Jaskier learns he has a kid, like a 7 year old. He finds her after geralt dismisses him on the mountain and now is trying to raise her because her mother died. Insert awkwardness when Geralt comes across a young child who knows all about him and looks like a certain bard.
@the-interuniversal-geometer dfgdkf okay i’m not usually one to go for like kid/parenting fics but ,, this idea was. So Cute
let me know if you have an ao3 and i can gift it to you on there as well!!
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After the mountain, Geralt keeps traveling. Other bards have picked up versions of Jaskier’s song for him, although none of them sound as genuine or sweet as when Jaskier croons to toss a coin, but it keeps him paid well enough to survive.
He’s got bits of a koshchey that he’s looking to sell to a particular alchemist, a man he’s sold rare things to before, and he goes into one of the larger cities for the first time in a few years. The inn he rents his room from advertises that they’re now home to the one and only Jaskier, and Geralt thinks about running from it, but… It’d be nice to see Jaskier again. It’d be nice to apologize, if Jaskier allows him, and in some way he thinks Jaskier would appreciate it if only to make a scene of dramatically dismissing a witcher.
He hangs back in the crowd of people that gather to hear him once the sun sets. Jaskier looks the same, though he’s keeping his hair a little longer — bright clothes, beaming smile, and voice like a chiming bell. Geralt suspects Jaskier has already seen him, or knows he’s here, and it’s all but confirmed by Jaskier making as much flirtatious eye contact with the crowd as possible minus the exact place where Geralt sits.
He has new songs. He sings about the dragon, painting their fight as him understanding a wild beast and going off on his own. It sounds like he did go to the coast, at least for a while, and Geralt smiles to himself in his corner when Jaskier lies about surviving vocal training with sirens and that’s why he sounds so lovely despite singing for everyone every night.
Jaskier sings and plays his lute and entertains well into dark. The crowd begins to reluctantly peter out as the moon rises, their own upcoming days full and requiring sleep, and eventually, Jaskier calls it a night.
Geralt half expects Jaskier to come straight to him after his show and act like nothing happened. The other half expects Jaskier to continue ignoring him, talk to the pretty ladies and handsome men and make Geralt suck it up and approach him if he wants to talk.
What he does not expect at all is for Jaskier to do neither, instead making his way to a small child with brown hair and dress even more colorful than Jaskier’s, sitting up at the bar where her feet don’t touch the ground and her glass is filled with milk, and for Jaskier to kiss the top of her head. Then, even further outside the realm of the Jaskier he knows — knew, maybe — Jaskier points to Geralt and smiles.
The girl at the bar turns on her stool to look, and Geralt freezes. She has Jaskier’s eyes, the color and the shape and the way they crinkle when she smiles too. She must be a sister, or a niece, because Geralt doesn’t think the bard he knew would have possibly taken responsibility for… For a child. For Gods’ sake, the day they met, Jaskier was singing loudly about abortions.
Jaskier lifts her and brings her down from the stool, and Geralt remains frozen in place as she runs toward him. Him. Jaskier follows closely behind her, saying the excuse us and pardon mes for her.
“You’re Geralt!” she says, clapping her small hands over one of his on the table. “You’re the one in all of Father’s songs!”
So it is his child, then.
“I am,” he confirms.
“He is,” Jaskier confirms, too.
Geralt glances between Jaskier and his daughter, and again. He and Jaskier need to talk soon, about their relationship and about his new role of father, but for now, he turns his hand over to clasp both of hers like a handshake.
Hi! I was wondering if there are plans for an audiobook of hunger pangs?
There sure are! If you check any of the links I have on the side of my blog or any of the more recent reblogs you can find all the details about Hunger Pangs and the many versions it will be available in :)
Audiobook links wont be up for quite some time but when they are you can be sure I’ll get yelling about them!
Hi! I was wondering if you had any game recommendations for games like hyper light drifter? It’s one of my favorite games, I’m a big fan of top-down isometric games and I’m looking for more games like it
Depends. Did you specifically highight the visual presentation because you’re looking for games that visually resemble Hyper Light Drifter, and having similar gameplay isn’t critical? Or are you looking for titles where the gameplay resembles Hyper Light Drifter, too? If it’s the latter, would you be okay with games that have similar gameplay but not similar visual presentation?
I think Shane and Ilya are doing RACK without the risk awareness. They’re just a horny improv duo yes-anding each others increasingly escalating edge play
"a horny improv duo yes-anding each others increasingly escalating edge play" im crying. you've found the perfect descriptor of them
maybe at 40 they will learn what safety scissors are. maybe.
