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    ‘Congrats bard, only you could follow a witcher around for two decades and then fuck your leg up by falling off your horse.’ A voice in his head mocked him.

    It sounded suspiciously like Geralt.

    In which the war is over and Jaskier is not coping as well as he thought he was. Whether he’s willing to let anyone in and allow them to help him.

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    It rained the night that Jaskier died. No matter where Geralt went, the shadow of the bard always found him. Try as he might, nothing could chase away the ghost that lingered there.

    I've had this collecting dust in my drive for years. It's time to let it breathe.

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    Julian "Jaskier" Pankratz, a celebrated dancer at the Royal Ballet, is making history by becoming the first man to play a male version of Clara in The Nutcracker. The groundbreaking role is the pinnacle of his career, but Jaskier is finding it increasingly hard to stay focused.

    Part of the distraction stems from Jaskier's growing crush on the theatre's enigmatic handyman, Geralt Rivia. Adding to the chaos, Jaskier has a contentious relationship with Valdo Marx, the dancer cast as the Nutcracker. Their backstage interactions are anything but harmonious, and Valdo's smug demeanour often grates on Jaskier's nerves.

    While working alone in the empty theatre one late night, something extraordinary happens. Jaskier finds himself mysteriously transported into the magical world of The Nutcracker. To his astonishment, the Nutcracker Prince resembles Geralt, while the menacing Rat King looks uncannily like Valdo.

    Caught in this surreal realm, Jaskier must navigate a fantastical adventure that blurs the line between reality and the stage, where every encounter feels deeply personal and eerily familiar.

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    Jaskier, a young musician pushed to fame too high too soon, leaves the industry with his soul broken, his back battered.

    Geralt is there to hold him together and pick up the pieces.

    Geralt walks in, looking around with his piercing gold-blue eyes and an unreadable countenance.

    Jaskier knows what he sees. An unpacked suitcase. Unopened windows. Closed curtains. A dark room.

    “You've been in here the whole day,” He comments.

    Jaskier continues staring at the ceiling. “I'm sorry.” 

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    “Oh the truth is much less exciting, sweetling.” The Fae hummed, grip tightening to border on painful “You were stolen from me as a babe. Hidden away in the human realm.” Jaskier’s breath stuck in his throat. “It took me ages to find you again, dear heart. Only to find you trailing after a Witcher of all things. Barbaric beings.” The fae huffed, grip loosening and fingers resuming their idle stroking. “And when he wished you away, well.” Jaskier swallowed around the lump in his throat.
    “You’re saying that I’m what?” He managed to scrape out past the hurt he felt at the mere mention of Geralt. “A changeling?”
    “No, you’re not an exchanged child.” The fae tilted his chin up urging Jaskier to look at him. “You’re my child.”
    “Fuck.”

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    “If life could grant me one wish, it would be to take you off my hands.” Geralt says ‘wish’ instead of ‘blessing’. A difference so simple, so innocuous, It shouldn’t have mattered. Except that it did.

    Mandatory Mountain Fix it fic/Fae!Jaskier fic
    Jim Henson's Labyrinth as inspiration, and some home-brew Fae lore because I can.

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    After the disastrous dragon hunt, Jaskier gives Geralt his one wish though it will cause him eternal pain to do so. Higher vampires mate for life, only ever giving their heart to their one. Unfortunately for Jaskier, he has already given his heart to the witcher without realizing it. When a vampire's one rejects their heart, they will forever live with chronic, inescapable pain for which there is no cure.

    So Jaskier sheds the skin of the joyful human bard and returns to Oxenfurt to step back into the roles he left behind--Professor Pankratz, Julian the Viscount de Lettenhove, and Dandelion the spy. With Nilfgaard gearing up to go to war, Jaskier is faced with decisions he never wanted to make, a guild to protect, a war to win, a princess to find, a sorceress to save (however begrudgingly), and a pain in his chest that only gets worse the longer the witcher is near.

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    "I'm going to regret this, aren't I?" Jaskier asked, fidgeting with his bead necklace and staring at the open gates of Oxenfurt from a distance.

    "Hmmm," Geralt hummed.

    "Thank you, darling. Very insightful."

    "You're going to go there no matter what." Geralt shrugged.

    ****

    Oxenfurt was a busy place, filled with both bardic rivalry and friendships. A killer on the loose didn't make navigating the city and its intricacies any easier for Jaskier and Geralt.

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    His mate was more than enough reason to give up foolish errands. Jaskier was worth everything, in fact.

    Even war.

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    ...is worth two in the tavern?

    In which Geralt finds himself with a lap full of bard, and isn't entirely sure what to do about it.

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    According to anyone who is anyone within the Ton, when Julian Alfred Pankratz made his debut into society, he was practically guaranteed to make the best match of the season. Beautiful, educated, witty-- a young prodigy in the musical arts-- and coming from one of the most respectable families in Redania, he had all the makings to be declared a Diamond of the first water.

    But all of that changed when his illness began.

    Plagued by fits of panic and hysteria that seemingly had no cause, Jaskier was forced to remove himself from society for two years. Now returned to the city, he is desperate to find an alpha before the season is up and he is declared a spinster. The only problem is that he's old news, prospects are few and far between, and he may not be quite as recovered as he's led his parents to believe.

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    A prequel to my lambden regency au, featuring how Jaskier and Geralt got together.

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    Crime boss Geralt Rivia got a special present from his new business partner Valdo Marx and he plans to share this gift with everybody he wants.

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    Jaskier's daughter is about to marry the love of her life, and she decides she wants both her parents at her wedding. Only problem is that Jaskier has slept with a little too many people in his youth, so the identity of the other parent is a mystery. That does not stop the bride-to-be from inviting three potential daddy candidates and unleashing absolute chaos in the process.

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    Otherwise known as Jaskier's terrible horrible no good past decisions leading to terrible horrible no good outcomes. Also known as the Mamma Mia! AU nobody asked for, but I wrote it anyway.

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    — Пробраться на Коломницу оказалось чуть сложнее, чем я думал. Может быть, я уже староват, чтобы бегать от сторожа. Ну что ж, давайте начнем нашу любимую рубрику — «Лютик изучает зловещие городские легенды и пытается не умереть от страха».

    Он включает фонарик, подсвечивает им узкую дорожку, убегающую в густой кустарник, и туда же направляет основную камеру.

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    Reeling from his breakup with Valdo Marx, Jaskier wanders the city.

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    It was early.

    The first greens of spring had just breached the wet thaw of Kaedweni winter. The wind, while calmed, still held her icy nip, and dredges of hard-packed snow, not quite anchored to the ground, nevertheless were frozen -- floating atop the grass in stiff, crumbling rafts. Long, oppressive nights still clung to the sky, and the surrounding ridges were yet prone to slumping avalanches of snowmelt on the unwary traveler -- not that there were any, outside the rare snow hare or witcher.

    So it was not only early, but distinctly and noticeably early (much to his brothers’ delight and his eternal chagrin), that Geralt of Rivia shook himself of his winter coat and began to pack.

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    Geralt leaves Kaer Morhen early to surprise his bard, gets anxiety about it, and ends up fighting off more than one creature in Oxenfurt to keep his friend safe.

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    Dying was not a pleasant experience as books about fantastic heroes made it seem. It was not a noble, satisfying and peaceful ending for someone who had won his battles and died in a soft bed, with years of history and loved ones surrounding him.

    Nor was it the noble ending of dying in battle, where the hero defeated the monster before perishing with the certainty of having saved lives or at least tried. In the latter, the departure might have contained some anguish, but it was still serene.

    No. Jaskier, as an unwanted, hyperactive child and later a bard with no sense of self-preservation, felt death lurking more than once.

    Therefore, he could say from first-hand experience and with complete conviction, dying was absolute shit.

     

    (Jaskier is not literally dead)

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    Morrer não era uma experiência agradável como os livros sobre heróis fantásticos faziam parecer. Não era um encerramento nobre, satisfatório e tranquilo daquele que venceu suas batalhas e morreu em um leito macio, com anos de história e pessoas amadas cercando-o.

    Tampouco era o encerramento nobre de morrer em batalha, onde o herói derrotava o monstro antes de perecer com a certeza de ter salvado vidas ou ao menos tentado. Nesta última, a partida poderia conter alguma angústia, mas ainda foi serena.

    Não. Jaskier, como uma criança indesejada, hiperativa e, posteriormente, um bardo sem senso de auto-preservação, sentiu mais de uma vez a morte à espreita.

    Assim sendo, ele podia dizer por experiência de primeira mão e com total convicção, morrer era uma merda absoluta.

     

    (Jaskier não está morto literalmente)

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    The Witcher King of Kaedwen, Butcher of Blaviken and Warlord of the North, has taken eight Sacrifices from Redania. Eight noble children from the ages of fourteen to twenty have been thrown to the dark, bloody keep to a dark, bloody fate on the first of every year since the Warlord's Sacking of Cintra. Now, to save his sister, it's up to Julian Alfred Pankratz, bastard bardling and youngest son of the Count de Lettenhove, to make the trek and be sacrificed at the butcher's feet. There's only one problem.

    Nothing is as it seems when the wolves close in around him and reach out with hands instead of swords.

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    Jaskier is captain of the high school cheer squad, and spends his afternoons in the auditorium with the other theater kids laughing and quoting shows.

    Geralt is the football teams quarterback, smart, good grades, notoriously stoic and keeping only to himself and his brothers.

    The two get paired up in chemistry class, and Jaskier finds himself suddenly having to hide a very obvious crush. It doesn't help when he is being blackmailed by Geralts teammates.

    **Note that non-con does not occur between main pairings.

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    Shortly after his graduation and not-so-willingly leaving the city-house inhabited by the Countess de Stael, Jaskier finds himself on the road with nothing but a bit of food in his pockets, a stolen bottle of wine and the lute on his back.
    As it turns out, he has a penchant not only for music but also for encountering Witchers.
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    Over the years, Dragon!Jaskier hoards Witchers instead of gold, stabs some people and falls in love along the way.

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