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    Eskel didn't have a good image of himself, enduring a lifetime of ridicule, which led him to make a radical decision.

    Will the wolves be able to bring him back into their pack?

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    3/?
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    Eskel is the last one up the mountain this year. They all seem happy to see him, except for the one person who matters. It's okay though, Eskel knew he didn't mean anything to Geralt, anyway.
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    WIP!! my hope for this is that it will become a h/c with plenty of angst (and some smut) sprinkled along the way. I just have to... get it there :S
    --
    *this one speaks a lot on body image issues / troubled relationship with food. take care of yourselves first, kay?

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    7/?
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    Geralt is a god of death who really doesn't want to be worshipped by anyone.

    Jaskier, of course, has other ideas.

    ~~~

    “Geralt, forgive me, I…I should not have come here, shouldn’t have disturbed you. Please allow me to withdraw my prayer, no one needs to die,” Jaskier says shakily, and even though there is fear in the bard’s heart for his own life, largely there is regret and horror that he asked for Valdo’s death.

    The demigod sighs softly, going down to one knee in front of the mortal, and very gently tilting Jaskier’s face to look up at him with a gloved finger under the bard’s chin. The witcher tries to make his stern countenance a gentler one and offers the man a small but sad smile as he murmurs in his gravelly baritone, “That’s not how this works, Jaskier. I can…set aside your request, as it were, but it doesn’t just go away. A prayer made must be answered.”

    ~~~

    “And what you see is not the dark. It's just the gods upturning ink pots 'cause they know what you'll become,”
    -“Inkpot Gods” by The Amazing Devil

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    Eskel has a dating app profile and gets a match.

    OR

    Take care of your phones, dears

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    1/1
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    When Eskel sees the first petal, it's so small he thinks nothing of it. While witchers don’t contract common diseases, it doesn’t prevent them from coughing up a bit of blood every now and again. When more and more continue to fall from his lips, he can’t deny the evidence in his hands. Small, delicate, red-pink petals that could blow away in the breeze with a single breath. So little that when he goes to collect them onto his handkerchief, he has to time his movements with his slowing heartbeat so as to not damage them further. Eskel knows his love will never be requited but he can have this part of Lambert.

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    1/1
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    35
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    while visiting geralt at his home in toussaint, eskel meets a dyer from the port who agrees to dye his favorite jacket, and he begins questioning everything

    non-chronological series of one-shots

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    1/?
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    Alpha Eskel meets an omega. Feelings happen.

    I just wanted a short complete story without any major drama for my cute boi, who deserves all the love without having to suffer for it. Enjoy!

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    As the witchers and Jaskier gather around a small campfire after a long day, Geralt wrestles with returning fragments of memory. He recalls sharing stories with Yennefer during his injury, asking her to show the same rare kindness and love he had experienced to other witchers.

    Day 27: Alt 2: Memory
    Whumpcember 2024

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    After weeks of enduring the persistent pain of a burn left untreated, Eskel finally seeks help—an act that feels foreign and almost wrong to him. Shani's gentle care and unwavering kindness leave him confused and unmoored.

    Day 22: Alt 3: Fire
    Whumpcember 2024

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    After a brutal encounter with a basilisk, Eskel brushes off his injuries, considering them just part of a witcher’s life. But Jaskier notices the way he moves, the subtle winces he tries to hide, and drags him to Shani for treatment.

    Day 21: Bruises
    Whumpcember 2024

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    Eskel cannot decide which is more embarrassing: that all of his brothers know that he’d gotten his ass handed to him by one of the larger bandit bands that plagued the Kaedwenian forests, or that Vesemir had declared his only remaining articles of clothing (which also happened to be among the few—emphasis on few—things that the bandits hadn’t taken from him) to have been damaged beyond repair—leaving him with a single pair of smalls, and the moth-bitten blanket Vesemir had pulled out from the bowels of the keep, to clothe him for the entirety of winter.

    …Melitele, he wants to crawl underneath the nearest rock and die.

    --

    Jaskier has a special present for Eskel, who is in need of a pick-me-up after an already bad season ends in disaster.

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    "Unfortunately you are wrong, Ser dwarf. Tonight will be different. Tonight I shall sing a fresh new ballad about not Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer of Vengerberg, or even Cirilla, the princess of Cintra- but tonight, I shall tell you a story of Esmeray of Carsten and Eskel the Witcher- another couple bound by destiny and fate and heroic justice! Our story begins long before the Great War, decades before Geralt ever even met Yennefer or claimed his Child Surprise. In fact, this story begins long before Geralt is ever even contracted to save Princess Adda. And its title: 'Bitter, Evil Hearts.'"

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    5/?
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    Eskel comes back to camp hurt and much quieter than usual. After a surprising outburst from the man you finally get to the root of the problem.

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    Eskel feels a bit low after a bout with the bard.

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    1/1
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    3
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    Mer sing. Mer are beautiful. Mer are deadly.
    Eskel is none of that. Alright, he is deadly, and he has the scars to prove it. But song never came naturally to him, and beautiful he certainly is not.
    Not only does he have scars that cover the right side of his face, but he is too big, too scary. He knows, and has been told repeatedly.

    Despite it all, humans remain the biggest threat to their kind.
    Another failing of his, because Eskel can’t bring himself to kill them.

     

    They are on the outskirts of the wreck, the storm pressing the debris further away, and so Eskel dares to hover, just for a moment.
    The human is everything he is not. Slender, pale, beautiful. His lashes are long, his lips open and stained blue with lack of breath. Eskel hesitates but a moment before he cradles him to his chest, holding him against his body. His size is finally in his favor as Eskel pushes hard to reach the surface.

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    283
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    21
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    1,370
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    Eskel has stopped In Skellige to find some work- something he hardly ever does because unfortunately, this witcher has one big weakness:

    Seasickness.

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    1/1
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    55
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    3
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    627
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    Geralt has a plan.

    And this plan consists on introducing Jaskier to his brother, and then help them together.

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    1/1
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    36
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    Photos can often be less than flattering, more so for some than others, but Jaskier refuses to ever let Eskel take it to heart, especially not when said photos mean the world to him...

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    1/1
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    74
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    5
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    582
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    Eskel is a simple witcher picking up a simple contract from the Lady of a wealthy house. It's all simple, isn't it?
    Isn't it?

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    12,910
    Chapters:
    12/?
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    21
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    4
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    570
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    Eskel travels in the search for contracts when he meets Jaskier on the path. The bard is blind but he managed to survive after the werewolves' attack while his friends didn't. Eskel finds him scared and shattered. He is sure that the situation would've become even worse if Jaskier saw who rescued him.

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    English
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    2/2
    Comments:
    27
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    246
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    17
    Hits:
    3,210

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