#witcher blood origin

[thebibliosphere]

@ Everyone desperately trying to get me to watch Witcher Blood Origin: If you'd simply told me I get to have TWO Jaskiers on screen at the same time, I would have been on board from the start.

[fruity-m0nster]

Polish people when Brother Death said they should put poison in a sheep and feed it to the beast that look weirdly like a dragon:

[evelynstarshine]

for a while I was thinking, Oh, the first witcher was a bard, that’ll annoy Geralt. But no, the first witcher was in love with a bard.

Witchers are destined, to love Bards. it’s just science

[lanseax]

idgaf about what anyone says, blood origin was fun and a good watch. no its not the best tv ever made but for a series about the history of the witcher universe that was supposed to have 6 eps then was cut to 4? it was amazing!

[andillwriteyouatragedy]

there are two wolves inside me. one remembers what a shitshow most of the witcher tv content has become. the other loves jaskier no matter what is happening or what the quality level is. i am gay

[witcherladiesamirite]

You know what, I gotta give Blood Origin a lot of credit for NOT BEING COWARDS and CANONICALLY CONFIRMING MOST DWARVEN WOMEN HAVE BEARDS

And!! Doing so in a tender, completely genuine conversation that frames dwarven women with beards and beautiful and worthy of envy

I’m so here for it

[underpreparedbard]

MY BOY IS BACK

[mcrcymorn]

JACOB COLLINS-LEVY as EREDIN THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN (2022)

[geckodoodlesinc]

Having watched Blood Origin:

The Witcher franchise was fucked anyway. I’ll be watching for Joey from here on out.

[on-a-lucky-tide]

Hmm. Well. Art theft is never okay.

[bluedillylee]

I like to think this was the in universe reason we didn’t get 6 episodes but we did get awesome music

Seanchai can respect this bizarre bard’s unhinged commitment to music. It isn’t everyday they meet someone so passionate about music that they forget to be terrified of them.

Also never forget that Jaskier is gross and covered in blood this whole time

[anyanpre]

You know what, now Jaskier has to be part-elf or at least not entirely human

Because it would be extremely fucked up for a human to be the one chosen to tell a story of non-humans that is meant to unite them in their struggles against human oppression and racism. Like, I’m not the only one who sees the gigantic problem with this if Jaskier is just a human, right???? RIGHT??????

[witchercommentcrawl]

Crawl Call 02: Hurt/Comfort Fanworks

New to the Crawl? Check out our event guide! Our commenting window for our second Comment Crawl will take place from Feb 1st - Feb 8th. This is our community coming together at the same time to enjoy these amazing fanworks, but you're welcome to leave a comment whenever you have the time.

We received so many community submissions for our Hurt/Comfort round! Thank you all for sending in your incredible recommendations! Below you will find a selection of fanworks featuring a ton of angst, whump, and emotional and physical comfort!  

Enjoy your hurt/comfort! 🤕❤️💬

WCC #2: Hurt/Comfort

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AUDIO

you wingless thing podfic by kittona, fic by xia drabbles (xianvar). 11:08 minutes. Teen. Geralt/Jaskier.  AU, grief/mourning, not really character death.  Instead of Borch, it’s Jaskier who trips off the mountain.

FANART

Emhyr comforting an injured Geralt in bed by @omaano. 

Jaskier playing the lute with bloody hands by @fleshwater. 

Geralt carrying an injured Cahir by @astaldis.

Fringilla supporting an injured Yennefer by @thence-we-came-forth

FANFIC

Holding Fire by Gavilan. 275 words. Gen. Coën/Lambert. People thought Lambert was a fire, and they couldn’t understand why Coën kept coming back to get burned.

i hear you call my name (and it feels like home) by ElasticElla. 607 words. Teen. Triss/Yennefer. Stupid. Stupid to underestimate the latest would-be assassin. Triss takes care of an injured Yennefer.

Savior by @limerental. 671 words. Mature. Fringilla/Francesca. Imprisoned by Emhyr, Fringilla escapes to her mind and gentle memories of Francesca.

The Men That Wound Us by SebDoesWords. 989 words. Mature. Implied/References to rape-noncon. Ciri/Ves. Both Ciri and Ves have experienced abuse at the hands of men throughout their lives, and they are both haunted by them. What begins as a sexual encounter turns into a violent flashback for Ves, but Ciri is there to comfort her through it.

Traveling Companion by MagdelaneSingerin.1308 words. Gen/Choose Not to Warn. Geralt/Jaskier. Emotional hurt/comfort, whump the bard. Geralt and Jaskier discuss the feelings between them.

I Didn't Come For Answers by BrighteyedJill. 1951 words. Teen. Teen, grief/mourning, suicidal thoughts, alcohol, past character death. Ciri and Lambert. Lambert never wanted to be a witcher in the first place, so it's a cruel fucking joke that he's the last of the wolf witchers. At Samhain, he returns to Kaer Morhen to rage against the hopelessly unfair situation.

carry on in the morning by EchoBleu. 2444 words. Teen. Witcher Blood Origin. Brían/Eredin Bréacc Glas. On Saovine, Brían looks to the sky, hoping for a glimpse of a masked horseman galloping through the night.

Mismatching Heartbeats by SparrowRising. 2695 words. Mature. Geralt/Jaskier. Cold fills Geralt's insides and he sits very still, pretending with all his might to be meditating. There are some shuffling sounds, sheets being moved, and then a burst of newly-disturbed air fills Geralt's nostrils. Spend and satisfaction, and tears and anxiety. He resolutely doesn't move a muscle. Jaskier will fall asleep again soon and he knows not to disturb –

When Push Comes To Shove by thepetulantpen. 3708 words. Gen. In which Jaskier refuses to leave Geralt after the dragon hunt.

One of My Favorite Pastimes by WitcherTits. 3978 words. Mature. Geralt/Dandelion. Geralt rescues Dandelion from the gallows in Flotsam.

dance like there is no tomorrow by xianvar. 5000 words. Teen. Witcher Blood Origin. Brían/Eredin Bréacc Glas, modern AU. As much as Eredin loves dancing, it has always meant pain and discipline. When it all comes to a head at a harrowing weekend at a dancing competition, Brían is there to pick up the pieces, and help Eredin rediscover his love of dancing.

i gave you my love by hazy_daisy. 5064 words. Teen. Geralt/Jaskier. Spy AU. Jaskier realizes that maybe hooking up with Rivia on the side wasn't the best choice in their line of work, especially with his propensity to develop feelings for anyone and everyone.

perennial by nikozaur. 5472 words. Teen. Ciri/Cerys. The queen of Skellige and the Empress of Nilgaard also happen to be childhood friends. When they meet after the years, something blossoms between them. But some things that bloom within you bring only pain.

a festering, heavenly scar by seasofglass. 6279 words. Mature. Injured and alone, Rience struggles to understand what's wrong with him as he desperately tries to make it back to the safety of Vilgefortz' rooms. With the realization that his burn is more severe than he had thought, he has to endure the agonizing process of being healed.

Far From Home by NeverlandPoet (do_androids_dream). 8492 words. Teen. Geralt/Regis, modern AU. When Regis unexpectedly shows up at his door, it's like a glimpse into a past Geralt had tried to forget. But some memories are not so easy to bury - and sometimes, they mean a new beginning... Or: Geralt gets hurt, and Regis does not only provide comfort, but also a realization - the only question is, is it too late?

And quietly lay the frozen lake by Molanna. 9334 words. Teen. Geralt + the Hansa (Regis, Cahir, Angouleme, Milva).  After having crossed the Malheur Pass, Geralt's company finds a cosy little cave by a beautiful frozen lake. Angoulême wants to have some innocent fun on the ice, but not all is as quiet and peaceful as it seems. And Cahir has to bear the consequences... 

TOTAL LENGTH & DURATION

Wordcount: 57385

Audio: 11:08

[ooc-miqojak]

I don't know what they put in the water, but the gays and the dwarves are winning, lately.

[bardcore-jaskier]

♡ 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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[witcherladiesamirite]

The Witcher: Blood Origin