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♡ Elder blood Jaskier headcanon ♡
(Edited post)
I actually had this headcanon for a while now, probably started tossing ideas around in my head a few days after I watched Blood Origin. Here is a special thank you to @melinoiaagesander for reminding me about it and inspiring me to do something about it as well. Seeing as I tend to be a very lazy person (executive dysfunction go brrr), I will not be writing a fanfiction unless the mood strikes and if that happens, I shall gladly fall victim to hyperfixation and shit out a 50 000 word masterpiece with very bad grammar. And no, if I do write it, I will not fix the grammar mistakes unless rereading it brings forth the fattest, most scrumptiously painful dose of cringe in my life.
So OK, here we go....
I think it is common knowledge (despite the few times I've seen posts from confused Witcher fans right after the mini series aired), that Ithlinne's prophecy was about Ciri, the Lion Cub of Cintra and the descendent of Elie & Fjall. However, thanks to a brief lapse in judgement on the production team's part, either because of the way it was shot and edited or the because of the way it was written, when Seanchaí recited the prophecy:
"The Lark's seed shall carry forth the first note of a song that ends all time, and one of her blood shall sing the last"
It came across as delightfully misleading to many of us, even if most of us quickly understood to whom Seanchaí was actually referring to. Still, my bleeding Jaskier stan heart has never felt more glee at the prospect of getting another little Netflix "oopsie" to play with! (The other one being that they forgot to age Jaskier in season 1 and then decided to not even bother for season 2)
Which is why I took my ritalin, rubbed my clammy, cold little fingers together like a cartoon villain and dug deep into the lore, to find a way to spin an intricate web of realistic and clever facts that would serve as my personal foundation for this exciting headcanon! Jaskier is another descendent of the Lark and her Witcher, he has elder blood coursing through his veins and is distantly related to Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon!
(If Netflix weren't a bunch of pussies and if a disgusting majority of the Witcher fandom weren't a bunch of gatekeeping, racist and homophobic Plot-Guardians, this could have been the coolest curveball ever! The adorable, frilly and fragile bumbling human of a bard, going from side-character to focal point.)
Let's lay down the groundwork:
(I AM SO GIDDY AAAAAHHH, somebody catch me, I think I'm gonna faint!!)
- While Witchers as we know them are sterile, Fjall is clearly not. Because his mutation process wasn't designed by a group of mages who spent a long time on optimizing the serum to better serve it's purpose. Fjall was an experimental prototype, created from desperation and a few rush-job elixirs, so his precious elf balls weren't tampered with.
- Elie and Fjall made love after Fjall's transformation, bringing the first child of elder blood into existence. Which happened ca 1200 years before the canon era that the main Witcher series is set in, meaning that Ciri has a shit ton of ancestors that predate her entire canonical family tree, all going unaccounted for.
- Jaskier, as we can obviously see, has visually not aged a single day since meeting Geralt in Posada at age 18-19 (don't quote me on this, finding a reliable info source is a nightmare). He traveled with Geralt on and off for approximately 20ish years, making him at least 40 in the Rare Species episode and at least a little bit over 40 in the Family episode of season 2. That alone has inspired hundreds if not thousands of headcanons about Jaskier not being entirely human, one of which is: Jaskier is part elf.
- And OH BOY, isn't that neat?!?!?! I mean, we see a talented young bard, whom everyone assumes to be human, whom Blood Origin's ending accidentally implied to be a descendent of another bard, an elven bard who lived 1200 years ago and had a child with an elven Witcher. That should be enough metaphorical fapping material for my brain, shouldn't it?
Not so fast....
What if instead of imagining that some long fossil type beat long dead ancestor, lost to history, somehow ended up siring a child into a family of Keracki Nobles (Lettenhove doesn't seem to appear on any map of the continent I could find, but several sources claim that it is a small Viscouncy located in Kerack).....I could instead put in some effort and figure out how to make things more interesting, how to make Jaskier's elder blood ancestor actually traceable and as an awesome bonus, make Jaskier's and Ciri's relation a little closer. Not by a lot, obviously, it wouldn't make sense, but just enough for a new dynamic for fanfiction writers to explore. Personally, the idea of it has the potential to heal my poor broken heart, I adore Jaskier so much, but the way the main 3 characters of the series have treated him until Yennefer finally grew a braincell makes me sad.
Geralt's shitty apology aside, Lambert's cranky "No" aside (yk what I'm talking about), Yarpen Zigrin's unfriendliness aside, I DID NOT enjoy the scenes in which Ciri interacted with Jaskier. This headcanon though? Oh man, if I only had enough juice in me to write something for AO3, spin some epic ass Jaskier-centric tale, sprinkle in some geraskier/yennskier/lambskier and tag it with fix-it? I would!
Back to business, this is Ciri's family tree, it has the royal family of Cintra, girlboss Calanthe is there, Ciri's mom Pavetta is there, her sick son of a bitch father too. As you can see, besides the unknown descendents of Elie and Fjall, elder blood has deep roots and it can all be traced back to these folks: Lara Dorren aep Shiadhal & Cregennan of Lod, as well as Cerro of Redania & King Vridank of Redania....however those two are of no importance to this post.
Instead of trying to squeeze Jaskier into the equation by picking some rando as far back in time as possible, I stumbled across a treasure when trying to go from the bottom up. That treasure being another direct descendent of Lara Dorren as well as Elie and Fjall, his name was Crispin!
See him there? He happens to be Queen Calanthe's grandmother's twin brother! Although his name box is blue and not red, unlike King Goidemar of Temeria, the line that leads us to him is dark red, which means he is of elder blood and bears the activator gene as well, just like his sister. Now, if one needs a sex partner with the green latent gene in order to awaken the dormant powers in this blood line (which although watered down, still is incestuous), then I am not sure how Jaskier could inherit the same powers as Ciri. I myself prefer to headcanon that since Lettenhove is in Kerack, the small Viscouncy is located near the borders of Brokilon and therefore the Pankratz family could easily have a few drops of mixed blood with one of the Brokilon nymphs.
I am not much of a biologist (despite getting good grades in it back in high school), but it does make sense to me that being at least a little bit mixed with nymph DNA could theoretically aid in strengthening Jaskier's elder blood & activator genes. Sort of like how dog breeders play God to make a better specimen for many different purposes. In Jaskier's ancestry case, I like to think that one of his forefathers got seduced by a Rusalka, found out that she used him to get pregnant and then stole the child from her and raised the kid alone, in doing so, introducing nymph DNA into the Pankratz lineage.
Back to Crispin
Crispin aep Amavet, turned out to have a rather convenient backstory!
Apparently, his mother, Anna Kameny, was married to Count Roger Kameny and less than a year before her twins were born, she had an affair with Prince Amavet of Temeria (Queen Calanthe's great grandfather and Ciri's 4x great grandfather).
So with Crispin and his twin sister Muriel the Delightful, both being children of Prince Amavet, making them illegitimate to Count Roger Kameny, their mother Anna had to fight in court three times so that her kids could inherit Roger's estate. Muriel was content with that, she didn't care that her real father was a Prince and didn't push to be recognized as Amavet's daughter. Kameny wealth and her beauty combined, she didn't have trouble finding a husband and leading a happy life.
Crispin on the other hand, knowing that he is of royal blood, proud of his elven heritage, wanted that relation validated. So he started wearing the Kameny coat of arms, which he had custom made to hint at who his real father is by adding burgundy to the Temerian lilies. This caused a MAJOR scandal, turns out his little stunt was illegal and he got his ass arrested. He payed a fine and swore to never repeat that mistake, but what did he do instead????
Yeah, he fucking did it again, enraging enemies and his own mother as well, who fought so hard for his "legality" for the Count title. After that, Crispin, as a massive "Fuck you" to everyone, joined a gang of mercenaries and referred to himself as Crispin aep Amavet. Time went by, battles were fought and eventually he just disappeared off of the face of the earth. People assumed that he died and they were glad about it...ain't that convenient?
For the sake of this headcanon, I think Crispin could have easily just gone into hiding, wandering the continent under a fake name and impregnating some Pankratz de Lettenhove lady in the process. Could have just been a one night stand and nobody would know, nobody would know that Jaskier is related to the Cintran crown, to Ciri herself, to Lara Dorren and finally to another bard, so much like himself, Ellie the Lark.
I fucking LOVE this headcanon to bits and pieces! There is so much here that one can play with! Like Jaskier's meeting with Seanchaí somehow triggering the dormant powers within him and what those powers would look like, I don't think the first sign of it would be a deadly scream. I like to think that his newly awakened chaos would somehow tie into his singing, there is so much potential here, so many ideas to explore!
In canon, Ciri is destined to destroy humanity and return the elves back to power, but Jaskier has already beat her to it a little, kick-starting the process by smuggling elves to Xin'trea.
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Sorry for editing this post 5 times, I was still working on it while waiting for AVATAR to start at the Cinema and accidentally published it in panic when the lights went out. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed it and I hope that this post can be of use to you if you decide to write a fanfic about/inspired by it! :3
(Please tag me if you do, I would love to read it! May your writing process be smooth, may your updates be frequent and may AO3 maintenance not impact your creativity!)
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#witcher headcanon#netflix witcher#witcher netflix#the witcher#jaskier#jaskier dandelion#dandelion#julian alfred pankratz#part elf jaskier#elder blood jaskier#cirilla fiona elen riannon#witcher ciri#cirilla of cintra#witcher blood origin#blood origin#the lark#elie blood origin#elie#fjall blood origin#fjall#headcanon#fanfiction#geraskier#yennskier#lambskier#witcher fic#witcher fandom#witcher fanfiction#witcher elves#my shit
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don't get out the car.
#monster#monster oc#shapeshifter#C&L#eli crow#my ocs#my art#digital art#artists on tumblr#original character#digital painting#oc#horror#blood
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im having more fem Danyal thoughts. But specifically I've been thinking about Dani in this au. Now, Fem Danyal is just the alt. version of Danny to my other DAG au, which means she follows that lore. that being said. Danyal and Dani already had a pretty rocky introduction in the first place, ANd if we follow canon's setup, Dani in fem!Danyal's world would be a boy rather than a girl. I'm gonna call him Ali for easier difference (my train of thought was Daniel -> Eli -> Ali). While Danny may resemble Talia more than Bruce, Danny and Damian still look very similar to each other. Their blood relation is unquestionable.
You can imagine how fem Danyal might feel, walking into her room one day after school, and finding a little boy on her bed who looks, at first glance, like the little brother she loves to death. If meeting Ellie triggered Kill Bill Sirens in Danny's head, meeting Ali bass boosted them. For a terrifying, fleeting moment, Danny thinks Damian is right there. That somehow, her clever, intelligent little brother found out she was alive and tracked her down.
She slams the door shut, completely at a loss for words. Her heart has nearly stopped a second time. Then she realizes: this boy's eyes are blue. Not green. He looks too old to be her brother. His jawline too narrow, his hair too messy. As he talks, his voice is not the same as the sparse few videos on the internet showing Damian speaking. This is not the child she helped take his first steps with, nor the child she watched utter his first words. This is not the boy whom she taught to pick up a sword; this is not her brother.
Safe to say, Ali gets a knife pulled on him much, much faster than his female counterpart did. He lives, fortunately, but their relationship is unsteady and rocky even after Ali betrays Vlad and joins Danny.
Danny is unsettled by him, not for being her clone -- although that plays a minor part -- but because every time he drifts into her peripherals, she keeps thinking it's Damian. And it spooks her half out of her mind. She gets her hopes up at the same time her heart drops, then she turns her head, and it's not Damian; it's Dani.
It's also why she won't call him 'Dani', it's one letter too close to 'Dami' and she's afraid she'll call him that if she's not careful. So when he brings it up jokingly, she immediately shoots it down; "I'll call you Eli." instead. (Ali thinks she's boring -- he thought 'danny with a y' and 'dani with an i' was funny. Frankly, so did Danny, but she's too uncomfortable with the idea of calling him Dani.)
When he asks her why, she lies and says it's to prevent confusion. When their relationship is better, "Eli" eventually becomes "Ali".
("Why Ali?" he'll ask her, with an ear pressed against her ribs while Danny coils one of his curls around her finger. She's steadily become more and more affectionate; Danny has the impeccable ability of making it seem so forced and stiff and natural at the same time.)
("Do you not like it?" She'll ask him, voice stilted and unsure. She's got her heart in her throat, but she's starting to stop seeing Damian whenever she looks down. "We can keep it Eli if you'd like.")
("No, no. I like it. Just... why Ali? Does it mean anything?")
(Danny will smooth her palm over Ali's forehead, scratching his hairline with her nails, and feel embarrassed. She'll be silent until he looks up at her, and then she clears her throat. "It means eminent; exalted; noble.")
(Ali stares at her in dead silence, long enough that she starts to grow worried. Then tears bubble up in his eyes, and for a moment Danny thinks she said something wrong. "I lied;" he croaks, "I love it.")
(She will hesitate, and then wipe the tears off with her thumbs. "Ali al Ghul," she'll mutter, "but that name is for you and I only. To the world, you're Ali Fenton." Perhaps she shouldn't be giving him her mother's last name, but he is of her blood now too.)
#dpxdc#dp x dc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc crossover#danyal al ghul au#fem danyal al ghul#fem danny fenton#does this mean that ellie eventually changes her name and has a moment kinda like this with og danyal? yes. i just havent found a name#that i like for ellie that both fits her character and still sounds recognizable to her. Ali was perfect because it sounded so close to Eli#do i believe that Danyal and Ellie's relationship would've been fundamentally different if Ellie ended up being a boy in the original au?#yes. there would've been a very similar or the exact same result as it did with fem danyal imo. danyal was already uncomfortable with her#just for being another little sibling *alone.* my man was not comfy with the fact that he had another blood sibling even if she was a siste#if ellie had been a brother instead? the result would've been the same as it was here.
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"what's the matter? it's just work, after all."
#illustration#artists on tumblr#original character#original art#saint leviathan#makatora#tw blood#mild/stylized tho#its eli and cat dealing divine punishment..
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The prince’s dogs show up outside your haven lookin’ like this, wyd??
Kay belongs to Joyou5 on artfight
#tw blood#fixed it#eli is in love#aka he wants to eat kay so bad it hurts#art#digital art#artwork#oc art#original character#my ocs#vtm#monster#vampire#vampire eli#vampire the masquerade#vtm tzimisce#vtm hecata#art fight#team stardust#team seafoam#monster boyfriend#monster boy oc
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well if there’s one thing I learned from watching blood origin it’s that witcher/bard has been the ideal pairing from the very beginning
#blood origin spoilers#blood origin netflix#the witcher blood origin#the witcher#the witcher netflix#blood origin#fjall stoneheart#eile blood origin#eile the lark#eile x fjall#geralt of rivia#jaskier#geralt x jaskier#geraskier#WHAT IS ELIE AND FJALLS SHIP NAME PLEASE#anyway#blood origin was very fun#EDIT: LARKSTONE#larkstone#I love it so much#thank you to the person in the comments
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Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli?! I am the Third Revelation. I am whom the Lord has chosen.
There Will Be Blood dir. Paul Tomas Anderson
#there will be blood#twbb#paul thomas anderson#daniel day lewis#daniel plainview#eli sunday#paul dano#charles schulz#spike#charlie brown#peanuts storyboard#snoopyaday#remake#original post got deleted#meme
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"And while Cinderella and her prince did live happily ever after, the point, gentleman, is that they lived."
@monthly-challenge 2024 | Day 13: Shoe
The story of Cinderella, told from the point of view of seven different retellings (four books, two movies, and one completely made up story that someone should totally write lol)
#cinderella#magicalmarch2024#monthly challenge#fairy tales#fairy tale retelling#the blood spell#c j redwine#blue de la cour#cinder#tlc#the lunar chronicles#linh cinder#rook di goo#jenni sauer#elisandra elis#ginger nutbrown#ella enchanted#gail carson#original character#my ocs#ever after#ever after 1998#cinderella 2015#pizzazz is who I am
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Death Dorm (The Dorm That Dripped Blood, 1982)
"I'm not gonna hurt you! I love you! I'm not gonna hurt you like all the others. The others - the others! Do you wanna see the others, huh?"
#pranks#the dorm that dripped blood#death dorm#1982#video nasty#american cinema#slasher film#jeffrey obrow#stephen carpenter#stacey giachino#laurie lapinsky#stephen sachs#david snow#pamela holland#dennis ely#woody roll#daphne zuniga#jake jones#robert fredrickson#chandre#chris morrill#billy criswell#sources vary on what the 'true' title of this film is: the print i saw carried the Death Dorm title‚ it opened in the UK as Pranks (and#ended up on the DPP nasties list) but seems to be most commonly known by the '...Dripped Blood' title. it's perhaps indicative of what a#messy production this seems to have been; 3 writers‚ 2 directors‚ beginning as a student film and financed mostly by contributions from the#crew's friends and families. i can't help but admire that kind of indie chutzpah‚ even when the end result isn't particularly original#director‚ writer‚ producer Obrow figured that most horror audiences were really in it only for the gore‚ so that became a focus of this#campus slasher‚ leading to some over the top splattery kills which sit a little oddly with the slower‚ quieter vibe that makes up a large#part of the film. hardly essential viewing‚ but a decent enough b list slasher and an impressive bit of DIY filmmaking#and the final half hour perks it all up quite considerably (was not expecting the downbeat ending)
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ÉILE ◽️️ The Lark The Witcher: Blood Origin
Happy birthday, Sára! @fairytalespond
#happy birthday!#💗💗💗#fairytalespond#🥳🥳🥳#the witcher: blood origin#the lark#élie#edit: me#bard#the witcher (series)#dailycolorfulgifs#fybadassladies#elie#thewitcheredit#witcherladies#witcheredit#blood origin#sophia brown#twboedit#dailynetflix#filmtvcentral#tvedit
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my labor of love
taglist: @thedragonemperess @thedrowningpoetofdionysus @joshkiszkashusband @depressedtransguy @blueskiesandstarrynights @someguyiguess @dramabeansoup @genuine-possum (lemme know if you want to be added or removed)
#eli draws#oc animatic#animatic#original character#tw blood#daylight david kushner#song#original art#oc art#angst#bittersweet ending#my ocs#fantasy ocs#original characters#song animatic#elis ocs#Youtube
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some possessed eli pose practice. you're welcome /lh
[image ID: five digital sketches in blue of father eli, a thin young priest with light skin and short light hair, who is possessed by a demon that makes him appear taller, more muscular, and with all-white eyes, slashes in his cheeks, and a long thin tail. the first shows him from behind holding an axe at his side. the second shows him in a dramatic standing pose holding a hand forward and smiling, his clothes ripped. the third shows him holding a skeletal demon with wings in a headlock, saying, "quit squirming." the fourth shows him curled up on the ground naked with a dark cloth draped over him and lashes visible on his upper back, his eyes closed and brow furrowed. the fifth shows him seated on a block and leaning on his hand, looking bored. end ID]
#art#demon#demons#monsters#horror#bedevil#bedevil comic#freefallverse#oc#ocs#original character#father eli#elias leon#priest oc#injury.#blood.#keth#kethmannoth#sacrilege#<- lol. what a tag
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Sophia Brown as Elie in The Witcher: Blood Origin
#tasksweekly#sophia brown#avatar#avatar sophia brown#sophia brown avatars#the witcher#the witcher blood origin#elie#fantasy fc#fcressourcesrp#black fc#underused fc
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Ok speaking of Viserys and Daemon, I cannot remember were he said it, but the lead writer suggested that part of Daemon's deal is that he wishes he'd been born a woman so he could marry Viserys.... That's such a good window into Targaryen relationships for me lmao
HELLO HI????? I NEED A SOURCE FOR THIS RIGHT NOW IM OBSESSED WITH THIS...... I SAW THIS CONCEPT IN A FEW FICS AND LOVED IT BUT I HAD NO IDEA THE WRITERS INTENDED IT...... i mean it makes complete sense, daemon is utterly devoted to viserys and constantly seeks his approval and attention even if he's being an absolute shithead about it. even his pursuit of rhaenyra seems to be in part bc he wants to get under viserys's skin, or be as close as he can to viserys's own blood......... i love targaryens they're so fucked up lol
#eli talks#it's interesting how that concept of incest is originally born from seeking to Maintain The Blood Purity of old valyria and old kinds of od#*odd shit#maintaining their own hold and supremacy over dragons and westerosi affairs#like some of it is just ruling family shit part of it is genuine terror of losing whatever they have left of their homeland#but over the decades it's clearly morphed into something beyond maintaining power#it's the feeling that no-one can understand a targaryen besides another targaryen#it's growing up with the inherent knowledge that whoever you marry/fuck there's a large chance it'll be your sibling or uncle/aunt or other#it's a fierce devotion and seething hatred between all these fucked up relatives who have nothing but each other#bc fuck westeros and everyone who isn't of old valyria right#anyhow it's a lot of fun. i know hotd won't explore the political implications nearly as much but the family drama is fun#hotd
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are u watching tw blood origin?
I don't think so, I have no real interest in it?
You'll probably see me reblog some Eile stuff as it crosses my dash because I'm gay and weak (I think there's actually a post about her in my queue already?), but I don't really feel like watching it, I honestly don't even know what her role is LOL.
#idk maybe it's just that i'm having too many issues both with the original show and the way netflix handles shows#from what i understand blood origin should have original characters so i at least shouldn't have to worry about the way they#handle relationships and characters that i already like#but i still have my doubts about how it will be handled given the amount of action vs relationship development in s2 of tw#and there's still the issue with netflix pissing me off more and more#i don't want to invest energy in one of their shows unless it REALLY appeals to me#and this one really doesn't so#i MIGHT change my mind if i see something that i really like crossing my dash but. eh.#ely replies#not spn#complaining#sort of idk still tagging for the negativity#should i tag it as anti the show? i don't think it is but idk
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Bleeding all by yourself, handsome?
#okay now you can look#tw blood#tw hand trauma#guess who watched mignon and hand an absolutely dna altering experience during that embrace scene#this is actually part of a series of eli doin nyasty things to that hand but this took me two weeks to finish#and i do not know if i have it in me to finish the other two#art#digital art#artwork#oc art#original character#my ocs#concept art#vtm#monster#vampire#vampire eli#vampire the masquerade#monster boyfriend#monster boy oc#vtm tzimisce#tzimisce
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