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Witcher Fic Request/Prompt

No idea how well this will work, but I figure it’s worth trying, so here goes. I have recently gotten into The Witcher fandom. I have watched two episodes, have no plans to watch further, or read the books, and have only tentative plans to someday play TW3, but that hasn’t stopped me from binge reading fics. Along the way I have learned of the existence and seen the usage of the Witcher sign of Axii a few times, but not many fics focus on it, and those that do are all either very kinky, or very short, sometimes both. I would really like to see a fairly long fic exploring trust through the consensual use of Axii. I have some ideas, which I will outline below, but I really don’t want to write it myself.

>Start with Geralt needing to Axii Jaskier for some reason. My thoughts go along the lines of the creature(s) Geralt is fighting having some sort of compulsion ability, and Jaskier getting a little too close. Geralt uses Axii to counteract it, and Jaskier has a very confusing 10-15 minutes.

>Afterwards, Jaskier is uncomfortable, but can’t figure out why. Eventually, he figures out that while he has always trusted Geralt, and Geralt has never abused that trust, he didn’t know about Axii, and thus was giving Geralt more trust than he realized. His trust was given under false pretenses. Once he figures that out, he decides it’s stupid. After all, Jaskier can see exactly why a Witcher wouldn’t go around telling people, even friends, about how they can mind control people, and regardless of whether Jaskier knew what he was trusting Geralt with Geralt has never abused that trust. He has definitely earned the trust by now. But just deciding a natural reaction is stupid doesn’t mean you immediately get over it.

>They talk about it. Either one could bring it up - maybe Geralt, being perceptive of physical reactions, can’t help but notice Jaskier’s discomfort. Maybe Jaskier, being an open and talkative person, worked out the above emotional stuff by talking aloud. Either way, they talk, somehow Geralt comes to the idea of offering to teach Jaskier to resist magical compulsion. This, of course, involves a lot of Axii. Jaskier accepts, because 1) consciously he does trust Geralt, and there’s no better way of showing that than letting himself be Axii’d repeatedly, and 2) being able to shrug of Axii will soothe the little unconscious bit that can’t help but be uncomfortable around mind control.

>The fic would then go for at least a few chapters with Jaskier building up resistance. I imagine step one is not resisting a compulsion at all, but learning to recognize when someone/thing is trying to compel you. Geralt might cast Axii at random through the day, and Jaskier has to tell how many times he did it when they’re setting up camp. It’s not until Jaskier starts to get fairly accurate with that that Geralt would actually give him a suggestion. And then they have to decide what to use, because resisting a compulsion to do something you already want to do is a lot harder than something you don’t, but being unable to resist a compulsion to do something you hate would be torture, so they have to pick something Jaskier doesn’t want to do, but also wouldn’t mind doing. Maybe a camp chore, like gathering firewood? Added incentive: if you successfully resist, you don’t have to finish the chore! Eventually they’d build up to resisting a compulsion to do something he does want to do, because it’s a necessary part of the skill. After all, I’m sure there’s some creature or spell out there (probably several) that can worm their way into a person’s mind by starting out with compulsions that aren’t out of character. Better to shake off such things before they get a foothold.

>After Jaskier has gained some resistance, he gets over his discomfort. Being a bard, he then starts to get creative. He might request Geralt use Axii to make him forget a song that’s stuck in his head, because it’s interfering his composition of another song. Geralt might resist, might point out “surely this isn’t the first time this has happened.” And Jaskier would reply “no, of course not, but on my own I’d have to set aside the new composition until this song fades on its own, but I’d really like to have it done for the next town! It’s not like I’ll forget it forever, Geralt. Even if I can’t shake of the Axii, I’ve got the cursed thing written down right here! It’s my own song! At the worst, I can always learn it again.”

>After a few such requests, Geralt starts to realize that Jaskier really is comfortable with this. Starts to trust that Jaskier doesn’t feel betrayed, and isn’t going to leave. He grows comfortable enough to get some ideas of his own: Jaskier (whispering): “Did you just Axii me to be quiet?!” Geralt (also whispering): “You can push past it if you need to, and this way you won’t forget.” Jaskier (still whispering): “Alright, fair point.”

No idea where it goes from there. Honestly, don’t really have any ideas of other times/ways Geralt might use Axii spontaneously, even provided he had Jaskier’s trust and knew he could shake it off if needed. I just think this could be a cool way to explore the different ways and the depth at which these two trust each other. There could easily be other forms of trust worked into the story too. I just also really like Axii.

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