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run in the shadows 🎸ch 12

CADUCEUS: Veth was right. At the risk of sounding like a salesman, I told the group that we needed someone who could appeal to all demographics. To sell an illusion of unity and repair what had been broken. FJORD: Someone who knew Kingsley’s complicated parts already, or could learn in an obscenely short amount of time. WIDOGAST: After his psychotic break and quasi-kidnapping—it’d have to be an ally positioned against Volstrucker Records and Ludinus Da’leth. JESTER: Someone we could trust. Or at least that some of us could trust, and that the others could squint at really hard. VETH: Safe for our image. Fit the vibe. Buzz-worthy. YASHA: Exciting, hot, but just as messed up as us, in a good way. FJORD: Someone our fans have been begging us to work beside. WIDOGAST: Perhaps even someone we already had the experience of sharing a stage with, to the approval of the masses. VETH: (She laughs.) Really, it was obvious. He had those freaky little pianist hands.

Chapter: 12/30

Rating: E Fandom: Critical Role (Exandria) Ship: Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast, implied Blumenshadow Word Count: 87,936 Tags: Epistolary, Oral History, Inspired by Daisy Jones & The Six, Rockstar AU, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Political Intrigue, Court Drama, Drug Addiction, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Implied Underage Sexual Abuse, Warning: Trent Ikithon, Mental Illness, Verse Caleb Widogast, Verse Essek Thelyss

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détente ♟ ch 5

Julien coughs and rubs a bruise on his thigh. “Whatever they told you… Occtis. It was not nothing for me.” A minute shift of fabric. Julien spies from the corner of his eye how Occtis stiffens at that, though he does not turn to face him. “I know,” he replies tightly. “It served a very specific purpose for you.”

— On the road to the Golden Orchard, after the second-worst week of their lives, Occtis and Julien play stupid games.

Chapter: 5/5

Rating: E Fandom: Critical Role (Aramán) Ship: Julien Davinos/Occtis Tachonis Word Count: 25,113 Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Forced Proximity, Road Trip, Sharing a Bed, POV Julien Davinos, Character Study, Mutual Pining, Denial of Feelings, Bonding, Question Games, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Substance Abuse, First Time, Sex Experiments, Undernegotiated Kink

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détente ♟ ch 4

Just as he remembers the marvelous fact that he has a dick appointment pending, there’s a knock at his door. Occtis slides in with his shoulders around his ears. “H-Hey.” “No chit-chat,” Julien says, dragging him to bed. “You want it now? Tell me what you want. On with it.” “Wait, wait, hold on!” Occtis springs away. He looks more ruffled and abashed than any time Julien’s ever seen him, and it only makes him hungrier. “Okay, so. I told you I had a plan.” Julien is already stripping. He grunts.

— On the road to the Golden Orchard, after the second-worst week of their lives, Occtis and Julien play stupid games.

Chapter: 4/5

Rating: E Fandom: Critical Role (Aramán) Ship: Julien Davinos/Occtis Tachonis Word Count: 20,505 Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Forced Proximity, Road Trip, Sharing a Bed, POV Julien Davinos, Character Study, Mutual Pining, Denial of Feelings, Bonding, Question Games, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Substance Abuse, First Time, Sex Experiments, Undernegotiated Kink

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détente ♟ ch 3

He doesn’t know when the instinct to tell the boy not to cry formed. Worse even, it happened without his notice. “I’m really sorry,” Occtis whispers. “It’s not your fault,” Julien says. As if run through, Occtis cries out and keels over.

— On the road to the Golden Orchard, after the second-worst week of their lives, Occtis and Julien play stupid games.

Chapter: 3/5

Rating: E Fandom: Critical Role (Aramán) Ship: Julien Davinos/Occtis Tachonis Word Count: 14,450 Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Forced Proximity, Road Trip, Sharing a Bed, POV Julien Davinos, Character Study, Mutual Pining, Denial of Feelings, Bonding, Question Games, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Substance Abuse, First Time, Sex Experiments, Undernegotiated Kink

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run in the shadows 🎸ch 11

WIDOGAST: We were trying as hard as we could to keep the band in one piece. There was a sanctity to our lineup. If something compromised it and forced one member to leave, the dam would break open and the rest of us could step out without having to be the first one to do so. Obviously we all had our own grievances, however small, and the idea of leaving the group had floated by my mind early on. But we had attached ourselves so intrinsically to each other that breaking up seemed as terrifying and painful as death itself.

Chapter: 11/30

Rating: E Fandom: Critical Role (Exandria) Ship: Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast, implied Blumenshadow Word Count: 81,277 Tags: Epistolary, Oral History, Inspired by Daisy Jones & The Six, Rockstar AU, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Political Intrigue, Court Drama, Drug Addiction, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Implied Underage Sexual Abuse, Warning: Trent Ikithon, Mental Illness, Verse Caleb Widogast, Verse Essek Thelyss

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détente ♟ ch 2

“You know what? Nevermind. It’s not worth it.” Occtis starts folding himself into bed, prompting Julien to sit up, aggravated by the principle of the thing. “Just ask me the fucking question.” “I don’t just want to ask one, I want to—gh—do you know how a conversation works?” “You want to get to know me?” Julien says with horror. — On the road to the Golden Orchard, after the second-worst week of their lives, Occtis and Julien play stupid games.

Chapter: 2/5

Rating: E Fandom: Critical Role (Aramán) Ship: Julien Davinos/Occtis Tachonis Word Count: 10,281 Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Forced Proximity, Road Trip, Sharing a Bed, POV Julien Davinos, Character Study, Mutual Pining, Denial of Feelings, Bonding, Question Games, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Substance Abuse, First Time, Sex Experiments, Undernegotiated Kink

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détente ♟ ch 1

Chapter: 1/5

Rating: E Fandom: Critical Role (Aramán) Ship: Julien Davinos/Occtis Tachonis Word Count: 4,766 Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Forced Proximity, Road Trip, Sharing a Bed, POV Julien Davinos, Character Study, Mutual Pining, Denial of Feelings, Bonding, Question Games, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Substance Abuse, First Time, Sex Experiments, Undernegotiated Kink

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run in the shadows 🎸ch 10

VETH: It was a few months after Kingsley had relapsed. Everyone was walking on eggshells, relationships were getting crossed and jumbled like clotheslines in a storm, me included. And, listen—I love Caleb with my whole heart, no matter what we are to each other, but back then, I was kind of split between my rock star life and my family, and Caleb was a part of that. It’s nothing that I haven’t said before in other interviews, but basically, I had a thing for him that I really needed to get rid of so I could stop feeling like I was stepping out on Yeza. So I slept with Fjord. INTERVIEWER: Math checks out. VETH: Shut up. Yeza was an angel about it, and Fjord’s just not a threat in general, so it was fine. Meanwhile, Fjord was in love with Jester but was fucking Kingsley and Caleb about it, and Caleb was trying to fuck Essek, who we were all fucking pissed at, so he was fucking Fjord and Kingsley as emotional surrogates. Both you and Caleb had a thing for Jester but wouldn’t compete with Fjord or each other. Caleb’s exes were showing up on the charts again, so he was as sad as he was horny. And then you were trying to fuck Yasha and Yasha was trying to fuck you but somehow neither of you got the signal, so you just kinda shuffled around each other like you both were trying to parallel-park a minivan in the same spot. Marion was going crazy trying to keep it all straight. CADUCEUS: I didn’t want any part of that mess. I just made tea and tried to counsel people.

Chapter: 10/30

Rating: E Fandom: Critical Role (Exandria) Ship: Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast, implied Blumenshadow Word Count: 75,601 Tags: Epistolary, Oral History, Inspired by Daisy Jones & The Six, Rockstar AU, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Political Intrigue, Court Drama, Drug Addiction, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Implied Underage Sexual Abuse, Warning: Trent Ikithon, Mental Illness, Verse Caleb Widogast, Verse Essek Thelyss

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re my lovely mutual's opsec post there are some great comments and tags and you should go read them but I think the most big, obvious takeaway is that Thjazi was not being a withholding asshole who kept everyone in the dark for the sake of being a withholding asshole who kept everyone in the dark. He was part of a clandestine organization that was using the work of the Sundered Houses and House Tachonis in particular to try to address massive cosmological issues that, crucially, House Tachonis does not want addressed. The letter is in coded language - and crucially, it's not in a cipher (like the one Murray easily cracks) but rather uses oblique references that are difficult to understand if you don't already have the context, which most people only have because they have direct connections to Thjazi or to the things he was working on.

That doesn't mean that, for example, Hal is wrong to be frustrated and angry about this. But the directly stated framing for his anger about the paint in the Hallowed Round is specifically that the grief is really hitting him hard that night, and the barely subtextual implication is that he is grappling with the choices he had made that meant he was kept clear of all of Thjazi's dealings and which meant the last decade of his brother's life was one he was not particularly privy to. That is an incredibly emotionally complex statement that is ultimately about Hal's feelings about himself and his relationship with Thjazi than who Thjazi was. The idea that Thjazi was leaving an elaborate mess behind for everyone else out of carelessness, recklessness, or stupidity is simply untrue, and Mara makes it clear that he was simply captured at a very unfortunate time. [and, to be blunt, on a meta level that is the entire premise of the campaign, that Thjazi was killed for many reasons but one was that Primus Tachonis hoped this would reveal a plan the Cloak had otherwise kept fairly well hidden.]

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#right! exactly #characters feel the way they do about Thjazi not telling them #and Hal feels the way he did because he's forced to confront that his choices meant that he was not part of Thjazi's inner circle #through Hal's own choices! that his brother is dead and he suddenly learns and understands he was kept out of that brother's life's work #by NECESSITY because Hal chose not to be in Thjazi's confidence #Thjazi didn't withhold information from those in his personal life out of pride or ego or stupidity or solipsism or lack of forethought #neither are his plans only working now due to dumb unskilled luck nor was he forging forward only on the momentum of impulsive inspiration #Thjazi was a member of a secret organization working a clandestine operation. Everyone's safety depends on staying quiet. #The reason this operation continued for at minimum six years is because its members were discerning. #(Loose lips sink ships and it works the same for bridges.) #the question for especially Hal is: why did he feel I couldn't be trusted that way? why did he feel I needed to be kept at arm's length? #Thjazi and Mara are spies. The Professor is a spy. Teor is right to term Cyd a spy. #And it's right (in the story sense) for many characters to feel frustrated they were left out or not trusted. #That they are frustrated they have to decipher a spy's coded notes and find his hidden network while the timer counts down. #The truth is however this level of secrecy is required to protect not only the plan but also the network and the people outside of it. #And Thjazi didn't leave behind a mess per se. He left a work in progress that only those in his network knew the blueprints for. #And our protagonists are not part of his network. That's the story. The story is they're piecing together a well-hidden plan. #If the plan was easy to understand from Thjazi relaying 15 seconds of final words it would be also that easy for the Tachonis to uncover. #This man was in the business of espionage. There was a plan and intention and steps. Hidden intentionally to protect it. #A tapestry often looks messy from the reverse side. <- @captainofthetidesbreath’s tags.

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