#witcher iorveth

[greenapplespider]

(Dark/explicit fic prompt ahead, this is M rated- mind the tagged tw’s) otherwise here’s Iorveth from this fic idea I’ve had floating around in my head but sadly not a lot of time to write. So anyone that likes the idea pls take it and run with it <3

This fic idea is intended to be extremely whumpy with eventual enemies to lovers. Read more for world building and an in-depth fic prompt/plot.

Post Witcher 2, after the Nilfgaardians have thoroughly taken over Temeria. Both Squirrels and the Temerian army have been trounced. Iorveth is captured by the Black Ones and catches the eye of a rather vicious officer, who has a sick and perverse view of elves. Roche, ambushes a Nilfgaardian camp, finds Iorveth and takes him prisoner. Some two way Stockholm syndrome and a couple months, leaves the two developing a surprising reciprocal romantic relationship.

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World building for the ‘elves have both parts’ bit of the AU: Poor Iorveth- an ancient but rather embarrassing fact of elvish biology rears its ugly head and once the process begins there’s nothing a male elf can do to stop it. Within a small contingency (about 15-20%) of male elves exists a fail safe which activates if there are no available, fertile, females for a prolonged period of time.

The body begins a transformation of sorts- hormones start to shift, one’s guts rearranged themselves- shriveled and vestigial organs awaken. The gonads shrink, receding into the body and in their place is left an opening not to dissimilar to a females. Resulting in a cock with a cunt behind it.

The process can take several years, but once the scale tips this change is instantly noticeable by any other elf. A ‘changed one’ has softer skin and shinier hair than the average male, the scent of their pheromones becomes distinctly different from either male or female elves. The rapid change in hormones, in tandem with once dormant hermaphroditic traits attempting to find balance, can cause rather severe mood swings- with some experiencing psychosis.

And most embarrassingly, during peak fertile periods, hormonal shifts can cause a changed one to be rather insatiably desperate, in terms of breeding. Fertility spikes happen over 6-8mo cycles (similar to a human females but over a much longer period). Within the 6-8 months cycle there will be an approximate 2 week window of fertility, marked by a hormonal and mood change.

Changed one’s are viewed negatively within elvish society, historically they are seen as the fruit of suffering, as they only come about as a last resort to help rectify famines, plagues, and any other mass die offs. Since humans have largely taken everything over, charged ones are now more common and are a constant reminder of the downfall of the elves. Most changed one’s either hide themselves away, join human society wherein none will notice, or kill themselves.

Most outsider races have little knowledge of them save for the stereotype that even the ‘boy’ elves have dripping cunts just waiting for a proper man to take (which humans enjoy, as they view elves as inherently feminine and their males as weak). Within this stereotype is also the prevailing thought that there may just a lot of very ugly she-elves and that you can’t always tell when one’s female. Regardless, humans find these things both funny and perverse.

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The implication of this is that all male elves are potentially hermaphroditic- but only a few have the markers for those traits to awaken given the proper environmental factors.

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In depth fic prompt: Iorveth has been going through the change for sometime and only by the end of Witcher 2 does his Scoia'tael start to notice. In the midst of being deposed by his second in command, due to potential mental instability, they are ambushed by Nilfgaardian forces, most of his men are killed in the skirmish and Iorveth (evidently the target of the Ambush) is captured.

The Nilfgaardian’s are well aware that Iorveth won’t break under torture and anything less than an autonomous elvish state won’t tempt him into working them. So he becomes a hostage to hopefully use as a bargaining chip at some later date. Having an infamous Scoia'tael commander in your back pocket is, potentially, a useful negotiating piece.

Iorveth is ‘given’ to a mid ranking officer within the army who has a sadistic and perverted view of elves and their ‘roles’ within human society. Once he realizes Iorveth is a changed one, things take a, dark, sexual twist. The constant assault mixed with his hormonal change and imbalance leaves Iorveth teetering on the edge of a right and true breakdown.

He thinks of killing himself, with increasing frequency, as the weeks turn to months. The worst part being, as he reaches the end of his change, Iorveth’s body goes through a heat of sorts- during this brief 2 week period he craves the touch of even his torturer. Anything to make the burning stop. He feels himself going nearly mad from it all.

The Nilfgaardian officer notices and uses this to his advantage to humiliate the elf. Making him do debased things just for a little relief.

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After this first heat, Iorveth now truly understands why it is changed one’s so often kill themselves. Before he’d looked at them with some mixture of disgust and pity, now he would do anything to never go through another heat.

Days meld together and Iorveth finds himself disassociating for longer and longer periods of time. Until one night human screams snap him from his stupor and the next thing he know’s is looking up the blade of a sword in his face to see the ugly face of a man he should have tried harder to kill. Vernon Roche.

Vernon takes him prisoner and Iorveth doesn’t have it in him to spit fire back at the human, he’s tired. For the first few weeks the humans interrogate him. One night, the guards take the liberty in beating him after a rather pointless interrogation secession by Roche, and he finds himself wishing they would just end him.

They pushed him around, kicked him a few times in the stomach before being caught and reprimand by Roche himself- only he or whom ever he allowed was to interrogate the prisoner. There would be no torture for the sake of it, they weren’t squirrels.

A few days go by and his stomach wouldn’t stop hurting- he didn’t think they’d beat him that badly, just a few kick’s. He should be sore sure, maybe a broken rib at most, but this? He didn’t understand and his mind was too sluggish to think about it that hard. Then he noticed the blood- blood coming from his- oh. Oh, he hadn’t even realized that he’d been- that’s why he’d been so tired.

He thought about telling one of the humans, but what did it matter? He was already miscarrying and it was a half bread anyway. He didn’t care, it didn’t matter.

They found him later- the human woman with the tits. She started yelling up a storm which made his head hurt.

Roche seemed to change after that, regarded him differently- looked at him differently, pitied him. He hated it.

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After Iorveth miscarries all the catharsis Roche had felt at finally taking the elf prisoner cheapens. He couldn’t really explain why. He’d known certain elves were like this, but Iorveth being one of them shattered his perception of the other man- was man even the proper term now?

Temeria had been defeated, the majority of the Scoia'tael’s forces had either broken down into little more than disjointed bandits groups or disbanded entirely from Iorveth’s absence. Roche found himself in a rather similar position to what Iorveth had been in years past and it left him with a better understanding of the elf- perhaps even sympathy.

Roche started to hate the dull, listless, look in the elf’s eyes. He started "interrogating" him more and more- which turned into both a way to make the elf eat and anything to try to get a rise out of him. He finally got the elf to play gwent with him and Roche found himself enjoying it more than he should have.

Iorveth attempts to kill himself and this affects Roche in a way he wasn’t prepared for. Roche yells at the elf and tells him that he’s not allowed to kill himself, that such a thing is his job and only once they’ve retaken Temeria. Iorveth is incensed and starts yelling at the human back. Which turns into a rather feral love making session.

Iorveth comes back to himself in the midst of it and can’t stop himself from begging the human not to put it there- Iorveth is surprised Roche listens to him and still makes it good for the both of them.

Things change after that. Iorveth still hates humans, hates Temerians- but he now hates the Black Ones more. He starts helping Roche in his resistance efforts and maybe learns to hate humans a little less. Roche goes through a similar development, mirroring Iorveth in terms of his hatred for elves.

And by the time Iorveth’s next heat hits he finds himself not wanting to die anymore.

[hairaimo]

I still can’t believe they would put roche but not him in the Witcher 3

[lunarbreaksblog]

The Witcher x Witch!F!Healer!reader

Geralt of Rivia

He wasn't going to go near you, never trusted witches really but like he never trusted them, he was compelled to you like a moth to a light.

When he saw that you could heal people, he knew you were a rare being. Witches never dabbled in health and healing. But you did.

He asks you why, you simply say that you wish to help people. This is the start a grand friendship between you and the Witcher. You help him and he helps you.

You always laughed at his dry jokes. You didn't have much company really, you were shy and kept to yourself. Knew to keep yourself away from the village near by

Yennefer of Vengerberg

Becomes quite jealous of you when Geralt talks of you to her, she felt that you were going to manipulate or take Geralt away from her.

However, those assumptions quickly diminish when she sees you. Then to hear that you are a healer that makes you quite a rare thing to be treasured in the continent.

She decides that she'll take you under her wing, not to teach magic but to teach you how to handle yourself since she could see that you were bad at human interaction.

You would be dead if you had to be a royal mage to a king.

Maybe she'll ask Geralt if they could both take you to bed. She just knows you'll be even more beautiful.

Triss merigold

Absolutely adores you! She's only seen a handful of healers in her life so far. You, though, are the most greatest healer so far.

You have compassion which is suprisely rare for healers.

Her and you get along quite well. You too have regular meet ups to talk about everything that's going on in the continent. She helps you also get better at your people skills.

Iorveth

He's not one known to be gentle with humans, especially magic wielding humans. In his lifetime, all magic wielders have been egotistical. However, you are different.

It agitates him to no end to see you healing his troops, he feels like his manipulating you but he can't shake off the feeling that maybe you are the one manipulating him actually.

It's kinda like a one-sided angry staring match and with you being very uncomfortable.

Vernon roche

Like Iorveth, he doesn't trust you at first but after you make him some herbal tea that reluctantly drank thanks to Ves. He eases up on you.

Somehow you made his back not have that ache that's been bothering him for a while.

Starts looking out for you and just generally helps you when you need it

You've wormed yourself into his heart but he won't show it

[udon-poodles]

Someone on discord was upset I said Vesemir couldn't give birth 🙄

[wiltkingart]

couple iorveths

[sirgarrowman]

I'm shocked I haven't posted this series of commissions I drew a long time ago for Полина Романова

With these two everything is a duel.

[mostrovskaa]

Rotating them in my mind... ( sorry for all the tw stuff, it just fits them :-(( so I put them in a little polish cartoon style piece as retribution)

[dogsbastard]

- You stink.

- You're a fucking moron, we're just from the battlefield, of course I stink.

- And Seidhe don't stink.

- You fucking smell yourself.

[nimvaell]

my shayla!!!😭😭

[darero-art]

Commission!

[kseniacho]

the witcher is not my fandom but it is a gift from the heart for my close friend @per-aspera-ad-astra-universe

[greenapplespider]

WIP of Iorveth- been a minute since I’ve done any Witcher stuff and I’ve had this fanfic idea floating around in my head since I read through all the Iorveth/Roche fic’s that suited my fancy.

Essentially, Iorveth gets captured by the Black One’s post Witcher 2 and catches the eye of a rather nasty mid ranking officer in their military. Naturally, what’s left of the Temarian forces, under Roche, have a few successes here and there against the Black Ones and it just so happens this camp they ambushed had a rather "interesting" prisoner. Roche is gleeful at first, his luck seemed to be turning with the disgraced Scoia'tael commander falling right into his lap- however Iorveth treatment, by the Black Ones, leaves a sour taste in his mouth. Especially since Roche is now in a similar position as Iorveth once was, he finds himself sympathizing with the elf.

Enemy to begrudging friends to lovers- with a simultaneous whumpee/care-taker dynamic.

I’ll include a more detailed fic prompt with this finished drawing, as I have a bit of an obsession with the ‘elves have both parts’ au and went a little deep into the worldbuilding on that end of things 🥴

[tiafelys-art]

[lunarbreaksblog]

Favorite witcher character besides Geralt?

Oh!

Iorveth is my favourite!

But in the books I like yennefer :)

They are both very interesting characters— I could go on about the Witcher for hours. Very much in love with the books and game series. The Netflix show not so much— just personal taste lol

Thank you for this question!!

[iorvussy]

but what if

[wiltkingart]

quick iorveths before bed