Witcher Rarepair Prompt Fest

[astaldis]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

@witcher-rarepairs

Chapters: 10/10       Words: 16,392 Fandom: The Witcher (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg Additional Tags: Established Relationship, ALL THE FLUFF, Also fluff in the literal sense, catfic, Stray Cat, they are happy together, Intimacy, Kissing & Cuddling, Rainy Days, Sharing a Bed with a Cat, CATS ARE NICE, Divergence to the Canon Divergence, Purring, Love, Romance, Cintra it is Summary: Cahir and Yennefer acquire a stray cat. Or does the cat acquire them? As a witch, Yennefer vibes with cats well. Cahir is sceptical, as to his best knowledge cats are of no use on the battlefield. Obviously, some tensions are inevitable here. But this relationship will, yes, evolve. The fic depicts real ways of cats and was written in the company of some. Humour, fluff and romance

[witcher-rarepairs]

Hello!! I just wanted to pop in and say that the fic I'm writing for one of this event's prompts is now over 11k and I'm having a lot of fun with it :D

That's amazing and I'm so excited to see what prompt you've chosen and where you've taken it (all in your own time of course)!

[witcher-rarepairs]

Emhyr/Cerys????

Hi anonymous witcher rarepair friend!

The full tag set for the witcher rarepair prompt fest is here: Witcher Rarepair Prompt Fest Tag Set.

Emhyr/Cerys is a fascinating pairing and I'd love to see how someone gets them together, but unfortunately it doesn't look like anybody nominated it as a promptable pairing for the event.

You can submit your own prompt here or review and claim existing prompts here.

If you're looking for Cerys pairings you can prompt for, Ctrl+F gave me the following:

Cerys/Jutta an Dimun

Ciri/Cerys

Cerys/Saskia

If you're looking for Emhyr pairings you can prompt for, Ctrl+F gave me the following:

Cahir/Emhyr

Emhyr/Foltest

Emhyr/Geralt

Emhyr/Morvran

Emhyr/Vernon Roche

Emhyr/Eist Tuirseach

Emhyr/Ermion | Mousesack

Emhyr & Seanchai

Emhyr/Iorveth

Emhyr/Isengrim

Emhyr/Mererid

Thanks for your interest in the Witcher Rarepair Prompt Fest!

[witcher-rarepairs]

Witcher Rarepair Friends!

You can now claim prompts. The list of prompts is here.

You can also still submit prompts. The prompt submission form is here.

You can claim as many prompts as you want, and more than one person can claim the same prompt. You don't have to have submitted a prompt to claim a prompt (but it would be nice to your fellow Witcher Rarepair Friends if you do).

Please send me an ask on or off anon if you encounter any problems.

[witcher-rarepairs]

Boosting signal! I added some new prompts; you can also still add new prompts at the prompt submission link above! You can also claim any prompts that appeal to you from the list of prompts. You can claim more than one prompt, and more than one person can claim the same prompt. Happy Witchering!

[astaldis]

Some nice prompts for Cahir fics there, too, there are just too few of them. You can still claim them or write your own prompts. Get inspired 🖤

[witcher-rarepairs]

Prompting is still open, so the solution for "too few Cahir prompts" is "submit your Cahir prompts here!"

The full tag set is here, but I know it can be kind of daunting to look at, so I ran a Ctrl+F for all of the Cahir pairings people nominated and they are:

Aiden/Cahir/Lambert

Angouleme & Cahir

Cahir & Ciri

Cahir & Fringilla

Cahir/Ciri

Cahir/Emhyr

Cahir/Eskel

Cahir/Eskel/Lambert

Cahir/Geralt

Cahir/Yennefer

Cahir/Milva

Cahir is great but we here at Witcher Rarepairs love all the Cahirs and non-Cahirs equally, so please also submit your non-Cahir prompts here!

You can check out all of the prompts that have been posted here, and it's also easy to claim prompts that you are interested in from the same page. You can claim more than one prompt, and more than one person can claim the same prompt, and there is no deadline on when you need to submit your fic by (okay the deadline is like 2026).

[witcher-rarepairs]

Featured Prompt

Pairings: Éile | Lark/Fjall (The Witcher)

Characters: Fjall (The Witcher); Éile | Lark (The Witcher)

Tags: Whump; Hurt/Comfort

Prompt Summary: whatever you want man just get those bad times in

Claim this prompt here or submit your own prompt here.

[malleusdraconia]

has this been done?

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[witcher-rarepairs]

Featured Prompt

Pairings: Sabrina Glevissig/Triss Merigold

Characters: Triss Merigold; Sabrina Glevissig

Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting

Prompt Summary: Meet ugly: Triss sucks at parallel parking and ends up tearing off the fender from the car in front (or another part, I don't really care). Sabrina is the owner of the other car, obviously.

Claim this prompt here or submit your own prompt here.

[jaskiersvalley]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Popping my head up for a moment to share this fic which was written for a @witcher-rarepairs prompt. It is some M rated Cahir/Ciri for a change!

[witcher-rarepairs]

Featured Prompt

Pairings: Syndril/Zacaré

Characters: Zacaré (The Witcher); Balor (The Witcher)

Tags: Sibling Bonding

Prompt Summary: (disclaimer, balor is only tagged bc i couldn’t tag syndril, but also consider: how can he get up in this celestial twin fuckery)

they only had each other after their mother died. what *did* they do to bring her back? (Elric bros inspo, anyone? 👀)

Claim this prompt here or submit your own prompt here.

[ekingston]

sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

[scorchrend]

yeah rarepairs but what about rarecharacters. shoutouts to characters with less than 20 fanfics to their name and like 3 people actively making content for them

[witcher-rarepairs]

Featured Prompt

Pairings: Emhyr var Emreis/Vernon Roche

Characters: Vernon Roche; Emhyr var Emreis

Tags: some kind of twisted fealty; Everybody Wants To Rule The World; proxy fucking

Prompt Summary:

anything for temeria

Roche serves Emhyr for the sake of Temeria, just the way he served Foltest

Claim this prompt here or submit your own prompt here.

[witcher-rarepairs]

Hi! I have a question that might be a little silly: for obvious reasons, we're not supposed to write fic centering on Geralt and Jaskier for the challenge, but is it okay for a fic to feature their relationship in the background? The story I'm working on focuses on Jaskier and a different character, but they both know Geralt and he influences character motivations/development. Is that okay? Should I try to keep the G&J interaction to a minimum or should I go where the story leads me? Thank you again for running this lovely event! I'm having a lot of fun with this fic <3

Hi Anonymous Witcher Rarepair Friend, thank you for your thought-provoking question! This event is meant to encourage people to think about relationships and interactions in the Witcher universe other than Geralt/Jaskier. This is the reason that I disallowed not just Geralt/Jaskier, but also threesomes and moresomes that included both Geralt and Jaskier (eg. Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer, Geralt/Eskel/Jaskier).

I don't want to say that you should avoid having Geralt and Jaskier interact in your fic entirely, but let's all see what stories we can create that don't involve Geralt and Jaskier as a current romantic and/or sexual pairing. There are lots and lots of other Witcher fandom events out there that are Geraskier-specific, or at least heavily biased in favour of Geraskier. This event is for stretching our imaginations just that little bit more to give other characters and other pairings a chance to shine.

[witcher-rarepairs]

Featured Prompt

Pairings: Iorveth/Vernon Roche; Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Vernon Roche; Jaskier | Dandelion/Vernon Roche

Characters: Vernon Roche; Iorveth (The Witcher); Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia; Jaskier | Dandelion

Tags: death threats mistaken for flirting; flirting mistaken for death threats

Prompt Summary: the man’s only known language is violence, how else is he supposed to communicate

Claim this prompt here or submit your own prompt here.

[animentality]

[witcher-rarepairs]

Witcher Rarepair Friends!

You can now claim prompts. The list of prompts is here.

You can also still submit prompts. The prompt submission form is here.

You can claim as many prompts as you want, and more than one person can claim the same prompt. You don't have to have submitted a prompt to claim a prompt (but it would be nice to your fellow Witcher Rarepair Friends if you do).

Please send me an ask on or off anon if you encounter any problems.

[witcher-rarepairs]

Boosting signal! I added some new prompts; you can also still add new prompts at the prompt submission link above! You can also claim any prompts that appeal to you from the list of prompts. You can claim more than one prompt, and more than one person can claim the same prompt. Happy Witchering!

[witcher-rarepairs]

I am curious, if prompts fills are going to be open "indefinitely" (well, until 2026), why not also keep tag nominations open indefinitely? Is it just that approving tags means someone has to continue to monitor tag nominations?

I reviewed AO3's FAQs for running prompt memes and gift exchanges and it looks like technically the tagset could be kept open for nominations once prompting has started, but they strongly recommend against it. A closed tagset makes it easier for participants to see what tags are available for adding to prompts. Also as you point out, tag nominations have to be approved by a live person (me), whereas prompt creation and prompt claiming are approved automatically when participants hit the submit button on AO3.