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digital fanart of Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast from Critical Role, styled like a painted couple's portrait. Essek is depicted as a slender drow with lavender skin and soft curly white hair that reaches just past his chin, while Caleb is a light-skinned bearded human of average build, with ginger hair that is brushed back and is straighter than Essek's, but is of a similar length. they're both wearing comfortable clothes. Caleb is dressed in beige trousers, a simple linen shirt with its collar open and the sleeves messily rolled up, exposing the regularly spaced long-healed scars on his forearms, and he has his underarm holsters on. Essek is wearing rather nondescript brown pants and shirt that look like lounge wear or sleep clothes, with a simple but elegant house robe over them, its split sleeves too showing his naked forearms. Essek is sitting down on a chair, while Caleb stands behind him and slightly to Essek's right. Caleb's left hand is resting on Essek's left shoulder, his right hand in his pocket, while Essek's right hand is folded neatly on the thigh of one of his crossed legs, and his left is reaching up and touching Caleb's hand on his shoulder with the tips of his fingers. they are both relaxed and smiling gently in a slightly shaded room painted in tones of brown. next to Essek there is an edge of a table with two books stacked on it, and behind them is an open window, showing soft blue and pink sky, the sun lighting the edges of their shoulders and hair with bright golden highlights.ALT

a soft portrait

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reblogging once more cause i have again been thinking about the fact that these losers have a literal, physical couple’s portrait in their house. at some point they must have sat down and Essek said dear i want to look at our nerd faces smiling happily next to each other every day, and a mirror is not enough, so i would like to commission an artist to paint us like a proper married couple. we will sit here for hours while Jester flings dick jokes at us, and paint at our walls. some time in the future i want a random guest in our house to point at this painting and ask what the fuck is that so i can nonchalantly and offhandedly respond ‘oh, that’s my partner’. i think that specifically would be really romantic

wait….

Wait…

WAIT!!

If Jester painted this, then where is the hidden dick?

fun fact: this painting did have a hidden dick in it, but i ended up not including it because it just didn’t look good and was a bit too crude for the mood i wanted to depict.

i snuck in something else instead though 😏

(Woke up, wrote a teeny fic, you know how it is)

Essek’s one rule: no hidden dicks.

Jester said, “aw, man, c’mon!” which meant not that she was put out, but would adhere to Essek’s stipulation, but that she’d absolutely be putting a hidden dick in there.

So Caleb and Essek (mostly Essek) just had to be really good at finding them and asking her to paint them out.

Five times over the course of the sitting, Essek looked at the portrait and said something to the effect of, “Jester, this is lovely, but I said ‘no hidden dicks,’ please paint that one out.” It became a game to her—once, she cleverly almost caught him by painting one more obvious dick and a subtler one in the shadows under the windowsill. Essek caught them both, when Caleb nudged him to indicate that one had been left.

Essek also caught the goofy little Tusktooth smile lingering secretly in the woodgrain of his desk, but he pretended not to see it, so that Jester, pleased enough with managing to get that much over them, would quit while she was ahead.

After the sitting, Caleb was looking with great satisfaction at the completed piece, the colors perfectly suited to compliment their home, the two of them easy and animated and themselves in a way only Jester’s style could capture.

“Agh! When did she have time to do this!?”

Ah. So he’d found the one on the doorframe.

as far as i’m concerned this is exactly what happened