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aisatsana441 replied to your post “boo”
That really sucks, sorry ; ( Hope you have a heating pad/chocolate/dealing with cramps aid of choice on hand to help? Also, modern single dad AU sounds super interesting, if you’re willing to share your thoughts!
Ha. Ha ha ha haaaaaa. Oh no the modern single dad AU that I’m not writing, oh no. This is some bad news, this one, because it keeps poking me. But listen I have like, a particularly bad history with modern single dad a/u stories. And I don’t want to go down that road again.
But like.
hear me out.
So we’ve got a modern A/U, but I still want to set it on the Continent; monsters are rare and Witchers nearly extinct but there are still a few around. Nonhumans are kind of an oppressed minority but they’re still around. Similar to canon, right? And there are a bunch of old traditions still ingrained in society, and a lot of legal stuff around mages and such, but like– the Law of Surprise is still a thing, but people have a lot of legal framework around it.
Anyway, Geralt has been fighting ever since her parents died to get custody of Cirilla, but of course he weakened his case by leaving her with her parents. Calanthe massively outspent him on legal fees, but then she gets killed and it’s either Geralt or The Foster System.
(Now, me writing this is pretty seriously hampered by my actually not knowing anything about how this sort of thing works. So, big caveat there, with the addition that while it is modern, it is still set on the Continent, so it doesn’t have to be that accurate, right? Anyway if this is a particularly sore or traumatic topic for you please don’t read on, I clearly have no idea how it fucking works.)
So, Geralt’s a Witcher, which exposes him to all of society’s anti-nonhuman prejudices and besides everyone thinks Witchers are fucking creepy. He lives with his brothers and adoptive dad-sort-of-person in this creepy old ramshackle compound that’s falling down and haunted as fuck and centuries old, but when he first started fighting for custody of Ciri, he and Eskel started really working on cleaning the place up, and they’ve been, like, conscientiously working on it throughout and like taking Approved Classes and such, they’ve both got like, Child CPR certificates and shit, and they’ve worked out a whole elaborate system wherein they’re never out hunting at the same time and so Ciri’s never unattended and so on, she’s got a therapist and Geralt goes too and so on, and so he hasn’t immediately been deemed an unfit parent but like… he’s on thin ice and his case worker hates him and is dying for an excuse to take Ciri away and put her Into The System.
Into this comes Jaskier, a bright shiny new social worker (with a night job as a musician of course), ok he’s been out of school a little while and this isn’t his first job but he’s new to this specific job; he gets this case dropped onto him by the original hostile case worker who is like thank god, not my problem, bye and is like This Sounds Bad. Her notes make it seem so terribly clear that there’s no way this mutant freak is ever going to be any good for this kid but the Law of Surprise and traditionalist judges and such, and he’s like, Oh No.
Anyway that’s my premise, that he comes into it like oh no this poor helpless child (I keep envisioning Ciri as being like seven or eight) and is super creeped-out by Geralt, who keeps doing unhelpful things like showing up super late to their first-ever appointment and acting really weird and only at the end does Jaskier realize Geralt’s fairly badly injured from a monster hunt but had decided against a healing potion because he knew the Scary Toxic Face would absolutely terrify this new case worker– how much of this Jaskier understands IDK, I haven’t really mentally worked out POV in this– mind you I’m not writing it, remember? I’m just idly speculating on how it would go– and he meets Ciri and she’s so great but also pretty clearly fucked-up from losing her parents and grandparents, and she’s typically childishly unhelpful and was in the moment mad at Geralt for something so she says she doesn’t like him, and Jaskier’s like Oh No This Poor Sweet Baby With These Scary Monsters, but Geralt keeps doing everything Jaskier asks him to and it’s undeniable the man’s made a really sincere effort and Jaskier doesn’t really realize how bigoted against nonhumans he is but he is starting to get the uncomfortable feeling that maybe he’s got some preconceived notions going on here, and IDK but at some point he sort of starts seeing Geralt as a person and is like… okay maybe my predecessor was a little harsh on these guys…
and anyway, he finally has to do The Dreaded Home Evaluation where he visits the Terrifyingly Creepy Witcher Compound in the Mountains and he’s put it off as long as he can and Geralt’s weirdly urgent that he’s got to get out there before “the weather shifts” like that means anything? anyway he finally summons all his nerve and drives out there but it starts snowing and his car is super shitty (social workers don’t make much on the Continent either, they don’t seem super socially progressive from any of the canon sources) and he gets stuck in the snow and Geralt comes and pulls him out with an actual horse what the fuck and it’s a whole thing and they make it to the Creepy Witcher Compound which is creepy as fuck and Jaskier’s like whew what time you think the plows’ll be by and
Geralt just laughs and is like they don’t plow roads for our kind, give it about a week maybe?
auuuugggghhhhhhh
but here’s the good part, right, he’s snowed in, right, everyone fucking loves this trope, right? and as he’s freaking out he hears screaming and he’s like oh no it’s all over and runs to the window and
Geralt and Ciri are having a snowball fight
and Ciri hits Geralt in the face with a snowball so hard his hat flies off
and he laughs, like a real person, a real honest laugh, and Jaskier’s never seen him laugh before, and –
oh no he’s hot
also I think Yennefer’s still a mage and she’s sort of powerful but absolutely terrifying and she briefly tries to advocate for Ciri on Geralt’s behalf and only turns Jaskier solidly against them for a bit, and so on, and other worldbuilding bits, but like
anyway wasn’t that a fun romp? Hopefully that’s out of my system now.
aisatsana441 replied to your post “boo”
That really sucks, sorry ; ( Hope you have a heating pad/chocolate/dealing with cramps aid of choice on hand to help? Also, modern single dad AU sounds super interesting, if you’re willing to share your thoughts!
Ha. Ha ha ha haaaaaa. Oh no the modern single dad AU that I’m not writing, oh no. This is some bad news, this one, because it keeps poking me. But listen I have like, a particularly bad history with modern single dad a/u stories. And I don’t want to go down that road again.
But like.
hear me out.
So we’ve got a modern A/U, but I still want to set it on the Continent; monsters are rare and Witchers nearly extinct but there are still a few around. Nonhumans are kind of an oppressed minority but they’re still around. Similar to canon, right? And there are a bunch of old traditions still ingrained in society, and a lot of legal stuff around mages and such, but like– the Law of Surprise is still a thing, but people have a lot of legal framework around it.
Anyway, Geralt has been fighting ever since her parents died to get custody of Cirilla, but of course he weakened his case by leaving her with her parents. Calanthe massively outspent him on legal fees, but then she gets killed and it’s either Geralt or The Foster System.
(Now, me writing this is pretty seriously hampered by my actually not knowing anything about how this sort of thing works. So, big caveat there, with the addition that while it is modern, it is still set on the Continent, so it doesn’t have to be that accurate, right? Anyway if this is a particularly sore or traumatic topic for you please don’t read on, I clearly have no idea how it fucking works.)
So, Geralt’s a Witcher, which exposes him to all of society’s anti-nonhuman prejudices and besides everyone thinks Witchers are fucking creepy. He lives with his brothers and adoptive dad-sort-of-person in this creepy old ramshackle compound that’s falling down and haunted as fuck and centuries old, but when he first started fighting for custody of Ciri, he and Eskel started really working on cleaning the place up, and they’ve been, like, conscientiously working on it throughout and like taking Approved Classes and such, they’ve both got like, Child CPR certificates and shit, and they’ve worked out a whole elaborate system wherein they’re never out hunting at the same time and so Ciri’s never unattended and so on, she’s got a therapist and Geralt goes too and so on, and so he hasn’t immediately been deemed an unfit parent but like… he’s on thin ice and his case worker hates him and is dying for an excuse to take Ciri away and put her Into The System.
Into this comes Jaskier, a bright shiny new social worker (with a night job as a musician of course), ok he’s been out of school a little while and this isn’t his first job but he’s new to this specific job; he gets this case dropped onto him by the original hostile case worker who is like thank god, not my problem, bye and is like This Sounds Bad. Her notes make it seem so terribly clear that there’s no way this mutant freak is ever going to be any good for this kid but the Law of Surprise and traditionalist judges and such, and he’s like, Oh No.
Anyway that’s my premise, that he comes into it like oh no this poor helpless child (I keep envisioning Ciri as being like seven or eight) and is super creeped-out by Geralt, who keeps doing unhelpful things like showing up super late to their first-ever appointment and acting really weird and only at the end does Jaskier realize Geralt’s fairly badly injured from a monster hunt but had decided against a healing potion because he knew the Scary Toxic Face would absolutely terrify this new case worker– how much of this Jaskier understands IDK, I haven’t really mentally worked out POV in this– mind you I’m not writing it, remember? I’m just idly speculating on how it would go– and he meets Ciri and she’s so great but also pretty clearly fucked-up from losing her parents and grandparents, and she’s typically childishly unhelpful and was in the moment mad at Geralt for something so she says she doesn’t like him, and Jaskier’s like Oh No This Poor Sweet Baby With These Scary Monsters, but Geralt keeps doing everything Jaskier asks him to and it’s undeniable the man’s made a really sincere effort and Jaskier doesn’t really realize how bigoted against nonhumans he is but he is starting to get the uncomfortable feeling that maybe he’s got some preconceived notions going on here, and IDK but at some point he sort of starts seeing Geralt as a person and is like… okay maybe my predecessor was a little harsh on these guys…
and anyway, he finally has to do The Dreaded Home Evaluation where he visits the Terrifyingly Creepy Witcher Compound in the Mountains and he’s put it off as long as he can and Geralt’s weirdly urgent that he’s got to get out there before “the weather shifts” like that means anything? anyway he finally summons all his nerve and drives out there but it starts snowing and his car is super shitty (social workers don’t make much on the Continent either, they don’t seem super socially progressive from any of the canon sources) and he gets stuck in the snow and Geralt comes and pulls him out with an actual horse what the fuck and it’s a whole thing and they make it to the Creepy Witcher Compound which is creepy as fuck and Jaskier’s like whew what time you think the plows’ll be by and
Geralt just laughs and is like they don’t plow roads for our kind, give it about a week maybe?
auuuugggghhhhhhh
but here’s the good part, right, he’s snowed in, right, everyone fucking loves this trope, right? and as he’s freaking out he hears screaming and he’s like oh no it’s all over and runs to the window and
Geralt and Ciri are having a snowball fight
and Ciri hits Geralt in the face with a snowball so hard his hat flies off
and he laughs, like a real person, a real honest laugh, and Jaskier’s never seen him laugh before, and –
oh no he’s hot
also I think Yennefer’s still a mage and she’s sort of powerful but absolutely terrifying and she briefly tries to advocate for Ciri on Geralt’s behalf and only turns Jaskier solidly against them for a bit, and so on, and other worldbuilding bits, but like
anyway wasn’t that a fun romp? Hopefully that’s out of my system now.
