#feed the rich and kill the poor. ↠ verse: main.

[sidestriker]

@sux4life / continued.

"Yes, now."

More than likely, he'd have said something a little bit more acidic in response to anyone else. But Striker doesn't mind Verosika---not one bit, even discounting whatever back-and-forth the two of them have got going on between them. So he lets the slow response slide.

"Wouldn't interrupt if it weren't serious," he assures, voice kept low despite the unusual severity in his tone. It wouldn't do for him to be heard at a time like this, after all. "I'll try to getcha onstage in a timely manner, but you'll hafta cut this short."

[sidestriker]

He should probably start gathering his shit, but he doesn't particularly like the idea of getting closer to Fizzarolli, even defused as he's judged the situation to be. Their conversation has become its own sort of standoff, in Striker's mind; one of them's gotta be the one to leave first, and Striker doesn't intend to waste good material if he can help it.

"I'd say infamous is a better word for it," Striker corrects, scowl not leaving his face, "but it's good to know my face is showin' up outside Wrath."

Most assassins probably wouldn't see that as a good thing, but Striker's sloppy because he wants to be seen. It's better if people are worried about him, because they should be. If he can make himself a reputation outside of his home ring, it's only a matter of time before someone hears what he's saying.

His eyes flick back to the remains of the broken trap---but only for a second. He's not insane enough to pull his eyes away from the clown for too long.

"Like I said, it's pretty ramshackle. Can't all have access to whatever fancy new parts are makin' top 'a the line accessories to murder." Striker blows what he gets on angelic weapons; they're more valuable to him than some spare parts. "Could name any number of things that're wrong with it. Spring's too tight, doesn't shut with enough force... Be faster to list what ain't wrong with the damn thing."

Striker catches the shaking of his tail in time to suppress it, this time; the warning doesn't go off. With any luck, Fizzarolli will decide to leave on his own.

"Striker," Fizz repeated, forked tongue flicking in and out of his mouth as he considered that. The name did match the posters he'd kept in his memory. "... Yeah, no surprises there. You're kinda famous in your own right, huh?"

There was a loud voice in the jester's head that was urging him to make a snide comment about the fact that Striker recognized him (even though knowing who Fizzarolli was was not any kind of surprise nor achievement at this point in his career)— he just enjoyed teasing, especially when the individual was someone like this, who appeared not to be a fan. It was always fun to see if the rough-around the edges curmudgeon he was faced with knew him solely from his visage being plastered on everything, or if they actually liked him.

... Mayyybe he could figure that out another time, if he saw this guy again and there was not a gun involved.

It sounded like the lady Striker had been trying to catch was a real slippery snake, though. Then again, Fizz was a little haughty-- he prided himself on being able to contort into all sorts of positions, so maybe she wouldn't have been able to escape the trap even though he had.

"SO lucky," Fizz agreed, smiling a little more tensely now as he bobbed his head. "I mean, there's a next time for everything. Do ya know what's wrong with it? Maybe I could help...?"

And... collect the bounty on this guy? Possibly? Gosh, what was he thinking!?

[nuevo-city]

can i have. oc infodump please im genuinely so curious

HI HI OKAY HI.

some background info on this world; ~700-1000 years in the future. cyberpunk dystopia. almost all of the world is a desert, with only one city of mutated humans remaining. nuevo. these humans main survival adaptation is their ability to survive the slight remaining radiation from the nuclear apocalypse that happened, as well as their ability to drink saltwater, but they have powers too. the city has been divided into three “levels”, all built vertically on top of each other.

the lower levels are a cyberpunk undercity type place, with crime both violent and harmless running wild due to the lack of the hero society’s influence here (i’ll talk about them in a seperate post, but unfortunately to convey it simply, imagine the heroes from mha if they were basically the fbi and the cia at the same time and also even more corrupt and like. paying off the villains to kill people)

. the middle levels are basically solarpunk aesthetic with none of the e benefits of solarpunk, vaguely-futuristic nyc. think spider-verse earth 1610 for what daily life is like, just a lot more future-y.

upper levels are where the hero society mainly influences, the city in the sky. the RICH people live here. generally if you’re up here you’ve got ties to the hero society or the government, or you just work here and live in the middle levels.

NOW. this is my precious son leo grayson arnaud. vigilante name red noise. bisexual transmasc disaster/professional enabler older brother/part time wannabe wine aunt. he is sad and pathetic and here for a bad time, not a long time. (*cough cough* leo-grayson-arnaud.carrd.co check it out if it still works)

he’s a vigilante!!! he’s awesome!!!! he’s a boyfailure!!!!!! he’s cool as fuck!!!!!!

some info: he’s deaf! his powers let him control sound waves, so he uses them to be really fucking loud so he can utilize noise to electricity to electrocute people with the power of punk rock, but uh…. (garfield meme here) you are not immune to power drawbacks. safe to say, he’s lost most of his hearing. he was also raised the cyberpunk equivalent of a catholic lol? but it’s more akin to like,,, the legal religion from the silt verses than anything. he’s also got an AWESOME boyfriend

(the cowgirl in the second image is @the-lonelyshepherd’s oc shay. if you’re reading this and don’t know her, check her out!!! she’s cool and shep’s stories are so awesome)

this is sam pines. my BOY. fellow disaster tboy, professional hunter noceda relater-to. absolute poor little meow meow. he’d probably like mother mother but he doesn’t even HAVE a mother mother, carrion bird motif, “my guilt does not purify me” ass.

(the flower clasp is only part of his design while he’s in the cult.)

anyway he’s a born and raised lower level kid. he was abandoned by his mother (DO NOT THINK SHE WAS BAD FOR THIS. it was her only option) and grew up in the foster system until he was nine. at that age he was roped into a cult known as the sentinels. (ill go more in depth with them in another post too) they promised him food and shelter, and he needed it, so he took it. over time he was made to be a soldier for them.

he’s basically a prophet for the sentinels? of sorts. it’s very confusing and strange because it’s a Cult and that’s how they are but yeah. he does get out eventually but it’s more “outcast as a heretic and hunted down and almost killed and then saved by the leader because she thinks he’ll be useful if he still has some devotion left”

bonus info: he’d probably like will wood and jhariah tbh. he lost an arm to his own powers (if i had a nickel for every time power drawbacks showed up in my main ocs if have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice). he feeds stray cats. he falls asleep in the weirdest positions. chronic pain haver (the haverrrrr). all i can think of as basic info rn but im working on making full refs and posts for the rest of the team

[sonderrow-moved]

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LIKE for a preestablished relationship/plotting line with Archer… BUT have at least one category in mind before I hop in your IMs!

I entirely get the urge of wanting to roleplay, expand our muses together, and this is my personal starting pack for Archer! If you’re hooked to one category but don’t think your muse can fit still HMU about it and I’ll see how we can work that out!

REMINDER I HAVE A LOT OF THREADS. Like often a lot. Roleplaying is something that effortlessly really relaxes me, but I am still one human. I like to see all my threads through no matter how long the wait is and do my best ! Thus we might not be threading right off the bat depending on how much stuff I have, but everything established can get into asks, dash shenanigans, etc. What matters is that it shapes our characters. 🙏

BUSINESS PEERS. Archer’s professional and very efficient work ethic made him notorious in unspoken matters as someone who will get things done with no needs of public recognition… which would lead to inner, private and ultimately more treasured recognition. He used to have clients, partners and met a lot of others at parties he went frequently to, mostly charity parties often disguised as business ones. Those partners may have known his father, maybe his grandfather, or maybe they’re fresh right out the bat, maybe the Kessler company sought them, maybe your muse’s company sought them and you stumbled upon him. Mind you that Archer has made the scandalous decision to sell the majority of his actions towards the company and doesn’t get more involved than necessary with its activities. This profile fits to every muse high enough in the business ranks to meet Archer; at least chief of a team in a department. It’s all about title. Do be reminded that the Kessler company is known to have an illegal and scandalous history as of NOW and that a lawful good muse would probably not want to be associated with it, or any muse wanting to go legal.

LEGAL WORKERS. With the horribly enormous pile of cases Archer’s been involved with, he needs a lawyer cabinet to back him and his business. Multiple ones. Maybe it is a genuinely crooked one, or a blindly optimistic one who believes his claims of innocence and being against the world, maybe the whole cabinet is broken and as a newly employed lawyer you are still too innocent until you notice. Law enforcers and government representatives knows how much Archer is guilty (or not), making him infamous in their ranks as one of those irritating cases where the system doesn’t seem to work. For muses working in the justice system, on any side, from judge to prison guard.

“FRIENDS”. Archer lost all of his friends when he was accused and imprisoned. He would have done the same thing; every one who was still linked by friendship to him risked everything. You’re one of those, because you’re not an idiot… or maybe you are and you did lose everything to keep your integrity. Or maybe you really were too stupid and loyal and believed Archer did nothing. This applies to particular muses who can fit in a scenario like this. Although for the sake of social standing Archer could “befriend” quite some people, he had a particular preference towards artists and introverted yet talented minds who had lots of potential, wanting to make them grow.

CRIMINALS. Con artists, mafiosos, yakuzas, drug dealers, maybe assassins, thieves, hackers, corrupted law enforcement agents, rich guys with illegal fetishes… Archer has dealt at least with all of them at least once. As a “cleaner” before he finally sat down on the CEO chair, Archer was the one who by circumstances became known for his professionalism, cool head and ability to erase any evidence from even the most alarming and need-to-be-quickly-done situation. Even a killer who does so as a hobby or for personal gain would eventually be caught as he goes on, unless he can take a contract or too, and have him give a helping hand in exchange for secrecy.  This applies to muses with at least a medium-ranked profile in the underground (so no simple alley drug dealer unless plotted).

ENTERTAINERS & SEX WORKERS. Given how Archer sees sex as being an extremely powerful tool, he often got around the latter, choosing carefully which escort he’ll personally put at his services. Archer kept the best ones at hand, to please contacts and clients. He respects them for their work, but he wanted professionalism from you and not cry if you got almost cut in half after a night. Although he stepped down from his CEO position, Archer was pushed into his sire’s hotel line, which secretly dealt with human trafficking and prostitution. With his experience, he slowly is coming back and is moving all his contacts over there, wanting to change his approach. Despite the need of running a very real business, he cannot ignore the amount of work his sire’s illegal business brings. This profile fills every muse working in the sex business outside camshows and movies. They don’t have to be the ones close to Archer.

VICTIM(S). Archer is a very high-rated criminal. Although he has only been found guilty of extortion, corruption, blackmailing, piracy and other business-linked crimes, he was accused but not found guilty of sequestration, serial murder, serial rape, torture, committing indignity to a body, publishing obscene material, harassment, insert lots of other legal terms surrounding this. Accusations which have been highly mediatized given how high profile he was at the time, him being used as a scapegoat and the scandal only worsened when it was said it was both on minors and adults. I won’t get too much on what the truth is, but if you’d like your muse to be victim of Archer’s real crime(s), do hit me up I’ll be very selective on this given it’s important to his background story. This profile would fit highly disturbed muse, hobos, prostitutes, people living in very poor districts, pretty much people who have the perfect victim profile. OR it can also be other businessmen, common people, those who would have their life ruined indirectly or directly any organization Archer was or is involved with, the most common being as putting you in debt with the mafia knocking at your door to kill you, break your legs or torture someone you love until you give them what they want.

NEAR THE VICTIM(S). There are suspicions your friend/lover/brother/whatever was done wrong because of Archer. Maybe you’re the one who pressed charges. Maybe it’s not you, but in some way you were involved indirectly in the scandal and it did something to you and you have your own opinion on it. Maybe you seek where Archer is to kill him, maybe just talk to him and understand… something.This profile fits a muse who has lost someone close to them in suspicious circumstances.

PARTNER IN CRIME. You were there and you liked every bit of it probably (or if not you’re surely dead). VERY SELECTIVE. This profile fits muse with probable sociopathic and/or psychopathic tendencies who knows their way across the most fucked-up places of the underworld.

OBSESSION. High profile criminals with atrocious records are known to, sadly, have, yes,fans. Your muse believes that Archer did most of what he was accused for, choose to your discretion. Maybe they wanted to visit him, maybe they sent him gifts and mails, maybe they were already almost obsessed with him BEFORE he was accused given his bit of a disturbed but extremely charismatic and successful behavior and just FELL more as he was sequestrated. This profile fits muse going to the simple nerd with morbid curiosity to the very intense stalker.

MATCHMAKING. Since his teens, Archer has met multiple people for a potential marriage; the woman in question and the relatives that accompany her. And… when bored, his sister has the nasty habit of wanting to play matchmaker with him; Archer may not be the best person, but he’d hate to not make up to someone his hell of a relative tricked. Self explanatory. Archer’s sister, Eve (Everleigh), is owner of two modern galleries, so single people susceptible to befriend her could fall into that trap.

SCHOOL FACES. Archer cut next to every tie which couldn’t help in business after he graduated from university. It was brutal and without much warning although given how he was drawn to his duty, nobody was surprised. Archer got schooled at home as a child after becoming a depressed before going to a rich high-end private school. Afterwards, he became a star tennis player and the moral support of the team. He was also the president of a literature club where he was able to bond a bit with nerds and was known to tutors younger kids he believed had potential to help his reputation or parents who had power to help his family. Archer was mostly loved by everyone, but still bullied the weak or didn’t hesitate to stomp on other to raise himself higher. Victims of his young impulses, partner or rival in the tennis court, maybe the librarian, maybe a classmate, maybe someone from another school who always saw him and wanted to know him. This profile fits muses that Archer would not talk to unless he knew them from the past. Mostly younger muses that leads a life that has nothing to do with his work. RP can be during his younger years or simply skipped to the main verse.

MEALS. As a vampire, Archer consolidated his hypnotic powers and feeding, starting to leave some preys alive, but dazed and forgetful at times. On top of the numbness and blinding aphrodisiac the poison in his biting provides, he is able to leave the impression like their meeting was a dream; victims will remember vaguely his face, voice or other depending on characters, but not remember the feeding. However, willing and loyal ones may even befriend Archer, who finds consenting people much easier to deal with than laying bodies and sudden disappearances. This profile fits grey morale muses, ones who loves the supernatural, masochists, etc. who’d trade their blood and silence in exchange of being around a vampire. Archer only feeds on females if they ask directly for it or if there is nothing else, highly preferring to feed on males, which is linked to his sexual preferences.

RED LIGHT DISTRICT. Archer has become a prominent figure of the red light district; as the one guy who owned everything (which is not true, but blown out of proportions). Due to the forceful, ruthless and undeniably lustful reputation his sire has, being the envoy puts him in a powerful position where the line between him and the one who turned him might blur to others, as if they were the same person. Anything new in the district goes through him and pros and cons are weighted for healthy competition. Outside the hotels and their affiliated businesses, Archer personally owns two bars; one is lounge gay bar and the other one of the same style, only for the supernaturals of every shape and form, with products to cater their needs. Both are actually places made to cater to his difficult and high maintenance taste; if you cannot find it, do it yourself. Those bars include their own staff, which he selects himself to make sure nobody he would find inappropriate works under his image. As for the hotel line itself, it includes its own staff, administration, underground administration and staff, restaurant staff and entertainment staff for diverse shows and parties thrown. This profile fits any muse which would frequent the red light district, from newcomers to others looking for a job, frequent visitors and owners of businesses. From the woman who runs an escort club with a heart of steel to the bartender who just wants to pay his education fees to the security guard who has nightmare about the noises he hears behind closed doors.

HITMEN. You were paid to fuck with him, but thing is it’s pretty complicated. This profile is picky since obviously the attempt is going to fail and you cannot always RP back and forth attempts. This would be nearly a comical bond with a need to plot a resolution depending on your muse!

SUBMISSIVES. Archer’s history as a dom was… infamous. Long story short, he was known to be good, but dangerous. With a more stable mind he wouldn’t mind going back to one of his favorite hobbies. The deal is simple; he owns the person obviously, no penetration sex, no deep kissing, no romance (which doesn’t mean no affection or love) and not to start screaming about it on the streets. Although he wouldn’t mind so much now to play by the rules, if allowed Archer will become ruthless, enjoying giving permanent marks on others and inflict gradually harsher punishments or rewards. This profile fits, well, masochists and submissives people, from any form and shape really (a victim is a victim) who are willing to give their body for a mutual game, be they be paying Archer or not. Very selective… because Archer is difficult. The way he treats your muse can be from pretty sweet to downward harsh… entirely depends on what degree he finds your muse attractive. Beware scars and broken parts. Sessions can last from one evening to a whole weekend.

MISC.I’ll add more when I think of them! DO THROW ME YOUR IDEAS LET’S GO.

Like with any interaction, relationships are officially in the singleverse timeline if it is roleplayed to a minimum extensively. Looking forwards to write with you!

[siimplewolf]

So you want to write an OC for the Witcher franchise? Want to write a verse? I have a couple of tips and pointers for you that might be of help!

disclaimer/credits:

This post COMPLETELY ignores the Polish TV series since they’re a joke and should not be taken into consideration when working on a Witcher verse/OC.

Credit goes to @snarkomancy and@vanbredevoort for all the help and tips about mages and some about witchers that I had forgotten.

Lore:

The books and the games are your friends, and so is the wiki. Haven’t you read the books or played the games? (What are you waiting for?????) It doesn’t matter, the wiki articles are a life saver. And if there is something you don’t understand about them, you can always ask your local Witcher buff. Try not to stray too far from the lore, nor make your character interfere with canon things that happened. (I’m talking mostly book-wise, since game wise, the lore can be quite malleable.)

Book!Triss and Yennefer:

Yennefer has the curliest hair to ever curl, is tiny as heck and will do anything/everything to save those she loves.

Triss has chestnut hair and blue eyes, as well as a massive scar on her chest that prevents her from wearing revealing outfits. She’s also selfish and a coward.

Witchers:

While witchers are powerful, they are not almighty. They learn from experience which is why many of them die in the field. They age slowly but no one knows just for how long they can live since no one ever heard of a witcher dying of old age.

             -The oldest witchers, at the time of the year 1275 (the time of Blood and Wine), can be up to 325 years, give or take.

             -The youngest a witcher can be is around 80-90 years old.

Ages can vary, but you will not find a 30-year-old witcher in the year 1275. For several reasons, the different schools (Griffin, Wolf, Cat, etc) stopped creating witchers. Some of those reasons are: Monsters are dwindling, therefore witchers are no longer required. People learn how to live with some of those monsters, the sentient ones that can be reasoned with.

In the particular case of the Cat school, it was disbanded by unhappy yet powerful people. Those witchers had become assassins and sellswords, something that a witcher was never supposed to become.

In the particular case of the Wolf school, a mob attacked the keep way before the events of The Witcher 1 and everyone within that keep died with the exception of a young Vesemir. But since Vesemir was only a fencing instructor, there was no possible way he’d be able to resume with the Trials for he didn’t have the knowledge.

There are NOT female witchers. Female witchers ARE NOT a thing. Speaking of the fantasy world, it could be a sexist thing, or it could be a merely biological thing. Only 3 out of 10 males survived the Trials, and no female survived. The alchemical formulae for the Trials and mutations, had the same base that changed a little with each school, gearing towards what that school wanted from their witchers. But those formulae were never meant for females and the sorcerers involved in those mutations and formulae were never interested in turning females. “But what about Ciri?” You ask me, and I tell you that Ciri never ever went through the mutations. The Wolf Witchers merely fed her mushrooms and infusions that helped her metabolism, but there was no Trial involved. She was merely trained in sword fighting and theory and practice by the witchers. Nothing else. HOWEVER. It IS possible for a female to be trained by witchers, just like Ciri was. If the witcher allows this, they will train a female in the art of sword fighting and share their knowledge on monsters, ancient and not so much. And given that females trained by witchers did not undergo the mutations, they do not have yellow eyes or any other characteristic of a witcher that comes after the Trials.

On that note, after the trials, witchers are, like sorcerers, INFERTILE. And their eyes are ALWAYS amber eyes. Feline amber eyes, because that way they can see in the dark. Witchers ONLY have amber eyes, they cannot have some other colour.

Witchers do most, if not all things for coin. They need the coin to eat, to buy supplies, pay the blacksmith, feed their horses and many more things. The job for a witcher is scarce, a witcher will not work for free or be there to advise you on your life. You hire the witcher and after the job is done the witcher is more than gone from that village/city/town.

Like I said, jobs for witchers are scarce, therefore there can’t be a rich witcher. Witchers can barely live on what they do. They scrape for coins. They are poor and they DO NOT REMEMBER THEIR FAMILIES. They might have a little something that resembles a memory, but that’s about it.

Witchers were abandoned children, or children picked up from the Law of Surprise, ripped from their families. But they do not remember said families or if they ever had one, to begin with.

Witcher elixirs wear off after some time, and they cause impotence soon after it wears off. They need some time for that to be over.

Witchers are able to cast magic, but their signs are basic at best. Mages make fun of them for this.

It is not said, but there is a general guess that a witcher finishes his ‘studies’ and earns his medallion in his late teens, early twenties. Which is when they go out to the Path for the first time. At this time, while they are powerful and have all the knowledge needed to fight a monster, they lack the street smarts. The smarts that they gain with years of being constantly around people other than their instructors or friends. So a young witcher in his early twenties will be clumsy, will probably die due to a stupid mistake. And from then on he’ll only gain scars from mistakes. A witcher starts to actually get a feel for his job around his 50s or 60s.

A witcher will not win a fight against a magician. The only possible way for a witcher to have a fair fight with a magician is if the magician is not well versed in the art of hand to hand combat or sword fighting and chooses not to use magic, or if the magician in question already used magic enough to drain them of their energy. Otherwise, the fight will be won by the magician, no exceptions.

Witchers are very well versed in many monsters, and they will always try everything before fighting. Fighting a creature is the last choice for a witcher, or at least that’s what it’s taught to them.

A witcher is supposedly stripped from all of his feelings with the mutations, this is so that they do not feel pity or regret for those monsters that they kill. “But what about Geralt?” You ask me, and I say that Geralt was a special case, he suffered from Main Character Syndrome, and since he was able to endure the basic mutations very well, magicians put him through even more mutations, giving him the white colour of his hair. Supposedly those mutations failed which is why he got to keep his feelings, or at least most of them. Now here’s where you can play around, to some degree, with what your muse, as a witcher, can or can’t feel. But remember that your witcher will not and cannot be overly sensitive, cannot and will not be over emotional. They don’t feel much. What a regular human feels as mild emotion, is a strong emotion for a witcher.

Magicians:

Boys: Ban Ard in Kaedwen Girls: Aretuza in the island of Thanedd POLITICS. LOTS OF POLITICS.

Magicians are more powerful than witchers, that is for certain, as I stated before. They use elemental energy (never fire, for it is very unstable) and they are the conduit for it. They do not run out of power but they get very tired because shaping and directing that energy the right way is hard and painful.

It is said that women are better for magic than men.

Jewellery is not for aesthetic purposes only, it channels power, therefore they cannot remove it.

There are places of power in the world, and a mage can identify them by feeling a tugging or pulling sensation or merely observing cats, for they are sensitive to that and like to sit on them.

Ban Ard and Aretuza are boarding schools and students ARE NOT allowed to leave until they don’t finish their studies. It is not known for how long they remain within the schools.

Magicians are most certainly ‘ugly’ before they are taken in into the schools, where they are fixed with magic.

Magicians are not powerful when they are young and just left the school they come from. They, like witchers, gain experience over the year. It is said that they start gaining political power around the age of 70.

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT, FOLKS. IF YOU WANT SOME HELP YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO POKE ME OR @vanbredevoort FOR MORE LORE GOODNESS <3

[siimplewolf-archive2-blog]

So you want to write an OC for the Witcher franchise? Want to write a verse? I have a couple of tips and pointers for you that might be of help!

DISCLAIMER/CREDITS:

This post COMPLETELY ignores the Polish TV series since they're a joke and should not be taken into consideration when working on a Witcher verse/OC.

Credit goes to @snarkomancy and @vanbredevoort for all the help and tips about mages and some about witchers that I had forgotten.

Lore:

The books and the games are your friends, and so is the wiki. Haven't you read the books or played the games? (What are you waiting for?????) It doesn’t matter, the wiki articles are a life saver. And if there is something you don’t understand about them, you can always ask your local Witcher buff. Try not to stray too far from the lore, nor make your character interfere with canon things that happened. (I’m talking mostly book wise, since game wise, the lore can be quite malleable.)

Book!Triss and Yennefer:

Yennefer has the curliest hair to ever curl, is tiny as heck and will do anything/everything to save those she loves. Triss has chestnut hair and blue eyes, as well as a massive scar on her chest that prevents her from wearing revealing outfits.

Witchers:

While witchers are powerful, they are not almighty. They learn from experience which is why many of them die in the field. They age slowly but no one knows just for how long they can live since no one ever heard of a witcher dying of old age.               -The oldest witchers, at the time of the year 1275 (the time of Blood and Wine), can be up to 325 years, give or take.               -The youngest a witcher can be is around 80-90 years old. Ages can vary, but you will not find a 30-year-old witcher in the year 1275. For several reasons, the different schools (Griffin, Wolf, Cat, etc) stopped creating witchers. Some of those reasons are: Monsters are dwindling, therefore witchers are no longer required. People learn how to live with some of those monsters, the sentient ones that can be reasoned with. In the particular case of the Cat school, it was disbanded by unhappy yet powerful people. Those witchers had become assassins and sell swords, something that a witcher was never supposed to become. In the particular case of the Wolf school, a mob attacked the keep way before the events of The Witcher 1 and everyone within that keep died with the exception of a young Vesemir. But since Vesemir was only a fencing instructor, there was no possible way he’d be able to resume with the Trials for he didn’t have the knowledge.

There are NOT female witchers. Female witchers ARE NOT a thing. Speaking within the fantasy world, it could be a sexist thing, or it could be a merely biological thing. Only 3 out of 10 males survived the Trials, and no female survived. The alchemical formulae for the Trials and mutations, had the same base that changed a little with each school, gearing towards what that school wanted from their witchers. But those formulae were never meant for females and the sorcerers involved in those mutations and formulae were never interested in turning females. “But what about Ciri?” You ask me, and I tell you that Ciri never ever went through the mutations. The Wolf Witchers merely fed her mushrooms and infusions that helped her metabolism, but there was no Trial involved. She was merely trained in sword fighting and theory and practice by the witchers. Nothing else. HOWEVER. It IS possible for a female to be trained by witchers, just like Ciri was. If the witcher allows this, they will train a female in the art of sword fighting and share their knowledge on monsters, ancient and not so much. And given that females trained by witchers did not undergo the mutations, they do not have yellow eyes or any other characteristic of a witcher that comes after the Trials.

On that note, after the trials, witchers are, like sorcerers, INFERTILE. And their eyes are ALWAYS amber eyes. Feline amber eyes, because that way they can see in the dark. Witchers ONLY have amber eyes, they cannot have some other colour.

Witchers do most, if not all things for coin. They need the coin to eat, to buy supplies, pay the blacksmith, feed their horses and many more things. The job for a witcher is scarce, a witcher will not work for free or be there to advise you on your life. You hire the witcher and after the job is done the witcher is more than gone from that village/city/town.

Like I said, jobs for witchers are scarce, therefore there can’t be a rich witcher. Witchers can barely live on what they do. They scrape for coins. They are poor and they DO NOT REMEMBER THEIR FAMILIES. They might have a little something that resembles a memory, but that’s about it.

Witchers were abandoned children, or children picked up from the Law of Surprise, ripped from their families. But they do not remember said families or if they ever had one, to begin with.

Witcher elixirs wear off after some time, and they cause impotence soon after it wears off. They need some time for that to be over.

Witchers are able to cast magic, but their signs are basic at best. Mages make fun of them for this.

It is not said, but there is a general guess that a witcher finishes his ‘studies’ and earns his medallion in his late teens, early twenties. Which is when they go out to the Path for the first time. At this time, while they are powerful and have all the knowledge needed to fight a monster, they lack the street smarts. The smarts that they gain with years of being constantly around people other than their instructors or friends. So a young witcher in his early twenties will be clumsy, will probably die due to a stupid mistake. And from then on he’ll only gain scars from mistakes. A witcher starts to actually get a feel for his job around his 50s or 60s.

A witcher will not win a fight against a magician. The only possible way for a witcher to have a fair fight with a magician is if the magician is not well versed in the art of hand to hand combat or sword fighting and chooses not to use magic, or if the magician in question already used magic enough to drain them of their energy. Otherwise, the fight will be won by the magician, no exceptions.

Witchers are very well versed in many monsters, and they will always try everything before fighting. Fighting a creature is the last choice for a witcher, or at least that’s what it’s taught to them.

A witcher is supposedly stripped from all of his feelings with the mutations, this is so that they do not feel pity or regret for those monsters that they kill. “But what about Geralt?” You ask me, and I say that Geralt was a special case, he suffered from Main Character Syndrome, and since he was able to endure the basic mutations very well, magicians put him through even more mutations, giving him the white colour of his hair. Supposedly those mutations failed which is why he got to keep his feelings, or at least most of them. Now here’s where you can play around, to some degree, with what your muse, as a witcher, can or can’t feel. But remember that your witcher will not and cannot be overly sensitive, cannot and will not be over emotional. They don’t feel much. What a regular human feels as mild emotion, is a strong emotion for a witcher.

Magicians:

Boys: Ban Ard in Kaedwen Girls: Aretuza in the island of Thanedd POLITICS. LOTS OF POLITICS.

Magicians are more powerful than witchers, that is for certain, as I stated before. They use elemental energy (never fire, for it is very unstable) and they are the conduit for it. They do not run out of power but they get very tired because shaping and directing that energy the right way is hard and painful.

It is said that women are better for magic than men.

Jewellery is not for aesthetic purposes only, it channels power, therefore they cannot remove it.

There are places of power in the world, and a mage can identify them by feeling a tugging or pulling sensation or merely observing cats, for they are sensitive to that and like to sit on them.

Ban Ard and Aretuza are boarding schools and students ARE NOT allowed to leave until they don’t finish their studies. It is not known for how long they remain within the schools.

Magicians are most certainly ‘ugly’ before they are taken in into the schools, where they are fixed with magic.

Magicians are not powerful when they are young and just left the school they come from. They, like witchers, gain experience over the year. It is said that they start gaining political power around the age of 70.

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[sidestriker]

purrs at snake boi ~

The answering rattle is both a tease and a warning.

"I wonder if you're lookin' for a particular response outta me, Miss Mayday."

[sorayahigashikata]

Chapter 51: "The snow level!"

[sidestriker]

Any advice for killing Goetia?

"Catch 'em off their guard."

The response is immediate, confident; Striker may have only been able to take his shots a couple of times, but he's done more than enough careful planning to know how best to go about it.

"Unless you happen to be a Deadly Sin, you're gonna be on the back foot when it comes to one 'a those bastards. But they're not invincible. You gotta be quick---make sure they don't have a chance to react, then finish the job right away. Made that mistake more 'n once myself."

[sidestriker]

@spidersins requested a surprised starter!

It takes one bullet for the guy he's actually here for to go down, which Striker still considers a waste of angelic steel.

Striker hadn't been paying much attention to his target's accompaniment; he doesn't generally involve himself with Sinners if it's not for the job, and killing them doesn't exactly evoke much of a need for subterfuge. That said, just about anyone who's ever been to the pride ring would recognize Angel Dust's face.

He's a little more surprised than he should be to have run into such a celebrity. Not that Striker's really starstruck, having only ever really seen any of Pride's pornos in passing, but he's never met someone so well known by coincidence before.

This, unfortunately, complicates things.

Striker had been prepared to take out the witness as well, but seeing as that would probably get him uncomfortably high up on the shit-lists of some pretty powerful people in Pride, he resolves to settle for the slapdash plan of talking his way out of trouble.

"Well, well! Didn't think I'd be runnin' into a celebrity today." Striker grins, a well-crafted cover for his disgruntled mood. "Lucky for you, I'm not exactly keen on buttin' heads with the poor souls in Pride who'd riot if an imp put a bullet in your brain. Sorry 'bout your arm candy; a job's a job."

[sidestriker]

💭 - vox

"He's a son of a bitch with more power than sense who can't help himself from stickin' his smarmy ass into everyone's business. You do the rest of the math when it comes to figurin' out how I feel about the guy."

thoughts. / accepting.

[sidestriker]

💭 + Blitzø

"He's a coward. You can't trust a guy like that who talks big but doesn't have any values." Striker's frustration tears through his grin in the form of a shuddering rattle. "It's a damn shame, too. I meant what I said to him about bein' powerful, but there's not much he gives a shit about. He's the sorta guy I've got no qualms about dealin' with."

thoughts. / accepting.

[sidestriker]

The quick switch leaves Striker reeling. Not for long, though---and he doesn't let his guard down for even a second. Someone who's cornered will put on as much airs as they need to not get shot, and Striker knows by now he can't exactly afford to give people the benefit of the doubt.

That's what Hell is. You put your gun up, turn around to leave, and the guy you just spared shoots you right in the back.

He doesn't move a muscle when faced with the introduction, but in the interest of gauging whether the air has actually been cleated, he doesn't completely ignore it. "The name's Striker. I know damn well who you are."

An echoing rattle; another warning. That Striker's never been able to hide his own wariness is one of his only fallacies when it comes to situations like this one. Any sign of fear is always something that's inexcusable.

"Doesn't matter much now who it was tryin' to catch. She was smart---tricked someone else into takin' her place. Probably be long gone, by now." Striker's eyes narrow, and he forces a menacing grin. "It is a little ramshackle, ain't it? But then again, she wasn't meant to last long enough in there to even think about findin' a way out."

He sizes the jester up once more before lowering his gun, judging it safe enough to do so.

"You're lucky I've got more sense than shootin' the second it sprung."

@sidestriker - continued from x.

It wasn't? Then... certainly... hm.

Fizzarolli shrunk his robo-limbs back down to their normal size, and relaxed his posture, although he still kept a close eye on the imp with the gun. He'd seen him before— not in person, but on wanted posters and the like. He'd assumed this was one of those ransom plots; catch the famous jester, bring him somewhere, reel in the cash, and go home pleased. It looked like it was a mix-up instead.

Fun! Now he didn't have to disguise how terrified he was, because he had no reason to be scared.

... Aside from the 'let me do my damn job' thing, of course.

"Aw, are you sure?" Fizz teased, "'Cause I'm pretty proud of that, if you don't mind me saying!"

He did feel smart for breaking out of Striker's trap... even if it wasn't intended for him. With a (somewhat) apologetic smile on his face, he extended an arm toward the other imp, and bowed at the waist.

"Fizzarolli," he said, "And you are?"

Of course, the little introduction was enhanced by a wide, toothy grin and batting eyelashes! Good first impressions were everything, especially when they were up for judgment by a grumpy-seeming cowboy with a huge weapon.

"By the way, I totally don't mean to insult ya by this, but, uh, your trap could use some work. Whoever you're trying to catch is not gonna stay in there."

[sidestriker]

"nothing's what it seems."

Teeth grit, Striker suppresses the urge to roll his eyes in the presence of the metaphorical bigger fish.

The revolver that spins idly in his hands isn't empty, but it's not primed to kill, either. Just an idle habit spawned by lack of much else to be idle with---and idleness kills when speaking with the opportunistic asshole that is Vox. Striker's only familiar with him through word of mouth, but word of mouth is enough for him to form a bad opinion.

The thing about the Goetia is that they've got rules---they're all a bunch of whiny, blue-blooded assholes, but there are lines they don't cross when it comes to their involvement with those they see as lesser.

Demons like Vox are a different breed entirely.

"Yeah, I bet," Striker replies more agreeably than he'd really like to, because he's headstrong but he's not quite stupid enough to go around picking fights he knows he wouldn't win. "Let me take a guess 'n wager a guy like you's out here for perfectly innocent reasons, then. 'Cept I think we're both pretty smart guys who know that's probably stretchin' it."

the underworld saga. / accepting.

[sidestriker]

���I SOLVED YOUR LABYRINTH, PUZZLEMASTER. THE MINOTAUR’S ESCAPED, AND YOU’RE GONNA GET THE HORNS, BUDDY” - Gamechanger starters - From Fizz

"It's not that complicated a situation."

His only crime had been timing. And the other criminal activity that had caused the unfortunate timing, sure, but timing had been the most crucial thing. Fizzaroli hadn't been his initial target, but Striker had been outfoxed, and his smoking gun was shoved into the limelight a little too soon for his liking, pointed at entirely the wrong person.

"I couldn't give two shits about whether you live or die today, you damn fool." He raises his weapon at the newly-freed performer, keeping a steady position. Striker's lost composure doesn't come from fear, after all---it's been stolen away by his irritation at an incomplete hit and an escaping target. "Got plenty 'a bullets here I don't care much about wastin'. So here's the deal; you let me do my damn job, or I show you how we deal with pests like minotaurs down in Wrath."

game changer. / accepting.