#jaskier is the ‘Keanu Reeves’ of the witcherverse

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I’m still really amused by the idea of Jaskier | Dandelion getting the ‘Keanu Reeves is immortal meme/conspiracy theory’ treatment in the Witcher verse.

Just no one thinks much of it at first. It just sort of trickles into common knowledge along with the Toss a Coin to Your Witcher that a bard is traveling with a Witcher (the White Wolf, the Butcher of Blaviken) and writing some songs about the hunts the Witcher is hired for.

So people see a bard traveling with a Witcher and don’t think much of at first. But then after a couple years of TaCtYW being popular, it begins to seem strange how young said bard looks. When did first compose the original song? When he was twelve? People start to wonder.

In some towns, the Witcher and the bard frequently pass through cause they’re trade route towns and they begin to notice that the bard doesn’t age. Just the bard that accompanies the Witcher has been passing through for years and hasn’t aged a day. It’s weird. People speculate. The rumors catch on because that’s how gossip, rumors, and trade route towns work.

And Jaskier really only notices Something Has Changed when he starts getting the suspicious side-eye more than Geralt, in towns he’s never been to so it can’t be about a cuckolding. And then the questions start. Like compliments about his good looks that sound more questions. Or people wondering if he’s part elf or somehow not human. Jaskier is just so confused.

Then Geralt’s like, “apparently there’s rumors you’re immortal.”

Jaskier laughs but Geralt doesn’t. Geralt is very pointedly looking at him and waiting.

“Geralt, don’t be ridiculous. I’m human. I’m just aging gracefully with no help of magic or mutagens like certain immortals I could name.”

“Hmm.” It’s a very skeptical hm.