So, I loved Caleb slipping a little bit into his previous role as a torturer when they interrogated that deckhand last night (episode 36).
What if he is captured and tortured by someone, but he's unimpressed with their methods? Caleb can't help but mess with his torturer's mind a bit, pointing out mistakes and twisting their rhetoric against them. He's an expert, after all...
He still gets horribly injured, but putting on a stoic face helps him hold onto his sanity (because let's be real -- Caleb needs all the help he can get in that department).
Bonuses: + He lets himself get captured to take the fall for someone else in the Mighty Nein (perhaps Jester goes too far in defiling a temple or spreading the good news about the Traveler, and Caleb confesses to the crime to spare her from being interrogated for heresy? The torturer wants more information about his accomplices and the cult, but Caleb refuses to give in.) + References to Caleb's harsh training under Ikithon, learning how to resist pain by being forced to undergo it himself + When physical torture isn't enough to break him, the torturer turns to humiliation and rape instead + The Mighty Nein eventually find and rescue him, and he still tries to save face, pretending the abuse wasn't that bad + The Mighty Nein clean him up and take care of him without coddling him too much
Caleb - Torture, non-con, whump - Critiquing his torturer
What if he is captured and tortured by someone, but he's unimpressed with their methods? Caleb can't help but mess with his torturer's mind a bit, pointing out mistakes and twisting their rhetoric against them. He's an expert, after all...
He still gets horribly injured, but putting on a stoic face helps him hold onto his sanity (because let's be real -- Caleb needs all the help he can get in that department).
Bonuses:
+ He lets himself get captured to take the fall for someone else in the Mighty Nein (perhaps Jester goes too far in defiling a temple or spreading the good news about the Traveler, and Caleb confesses to the crime to spare her from being interrogated for heresy? The torturer wants more information about his accomplices and the cult, but Caleb refuses to give in.)
+ References to Caleb's harsh training under Ikithon, learning how to resist pain by being forced to undergo it himself
+ When physical torture isn't enough to break him, the torturer turns to humiliation and rape instead
+ The Mighty Nein eventually find and rescue him, and he still tries to save face, pretending the abuse wasn't that bad
+ The Mighty Nein clean him up and take care of him without coddling him too much