15 Works in Essek Thelyss Overthinks
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In the handful of months that have gone of Essek's first semester at Tidepeak University he's managed to create quite the reputation for himself. His perfect score at the entrance exam already offering some aid in that, plus the perk of rooming by himself in the dorms.
That is until a human man by the name Caleb Widogast seems intent to slot himself into his otherwise mostly solitary world. If not for his intelligence and talent Essek would have outright refused- or is it perhaps the warmth, openness and complexity that makes him want to keep Caleb around?
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Stay Here Beside Me by Chanse (SpottedEnchants) for batwayneman, talesofsymphoniac
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Mar 2025
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They have spoken through this before. Essek can brave doing so again.
He shudders in a breath and presents this jagged sliver of his heart.
“I care for you, Caleb Widogast. I would like to.”
Coasting over tender bruise and threading the last of a tremble through downsoft hair, Essek shields the back of Caleb’s neck.
“I’m unconvinced I can bear it all.”
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AKA the wizards play with yet another route of intimacy
Series
- Part 83 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 58 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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The Courting of one's own husband by Zimbini_bimbini
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
14 Aug 2024
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After a visit with verin while essek was on business in Tal'Dorei, Caleb finds it necessary to court his own husband
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Eyes So Blue and Hair So Grown by Chanse (SpottedEnchants) for quinn_of_aebradore
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
26 Apr 2024
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“Yasha, you-.”
She raises her brows, curiosity blooming plain by the tilt of her head.
“You asked me…”
Preemptive regret and baseless fear both weigh down his tongue. Light, what is he doing.
Essek takes a breath, rushes. No turning back.
“You asked me, a bit ago, if I love him. Caleb.”
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AKA the Xhorhas kids talk about talking about love
Series
- Part 77 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 36 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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Warmkeeping by Onemorestep for fjorests_of_wildemount
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Dec 2022
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Essek extended an arm in invitation and caught Caleb’s eye. No turning back now. “Would you like to, um, perhaps-” Light, this was difficult, “Come here? I am warm.”
Caleb looked at him with surprise morphing into longing, teetering on the cliff’s edge of decision. Essek watched the shift in the set of his jaw as he settled.
“Ah. D-danke. No.”
“No?”
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Not Forgive or Regret, but Open Up by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Oct 2022
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“May I kiss you?”
“Why?”
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AKA the wizards talk some, and then smooch a bunch
Series
- Part 61 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 37 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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We Should Explore Other Things by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
05 Oct 2022
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Essek is far from the only one capable of serving as a knowledgeable sounding board, and he is well aware that Caleb has a clever, crafty mind all on his own. And still, beyond that, if he dares to consider, Essek could even share the spell itself from his very own spellbook.
This is not what Caleb has asked of him.
This is a puzzle.
Best Essek begin solving it.
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AKA the wizards attempt to reverse engineer a spell, and Essek confronts one of the moorbounders in the room
Series
- Part 59 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 32 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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If only it were easy! to wish and want for nothing.
If only you weren't less human for it—wishing and wanting for nothing
-Amrit BrarEssek wants, but he's not sure he is needed.
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"Caleb sprawls across from Essek on the plush couch, upholstered in soft, deep red, with a texture carefully chosen to be pleasant for both of its nightly residents. He’s half-horizontal, one leg flung atop the couch and the other tucked up against the back, reading a book amid his veritable nest of cushions, blankets, and one of the kitchen cats, equally sprawled out across the arm of the couch. His hair is loose and soft-looking, freshly washed and touseled dry, and Essek has most definitely not spent the last five minutes peeking over at him across the edge of his copy of a poetry anthology he’s read hundreds of times over."
Asking your friend/narrative mirror/crush to cuddle with you followed by gratuitous fluff with a fun addition of a Narratively Significant nightmare.
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- Part 2 of After The War
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I Would Love for You To See the Sunrise by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 May 2022
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The plants would sway just the same had Essek instead fallen—and stayed so—alongside the Mighty Nein’s success, despite their implicit forbiddance; the air’s levity does nothing to lift shame from shoulders.
The world is unchanged.
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AKA and so Essek lived. Now what?
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- Part 50 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 4 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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Essek shuts his eyes again since hiding always seems to help, recreant that he is.
Words pour without order.
“I want to do something about- whatever this is, because it’s incredibly distracting and it’s not going away, and I feel-”
His brows feel tight enough to crack opal, his face and ears aflame as with his worst sunburn, and there’s no Yasha nor Jester here to assist him. This is the worst.
But maybe saying this next part aloud will make things better, or at least set the stage for solution.
“I feel it might be nice, whatever this could be.”
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AKA the wizards indulge in some frisky business
Series
- Part 35 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 57 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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And Like Blooming Seeds from Dark We'll Reach by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 Dec 2021
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Essek slips into his role as Caleb’s teacher as if it is all he was placed in this life to do.
Caleb’s blue eyes hold steady, patient, but with an excitable restraint Essek assumes to mean the anticipation of discovery.
Safe in this study of Caleb’s making, Essek chooses to indulge the both of them further.
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AKA the wizards truly begin delving into Aeor’s mysteries and Essek stumbles into an unsavory likeness
Series
- Part 1 of Eiselcross is For Lovers, Aeor is For Wizards
- Part 32 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 9 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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Just a Little Bit Longer, Love by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
19 Nov 2021
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Caleb puffs a breath.
“Not too far off, I will be an old man.”
His wry grin doesn’t reach his pretty blue eyes.
“I suppose.”
Essek traces a loose second finger along Caleb’s hairline.
Quite far off for Caleb though, isn’t that? More of an ‘eventually’.
Then Caleb continues, before trailing off as if still picking words.
“And you…”
“Me?”
With a dry huff of a chuckle, Caleb looks aside.
“Well, you will be you.”
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AKA the wizards have some alone time in the present and try to figure the future, together
Series
- Part 30 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 56 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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Keep Me Alive, Make Me Cold by Chanse (SpottedEnchants)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Oct 2021
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Caleb’s eyes carve into him, burnished blue and alive. Calm, curious. Maybe even concerned under those deeply drawn brows.
“What is your anger for?”
What is it for?
What is it for, he has the gall to ask?
It is for you, Caleb Widogast.
This, Essek does not say.
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AKA the wizards try to bond when their bond is tried and Essek contemplates, among other things, if he has frigid woe
Series
- Part 2 of Eiselcross is For Lovers, Aeor is For Wizards
- Part 25 of Touching Sentiments
- Part 10 of Touching Sentiments (Chronological)
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Essek Thelyss is not a good person.
He himself knows this.
So why does he think good things will happen to him?
Why does he assume that the Nein still want him?
(Aka Essek thinks everything will be fine and it's not)