servant of the raven and the leopard seal

Prompt 39

Geralt is standing above the unconscious bloodied body of his beloved, Jaskier. The mage Geralt was tracking down to kill had meant to blast Geralt, but Jaskier had tackled the mage and things got ugly. The mage chuckles, eerily, and prowls closer. "So the mighty witcher has a weakness after all. Perhaps it'd be best if I do let you both live. Eternal sorrow is far more delicious than a passing trifle." And Geralt falls unconscious. He relives his entire life through flashes of memories, though they're all cruel and wrong. Things happen differently, skewed and twisted. The first time he meets Jaskier, he punches him in the stomach. Jaskier is standing beside him, near a body of water, as Geralt insults his voice. His passion, his livelihood, his reason for living. Jaskier standing outside awkwardly as Geralt fucks Yennefer. Geralt can see him in his peripheral, and yet he doesn't stop, nor even have the decency to pull the curtains, he just continues. Soon enough, the blur of colors at the edge of his vision disappears as Jaskier runs into the distance. Geralt however thinks that the worst memories are the quick three-second flashes of him just endlessly needlessly insulting Jaskier throughout their decades of companionship. It's not banter, it's not teasing, it's just abuse. Then Geralt is suddenly on a mountain, and he's yelling at Jaskier. "If life could give me one blessing, it would be to take you off my hands!" ... Nevermind. This is the worst one. Geralt is sick to his stomach. Jaskier's eyes widen, and begin to tear up. His face pales of blood, he looks like he's about to faint. His lip even quivers, the way it does when he's well and truly devastated. And Geralt did that to him. "Right.. Uh.. I'll get the rest of the story from the others. I'll see you around Geralt." But then he wakes up in Yennefer's hut. "Where's Jaskier?" he asks immediately. "That bard you hated? The one that followed you around for a few years? I don't know. It's been years since you've even thought about that wretch." He explains that this is wrong. That he loves Jaskier. He adores him. And she tuts sympathetically before explaining that it was a spell the mage put him under. Fake memories of a life where he paired up with the bard. She mimes gagging at the sentiment and he feels hot with anger. As if Jaskier is such a bad choice of romantic partner. He storms out of her place and races off to find his bard. He needs to know for sure what their standing is, and even if he has been cruel, he can at least apologize to the poor bard. "I don't know what to do, Yenna!" A bandaged Jaskier shrieked as the afformentioned witch examined Geralt for the fourth time that hour. Geralt lay comatose in her guest bed, under some sort of spell. Every once in a while, Geralt frowns or winces in his sleep, but that's all they can get from him. "He hasn't woken up since we were fighting the mage." She has a feeling she knows what sort of spell it is. A very cruel trick to play. The mage was smart enough to trust Geralt's self-flagellation. That upon waking from a fake world he perceived as real where all he did was harm Jaskier, he'd most certainly distance himself from the real Jaskier in fear of becoming the version of him in the curse. The mage was dumb enough however, to not think of how far Jaskier would go to save his beloved.

My hot take from the dnd movie is that Edgin is not a bard (no magic) but instead is a mastermind rogue with the entertainer background.

today I learned that Jon played the entirety of "The Poison Within" while looking into MK's eyes and I'm pretty sure that knowledge has irreversibly changed me as a person

gasp not me making a (kind of?) self insert for a fun tes-themed stream w/ the babygirls

(ft. @abstractredd's hermy mora priest character <3)

shades of magic discord!

hi friends, i want to throw this link towards you all because a shades of magic discord exists now and i figured i would spread the word about it

not many of us here, but you should all totally join so we can scream over this book together

https://discord.gg/a6ew49D7

my beloved ocs have finally gotten their long overdue glowup! 🥹💗

see below the cut for their basic information, as well as an explanation of some of my design choices :)

also, here’s the first time i drew them all together in april 2022 (ft. teenage ryn) so you can see the difference!

Someone reblogged that dnd uquiz from me and their result was warforged druid which made me go "wait, what? aren't warforged the robot-looking guys? how can a robot be a druid??", but then i realized i know exactly how a robot can be a druid:

I still like gale the most closely followed by lae'zel I think... She has such sad eyes sometimes

I love it when you play so much DnD that your character choices sorta come full circle:

In your first ever game you might start out as a human fighter, or an elven rogue, or maybe just a half-elf wizard, and then you slowly progress to warlocks and artificers, homebrew perhaps??

But then at some point…you just sorta return to the basic???

For example: I had a moment after a one shot (one that several different groups had all played through separately) where a member of a different group, who had played DnD a year or two, had asked me, who at that point had played for about 5 years, what character I was playing.

I, of course, started ranting about what role in the party I wanted to explore and how I felt the role of ‘maternal’ and ‘the moral one’ was so often associated with being dull when in fact there’s so much unexplored potential in it, and how I wanted to challenge myself by being a character who truly wears their heart on their sleeve and-

Then he asked “ok, but what class and race are you tho?” “………….human fighter” “Ah. There’s no shame in being a bit basic I guess”

I am still sick and miss my motorcycle so fuck it

More Beatstuck things!!! aka just miscellaneous doodles of ideas I have.

The gist of Beatstuck is that it's a jsab/homestuck sorta crossover au where the shapes play a version of Sburb. because . mixing my interests together is really fun. The four player shapes and the jsab bosses are playing separate games, essentially their goal is to merge both of their sessions together so they can finish the game and create a new universe! Shenanigans ensue.

Jsab doesn't really have a ton of like,, concrete lore. so I am using the age old technique of "making shit up" <3 I have a ton of jsab headcanons just lying around & I'm so glad I get to finally use them

anywho, there a few things I've changed since the last posts. Skya is the thief of void since I thought it fit better and Cirk isn't the bard of time anymore (though I haven't figured out what their classpect would be instead yet) I am still. sorta conceptualizing all this so be prepared for certain stuff to change at random </3

because I didn't wanna make this post super duper long, there's a few bonus doodles under the cut (mostly of like character dynamics n things like that I think) :]

dear jsab fans I am so sorry for putting home suck in your tag

scanned through some stuff on the superg irl wiki bc some stuff I saw for the ao3 femslash poll made me curious and. goddammit I see why lesbians went (go?) insane over this show there's some compelling character concepts here

baldies gate is very difficult

While I love the version where Daeron is Luthien's brother I don't deny that over time I've come to find something appealing about Daeron being this renowned musician and singer and not sharing any blood ties to any royal family members whatsoever. I find it quite refreshing as the characters in the first age who are not related to royalty who get to do cool, worthy-of-renown stuff are far and few between, and it's satisfying to me to have Daeron be just another dude, another citizen of Doriath who earned his fame solely because of his skill not because he's related to Thingol or some other important figure.

Hello, Peregrine 4 for the WIP Wednesday ask game please!

Also, what's this about a dnd character's Inigo Montoya speech? That sounds awesome, you should work on that too.

3 minutes of editing done! Here's the first three sentences of Snorri's Inigo Montoya speech!

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You don't know me. But you know my mother. Or rather, you knew my mother.