#jaskier concepts

[yetanotherknitter]

it has been? months??? years????? I have had a dramatic break up and begrudging reconciliation with the Netflix Witcher and I still! can't! stop! thinking about that moment in s2 when yen hears jaskier playing in the distance and just. relaxes.

specifically I can't stop thinking about it in the context of that OTHER moment in s2 where yennefer reunites with her friends at aretuza and they spend the first few minutes being Very Mean before clinging to each other in abject relief they're all alive and y'all I think yennefer thinks she and jaskier are friends

like, they've known each other for decades and they meet up every so often to trade snide remarks and drink and maybe commiserate over geralt being *gestures at all of geralt* and that's basically friendship right? at least, according to her shitty childhood and all the socialization she got at the trauma factory of aretuza they're practically besties

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

literally the ENTIRE VIBE of this bit just feels like listening to your dumbass bestie thoroughly explain the most nonsensical shit about their latest bad decision of a crush I need to give vespula financial compensation

[astralnymphh]

so i'm over here playing skyrim like i have for the past eight years just thinking about all possible medieval!ellie tropes and can we all just unanimously agree that bard!ellie would be the silliest and cutest one out there. like on one hand she wears all the little daisy crowns the kids in passing villages she visits make her, and would serenade you so fucking stupidly but on the other hand she's getting black-out drunk at the tavern and toppling over into open barrels and crushing her lute in half.

[cherryjuicegf]

| and all that i want is to fall in your shallows |

[an-au-blog]

I need Jaskier to be more bitter about what Geralt did to him in s2 so...

before the new The Witcher season comes out, I want to share a couple of somethings I read after s3 became I think about them on the daily and add some stuff to them

I can't find the posts but the were basically this:

After reince burned jaskier's hands, he couldn't play or even hold his lute, and after the screaming in the last episode his voice is all worn out

Out of guilt, geralt gets lessons from jaskier, learning the lute so he can help jaskier earn coin again while his hands heal

and the other was that after burn butcher (just how he became a hero from toss a coin), people started recognizing him as the man who abandoned the bard

so my add on that is something like

Geralt had been more attentive than usual, he changes Jaskier's bandages and applies remedies. It's not that the others can't do it, they just realized that Geralt was hung up on doing it himself.

There was a lot of damage after the battle, so most of the witchers were trying to repair the building, but always found time to go to Jaskier's toom at the end of the day to check on him. He tried to go when he was already asleep, he didn't want the word to spread that he was worried but it was inevitable to catch him while he was awake sometimes. He only spoke to Geralt with hums, nodds "yes" and shakes "no". He can speak now, Geralt has heard him talk to Ciri and even a bit to Yen, he just has nothing to say to Geralt.

What's worse, it doesn't seem that he's angry, he just seems tired when it was just the two of them.

Even though it pains him, Geralt asks if he wanted to stay at Kaer Morhen to rest but Jaskier just says that "I won't be left on another mountain top by you".

While that's the only think he said to him in a long time, it's still progress.

When Jaskier taught the cords of his songs, he never sang the words, only hummed the melodies and adjusted the witcher's finger positions , so when Jaskier found a tavern to sing at, the boo's and judgemental glances that he got were a bit of a surprise. He hadn't gotten this kind of treatment since before "toss a coin". Midway through his performance, the crowd started shouting "burn butcher" and Jaskier started singing the song that was so obviously about him, he understood. Still, he was hesitant to preform it and even before he did, he mentioned that it'd be the last time he would.

That night, after the performance Geralt didn't say anything. After changing his bandages again and leaving for his own room, Geralt finally said "I'm sorry".

[kuwdora]

wip wednesday

Alright, here's an excerpt from the puppetskier story. Jaskier is having a rough day and got caught up in some student celebrations. He'll go with the flow but for now...

“Marcella! Your doll looks like that bard,” a girl yelled, her face far too close to Jaskier. Her eyes were very dilated, her smile was wide and loose. She wore several of the necklaces the artists had tossed, and her cheek was smeared with ink–some emblem that Jaskier couldn’t make out through the sweat and ale.

“What bard?” Marcella yelled above the off-key singing.

“The one from Cidaris. That Valdo. He’s got the nose and eyes for it.” She pinched Jaskier’s cheek and pushed back his hair. Clearly too drunk and stoned to know what she was seeing.

“Valdo Marx has the face of a rectal prolapse,” Jaskier said. Marcella shook her head in disagreement.

“Wait, he’s actually missing something,” Hazel Eyes said, rummaging into a pocket in her vest. She pulled out a thin slip of paper, licked it and then slapped it above Jaskier’s lip.

“What! The fuck!” Jaskier yelled, slapping her hands away and scrambling at his face. Being turned into a puppet and kidnapped by students was one thing, this was an insult on a whole other level. “Oh, I see it now,” Marcella said, grabbing Jaskier’s tiny hand and peeling the tacky slip of paper from his face. Her eyes widened and she gasped theatrically.

“The mustache! You’re completely right! He does look like Valdo.” She slipped Jaskier onto her hand and waved him around to the crowd and the students erupted in cheers. Someone threw a lump of wrapped taffy at Jaskier. It bounced off his chest and Hazel Eyes caught it with a squeal.

Even on his worst day he looked nothing like Valdo. Jaskier would have vomited on the students by now as a form of self-defense if he had a stomach or anything to spew.

[amara-laz]

uhhh calm for the wip ask game!

i've got two, but this one has more context and is more interesting :))

"I'm not defying you. I'm defending my fiancé," Jaskier said calmly. "I believe it would show great unity on our part to be able to carry out some of her traditions alongside our own. It's only fair, since she's come all this way from home."

(not jaskier from the witcher he's completely an original character ok i'm contemplating changing his name bc of this now but i really like it for him and yes i didn't know about the witcher before ok tangent over)

[nowwavingnotdrowning]

#jaskier: primary sources bitch @townseleven

I think Istredd would throttle Jaskier if they ever met after blood origin. He's dedicated his entire life to studying the monoliths, and then here comes this bard who tells him exactly what they are, where they're from and how they work, and as much as he wants to discredit it, it fits in with his own research and fills in some of the massive gaps he had.

Istredd would see red. Yen would cheer them on.

[jaskier-cult]

What if Geralt is very well aware of how fast humans should be aging. What if it’s Jaskier who has no concept of time or aging, and he’s just like, “What do you mean I haven’t been aging? I’m not a child anymore!”

And basically Jaskier is just a really oblivious immortal.

[thedemonofcat]

Give me the Kaer Morons having NO concept of personal space with each other.

Jaskier gets like 2 days of Eskel and Lambert awkwardly circling around him before—I dunno—Jaskier hugs them and they’re like “friend? Our friend too?”

And then Jaskier is a part of the pack.

Here’s the thing: Jaskier wasn’t just happy about Geralt bringing him to Kaer Morhen for the first time—he was absolutely ecstatic. After all, he and Geralt had only recently confessed their feelings for each other, making the trip feel even more special.

One tiny issue was that Jaskier couldn’t seem to get any alone time with Geralt. Sure, he enjoyed spending time with Geralt’s brothers; they were wonderful company.

But occasionally, Jaskier wished for a quiet moment with his new lover, just the two.

[gwentbleidd]

the concept of geralt being painfully unaware and making everything confusing is so funny tbh. i mean, imagine the situation:

literally everyone thinks that geralt and jaskier are together. everyone. except geralt.

why? well.

tb to that one time when lambert was making fun of him because 'oh geralt you look like shit, you didn't sleep well last nigh, huh?' so geralt answers, like it's nothing, 'no, jaskier kept me up all night', making lambert choke. to be fair, geralt agrees that listening to jaskier singing his stupid little songs till white morning wasn’t a nice experience. even if lambert is being overdramatic about it.

then some other time, a woman offers him and jaskier to spend the night at her inn while they're on the path. it's true that nights are getting colder but oh, geralt is used to it and so he explains 'no. thank you, but i sleep with the bard'. he doesn't know why the woman goes red in the face, why she starts to stutter and doesn't look geralt in the face anymore. weird but okay, not his problem.

it happens so many times until someone eventually points it out to geralt.

it's even funnier when he AND jaskier are confused after that, just for entirely different reasons

yennefer: no, geralt. enough. you need to stop making people think you and jaskier are together

geralt: what?, we're not together.

jaskier: we aRE NOT????

[inexplicifics]

Intrigued by the "warlord" cnc

That one is a single sentence thus far, but the concept is a followup to Sing For Us, in which Jaskier is a traveling bard dragged before the warlord and thoroughly debauched; this one has Jaskier playing the warlord and the Wolves as his "captives".

Assuming I can make the bunny cooperate.

[artistsfuneral]

Witcher a/b/o ramblings~~~

Geralt keeping the secret that he is an omega and not knowing that Jaskier is an alpha. Even though Geralt is using suppressants, he can still feel something very lightly bubbling away like he's near his heat and it's making him a bit clumsy. This in turn is making Jaskier feel super protective and he's absolutely oblivious about it until Jaskier accidentally uses alpha voice when they are traveling one day, trying to save Geralt from tripping over a large rock 🤭 Geralt's knees buckle and he maybe whines a little because sure why not, let the man whine, he's an angel hahah 😂 and they both pretend they didn't just experience that together - but how long can they keep that up....

I like to think of Jaskier slowly peppering in little dominant alpha protective things for weeeeeekkkksssss testing the waters and Geralt nervously leaning into it, wanting to be looked after but terrified that he's not allowed to indulge because witchers shouldn't need looking after, they're meant to be the protectors ...

👀🤭

Oh yessss pls!

alpha voice is such a good concept if you do it right and I can totally see the two of them slowly getting into it like-

Jaskier giving Geralt his half-eaten dinner because he's full and he knows witchers have such a high metabolism, Geralt wants to refuse because he doesn't need babying, he can make his own damn decisions and- "Eat." oh. oh okay, maybe just a bit? 🙁 if Jaskier thinks it's important enough to use his voice then maybe he should eat?

one day Geralt gets incredibly overwhelmed (sensory overload or maybe task overload) and Jaskier wants nothing more than to soothe his poor hurting omega but he's so stubborn! so after hours and hours of Geralt not getting better because he doesn't want to accept the fact that he's not doing great, Jaskier finally snaps "For fucks sake. Listen to me!" and Geralt's head snaps around and he's staring at Jaskier wide eyed and confused and he whines because he has no idea what to do and so Jaskier gentles him out of his panic with so many soft words

and maybe someone is talking shit about Jaskier and Geralt starts growling, ready to punch that damned motherfucker who dared to- "Geralt, stop." and he freezes, looks at Jaskier wide eyed because what does he mean? isn't he allowed to fend for his alpha's honor? doesn't Jaskier want Geralt to protect him anymore? 🥺

but it turns our that "No, sweet thing, I just don't want you to hurt yourself on my account. You're so precious to me."

and Jaskier tries to talk about it with Geralt but Geralt is absolutely not up for that! (feelings? no, never heard of them) until one day, he hisses at Jaskier, that he doesn't need to talk about this because he trusts Jaskier. trusts him to never use his voice against Geralt like others might and Jaskier has his oh. oh. moment.

and then one day, Jaskier asks Geralt to kneel. And oh he kneels so prettily. and it's like something between them just clicks into place

[catscraftsandcommentary]

So I had some time to think tonight at work (in between operating heavy machinery, swearing at the materials, and trying to keep the line running, fun times!) And I asked myself, "self, hypothetically, what might @inexplicifics Accidental Warlord AU look like in another generation or two - once people really get used to witchers being The Good Guys (TM) and helping out?"

And I was like "well, they'd probably get invited to social events - ooh! Who'd like which events best?!? What would that look like?"

Geralt, as we all know, detests anything too formal or Warlord-focused. He enjoys weddings and receptions, but his TRUE favorite is baby christenings. Seriously. Put him in a room with a tiny baby and he's happy as a clam. He'll happily growl away (or weaponize his puppy-dog eyes against) grannies, aunties, and other family members to hold the baby for as long as possible. He's also 90% of the reason that witchers are now rumored to be able to bless babies.

When Mouse and Treyse bring this new rumor to the council, everyone has to just sit. And process for a minute. Because what the ever-loving fuck?!? (Jaskier immediately writes the sweetest lullaby ever, "A Witcher's Blessing", and it is the ONLY song that Geralt ever sings in public, and only ever to babies and small children. Multiple women blame this for their immediate conceptions.)

Jaskier adores weddings and festivals of all types, and if a happy couple includes details of how they met and/or fell in love with their wedding invitation, there's at least a 50% chance that he'll show up to the wedding with a personalized love song, holy shit.

Ciri loves tourneys. Loves watching them, loves displaying in them, loves sneaking into competing in them (omg, heir, NO), loves WINNING them. She's a menace. She has various stealth coats of arms that she rotates between when she's not supposed to be competing, but her favorite is the battle goose. Obviously.

Eskel doesn't like crowds or being the center of attention, which are almost inevitable with public invitations, but he does enjoy being the +1 for his family. Several of his and their interests overlap, and even where they don't, he likes to see them enjoying themselves.

Yennifer becomes well-known as an extremely efficient - albeit terrifying - treaty negotiator. She'll talk to both sides, get a list of their must haves, deal-breakers, would-likes, and don't-wants (as well as - perhaps more importantly - the reason why each of those are on that particular list). Then she draws up a draft and viciously negotiates a compromise. She is genuinely surprised the first time that both sides thank her for her help.

Vesemir, with all his long years of teaching, loves visiting schools and seeing any sort of student performance or sporting event. Kindergarten to university, drama to music to dance recitals to track and field meets to football games to student symposiums to science contests to... He buys out bake sales and funds club field trips and donates several fortunes worth of antique knick knacks to various schools. He's invited as a guest lecturer, a commencement speaker, a competition judge, a referee.

Lambert and Aiden, at some point, discover bachelor's parties, call dibs, and never look back. People learn very quickly not to invite witchers to their stag nights unless they want the entire party to get horrifyingly drunk - but at least Lam and Aiden will make sure that everyone makes it home (or to the wedding) safely. Perhaps not soberly, or sans hangover, but definitely without major injury. (And if the bride asks nicely and the groom and friends weren't total jerks, Lambert can usually be counted on to make a hangover cure. He really is a softie at heart.)

Dragonfly and Serrit get tapped for the odd bachelorette party or ladies' birthday parties. Anything that falls under "I want to be able to drink and party with my friends without worrying about some strange guy hurting one of us." They are extremely protective and have both been drunkenly proposed to several times. (Livi finds this terribly amusing. Gweld just wants to know if he can watch.) Milena and Zofia sometimes go with them.

Milena loves going to wedding showers and baby showers, but outside Kaer Morhen, she has to stay in sight of Lambert or one of his brothers. Lambert's rule. (She got KIDNAPPED, okay? He's allowed to worry!) Usually she'll take Geralt (there might be babies! He's excellent protection!) or Eskel (he's very quiet and has excellent manners, and his signs are impossible to fight) for the more, ah, female-heavy events. If anyone asks, they're her brother-in-law and genuinely like spending time around kids. And very, very married.

[0dde11eth]

Immortal jaskier concept:

He is immediately resurrected every time he dies.

And a rule at oxenfurt is every time a student dies the whole class gets automatic A

Jaskier ABUSES that rule.

After all he's going to be the first master of all seven of the liberal arts

[hanzajesthanza]

oh man, i'm clearing off my desktop and i found this .txt from when i had reached a breaking point of annoyance about the fandom (mostly netflix, sorry about that show) constantly referring to jaskier as "bard" ...

this bothered me because, as i recalled, he is most often referenced as "poet" or "troubadour," whenever mentioned by his profession. especially for what he calls himself, what others who esteem him well (e.g., geralt) call him, or what the narration calls him.

(then there's also the titles of lesser frequency, like "musician," "minstrel," "singer," "poetaster," "rhymester," but these are less frequent, e.g., geralt bof 5 "a poetaster with a lute," regis ttos 3 "our minstrel," rience boe 1 "nasty rhymester" ... rience sucks, but he was right about that one, you gotta admit).

asides from the fact that dandelion seems to self-identify with "poet and musician," (eternal flame i) i just find "bard" so generic, like it's just a catch-all term for someone in a fantasy setting that sings, like the d&d class. it doesn't actually reflect the full roles of his profession: that he writes, he is connected with the concept of poetry and writing, and as such, aspects of his character can be considered a satire of writers. and that his poetic personality runs contrary to geralt's banal realism.

so, in my annoyance i used went and counted all the times in the last wish that he is referenced by his profession (i apparently only cared enough about this to do the first book). i noted what word was used and who said it.

anyways guess what. my hypothesis was right 😎 coming in at over half his mentions by profession, he is called "poet." so hah! he is a poet, i remembered correctly.

(fwiw, this is using the english translation, and just calling to attention that it might have been different in polish. after all - i recall from the lost in translation series something interesting about "poetaster" in a little sacrifice, drouhard almost calls him this, like "one who strings rhymes together" (edit: got it: "He was originally going for “wierszokleta,” or roughly “one who carelessly puts rhymes together.”))

Poet Voice of Reason 2, Narration Voice of Reason 5, Nenneke Voice of Reason 5, Geralt Voice of Reason, Narration Voice of Reason, Narration Voice of Reason, Narration Voice of Reason, Narration Voice of Reason, Narration Edge of the World i, Narration Edge of the World i, Narration Edge of the World i, Geralt Edge of the World i, Dandelion Edge of the World i, Narration Edge of the World ii, Narration Edge of the World ii, Narration Edge of the World iii, Narration Edge of the World iii, Narration Edge of the World iii, Narration Edge of the World iv, Narration Edge of the World iv, Narration Edge of the World vi, Narration Edge of the World vi, Narration Edge of the World vi, Narration Edge of the World vi, Narration Edge of the World vii, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish ii, Narration The Last Wish ii, Errdil The Last Wish iii, Geralt The Last Wish v, Narration The Last Wish v, Narration The Last Wish vii, Narration The Last Wish vii, Narration Voice of Reason 7, Narration Voice of Reason 7, Narration Troubadour Voice of Reason 2, Narration Voice of Reason 5, Narration Edge of the World i, Narration Edge of the World iii, Narration Edge of the World vi, Narration Edge of the World vi, Narration Edge of the World vii, Narration Edge of the World vii, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish ii, Errdil The Last Wish ii, Chireadan The Last Wish v, Narration The Last Wish vii, Yennefer Voice of Reason 7, Narration Bard Voice of Reason 5, Narration Edge of the World i, Narration Edge of the World ii, Narration Edge of the World iii, Narration Edge of the World iii, Narration Edge of the World iv, Narration Edge of the World vii, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish i, Narration The Last Wish vii, Narration The Last Wish vii, Narration The Last Wish vii, Narration Musician Edge of the World vi, Toruviel Edge of the World vi, Toruviel The Last Wish iii, Geralt Lutenist Edge of the World vi, Toruviel

just to say that jaskier IN THE BOOKS is a poet. n*tflix jaskier is a bard. this is a trifle in the broader sense of things, yet another element which distinguishes the characters and everything else between canons