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So if Voleth Meir possessed Ciri during the journey back to Kaer Morhen, but didn’t attack until some time later on in the night, does that mean that she had to do Ciri’s daily routine?
#voleth meir going in#'I hate those witchers and I'm going to kill them because they imprisoned me'#voleth meir five minutes later#'I hate these witchers because they made me run the killer and then hit a scarecrow with a sword for three hours straight#while the ginger one made fun of my hair'#she hadn't had a body for a very long time#so possessing one just in time for leg day at the gym must have been a nightmare#witcher#witcher s2#ciri#Voleth Meir
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In almost all yennskier fics there's an element of geraskier, them being exes or Jaskier having unrequited feelings for Geralt, and while that's fine and all, I'm desperate for some fics WITHOUT geraskier, with Jaskier having to deal with all the angst that comes with being in love with your best friend's girlfriend/ex bc even if Yennefer loved him back, Jaskier is too loyal to Geralt to ever do anything about it.
Imagine them all traveling together post Voleth Meir and Jaskier and Yennefer desperately trying to hide their feelings while failing a bit more each day.
Imagine the secret lingering looks and gentle touches and maybe a kiss or two when they're left alone and can't hold back.
Imagine Jaskier writting song after song about her and having to lie when Geralt and Ciri ask who it's about. Yennefer would pretend not to know.
Imagine Jaskier going back to his usual manwhore self, sleeping with any willing person around except Yennefer and imagine Yennefer slowly giving in to Geralt's attempts to get back together, hoping her feelings for him will rekindle one day. Imagine the jealousy!
#geraskier is my otp (haven't used that term in years damn) but it doesn't have to be default for every single witcher fic#the witcher#text#geraskefer#yennefer of vengerberg#yennskier#yenskier#jaskier#julian alfred pankratz#dandelion#ramblings#geraskier#geralt of rivia#twn#gifs#prompt#maybe i should write it#or i should finish my wips first lol#the gifs were taken from the yennskier wiki#cause that's a thing that exists#crispy
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actually DYING at jaskier's lil song at the beginning of bottled appetites (s1 ep 5)
'Cause you all know that THIS BARD
Loved ladies from NILFGAARD
'Cause Nilfgaard can KISS. MY. ---Geralt!
nice juxtaposition with voleth meir (s2 ep 7)
And lock me up
And sock me up
And throw away the key
Go fuck yourself, you whoreson, 'cause you're through fuckin' with me.
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"Good sir, you would not know talent if I shoved it up your... Geralt."
#the witcher#witcher#wiedzmin#twn#the witcher netflix#hhhhhhhhh#circling spinning rotating ideas#geralt#geralt of rivia#jaskier#jaskier the bard#dandelion#the sandpiper#julian alfred pankratz#geraskier#whoreson prison blues
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A kiss like they're trying to convince the other to love them and/or a kiss in front of someone they hold captive
Yennskier
Here's a little bit of both, set in an alternate timeline where they managed to capture Rience during season 3, episode 1:
“We should probably talk about what happened in Kaer Morhen,” Jaskier says in what he hopes is a casual way.
Yennefer looks at him incredulously. “Does now seem like a good time for this conversation, bardling?”
“Why not?” Jaskier shrugs. “He’s not going anywhere.”
They both turn to look at Rience, who scowls back at them from the chair they’ve bound him to in dimeritium chains. Jaskier can’t help but feel a thrill of vindication at seeing the fire fucker as trussed up and helpless as he was a year ago in Oxenfurt, even as he keeps catching himself rubbing his fingers together anxiously. It helps that Yennefer is standing next to him and Geralt and Ciri are just in the other room with Yarpen.
Rience sneers at Yennefer. “What’s one of Tissaia’s girls doing, working for a witcher?”
Jaskier snorts. Even if they hadn’t already figured out that Rience isn’t the mastermind trying to capture Ciri, that would have given it away. No one with any sense would think Yennefer a lackey. Leaning closer to Yennefer, he says, “We really should talk about this.”
“About what?” She sighs, clearly realizing she’s not going to be able to evade this. “A lot happened in Kaer Morhen. Do you want to talk about Voleth Meir? All the money you still owe Ciri after all the times she trounced you at cards?”
“She did not…” Jaskier draws himself up, realizes he’s being distracted, and lets out a huff. “About our last night there.”
Yennefer doesn’t visibly react, but there’s a pointedness in the way she turns back to Rience. “Who’s your puppetmaster?”
Rience bares his teeth at her. “I’m no one’s—”
“I don’t believe for a second that you’re the one calling the shots. You’re a one trick pony, aren’t you? You can harness fire, but not much else. That portal wasn’t yours.”
“I just can’t help but notice that you’re acting a bit… off,” Jaskier says carefully, because he and Yennefer may be friends now, but he still doesn’t put it past her to curse his bollocks off.
Yennefer closes her eyes. “Did you learn this interrogation technique from Phillipa?”
“Gods, no.” Jaskier barks out a laugh. “Phillipa wouldn’t let me anywhere near an interrogation.”
“I suppose that’s why Redania is still standing.”
“See? That was almost mean. That was the first mean thing you’ve said to me in three days, and it wasn’t even in your top ten best jabs! Something is clearly amiss. Are you a doppler? Are you dying? Did you hit your head in the skirmish yesterday? Melitele, are you actually plotting my demise? Is this your way of trying to lure me into a false sense of security? Because it isn’t working, Yennefer.”
“If you want him dead, you can just let me out of these chains.” Rience snaps his fingers menacingly and Jaskier can’t help but step back, even though no flames appear.
Yennefer throws out a hand and Rience’s chair flies backward, slamming against the wall and capsizing. He yelps as his head bounces off the ground and lies there, groaning.
“Yenn?” Geralt calls from the next room. “Jaskier?”
“We’re fine!” Lowering her voice, Yennefer hisses, “This isn’t the time.”
“Well, it has to be the time, because you keep avoiding me. Is this about what happened between us? Because you didn’t seem to have any regrets the next morning? In fact, you asked…” He trails off, pieces starting to slide into place.
“I asked you to come with me, Geralt, and Ciri,” she says through gritted teeth. “And you said no. Years of you popping up at the most inconvenient times, bardling, and the one time I want you to stay, you left.”
“But…” Jaskier opens and closes his mouth, at a loss for words. When he recovers his wits, all he can squeak is, “I told you I was needed at Oxenfurt.”
“Bullshit. You told me yourself that the Sandpiper organization would run just fine without you. The only thing you did going back to Oxenfurt was put yourself in Phillipa and Dijkstra’s sights.”
“Well, I’m sorry I didn’t want to come with you just to watch you and Geralt play house while I was just there so you could keep me out of trouble.”
It’s her turn to look taken aback. “What?”
“You said so yourself, you wanted me to come with you so I wouldn’t get myself killed in Oxenfurt. You, Geralt, and Ciri are a family, bound by destiny. I’m not—” He’s getting too close to all the things he doesn’t want to say to her, so he looks away. “I’m happy to play the fun Uncle Jaskier whenever you need me to. But the thing about fun uncles is they show up, let you win at cards a few times, and then they leave before the joke gets old.”
Yennefer doesn’t look exasperated anymore; she just looks sad. That’s somehow worse. “It took Geralt months before he would talk to me about anything but the weather, Ciri’s training, or telling me to duck because someone was trying to stab me. I have never once slept under the same roof as him and Ciri, even when we barely had the coin to afford one lodging, never mind two. It took until the winter before he let me inside to break bread with them. The shadow of what I did hung over us every day. We weren’t playing house, we were on the run, and you should have fucking been there.”
“Yenn—”
She talks over him. “You were the only person who could look at me when we were at Kaer Morhen. I asked you to come with us because I didn’t want to be alone.”
“Why didn’t you just say that?” he whispers.
Her jaw clenches stubbornly, but she doesn’t answer.
Carefully, he reaches out to take her by the wrist, tugging her closer. “Watching the three of you leave Kaer Morhen was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. If I had known you really wanted me there, I would have followed you in a heartbeat.”
Her lips twitch into a half-smile. “Did you really think I was asking you to come just to be nice?”
“Foolish, I know.” He lets out a shaky breath. “I’ll stay this time.”
“What about the Sandpiper?”
“Vespula does most of the Sandpipering these days. I’m being watched too closely by the RSS.” Jaskier brings her hand to his lips. “I’m sorry if I hurt you.”
Yennefer looks like she wants to deny it, because gods forbid she or Geralt admit to being people with feelings, but she nods. “I’m sorry if I’ve been too kind to you. It won’t happen again.”
“Thank the gods. It made my skin crawl.” He leans down to rest their foreheads together. “Let me stay, Yenn.”
She doesn’t answer, but lifts her face so that he can close the gap between them and kiss her. It’s a tentative thing, not like the desperate, hungry kisses they exchanged on their last night in Kaer Morhen, as weeks of longing—well, probably years of longing, if Jaskier is being honest with himself—bubbled to the surface. There will be time for those later, once they’ve figured out who Rience is working for and ensured that Ciri is safe.
Across the room, there’s a noise of disgust. “If you’re going to make me watch this, I’d rather you just gouge my—”
Yennefer throws her hand out, not pulling her lips away from Jaskier’s. There’s a thud, a yelp, then silence.
“Don’t kill him yet,” Jaskier says, breaking the kiss to press his lips against her throat. “We haven’t gotten any answers out of him.”
“And whose fault is that?”
“Geralt’s, the easily distractible fucker. He’s off chattering away with Yarpen while we do all the hard work.”
Yennefer rolls her eyes and mutters something that’s undoubtedly insulting under her breath, but she kisses Jaskier again, so that’s alright.
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Kiss prompts
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Time for another installment of Geralt is terrible at communicating, and it almost kills Jaskier.
For the longest time, Geralt had always planned to invite Jaskier to Kear Morhen. Even going as far as to set up a proper room for Jaskier right to his own. Then the mountain happened, and it never truly came to pass.
When Jaskier finally did come to Kear Morhen, it was with Ciri and with everything that happened with the whole Ciri being possessed. Jaskier sought their best to stay out of the way when the whole thing was said and done, along with not feeling like he truly belonged.
The only thing is that no one brother told Jaskier about his room, so Jaskier shuffled to the furthest room from everyone else, a room that happened to have holes in the wall and was practically below freezing.
So here we have Jaskier developing hypothermia and Geralt thinking Jaskier is enjoying the room he had set up for the bard, and maybe Jaskier is still a bit frightened of Voleth Meir, and that is why Geralt hasn’t seen much from him
#the witcher netflix#geralt of rivia#joey batey#the witcher#jaskier the witcher#henry cavill#the witcher jaskier#geralt x jaskier#geraskier#fic ideas#kear morhen#jaskier#gerskier#cirilla fiona elen riannon#freya allan#headcanon#yennefer of vengerberg#anya cholatra#the witcher season 3#anya chalotra#the witcher season three#witcher yennefer
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Because Jaskier deserves to be part of the found family too.
-He spent more than twenty years alongside Geralt
-He changed the Continent’s view of Witchers through his songs/work.
-He is the reason Geralt met Yennefer in the first place.
-He is the reason Geralt got a child of surprise (Netflix)
-He won’t stand by and watch non-humans get discriminated
-He became the Sandpiper to safe lives
-The moment Yennefer was at her lowest and came asking for help, he did it without blinking, asking nothing in return
-He got tortured protecting Geralt and Ciri, even after the way Geralt treated him.
-He went back for Yennefer and went to prison because of her
-When Geralt came back, asking for help, he didn’t think twice before following him
-He put his life at risk to bring Geralt a magic stone, when Voleth Meir could have easily killed him
-The Moment he heard Geralt was injured, he went straight to Ellander to check on him (books)
-He goes to Brokilon to find Geralt after the revolt on Thanned Island even though dryads kill humans on sight (books)
-When Geralt has lost everything, he is there to support his friend, diving head first in to the dangerous mission of going to Nilfgaard to find Ciri (books)
-He sticks at Geralt’s side even after he is injured and the Witcher wants to send him away (books)
-He is part of Geralt’s Hanza, an armed gang linked by bonds of friendship (almost like a family) (books)
-He is friends with Ciri (games)
-The moment Ciri comes asking for help, he does it without blinking (games)
-He risks his own life to save Ciri when she is almost shoot (games)
-He gets imprisoned for helping Ciri (games)
Jaskier may not be the main character, but he is still important. I wish he would get a bit more credit in the show.
#jaskier#julian alfred pankratz#the witcher3#the witcher#the witcher netflix#geralt of rivia#yennefer of vengerberg#ciri#cirilla fiona elen riannon#the witcher season 3 netflix#the witcher books#the witcher wild hunt#the witcher 3 wild hunt#wild hunt#just me rambling
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I try not to post too much TWN negativity on this blog, because I know plenty of people enjoy the show just fine, and I hate being an asshole and raining on other people’s parades. But, god, the way that the show treats Yennefer - or rather, mistreats her - just upsets me and pisses me off so much.
The book already puts her through the wringer - too much at times, honestly - but the show just takes it to a whole new level. The amount of suffering they put her through that wasn’t present in the books is so frustrating to me. Like adding in random torture scenes that weren’t present (the hysterectomy scene, being tortured by Stregebor), losing her magic powers, constantly being captured in S2, not even having a particularly good court standing - like in S1 when Fringilla mocks her for not helping advance Aedirn at all, and Yennefer doesn’t even have a good comeback to that. It’s as if the show is just obsessed with giving her constant Ls and never really letting her come out on top. Sidenote: I am fine with angst, in fact I enjoy it, and I am fine with a character going through hardships and suffering. You can do a lot of great character, story and theme exploration with angst, and sometimes it’s necessary for a character to suffer to develop that. If I wasn’t fine with angst, I wouldn’t be a fan of the witcher lmao. But when I see a character who already goes through a shit ton of misery in the books get forced into even more suffering in the show that never happened....I start to have a problem.
And then, of course, S2 committed the cardinal sin with that stupid ass Voleth Meir plotline. As if torturing her, having her be captured, making her lose her powers, wasn’t bad enough - they completely character assassinate her by making her almost sacrifice Ciri to a fucking demon. Something that is so bewilderingly OOC for Yennefer, something that never EVER happened in the books. When the show got bored with creating narrative suffering for her, they decided to take it to a meta level by character assassinating her in a really bizarre, stupid way. Because, why was this necessary? I know that they were concerned about the fact Yennefer doesn’t really show up much in Blood of Elves, I understand they wanted to create a plot line for her that got her more involved in the main plot. But - why this???!!! There were 101 different plot lines they could have given her that didn’t involve her trying to sacrifice Ciri to a fucking demon, in the process completely messing up her relationship with Geralt and Ciri!!
And this is the main reason I’m making this post - her relationship with Geralt and Ciri being messed up. I’ve seen a lot of articles recently about S3, all stating that Yennefer essentially has to grovel to Geralt, that he ignores her for potentially a full year, that at the beginning he doesn’t even let her enter the same abode as them - what the fuck!!! It upsets me so much. Because this was the biggest problem with the VM plotline - it completely upends Geralt and Yennefer’s dynamic. In the books, their relationship is way more equal - in fact, it honestly would be accurate to say that Yennefer is the more dominant one in the relationship, not Geralt. The show is now completely turning that on its head, and making Geralt the dominant one - but not personality wise, more in a moral highground type way. Because now, whatever stupid shit Geralt does, or has done in the past - e.g. tell Yennefer she’d be a terrible mother, which he never apologises for - none of that matters!! Because it will never be as bad as Yennefer trying to kill Ciri. Instead of a relationship where they both fuck up and both make mistakes, like in the books, in the show the emphasis will all be on Yennefer. Yennefer is the one fucking up, Yennefer is the one making absurdly stupid mistakes, Yennefer is the one who needs to apologise and grovel and beg for forgiveness.
And this is what I mean by, the show is obsessed with giving her Ls. Not only do they make her suffer, they character assassinate her by forcing her character to do this cartoonishly evil thing, and then punish her for it!! They don’t just take away her powers, her court standing, they even strip her of her own relationships!!! And I ask again - why is this necessary?? Who decided that punishing her like this would be an extremely important plot line, an improvement, over the original source material? Like back when the show was first announced, I sure as shit wasn’t thinking “oh wow a netflix witcher show - I sure do hope they have a plot thread where Geralt refuses to talk to Yennefer, and doesn’t even let her into the same fucking house as him, because she tried to kill Ciri!!” who wanted this??? Who thought this was a good idea??? Honestly, it makes me feel as if someone on the writing team hates Yennefer and wants her to suffer, both in a narrative and meta level. And no, I’m not talking about that infamous Beau deMayo interview - something that caused a huge amount of online drama and should be taken with a big old pinch of salt, especially since the writer who made this claim was responsible for some pretty questionable decisions, namely the whole Treeskel thing. I’m not making a direct accusation here - it’s more a feeling. When I look at TWN, I cannot help but sense a level of contempt and spite towards the character of Yennefer. That doesn’t necessarily mean someone in the writing team genuinely has it out for her, but if that’s the impression that I get from the way they treat her in the show, then something has gone very wrong with the narrative decisions they made for her.
And this is why, not only can I not let myself be excited for S3, it’s why I’m genuinely feeling dread about it. Every time I read interviews about how Geralt and Yennefer have this really rocky start and he’s ignoring her or whatever, my stomach just sinks. And again - why was this decision made? Who thought this was a good idea? And yeah, the TWN team have already said they’re trying to fix the problem with their relationship caused in S2, but a) the way they are going about fixing it only serves to punish Yennefer’s character more and b) it should not have been something to fix in the first place. It’s also why I can’t bring myself to believe that S3 will suddenly be more faithful and better than S2, esp in regards to Yennefer (aside from the fact they’ve made this promise before and failed to deliver). Because the early plot points of a story are extremely important in setting the foundation of your later plot, especially in a series like the witcher. If your foundation is inherently flawed, it doesn’t matter how good your later seasons are; they are built on a faulty base, and will therefore lack a good structure. Case in point with Yennefer. Without going too much into book spoilers, let’s just say she has a really rough time of it post-Time of Contempt in the books. So in the show, either a) they will just put her through even more suffering and leave you thinking “wow did this entire show exist just to punish Yennefer?” or b) they will have to deviate away from the books. Neither of these options are particularly good. (this also is one of my problems with S2 as a whole - they were so desperate to put in all this insane blockbuster action and dramatic plot points, but sometimes in stories you need moments of calm to make later dramatic plot points more hard hitting. In the books, Blood of Elves was the moment of calm before Time of Contempt’s batshit, action packed drama. In the show, you never get that moment of calm. Why should I care about whatever happens in Thanedd if S2 had Ciri get possessed by a fucking demon and go on a killing spree? But anyway.)
And I think the reason why I’m particularly disappointed with the way that the show has treated Yennefer’s character so badly (aside from the numerous promises of “we’re a faithful book adaptation” being complete lies) is that Yennefer is a character who already receives a lot of unfair hate. Obviously there’s the annoying “Team Yen vs Team Triss” thing from the games, but even within the show there were a certain type of fans of a certain ship who hated a lot on Yennefer for daring to get in the way of their ship. Like, I’m so sick of seeing Yennefer getting hate for stupid, unfair reasons - and now even the show is treating her like shit??? Like, give me a break!!
I’m just tired of it. And obviously, if you like TWN and you’re excited for S3, that’s fine. In fact, I’m honestly jealous, I wish I could feel the same. And who knows, maybe the show will improve its treatment of Yennefer, maybe they’ll finally give her some Ws. But that’s what I thought about S2, and was proven VERY wrong. Any confidence, trust or optimism I had left for the show was completely destroyed by the Voleth Meir plotline in S2, and the show will have to work very hard to rebuild that trust for me. And unfortunately, everything I’ve heard about S3 so far is only confirming that they’ll continue to treat her poorly.
#sorry I just had to rant about my feelings after seeing all the interviews about S3 recently#it's just so disappointing#and I don't like being negative about TWN on this blog too much bc I don't like pissing on other people's enjoyment of things#but man. i'm just so sick of how this show treats Yennefer in such a weirdly mean-spirited way#anti twn#anti witcher netflix#twn critique#twn critical#twn negativity#long post#text
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So, Still Waters the sequel is now in development.
With which I mean I’ve taken the first notes on how I’m going to construct the outline. The title has also been determined a bit ago: Run Into the Depths. Like the full saying goes “still waters run deep”.
I’ll be taking seasons 2 and 3 together into one fic, because season 2 gives me very little to work with (still trying to figure out the Voleth Meir issue).
Where we left off, there are three storylines going forward, and a fourth one assumed:
- Yennefer and Tissaia
- Coral and Philippa
- Vanielle (and Sheala de Tancarville joins her in the sequel)
- (Geralt, Jaskier and Ciri’s story plays off-screen throughout Stil Waters all the while)
I already know where I want to end the sequel. Hint: think like the ending of s3! I’m stoked for more of our favourite side characters like Triss and Sabrina, especially looking forward to Milva joining the cast and of course, I’m very excited to dive back into the universe of arguably my most popular fic.
@yennefer-x-tissaia you’re the best place I can think of to spread the word about this!
#still waters#run into the depths#(that’s the title!)#yennaia#yennefer of vengerberg#tissaia de vries#the witcher#fanfic#fanfiction
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Why I'm excited and not worried about the Witcher season 3
season 3 will be awesome and much closer to the books than season 2, don't believe me? I have proof
We are now about 3 weeks out from the season 3 premier, comparatively 3 weeks out from season 2 there where already reports about a lot of the stuff that wasn't in the books.
-Eskel`s death,
-2 big fight scenes at Kaer Morhen,
-Voleth Meir,an all powerful evil magical being that tricks those who want their deepest desires,
-the scenes together with Yen and Fringilla
-and expanded roles for Istredd and Fringilla( I actually liked these editions finding them much more interesting than in the books where they are just involved in love triangle stuff with Geralt and Yen)
but we know that many beloved scenes from Time of Contempt are making it in as well as a few crucial skipped moments from blood of elves
based on the trailer we are getting alot more family bonding, fluff, laughter Yen teaching Ciri magic, Geralt and Yen rekindling there relationship , Geralt and Jaskier actually being friends now ( apparently the writers have learned that you can have slow moments of characters just talking, laughing and getting along, they don't have to just bicker, fight monsters , and encounter evil all the time ) (( that's the last of the salt in this post I promise))
first of all, Stephen Surjik director of the A Grain of Truth episode is returning
based on the trailer/stills, casting reports, as well as set scouting pictures from Redanian Intelligence, we have these scenes confirmed :
- Jaskier singing to the dryads in Brokilon
- the scenes in Shaerrawedd
-Geralt visiting Codringher and Fenn
-Ciri and Fabio Sachs, the circus and the Wyvern
- The Thanedd Ball
- Ciri in the Korath Desert, with Ihuarraquax
- Geralt fight with Vilgefortz
comparatively I don't think we had any confirmed in the book scenes in the speculation before season 2
the only changes I that I have found are:
Jaskiers bisexuality and romance with Radovid and Vespula
Id like to clear up some rumors here, they are not “ aging up a character who is later a tyrant” this Radovid is King Vizimir`s Brother, not his son, a completely different character, and there are multiple characters named Radovid in the Redanian royal line in the books so its not impossible for the two characters to happen to have the same name in this instance
for the people who are upset about this change, they already changed Jaskier from the books, there he’s the archetypical pervy, womanizer bard archetype, in the show he still sleeps around with wives alot but he`s more of a golden Retriever “ falls in love with everyone” type than a skirt chasing pervert. So if most people were positive about this change, why should what gender his lovers are matter homophobia that's why
Frankly im just glad we are getting a bisexual male character that will be involved romantically with a man a and a woman on screen as two different relationships I cant even think of any examples on tv of that
the possible premature fate of Rience
honestly this one is just set scouting speculation that he dies here, but I really don't think people are going to be as upset at a chaotic evil character dying as they were Eskel,
The original character of Gallatin
he seems to be somewhat inspired by Isengrim and Iorweth, a scarred elf that is the leader of the Scoia’tael guerrillas, based on the fact that they felt they had to make an original character rather than use one of those two,( they likely wont be killing any book characters off prematurely who are not a villains after whole Eskel debacle) as well as reports the actor wrapped filming quickly, seem to indicate he wont survive the season ( could this be part of what leads Cahir into joining the hanza next season)
to conclude im super excited, this season is packed with scenes I ( and alot of others) have been really wanting to see I cant wait
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OMG U WATCH THE WITCHER I LOVE TO SEE IT
PLS TELL ME ABT THE YENNEFER X JASKIER FIC U HAVE BREWING
WHATS GOING ON HOW DID THIS COME ABT ANYTHING PLS
I do! Or at least I did until the showrunners decided to ruin it by booting Henry Cavill just because he wanted to keep the show true to the source material as much as possible. Watched season 3 but unlikely to watch further b/c Liam is what you get when you order your Hemsworth from Wish lol. AAAAAANYWAY.
The story is this... 😜
I got inspired for it by the interactions between Jaskier and Yennefer in season 2. The affection and warmth that lay beneath the bickering, the way they opened up to each other and so easily read the other, the way Jaskier ran to Yennefer after she came back through the portal to help her up and check her wounds and the glare he cast at Geralt right after making sure Yen was physically okay. The Yennefer/Jaskier interactions in season 3... the hug, and the continued softness and affection... fed further into it.
So basically my fic is going to start in Kaer Morhen right after season 2. Geralt still giving Yen the cold shoulder, making it clear he's only letting her stay for Ciri's sake, that sort of thing. Not outright mean or anything but definitely keeping distance and keeping things all business and practicality. Jaskier, being the perceptive shit he is, picks up on how much it hurts Yen even when she can hide it from everyone else. He takes it upon himself to stick close to her and do his best to cheer her up or at least distract her, because he knows she genuinely regrets what she did and that if she had known not just that Ciri was so important to Geralt but what Voleth Meir was really after she never would have made that stupid deal. Jaskier sees that she's changed and is continuing to change for the better. At first she thinks he's only spending so much time around her to keep tabs on her for Geralt and to a lesser extent the other witchers, but she comes to realize that's not the case at all and that Geralt not only had zero to do with it but actively tried to dissuade Jaskier from spending so much time with Yen. Over time and with a series of small events like Jaskier barging into her room to wake her from a nightmare that's making her scream out in her sleep, or her conjuring his favorite wine, and other things that indicate genuine caring, they both start catching feels.
They try to ignore it and refrain from acting on it out of respect for Geralt and neither wanting to put him in a position where he has to choose... or feels like he has to choose... between the two of them. Either someone (undecided who, but one of the other witchers or maybe Ciri) gives Geralt a talking-to though or he overhears them talking about their feelings and wanting each other but not wanting to hurt him/make him choose or feel like he has to choose, etc and he finally not only gives his blessing so to speak but outright encourages them to find happiness with each other for as long as they can. Though in typical Geralt fashion there will be threats of death and dismemberment if either ever even thinks about breaking the other's heart. I'm working on some potential ideas for expanding Jaskier's lifespan but don't have anything definitive yet for that.
(Potential future separate fic with Geralt/Yennefer/Jaskier as a poly triad but no plot for it as of yet, just vibes.)
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3x06 The Witcher Netflix Ciri screaming episode recap and reactions. I think it's been like 8 years since I felt so compelled to write a episode reaction that's 1k+ long and only focused mostly on one character. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, my god. my brain is reeling. maybe I will feel differently after it's cooled down but anyway.
under the cut 3x06 only, some minor references to book events but my brain is too squishy to really... yeah just. yeah. CIRI.
Before volume 1 of season 3 had dropped I was really concerned and curious how they were going to handle the Ciri narrative from this point on with Tor Lara and being tossed across the Continent.
I’m happy to say that my immediate reaction is that I am fucking impressed. And wheezing from the nuance and direct approach they’re taking in addressing a woman’s rage. but right now it's this prelude to the rage... I'm surely forgetting some things but here!! I!! motherfucking go!!!
Holy fuck, we are seeing Yen explicitly dreaming of Ciri and Ciri feeling her connection, waking and running off to find Yen. To know and feel that Yen is in danger and needs her. She fucks off without looking for Jaskier who is busy sleeping off an orgasm, I guess.
Will Geralt end up having Ciri dreams too?? Or is this a mother-daughter thing?? I'm still really digging the Yen-and-Ciri dynamic they've managed to build up in 8 episodes, whaaaaaaat. I was for sure skeptical because of the whole fuckall Voleth Meir nonsense last season but. Huh. Huh.
I don’t know how much time Ciri spent running around the island but that reunion with Yen in the valley??? Brilliantly filmed, absolutely wonderful acting with Anya and Freya here. Their pain, their joy at finding each other again. Yen calling Ciri her daughter. It was beautiful.
And if that wasn’t enough, Yen sees the growing lightning storm from what they namecheck as Alzur’s Last Stand (or Alzur’s Legacy? Last Resort? One of them) — all that flickering lightning above Aretuza. Yen feels the magic, she feels Tissaia’s power, her desperation and she’s so fucking fraught and devastated and scared. Her heart is tearing into two pieces—her love and need to protect Ciri, and her love for her own mother-figure. Tissaia’s pain is Yen’s pain. That was the refrain we’ve heard for two seasons now.
Ciri crying and telling Yennefer that she needed to go to Tissaia because Ciri understood what Yen was feeling as a daughter. My god I was also crying. Outstanding. Emotionally resonant. I LOVE IT.
Geralt had found Ciri and Yen by then, so Ciri stays with Geralt while Yen returns to Aretuza. They end up roaming the island trying to find a way off… finally encounter Cahir together. Ciri ends up with facing her literal nightmare, a source of her pain. Geralt watches on while Ciri is sobbing and crying with the sword pressed to Cahir’s throat.
I wasn’t sure I was ready to believe netflix Cahir’s turning point, but I’m fascinated to say that seeing the accumulation of shit he’s taken over the last two seasons and his choice to throw himself to Ciri’s blade as an act of justice for her? For forgiveness? For everything that he’s taken from her? He saved her but he also knows what was taken from her and how he contributed to that. And he’s made the choice to throw himself to her. That’s some good fealty stuff right there. Dang.
But what was interesting is that Geralt never raises a blade to Cahir, there’s no fight with him and Cahir like in the books. In fact, we see the Scoia’tel on the hills approaching and Cahir breaks free and goes off to fight them so Ciri and Geralt can get away. He tells her he's going to hold them off.
Dang dang danggg OKAYYYY.
“I’ll find you.” Last words Cahir says to Ciri. Ciri is not really in a headspace to probably want or accept this or to know what he truly means since he was ready to die for her… but now he’s like REALLY READY to die for her, omg. *Chinhands* We don't see Cahir anymore this season.
Ciri and Geralt on the beach. Geralt feeling the danger nearby with his medallion and telling Ciri to run. She runs off to Tor Lara while Geralt gets the neutrality beaten out of him.
MEANWHILE AT TOR LARA.
Okay this is where I have scratched my head in curiosity and wonder but I am ROLLING WITH IT. Is this why they made the Blood Origins show to talk about the power of the monoliths?? Because I can’t remember if anyone in the show has referenced the portal at Tor Lara explicitly in the show. But all the monolith talk and I'm still forgetting things probably.
Tor Lara is a monolith that is speaking to Ciri. She races to the tower and Vilgefortz comes after her...she loses her sword and holy fuck, he just wants to train her he says.
And she’s running up the stairs to the top and there’s this reverberating energy and crystalline part of the monolith. Runes are glowing beneath the surface. A voice is speaking to Ciri. 👀
In this scene with the Tor Lara monolith I’m loving the double-image effect on Ciri (and Vilgefortz) as the power of the monolith swells. Who or what is seeing them? What kind of reflection is this? I’m neck-deep in symbolism brain right now cause I've spent the last month writing all my witcher philosophy fanfic...
but oh my god, Ciri is going through trauma and will be dissociating and being Falka for a good long while… While Vilgefortz had spent a large amount of time hiding his True Self in order to advance his plans. He hated it, the hiding. It exasperated him. But it's what he had to do in order to see his work through.
And Ciri will relinquish her powers and partition her mind and sink into her rage, and it will be a summer of pain and catharsis for her. Double images all around here. Both of these characters end up embodying two identities in this strange amalgamation of self and non-self that they construct in order to survive.
Someone remind me later to talk about Jean Genet and the tapestry art The Lady and the Unicorn. Or maybe I'll just write another fic for that tapestry in particular.
So the show is making more textually apparent that Vilgefortz wants Ciri’s blood, and he says he wants to train her. That he is the best one to do it. Which is different than in the forced pregnancy books and it’s not a change that I hate at all, but I still find it interesting and want to know what he actually….wants out of it. Though I don't think anything implies that he wouldn't go with the forced breeding angle again but if the show doesn't go that way, I won't be mad.
Alright... briefly in 3x07 or 3x08 (can’t remember) Yen, Rita, Tissaia, Sabrina, Keira and Philippa ended up finding the Aretuza girls that Vilgefortz kidnapped and mutated with magic. There’s still no understanding from any of the characters what his ends might be with these experiments, and I’m still not sure where he’s going with it, other than to figure out how to use Ciri’s blood. And that there’s some connection to the power of the monoliths.
Anyway, back at Tor Lara Ciri ignores Vilgefortz who says she’s not ready for that kind of power yet.
The power is reaching out to Ciri. And Ciri reaches back... and we get BIG SHATTERING EXPLOSION and the tower encasing the monolith of Tor Lara just disintegrates. Another one bites the dust. Vilgefortz gets knocked on his smirky fucking ass.
Ciri has the magic touch, yo.
This is HER STORY. Slams hands on table and kicks her feetsies oh my god oh my god.
Freya is impressing the hell out of me. I wasn’t… I wanted to be hopeful but I didn’t let myself. And now holy fuck.
holy fuck.
CIRI.
let me have another few hours to breathe and write about 3x07 and 3x08. holy fuuuuuuck.
#witcher meta and thoughts#ciri#vilgefortz of roggeveen#twn#twn season 3#kuwdora's witcher screaming#chewing gnashing my teeth....#this reminds me of all the witcher unicorn fic and aen elle fic i still have in my to-read queue too omg... aahhh#i'm still in the middle of my tower of swallows re-read and i am churning over everything and thinking about what's to come in final book#ciri and vilgefortz.#ciri and yen.#yen and vilgefortz#i am awash in nascent Thoughts#god i have so many feelingssss#textpost#kuwdora watches
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What Changed I Ask
What Changed I Ask
by Descarada
After Voleth Meir and the massacre at Kaer Morhen, Yen spirals into thoughts of self harm. She feels alone, rejected by Geralt, and is just beginning to feel the effects of the trauma she suffered when she'd lost her magic.
Then she discovers a pair of dimeritium cuffs.
When she allows the cuffs to take away her magic momentarily, and then she regains it, it begins to restore her sense of safety.
But she needs more to help her heal. A most unlikely person (Jaskier), is her port in the storm.
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The cuffs sat on the table beside them, wrapped in her scarf. She pulled them out slowly, almost tenderly, and sat them in the space between her knees and Jaskier. The key laid next to them.
Jaskier fell into a reverent silence. The crackling of his torch and the tinkling of the chains was the only sound.
“Alright,” she said. “I’m going to put them on. I’ll click the first one shut, then the second one. Then you’ll lock them. Go ahead, pick up the key.”
Jaskier picked up the key and slid it between his fingers, stroking it like it was a talisman. He was barely breathing, watching her like she was some kind of goddess.
She cleared her throat and looked down. “Here we go.”
Words: 13035, Chapters: 2/4, Language: English
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M
Characters: Jaskier | Dandelion, Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Vesemir (The Witcher), Lambert (The Witcher), Coën (The Witcher), Eskel (The Witcher)
Relationships: Jaskier | Dandelion/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg
Additional Tags: Getting Together, Post-Season/Series 02, Yen's PTSD, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Whump, Oral Sex, Safe Sane and Consensual, Safeword Use, BDSM to heal from trauma, POV Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, Soft Dom Jaskier, First time sub Yennefer, Handcuffs, Light BDSM, Title from a The Amazing Devil Song, Song: The Calling (The Amazing Devil), Post-Canon, Kaer Morhen (The Witcher), Oh and Eskel is alive, I will not be taking questions about that at this time
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parallels between balor and yennefer
What Yennefer could have turned into if she didn't stop at the Battle of Sodden or with Voleth Meir
The fire magic, the need to control, to consume everything
Balor's line in episode 4: "I'm going to take what I've always deserved. Everything." is so so similar to Yennefer's entire bit
i am SCREAMING at the parallels
#jaskier#jaskier the bard#julian alfred pankratz#dandelion#the witcher#witcher#wiedzmin#twn#the witcher netflix#the witcher: blood origin#blood origin#hhhhhhhhh#circling spinning rotating ideas#blood origin spoilers#balor#yennefer#yennefer of vengerberg
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Fic title: A burnt lute is a broken bard.
Filavandrel's lute is enchanted to give its owner immortality, but the catch is that if the lute is ever destroyed, its owner will immediately die.
Jaskier hasn't told anyone about the enchantment (or the curse, depending on who you ask) not even Geralt. Lutes are fragile and he doesn't want anyone to know how easy it would be to kill him.
Somehow, Rience finds out about the enchantment on the lute and when he captures Jaskier, it's not Jaskier he threatens to burn, but his lute.
Yennefer saves Jaskier, but since she doesn't know about the lute's powers, she doesn't bother saving it and Jaskier doesn't realize they've left it behind until it's too late.
The rest of season 2 happens as per canon, except Rience has Jaskier's lute and Jaskier has to live with the knowledge that he could drop dead at any moment if Rience smashes or burns his lute.
Geralt and Yennefer can both tell that there's something wrong with Jaskier, but there's so much going on in the aftermath of Voleth Meir's attack, that they just assume that he's shaken up after everything that happened.
It's not until the three of them leave Kaer Morhen with Ciri that Rience finds them and offers Geralt an ultimatum: he'll trade Jaskier's lute if Geralt surrenders Ciri.
Geralt is initially bewildered as to why Rience thinks he would give up his daughter for an instrument that is undoubtedly valuable, but can be replaced, until Jaskier finally breaks and tells him about the spell on the lute.
Yennefer and Geralt find a way to trick Rience so that he thinks they're willing to trade Ciri for the lute (maybe Yennefer casts a spell on herself to disguise herself as Ciri) and are able to kill him and get the lute back safely.
After that, Jaskier has to contend with two overprotective lovers who would rather the lute be hidden in a locked, heavily warded room somewhere, and not be brought to taverns and parties where anything could happen to it. But that's an argument for another time.
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Romantic or platonic Yennskier, no warnings. AO3 here.
After everything — after the battle is over, the bodies are moved, and the room which was a battlefield is made marginally less deadly; after Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri have had time to talk out on the balcony and Geralt has taken Ciri back to her room and her bed — after everything, Jaskier finds Yennefer.
She is still sitting outside, her legs dangling over the precipice as she looks out at the starlit landscape in silence. Wordlessly, he goes to sit beside her. Though she is as beautiful as ever, she looks obviously exhausted. He is still not used to seeing such open emotions on her face.
“I don’t think I’ve thanked you yet,” he says softly.
She laughs humorlessly. “For what? Nearly getting Ciri killed? Betraying Geralt? Screwing up my only chance at having a child?”
“No,” says Jaskier. He takes her hand. “For saving my life. Twice. You didn’t have to come back for me in Oxenfurt. It would have been safer for you to leave. You risked your life to save my sorry hide and for that, I will forever be grateful." He smiles at her. Tentatively, she squeezes his hand.
"Also," he says, "If you hadn't sacrificed yourself to stop Voleth Meir, none of us would be standing here right now. We might never have defeated her. You saved us all."
"I suppose you're right," says Yennefer. Her voice is quieter than Jaskier has ever heard it.
Hesitantly, Jaskier shifts closer to her. He releases her hand to wrap his arm around her shoulders, and she leans against him, resting her head on his. It feels far nicer than is fair, but if Jaskier feels a little choked up, he can blame it on the cold. No one has to know.
"I should thank you, too," says Yennefer. Jaskier laughs a little.
"What for? It's not like I've been of much use. I didn't even notice Ciri was possessed, and then I hid under a table for the whole battle."
Yennefer flicks his nose, hard. Jaskier squawks in indignation.
"What was that for?"
"For being an idiot. I'm thanking you for protecting Geralt from Rience, for one. Not many would have done that, or could have even if they'd wanted to. It was very brave."
Jaskier has a quip about Yennefer finally giving him a compliment on the tip of his tongue, but it dies before it can leave his mouth. They've all had more than enough of sharpness for the day. Now is not the time for old rivalries.
"I wasn't very heroic about it," he says instead. His voice comes out quieter than he'd meant it to.
"It doesn't have to do with being heroic. It has to do with being kind."
Jaskier lets out a shaking breath, feeling a little bit like he's been punched. He doesn't mind the sensation. Against him, Yennefer is warm.
"I'm also thanking you for coming back. For being there for me and for Geralt when we needed it."
"Why?" he whispers. "I didn't help much."
"You helped more than you know," says Yennefer. "You... you help us remember what we fight for."
"Oh," says Jaskier. It's little more than a breath, but he knows that Yennefer can hear him.
If his eyes are wet, he'll blame it on the dust from the fight.
Gently, he turns to face Yennefer so he can wrap both his arms around her. She makes a startled little sound that has no right to be as endearing as it is. It only takes a moment for her to relax into the touch. They stay like that for a long moment, finally taking the time to breathe after the whirlwind of the day.
After a while, Yennefer pulls away. Jaskier lets her go without resistance. He stands and offers her his hand.
"Shall we go find Geralt?” he asks. “I have a feeling someone will have to stop him from brooding himself into an early grave."
"It'll be a difficult task to save him. It might require two."
Jaskier nods with false gravity. "I suppose we shall have to suffer each other's company a while longer, witch."
Yennefer sighs. "I suppose. Teamwork is a necessary evil, after all."
They share a small smile, and hand in hand, re-enter the keep to find their family.
#yennskier#the witcher#jaskier#yennefer#yennefer x jaskier#yennefer & jaskier#the witcher fanfiction#wren writes#i came up with this in the middle of the night and it made me very soft so here you go <3
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So we know Yennefer was desperate when she lost her chaos, right? But even then in those four weeks when she was still searching for a way to get her magic back she didn't go back to Voleth Meir. Only after being forced to leave Aretuza, TO LEAVE TISSAIA behind and after the brotherhood spread the wanted posters of her, she was desperate enough to go back to the deathless mother.
My personal headcanon, anon, is that she travelled around, trying every option open to her, because she knew if she went to Tissaia and she couldn't fix things, then all was lost. And she couldn't really face the thought of that.
Despite what she occasionally claims, I do believe that Yennefer thinks of Tissaia as the most powerful person she knows, someone who can generally fix things.
The show's narrative doesn't fully support this, alas.
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