Somewhat Clear

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somewhatclear

Rating: SAFE
Fandom: The Witcher
Relationship: Jaskier/Geralt
Tags: pre-slash, game-related shenanigans in a netflix timeline, implied underage bc jaskier is a gremlin and is lying about his age
Wordcount: 1445 / 1406 on a03
Notes: largely unbetaed, old as fuck

Summary:

Excerpt:

He looks so young, he thinks. “How old are you, again?” Geralt asks, the question out of his mouth before he can think better of it. [...] “I’ll be nineteen next spring,” he says, in a tone that implies I’m old enough to travel the world with a monster killer, thank you very much. Geralt doesn’t even remember being nineteen.

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somewhatclear

Rating: NSFW
Fandom: the witcher
Relationship: Geralt/Jaskier (mention of past eskel/geralt and geralt/ofc)
Tags: asexual Geralt, explicit/implicit sexual content (blow jobs, hand jobs, semi-public sex, anal), serious injuries, hurt/comfort, vomiting, temporary hearing loss, consensual underage sex, mention of sex workers, canon-typical witcher childhood, communication, non-sexual intimacy, hair brushing, burns
Wordcount: 9047
Notes: written for śmiech! Thanks for being so patient ;;

Summary:
Jaskier and Geralt are in a relationship. While Geralt does have feelings for Jaskier, he struggles to think about sex as anything other than something transactional. What else could a witcher like him offer to someone like Jaskier, after all?

Excerpt:

Not much changes between them: the witcher kills monsters; the bard sings. But also: they fuck.

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somewhatclear

Rating: NSFW
Fandom: The Witcher
Relationship: Eskel/Geralt/Jaskier
Tags: Bruises, Marking, Background Relationships, Polyamory, Kink Negotiation, Implied Sexual Content
Wordcount: 1331
Notes: written for M2 @ COWT2022

Summary:

Excerpt:

Jaskier wrapped his hand around Geralt’s forearm, trying to fit it into the mark Eskel had left. The other witcher’s hands were so much bigger than his. “Well, of course,” he mused. “This is more about remembering the feeling, isn’t it? Having something to remind us of him when he’s not here.”

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somewhatclear

Rating: NSFW
Fandom: The Witcher (games)
Relationship: Geralt/Eskel, background Geralt/Regis/Dettlaff
Tags: Mutual pining, Retirement in Corvo Bianco, non-explicit sex
Wordcount: 4568
Notes: Entry for the Fisstech & Succubi exchange.

Summary:
Eskel is invited to winter in Corvo Bianco by Geralt, whom he hasn't seen since the battle in Kaer Morhen. A happy reunion, despite old wounds and painful memories. Featuring: two nosy vampires and a busy majordomo.

Excerpt:

They were embracing before they knew they had moved towards each other, laughing in each other’s necks. Eskel smelled like sweat and travel, like dust and rain, and he was in Geralt’s home. There was a hysterical, manic edge to their laughter, but neither of them pointed it out, and Regis seemed to have disappeared in thin air like he was wont to do sometimes, so they kept laughing and clutching at each other.

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somewhatclear

Rating: SAFE
Fandom: The Witcher
Relationship: Ciri & Geralt, Geralt/Eskel
Warnings: Geralt looting corpses game-style, sad witcher childhoods, mention of the attack in Kaer Morhen, mention of Renfri's sad childhood, mention of Adda's sad life and the incest with her brother.
Wordcount: 3094
Notes: My entry for Imbolc for the witcher wheel of the year event.

Summary:
It begins with Geralt picking up a doll. Childhoods are lost and denied; princesses are monsters, and monsters are princesses. Agency is questioned. Family is found.

Excerpt:

He let himself slip into a light meditation, memories of a bare childhood washing over him as the fire kept consuming the corpses in the pile. Vesemir had always pretended not to see the playthings that made it in the dormitory while Geralt and Eskel were under his care, but he’d never treated them like children. Every evening they went to bed black and blue with bruises, crying with fatigue and frustration. And yet they were fond memories—the only childhood he had known.

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somewhatclear

Rating: SAFE
Fandom: The Witcher
Relationship: Jaskier & Yennefer
Tags: Injuries, Enemies to Friends, Pre-slash, Trials of the Grasses-related gross stuff, a little gore
Wordcount: 2011
Notes: n/a

Summary:
Yennefer asks Geralt to fetch a rare ingredient for her. Geralt gets badly hurt and a very angry Jaskier drags him to the sorceress's house so she can heal him. The witcher is saved. Two enemies find out they have more in common they think.

Excerpt:

She could handle being jealous—she could understand jealousy; but that irrational irritation towards a man that appeared to be using Geralt for his own gain, just to become famous, told unspeakable things about her own feelings towards the witcher, and it was intolerable.

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somewhatclear

Rating: SAFE
Fandom: The Witcher
Relationship: Jaskier/Geralt, Eskel/Geralt
Tags: Trans Male Character, Relationship Negotiation, Polyamory, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Trauma, Miscommunication, Conflict Resolution, Scents & Smells, Awkward Conversations
Wordcount: 3277
Notes: Partecipa alla seconda settimana del COWT di landedifandom, per la missione #2. Prompt: Banana Yoshimoto, "Memoria di un vicolo cieco".

Summary:
Eskel finds Geralt in Jaskier's company in the last inn before the path to Kaer Morhen. He comes in for a good-natured session of teasing, he stays for a difficult conversation. After fifty years of dead ends, they finally find an exit route.

Excerpt:

Geralt scraped the bottom of his plate with his spoon and sighed. “What did I tell you, Jaskier?”

Jaskier smiled. “Not to bring up the sex thing with Eskel.” He touched the inside of Geralt’s wrist with a finger, dipping slightly under the sleeve. “And what did I tell you, Geralt?”

“That you were going to do it anyway. You could’ve waited after dinner.”

Eskel shook his head, using his sleeve to mop up the ale that dribbled from his mouth. “That’s not the kind of embarrassing story about our childhoods I hoped to reminisce about.”

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somewhatclear

Rating: SAFE
Fandom: The Witcher
Relationship: Geralt/Jaskier
Tags: omegaverse, purring witchers, non-sexual intimacy, getting together, pre-relationship, pack dynamics, bathing/washing, cutting hair, scents & smells
Wordcount: 2968
Notes: partecipa alle iniziative di LandeDiFandom Maritombola (prompt 90: omegaverse) e Esploratori del polyverso (stesso genere: romantico)

Summary:
Geralt comes back from a hunt absolutely covered in shit. Some hair-cutting needed. Purring happens, mortification ensues. Expectations are met.

Excerpt:

Human Alphas didn’t purr for their packmates. They didn’t purr for other Alphas. They actually didn’t purr much at all, because it was an omega thing—and even the omegas, they reserved it for their partners, for their mates, for their Alphas. Even knowing that Jaskier didn’t have a shame bone in his body, and that he had bedded other Alphas, often and with pleasure, Geralt couldn’t ask that of him, not without compromising their fellowship. He couldn’t think about Jaskier refusing. He couldn’t think about scaring him off.

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somewhatclear

Rating: NSFW
Fandom: The Witcher
Relationship: Jaskier/Geralt
Tags: Trans Geralt, Vaginal Fingering, Frotting, PWP, Drunk Sex, Semi-public sex
Wordcount: 1492
Notes: partecipa alla maritombola di landedifandom per il prompt 27: sala del trono

Summary:
Geralt accompanies Jaskier to a banquet with the promise of stopping him before he crosses a line. Success in this endeavor is questionable - but Geralt gets his reward anyway.

Excerpt:

“My saviour,” Jaskier said, swooning dramatically half against the wall and half against Geralt’s chest. “Half of those people know my parents, I would’ve never lived it down. It’s bad enough that I became a bard, in their eyes—I’m pretty sure they know I’m also a promiscuous slut, but there’s no need to rub it in their faces that way.”

Geralt carefully propped the lute on its side against the wall, so that it couldn’t flop down and break, and caught the swooning bard just in time, rolling his eyes at his dramatics. “Don’t you always say that you don’t care about what your parents think of you?”

“Absolutely,” Jaskier said, absently playing with the buttons of Geralt’s doublet. Then he looked up with a mischievous grin. “Which is why I’m giving you your reward for saving me right here.”

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