I decided to draw the Witcher medallion and add a twist! I know that canonically Jaskier isn’t a main character… but in the Witcher Fanfiction Universe he has a huge role and I love him💛
Cosplayers gotta support cosplayers, so if you're also making this costume free free to reach out! I also released the stl for my medallion for free on thingiverse!
I noticed you like the witcher and was wondering if you ever considered writing a merthur witcher!au with a Witcher Arthur who is tasked with hunting magical creatures (and being conflicted between which ones truly deserve the sword and which ones were cursed due to other circumstances) and a bamf not to mention snarky openly a sorcerer Merlin? I just think that would be neat lol
Ok. So. I normally hate AUs and Especially crossover AUs but this.... is incredible. I've tweaked it a lot to keep as close to canon as possible though, hope that's cool (I know you said openly magical Merlin but my mind kinda ran away from me with this one😅)!
I'm thinking the ONLY thing Witcher-y about this universe is that Witchers and monsters (and magic) exist. None of the places/wars/background characters are real (maybe Geralt and Jaskier will make a cameo but probably not).
So maybe when Arthur is born and Igraine dies, Uther is SET on raising a magic hating, magic killing machine, and the best way to do that?? Have him turned into a Witcher. Literally warriors with the SOLE purpose of killing monsters (and if Uther sees all magic users as monster as well, then who in Camelot is gonna correct him?) So he ships him off to Witcher school as a new born (school of the Bear, obviously) and tells them to do what they want to him, as long as he comes out capable of great violence, will do what he is told, and is returned when he comes of age.
Maybe the Bears try to keep him? Arthur is one of their Cubs, and Uther is obviously a terrible father with terrible morals and even worse motives, but Uther shows up a year after Arthur comes of age with an army. They may be Witchers, but there are few of them, and they don't stand a chance.
So Arthur is returned to Camelot as the Famed Witcher Prince, given control of the knights, and told to hop to. (Uther also banishes him from EVER using his signs, because it's a little too close to magic for his comfort.) Camelot's army becomes almost impossible to beat, because though they may not physically be Witchers, they're trained like Witchers, and that goes a long way on the battlefield.
The round table knights come along (Leon's always been there and is oddly protective of The Witcher Prince. But Gwaine and Lancelot (both of whom have met Merlin outside of Camelot before) and Elyan and Percival show up) and... Arthur is extremely fond of them in a way he doesn't even really understand. But he's a Witcher, nothing but a killer, so he struggles to connect with them. But of all the knights he has, they're the only ones that really try? Leon makes sure he looks after himself and Elyan asks about his weapons and Gwaine takes the piss and Percival and Lancelot treat him so softly he doesn't know what to do with it. And none of them are scared of him. Everyone's scared of him. His adopted sister can barely look at him (though he gets the feeling that it's pity and well as fear), the councilmen are terrified, the people he's meant to be protecting are scared of him. Even Uther is afraid that one day Arthur will break from his control.
And then Merlin shows up (a few years later than in canon) and Lance and Gwaine are excited to see him so... he can't be that bad, if two of his favourite people love him. And Merlin isn't scared of him either. And though something about the man feels... off (Uther confiscated his medallion because it was in the same vein as Witcher signs: too close to magic he couldn't control or explain) he's nice, and funny, but also doesn't put up with his shit. (Merlin is definitely the Jaskier to Arthur's Geralt). They clash a lot at first, in the same way that Arthur and Gwaine used to clash before they began to understand each other. And then they become besties and Merlin is usually the one to make Arthur smile and comforts him when he starts to hate his eyes or his scars or his stupid silver sword.
Arthur confesses to him late one night that Camelot doesn't feel like his home, that he hates his father for what he did; not for sending him away, but for bringing him back again. Condemning him to hundreds of years on the throne of a Kingdom who would kill him if he weren't the Prince, who killed his clan and and hates the other schools and forces him to kill people who are are only slightly different to him. In fact, if another Witcher wandered into the Kingdom, Uther would probably have Arthur kill them for being a magic wielding feral monster. He also confesses that whilst half the monsters he kills, the Drowners and the hags and the Alghouls, actually deserve it, the rest... the far away Griffins that live in peace, and the Cockatrice that was hiding in it's cave and hurting no one, and the Unicorn that Witchers normally don't kill anyway, the sorcerers who dare to just exist... they don't deserve it. And he kills them anyway because that's what he's built to do. And then Merlin tells him it isn't. Merlin is the first person in his entire time in Camelot who tells him he isn't built to kill, but he's built to protect, built to lead as well, if that's what he wants. He reveals his own magic and Arthur is beyond touched that Merlin would trust him of all people with this. Merlin explains that whilst it might be Arthur's destiny to rule Albion and bring magic back and undo what Uther did, if he wants to run away right now, to never think about destiny again, Merlin will go with him. And the knights probably would to.
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ANYWAY I GOT WAY TOO INTO THAT!!! This is DEFINTIELY going on The List in the next update!!
I asked @inexplicifics a while ago what she imagined the Crane witcher medallion looked like in her Accidental Warlord AU, and based on her answer I designed this!
I had a lot of fun rendering this, tho i think i may have made the chain a bit too short...
i give full permission to use this medallion design for anyone else with a Crane witcher OC!
To celebrate season 2 of Witcher coming out in few hours, I wanted to make my own version of wolf school medallion 🐺⚔️ I love aspects of both show and game versions, so I merged them together. Front view of snarling wolf looks so much more ferocious and it being flat makes so much more sense with all the straps and pieces of leather that come with armor. It still needs a bit of polishing and a proper chain, but I can proudly wear it tomorrow as it is 😅 The whole snarling thing looked so much more beautiful outside of epoxy, but I guess we can not have everything 🥲 (hears the distant echoes of sting from last episode of Arcane)
