Vesemir: Why Does It Smell Like A Hay Pin In Here?

Vesemir: Why does it smell like a hay pin in here?

Eskel: what? It’s not so baaaaaaad.

Vesemir: ....

Eskel: ...

Vesemir: for goat’s sake’s, that’s enough.

Geralt: here we goat again.

Lambert: you’ve goat to be kidding me.

Eskel: oh my god..

Jaskier: shit just goat serious.

A (very) little sneak peek for a project @vvitchering and I have been working on :)

It’s really the main reason I’m so hooked on Geralt/Eskel right now! I’m very grateful because it’s so much fun developing this, and I can’t wait to show you more!!!

Geralt: oh my gods.

Ciri, dressed as Geralt: it’s like looking in a mirror!

Geralt: no it isn’t, Ciri.

Ciri: who’s ciri?

Yennefer: I already can’t tell who’s who.

Geralt: take that stuff off.

Ciri: Jask, get in here and settle this!!

Geralt: don’t call your father Jask.

Jaskier: what? ohh! hey!! woah, travel sized Geralt, awww!

Geralt: Jaskier, you’re encouraging her.

Dara: I need the bathroo- oh wow, this is confusing.

Geralt: no, it’s not.

Ciri: *Geralt impression* you’re my family and I love you but you’re terrible, you’re all terrible!!

Geralt: I don’t say that.

Yennefer: that’s all you say.

A question for Papa Vesemir, how do you get your pups to calm down after a year on the Path? They must be stressed when they come back. (Also I love you)

Vesemir: *Chuckles* I’m flattered. And, yes, you’re right. The pups don’t usually come home in good spirits. It’s a hard life, out there on the path. Food’s always scarce and your pay’s not always given in full when you’ve finished off a contract. That makes it difficult to buy supplies for potions, which in turn can lead to improperly patched wounds. Their clothes and armor are torn and hanging off them all by the time Winter rolls around, and the things the three of them see on their travels are things that a human’s imagination couldn’t stand to conjure on its own. Everything takes a toll, but I try my best to make their time here in the Winter as restful as possible.

Feeding them all’s the most important thing. Gotta make sure the pantries are stocked full before the pups arrive. That’s where a majority of my own coin goes. I don’t take many jobs anymore but when I do head out for a hunt, I make sure the payment’s worth it. King Bran of Skellige handed over enough gold to last us all three Winters once, after I cleared a pod of sirens off his shores. Most of it went to food. My boys come home starved from the path, their ribs sticking out sometimes...I don’t like it one bit. That’s why I make sure and feed them all plenty once they’re home. The first few nights at the keep, we have more to eat than usual. That helps to at least settle their aching bellies.

I tend to all of their wounds as well, once they come back home. Like I said before, they run out of coin and it gets hard to buy supplies for potions. Luckily, here at Kaer Morhen I’ve got the lab, a greenhouse, and everything in my study. Plenty of medicine and bandages and sterile tools for stitching. I can’t tell you how many times one of them’s come back with a fever, holdin onto an opened wound that’s been oozing out infection for who knows how long. Healing them is usually a simple task but getting them to hold still while I fix whatever’s ailing them, now that’s a different story. Especially if it’s Lambert. I don’t normally condone his drinking habit but a little bit of booze helps to settle him enough for me to patch him up.

Scratches and bites aren’t the only hurts they all bring back, however. The wounds in the mind are the hardest ones to treat. I do what I can, but nothing of that sort can really be cured entirely. There’s brews to help at least, and I keep enough made for each one of my pups. Different potions work for different witchers, of course. I can’t give Geralt the same brew I give to Lambert for nightmares. It wouldn’t work if I did, and If I gave Geralt’s to Eskel, it would only make his worse. 

The only other thing I can give my boys is my love. I talk to them whenever they need that and listen when they just need me to hear them. Sometimes one or two or all of them will slip into my room at night after a nightmare. They’ll either make themselves a spot on the floor to stay the rest of the night or make themselves comfortable on the open side of my bed. Eskel’s told me it just makes him feel like he’s safer. I assume that’s the case with Geralt and Lambert as well, and that’s fine by me. They’re always welcome to stay with me if they need to...Lullabies help to settle them back down at times like that, after they’ve had a dream bad enough to send them running to me. Lambert likes to have his back rubbed too. That’s always helps him back to sleep.

A lot of folk would have you believe that Witchers don’t give hugs but that’s a lie. I hug my sons every day. They’re my sons. I want them to know that I love them.

Modern!still-Witcher AU where one day Jaskier decides to show Geralt Lilo and Stitch because it's his favourite disney movie and at the end Geralt is full on gross sobbing because that lil mutant that was made for destruction and everyone hated found a FAMILY and is LOVED and maybe it hits just a lil close to home

It’s called fashion, look it up.

companion piece to: (x)