#blumendrei ship week

[quinn-of-aebradore]

CR Non-Endgame Ships Poll

Hello and welcome to the project that’s been occupying me all week! A showdown of sorts between 32 Critical Role ships that were not together by the end of their respective campaign! Some notes;

I’ve gone with the phrasing “non-endgame” as some of the relationships featured were together in canon at some point (ex. Blumendrei) or one half/both were canonically attracted to the other/had a crush (ex Widofjord). These are here alongside relationships that are purely fanon (ex. Verinwulf)

Since C3 and present-day EXU are still ongoing, open stories, no ships featuring those characters are included. Anything’s possible. Since EXU: Calamity is a closed story, it gets featured.

All relationships featured here are m/m, f/f, or poly. I have a running list for m/f ships and may do a bracket for them in the future depending on how this one goes. I am not ignoring them.

Each poll will feature art of the characters in question, included with permission from their artists. Links to the original posts will be included and I highly encourage giving them some love if you vote!

Let’s not do ship hate y’all, this is for fun. Please. Campaign for your favorites but keep it civil.

Block “cr non endgame poll” if you don’t want to see this further!

Voting will begin tomorrow (Feb 12) at 6pm CST! All polls with run for 24 hours

Matchup links and breakdown below the cut

Round 1; 

Widofjord VS Percy/Tary

Luciessek VS Fjordwulf

Vaxmore VS Scanvax

Fjolly VS Yussa/Essek

Verinwulf VS Jester/Reani

Polynein VS Blumendrei

Shadowfjord VS Vexleth

Perc’ildan VS Zerxus/Asmodeus

Beaukeg VS Jestrid

Laerryn/Patia VS Vexahra

Jester/Calianna VS Beastrid

Beaureani VS Yashter

Shadowmauk VS Polymachina

Mariking VS Beaujester

Kashvax VS Lucigast

Gilmore/J’mon VS Widomauk

Round 2;

Widofjord VS Fjordwulf

Vaxmore VS Fjolly

Jester/Reani VS Polynein

Vexleth VS Perc’ildan

Beaukeg VS Vexahra

Beau/Astrid VS Beau/Reani

Polymachina VS Beaujester

Lucigast VS Widomauk

Round 3;

Widofjord VS Vaxmore

Polynein VS Vexleth

Vexahra VS Beau/Reani

Polymachina VS Widomauk

Round 4 (Semifinals);

Vaxmore VS Polynein

Vexahra VS Widomauk

Round 5 (Finals);

Vaxmore VS Widomauk

[thelakerose]

Astrid considers how Trent has shaped her and calls on Eadwulf to inflict some nostalgic pain.

A fulfilment of Blumentrio Week Day 5: Scars 

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Fandom:

Critical Role (Web Series)

Relationships:

Astrid/Eodwulf/Caleb Widogast

Astrid/Eodwulf/Bren Aldric Ermendrud

Astrid/Eodwulf (Critical Role)

Characters:

Astrid (Critical Role)

Eodwulf (Critical Role)

Bren Aldric Ermendrud (Mentioned)

Caleb Widogast (Mentioned)

Tags: Knifeplay, Blood, Self-harm, Discussion of/reference to abuse and torture canonical with Trent Ikithon and his Scourger training program

[daggersandarrows]

thinking about dorian laid out on his side, propping himself up with an elbow, resting his face against his hand and trying not to look at orym like That as he gets ready for bed. fearne is sprawled on her back beside him, chatting to orym, and dorian can barely even process the words, fighting exhaustion and affection and failing on both counts.

[my-least-favorite-savior]

Regrets

Set several months after the campaign, and after Trent is dead. Caleb has successfully killed Trent and assumed his seat on the Assembly. Now he's living in Rexxentrum, rebuilding his relationship with Astrid and Wulf and trying to change the Empire for the better, even as he still sometimes struggles with what that means.

There's a "You murdered my father in Trent's basement," revenge plot, but Wulf solves that problem in the first three paragraphs. This is more about the emotional fallout.

For the "Redemption" day of the Blumendrei ship week... but it's complicated, because who gets to decide what redemption is, anyway?

Tags: poly Blumendrei, murder, assassination, grey morality, guest starring Beau and Yasha.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30553779

[malaismere]

C2 Ship Stats

With the end of C2, I wanted to post the final versions of the ship stats I've been working on based off of number of fics on ao3.

First up - top 5 ships + Fjorester and Nott/Yeza

As you can see....Shadowgast really knocked it out of the park these last few months, didn’t it? For comparison, the first 3 months of C2 had just under 800 fics total. This graph really works as evidence to how big an impact ships being canon is - Beauyasha drops off with the reveal of Zuala, and Beaujester and Widojest both rise with the recognition of the crushes - Beaujester dropping off when Beauyasha becomes canon, and Widojest dropping off with Fjorester becoming canon. Veth/Yeza also hits it’s high point with the reveal of their marriage and their reunion. Other points of interest is that Widomauk peaks with Molly’s death, and you can see the peak from the Essek reveal spiking Shadowgast.

Fjord

Fjord actually spends most of the time with Widofjord as the dominant ship - starting high with the first few months of C2, before subsiding briefly to Widojest, only to rise sharply following the pirate arc. Fjorclay/Teahaw takes over following Fjord becoming a paladin of the Wildmother, and falls with Fjorjester becoming more explicit and Taliesin officially stating Caduceus’ aromantic status in game. For background ships, Fjord/Molly stays a reliably notable presence, although it definitely drops with the rise of Fjorclay, and while Fjord/Avantika peaks during the pirate arc, by the end of the year it’s essentially nil. Fjord/Nott spends most of the time very low, but has notable peaks in mid 2019 and early 2021.

BEAU

2018 is dominated by Beauyasha, but 2019 is dominated by Beaujester. It isn’t until 2020 when Beauyasha hits, but when it does - well, it stays pretty consistently off the charts.Aside from a peak of Beau/Keg following their sleeping together, Beau’s third ship remains a consistent Beau/Jester/Yasha - which is by far the top poly ship in the fandom.

CALEB

Caleb has two ships that break the graph - Widomauk, during it’s high point following Molly’s death, and Shadowgast following the reveal in early 2020 and throughout 2021 while Essek travelled with the party. Widomauk is the dominant fic through 2018 and the start of 2019, but after the introduction of Essek, it really becomes a back and forth between Shadowgast and Widojest. Also notable, Widobrave reaches it’s highest peak with Veth’s transformation.

VETH

The two top ships in the fandom, Beauyasha and Widomauk, have never fallen below 50 fics for a three month period. Veth only has one ship that breaks 50, and it’s her husband during the period where they reunite. Widobrave peaks at 50 exactly with her transformation and the kiss. This graph is also notable as the only one where you can actually see how popular Fjord/Nott is.

JESTER

Top table ships! Fjorester starts and ends as the top ship, but the middle is nothing but Beau and Caleb duking it out. Most notable is the one period in early 2020 where Beauyashter actually ties with Fjorester. Yashter really drops out following Beauyasha becoming canon.

MOLLY

This is a graph of Widomauk with...just a little Fjolly thown in. The Molly/Essek fics at the end are almost exclusively Molly/Caleb/Essek fics.

YASHA

Much like Molly, this is a graph of Beauyasha that also shows some other things. There’s the Yasha/Zuala peak around the reveal of her existence, and Beauyashter actually is the second ship through 2020 and up until 2021, which is impressive.

CADUCEUS

Starts out really Clayleb, then goes really Fjorclay, and ends with a total of 35 ship tags for the entirety of 2020 (aka what Shadowgast has reliably made in a week for the past few months.

I’m not going to do a graph for any of the NPCs because they’re mostly eithe really small or really boring (guess what Essek’s top ship is.) But I will include some Blumendrei because it is actually pretty interesting -

Astrid, Eodwulf, and Trio are combining fics tagged with Bren and Caleb, and not counting repeats, and Trio counts all fics tagged with at least one of these, with no repeats. The peak in spring 2019 is during the build up of first meeting the captured scourger, the peak in December is the introduction of Astrid and Eodwulf in person, and the peak in summer 2020 is the dinner with Ikithon. What’s really interesting is that after that point, there’s a sharp increase in how many of the fics are trio vs being seperate or Caleb/Astrid.

And, not a ship thing - but here’s a graph for the total fics, monthly, for Critical Role - the red dots are for the start of a new arc.

The lowest point from C2 was January 2018 (190) - and the highest point of C1 was December 2016 (245). The second lowest point for C2 was the last month of the hiatus, but it was still above the C1 peak - and the highest has been these past two months, beating out the previous peak of March 2020.

[betaadmin]

something something, caleb in episode 24 mentioning the tarantella, reminding me about venomous bites and poisoned women, me pointing a finger to astrid

For day 1 of @blumendrei-ship-week!

[kaynphel]

flower & memories combo prompts for @blumendrei-ship-week​ ! eadwulf reminiscing on a time before it all went to hell for the three. quickly wrote up a mini fic under the cut for context :>

“Wulf? Come, sit with us!” The bouncing trill of Astrid’s voice rings out across the field, accompanied by a tap of her hand across the old wooden fence she sits upon.  Next to her, Bren overshoots his hop to sit and falters, nearly falling over before a confident tug from Astrid saves his grace with a cock of her brow. “Although, I’m sympathetic to your hesitance now that Bren has demonstrated just how difficult sitting on a fence can apparently be.”

Bren feigns a stung ego, nervously laughing off the pinch of his adrenaline receptors as he pulls Astrid closer to himself. “I don’t recall being praised by Master for my dexterity,” he pointedly nods towards the largest of the three, standing in the field a few meters from the two, “so it would be a breeze for Wulf.”

Eadwulf smirks at the subtle attempt at flattery; Bren always knew how to dull the blade of his tongue to perfectly hit his soft spots. His expression softens to a wistful smile as he watches the two settle in to one another’s embrace. A picturesque moment, he goes so far to selfishly think, as Bren holds out a clustered flower from the field between himself and Astrid. He feels around in his back pocket for spell components, and begins to mumble under his breath.

“I’m going to miss this,” Bren whispers, “Blumenthal, I mean. And us. This modicum of freedom... or the illusion of it.”

Astrid tenses, holding a hand out to grab the flower as Bren’s hand relaxes atop her own. “I don’t want to think about it. Let’s just... enjoy this all to the fullest, hm?��� She sighs, resting her head on Bren’s shoulder as both he and Eadwulf both know well she defaults to when desperate for an escape from reality.

Bren thinks for a beat, then kisses the top of Astrid’s head.

“Thank you. Both. For... um, well, everything really. But especially for your vulnerability, and trust... it’s always reminded me of home. I feel... loved. As I can only hope the two of you feel a fraction of in my presence.” The ginger sheepishly grins as he looks up to catch Eadwulf running his hands together to complete a spell he had never seen the other perform previously.

“Bren,” Eadwulf starts firmly, walking to meet the two with a photograph of them in his hands, “you are magnetic. You wear your heart under layers upon layers, like these flowers—and with every one we peel back, we are marvelled by your perseverance, your talent, your mind, your selflessness... it means the world to us. We love you, more than we could ever let you know; and we will never forget your love, either.”

[blumendrei-ship-week]

Blumendrei Ship Week // April 5 - 11 2021

The Blumendrei Discord organized a series of prompts to celebrate our favourite wizard polycule from Critical Role with a series of prompts:

• Monday, April 5th: Dance // Tyrant

• Tuesday, April 6th: Flower // Redemption

• Wednesday, April 7th: Memories // Flame

• Thursday, April 8th: Vice // Wish

• Friday, April 9th: Scars // Home

• Saturday, April 10th: Recover // Secret

• Sunday, April 11th: Time // Hands

If you wish to participate, all you need to do is tag your posts with #blumendreiweek on Tumblr and Twitter. We look forward to reblogging your work!

[professorthaddeus]

tags masterlist [in progress]

putting this under a cut because it’s mostly for my own organization

my stuff

my writing (fics)

my meta (or more accurately, my incoherent attempts at meta)

my ramblings (all original posts, including asks)

cr catchup (slowly but surely getting there!)

types of posts

cr meta

art

cast appreciation

gifset

cr fic

cr reference

video

tagging notes

all posts about the most recent campaign episode are tagged cr spoilers until they’re up on youtube; all posts about the most recent the legend of vox machina episode are tagged tlovm spoilers for a week

posts about the legend of vox machina are tagged tlovm

posts pertaining to specific main campaign episodes are tagged c#e#

speculative post-canon posts (aka uh. headcanons lol) are tagged c# epilogue

exu posts are tagged exu#

posts pertaining to games that aren’t in the main campaign or exu are tagged cr oneshot

all posts about dropout shows are tagged dropout

I use a self reblog tag in case anyone wants to block those self promos

queued posts are just tagged queue because I’m uncreative

PCs

vox machina (posts with all or most of them)

vex’ahlia

vax’ildan

percival de rolo

keyleth

pike trickfoot

scanlan shorthalt

grog strongjaw

taryon darrington

mighty nein (posts with all or most of them)

caleb widogast

beauregard lionett

fjord

veth brenatto

jester lavorre

caduceus clay

yasha nydoorin

mollymauk tealeaf

kingsley tealeaf

bell’s hells (posts with all or most of them)

dorian storm

orym

fearne calloway

imogen temult

laudna

fcg

ashton greymoore

chetney pock o’pea

bertrand bell

dariax zaveon

opal

fy’ra rai

the ring of brass (posts with all or—you know the drill)

nydas okiro

patia por’co

zerxus ilerez

loquatius seelie

laerryn coramar-seelie

cerrit agrupnin

NPCs/guest PCs

essek thelyss

astrid beck

eadwulf grieve

artagan

marion lavorre

yeza brenatto

luc brenatto

trent ikithon

the gentleman

frumpkin

sprinkle the weasel

lucien

clay family

yussa errenis

kiri

allura vysoren

tomb takers

pumat sol

dairon

tj lionett

vandran

lady kima of vord

avantika

verin thelyss

shaun gilmore

little mister

poska

ted

myr’atta

marwa endalia

pate de rolo

the nightmare king

delilah briarwood

sylas briarwood

jiana hexum

lord eshteross

nila

sprigg

anna ripley

trinket

cyrus wyvernwind

orthax

zhudanna

gwendolyn de rolo

cassandra de rolo

de rolo kids

the green seekers

estani

oltgar

dusk

maya agrupnin

otohan thull

platonic or ”it’s complicated” relationships (what’s shipping? I’m here for the angst and found family only)

empire siblings (beau & caleb)

brjeaus (beau & fjord)

blumendrei (caleb & astrid & eadwulf)

widobrave (caleb & veth, in progress of tagging)

twinnies (vex & vax)

best buddies (pike & grog)

dorym (dorian & orym)

exu crew (dorian (sometimes) & orym & fearne)

witchy bitches (fearne & laudna & imogen)

imodna (imogen & laudna)

klepto kids (fearne & ashton)

southern comfort (imogen & fcg)

woodworker’s apprentice (orym & chetney)

team task force (imogen & orym)

romantic relationships (help I’m here against my will)

beauyasha (beau/yasha)

shadowgast (caleb/essek, in progress)

perc’ahlia (percy/vex)

vaxleth (vax/keyleth)

kimallura (kima/allura)

[salamoonder]

so i’ve gotten an insane influx of followers--hello hello! welcome! where the fuck did you all come from--and i wanted to do a short little intro/housekeeping post for y’all :)

hi hello, i’m thane, 21, vaguely gendered person, he and they are fine. this blog is mostly sfw but if i veer away from that my nsfw tag is #lemon case i don’t wanna get shadowbanned rip. my own rambly tag is #thane.txt

i’m almost always caught up on c2! i tag spoilers with #critical role spoilers and #cr spoilers for one week after the ep airs.

i’m 11 eps into c1 and, when i remember to, i liveblog it. all my liveblogs and meta are tagged with #thane watches critical role

i’m super into polynein and can be coaxed into seeing the merit in pretty much any ship. having said that my main ships are mostly fjorclay, beauyasha, widomauk, widobrave, and blumendrei (as well as platonic molly + yasha and empire sibs, also i don’t talk about it much but i have a huge soft spot for team cleric)

i’m writing a high school au m9 fic (here) that i am simultaneously absurdly proud of and extremely self conscious about. the universe is way too extensive and the tag for it is #koms

i’m also working on a fjorclay greyace fic (soupfic) and a molly/yasha/zuala fic (i’ve started calling it double rez) but neither have seen the light of day yet although i am obsessed

this was is a podcast blog, lmao, can you imagine? anyway night vale truly is a dear special interest of mine, and you may also see other nvp podcasts, wolf 359, eos 10, the bright sessions, the penumbra podcast, and the bridge. if you do not wish to see any of that you can simply block #podcasts or alternatively you can block an individual podcast tag (they’re all just the full name of the podcast.)

final notes: i love asks and i love responses to my meta omg. don’t ever feel bad abt ending your meta to my meta! even if you disagree with me! especially if you disagree with me! just don’t be a dick about it lol. also ask me to tag shit if you need it! i’m usually pretty good about that tho i can occasionally get careless.

[fidgemimic]

Oh look - more Blumendrei shipping art - who woulda expected it,,,, from,,,,, me,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I got a commission a couple weeks back to make some Good Soft Astrid/Caleb/Eodwulf shit and I finally finished it! Everyone loves a good old fashioned nap pile, yea?

Check out my Commission Page for prices and options!

[my-least-favorite-savior]

Wizards Can’t Heal

In which Trent drugs the kids and cuts them open, and Wulf has some revelations about healing magic.

Written for the "recover" prompt in the blumendrei ship week, but it's a physical recovery instead of an emotional one. They are still being actively emotionally scarred in this fic.

Tags: child abuse (physical and psychological), implied underage sexual activity, nonconsensual drugging, crystals (you know what I mean), poly blumendrei

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30630947

[my-least-favorite-savior]

Home

Caleb has killed Trent, and after a long discussion with the king and the Cerberus Assembly, they're finally letting him go home. Astrid and Eadwulf would also like to go home.

It's a shame that nowhere really feels like home right now.

For the "home," prompt for the blumendrei ship week.

Tags: ding-dong the Trent is dead; poly blumendrei; short; happy ending

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30607874

[betaadmin]

In the hope of making things better

Every time Astrid and Eadwulf visit their Bren, it is always hoping to make things better.

Written for Blumendrei Ship Week - day 2. The prompts are "flowers" and "redemption".

[blumendrei-ship-week]

The Blumendrei Discord Server is happy to land on Tumblr to promote a ship week for our favourite wizard polycule!

• Monday, April 5th: Dance // Tyrant

• Tuesday, April 6th: Flower // Redemption

• Wednesday, April 7th: Memories // Flame

• Thursday, April 8th: Vice // Wish

• Friday, April 9th: Scars // Home

• Saturday, April 10th: Recover // Secret

• Sunday, April 11th: Time // Hands

If you wish to participate, all you need to do is tag your posts with #blumendreiweek on Tumblr and Twitter. We look forward to reblogging your work!

[blumendrei-ship-week]

Blumendrei Ship Week starts today!! Join the discord server or post your work on tumblr and twitter using the tag #blumendreiweek, we look forward to reblogging your content!

• Monday, April 5th: Dance // Tyrant

• Tuesday, April 6th: Flower // Redemption

• Wednesday, April 7th: Memories // Flame

• Thursday, April 8th: Vice // Wish

• Friday, April 9th: Scars // Home

• Saturday, April 10th: Recover // Secret

• Sunday, April 11th: Time // Hands