You’ve mentioned that you might make Eskel aro, so

[dragonlady7]

fic snippet, wafflelovingbatgirl

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HA there IS a succubus! and it’s… somewhat more complicated, but not super far off! Though I just got plotweaseled (THANKS akilah12902 https://tmblr.co/mmG9gp3S698rFJImW-pcxgg you are so mean to me) with another great idea so I have to rewrite the whole thing, but I was already going to have to rewrite it based on uhhh bringing Aiden back which i hadn’t initially planned to do either so. It’s all rewrites all the way down and I’m not entirely sure how it’s going to go. It’s kind of a ways out, at this point, but it’s in the works.

Here’s a preview of the beginning of the story, before I’ve done any rewriting, which does show you that you’re roughly on the right track, here. I think I’ve posted part of this before, sorry, but the rest is not terribly polished and anyway it’s all getting redone:

But it had looked like Lambert’s poor bruised little heart was settling down with that sorceress. And generally Eskel disapproved of sorceresses, but– well, he and Triss had been fine, and it had been fun for a while, but Eskel wasn’t the kind to give a woman what she needed over any kind of long haul, and Triss had figured that out well enough. She wanted what Geralt was for Yennefer, and that just wasn’t Eskel. He was too sensible for it but he also suspected his heart just didn’t work that way.

But it had ended well, really; no throwing of things, not really any bitterness. She’d hit him up a time or two since, just for a good time, and he’d been very clear about it and there hadn’t really been drama.

He didn’t do drama. This wasn’t a principled stance; he just couldn’t actually manage it. Which he’d always figured was good, since his– well, whatever Geralt was; his Geralt was the best way of describing him– was all drama. There wouldn’t be room for any, if Eskel produced any. Maybe that was it, maybe he’d just developed like this out of sheer self-defense.

Whatever.

He was fucking lonely, was the upshot, and it was a bad upshot. He hadn’t managed to line up anywhere to go for the winter despite his best efforts, which honestly hadn’t been very good, and he really wasn’t sure what he was going to do about it.

and then Plot Ensues– but you are, by and large, correct. [Spoiler: there is going to be an Accidental Child Acquisition and some Found Family-ing, but Eskel is not going to be called upon to fulfill anybody’s romantic needs, no sir. Family, yes; sex yes, romance no.]

[I am not saying aromantic people should be paired exclusively with monsters, btw, I am saying aros belong in families and loving relationships and also Eskel is the most canonical monsterfucker among the Witchers in W3 so it’s cromulent to have him continue to do that. Also I too like women with horns.]

I think I shared some of that above snippet before so here’s another bit, which I know I didn’t, to make up for it; this whole bit might get tossed but I liked this tiny description.

At some point when he was drunk he must’ve told his brothers about that one succubus hunt. He’d told himself not to do that, but obviously it had come out at some point. He blamed alcohol. But in his defense, succubi were the kind of “monsters” that were people, and if you knew what you were getting into, were just as dangerous or not as anyone. He’d been perfectly within the bounds of rational behavior to have sex with one. He felt like that was the sort of thing any monster hunter should try at least once, and on the whole it had been among his more successful interactions. Maybe it was because succubi didn’t expect things of you that your heart maybe wasn’t built for. Maybe that was it.

Comments

[harpers_child]

Entropy (one of my d&d characters) would like you to know that she's available to play the succubus if casting is still open. She thinks Eskel's best qualities are his smile, following directions when helping a tiefling wash her hair, and his ability to keep the bathwater hot.

(Entopy is non-binary she/her. She's got silver skin [grey with lots of highlighter], soft gold eyes [brown-yellow], and more hair than any one being needs [curly and to her knees.] She does have horns, but you usually can't see them through the hair.)

[dragonlady7]

Ha! She sounds fun!