#jaskier

[artistsfuneral]

Something Something "it's too dangerous for Jaskier to follow Geralt" leads to Geralt thinking he needs to abandon Jaskier, because the bard would never leave on his own. So in the middle of the forest Geralt tells Jaskier to "stop and wait here" while he needs to check for something up ahead and then he rides off, leaving Jaskier behind

And then- And then he realizes what he just did and immediately turns Roach back around and rides back, just to find Jaskier still in the same spot, happily waiting, none the wiser of what just happened

Later that night, when they're tucked away into their bedroll, Geralt's arms wind around Jaskier and he presses his face against the bard's back and cries, overcome with the horrors of what he was about to do and how easily he could have done it because if how much Jaskier trusts him

[proheromidoriyashouto]

wolf witcher shenanigans headcannon that jaskier sponsors lambert at a university in nilfgaard, and geralt and vesemir don't know until its too late to rain on their parade

lambert always wanted to go because he's intensely intellectual under his pricky personality but vesemir intervened so he couldn't attend any of the major universities on the continent. witchers don't waste coin and time that could be spent hunting on paper for non-witchering trades.

lambert says fuck that! then tentatively approaches jaskier for advice about getting around the ban vesemir has orchestrated.

jaskier is a continent famous bard and respected university professor. he doesn't have the pull to lift a no-witchers ban, even at oxenfurt, but he does have the social capital and connections to sponsor a student of his choosing at a foreign institution. sure, he'll have to pull some strings and cash in quite a few favors and write some outlandish cheques, but why not help a friend?

he has no children of his own to sponsor and ciri is a non-starter. he helped support geralt for decades on the Path, why can't a grown man with disposable income support another friend off the Path?

so what if this "son" of his looks nothing like jaskier? women contribute to a child's genetics! so what if jaskier looks younger than his "son"? it's impolite to make suggestions about one's age! (or lambert could be passed off as a nephew or something with similar bullshit. husband/fake marriage would go OFF)

lambert could get himself exiled from the wolf school (not great) or simply lie to vesemir (outright bad idea) or disappear from the northern kingdoms altogether (also bad) to attend a university in nilfgaard without worry of pursuit

maybe it's a little weird, and he's strange to the southerners, but nilfgaard is not openly hostile to non-humans. at least, not to the same degree. so it's fine.

he gets a thorough education and a respectable job title and can use his hard earned knowledge to benefit his friends and family. the old man can die mad about it.

[thedemonofcat]

I need desperately need Jaskier to be an ex-witcher who's basically just been hiding because he never wanted to be a witcher and Geralt being absolutely livid because "what do you mean I've literally been protecting you this entire time for no reason at all"

“You dropped this,” Geralt growled. “In a cave full of drowners. Right after decapitating one with a move I taught you.”

Jaskier opened his mouth.

“Don’t,” Geralt snapped. “Don’t you dare lie to me.”

The silence that followed was thick. Finally, Jaskier set down his lute with exaggerated care and sighed.

“I was hoping you wouldn’t notice,” he muttered.

“You’re a witcher.”

“I was a witcher.”

“You—” Geralt’s voice caught somewhere between rage and disbelief. “You let me believe you were just some helpless bard. All this time.”

Jaskier rubbed his temple. “Do you know how exhausting it is to be a witcher? I hated it, Geralt. The potions, the trials, the constant expectation to kill things for coin. I just… I wanted to sing. So I faked my death and left.”

Geralt blinked. “You faked your death?!”

“Yes. Very dramatic. Lots of fire. You’d have loved it.”

The witcher stared at him. “I’ve been protecting you.”

“I noticed. It was sweet.”

“I’ve almost died protecting you!”

“And I appreciate that more than you know.”

Geralt’s hands clenched at his sides. “You didn’t need me.”

“That’s not true,” Jaskier said softly. “I didn’t need a protector. I needed a friend. And you… you were the first to see me as more than a sword or a song. I couldn’t ruin that.”

Geralt looked away, jaw tight. “You lied to me.”

“I did.”

“I hate lies.”

“I know

[monkey-shines-shenanigans]

Canon.

‘If you get grossed out by pubic hair and talking about periods, you don’t deserve pussy’ kinda characters

[0dde11eth]

Jaskier: hold the fuck up!!!!

Papa Vesemir: *hugs Lambert tightly*

Jaskier: what are you doing?

Papa vesemir: *while fending off being lamberts bites* you said hold the fuckup

[darklyhandsome]

Random Witcher thought: Jaskier is like the human embodiment of "fuck around and find out".

[spielzeugkaiser]

I watched a certain movie today! We finally saw them at the coast..

[jauls1094]

ahhh!!!!!!!!!!this scene!!!!!!

by this moment the bard had already fallen

the light in his eyes, I love it!(/≧▽≦)/

"I always wondered what it was that made your songs so irresistible. Now I understand."

[headcanonthings]

Jaskier: Sorry I’m late. I was supposed to get a haircut, but when I looked in the mirror, I realized my hair was already perfect. Geralt: The only thing is, he was staring in the mirror for over an hour.

[scrambleddragonegg]

geraskefer dance au… allow me to explain

yennefer was trained by tissaia in ballet and made it big but stepped back when she and geralt got custody of ciri

jaskier was trained by her as well but he had to stop due to an injury and now teaches basically everything but ballet because that’s where he was dropped

geralt used to do ballroom but stopped because he dropped someone and injured them, he now works as a physical therapist

(not the same incidents ❤️)

ciri had a horrible dance teacher previously and was working herself into the ground and geralt saw it (part of why he dropped someone) and pulled her out but ciri and yenn both want her to dance still

yenn found jask through tissaia (jask and tissaia still talk and he’s mad at her because she keeps bugging him to return and he keeps saying no)

ciri wants to do ballet but jaskier doesn’t teach that, so yenn learns how to teach ballet from jaskier so she can teach ciri (teaching and doing are different things) and so they bond that way for a while

ciri meets dara because their classes overlap a bit and ciri sees dara’s ballroom class and absolutely adores it and wants to learn

geralt picks ciri up one day and sees ciri and dara dancing together and jaskier is at the point where he wants to teach a lift but doesn’t have anyone to demonstrate with because he is a lot taller than both of them (they’re like what, 13?) and doesn’t want to do it wrong and he’s not as comfortable with this part so ciri asks geralt to step in because she knows he used to dance

jaskier had only seen geralt once (when he met ciri and yennefer) and is like oh no a beautiful man

basically all of them end up happy and geralt and jaskier learn to trust people again and yennefer learns she doesn’t have to surpass everyone’s expectations to be loved and ciri gets a third parent and a new best friend for her troubles!

[notthiscoolkid]

Everytime i hear people fighting about Geralt's choices in game

"Geralt always will choose Yennefer!"

"No!! Triss is better for him!!"

"Yennefer!!"

"TRISS"

He should choose Jaskier. Fuck this ladies and lets play pure gay romance

[endiness]

/#is there any basis in canon for geralt being a dick to dandelion all the time or is that just something the show did for fun

imo a lot of that was likely due to henry cavill cutting his lines as it sounds like a lot was being cut during his scenes with jaskier in particular:

“All the grunts, I either added or I didn’t say anything and just grunted instead. It was often up to the other actors to go, ‘I think he’s not gonna say anything now.’”

“Henry likes to cut his lines, 'cause he’s lazy. No, he literally just likes to cut them. He likes to do more up here [frames his face with his hands] and just with face and hmms and grunts. There’s a lot of hmms, and so I often have to take a lot of his lines and turn it into a lot of my stuff so that the plot happens.”

“Joey did all the work, I just had to take the right look and… we had a ready-made 'comedy.’”

“I didn’t even cut that much. Just little bits when someone says how they feel, I thought if Geralt says nothing, and maybe the well-known grunts or hmms and sometimes the occasional f-word, people can take from that what they will.”

“I wanted to make [Geralt’s voice] something which carried a lot of weight when you say very little. And I found my natural accent didn’t quite portray what I wanted Geralt to portray in those brief moments. Whether it be a grunt or a single word or a couple of words directed at a bard.”

“Henry tends to cut his lines, say less, which means I have to say more. So I had to improvise quite often.”

also, by henry cavill's own admission, he didn't want to play them as friendly as they are in the books:

plus i don't exactly think it's a coincidence that this was really only a problem in s1 and how each subsequent season has only improved upon their friendship when henry cavill changed how he wanted to play geralt after he got dunked on by reddit for his performance in s1 because he cut geralt's lines and made geralt come off like a grumpy snowman.

(however, with all that being said, there ARE times when geralt is an asshole to dandelion in the books and crosses the line. not all the time, but there are still definitely times.)

Wait. I kinda thought that the Geralt/Dandelion ship was entirely manifested via the Joey Batey effect — i.e. he has chemistry with everyone and everything he's on the screen with. The ship doesn't come from the games, bc honestly Dandelion and Geralt don't have much screentime together or chemistry in Witcher 3. So it's gotta be a side effect of the show, right?

But now I'm reading the books?? And y'all. I have now reached a new conclusion: the books are actually the gayest version of Geraskier.

[thedemonofcat]

I just realized that Geralt in fics being like, "Sorry I was an asshole. I know you can't forgive me, but what about *Ciri*?" is him babytrapping Jaskier.

“What about Ciri?”

Jaskier stared at him, mouth parting in disbelief.

“Are you seriously doing this right now?”

“She needs you,” Geralt said, voice low. “She’s got power. She’s stubborn. She sings your songs when she thinks no one’s listening.”

“That doesn’t mean I’m her father!”

“You're not,” Geralt said. “But she loves you like one. And… I think you love her back. Even if you don’t want to love me anymore.”

Jaskier stood up so fast the chair scraped back hard.

“This—this is manipulation, Geralt. You disappear for months, break my heart, and come crawling back not because you regret it, not because you want me, but because you want your child to have two parents?”

“No,” Geralt said quickly, standing too. “I came back because I regretted it the moment I left. I came back because I want you. But I brought Ciri because… I knew you wouldn’t believe me.”

“You’re damn right I don’t,” Jaskier snapped. “You thought bringing the girl would be your golden ticket? What is this, babytrapping now?”

Geralt winced. “Not like that. Gods, not like that. I just… I thought if you couldn’t forgive me, maybe you’d still stay. For her. And then maybe—just maybe—you’d see I’m not the same man I was when I pushed you away.”

Jaskier’s face was unreadable.

Then, from the stairwell, a small voice called: “Jaskier?”

They both turned. Ciri stood in oversized sleep clothes, a book tucked under one arm.

“Can you sing me that song again?” she asked. “The one about the basilisk that wasn’t really a basilisk?”

Jaskier’s shoulders sank. His jaw clenched. He looked from her, to Geralt, then back again.

“…Yeah,” he said finally. “Yeah, I can

[0dde11eth]

It's movie night at kaer morhen! They are watching all the Shrek movies in a marathon

Jaskier: ugh I hate donkey, he's so annoying, how does he not see it??

Geralt: hmm I like donkey, I don't understand why Shrek is such an ass to him all the time

Everyone else: *side eyeing super hard*

[kaciart]

And some more snuggles!

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