Caduceus Clay - Blog Posts
I’ve been listening to Critical Role (Campaign 2) again for the first time in a hot minute and I’m even more certain that Caduceus and Snufkin would be friends like holy shit or at the very least tea drinking buddies I need that in my life so desperately holy wow
Updating the group picture
There he is! Caduceus in Bulgarian garb :D
Lineart of Caduceus Clay in traditional Bulgarian garb!
mighty nein people, rb with what you’re most excited to see in the animated series :)
wait wait wait guys have you ever thought about how the Mighty Nein are everything they shouldn’t be upon first glance
no no guys guys listen to me they’re all the antithesis of what they’re meant to be and that’s why they’re such amazing and heartfelt characters
like, Caleb is a wizard who’s afraid of his own fire magic. his own power causes him to falter in battle. his strongest spells are his most dangerous to himself. wizards are supposed to be prideful of their magic, but Caleb’s is the reason he hates himself
Beau is a monk who never wanted to be. her job is one that people normally associate with being calm and collected and Beau was a wild rebellious kid who got dragged into this line of work against her will. she never wanted to be this!! but now she is and she’s gotta deal with it!!
Fjord is a warlock who never wanted power from his pact, which is why you’d think a warlock would make their pact at all. but no. Fjord made his pact because he wanted to live, not because he wanted power. he was a scared orphan who hated his tusks, not a buff, muscled, angry half-orc like people assumed
Nott is NOT, that’s the whole crux of her narrative! she wasn’t pretty, like a halfling girl was supposed to be. she wasn’t a goblin, she was just transformed into one. and not only that, but despite being a three-foot-tall alcoholic kleptomaniac, she’s the mom of the group!
Jester is a Cleric whose god isn’t actually a god and who would much rather bash bad guys over the head with her lollipop than have to stop and heal her friends!! she’s a bubbly, optimistic ray-of-sunshine, but you know when she says she’s gonna change the world with friendship she means it as a threat
Mollymauk is an amnesiac, but he doesn’t want to remember who he was. if you ask him, that wasn’t him! he might be a flirtatious hedonistic carnie, but he’s also single-mindedly devoted to making the world a better and more loved place than it was when he found it. he’s a liar, but he means well. he’s an arrogant fool, yes, but he’s right! he did it! he left it better!
Caduceus seems like he’d be creepy and grim from growing up in a graveyard, but he’s actually the most chill out of the entire Nein by far. he’s calm, he’s sweet, and he’s comforting, more than anything else. you’d think he’d be amazed by seeing the outside world for the first time, but he spends the whole time knowing that one day he’ll return home, that he wasn’t supposed to be the one to leave
Yasha is a barbarian with skeletal wings and a dramatic, monochromatic look, but she’s a complete sweetheart. she’s Molly’s best friend, she was a carnival bouncer, she’s a lesbian disaster who collects pressed flowers in a book out of love for the wife she lost. those black wings were actually hiding soft white feathers
Essek was born straight into the den of politics, he was a spymaster, he literally started a war for his own gain, and yet. he’s sounds irredeemable on paper, but. he’s not!! sure, the Nein kind of have to drag his alignment kicking and screaming into neutral, but they manage it. Essek learns and grows and he overcomes his nature. he becomes good, against all odds
guys guys guys don’t you see it!! look at them!!they’re such compelling characters!! they’re everything they’re not supposed to be!! dude y’all how didn’t I realize this earlier!! they subvert their narratives in the most interesting ways ever and I justhshsbhshshsjnsmshsnhsfn!!
Bitches really be only a few episodes in with Caduceus Clay, and yet immediately start calling him plant dad and fantasize scenarios where he takes a father figure role in their life and is proud of them
Not sure about Cad,but by the gods these are all fucking accurate
I got bored so I put the m9 into the random headcanon generator
"We're drinking dead people tea?"
"Aren't we all?"
Bless you, Caduceus 🩷🩵
Last post of the year! Someone inspired me to make Mighty Nein ducks and since I'm meeting the #CriticalRole crew in April, I'll be making more. Enjoy Jester, Caleb, Nott, and Caduceus ducks. And stay tuned for an update on what's coming in the new year!
My sculpture called Little Boy Tom , life size , modelled in clay and shown here as an artistic photo .
Photo no 4 of my sculpture Little Boy Tom , life size , modelled in clay .
Fitting in the rest of the romance/bromance of the M9 and NPCs just makes the whole situation better:
Nott canonically is in love with Caleb and everyone knows it and is kind of cool with it (Yeza, who drinks his respect women juice and knows what kind of woman his wife is, supports it and actually kind of gets it cause who knew self-destructing anxious wrecks hiding absolute chaotic dumbassery was his type??? Not him!). So sometimes Nott will just. kiss Caleb on the mouth in greeting and goodnight and all that happens is Caleb gets flustered and Jester demands one as well
“Nott we run a detective agency together everyone knows that fulfils the homoerotic quota for mouth kisses now lay one on me”
Fjord is good. He’s fine with no mouth kisses from Nott (but sometimes their bantering/arguing just gets.,,,,,,real intense,,,oh boy)
It also means Luke is brought up knowing who his biological parents are but since he is born from the trickster womb of Nott and grew up with the M9, as years go by he sometimes introduces other M9 members as his parents. Fellow friends and other parents are bewildered by the tirade of powerful and influential figures who all apparently sired this little halfing Luke please this giant goth woman with wings is not your mother,,,,,please,,,stop calling her Ma Yash
No one in the M9 really knows what weird connection Caduceus and Fjord have with the Wild Mother and each other, and Ducey doesn’t swing any way, but there is something very married in their morning meditation sessions, week-long “discover yourself” trips and the fact that Fjord may love Jester and Caleb but he is most vulnerable with the other cleric. They are often mistaken for husbands by any religious faction they encounter and honestly they keep getting free shit out of it so who cares???
While Jester may have the curse of accidentally seducing any WLW who comes her way (Yasha and Beau both have accepted themselves as the foundation of said curse and love it), Fjord is bisexual bait and has his own curse of seducing any Dom/Top within a mile radius, usually by getting his ass beat in the process. Avantika was not a fluke when Darrow and his duel Fight Pit/Spa date shows otherwise
Honestly though, it’s Caleb who happens to incidentally seduce the most people, and it is usually other wizard twinks with crippling issues with authority. Essek is always welcome in the tower and often in the bed as well if he’s up for it :))))
*Meanwhile, two thirds of the triad, Fjord and Caleb, grabbing onto Beau* sir, ma’am, people who know better, this is my emotional support lesbian
*Jester, grabbing the other arm* And this is my occasional bed partner and blue bestie
*grabs onto Yasha* and this is her wife and my other female friend who I occasionally kiss on the mouth
Jester’s mum is delighted by her daughter’s many and wonderful partners but her father is A Gentleman and has had Enough of his daughter crashing his places to throw impromptu “sleepovers” we cant keep replace the furniture Jessie we just cant
Honestly, people from outside the group has given up on figuring out what the fuck in happening in the M9 and chalk it up to the kind of shit that happens when you live co-dependently with people you saved the world with
(The fact that there’s been rumours of a similar group on a different continent just cements the fact. It’s been decades and some of them are important political figures,,,,,and one is apparently dead??? But sometimes he shows up on the wings of ravens or some shit and people have to accept him and his antlered wife and their purple bf starting some shit in public almost immediately,,,gross)
y’all are missing out on the funniest relationship dynamic of CR2
Forget about the tangled web of love that stretches between the M9 (barring Caduceus our aroace king of staying out of drama), I would love if the love triangle between Fjord, Jester and Caleb just somehow naturally fell into a little triad all on its own.
Like no dramatic love confessions, they do that shit constantly with each other in secret little ways, but just Jester coming home to her mother like
Jester: mama I want to introduce my partners to you
The Ruby: ah yes that handsome orc boy that you kept going on about, he was so–
The Ruby: wait, partners???
Jester: lmao yeah I have Fjord, who rejected an eldritch monster he was accidentally raising to get close with Mother Nature herself, but that hobo wizard who eventually cleaned himself up and became one of the most powerful casters around is also my bf.
The Ruby, the actual sex god on this plane of existence and all others: hell yeah my daughter deserves the best, get ‘em my baby girl.
The dynamics of it are so funny as well. Like, Caleb is a highly respected wizard now under the tutelage of several powerful figures, so any time he goes to some sort of elbow-rubbing-fancy-pancy wizard event he of course brings his beaus.
And people are like??? “Ah yes, members of the iconic and world-saving group you are part of Mr Widogast, they must be of such high pedigree.”
And then someone recognises Fjord as Captain Tusktooth who had some sort of fake accent going on for years at a time (and didn’t he sleep with that Captain lady who was horny for water or something??? And then get her killed by the pirate king? There was something about a forbidden eldritch god?) and is praying that Mr Widogast’s other partner is normal–
but the first thing that Jester tells anyone is: “have y’all heard about my mother, best lay in the land? I am the daughter of the greastest sexer around and my childhood imaginary friend is my personal god, anyway how are you?”
Even better, out of the three, the tiny blue tiefling is the only one who can pick up and hoist their partners around, making the comical sight of long-cat and long-suffering Caleb being slung bonelessly over one shoulder, while a blushing Fjord is held like a football under the other as Jester parades them down the street in her cute frilly dresses.
Fucking FjordxJesterxCaleb is where the good shit is at wake up sheeple
I think if Ally Beardsley and Taliesin Jaffe ever existed in a room together the world would fold in on itself with the sheer amount of collective raw eldritch and queer energy that their fleshy human facades contain.
Imagine Percy meeting the Mighty Nein. Yes, there’s a trigger-happy goblin and an adorable tiefling and a woman that he should really introduce to Grog, but then he meets
- The one who made a pact he didn’t quite understand with a powerful evil entity that threatens to harm him if he doesn’t do its bidding
- The one who lost his family in one tragic night and was driven mad so now he spends his time trying to make things right
- The one who grew up with a big family until a dark magic tainted his home and now he just wants to be with his siblings again
- The one who’s smart but standoffish and her self-assured attitude isn’t doing her any favors (not to mention she wears blue and is secretly motivated by a need to prove she can exceed her father’s expectations)
“…No no no no, this won’t do. You’re all coming with me. Have you ever had snow mead? Whitestone has some of the best honey in all of Tal’Dorei. Vex’ahlia! Vex’ahlia darling, go tell the children they have four new siblings!”
Do you think the Mighty Nein will forbid any new members because they’re too far into the nine schtick and can’t back down now.
Like it’s mostly clear that the nine nein are now Beau, Yasha, Jester, Veth, Fjord, Caleb, Caduceus, Essek, and Molly. Fan artists can finally draw three squares of three and have it look cool. But what happens if they pick up a new member?
Bam. Now there’s ten. How will they justify the name they meta gamed up on a whim that has become a centralized motif of the campaign now?
I just think it would be funny if shenanigans ensued.
I cannot get over how dynamically beautiful this moving graphic piece of fan art is. Bravo!
🐺🍄 The Court of Beasts 🍄🐺
A Caduceus Doodle of him falling asleep while leaning on his staff. For the prompt Headcanon. :D
Yes, I am behind, don't say anything about that please
Just a goat and some cows eating fruits and veggies. A doodle for today's prompt food!
First Pic for @lizardlycrimes and my inktober! Although it's basically not ink XD
First Prompt was Redraw!
Old Pic and Prompt List under the cut
That's the old pic
Needed an emotional support Caddy today, tried some stuff. It's definitely not perfect but this was just for relaxation. And that helped.
More Critical Role Themed Emojis, this time with my favourite Ace Tea Lover Caduceus!
I had an ask for Cad and Jester and decided to put them together because Team Cleric is always so cute and amazing.
So, I've tried my hand on something creepy to celebrate Halloween: have a corrupted Caduceus!
I really thought (and kinda hoped) we were going to get a corrupted Caduceus story line when watching Campaign 2, with his hair losing colours and everything going on in the Savalir woods and especially with the arboretum nearby Aeor. I eat that trope right up, okay? I love it.
I first wanted to write a whole fic, but didn't have the time or muse to do so, but still wanted to do something with that thought.
Still might do that though (not looking at my countless other fanfic wips).
I needed to draw some long haired Caduceus. Love my chill holy cow.
Guess who finished the wheel. Did I maybe upload this a while earlier already? Yes. Did I take it down because of how unhappy I was and tried to fix a few things? Yes.
Some Doodles for relaxing