Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Fandom: The Witcher Pairing: Gerard & Jaskier or Gerard/Jaskier depending on your slash-goggles Rating: M Tags: Canon typical violence, Alternate universe - role reversal, Angst, Strangers to friends
Summary: If Witchers were cats, Jaskier would be the runt of the litter. No one expects him to survive, not the training, not the trials, not even the actual work. Somehow that doesn't change even when he survives, he survives, he keeps on surviving day after day after year, knocked down and getting back up, teeth bloodied and bared in a grin that's nothing so much as a warning sign. People are drawn to him as fast as they flee, like moths circling a burning lamp, no one sticking for longer than a hunt, a night, a too bright flash of his eyes by the firelight. Except Gerard, a scholar with a sword, and a bag full of empty books waiting for a story. Jaskier's story, he says, and doesn't take a no for an answer. Their story. Maybe.
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ninetydegrees
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on 2023-04-23 09:27 am (UTC)Fandom: The Witcher
Pairing: Gerard & Jaskier or Gerard/Jaskier depending on your slash-goggles
Rating: M
Tags: Canon typical violence, Alternate universe - role reversal, Angst, Strangers to friends
Summary: If Witchers were cats, Jaskier would be the runt of the litter. No one expects him to survive, not the training, not the trials, not even the actual work. Somehow that doesn't change even when he survives, he survives, he keeps on surviving day after day after year, knocked down and getting back up, teeth bloodied and bared in a grin that's nothing so much as a warning sign. People are drawn to him as fast as they flee, like moths circling a burning lamp, no one sticking for longer than a hunt, a night, a too bright flash of his eyes by the firelight. Except Gerard, a scholar with a sword, and a bag full of empty books waiting for a story. Jaskier's story, he says, and doesn't take a no for an answer. Their story. Maybe.