#Baernie

[critter-genfic-events]

Gen Fics with Reunions

It's nice to be able to get the folks back together. This time, we've got eight fics that feature reunions - parents, siblings, and long lost friends. Check them out beneath the cut, and as always - comment or kudos if you like them!

Laudna and Bella catch up 20 some odd years later after a chance encounter at a casino in Kymal.

Old Friends and New by AstoriaColumnStaircase (4133,General)

Warnings: None

Pairings: Laudna & Bella, Laudna/Imogen Temult

Reccer says: It's a fun look at a future version of Bella, and it's cathartic to think about Laudna being able to interact with that part of her unlife without pain.

Someone had opened a portal in the tree.

A Long Awaited Reunion by Settai (520,Teen)

Warnings: None

Pairings: Keyleth & Vilya

Reccer says: Oh my entire heart - this is the fic I wanted to read after watching that episode

A few years after faking his own death, Essek runs into someone he used to know by chance in Uthodurn - A certain someone who had supposedly died his last death in Bazzoxan a few decades before.

No One by That Name Lives Here Anymore by Operafloozy (13138,Teen)

Warnings: None

Pairings: Essek Thelyss & his father, Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast

Reccer says: Operafloozy is great at dysfunctional family interactions, and this is a really uncomfortable but extremely human.

Her son returns with a new set of friends after months away, notably missing a handsome blue-skinned bard with a shy smile and a loving gaze who never took his eyes off of Orym, and Alma is a mother after all, and a mother has a way of knowing things.

I'm on the mend, but I lost a friend by Multifandom_damnation (1713,General)

Warnings:

Pairings: Orym & Alma (his mother)

Reccer says: Extremely sweet, with background Dorym

Vox Machina aid the gods and rescue one of their own.

I've Held You in the Plan by CitizenMocha (4015,Teen)

Warnings: None

Pairings: Vax & Vex

Reccer says: I liked it

The night after the demon fight and the reunion of the day after.

don’t fall into darkness by CymbirrEsra (3667,Teen)

Warnings: graphic depictions of violence

Pairings: Orym & Baernie

Reccer says: extremely sweet

Verin goes looking for Essek after Essek fakes his death.

dreaming with my eyes open by breitweisergallery (4414,Teen)

Warnings: Brief Suicidal Ideation

Pairings: Essek Thelyss & Verin Thelyss, Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast

Reccer says: I liked it

Three hundred years after the Red Solstice, a much-changed Deirta Thelyss seeks out her son for the first time in centuries and finds herself greeted by an unfamiliar face: Essek's current partner. It's an unexpected turn of events and Essek is must-changed himself, when he arrives, but perhaps there is a chance at healing left for the two of them.

looking for the meaning of life by quinn_of_aebradore (15281,Teen)

Warnings: Implied character death (due to happening far in the future)

Pairings: Deirta Thelyss & Essek Thelyss, Essek Thelyss/OMC

Reccer says: It allows Deirta and Essek to both be complicated and change, which I enjoy!

This is one of our weekly communally-generated gen rec lists. Every week we announce a new theme and allow anyone to submit a fic recommendation. Please note that the summary and content notes are provided by the reccer, and may be different than what the author has provided. Please assume good intentions all around. <3

And hey, anyone includes you!

For February 1st, we'll be featuring Nott the Brave (or Veth Brenatto!). Goblin, Halfling, Mom, Adventurer, Alcoholic and someone who rocks a catsuit - she's got a lot going on.

Any fics coming to mind? Well, then use this form to submit!

And we'll be following that up with:

February 15: Sendings

March 1: Fearne

March 15: Road Trips

If you're looking for some more, check out some fics written in the critter genfic bingo tag, or the older rec lists! Or you can request your own card and join in on the fun!

[annemarieyeretzian]

imogen saying “[liliana] would’ve come.” and laudna saying “I think it’s smart to give her this opportunity to prove herself.” and imogen saying “I think she doesn’t support ludinus, I do believe that now.”

me? tired of imodna bending over backward to excuse liliana? you bet (bonus: laudna telling imogen “you’ve been without your mother for so long,” yeah and orym’s been without his father and his husband, and nel has been without her husband and her son, and baernie, leeta, and maeve have been without their father and their brother)

[xandrikart]

I was planning to simply make triplets fan designs, but then it turned into a full fanart. I love these girls so much!

[teaweltzer]

I love Orym's family so much

[shrugsinchinese]

Baby Orym meets the Triplets + Will 💕💕

[ittybittyremy]

I’m rewatching 4SD and I just realized that Matt gave an answer on behalf of Baernie for the cryptid question

[captainsparklefingers]

Prayer circle for Baernie to be alright or at the very least alive and rescuable, because Orym and his family can't take another tragic loss in the line of duty.

Oryn is already in full war mode. I don't wanna see war mode+.

[alliekitaguchi]

I need Dorian and Orym to survive not just because I would be devastated if we lost one or both of them, but also because I want to see the scene where Orym introduces Dorian to Leeta, Maeve, and Baernie officially. They’re going to be SO happy and SO overprotective 💚💙

[screechingfromthevoid]

Mori will probably tell Birdie and Ollie. I think Birdie is going to take it out on morrigan. She'll say something, she'll make a very bad decision against the fate stitcher.

Liliana will probably message Telvin, if she can. Let him know she's gone. They'll both be gone. She doesn't know about the lake. She's so weak. She tells him she loves him and that she's sorry.

Delilah will be stuck on the moon. In a crystal. At least Gwendolyn de Rolo will never have to feel that hatred again.

Who will tell Milo? Will Justi hear from the the fungi that they found them? Will she leave the den to go find them? Will Milo and Justi mourn them?

Will the Platinum Dragon reinstate his family? After years and wrong turns, will the Platinum Dragon absolve him? Will they raise him to Sainthood? Side by side with Saint Graham?

C Pop originals will, of course, double in value. But they all start to seep this energy, this magic. They will be sought after and hoarded. And the few C Poppers who've met him will talk about his bravery. His sacrifice.

The Silken Squall will be without an heir. Zeru will cut his hair and properly mourn, even without his body. His stewardess, their mother, will never sing again. Music sounds too much like him. She can hear him in every note. Every melody.

Keyleth will have to tell Alma. She hates this part. And so close after her own goodbyes.

Nel and Baernie and Leeta and Maeve will have to sit with the fact that all the men they love in this world were taken by the same cause. The same people. When Ludinus Da'leth inevitably comes back, the triplets want to know. They will be there to kill him again.

Alma stops taking patients. Her apprentices will handle it. She can't bear to look at a baby. He was once a baby. He was so small in her arms. Those memories. They are weighed down by knowing how he ends. She can't look at a baby, a child. All she can think about is how one day a boy will become a man and whether it is fair or not he will die. Maybe too early. Maybe that man with so much left to live will die young and unjust.

If anyones left after this, that is.

[andi-o-geyser]

This episode truly had everything. Bells Hells brought back the flowers to heal the poison and now Keyleth is out of bed and ready to go. Baernie and some of the other Ashari are still alive and well, Fearne now has Asmodeus' champion's phone number so she can hit him up for a booty call, and Orym got his moment in the sun. Chetney also got a definitely cursed sword. A Reilorun was summoned to creepily monologue. Keyleth is gathering allies and may bring the OG gang of Vox Machina back together out of retirement. Ashton has fucking titan blood, Imogen may sacrifice herself, Ludinas was spotted talking to bedridden King Dwendel, Keyleth used to have a perch for the raven but now she knows Vax is stuck suffering in the orb, the Tree of Atrophy sounds pretty fucking much like it's the remains of the Tree of Names, we're heading to the Shattered Teeth to meet the woman Keyleth went to for grief counselling to rally our forces, Liliana is still a bitch, the Changebringer is scared, Vecna the Whispered One was referenced which made Launda react to it because of Delilah, and Ludinus has been extending his life by sucking the energy force from fey so that he can simulate the lifespan of a druid and we can kill him by severing his neck from the rest of his body. Rip him apart and tear shit up WE HAVE GOT IT GOING ON

[twinklestarss]

“The group that was sent was led by Baernie. How long as it been? Three days. How long did you anticipate the trip taking? Well, hopefully no more than a day.”-Keyleth, Orym, and Laudna

Campaign 3 Episode 66: Aid of the Tempset

[theolsuspendisbelief]

Songs of Wind and Woe

Fandom: Critical Role Campaign 3

Relationship: Orym/Dorian Storm

Rated M

Complete

Words: 42,056

Dorian Storm, unmoored and free for the first time in his life, blows into a mountain village on winds leading him to the Rift between the material world and the elemental plane of air.

Orym of the Air Ashari has spent the past six years falling into a routine of duty and family after an unexplained tragedy struck Zephrah. It is a numb but comfortable existence, as the Exandria somehow keeps spinning.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

“You’re having fun?” Leeta asks.

Orym rolls his eyes. Six years later and they still dote on him. He’s lucky, he reminds himself. “Yes. Good drink, good music… Questionable company aside, I’m having fun.”

“Plus the good view.” Baernie adds, motioning her mug back towards the bard, now onto another jaunty tune, but this time in a language Orym doesn’t understand. It’s all smooth vowels and soft consonants, rushing into his ear like the very wind itself. He’s already staring by the time Baernie’s words register, and he quickly brings up his mug for another long draw, hoping the tall folk sized drinking vessel covers up any hint of heat he can feel rising to his cheeks. It is a good view. He hadn’t even realized that was something he could still notice.

[annemarieyeretzian]

orym running towards baernie, sliding onto his knees,,, baernie grasping orym, briefly sobbing into his shoulder,,, orym saying “take it slow, take it slow.”

[dnd-shows-have-my-soul]

Baernie better not be dead.

I’ll cry

[teaweltzer]

Redesign of all of Orym's family we've met! (I refuse to change Will if we find out it's vastly different later on)

Missing the dark hair from my designs in January tho tbh

[michaelefrenart]

Leeta of the Air Ashari, Master of Defense

Will do Maeve & Baernie(if she's still alive) later.