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Geralt Fluff Week Day 3: Family

Title: Soft Words and Kind Hearts Ch 3 Format: Fic Word Count: 847 Day/Prompt: For @geraltfluffweek Day 3: Family Characters/Pairings: uh, kind of Geralt everyone, but more focused on found family. Little bit of Geralt/Regis Summary: Kaer Morhen is full and joyous this winter, so it only makes sense to host a celebration for the solstice.

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The music and cheer washed over Geralt as he leaned against the wall of the dining hall in Kaer Morhen, watching Eskel lead Ciri in an improvised jig as he sipped at his ale. It wasn’t often they had opportunity to celebrate at Kaer Morhen, but this year, the Keep was crowded and warm and overflowing with joy. What had started as a simple winter solstice celebration had turned into a lively evening of drinking and dancing and feasting.

Geralt hid his smile in his ale as Zoltan Chivay, fearsome warrior and Geralt’s favorite dwarf, loudly declared that he would show them how a proper jig was done. Jaskier obligingly led the enchanted instruments beside him into a more dwarven jig, with lots of feet stomping. Several people gasped in delight as Zoltan leapt in the air for a flip, but Iorveth, the only elf in attendance, scoffed.

“Surely you can do better than that?” the former Scoia’tael leader challenged and Geralt suddenly remembered that Zoltan and Iorveth had never gotten along.

Zoltan let out a sharp bark of laughter. “If you’re so cocky, why don’t you demonstrate?”

“Free for all!” Lambert shouted, dragging his Cat School Witcher companion out onto their makeshift dancefloor. “Bet I can jump higher!”

“Like hell!” Aiden laughed and the two began a dance that appeared to be more about jumping and stomping on each other’s feet than moving to the rhythm.

“Why don’t we show them a Skelligen jig, Ciri?” Mousesack held his hand out to her. While the druid had helped raise Ciri in Cintra as a young girl, he was originally from the Skellige Islands and Geralt was vaguely aware that Ciri had visited often as a child.

Ciri grinned widely at Mousesack and took his hand. When the druid lifted her into the air, Geralt noticed that she jumped higher than both Lambert and Aiden, and he chuckled, shaking his head fondly.

“Well shit,” he heard Vernon Roche, former Temerian Special Forces Commander, sigh into his drink. “I hate dancing, but we can hardly have a showcase without Temeria represented, can we?”

His former second-in-command Ves chugged her mostly full ale, leaning back and finishing it off with a flourish. “Yeah, all right. But I lead.”

Roche grumbled, but he let Ves drag him into position. When the next leap came, Geralt was impressed that Ves lifted the stocky man easily and he kicked off of her into a half-flip.

“Huh, never thought they could dance,” Triss said from next to Geralt and then she turned to Yennefer. “We can hardly let mages be outshone here, can we?”

Yennefer laughed, a high echoing sound that simultaneously made Geralt’s heart melt and the hair on the back of his neck stand up straight. But then, adoration and danger were a fairly common combination around the most powerful mage he’d ever met, the woman who had helped him raise Ciri and taught him never to cross a sorceress.

She took Triss’s hand and the two of them began to move in what Geralt supposed might be called a dance, though it certainly wasn’t what he would call a jig. Still, it somehow fit with the strange amalgamation of dance styles on the floor.

Eskel clapped Geralt on the shoulder and then made a beeline towards Lambert and Aiden. Geralt wasn’t sure if he was joining their challenge or just intending to get in their way and annoy them, but either way, Geralt couldn’t help laughing at the wild bouncing the three engaged in.

Next to him, the sweetest old vampire he’d ever met cleared his throat. “Might I have this dance, my dear?” Regis asked, a soft smile curling the corners of his mouth.

Geralt just blinked at the hand Regis offered for a long moment. “I don’t know how to dance,” he finally said.

“Ah, but you do know how to read bodies in combat! Following during a dance is much the same – just follow my queues on when and how to move.”

Geralt hesitated, but then he felt a hand on his shoulder and he turned his head to look at Vesemir just as the old Wolf shoved him forward into Regis.

“Only us old coots get to brood against the wall,” Vesemir said, grinning into his ale as Regis easily caught Geralt and helped him stand upright with a delicate hand on his waist.

Geralt shook his head, turning to Regis with a slight smile. “All right then, show me how it’s done.”

“With pleasure,” Regis bowed his head with all the courtesy of a nobleman, even as the hand on Geralt’s waist dragged him closer until he was pressed against the vampire. “Have you ever waltzed before?”

Geralt blinked. “I thought we were dancing a jig?”

Regis just grinned, guiding Geralt into a swirling series of movement that had them cutting across the dancefloor, spinning to avoid others as needed with surprising elegance. Geralt hadn’t actually known he could move like this and he let his body relax into Regis’s lead.

The banquet hall spun around him, full of the laughs and clatter of his family. Geralt decided that they needed to have more celebrations if they all went like this. Surrounded by warmth and affection and joy, the harsh winter winds blowing outside seemed far away, unable to break through and disturb them. Instead, the party reminded Geralt of exactly why he chose to invite all the people important to him.

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ilonavic · 7 years

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25 Q/A Personality Tag

A dear friend of mine asked me to do this tag myself after I wrote this a while ago for my lovely friends here on Tumblr, thanks to the post by @annarieta regarding this tag, it gave me a little courage to do it. (I actually think there are many scary questions, I don’t like the idea of revealing it to just about anybody.) RULES: Tag people you want to get to know better.

1. Are you introverted or extroverted? I’m very introverted. I can go weeks on my own, without needing company or social stimulation.

2. Are you ruled by emotions or logic? I reason from a point of logic, but ultimately make decisions based of what I feel will make everyone the happiest.

3. What is your happiest memory? Like many others have said already, which was a bit surprising to read, I don’t recall many outstanding happy memories. Like @annarieta said, it’s the small things mostly. But I remember happy car rides with my best friend where we sang (screamed) to music, and traveling to the Vatican City with my classmates. Even if the company wasn’t necessarily good all the time, that place really made me happy. It was so beautiful.

4. What is your saddest memory? Nowadays, every winter, I go into a state of hibernation really. It’s very dark here during the winter, we have about 5 hours of sunlight everyday. It’s cold, it’s dark and murky. It makes me very depressed. But um. The day I lost my best friend is a terrible memory. We were friends for 8 years and I’ve missed her very much for 3 years since.

5. In what kind of world would you rather live in? I’d love to live in an Elven world. I love the architecture, I love the purple/blue/mystic gloom of the places. The nature, rivers are very beautiful. Where people cherished art, music, writing, love, beauty etc, and no one cared a wit for politics, cruelty or had any desire to forbid people from being different or happy.

6. What is your favorite video game? The Witcher, Skyrim and BioShock are my babies.

7. What is your biggest fear for yourself? Being hated by people.

8. What is your biggest wish for yourself? To be a happy little hermit =) In a beautiful place where I can write stories, paint and be surrounded by 20 dogs.

9. What fictional character do you relate to the most? Queen Freya from The Huntsman (she’s my avatar for a reason guuuuuuys). Wait, let me explain, haha. She’s portrayed as a complex evil character. I don’t consider myself to be evil, nor do I consider myself to be purely good either. I can relate to her character process. Alike her, I was very trusting and happy when I was little, I was truly a little sunshine. But like with so many of us, life happens, and then life happens again, and I became... well, a different person really. Like her, I often feel misunderstood and isolated. But I also cherish loyalty above all, and shun love away from me (I also freaking love ice and snow). I think love is beautiful when I see it with other people, but I could never love like that myself, somewhere it’s hardwired in my brain in a twisted way that love is a weakness and can be used to manipulate and harm me. Heartache and emotional suffering is something I'm terrified of (you know, when you can physically feel pain in your chest), and I can’t handle it anymore. So I don’t feel romantic desire towards people anymore, I think I’ve... removed it?

10. If you could become anything, without any education or demands, what would you choose as your profession? Author or an actress.

11. Do you have any siblings? Two brothers and one sister. I’m the second youngest.

12. Have you ever wanted to injure someone? When I was bullied, I wanted to injure the people who hurt me all the time, but I never actually did it.

13. Have you ever wanted to help someone, but didn’t? Yes, but I always try to do the best I can to help someone, even if I don’t know the person. It doesn’t matter, I’ll happily embarrass myself to help someone in need.

14. What makes you angry? Bullies, homophobes, racists, sexists, rapists, murderers, especially animal abusers can fuck off right to hell.

15. What makes you happy? My precious jewel, doggy.<3 Also, traveling and airplanes is a joy. Museums, exploring new places, yeah. Fun fun.

16. Would you rather beat up a small child once - or get beaten up by an angry man every single day for the rest of your life? I don’t want to beat up anybody, so bring me the man. Maybe I’d get really psychologically twisted and Stockholm Syndrome would set in so I’d start to like it lol.

17. What places would you visit today if you could? Ireland! Scotland! England! Just because @lithiumgrayangel showed me how beautiful Sevilla is, I wanna visit Sevilla one day. But of course, beautiful Italy (Rome is stunning), Venice again, Russia (possibly Moscow), FRANCE! Finland, Norway and Iceland are beautiful too. Also Warsaw, UK and US. And Budapest. And New Zeeland, Canada, Australia... Gosh I wanna go everywhere, I can’t pick one!

18. Do you want children? Why? If not, why not? To be honest, it will depend on what situation I am in. Did I, against all odds, found a person who wants children? Then yes, in a stable household and in happy relationship, I’d consider having one or two, no more. But... Right now, that future is looking very bleak. And if I end up with someone who don’t want children, then I won’t have children. Just get a dog instead, they’re less fussy.

19. Did you have a happy childhood? It’s a bit complicated. When I was young, I did have a happy childhood, but my father was also abusive back then. He calmed down once I became a teenager, and then the bullying started, and when the bullying stopped, my dad became sick. And my mother has basically been hysterical and wacky my entire life so. But um, to be honest. I had friends, a roof over my head, food on the table. I got nothing to complain about.

20. Have you ever done drugs? If you have, would you do it again? I’ve been offered, but I’ve never been interested and nor will I be. I know a couple of people who just smokes pipe and marijuana in front of me? I think it’s odd but. I try not to judge, and it’s not my business.

21. Would you rather become a child again, possessing all the knowledge you have today, or become middle-aged, with 45 000 000 € on your bank account? I’d become a child again, start my life over, and be twice as intelligent. Could be like a scientist or something.

22. If you could become any existing famous person in the world - who would you be and why? I admire Lana del Rey a lot, but I wouldn’t want to be any celebrity. Unless I can become someone really powerful and change the world. Like Donald Trump and resign as the president so someone more capable can take over.

23. Are your parents married or divorced? They’re divorced, but sadly live together still. It’s a stupid decision, but I reckon my father wouldn’t last a day on his own, and my mother must be addicted to misery.

24. Where do you see yourself in the future? An author, hopefully. Making a positive change, helping people, having meaningful friends in my life, living in a beautiful place surrounded by nature and animals. :)

25. If you’d like, a question of your own here. Mine is directed to my fellow Witcher lovers; Who and Why?

For friendly purposes, Regis or Cirilla? I like Ciri, and I can understand why people would choose her, she seems like she would be a lovely friend. But ultimately, I’d have so much to discuss with Regis. I feel like, without being self-absorbed or... delusional in any way, I have some things in common with him. We’re too loyal, we fight for people who don’t cherish our love or advice and we both like discussing philosophical topics with loooooooong sentences (as you’ve probably noticed by now). I’d feel so good in his company, he’s a lovely lovely man.

For romantic purposes, Dettlaff or Avallac’h? My darling Avallac’h, I know there are so many people who misunderstands him, confuses his intelligence for arrogance. People call him horrible things. To be honest, I don’t have too much against Dettlaff though, I like him, and I love his complex nature. But of course, I’d never pick anyone over Avallac’h. He’s brilliant, and I would love to discover a million new worlds with him. (ps. marry me have my babies)

As your co-worker, Caranthir or Geralt? Caranthir would be a brilliant colleague, though Geralt is probably more lovable, Caranthir is intelligent. He’d help me with my tasks and I’d sit there gazing into his eyes and not hearing a word he’s saying. ♥‿♥ (true story, I often drift away when people talk to me)

As your boss, Eredin or Ge’els? I don’t know, he feels more attainable than Ge’els do. Ge’els is just da boss, he’d rule over me, I’d always feel incredible stupid and inferior around him. But Eredin is kinda wacky, but I love him, but he’s a silly goose so I’d just try to befriend him to eventually marry him so we could rule the galaxy together.

As your best friend, Yennefer or Shani? Yennefer, my oh my, I’ve been in love with her since the first time I saw her. She’s INTELLIGENT AND INTELLIGENCE IS SEXY ASF. Shani, you cool too but. Meh, I think her character is a bit boring. There’s not much interesting about her that makes her stand out? She’s not really complex either? She’s just... idk... pretty and stuff. Redhead and stuff. (sorry @vaporeox dont kill me)

As your ally, Vernon Roche or Anna Henrietta? Nah nah, always Roche, I love that man immensely. I’d marry him too. I’d marry everyone.

As your worst enemy, Triss or Dandelion? I don’t really like Triss that much. What she did to Yennefer has ruined her in my eyes.

Tagging: I’ve already tagged people for this tag, but I would like to tag some of my lovely followers who haven’t been tagged in this, tho I can’t possibly tag all of you, I’m sorry about that: @blackeasteagle @everydayzer0es @spooky-cowfish @dovahkiin-deathbat @shadanakara @i-am-the-sword-in-the-darkness @o-moonyue-o @heroesneverdiie @blohandrum @rosiesuzuya and anyone else who wants to do it - you can write you were tagged by me. ❤

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