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Witcher Fic Rec - Dziady

First Fic Rec of 2024!!!! For a brilliant fic ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Dziady by eldritcher. 10000 words. Completed. Rated M. Emhyr/Geralt

Rec because - classic slash hurt/comfort middle aged dudes out of touch with their emotions fic giving strong 2000s vibes. Beautiful, dirtyhotbadwrong, deep interiority in the POV, complicated, bittersweet.

Rec note - It feels translated from another language without losing the feel. Idk how to explain. The use of Slavic folklore really adds to that vibe.

Other things I love - Slavic folklore which works great for the fic's vibe. Also the otherness of Geralt. He really feels like something special purpose created in a lab/something like Frankenstein's Creature. The Witcher backstory in canon is like X Men/Wolverine oversimplified. Also Emhyr's characterization. So unforgivable but also really you are going to fall in love with the depiction because he is just interesting. In fic interesting is better than good at least for me. Also zero royalty/blood status kink which is something important for me. Of course anything goes in fic because fic is not reality. This is just my personal reading taste.

Also hot. Just messy, problematic and hot.

Between silver and steel lay the emptiness where the Witcher’s heart once had been before the Trials and the mutagens had wicked it out, Dandelion had once written in poetic flair. A desirable outcome. There was something between silver and steel. It was not empty. It was warped. It had craved to beg the djinn to bind Yennefer to him for more than reason alone. It craved and craved and craved, to be remembered well by his friends, to be his tansy-child’s sole father, to be not spat upon, to be honoured at Dziady after his time, and to irrevocably lay claim to what Emhyr was unwittingly dangling before him.

Prose - The prose is lyrical but not really the author's usual soaring prose vibe. I feel the prose is actually more poetic in the A-side fic Wiosna. But that's outside the scope of this rec.

Pairing vibe - Emhyr is really horrible and complicated in book canon. He literally hunts his daughter to marry her because some prophecy and her blood is special. He changes his mind/has his One Conscience Moment when he lets her leave. Geralt is the Dad that stepped up. The guy who actually protects her/takes care of her. But he is also a Witcher created with lots of magic/gene mutations and emotions are pretty much a no for them. So the pairing is pretty much out there. They have zero values in common. But it works here. It really works.

Recs are based on my reading and taste.

photo By Lesza Ślężyńska, CC BY 3.0

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