Widonott

Widonott is the family or het ship between Caleb Widogast and Nott from the Critical Role fandom.

Curious Beginnings
Caleb wakes up to find Nott curled up at the foot of the bed. Nott wakes up and they start to discuss the previous day and both agree that it was rough. Nott thinks that Caleb just needed some rest, given how fast he fells asleep. He asks if anyone saw her, and she admits that she might have been spotted by the Crown's Guard. He asks if she had the mask on, but she didn't. She was just trying to replace what they lost the day before. He suggest that she wear the mask the whole day and tells her that it's easier if they steal things together. He backs up their conversation and thanks her for saving his life the day before. She says that it wasn't a problem and they both agree to head downstairs and get something to eat.

Downstairs they order breakfast, and overhear a group next to them counting their coin. Nott suggests running a scheme to get the money, but Caleb is against. They're suddenly interrupted by Jester who asks if they're staying at the inn. They end up getting pulled into a conversation with Jester's group. Beau and Jester start to become suspicious of Nott's mask and Caleb accidentally reveals that she's a goblin, but tells them not to make a big deal out of it.

Later, while playing a game with Jester, Nott runs out of money for it. Caleb offers to put in some money for her, which Nott is very grateful for, even though he wishes he had a bit more. As they continue to play, Jester wins, but Nott overreacts and pulls out a shortsword, accusing her of cheating. Caleb is able to calm her down, and offer excuses to the others. Nott apologizes, and Jester is quick to forgive her.

The Gates of Zadash
Although others have assumed she is a child, Nott corrects them to say she is “of childbearing age”, and Caleb declares that day to be her ninth birthday, with goblins being considered adults from age 8. It is later revealed in episode 49, A Game of Names that Nott is actually an adult halfling of around 25 years, reincarnated as an adult goblin.

Whispers of War
To gain entry to the library of the Cobalt Soul, Beau demands that Caleb tell her why he is afraid of fire. Caleb decides to tell her privately, but to tell Nott at the same time, as he feels it would not be right to tell Beau and not Nott. Before revealing his secret, he asks if Nott would run with him, abandoning the rest of the group, if necessary, and she promises that she would. Nott defends Caleb against his own accusations upon himself, and says that he can be forgiven when he learns how to forgive himself.

The Stowaway / Storm of Memories
Caleb feels guilty for unintentionally abandoning Nott in the lair of the dragon, and having her escape with her life only barely (with 1 hit point). He asks her to jump up and cuddles her, carrying her back to their cabin on the Ball Eater. Nott gives him a kiss and tries to cheer him up by talking about the books they got, but Caleb is unable to forgive himself. The next day, when the group goes to a town to get supplies, he stays on the boat to identify the goods they found and castigate himself for abandoning her, calling himself a “piece of shit”.

Homeward Bound
The party reaches Nott’s former home of Felderwin and discovers Yeza missing from the apothecary where he had worked. Panicked and angry, Nott accuses Caleb of complicity, saying “Your people did this to my people!” In reference to the Cerberus Assembly and Trent Ikithon, whose pupils apparently excel in dunamancy, the kind of magic that the assembly had apparently been forcing Yeza to research before his disappearance. When Beau tries to hush her, Nott says “fuck him!” About Caleb. Caleb is very distressed by the situation and throws up in the apothecary basement.

A Game of Names
Nott reveals that she was formerly a halfling woman named Veth Brenatto and has a missing husband and young son. Veth was murdered by goblins and reincarnated as one after fleeing and killing the goblin chief who had held herself and her family prisoner for some time. Finding herself a goblin, she could not return to her family in Felderwin, where goblins are stoned on sight. Caleb reveals that he too has changed his name, from Bren Aldric Ermendrud. He assumed the name Caleb as an alias the day he met Nott and has been using it ever since. They both agree to keep using their current names, Nott and Caleb.

Curious Beginnings

 * Caleb corrects Nott on her assumption that Tieflings can't see movement.
 * Nott and Caleb each order a trost.
 * Caleb tells Nott that the Money Pott scheme shouldn't be used on the other group.
 * Nott and Caleb both agree to go to the Carnival.
 * Nott compliments Caleb on his magic, and mentions how much he reads.
 * Caleb tells Nott it’s okay to play Jester’s card game.
 * Nott and Caleb agree that hanging out with the weirdo's could take some attention off of them.
 * Caleb warns Nott against possibly angering Yasha.
 * Nott pays for Caleb's entrance into the Carnival.

Perspective

 * Caleb and Nott ride together on Caleb’s moorbounder, with a sleeping Beau. Nott shares with Caleb that she is feeling guilty for abandoning her husband to go off with the Mighty Nein at the earliest opportunity. Caleb says that he doesn’t judge her for it, and that she is an addict (of adventuring) like the rest of them.
 * Nott expresses her doubts that she really wants to go back to her husband, asking if she is supposed to go back to being a housewife. She doubts that Yeza likes her as a goblin, and when Caleb attempts to reassure her that he seems to like her, she asks “but will I like it?”

Domestic Respite

 * To get him out of her room, Beau asks Caleb if he’s in love with Nott. He denies it, but Beau cites sexual tension between Caleb and Nott on the moorbounder in episode 59, Perspective.

Reflections

 * On watch overnight, Caleb decides to confide in Beau his conflicting feelings about Nott’s true identity and husband, saying he feels awkward about the intimacy they had shared before, including sleeping very close together on cold nights.
 * Beau asks if Caleb is jealous of Yeza, and he confirms that he is.
 * Caleb tells Beau that he no longer knows what to do with himself, and appears to desperately miss the closeness he had with Nott before knowing about her husband, referring to them as “the good times”.
 * Beau tells Caleb that he and Nott will always have been partners.

Clay and Dust

 * Apparently disinhibeted while polymorphed into a giant eagle, Caleb pecks several kisses to the top of Nott’s head before transforming back into himself and giving her one last kiss on top of her head as himself.

The Threads Converge

 * Nott and Beau swap secrets, getting drunk and each confiding a crush in one another. Nott tells Beau that when she first met Caleb, she was attracted to him and had “a little bit of a crush”.
 * Beau tells Nott she had got the feeling that there was some attraction between Nott and Caleb.
 * Nott implies that she is no longer into Caleb, saying, “but then I got to know him”. However, when asked further on this by Beau, she doesn’t comment on whether she has ”friend zoned” Caleb, but instead reminds Beau that she is married.
 * Nott says that she has never looked at a man other than Caleb and her husband “quite like that”.
 * Nott says that in another life, she and Caleb could have been together.
 * Nott gives examples of why she likes Caleb - his intellect, his rugged jawline, and not caring about what others think of his appearance, and says that he is interesting and exciting.

Fanon
Nott and Caleb are a fan favorite dynamic among Critical Role fans, including non-shippers. Many fans enjoy exploring their dynamic in fic, or meta-analysis, as they have a lot of interactions in the series that make it easy to analyse. While there are fics of just the two's dynamic or romantic relationship, a more typical trope in Nott & Caleb fics is for Caleb to be in a relationship, and for Nott to be the one to threaten the person who he's dating.

A romantic interpretation of the relationship between Nott and Caleb has been controversial, however, in episode 85, Noto confirmed that she had once had a crush on Caleb, and would have be interested in romance with Caleb were she not already married to her husband, Yeza.

On AO3, Caleb & Nott is the most written relationship for Nott and the second most written for Caleb. It is also the third most written relationship for the Mighty Nein and the fourth most written relationship in the Critical Role tag overall. Caleb/Nott remains something of a rarepair, with only 69 fics as of 12/5/19.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * Liam (Caleb) and Sam (Nott), were co-presidents of D&D Beyond.
 * They were fired from their position after one day.
 * Both Nott and Caleb's name's are alias'. Their real names are Veth Brenato and Bren Aldric Ermendrud.

Variations

 * Empire Trio refers to the ship between Beauregard Lionett, Caleb and Nott