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Character Name: Julian Alfred Pankratz, Viscount de Lettenhove aka Jaskier
Age: 41
Canon: The Witcher (netflix)
Canon point: Post S2
History: Wiki link.
Personality:
Artistic He's a bard, it's maybe a given, but especially after having done it for this many years Jaskier has a reputation for his way with words and the music he crafts. Being an artist is the thing he values and prides most about himself, what he sees as intrinsically him. He loves to create, to put into words feelings that seem otherwise indescribable.
Sensitive ... However, the downside of this is while he can take just about any kind of insult hurled at his person without a blink, insult his music, his craft? He kind of loses it unless you're his friend whose opinion he values. Even then, he still does lose it, just by being upset and hurt instead of angered. It doesn't matter if he knows he shouldn't rise to the bait, if his life is literally on the line if he does, he can't stop himself.
Stubborn And when he gets on something, it's very hard to get him off of it. Jaskier is stubborn as any ox, uncaring that he's often the most fragile thing in any situation. If he's set his mind on something, little can talk him out of it or deter him though many have tried.
Positive That stubbornness isn't all bad, though. It also manifests in Jaskier being overwhelmingly positive, though that's not necessarily a good trait depending on who you're asking. The idea that things won't work out, that good men will not ultimately triumph over evil is kind of something he just refuses to accept. He will look on the bright side, and if one doesn't exist he will make one. Yes this is a threat. It was part of this attitude that had him ultimately help smuggle elves out of the North to safety when politics turned against them. Sometimes for good to happen you need to do it yourself, "someone needs to do something" and the realization that you are, in fact, someone.
Friendly He's good at manipulating emotions to a certain degree - he's good at making people care, though not necessarily in a friendly way. Sometimes in a 'I'm going to punch him in the face' way. Most all these start off as ATTEMPTS to be friendly if nothing else. Jaskier likes people, alright? Likes them in all their messy terrible joy, and he loves being among them and interacting with them. He's a social animal and he makes friends wherever he goes, sometimes against all odds.


Suitability: Jaskier has in the last couple years grown a sense of responsibility, especially to those who cannot protect themselves. He might gripe and grouse and moan about it, but Jaskier's first instinct is to help someone if there's any possible thing he can do to assist. Even if, given the people he's surrounded with, mostly what he can offer is an additional target to keep the thing they're fighting distracted.

Powers/Abilities: As far as magical abilities are concerned, Jaskier doesn't have any. He's a completely normal human with all the fragilities that come with that. That said given how often important events in Geralt's life happen indirectly because of Jaskier specifically, one could argue he's Destiny's Albatross.
For non-magical powers, Jaskier has a musical talent with lute and voice for playing as well as writing his own music. He's exceptionally well educated and speaks multiple languages from the Continent he comes from. He's a great performer overall, able to get reactions out of people for good and ill alike. He lies well and easily, even holding up under some pretty nasty torture.
Entity Affinity: The Web Hey remember the whole Destiny's Albatross thing...? I could make a case for a few different entities the fact that Jaskier seems inadvertently but inherently involved every time Destiny (a very real thing in his canon) decides to pull it's strings seem the most important. That said he's less like Annabelle Cane and more like Annabelle Cane's favorite place to get takeout. Little emotional manipulations that anyone deeply social does are the most he's really inclined towards.

Inventory: The clothes on his back and a bottle of questionable alcohol that is most similar to moonshine in nature. It's been a rough few days.

Samples: TDM toplevel thread