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• the eyes of history by RollingThunder06

  Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

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  • F/F
  • Complete Work

  08 Jan 2025

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  • Laudna/Imogen Temult
  • Bells Hells & Laudna (Critical Role)
  • Delilah Briarwood & Laudna
  • Laudna & Imogen Temult
  • Laudna (Critical Role)
  • Imogen Temult
  • Delilah Briarwood
  • Book: Bells Hells - What Doesn't Break (Critical Role)
  • Spoilers for campaign 3 episode 118
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • lots of thoughts post 118

  Summary

  "History isn’t kind to those it calls villains"
  From child to corpse to crone and hag, Laudna was quite sick of labels. Yet for some reason, no matter who she is or who she's with they can't seem to let her go, no matter how badly she wished they did.

  Or, Laudna's lifetime of being labeled as something other than herself.

  Spoilers for What Doesn't Break (minor) and c3 e118 (major)

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• the downfall (into something more beautiful) by RollingThunder06

  Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • No category
  • Work in Progress

  12 Mar 2024

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  • Elsie Roberts/Rajan Savarimuthu
  • Elsie Roberts (Candela Obscura)
  • Rajan Savarimuthu
  • Cosmo Grimm (Candela Obscura)
  • Cordelia Glask
  • Oscar Grimm
  • Body Horror
  • Established Relationship
  • Past Relationship(s)
  • Angst
  • also with the full details of Rajan's backstory
  • there's so many connections and I love it for them and their messy relationship
  • their dynamic is insane
  • so I'm exploring how it got that way
  • Pre-Canon
  • Circle of Tide and Bone (Candela Obscura)
  • look after session 0 I was sparked with an idea of how researching cullet connected to their breakup
  • especially with Rajan looking out for Elsie even after their breakup
  • and their breakup being because of an explosive fight
  • after everything we learned about them lets just say I was inspired
  • also elsie's family will be mentioned
  • bc there has to be a reason they're not addressed
  • especially when elsie's fall from status is such a big part of her character

  Summary

  "I know something is there because something happened, something happened because there's something missing."

  Doctor Roberts was given the opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to cure the incurable and get everything she'd ever wanted.
  Unfortunately, fate or whatever force beyond the flare was pulling her strings had other plans.

  or

  The story of Elsie and cullet, the descent of a love that never dimmed, and Rajan refusing to fail another person he loves.

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  English

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  5/?

  Comments:

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  25

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• one step away by RollingThunder06

  Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)  

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  • Complete Work

  03 Feb 2024

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  • Elsie Roberts/Rajan Savarimuthu
  • Elsie Roberts (Candela Obscura)
  • Rajan Savarimuthu
  • Cosmo Grimm (Candela Obscura)
  • Cordelia Glask
  • raj just casually waiting outside Elsie's door at night???
  • there had to a reason behind that
  • other then just their wild dynamic
  • Angst with a Bittersweet Ending
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Kind Of
  • Past Relationship(s)
  • Mutual Pining

  Summary

  "I will never leave you."

  A promise, a vow, the remanent of love Rajan refuses to let fail again. Not while he can be here, not while he can keep her safe.

  or

  The reason why Rajan decided to spend his nights outside of Elsie's door.

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  English

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• the doctor's lament by RollingThunder06

  Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
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  • Complete Work

  21 Jan 2024

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  • Elsie Roberts/Rajan Savarimuthu
  • Elsie Roberts (Candela Obscura)
  • Rajan Savarimuthu
  • Circle of Tide and Bone (Candela Obscura)
  • Angst
  • Angst with a Bittersweet Ending
  • look Elsie's having a rough time
  • and Raj is there being Raj
  • aka deeply in love with her
  • Body Horror

  Summary

  "Maybe a part of you was monstrous far before the beast"

  Elsie had long prided herself on being a good doctor. She was cautious and careful. She cured her patients, she did her research well, and her discretion was unparalleled.
  Now she was lost, far more monstrous and wrong than she'd ever intended to be.
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  Elsie has a rough day, the onslaught of her work with the Circle so far and the things its dredged up, only to find Raj waiting for her, offering her a reprieve over tea that for some reason she can't bring herself to decline.

  Mentions of anatomy but can be read separately.

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• anatomy by RollingThunder06

  Fandoms: Candela Obscura (Critical Role Web Series)  

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  • Complete Work

  18 Jan 2024

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  • Elsie Roberts/Rajan Savarimuthu
  • Elsie Roberts (Candela Obscura)
  • Rajan Savarimuthu
  • Circle of Tide and Bone (Candela Obscura)
  • Angst
  • Body Horror bc they're quite literally its definition
  • Mutual Pining
  • the look of guilt and sorrow when Raj found out Elsie has cullet
  • that line about Elsie wanting to fix the things she loves
  • their dynamic is wild and needs to be explored
  • Past Relationship(s)

  Summary

  "Were you always...since I've known you?"

  In the busy days following the Circle's trip to Groundswell, the last thing Raj expects is Elsie to visit him. Perhaps he should've seen it coming, as Elsie was never quite content when there was something she didn't know, so of course she wanted answers. If he truly knew her at all, the uncertainty was eating her alive, a feeling he was all too familiar with. Who was he to deny her whatever reprieve he could offer?
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  Elsie visits Raj, determined to answer an unanswerable question. Raj knows he doesn't have the answer but doesn't have the heart to stop her from looking for it.

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  English

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  48

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