#shadowidoking

[stardusted-bookworm]

I think the wizards should kiss as a treat. I also think they should explore the full extent of Aeor and perhaps commit a couple lite war crimes as another treat.

Like a honeymoon.

And then they should bring the purple tiefling and all three of them should kiss and hold hands. As a treat for me.

[bluemoontarot]

This meme brought to you by my younger sibling, this was their first reaction to Molly.

I'm open for rp if anyone is interested! I rp mostly the purple boys and Caleb, and I'm good at playing all of them.

I'm open to a lot of ideas, I just love writing ♡ And rp is how I relax, it's a place I can let go in and explore various topics. I've been role-playing for 11 years, and I adore it! Stories can be spicy, dramatic, mysterious, slow burn...I love AU's that let me explore how characters might act or change depending on the environment and circumstances.

Roleplay is done in 3rd person POV past tense, it's my default and easier for a lot of people. I do not require "length matching", I have a degree in creative writing so if your response is done at 1 or 2 paragraphs that's great! My nerd ass will send 3-5 paragraphs bc I like ~details~ and ~setting the scene~

I would prefer rp partners be 20+ in age since I do rp nsfw and dark content. I'm more than happy to discuss boundaries and themes to avoid!

Comment on this post or send me a DM on Discord if interested!

Discord Username: maityb

[quinn-of-aebradore]

It’s all Kingsley can do to keep him out of his lap once they’re sitting because he knows he won’t be able to keep his hands to himself if he does and Caleb gets mopey when they get started without him on date nights. The last thing he wants tonight is a mopey Caleb Widogast. “Save some of yourself for Caleb, darling,” he mutters, a laugh lilting his voice, as he firmly keeps Essek planted on the lounge beside him. “You can enjoy me from here.” Or; Caleb is stuck in a meeting, Essek goes to Darktow early to wait with Kingsley, and Kingsley decides the two of them should get dressed up for Caleb. Also, they're both incredibly horny but neither want to get started without Caleb there. What could go wrong?

Originally intended as a a Wildflowers treat for @luddlestons, I fully lost control of the word count to Purple Horiness(TM) so now it's just a behemoth of a gift fic XD Luddles! I hope you enjoy the nonsense! Thank you for the SWK prompt, it was really fun to write Kingsley for once and I will definitely endeavor to write more of him from here on out 💜💜💜💜

[demisexualemmaswan]

tbt to “molly’s not poly, he’s just a slut”

like that’s not not a reason to give Caleb the two hottest purple lovers in all of Exandria

[critter-rarepair-reccs]

We are halfway through another week, my friends, and so we have yet another recc list for you! This week, we have twelve angsty fics! As always, you can find them below the cut and if you check any of them out, I encourage you to leave kudoes and comments to spread the rarepair love 💕

I Have Been A Fool For Lesser Things by A_Orbit (3,149 words, Teen) Pairing: Veth Brenatto/Caleb Widogast (Widobrave) Warnings: None

Trying to get a hotel room for the night leads to Caleb and Nott pretending to be married to each other. Fluff and angst.

Reccer Says: Amazing character voices!

Looking for a feeling that I can't remember by CatcherWrites (2,684 words, Teen) Pairing: Ashton Greymoore/Laudna Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Swearing, General Laudna and Ashton Trauma

Team Issylra are making camp by a river when Ashton and Laudna discuss how slow their hair grows. Angsty conversations ensue and they make a pact to cut each others hair.

Reccer Says: It's not too heavy of a fic but that doesn't take away from the tragic implications.

The Last Safe House in Rexxentrum by Operafloozy (13,266 words, Explicit) Pairing: Astrid Beck/Original Female Character Warnings: Unhappy Ending, Modify Memory, Discussion of Feeblemind

Five years before a group of misfits came together in Trostenwald, Astrid Beck asks a stranger to look into some potentially modified memories.

Reccer Says: It's a juicy and complicated look at how Astrid might have reacted to Bren's escape, from an outsider's point of view.

polishing the apple eris threw to shake the dead leaves down by grayintogreen (3,558 words, Teen) Pairing: Cree Deeproots/Lucien Tavelle Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Minor Character Death

A Locked Tomb fusion fic featuring Necromancer!Cree and Cavalier!Lucien and the horrifying implications of the Lyctor process.

Reccer Says: I enjoyed it!

though the scars remain by amateurwordbender (1,472 words, Teen) Pairing: Astrid Beck/Eadwulf Grieve (Blumenduo) Warnings: Implied/Referenced Torture

Astrid is punished for letting the Mighty Nein escape, and she and Eadwulf talk about it.

Reccer Says: So much juicy Blumentrio angst packed in one short fic! Several of the lines in this have stayed in my head since I first read it.

Victim of Convenience by se1ze (54,243 words, Explicit) Pairing: Kingsley Tealeaf/Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast (Shadowidoking) Warnings: Sex While Sick

Essek has been bailing Kingsley out of legal trouble in Rosohna and letting him crash at his towers for some time and the pair have grown close. When Essek falls severely ill, Kingsley with him to look after him. Things escalate between them, which both are pleased about. There's just one complication, in the form of one Caleb Widogast, who Essek has recently begun a relationship with and who Kingsley has been hopelessly pining after for months. Things get messy.

Reccer Says: A wonderful combination of fun dynamics, messy relationship angst, sickfic goodness, and hot sex. Kingsley and Essek are such a good pair, I love their banter. The absolutely disastrous state of King and Caleb's relationship at the start is the fic is so heartaching, with the shadow of past Widomauk hanging over them. And the recently established Shadowgast compliments both of those duos so well!!! I adore the different complications that crop up along the way and the way they're all resolved in the end. Highly recommend! Also, the two previous entries in the series are excellent, though they're just Shadowgast on their own.

His Last Night by Twistmalchik (2,617 words, Explicit) Pairing: Thorn/Vax'ildan Warnings: None

Set during the events of Kith & Kin, Vax's first kiss with Thorn leads to his first time with him. All the while, the shadow of the Shademaster hangs over them.

Reccer Says: I adore Kith & Kin to no end and I loved Vax and Thorn's relationship. This is a fun expansion of what they were able to have together during the events of the book!

Time Will Tell by DEV0URMOUS (25,639 words, Mature) Pairing: Yussa Errenis/Original Male Character Warnings: None

Yussa invites Iskamyr, a long-time friend of his from the Dynasty, on a trip into the Happy Fun Ball with him. Both are oblivious to the other's long-standing feelings for them. Pining ensues.

Reccer Says: There is no fic that demonstrates the absurdity of wizards better than this. Two hundred years!!! These idiots pined over each other for two hundred years!!! Oh my god! It's great, it's so great. They're both 1200 years old (Yussa is a dragon and Iskamyr is consecuted) and they're still terrible at feelings. But also! A lot of it comes down to cultural misunderstandings, like Iska doesn't know until the fic ends that Yussa is a dragon and if he did, maybe he would've caught on to Yussa's affection sooner. But he didn't and it took the two of the forever and honestly I love that for them.

woven of (moon)light by viciousmollymaukery (2,315 words, Teen) Pairing: Mollymauk Tealeaf/Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast (Shadowidomauk) Warnings: References to severe injury

After his wizards Teleport into the middle of the Blooming Grove, nearly dead at the hands of an Aeorian creature, Molly has a lot of feelings about his partners and their mysterious city in the north. Luckily, he has a simple solution in mind.

Reccer Says: It's the perfect balance between sweet and angsty. I love Shadowidomauk so much and it's fun to see someone look at how the wizards Aeor expeditions might look in a world where they're dating Molly too! Also, Moonweaver cleric Molly is too damn perfect, I love it so much.

it's 3 am (I must be lonely) by Meridas (1,024 words, Teen) Pairing: Queerplatonic Mollymauk Tealeaf/Yasha Nydoorin Warnings: None

Yasha has a nightmare while out camping alone. She calls Molly in her panic and he comforts her.

Reccer Says: I love this series so much and this entry in particular has stuck with me since I first read it!! QPP circus kids are kind of everything to me and this is just such a perfect little snippet of them; they’re hurting but they love and take care of each other above anything.

I blame it on my own sick pride by MarsBar2019 (11,918 words, Explicit) Pairing: Fjord/Mollymauk Tealeaf/Caleb Widogast (Widofjolly) Warnings: Non-Consensual Voyeurism

Fjord overheard Molly and Caleb having sex one night and gets off on it. But paper thin inn walls work both ways, Molly and Caleb know Fjord heard them, and they take the opportunity to invite him into their bed.

Reccer Says: It’s very very hot and Fjord’s self-loathing (which is only amplified by him getting off on listening to the two of them) is such a fun complimentary pairing to the overall horniness of the fic.

I'll crawl home to him by BananasofThorns (20,262 words, Teen) Pairing: Queerplatonic Fjord/Caleb Widogast (Widofjord) Warnings: None

AU where Caleb and Fjord met a few years pre-nein. Now Fjord has been taken by the Iron Shepherds, and Caleb has to team up with the "Mighty Five" to have a chance to get him back.

Reccer Says: Looove that Iron Shepherds arc angst. Plus queerplatonic widofjord, and the *devotion,* like Caleb was willing to go in there after him *alone,* aaaaa

Thank you for joining us this week’s recc list! All the love to everyone who submitted a fic 💕 All enclosed recommendations were submitted by the community via our submissions form, which you can find here. All fic information is as it was provided by the reccer, so it may not be accurate to the author’s intent or the precise contents of the fic itself. Please assume good intent from all parties 💕

Submissions for next week’s list are already open! We’ll be featuring Spring. If you have any you’d like to highlight, you can send them in here. The week after that, the theme is Jester Rarepairs and the weeks after that we’re taking recommendations for Alternate Universes and Hurt/Comfort! Submissions for all of these themes are currently open.

If you want more rarepair fic, check out @cr-summer-wildflowers and their event collections on ao3! If you want some friendship after all this romance, take a look at @critter-genfic-events and their recc lists! And if you’re interested in everyone’s favorite wizards, you can’t go wrong with the lists at @aeor-is-for-reccing !

Thanks all and have a lovely day/night/timezone! 💕

[seizethegrey]

Entering the sitting room, Essek finds Kingsley sprawled out on the settee. The tiefling is reading one of the novels he has been leaving around Essek’s private quarters in ever-increasing numbers. 

“Are you going to stay here forever now?” Essek asks him crossly. “Don’t you have a home to go back to?”

“Nope,” Kingsley replies, tail twitching playfully. “I’m a stray.”

“I can buy you a home, if that’s the reason you’re still here,” Essek sighs. His teeth are chattering; the tower has gotten execrably cold overnight.

“Your place suits me just fine,” Kingsley says, setting down his book. He appears to do a double-take. “Ess? Are you alright?”

“We are not doing that,” Essek protests for the umpteenth time. “That detestable nickname is not something we are doing.” His muscles are absolutely killing him, and he doesn’t know why. 

Kingsley is on his feet, approaching Essek with a look of concern on his fine features. “You look like shit, Essek,” he says. Then, with the heedless physicality the man shares with all his friends, he presses the back of his hand to Essek’s forehead. “You’re about my temperature,” he says as his frown deepens. “For a drow, that’s a hell of a fever. You’re sick.”

Thanks to @antiva-flowers, Kal and CodeSculptor for enabling me.

[jaskwritesthings]

Oooooo shadowidomauk pirates, perhaps? 👀👀👀

Kingsley looked over the hold of ill-gotten gains with a pleased eye, "What precious treasures I get to plunder."

Caleb snorted on a charmed laugh he desperately tried to cover as Essek glared down the Plank King, "I don't appreciate the amount of platinum we waste on ever increasingly twitchy crews because you insist on taking our ships captive to play out these fantasies of yours, King, we have work to be getting on with, and we can visit you via teleport whenever we feel like it, this," he waved a sharp hand around the hold of their ship and the very confused and slightly terrified faces of their most recently purchased crew, "is unnecessary and annoying."

"You'd never take a break from your academic studies if I didn't mount a sea-faring intervention once in a while," King gleefully pointed out as he came close enough to plant a chaste greeting kiss on Essek's cheek, he noted that the drow lowered himself enough to receive it, so he wasn't too upset with the interruption. Caleb welcomed him with open arms and a warm kiss as Essek sighed and went to reassure yet another seasoned crew that, no, they weren't about to walk the plank it was, in fact, just the feared Plank King's favoured courting practice, so sorry for the inconvenience.

three sentence au

[aeoris4lovers]

me: i need to sleep early tonight, i have a 9am class tomorrow

my brain: what’s that? you need to stay up until 2am writing about caleb falling for king?

[natureismynature]

Waiting with fingers crossed hoping we either see Essek in the M9 reunion pt2 or we get some Widoking flirting or some shadowidoking action or all of the above. I just wanna see some Caleb lovin TvT

[captainkingsley]

That's when he sees Kingsley standing at the railing of the balcony, staring out toward the fireplace. Above, the great glass window in the colors of Mollymauk's coat still sits. Caleb hadn't found it in himself to change it, between honoring one of the things that brought the Nein together to the beautiful array of colors it throws onto the floor and walls of the room. The light through it now is making Kingsley's face look as though it's patterned with reds and oranges and blues across his lavender skin, his red eyes bright. — It's been several years since their last adventure. Everyone in the Nein is growing older.

Have some widoking with a side of shadowidoking!

[ineffablebardwrites]

Fic Masterlist (Critical Role Edition)

Shadowidomauk

When Day Met Night:

Before the Mighty Nein, there was Mollymauk and Essek.

Or: How Mollymauk Tealeaf inspired Essek to leave the world better than how he found it.

Shadowidoking

Song of Swords:

Kingsley learns that Caleb and Essek are well-versed in swordplay.

He is not disappointed.

Take Your Memory With You:

Kingsley only dreams in memories.

The memories are never his own.

Home At Last

Kingsley and Caleb return home.

Essek is over the moon.

Calamity Era

Loss of Love (And Other Things):

Evandrin was dead.

They say it was illness but Zerxus is sure they're lying.

Getting Even:

When Evandrin died, something changed within Zerxus.

Something dark.

Something vengeful.

What a Wonderful World:

Avalir had fallen but never hit the ground.

The Ring of Brass awakens on another plane.

Finding Home:

The Champion of Asmodeus starts to remember a life long lost.

A man made of stars offers to bring him home.

Live, Die, Live Again (And Again, And Again)

Before the fall of Avalir, Evandrin was lost to the Astral Sea.

To save Zerxus, he's willing to live as many more lives as it takes.

[fjorests-of-wildemount]

Kingsley is actually an excellent captain 👀

Watch out, wizards, he's coming for your competency kink.

[demisexualemmaswan]

critical role: oh taliesin is playing kingsley in the m9 twoshot 

me: here’s how shadowidomauk/shadowidoking can still win

[jaskwritesthings]

nanowrimo approaches WOO

nano once again returns and yet again i am torn between MULTIPLE ideas so help please to at least narrow it down to maybe two, i'm so excited about all of them and its like choosing a fave kid, can't do it, send help!

it's just a jump to the left

the molly lives au, widomauk leading into shadowidomauk

calamity 2: electric boogalo

based on campaign 3, lewds succeds and everybody fails, predathos is loose baby, shadowgast or shadowidoking/mauk

zombae

the obligatory zombie apocalypse story i must envision for every fandom, shadowgast

god's special princess war criminal

a combination of campaign 3's recent developments with the gods and their chosen and the wonderful headcanon of essek being the luxon's special boy, reluctant champion of the luxon, shadowgast

verin's no-good-terrible road trip

the drow solider the nein meet in the sewers the night they claim the beacon is verin and he has something a little extra with him, shadowidomauk

[aeoris4lovers]

your honor, i love them

(from two parts of a fic i’m working on)

[calebneedsahug]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)

Relationships: Kingsley Tealeaf/Caleb Widogast, Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast, Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast/Kingsley Tealeaf

Kingsley just wanted a pint in Bysaes Tyl. Or seven. He really didn't want to fuck with wizards. Being drugged by some fucking spell, dragged through the Pearlbow Wilderness, and deposited in a gross, cold torture tower wasn't his idea of a fun night.

But Da'leth's lackeys have Caleb so I guess no one can catch a fucking break.