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Pushing the Pink Envelope by Ineedtocomeupwithausername
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
15 Jun 2025
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Nathaniel Trapp is expected to marry the aristocrat Jane Windermere. She's beautiful, well-educated, funny, talented, and Nathaniel just cannot find it in him to love her. They like each other well enough, but it's a relationship of convenience.
Jane has her eyes locked on Tony Finnerty, the ruggedly handsome war hero from South Soffit. And Nathaniel? Nathaniel is smitten with a smart-mouthed young man named Sean he's regularly rendezvoused with in the Red Lamp.
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The Most Dangerous Game by Ahmose_Inarus
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
14 Oct 2024
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Welcome to Exandria: a vibrant and diverse world filled with many races, cultures, and beliefs... The year is 815 PD. People are still reeling from the trauma of a series of world-shaking events, brought about by powerful forces at the hands of occultists and arcanists... People are embracing a new age of change in the wake of tragedy. Within the city of Whitestone, the citizens celebrate the sudden influx of new technology and wealth, thanks to the Lord of Whitestone, Percival de Rolo, one of Vox Machina, the Heroes of Exandria, who had stopped more than one catastrophe that had effected the world in the past few years. But not all who committed the atrocities that the world suffered from, were brought to justice. Many escaped, and managed to continue on. They simply withdrew into shadow, and found ways to... assimilate and change along with the world. Some of them even formed alliances. Even arcanists and occultists can find uses for technology, and the new firearms are such fun; why pay to have someone killed for you, when you can have them delivered instead? A group of people enjoy having a Grand Hunt, to rid themselves of "pests" from time to time. This time, there's a special target amongst their prey...
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- Part 14 of Ina's 2024 Whumptober-Fest
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bend me, break me by roundtriptojupiter
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
22 Aug 2024
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Marion's sick.
At least, that's what Sean tells him.
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Sean trusts the Circle of Needle and Thread.
It will end as it should.
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Buried by Ineedtocomeupwithausername
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
06 Apr 2024
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They say no plan survives contact with the enemy.
Sean Finnerty and Nathaniel Trapp are certainly learning that to be true as they find themselves trapped together under rubble, separated from the rest of Echo Company, not sure if they'll ever be rescued.
Later, after the war, Nathaniel recruits Sean into Candela and they try their best to heal
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borrowed time by roundtriptojupiter
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series), Amnesia: The Bunker (Video Game)
30 Jan 2024
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"I couldn't risk it, not with the lights out, but I still needed to eat, and I wanted to have some kind of report to give you when you woke up. I know the cutters are in the prison because as far as I'm aware, nobody bothered to take them back from the poor man trapped there." He pauses for a moment, forehead scrunching in effort as he fights to find suitable words. "The prisoner we took, a few weeks ago. During all the chaos, he somehow managed to get his hands on them, I don't know. By the time we learned he had them, there were bigger things to worry about." Marion shrugs. "I don't know if he's still alive. But I can only assume that the cutters are still there. Why wouldn't they be?"
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Nathaniel and Marion make their way to the prison.Series
- Part 2 of bunker au
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the error inside by roundtriptojupiter
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series), Amnesia: The Bunker (Video Game)
24 Jan 2024
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A thrum of power strikes a note in Nathaniel's gut, and his head lightens. Sean is staring at him, as if he's waiting for an order, and the main emotion that Nathaniel feels is relief. Sean still listens to him; he's not going to die. As he returns the stare, Sean slowly sinks to the ground, into a crouch and still deeper, as if he's trying to make himself as small as possible. Now, Nathaniel towers over him, and something akin to a growl rises in Nathaniel's throat.
There's an itch beneath his skin; his flesh feels too tight, and if he wasn't facing down a monster, he would be scratching at it, trying to find the source. But, Sean seems to be deferring to him—submitting to him, his instincts purr—and that's new, and fascinating, and Nathaniel also doesn't trust him not to pounce the moment he looks away. He needs to take advantage of this opportunity while he has it. The discomforting feelings in his veins can wait.
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Deep in the Roman tunnels beneath the bunker, Nathaniel gives up on getting out alive, and accepts that he'll suffer the same fate as Sean before he dies.Series
- Part 3 of bunker au
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The last dish clinks against the others in the drying rack, and Sean drains the water. It drowns out the rest of the house for a few long moments, and Sean takes the opportunity to try to compose himself. It doesn't work; his mind can still only focus on the bedroom on the second floor, the one that he and Marion share, and what he knows is happening there. He lets out a long, shuddering breath, and reaches for the ring he'd put on the windowsill.
As with a lot of things that Sean owns, his wedding ring doesn't quite fit right—it had been Marion's father's, before he'd passed, and thus it's made for a hand slightly larger than his own. It likes to slip off, if Sean isn't careful, so he always removes it. And he holds it for a moment, looking at the simple silver band and thinking about the day Marion had given it to him, and how long ago it seems. He goes to put it back on, and stops. Something about it just doesn't feel right anymore.
Sean puts it into his pocket, instead, and goes upstairs.
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An excerpt from the life of one married Sean Finnerty, who has never known and will never know Candela. -
buried alive by roundtriptojupiter
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series), Amnesia: The Bunker (Video Game)
21 Jan 2024
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Then, something moves outside the door, and Nathaniel feels Marion's body stiffen. He follows suit; he falls still, and breathes only as much as he has to. He hears heavy, animal-like footfalls, and a vague sound that might be sniffing, as the light closest to the door shudders and goes out. Nathaniel's first thought is that it's a wolf, but even if a wild beast somehow managed to get into the bunker, they have firearms and explosives, and no natural creature would be allowed to run amok and strike as much fear as he sees in the way Marion quivers and flinches with every sound. [...] Marion holds his breath just a little bit too long before exhaling a sigh of relief and removing his hand from Nathaniel's mouth.
"Private," Nathaniel starts, hoarsely, as soon as he's able to, "what the hell was that?"
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Nathaniel Trapp wakes up with a pounding headache and scattered memories, and Marion Collodi forcing him to keep silent. The bunker that has been their protective fortress in the war has been turned into a deadly prison by the horrifying monster stalking the halls, and the rubble blocking the only exit.In spite of the hopelessness, they make a plan to escape.
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- Part 1 of bunker au
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i'd rather drown by roundtriptojupiter
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
20 Jan 2024
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Before the events of Candela Obscura, Nathaniel Trapp encounters Sean Finnerty for the first time since the end of the war, in a club in the Red Lamp district.
Sean convinces Nathaniel to take him home, and Nathaniel convinces Sean to let him keep him.
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home is where i tear your heart out by roundtriptojupiter
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
05 Jan 2024
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Sean dies, and wakes up somewhere he isn't supposed to be, with a familiar face and a body that isn't quite human anymore.
He adjusts.
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- Part 2 of seanshifter au
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,917
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 18
- Hits:
- 163
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Nathaniel has known Sean for years, but has never really touched him, due to the gloves he always wears. Somewhat jokingly, Sean suggests that they might be soulmates, and encourages him to take them off.
The sunset is so much more beautiful when they can both see it in colour.
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a monster of my own reflection by roundtriptojupiter
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
31 Dec 2023
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There are no witnesses to the violent acts that Sean commits in the basement of Grayslate Sanatorium.
He turns to the shapeshifter for something more, and things end differently.
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- Part 1 of seanshifter au
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jinnah and marion: married, happy, with a pet dog which they should've had put down when it started dragging its filth into the house.
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underneath the waves by roundtriptojupiter
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
17 Dec 2023
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Sean hears a disturbance, late one night, in the chapter house. He doesn't expect it to be Marion and Nathaniel, but isn't unhappy with how it works out.
Or, Sean, Marion, and Nathaniel sort out their feelings by having sex about it.
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Take two by drivel_driven
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series)
06 Dec 2023
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SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 2 OF CANDELA OBSCURA
Marion died saving the woman he loved.
And then he woke up again, weeks before, with a chance to save so much more.aka premonition/time travel shenanigans fix-it fic we deserve after all of THAT
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Gather up the pitiful into your arms by Kingsfoil
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
15 Nov 2023
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Bea was terrified. And it wasn’t because she now found herself in a high speed pursuit, on the back of a flying motorbike, with a frying pan in her hand and a knocked out scientist behind her – at risk of falling off at any moment were it not for the wires holding the hydrogen ballon that kept them afloat – and behind him, a basket of glowing chickens! No, it was because in front of her with her arms wrapped tightly around his torso, was Sean. Peggy’s boy, who for all intents and purposes might as well be her and Peggy’s boy; and they were headed straight for Westwreck, the place that she feared had turned him into someone else entirely.
Bea's history with, and love for, Sean explored through their moments on the aircycle.
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Epilogue: Needle and Thread by Quipxotic
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Nov 2023
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The threat is over, the case closed, but what happens to the survivors of the Circle of Needle and Thread?
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See Life as a Worthy Opponent by Nanyoky
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
03 Nov 2023
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""Don't... don't tell him..."
And Jean could kill him. She could find the razor or knife and finish the job herself, or maybe strangle him with her bare hands."
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Marion gets hurt. It's bad. But he's not the one who's almost lost. And The Circle swears they could just kill Sean for this one. -
promise me you’ll make it up to me by wrrms
Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)
27 Oct 2023
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You don’t know why you’re still here, except that Marion wouldn’t let go of your hand after you’d eased him onto the settee. And then Jean was already coming in with the tea — and Marion was looking at her, but he was holding on to you.
A missing-scene moment of possibility from Sean’s POV, set between leaving the Circle of Silver Flame chapterhouse & Sean striking out on his own to find Duncan.