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licensetotrill) wrote2022-02-06 07:44 pm
licensetotrill) wrote2022-02-06 07:44 pm
Thread/PSL ideas?
Just a list of things I'd like to do with Jaskier as they come to mind.
Witcher!Jaskier AU
While I can't find it now I stumbled on a bunch of fanart from an artist I liked of him as a cat school witcher and I can't get it out of my head. Still his canon age so just a baby by witcher standards but now there's an excuse for why he still looks the same as he did at 19/20. Alternately he could also be wolf school and either one of the last ones made before the whole thing happened where they lost their ability to make witchers (second youngest maybe because obviously Lambert is baby) or actually the only person left older than him is Vesemir not that he acts befitting his age.
Ok Cat witcher fanart found: Here and here
Post S2 Awkward Roommate
Would be especially fun with someone else from the wolf school as Jaskier gets stuck there for the winter too basically. A-OK with going with game or book versions of them since I'm under the impression the netflix show treated some worse than others (cough Eskel cough). He's arguably the nicer of Geralt's exes that is hanging out.
Bonus History Headcanon
Okay so since across multiple books, several games, and three seasons there's still not a whole lot about Jaskier's history I have my own headcanon I work off of. Obviously he (canonically) keeps this shit to himself and doesn't talk about it, but for anyone who is curious as to what's going on in his head and past:
Lettenhove is an extremely small holding within Kerack's territory. They used to be of greater significance and importance but a series of several unfit heirs diminished their lands and fortunes pretty severely (this is why Lettenhove is not on any maps you can find in game, they were already diminishing with Geralt was a kid). The Pankratz family basically only has title by virtue of politeness in noble society. So, nobility, but uh basically only the name to show for it.
Jaskier's severely aged father is the current Count Pankratz and has mostly managed to avoid major fuckups in his time. Hasn't really brought the family up again but he has mostly managed to not make things worse.
"Mostly" because he did have one major fuckup: too damn many sons.
Lettenhove could have barely supported the traditional heir-and-a-spare. Thanks to some bad planning, they have that and three more with Jaskier being the fifth of five sons.
(The countess REALLY REALLY wanted a daughter. She never got one. Jaskier's birth being a difficult one that put her in danger was kind of the only reason they stopped. Jaskier does not have a good relationship with his mother as she kinda blames him for never getting her girl)
So his education and courtesy title of Viscount was pretty much all Jaskier ever got from being nobility. Like, he's going to get shit all when his father dies.
He was more or less explicitly told that the best thing he could do for his family was marry well - likely a wealthy merchant's daughter who would have enough money to overlook that Jaskier had none in trade for the hit of legitimacy that a noble bloodline would bring.
Which is why he is both very skilled at living rough in spite of being nobility and did not look back once he went to University.
He's been home like a handful of times since he initially left. Mostly he communicates to his family by the rare letter. Like, what are they going to do to get him to fall in line, threaten to cut him off? He's got nothing to be cut off from.
All of his success he built himself.
Witcher!Jaskier AU
While I can't find it now I stumbled on a bunch of fanart from an artist I liked of him as a cat school witcher and I can't get it out of my head. Still his canon age so just a baby by witcher standards but now there's an excuse for why he still looks the same as he did at 19/20. Alternately he could also be wolf school and either one of the last ones made before the whole thing happened where they lost their ability to make witchers (second youngest maybe because obviously Lambert is baby) or actually the only person left older than him is Vesemir not that he acts befitting his age.
Ok Cat witcher fanart found: Here and here
Post S2 Awkward Roommate
Would be especially fun with someone else from the wolf school as Jaskier gets stuck there for the winter too basically. A-OK with going with game or book versions of them since I'm under the impression the netflix show treated some worse than others (cough Eskel cough). He's arguably the nicer of Geralt's exes that is hanging out.
Bonus History Headcanon
Okay so since across multiple books, several games, and three seasons there's still not a whole lot about Jaskier's history I have my own headcanon I work off of. Obviously he (canonically) keeps this shit to himself and doesn't talk about it, but for anyone who is curious as to what's going on in his head and past:
Lettenhove is an extremely small holding within Kerack's territory. They used to be of greater significance and importance but a series of several unfit heirs diminished their lands and fortunes pretty severely (this is why Lettenhove is not on any maps you can find in game, they were already diminishing with Geralt was a kid). The Pankratz family basically only has title by virtue of politeness in noble society. So, nobility, but uh basically only the name to show for it.
Jaskier's severely aged father is the current Count Pankratz and has mostly managed to avoid major fuckups in his time. Hasn't really brought the family up again but he has mostly managed to not make things worse.
"Mostly" because he did have one major fuckup: too damn many sons.
Lettenhove could have barely supported the traditional heir-and-a-spare. Thanks to some bad planning, they have that and three more with Jaskier being the fifth of five sons.
(The countess REALLY REALLY wanted a daughter. She never got one. Jaskier's birth being a difficult one that put her in danger was kind of the only reason they stopped. Jaskier does not have a good relationship with his mother as she kinda blames him for never getting her girl)
So his education and courtesy title of Viscount was pretty much all Jaskier ever got from being nobility. Like, he's going to get shit all when his father dies.
He was more or less explicitly told that the best thing he could do for his family was marry well - likely a wealthy merchant's daughter who would have enough money to overlook that Jaskier had none in trade for the hit of legitimacy that a noble bloodline would bring.
Which is why he is both very skilled at living rough in spite of being nobility and did not look back once he went to University.
He's been home like a handful of times since he initially left. Mostly he communicates to his family by the rare letter. Like, what are they going to do to get him to fall in line, threaten to cut him off? He's got nothing to be cut off from.
All of his success he built himself.