always zipping away from what you need to see and fixating on your bangs across your face or the billions of threads that incorporeally weave together the fabric of fate.” Smythe, John Norton. Power of unconscious ignorance. Psychology today, May 2002.
Stensland just wants to move on. Why won't fate let him?
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The Soul Will Speak by Chiaroscuro
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
02 Nov 2017
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"Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak." -Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Still recovering from his captivity and torture at the hands of Gellert Grindelwald, the real Percival Graves struggles to regain his identity. When Credence Barebone stumbles across his path, it takes little convincing for Graves to offer sanctuary to the boy he had come to care for before the events at City Hall Subway Station. It might take slightly more convincing for him to let Credence make his own choices when it comes to love, though.
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He wonders if he has a life beyond today. He wonders if he has time to erase the chalk plans in his home before abandoning it forever. He wonders if he was the one who looked into the mirror, or the one who stepped out of it.
— Essek and the Nein succeed in defeating the Somnovem, but their return to the Material Plane is a backwards trip out of Aeor. He is haunted by his memories, his guilt, the monsters around every corner, the threat of Trent Ikithon — and a shadow in his periphery that looks remarkably like himself. For Essek Thelyss, love and annihilation go hand-in-hand, until he learns otherwise.
[This fic contains illustrations.]
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27 Mar 2023
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Essek's extended nightmare, featuring his past, his family, and an emotional rollercoster.
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Essek Thelyss, lonely and ambitious prodigy, comes to Nicodranas to make a risky gamble with the Assembly. At the water’s edge, he finds himself swept up in another dangerous entanglement he can't seem to escape — and as time goes on, he's less and less sure he wants to. Will his treasonous alliance or the sea itself devour him first?
(Or, the one where Caleb is a merman.)
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remote times and places and ultimate causes by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 Jan 2023
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The Vigil bells are still tolling, calling the monks to the nightly orations. In his bed, Caleb is still adrift between sleep and wake, not sure if he is dreaming the gentle fingers combing his hair in absent-minded strokes, their owner absorbed in his reading.
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30 Jan 2023
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It starts like this: Essek, in a fit of lonely idiocy, agrees to partake in a honeypot scheme with the Mighty Nein. It goes about as smoothly as he should have expected.
It evolves to this: by decree of Deirta Thelyss, Verin is tasked with protecting his brother and his brother’s friends(??) as they parlay with the Children of Malice over the diplomatic incident they caused. Verin remembers his brother being much more of an aloof douche and much less of a floating disaster.
Or: In a reality where the Mighty Nein do a stop in Xhorhas prior to meeting up with DeRogna, Essek agrees to help with one side quest and ends up with a lover, a brother, and a fight with a god.
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14 Jan 2022
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This is fucking hilarious.
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- Lolth orgy with Essek appetizer
- Cuddles the arborscythe
- the Aurora Watch think Cad is spec ops
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the breath before the phrase by KmacKatie (kmackatie)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Sep 2022
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The ringing note of a concert A is played by the oboe, echoing on its own in the space. It’s picked up by the wind section, followed rapidly by the brass, and the familiar feeling of an orchestra calibrating takes over Caleb. The tonal adjustments as each person brings their instrument into alignment sinks into him and something inside Caleb shifts in recognition as Essek leads the strings into their own tuning.
It’s like something is waking up, like something unfurling and firing across long-unused paths of memory. His hands shake slightly, as he raises his bow and joins them, fingers fumbling against the pegs and fine tuners that give him control over his instrument.
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Essek Thelyss is a leading violinist, his spot as Shadowhand of the Rosohna Philharmonic Orchestra has been uncontested for over a decade. Caleb Widogast is a recent arrival to the city, convinced by his friends to audition for one of the vacant violinist positions.
After starting off on the wrong foot, Caleb and Essek get to slowly know each other, discover what brings them joy, create while defying expectations, and find out that what they can produce together may just be better than anything they can do separately.
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17 Sep 2022