#jaskier's a+ parents

[blushingsastiel]

i ask myself,,, "how many times can i read the post-mountain jeraskier break-up scene in similar variations that has geralt groveling a bit and it's called the divorce era?" it's probably,,, hundreds of fanfics.

[fanby-fckry]

Ciri: *angrily* ARE YOU-

Jaskier: *calmly* Fucking

Ciri: KIDDING ME?! YOU-

Jaskier: Fucking

Ciri: IDIOT!

Eskel: ...what was that?

Jaskier: Yen and Geralt banned Ciri from swearing, so I’ve volunteered to help her out.

[spielzeugkaiser]

Ciri feels a bit like she's been in the way, once Geralt and Milek become closer - like she held him back somehow.

The thing I think is crucial about this - things went wrong and Geralt missed out on seeing Milek growing up - but Geralt is a dad. The parallels are there.

[ladyannemarie5]

Funny how Geralt always stayed on the sidelines with Jaskier's conquests for fear of a broken heart and yet he got a front row seat to watch the bard fall in love with the prince.

Geralt would cut the bard off when he started talking about the virtues of whatever man or woman he spent the night with, but he had no choice but to listen to Jaskier when he told him how the prince learned his song, because the poet appealed to their "best friends" bond.

Geralt smiled inwardly when the bard left his conquest for the night alone to go order him a bath and wash his hair with special soaps and oils after the hunts. And then the witcher had to witness Jaskier leaving him to go order Radovid a bath because "his long blond hair has never been anything less than perfect and cannot be left uncared for, Geralt." 

Geralt always distracted the bard with a story of past hauntings with terrifying creatures every time Jaskier began to compose a love song for his conquest, but nothing could distract the poet when he began to talk about how beautiful and bright Radovid's eyes were and how he wanted to find the perfect words to describe them. 

Geralt faked annoyance every time Jaskier asked to sleep next to him at night insinuating that he was too cold for a little bard. Geralt feigned relief when Jaskier told him that he would no longer bother him with that because he now slept with Radovid and his arms and fur blanket were more than warm. 

Geralt kept as much emotional distance as possible from the bard who approached him in a tavern in Posada so he wouldn't have to deal with a broken heart from falling in love with a human. 

But absolutely no distance in the world prepares him when that night while they were camping alone, Jaskier lying next to him and looking up at the stars, turns to him and says softly "I'm not in love with you anymore, Geralt. You don't have to act cautious around me anymore."

And Geralt can't say anything. Because he simply can't. He must have misheard, maybe the kikimore from earlier hit him too hard or something because there's no way, no world where Jaskier was in love with him. There's no way he would have wasted his chance. 

Jaskier, oblivious to the witcher's stupor, continues "I know I made you uncomfortable with my affections for you, I tried hard not to throw myself at you if I'm honest, but Radovid... I've fallen so much in love with Radovid that I'm ready to let you go. I'm sorry it took me so long to give you and Yenna peace."

Geralt looks up at the stars in silence, not believing what he just heard. Jaskier is about to turn away when Geralt takes his hand. He says nothing, just a simple squeeze. Jaskier breathes a sigh of relief, the witcher doesn't hate him for that, he doesn't ask him to leave as he had feared. Geralt is also relieved that he is no longer burdened with the bard's feelings. 

Geralt allows himself to hold his hand one last time. He allows himself a small luxury, so that he can silently mourn the loss of his bard and curse his own stupidity. Tomorrow he will watch as the bard is reunited with the prince, tomorrow he will watch with a broken heart as they embrace and the prince spins Jaskier in his arms, before kissing him and swearing eternal love. Tomorrow Geralt's heart breaks completely. 

But just for today, just for that night, he allows himself to take Jaskier's hand, draw him into his arms and breathe freely the scent of the man he has been in love with for over two decades. Just for that one night, Geralt allows himself to be happy.

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I really love to make me cry ^^

[honeybunwacker]

Headcannon that person A and person B are married with kids but their kid finds out that they aren’t actually married after they filled out some government paperwork and now their kid is using like early 2000s romcom hijinks in order to get them to admit to it and trying to get them back together

Edit: Someone please write this fanfic 🥺🥺 and please let me know if you do, so I can send it to my friend

[charkyzombicorn]

Another of my favorite tropes

[finleycannotdraw]

Hi! Your drawings are absolutely adorable and I like them very very much. How about prompt n°27, kisses for a cover? Because I'm pretty sure they did that at least once -

aaa thank you so much!!!

27. kisses for a cover

I took this to mean, like, disguise? my first thought was the good old kissing in an alley to hide from someone chasing them, but I decided to go with the fake-relationship-to-sabotage-an-arranged-marriage route instead!

I know I’ve read a fic with this premise but I can’t find it.

Y’all: reply with your favorite fake relationship fics?

[headcanonthings]

Jaskier: Did you have to go all out? I almost feel sorry for them.

Geralt: Really?

Jaskier: ...Alright fine, I think they deserved everything you dished out. However! One of us has to at least pretend to have normal morals!

Yennefer: And you thought that person should be you?!

Jaskier: ...Yeah, let’s just forget I said anything.

[yakowo]

my heart aches everytime I listen to Welly Boots by TAD

because i imagine Jaskier singing it to (and for) Ciri...🥲

[notsofriendlyfriendlyreminder]

Geralt mid lecture about relationships to Ciri: ...and of course cheating is bad- Jaskier: Says the sorceress fucker

[devil-of-books]

Jaskier, throwing himself into danger: anyone who tries to lead a "healthy lifestyle" is a coward. Flirt with death like the rest of us. Geralt, stressed out beyond belief: nOO-!

[spielzeugkaiser]

Okay, I'm not done! We had the tiniest hint of some Vesemir and Milek in the last fic from @magdelanesingerin and my brain went!! Kaer Morhen time! It must have been strange for them all.

[appleleef]

witcher au except I like the game armour better and I think Steve would be a Griffin

[galaxygalthemess]

I understand that characters who never discuss going home, and we never really see or hear about their family, are really easy to have put in a bad homelife view.

however, nothing is funnier than it actually being they are so sweet but want to give their child room to grow in their own way, but fo check up on eachother enough to show care and the character just never thinks its important to share

[roughentumble]

AU where jaskier has never felt right. his parents are rich, get him the most recent iphones, but they suppress his desire to sing. and he can just FEEL that he's different, somehow. he likes to sit on the roof and stargaze, feels a connection somewhere out there, in the deep dark of the night.

until one night, a ship lands in his parents large, expansive grounds. a creature climbs put-- bipedal, humanoid, but... different. it looks at him, seems to... scan him. claims its name is geralt, and its something like a space bounty hunter. and then asks him if he'd like to come along.

jaskier is an alien, who for unknown reasons was cloaked by his birth parents before being left on this unknown planet, earth. and the only way to fix it, to show what he's really supposed to look like, is to find his people, who will have the key to deactivating it. in doing so, he'll also get a chance to see the place he came from, to understand why he feels the way he does, to find a place where he belongs.

(geralt presumes there'll be a reward for returning jaskier, but he's also a bleeding heart who cant just leave someone stranded)

and that's how they start traveling together

(vaguely inspired by:)

[littlestsnicket]

“What did you do to her?”

“You know damn well what I did to her, bard.”

“No, it’s not that. She trusts you too much not to understand, maybe even sympathize.”

Yennefer doesn’t know what Jaskier means until it slots together in a stomach dropping epiphany.

“I let her believe Geralt was being tortured by Nilfgaard.”

“Oh, Yennefer. She will never forget that, nor should she. But in time, I think, she will understand better.”

“I don’t want her to understand better!”

“Some mother you’d be if you did.”

“I’m not—“

“Hmm,” Jaskier cuts her off with a wry smile.

[also on ao3 with author's notes longer than the fic, as one often does with drabbles]