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• A Murder of Essek(s) by Operafloozy

  Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  14 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Beauregard Lionett & Essek Thelyss
  • Essek Thelyss & Verin Thelyss
  • Essek Thelyss
  • crossover of sorts
  • Conventions
  • Murder Mystery
  • background Shadowgast
  • POV character is not 'our' Essek
  • but our Essek is a main character

  Summary

  Essek is invited to a multi-reality Essek convention. An Essek Thelyss Dies. An Essek Thelyss investigates.

  On possibilities, and confronting what could have been.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  16,346

  Chapters:

  7/7

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  93

  Kudos:

  88

  Bookmarks:

  14

  Hits:

  895

• The Nature of Nature by bluegreenamber

  Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  14 Jul 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Caduceus Clay
  • Clay Family (Critical Role)
  • Constance Clay
  • Melora the Wildmother (Critical Role)
  • Pre-Canon
  • Comics: The Mighty Nein Origins (Critical Role)
  • Background Mighty Nein
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • No Dialogue
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Religious Content
  • Bees
  • Touch-Starved
  • Caduceus Clay Needs a Hug
  • Anger
  • Abandonment
  • Animal Attack
  • Blooming Grove (Critical Role)
  • Starvation
  • self-neglect
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • Food
  • Tea
  • The Mighty Nein as Family
  • Canon Compliant
  • Character Study
  • Animal Death
  • Isolation
  • Gardens & Gardening

  Summary

  Caduceus contemplates the different aspects of his goddess and Her domains.

  [Critter Gen Week 2024 - Day 7: Free day]

  Series

  • Part 5 of Critter Gen Week 2024

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,926

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

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  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  39

  Bookmarks:

  7

  Hits:

  285

• Loving to Eating to Praying by bluegreenamber

  Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  11 Jul 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Anni Aughta & Fresh Cut Grass & Ashton Greymoore & Milo Krook
  • Ashton Greymoore
  • Fresh Cut Grass (Critical Role)
  • Milo Krook
  • Anni Aughta
  • Food
  • Cooking
  • Fluff
  • No Dialogue
  • Pre-Canon
  • Krook House (Critical Role)
  • Music
  • Light Angst
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • Eating
  • self-neglect
  • Alcohol
  • Misogyny
  • He/Him and They/Them Pronouns for Ashton Greymoore
  • He/Him and They/Them Pronouns for Fresh Cut Grass (Critical Role)
  • Team as Family
  • Queerplatonic Relationships

  Summary

  The Krook House kitchen had, at one point, been full of life and love and laughter.

  [Critter Gen Week 2024 - Day 5: Food/Meals/Cooking]

  Series

  • Part 4 of Critter Gen Week 2024

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,203

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

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  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  20

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  125

• A Reflection or Molding by Operafloozy

  Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  10 Jul 2024

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Caduceus Clay & Essek Thelyss
  • Caduceus Clay
  • Essek Thelyss
  • Grief/Mourning
  • happens far in the future
  • so most of the usual suspects are dead
  • Caduceus Clay is great at other people's emotions but not his own
  • no beta we die like the majority of the nein after a few hundred years

  Summary

  Caduceus experiences a loss. Essek comforts him

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,427

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  14

  Kudos:

  63

  Bookmarks:

  11

  Hits:

  278

• Learning the Layout of Loss by bluegreenamber

  Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  10 Jul 2024

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Leo Amicus & Grimoria
  • Leo Amicus
  • Grimoria (Candela Obscura)
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Background Character Death
  • Team as Family
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Crying
  • Post-Canon
  • Bittersweet Ending
  • Tea
  • Inheritance

  Summary

  Grimoria struggles to come to terms with the letter she found in Leo's apartment after their final assignment.

  [Critter Gen Week 2024 - Day 4: Mourning/Grief]

  Series

  • Part 3 of Critter Gen Week 2024

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,617

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  19

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  151