#Jaskier/Valdo marx

[tellhound]

Fandom: The Witcher

Pairing: Jaskier/Valdo Marx

Warnings: none?

Words: Less than 1k

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"Please don't go." Jaskier practically begged as he watched Valdo get dressed. "It doesn't have to be this way anymore."

He knows that it doesn't matter what he says. The other man never stays. Doesn't mean he's not gonna try though. They're both older now, more mature and he hopes with his whole heart that Valdo is tired of this too.

"You know I can't." Valdo answered and for the first time since this whole thing started years ago he looks like it actually pains him.

"Is it because you're scared of what people will say about us?"

"It's not just that, Jaskier." Valdo says and for the first time since he got out of bed he turns to look at the man in it. "If people find out about us we could both lose what we've worked so hard to achieve. And I know how much it means to you."

Valdo wasn't wrong. Jaskier had been looking for fame ever since he was little and after years of trying and plenty of failures most people anywhere he goes now knows how he is and the lyrics to his songs.

A long time ago he thought that it could've made him happy, but fame hadn't managed to fill that empty void inside of him. The only times it felt like something wasn't missing in his life was the few moments he got to spend with Valdo. 

"I don't care about that anymore. All I want is you. It's always been you. Just took a while for me to figure it out." It's scary being this honest with someone. But nothing will ever change between them if they can't be honest with each other.

Valdo doesn't say anything. Instead he walks over to the bed and sits down on the edge of it, looking out at the room they're in. 

After a long moment of silence Jaskier can't take it anymore. "If you still want to leave, I won't stop you. If not, please just say something. I don't know how much more my heart can take."

"I love you." Valdo suddenly blurts out, taking Jaskier by surprise. "I always have. Probably always will. So if you're 100 percent sure that this is what you want… then I'll never leave your side again."

Jaskier took a deep breath to calm himself down before he asked Valdo to look at him. When he did there were tears in the other man's eyes and in that moment Jaskier understood just how hard this must have been for Valdo too.

"I told you. I want this. I've never been more sure of anything in my life." he reached out a hand and cupped Valdo's cheek and watched as he closed his eyes, a lone tear slipping out. Jaskier wiped it away with his thumb and let go.

A moment later Valdo opened his eyes again and got up from the bed. Without a single word he left the room and closed the door.

Jaskier hadn't been sure how he expected the conversation to end. But he definitely couldn't have imagined it like this; alone and abandoned once again. Especially not after Valdo had said that he wanted the same things as Jaskier did.

He got out of the bed and started getting dressed as tears slowly made their way down his face. He shouldn't have said anything, should've just kept quiet for once. But at least now he knew not to let Valdo seduce him again if their paths ever crossed in the future. He wouldn't be able to deal with his heart breaking yet again over the same man that had crushed it so many times before.

Just as he was about to grab his lute and head outside the door opened and Valdo stepped inside.

For a moment they just looked at each other, both unsure of what to do. But then Valdo walked over to him and enveloped him in his arms.

"I thought you suddenly changed your mind." Jaskier admitted quietly. 

"I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry. I was just going down to rent the room for another day. I should've said something."

"Yeah. You should have." Jaskier said before stepping out of Valdo's arms and wiping away the tears with the sleeves on his shirt. "But I guess this means you'll stay?"

"Oh, darling, I have no intention of ever leaving you again." Valdo said with a grin and then he started pushing Jaskier towards the bed. 

"You're gonna need to do a lot more than that to make it up to me, you know." Jaskier said just as he was pushed down on the bed and knowing what seemed to be in store for him it was hard to stay angry.

"And I know just how to start."

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[jaskefer]

THE WITCHER S3E4 - The Invitation

[wren-of-the-woods]

I’m thinking about the parallels between Jaskier and Valdo Marx. I’m thinking about how Valdo plays a silly song about romance and sex at a ball just as Jaskier did all those years ago in Cintra, and I’m thinking about how Jaskier now sings songs about love and life that are incredibly full of feeling. I’m thinking about how, when the monster attacks, Valdo runs and Jaskier helps.

I’m thinking about how Jaskier has grown to be so much more than a simple bard, and how Valdo Marx highlights that.

[spielzeugkaiser]

Only fans Geralt has a tattoo? Are those buttercups I spy??

Yesss. Geralt won't comment on it tho ;) just getting a platonic tattoo of your bestie like a bro to show commitment

[timetraveladdict]

I already like Valdo with evil moustache 😂

[hannibard]

Not sure what the fuck that means but I'm happy for him!!!!

[thelostgirl21]

One thing I really want to see happen in Season 4...

Valdo Marx: Nice to see you again, Joseph!

Jaskier: *Heavy sigh* That's -

Yarpen: *Stepping in front of him protectively.* Julian Alfred Pankratz to you, you dying sounding beached whale! Only his friends call him Joseph!

Jaskier: Ah, actually, that's Jaskier.

Yarpen: *Dismissively.* Yeah, I KNOW.

Jaskier: *Getting all teary eyed.* I know you do.

[bambirex]

Okay but now I want a very homoerotic rivalry between Jaskier and Valdo. Gimme suggestive lines and heavy subtext gimme implications that they had fucked/dated in the past, banter that is pretty much just hate- flirting. And i very specifically want a scene with Valdo tucking a piece of Jaskier's hair behind his ear in a manner that is both condescending and flirty

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

no bc which one of us on witcher tumblr snuck onto set/into the writers room for s3 I mean?? geralt being openly and directly caring and soft for jaskier???? jaskier bonding with ciri and being her fun uncle like a plethora of post-s1 fics hoped for???? jaskier being traumatized and scared of seeing rience again and it's not treated like a joke??? valdo marx not only being there and existing in a corporeal form but also being very much a Valdo Fucking Marx??? which of you guys snuck in I know it was one of you

[endiness]

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

No one:

Not a single soul:

Jaskier every time Valdo Marx and his crew open their mouths:

[anyanp]

bards in corsets UwU

[0dde11eth]

Geralt: valdo marx is a better singer than you

Jaskier: >:0

Geralt: APRIL FOOLS!

Geralt: jaskier?

Jaskier: >:0🔪🔪🔪

Roach: you fucked up. Better run!

[valdomarx]

"Valdo." Jaskier's eyes narrow and his mouth twists with distaste.

"Julian, darling."

Valdo takes Jaskier's hand and presses a kiss to it, as noxious and oily as ever.

"I see you're still," Jaskier purses his lips, "plying your dubious wares for the gentry. How is life as the continent's second best bard? It must be lonely, with only your knock-off lute for company."

"It's called a cittern, you ignorant slut."

"Oh? I thought it was a gittern."

"Do you see a plectrum in my hand??? No??? That's because it's not a fucking gittern. Honestly, how you ever passed the music courses at Oxenfurt is a mystery to me."

"I fucked the professor."

"Of course you did! As I said, ignorant. And a slut."

Jaskier tries hard not to smile, but winding Valdo up is just too much fun.

"It's nice to see you making an effort though." Jaskier pats the forearm of Valdo's doublet. "Gold embellishments are so last year, but we can't expect the latest fashions to have spread all the way to Cidaris in just twelve months, can we?"

"At least I have my doublet buttoned," Valdo explodes. "Not undone to the waist for all to see! Honestly, Julian, I can see your clavicles."

Jaskier waggles his eyebrows. "Then the outfit is working just as I intended."

"You're disgusting."

"You're repellent."

"Your so-called music is an abomination."

"I can't even in good conscience call what you make music."

"You repulse me."

"Darling." Jaskier's laugh rings out across the ballroom. "Meet you in the bedroom upstairs after the ball?"

"Oh, fuck you." Valdo puffs up, then deflates. "And fuck yes."

[fanby-fckry]

Jaskier: Dandelions symbolize everything I want to be in life.

Valdo Marx: Fluffy and dead with a gust of wind?

Jaskier: Unapologetic. Hard to kill. Feral, filled with sunlight, bright, beautiful in a way that the conventional and controlling hate but cannot ever fully destroy. Stubborn. Happy. Bastardous. Friends with bees. Highly disapproving of lawns. Full of wishes that will be carried far after I die.

[hannibard]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH