A little piece I've done while studying last week - there are some things I would like to change about it, but for what it was supposed to do (help me focus) it was good! (Also yes, it's shapeshifter!Jaskier adorkable wolves)

Hopalong

🍡anon prompted bunny!Jaskier for my Shifterverse!

I've decided to set this after Jaskier's A to Z of animals!

Rated: T Ship: Geraskier

On AO3

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Geralt wasn't sure why Jaskier had chosen the form he had. Kaer Morhen was cold, and after a few weeks of living there together, Jaskier was sure to have realised that. Most of the time he stayed as a wolf, or a bear, or something more suited to colder climates, only shifting to smaller animals when he wanted to snuggle up in Geralt's lap, and he would switch back as soon as he was done... but apparently today that just wasn't the case.

After exhausting himself from Lambert's game of ‘guess the animal’, Jaskier had settled on a rabbit once he'd regained his strength. It was an odd choice for the bard who loved to talk, and he wasn't able to express himself as clearly as when he was a wolf or a cat, but then again... perhaps that was why he'd chosen it. Even extroverts need a break from people every once in a while.

So Jaskier, in his recovery stage, had decided to hop around the very cold, draughty castle as a rabbit. It apparently didn't matter that the poor animals required considerably more warmth than Kaer Morhen was able to provide. The idiot couldn't have shifted into some kind of snowy bunny? No. That would have been too easy.

He was just your average, by the side of the path rabbit. His fur was more coppery than a usual bunny, and bright blue eyes peered up at Geralt, one ear half flopped in front of his face.

He was also shivering and stubbornly not shifting back. Geralt had suggested it, but Jaskier had just hopped off the bed and darted off down the corridor, leaving Geralt to chase him through the halls towards the kitchen. If someone had told him that he would spend his morning chasing his boyfriend-turned-rabbit through Kaer Morhen, then he would have laughed and told them they weren't blessed with the gift of prophecy.

When they made it into the kitchen, they were greeted by a wall of warmth. The fire was burning brightly in the hearth, and Vesemir was standing in the corner prepping the venison for their dinner, and he looked up when he saw Geralt enter the room. 

"Wolf," he grumbled, before getting back to his work. "What brings you here?" 

"Jaskier." 

As if to prove the point, Jaskier squeaked, hopping around Vesemir's legs before jumping up at his shins. 

"He's cold," Geralt added as Vesemir reached down to scoop up the rabbit, cradling Jaskier in his arms.

If Jaskier had been a cat, there was no doubt that he would be purring contentedly in Vesemir's arms, but as it was he leaned into the older witcher's chest, ears flopping as Vesemir scratched his head, and his blue eyes squeezed shut. Every so often his nose would scrunch up but he seemed to be shivering less already in the heat of the kitchen.

"A rabbit is an odd choice, pup," Vesemir chuckled at the rabbit in his arms, moving his fingers out of the way before Jaskier could bite him. "But I won't question your instincts. Fascinating really. All the options on the Continent, and you choose a rabbit. It's fascinating." 

Jaskier squeaked, hopping back onto the floor and pawing at Geralt's trouser legs until Geralt picked him up with a roll of his eyes. Out of all the witchers at Kaer Morhen, Vesemir's natural curiosity triggered Jaskier's anxieties more than anyone else. It was frustrating but Geralt could understand why. It was a witcher's job to know about the creatures of the Continent, and Jaskier defied all their expectations. He was truly unique. Thankfully, Vesemir had the decency to look sheepish as he moved across the kitchen to the pile of chopped carrots on the side.

"My apologies, pup," Vesemir hummed as he offered the carrot to Jaskier. 

The shifter's nose twitched and his head reached out to sniff the carrot before nibbling at it, and pulling the morsel into his mouth. 

"He'll be okay." Or at least, Geralt hoped he would be. Jaskier hadn't changed into a mouse this time, so that was a good sign. He'd merely retreated back into Geralt's arms, and it was an honour to be trusted even after all their travels together. "Do you want to stay in the kitchen, Jask?" 

The rabbit's tail wiggled and Geralt took that as a yes. There were chores to be done, but he figured it was alright to take a break for now. The wall could wait for tomorrow.

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Next

Jaskier is a shapeshifter. Every time he and Geralt start to get into an argument, he turns into a miniature Horse.

Almost always taken aback, Geralt often finds himself flustered by this peculiar transformation.

It becomes quite a challenge for Geralt to hold onto his anger towards Jaskier when he transforms into a miniature horse. After all, how can one stay mad at such a tiny creature? Geralt struggles to retain any anger towards Roach, a regular-sized horse.

Jaskier often managed to have his way when he transformed into a miniature horse until Geralt threatened to burden him with carrying all their belongings on his back while in his horse form.

At this point, Jaskier has to turn back into being human.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53726809/chapters/136005934

After the mountain Jaskier throws caution to the winds and decides to use a secret he's kept his entire life to get back at Geralt. He expects a short and petty journey of revenge. Instead he makes new witcher friends, explores his past, and finds peace with who he is and what he wants in life. Meanwhile, Geralt hasn't heard anything about Jaskier since he sent him away and is growing worried....

Shape shifter Jaskier who's been an otter for a bit too long will hold Ciri 'hostage' until geralt give him his watermelon.

Obviously this just means holding a spoon to her throat. 'Jaskier if you Wanted a meat pie you should have Ordered some.' 'Well i want some now Geralt. Give it to me or the girl gets it.'

Ciri thinks this is a delight. She's either giggling or playing along. 'Geralt Please! He's got a spoon! Don't let him hurt me! Oh whatever will I do.'

When Geralt inevitably breaks Jaskier gets his treat and he praises Ciri on her acting ability. Yennifer delights in the whole procession, not the least of which because it's a bit Geralt does not like so they all think it's hilarious.

Yennifer just gives Jaskier a bite right off her fork so there's no need for the dramatics. She knows how to treat her husband properly after all.

I actually love thinking about crossovers that make 0 sense and would never work <3

ok let’s start workshopping this!! ways they could address why Geralt is Liam Hemsworth now:

- he regenerates

- gets his face eaten by magical face eating slugs and has to get a new one

- plastic surgery

- time cut several years into the future & they try to pass off Hemsworth as an older Cavill

- Geralt has to go undercover, has someone transform his face into a different face

- have him wear a mask for the whole season

- put Hemsworth in elaborate make up to make him look like Cavill

- gets hit with curse of Hemsworth (turns u into a Hemsworth brother)

- that’s not Geralt, that’s his long lost brother, Gerald

- whole episode face/off reference

- Geralt gets killed so they transfer his consciousness into a cloned body provided by Garfield the Deals Warlock

- gets bitten by a Liam Hemsworth and transforms into one

- Geralt gets merged with an alternate version of himself from another dimension

- Geralt gets turned into a cardboard cut out and Jaskier has to reconstruct his face but he cocks it up so Geralt just has a new face now

- reveal that Geralt has actually been wearing a Henry Cavill mask this whole time & this is his real face

- witchers have shapeshifting powers but don’t use them

- Jaskier & only Jaskier keeps saying that Geralt looks kind of different, everyone else insists they have no idea what he’s talking about

- his face just does that

The weird scapegoating of Joey Batey in The Witcher Fandom

I'm tired so I'm going to write this quickly. I know people don't want to think there is a toxic faction in The Witcher fandom but there is, there really is. And in the last two or three days I've seen a weird scapegoating of Joey Batey (who plays Jaskier) as the reason Henry Cavill is leaving.

First there are a lot of people who have been insisting on Facebook comments that the reason Henry Cavill left is because Jaskier is now being portrayed as bisexual. Several self-confident comments on places like the Witcher memes page saying things like "I bet that was the last straw." and "Yeah, it probably was. Dandelion loved women in the books! Women!" He didn't stop loving women, guys. The show goes out of its way to say the gender of his lover doesn't matter to him. He even slept with a polymorph (a shapeshifter). These fans also emphasize that "Dandelion" is his name, making me doubt they are book fans at all. Jaskier IS his original name in the original Polish novels. It directly translates to Buttercup. Dandelion was his name in the English language video games and novels. It's not the "correct" name. That's like arguing that Princess Peach needs to be called Princess Toadstool in the Mario franchise. These "fans" make me doubt they've been fans of Henry Cavill for long. They seem completely unaware that Henry Cavill was in the movie Stardust, based on the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name. And Henry Cavill was already a fantasy lover back then and a book purist and yet his character flirts with a male character who didn't even exist in The Stardust novel. Captain Shakespeare played by Robert de Niro. So no, Henry Cavill, despite wanting book accuracy, probably didn't leave because Jaskier isn't strictly straight anymore. He doesn't share your thinly disguised homophobia. Another weird way I've seen Joey Batey become a target of the angry Witcher fans is there was an "article" calling Joey Batey "Judas" for saying he looks forward to working with Liam Hemsworth. Was he supposed to say f--k him!? This fandom is getting embarrassing. Actually, correct that. After Sophia from Mars' video essays revealed that there are white supremists who mistakenly think you're supposed to agree with the genocidal racist VILLIANS in The Witcher novels... This is turning into one embarrassing fandom.

Jaskier seeing a shapeshifter that looks like him: Oh wow! 10/10, would fuck actually

Shapeshifter: Yeah because you love yourself :)

Geralt seeing a shapeshifter that looks like him: Oh damn I'm hideous, 0/10, would murder actually

Shapeshifter: Oh no you hate yourself ...but I bet you love the bard, don't you :)

Speaking of unreliable narrators who either lie or don't know what's going on, the Witcher books are full of them and I think that's what makes the story so interesting to me.

Most of these characters shamelessly lie to get out of situations or to get their way, and it's not until several books later that these lies are revealed to, well, not be true. Geralt says he was a child of surprise but he's not, he says he's "of Rivia" but that's just to make himself look fancy he's not actually from Rivia, he frequently tells people that his swords possess immense magical power and will hurt ordinary humans but then when Dandelion/Jaskier hears him and goes "hey buddy you should probably have told me that before since I touch your swords all the time" he immediately replies "I was lying, there's no magic".

Geralt insists multiple times there is no such thing as dopplers until one is standing in front of him, at which point he goes "okay. Well. I guess I was wrong. Also did you have to shapeshift into me??? I'm so ugly wtf???"

And some of it is just bullheadedness. Mr God Is Fake And Prophecies Are Bullshit who has met approximately two gods in the flesh and literally every single prophecy said in his vicinity has come true.

Which is what amuses me about "well this guy in this book on this page said this about the history of Witchers so anything besides that isn't canon" when it's like. Bruh. Sorcerors lie to Geralt to get him to do what they want all the time. They're literally in the middle of lying to him when they say that. How do you know that's true? Geralt doesn't refute it but it's possible he doesn't know either. And he lies too, and he sometimes chooses to go along with a lie he's caught from someone else because he's interested to see the conclusion.

If you're still doing prompts, wolf!Geralt or tired dads universe? <3

Jaskier stays not always a wolf too! Sometimes he is smol and gets a lick over the whole face. (Also even if he is a bit tougher as a lynx he doesn't enjoy being squished around his tummy as a cat)

Chaos and Kittens

For @kueble who wanted kitten (not cat) Jaskier for my Shifterverse!

Feat deaged Jaskier!

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Rated: T Ship: Geraskier

On AO3

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Curses. Geralt really fucking hated curses. It was bad enough when mages tried to target him as a witcher, at least he had some immunity... but Jaskier was vulnerable. Of course it had been entirely the shifter's fault. He had been acting really childish, taunting and teasing the mage in a way that would obviously end poorly. It was times like that when Geralt realised that Jaskier really was just eighteen, no matter how mature he seemed most of the time. A tragic childhood had forced him to grow up early, which Geralt could relate to, but he was still just a teenager... or at least he had been. 

Geralt's boyfriend was now... well... a boy - more a toddler. Gods knows. Geralt hadn't had to age kids in years. He wasn't cut out to be a parent.

Bright blue eyes peered up at him, and Jaskier's bottom lip quivered as he started to cry. Tears rolled down Jaskier's cheek and he held his arms out, reaching for Geralt. It seemed as if his mental age had regressed along with his body. Just what they needed.

"G-geralt?!" Jaskier whined, red faced and snotty already. "What have they done to me?!" 

Well... that should have been obvious. Geralt sighed, squatting down so he was nearer eye level to the young shifter. His clothes were hanging off his small body, his trousers around his ankles and his shirt around his shins. He looked more innocent than Geralt had ever seen him, and he was overwhelmed with the instinct to protect.

"I think you've been deaged, Jask," Geralt murmured, trying to be as reassuring as he could but it wasn't easy for a witcher with two swords and armours not to be intimidating to a child, and Jaskier burst into tears once more.Then with a crack of bones, ginger fur burst over Jaskier's skin and he fell to the floor with a pathetic mewl. It was Jaskier's usual cat form, Geralt recognised the markings... but he was tiny.

Geralt very gently picked up the kitten, feeling a little like a bear in an apothecary shop. Jaskier fit into the palm of his hand, and his usual loud meows were squeaky and high pitched. He seemed unsteady on his paws, tripping up as he tried to clamber up Geralt's arm to his shoulder. That was at least something that hadn't changed.

"What am I going to do with you?" Geralt sighed, reaching up to scratch the tiny little kitten behind his ears.

Normally by now Jaskier would be purring contently on Geralt's shoulder, but instead he was making quiet hiccup sort of noises in between his squeaky meows. The curse had distressed the bard more than usual. Gone was the cocky bastard that Geralt had come to love, and in his place was a shy and vulnerable child who was now relying on him to set things right. Unfortunately, the mage was no longer an option... but hopefully it was a curse they would be able to break together. If not, then Geralt might be bundling Jaskier back up to Kaer Morhen for the spring. Hopefully Vesemir would still be there and they could put their heads together.

But for now, Geralt would look after his baby feline friend to the best of his ability. That meant for now, finding food that would be okay for Jaskier's stomach until he decided to shift back into a human, or at least a slightly more steady animal. That and lots of affection. Geralt knew he needed to comfort Jaskier as much as he could, especially with his more childlike mind. So he plucked the kitten back off his shoulder and brought him to his face. Before he could change his mind, Geralt placed a kiss on Jaskier's forehead, right between his fluffy ears, and then clutched him tightly to his chest. 

"We'll figure it out, Julek. I promise."

Jaskier mewled again, this time a half purr croaking out. The sound was one that Geralt always loved but he'd never been so relieved to hear it, but before he could really enjoy it, Jaskier's bones cracked again and it was like he popped into a wolf cub. It was quicker and less controlled than his shifting as an adult, startling Geralt. Another pop like crack and Jaskier was a bear cub. In the back of Geralt's mind, he smiled, wondering whether Jaskier would shift into a viper, griffin or baby crane next. It seemed that his shifter friend really did have some kind of infinity to witchers, but instead Jaskier settled back as a kitten and then promptly fell asleep, purring softly in Geralt's arms.

The day began like any other for Jaskier, waking up alone since Geralt had left him by the mountain's side. But something felt off; Jaskier realized he was significantly shorter than he remembered and had paws – he had turned into a cat by some strange twist of fate. In the blink of an eye, he was human again.

It appeared Jaskier had gained the ability to transform into animals, yet he had no control over the process. Spending a week as a cow, narrowly avoiding slaughter, was far from enjoyable. Sometimes, his transformations were incomplete, like sprouting a tail during a performance, causing utter embarrassment

Realizing he needed magical assistance, Jaskier sought help. However, luck wasn't on his side when he transformed into a goat, only to be purchased by a witcher bound for Kaer Morhen. During the winter there, Geralt was in for a surprise when the goat he intended to slaughter suddenly transformed into his bard.

Flatter the Mountain Tops ch13 is up on AO3!

Flatter the mountain tops - Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling - Dragon AU - Mature - WIP

Alternate Universe - Dragons, Shapeshifting Dragons, Mutual Pining, Hurt/Comfort, Getting Together,  lingering identity trauma, BAMF Hob Gadling, BAMF Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, they’re both pretty bamf because they’re dragons, Angst and Feels, Childhood Trauma, Dirty Talk, Oral Sex, Depression, Flirting

Chapter 13 - The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now

Quickly Hob takes a deep gulp of his ale and lifts it in cheer as the bard finishes his song with a breathy whisper of exhausted rage. He slumps at the bar and gratefully accepts the tankard the barkeep pushes in his direction. Hob turns away and looks at Ollie who is still staring at him. “You liked that?” he asks with a smile, careful. Ollie is always careful with him, Hob has noticed. It makes him itch and he doesn’t know if he likes or loathes it. The other dragon has stopped flirting with him after their first meeting but has since been always so bloody careful with him that it makes Hob’s blood boil on occasion. He is not a delicate maiden with a broken heart! He is an adult dragon!  With a broken heart. Huh. Whatever.

Ollie and Hob finally talk about Dream. Hob makes a decision. featuring a cameo of Jaskier the bard <3

with thanks to @tryan-a-bex for the beta!

Did I ever write Jaskier in a dress? I know he'd rock it and Yennifer would be all over him. Geralt would be frustrated. In more ways than one. Put Jaskier in a dress.

Hey Inex! First off, love your AWAU series, I've re-read it a few times now since it's one of my go-to fics/series to read when I have nothing else or don't feel like dipping my toe into a new/old fandom. Second, you are the only Witcher author that I follow on this hellsite so when this plot bunny came to me during/after work, I immediately thought to share it with you.

Geraskier The Cat Returns AU. Geralt saves cat prince!Jaskier from being run over by a carriage or eaten by a monster and now has a feline tag-along that talks to him when there aren't any people around. Eventually, Jaskier manages to gain a human shape since Geralt can't go to the Cat Kingdom without turning into a cat himself. He still turns into his cat form when he wants extra pampering though.

Oh this is delightful! Geralt would get to pet a cat, and Jaskier as a cat shapeshifter makes ever so much sense!