#caleb x jester

[youcancallmekathyp]

( Polymorph // 4th Level Transmutation )

"We could fly, Jester. We could fly us all." 

“Oh, yeah yeah yeah!"

#widojest #critical role #mighty nein reunited #caleb x jester #lauras pics #otp: you were a kindness when i was a stranger

[genrebender]

There’s something that has been buzzing around in the back of my head for awhile now that I finally figured out how to articulate.

I have a lot of favorite characters, comfort characters, and characters I kin/relate to. One of the characters that fits all three categories is Caleb Widogast, but there is something extra that I just learned to express. Something about him that if I ever meet Liam O’Brien I might start sobbing about how much this character means to me.

He is the only character I’ve ever seen that loves the same way I do. I don’t just mean that he’s a chaotic bisexual disaster or that he’s polyamorous; it’s how deeply and widely he loves, how quickly he comes to care about those around him and how deeply his well of love to give is. It’s his hard to define and place relationship with Veth/Nott. How he falls in love with Jester; how whether it became platonic or is still in some way romantic, when life shows that isn’t what their relationship is going to be they’re dear friends. It’s that regardless of exactly what that love is he, still loves her. The flirting and tension with Mollymauk, and later Lucien. How he sees himself in Essek; though all the trouble in the world hangs around them he falls deeply, even if he holds it back behind the walls of his heart. The way early in the campaign he thinks he should leave the party while they’re all asleep; but he doesn’t, he sits there and lists all the reason to go but he doesn’t. There’s of course the doyelist explanation that the PC needs to stay with the party for the campaign and story, but the Watsonian that he’s already come to deeply care about these people. Even as he tries to keep his heart closed and cold he can’t. Caleb’s heart was designed to love fully, widely, deeply, and passionately. He and Essek are able to fight and stand beside each other as they start to heal. He works to put away his abuser so he can’t do that to anyone again, he becomes a teacher who questions authority and fights against the corrupt parts of the institution, and he continues working to put other corrupt authority figures away.

Even with all Caleb’s been through, all the pain of his past, self loathing, and assholery he works to make the world a better and brighter place. One of the people he once considered abandoning became his sister, the person who helps uproot corruption. This man loves so wholly; familiar, romantic, platonic, and all the messy complicated gray alcoves and variations on that spectrum.

#caleb widogast #liam obrien #critical role caleb #critical role #mighty nein #m9 reunion #campaign 2 #polyamory #love #platonic love #romantic love #familial love #widowmauk #shadowgast #blumendrei #blumentrio #caleb x jester #empire siblings

[acquaxxoid]

“I’m the transmutation wizard, but - you’re the one who changes people.”

#MY HEART #your honor I love them #critical role #widojest #cr campaign 2 #the mighty nein #caleb widogast #jester lavorre #caleb x jester #cr2 ep 91

[bringmebooks]

Siiiiigh. This. Always pairing them up for merch releases. It’s subtle, but I refuse to believe it isn’t deliberate. They all know what could have, should have been. And they’re still breaking my heart over these two. I’ll never recover from them.

#widojest #caleb widogast #jester lavorre #mighty nein #critical role #caleb x jester

[coraleethroughthelookingglass]

Ten Year Fic Favourites

As I mentioned in previous posts, last week marked the ten year anniversary of me posting fic online so as a way to celebrate, I thought I’d put together a little list of my favourite pieces that I’ve written over that time.

2013 - Heart (Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Rated G, 7 Chapters, Fairytale AU)

Only a true champion and an act of love can bring back one lost to the snow and ice.

My very first challenge fic, this was written based around Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen (and I think was posted around the same time Frozen came out - and after the multiple times I’d read the original, by the time I saw that film, I was highly disappointed in it)

2014/2015 - From Winter to Spring (Series, Modern AU)

Rush Hour Crush - (Dacey Mormont/Robb Stark, Rated T, One Shot)

Returning to work after Christmas may bring the same rush hour problems for Dacey but it also proves to be a little more interesting than normal due to the red headed man she quite literally runs into.

Sugar Plum - (Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell, Rated T, One Shot)

Sansa has jitters before performing in The Nutcracker in front of one of her idols, Olenna Redwyne-Tyrell. Luckily Margaery is there to make things better.

The first fics I posted that weren’t for Jaime/Brienne, both are just very fluffy and sweet. The first is a meet-cute, the second more of an established realtionship.

2016 - 33 (Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Rated T, One Shot)

A Westerosi Battlestar Galactica AU mashup. One of my all time favourite things that I’ve ever written.

2017 - Found in Forbidden Nights (Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth/Cersei Lannister, Rated E, One Shot, Canon Divergence)

And my other all time favourite thing I’ve written, which feels very strange to say given that when I wrote this the GoT fandom was plagued by shipping wars and a threesome with these characters was almost unheard of. I feel very proud that I challenged myself with this fic and came out the other side a better writer.

2019 - Carry on My Wayward Son (Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Rated T, One Shot, Modern AU)

The Jaime and Brienne hunt monsters in the Supernatural universe fic no one asked for but I really wanted to write anyway 🤣

2020 - All Veth’s Fault (Caleb Widogast/Jester Lavorre, Rated G, One Shot, Modern AU)

My first, and so far only, step into Critical Role fanfiction, this is a Caleb/Jester meet cute at a modern day music festival. It came after a long period of writer’s block and was something that came together very quickly.

2021/2022 - El Tango De Rose (Rose Tico/Armitage Hux, Rated G, One Shot, Modern AU)

Written slowly during my pandemic writers block but not posted for a long time (since I’d psyched myself out of posting at that time), this is a Dancing with the Stars/Strictly Come Dancing AU where Hux is partnered with Rose and has to learn to dance the Tango.

2022 - Poison and Wine (Galadriel/Sauron, Rated T, Part One of Exiles)

My first Haladriel/Saurondriel fic written for this prompt by Scriberated - So… *awkward silence* who’s going to write the fic where shit goes to shit and in desperation Galadriel agrees to marry Sauron to save what’s left of middle earth? This was honestly meant to be my one and only fic for this pairing but clearly I was only deluding myself as I’ve written so much more since!

2023 - The Decurion’s Wife (Galadriel/Halbrand, Rated E, WIP, Roman Era AU. Part of the Time and Time Again Series with my amazing friend @somebirdortheother)

And this brings me right up to date as I’m currently working on chapter 4 of this Roman Era AU. This is the one fic I think I’ve done the most research for and it has been an absolute delight to learn about so many things about Roman Era Britain and the lives of soldiers and civilians up on Hadrian’s Wall.

The likelihood is if I’m still writing in another ten years I’ll have found other ship(s) to explore (or who knows, maybe I’ll have actually written a novel!) but for now this is what I have. And through all the inspiration and writers block, all the tears and laughter, I really couldn’t have kept going without all the love and support that each fandom I’ve dipped a toe into has given me. I know writers say this a lot, but for anyone who’s ever felt weird in leaving a comment on anyone’s fic - please don’t! Even two or three words can mean so much. And that kudos email makes me smile every time I see it. It’s a little thing but it means a lot. I love you guys and I think after ten years, I can confidently say - I AM a writer 😊😊😊😊

#the joys of writing #ten year anniversary #jaime x brienne #sansa x margaery #dacey x robb #game of thrones fanfiction #critical role fanfiction #caleb x jester #trop fanfiction #halbrand x galadriel #sauron x galadriel #most of my weird AUs altogether #thank you to everyone who’s gotten me to this point

[spookyflashlight]

This is how widojest can still win

#I’m half joking #I’m sorry this is my toxic trait #I’m still not over them #critical role #widojest #jester #caleb widogast #caleb x jester #cr c2 #the mighty nein

[isanyofthisforreal-ornot]

Not that I ever really stopped but, I'm back on my widojest bullshit

#caleb x jester #Caleb #jester #critical role #mighty nein #caleb widogast #jester lavorre #cr #widojest

[widojestsecretsanta]

Widojest Secret Santa 2022 Gift Exchange Sign-Ups Open!

Sign up via Google Forms ✨here✨

Timeline

Sign-ups close Nov 25th at midnight PST

Assignments sent out Nov 26th

Gifts posted Dec 24-28th (post whenever you are comfortable within this window)

Gift Options

Fic - 1000+ words

Art - one "complete" piece (by your own standard)

Gifset - 4+ gifs

Playlist - 40+ minutes play time

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(or even mix+match???)

More guidelines can be found in the sign-up form.

#widojest #widojestsecretsanta #widojest secret santa #widojest gift exchange #caleb x jester #jester x caleb #announcements

[ao3feed-widojest]

Sapphire's Sendings

by MerryMoonlights

The first time Caleb Widogast stepped into Sapphire’s Sendings to post a letter only to unceremoniously have a donut shoved into his face, he was understandably a little wrong-footed. In fact, he never quite regained that footing throughout the rest of his interaction with the blue tiefling who was holding the donut, which was perhaps the only reason the misunderstanding had the chance to arise in the first place.

(or: Jester owns a post office, Caleb sends letters to his dead parents, and there are many pastries)

Words: 11354, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Jester Lavorre, Caleb Widogast, Mollymauk Tealeaf, Yasha (Critical Role), Nott | Veth Brenatto, Beauregard Lionett

Relationships: Jester Lavorre/Caleb Widogast

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Humor, Romance, Fluff, so many pastries, Caleb Widogast Deserves Nice Things, and by god he’s going to get them, (after a little misunderstanding)

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/41097783

#widojest #caleb x jester #critical role fanfiction #critical role #ao3feed #IFTTT

[widojestweek]

widojest week 2022 dates and prompts

Hello! We're excited to announce the dates and prompts for widojest week 2022!

This year widojest week will be taking place July 10th to July 16th. The prompts for each day will be as follows:

Sunday (July 10th): Sketching /Journaling Monday (July 11th): “If You Survive and I Don’t” / Sacrifice Tuesday (July 12th): First Dance / Last Dance Wednesday (July 13th): Post-Canon AU or Free Choice Thursday (July 14th): Fake Dating/Fake Parents or Lifting Each Other Up (Emotionally or Physically) Friday (July 15th): What Happens in the Magnificent Mansion Stays There Saturday (July 16th): Wedding

While each day has more than one prompt, feel free to pick only one or incorporate both if you'd like! All type of media (ex. fan art, fanfic, music, cosplay, etc.) is welcome.

Please be sure to tag your content #widojestweek2022 on tumblr and twitter to make it easier to find and share.

We look forward to seeing what you all create!

#critical role #widojest #widojestweek2022 #jester lavorre #caleb widogast #caleb x jester #jester x caleb #administrative #information

[youcancallmekathyp]

Caleb&Jester in “The MightyNein Reunited Pt.1″

“Caleb! Our boat sank! Everybody...well. Ukotoa is awake or something, Fjord gave away the key! We'll need you, and Essek probably too. We're in..." 

#widojest #critical role #cr spoilers #caleb x jester #mighty nein reunited #lauras pics #//anyway away from the anon hate in my inbox to this instead!

[somewhatsentientspellbook]

Caleb Widogast - Flames by Tedy

But when I'm near you I feel flames

I touch the fire, I get burned

I feel this rush beneath my feet, it's like I'm falling

Is this love

Oh, this is love

#mighty nein #cr2 #critical role c2 #campaign 2 #the mighty nein #caleb widogast #bren aldric ermendrud #liam o'brien #jester lavorre #jester critical role #essek thelyss #astrid beck #eadwulf grieve #blumentrio #widojest #shadowgast #essek x caleb #caleb x jester #critical role #Spotify

[acquaxxoid]

Watching c2, episode 77 and I finally got to Caleb’s “I’ll tell you later,” to Jester and

HE NEVER DOES

#her little ‘I’m here for you if you ever want to talk about it ok?’ to him just #AND HIS SMILE BACK #MY HEART #critical role #widojest #caleb x jester #campaign 2 #the mighty nein

[whumpwizard]

Whumptober2022 Day 6: Proof of Life

The Nein rushed into Ludinus’ estate at full speed, praying to every god they followed that Essek was still alive.   They heard through the grape vine, thanks to Beau, that Ludinus had recently taken in a ‘stray’ from the Dynasty. It didn’t take much digging to find out that it was Essek, stolen away from his post in Eiselcross and held in the Martinet’s home.  Caleb had immediately booked of time in his teaching, under the pretence of some rather important business abroad, and had requests Beau as his personal guard. Obviously, Yasha would have to come as well in such a case, and it was hardly an issue to call Fjord and Jester and the Balleater back to the shores of the Menagerie Coast.

Caduceus had been slightly harder to reach, as always, but a few well-informed crows was really all it took in the end. As for Veth, she had jumped as soon as Caleb reached out.  The only one they couldn't reach was Kingsley, something that no one was quite sure how they felt about.  It felt wrong not to ask, but Caleb would have been lying if he said he hadn’t been relieved at the rebuff from the tiefling. And, just like that, the Nein were back in business.  All except one, that is.  And that one was who they were after.       

“Alright, everyone split up and check every room for him. We have no idea where the Martinet might be keeping him so we have to keep our eyes peeled.” Fjord said, directing them all to split up. Jester and Caleb rushed down the north hall together, Caleb looking for arcane traps while Jester searched for mechanical ones. Both of their hearts were racing more than they would have admitted to anyone.

“He’ll…he’ll be alright, right Cayleb?” Jester asked, the worry clear in voice and her wide eyes. Caleb just nodded.

“Ja, of course, Jester. He…he will be fine. You are a cleric after all. You…you can make him fine if he is not.” Caleb said. It wasn’t a question, and Jester knew it. She nodded back.  Both of them knew what Essek meant to the other. Everyone knew what Essek meant to Caleb, of course, but even Fjord had only questions about him and Jester. It was years ago now, and they were so very in love, and Fjord knew he had no place to ask about Jester’s past loves. But many of them suspected that they, too, had been involved at some point.  

Interrupting the shared glance, Caleb and Jester heard a scream from down the hall. Blood curdling and deep, they knew whose it was. Both of them took off at a sprint.

“Essek hold on!” Jester shouted, running as fast as she could towards the sound.

“We are here!  Please, Essek, we are coming!” Caleb followed, running faster than he ever had in his life. Their cries were met only by screams filling the hall.

When they found the room that the shouts were coming from, they couldn’t help but freeze in the doorway. Essek was alone in the room, chained to the wall, and very badly beaten. His eyes were puffy with bruises, and tears tracked through the dirt caked on his face. His breathing was ragged and hitched, and every other ne was punctuated with a scream. He was calling out to someone, anyone.

“Essek we’re here…” Caleb said, rushing towards him. Jester at his side, they both knelt beside him and began to inspect his wounds. Caleb could see the bruises around his wrists from the shackles, sprained at worse and strained at best.  More worrisome though, was the gash in his chest, slowly dripping blood onto the floor.

“He…he is done with me…” Essek choked out. The effort of it brought him to coughing, as blood trickled out of his mouth.

“Well we aren’t Essek, so don’t you go quitting on us yet. It’s very rude, you know.” Jester said, trying to cover the worry with a smile and a laugh, just as she always did. Essek tried to laugh in response, but it only brought on more coughs.  More wheezes. More blood.  More and more and more, until every breath was coated with it. Until Essek was choking on it. Until his breaths slowed…and stopped.

“No…” Caleb whispered. “No no no no no….no!” He grabbed Essek’s shoulders and began to shake the drow.  “Wake up! Wake up!” he ordered. But it was no use. Essek’s eyes were rolled back, blank and hollow.

“I…I can fix it, wait.” Jester said, scrambling in her bag and searching for something. After a few moments, she pulled out a necklace.  It was lovely, and opulent, and Caleb remembered the day that Essek had given it to her. He and Jester had visited together, to tell him that it was their last time. Their last time sleeping together, and the end of Jester’s involvement in the relationship. And this had been his goodbye gift. A necklace, studded with heart shaped diamonds, worth far much more than the spell needed. Jester ripped off the centre diamond, and held it to Essek’s chest. “Work.” she commanded. “Work, dammit.”

“Please…”  Caleb pleaded. “Please…please please please. Come back to us.” As he begged, he fiddled with the cuffs at Essek’s wrists, undoing them and rubbing the elf’s wrists. Jester took the other wrist in her hand as she chanted. Prayed. Called upon Artie and the Wildmother and the Storm Lord and every god they all knew. This had to work.

A moment passed. Nothing. Just silence and the bated breath of the two mages, alone in the room with Essek…Essek’s body.

Another breath. Silence.

Another…thump…thump…thump.

“I’ve got it!” Jester shouted. “I’ve got a pulse!” Essek’s eyes blew wide open, as he sucked in breath, raspy and shaking.

Caleb melted, and threw himself into Essek’s arms.

#whumptober2022 #no.6 #ive got a pulse #screams from down the hall #critical role #fic #shadowgast #essek thelyss #caleb widogast #jester lavorre #mighty nein #caleb x jester x essek #caleb x essek #caleb x jester #jester x essek #near death experience #kidnapping #rescue mission

[doomlover21]

This is the Mummy Au piece I never quite finished. Was trying to finish this for the free choice day of widojest week, but I wasn't able to finish in time. I figured that you'd all want to see the progress on this anyways, though.

#wip #fanart #widojest #caleb x jester #jester x caleb #widojest au

[fowlfederluft]

I love the ship Caleb X jester so much it's unreal

#Caleb X jester