On the Sunny Road

Series Metadata

Listing Series

• Dogfish by ghosttopiary

  Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  04 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast
  • Beauregard Lionett & Caleb Widogast
  • The Mighty Nein & Caleb Widogast
  • past Astrid Becke/Eadwulf Grieve/Caleb Widogast - Relationship
  • Unrequited Jester Lavorre/Caleb Widogast
  • Beauregard Lionett/Yasha Nydoorin
  • Caleb Widogast
  • Essek Thelyss
  • Beauregard Lionett
  • background Mighty Nein - Character
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Established Relationship
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • Implied/Referenced Disordered Eating
  • Implied/Referenced Underage Sex
  • Implied/Referenced Torture
  • implied/referenced suicidal ideation
  • all the canon-typical blumendrei backstory tags
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Self-destructive Caleb
  • the wizards are back in the blender boys
  • but softly this time
  • Trauma
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • author overdosing on flashbacks
  • president of the caleb never gets over jester fanclub
  • part-time stone top essek thelyss spokesperson
  • Demisexual Essek Thelyss
  • Caleb Widogast Deserves Nice Things
  • Self-Loathing Caleb Widogast
  • caleb is very good at knowing and very bad at being known
  • the Henry Crabgrass paradigm is alive and well in the present but not so much in the past
  • projecting my ADHD onto caleb widogast with my mind beam

  Summary

  In which Caleb loses his rhythm, and Essek plays the long con.

  Series

  • Part 1 of On the Sunny Road

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  38,203

  Chapters:

  2/2

  Comments:

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