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Tissaia once told her that sometimes the best thing a flower can do for us is to die.
Yennefer disagrees.
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Primum Movens by Octinary
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
29 May 2022
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The philosophical concept of a prime mover, or that which is both necessary and sufficient to cause its own creation, is tied up in the idea of time and space. So is Ciri.
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An Excess of Omelettes by Octinary
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski
16 May 2022
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People do not offer you things; you take them. People do not give you space; you occupy it. People do not pause for you to speak; you shout over them. These are the rules. These have always been the rules. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something. But if you can't get what you want by following the rules, maybe it's time to try something different.
After leaving both Istredd and Geralt in Aedd Gynvael (for different but equally valid reasons), Yennefer refocusses her attention on her quest to cure herself of the infertility that Aretuza subjected her to and make herself whole again. She gets a good tip on a promising lead, but, aggravatingly, the path from here to motherhood seems cursed to cross her exes'. She finds herself in the unenviable position of trying to determine whether to retrieve her heart's desire at the cost of her pride, or to go without but remain stubbornly inviolate.
Because that's the only two options, right?
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Ciri asks a simple question over breakfast. Jaskier overthinks it and panics. The repercussions of his fumbling answer are perhaps more enduring than he might have hoped.
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Ouroboros by Octinary
Fandoms: The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021), The Witcher (TV)
27 Mar 2022
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Injured after a challenging hunt, Vesemir and Deglan take shelter in an abandoned cellar.
Injured after a challenging hunt, Lambert and Vesemir take shelter in the basement of a local inn.
What goes around, comes around.
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Several days after they've banished Voleth Meir, once the dust has settled and the dead have been laid to rest, Lambert wakes Jaskier in the middle of the night for an enlightening conversation.
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After their successful campaign to regain Meve's kingdom from Nilfgaard's control, Meve and Reynard finally admit their feelings for each other and begin a romantic relationship. And while he may be a little jealous and nursing a couple of unrequited crushes, Gascon is mostly happy for them; he really is! Now if only they would let him leave them alone to continue their relationship without him...
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The Portraits of the Witcher as an Old Man by Octinary
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
13 Dec 2021
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When the crowds finally part and Geralt sets eyes on the painter’s masterpiece, his first thought is well, at least that explains the funny looks I’ve been getting all morning. People had been gawking at him, smirking as if they knew something private about him, and whispering to each other. It hadn’t felt malicious per se, more like one of those dreams where you suddenly find yourself outside in public without your clothes on. Now, with the reason for that sensation displayed before him in all of its questionable glory, Geralt has to give it to his gut for the exceedingly apt comparison.
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Decembert the Seventh: Winter Springs by Octinary
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
08 Dec 2021
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“Lambert!” Someone, presumably Eskel based on the voice, pounded on the door to Kaer Morhen’s famous underground hot springs, which was bolted tightly shut. “Get out of there!”
Lambert did not bother dignifying that demand with a response. He was warm, finally, and content. Geralt and Eskel could go fuck themselves.
“Lambert!” Eskel tried again. “This isn’t fair!”
Lambert disagreed with that assessment as well. While Geralt may have been the mastermind behind the prank, Eskel had neither warned Lambert nor shown a great deal of sympathy when the avalanche of snow off of the stable roof had cascaded down upon him. Eskel had made his bed as far as Lambert was concerned.
“Geralt is very sorry!”
“I am not—”
“Shut the fuck up and apologize.”
There was a long period of silence from the other side of the door and one very loud thwack, as if one white haired witcher had perhaps been physically reprimanded by his dark haired brother. “I am very sorry, Lambert.”
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Decembert the Sixth: Evergreens by Octinary
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
07 Dec 2021
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Sitting at his kitchen table with a glass of whiskey and the creeping sensation crawling up his spine that is telling him he’s bitten off more than he can chew, Vesemir wonders sullenly why he’s never been given an easy case. Guxart keeps getting babies to foster—which are their own brand of trouble, no doubt—but even incoherent screaming at all hours of the night seems vastly preferable to being called out of work to pick Lambert up from school for the third time in as many days for fighting.
Acting out, he reminds himself over and over again like a mantra, is typical for children who have been relocated out of abusive households. Lambert is only eight and suffering. Vesemir is the adult in this situation; it is his responsibility to have patience and compassion. But when they had returned to the apartment and he had tried to ask Lambert what the fight was about, the little shit had told him to go fuck himself, broken the glass of the microwave door by chucking a plate at it, and sent himself to bed without dinner. Hence whiskey and self-pity.
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In the end, Lambert and Keira were the last people to leave Kaer Morhen. Triss and Yennefer, fresh machinations afoot, were gone before Vesemir’s ashes had even had time to cool, and Geralt and Ciri were not far behind them, the grand weave of destiny pulling them ever forward into action. The secondary characters—as Lambert had taken to calling Roche, Ves, Zoltan, Letho, Hjalmar and Ermion, mostly just because it pissed Roche off immensely and he was hilarious when enraged—departed over the following few days, returning gradually to whatever they did when Geralt was not knocking down their doors with his world ending bullshit.
Eskel left when the September rains started. He took a cart with him when he went, press-ganging Scorpion into service as a carthorse, a position the stallion resented greatly. Lambert watched mutely as his older brother packed—his favourite books and the good stew pot from the kitchen and the collection of furs he’d accumulated over the years and his spare crossbow and the ancient Wolf School armour he kept insisting he would repair one day—and knew that, standing in the shadow of his mentor’s pyre, Eskel hadn’t lied: he wasn’t coming back.
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Decembert the Fifth: Animal Tracks by Octinary
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski
04 Dec 2021
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“So witcher,” the woman, barely more than a girl really, finishes her story anxiously, “will you take the contract?”
Lambert, slumped over the table across from her, poking listlessly at a plate of eggs and hungover literally beyond human comprehension—White Gull being infinitely less forgiving than even the strongest vodka—has not been listening. What he has been doing is trying to get his pickled brain to cough up an answer regarding where the fuck it’s left him. The last thing he coherently remembers is him and Coën, travelling together on their way back to Kaer Morhen for the winter, bumping into the Caravan just outside of Ard Carraigh and Aiden goading them into having a drink together to celebrate the end of another successful (read: survived) season on the Path. But this is definitely not Ard Carraigh.
“Sir?” she asks again, wringing her hands.
“Shh. M’thinking,” Lambert slurs.
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Decembert the Third: Ugly Sweater by Octinary
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
03 Dec 2021
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When he hears that Geralt has retired to Toussaint, and that Yennefer has joined him, Lambert gives them eight months to ruin it on their own before he makes his move. They’ve gone longer as lovers without a fight, true, but previous to this, the longest they had ever actually cohabitated was six months. That had even been in Vengerberg, giving Yennefer the home court advantage, and she had still been the one to break it off, fucking some guy named Isidore of the Ice or something. Geralt had been a bit intoxicated while morosely relating the tale and Lambert had been far too distracted trying to figure out why anyone who had had Geralt in their grasp would ever let him go to bother remembering the name of the sorceress’ side piece. On some old ramshackle farmstead in a Nilfgaardian vassal state, far from the beating pulse of Northern politics, Lambert figures Yennefer won’t last a week. Still, he gives them eight months, as a courtesy.
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“Lambert! Hey, Lambert! C’mon! Grab your coat!”
“Why?”
“We got the afternoon off ‘cause of the snow!”
If anything, that seemed to Lambert like a reason to not to get his coat. He’d been at Kaer Morhen for about eight weeks now and it had been snowing sporadically for about half of them. Before making the trek up the mountain, Lambert had never encountered the stuff; it took exactly one experience for him to determine he didn’t like it. It was cold, it was hard to walk through, it made everything slippery, and it snuck down your collar, over your boot tops and up your sleeves to puddle icily against bare skin. Why, when they had mercifully been exempted from suffering it, anyone would want to voluntarily inflict it upon themselves was beyond him.
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Decembert the First: Ice Fishing by Octinary
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
01 Dec 2021
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Aiden knew he should leave it alone. Despite his school’s reputation for emotional instability, he was not, in fact, suicidal and the sheer rage boiling off of Lambert was more than enough of a warning to anyone that the wisest course of action was to keep quiet. It roiled off the Wolf and coiled through the air like… well… like the water currently evaporating off of him in puffs of turbid white.
A similar cloud was shivering its way off of Aiden’s soaked skin as they trudged back from the lake to the clearing in which the caravan had made camp for the night. It wasn’t that far of a walk and the average land speed of an angry Lambert was generally pretty quick, even hampered by a foot and a half of snow, so unless they wanted to be the butt of every joke from now until New Year’s they had better come up with a damn good story in the next few minutes.
“Lambert—” Aiden tried.
“Leave it.”
The words were as sharp and short as the icicles forming on his eyelashes, but he didn’t even raise his voice. Too pissed to project—that was a new one.
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My November Guest by Octinary
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski
29 Nov 2021
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It would be so much easier if there was something tangible to rage against. If Jaskier’s predicament had been caused by an attack, there would have been such vindictive joy in rendering the perpetrators properly repentant. Or even if his lingering disabilities were the fault of insufficient aid rendered carelessly or too slowly, Geralt could have berated those at fault and in so doing soothed his own soul. But there was no one to blame.
And, as near as he could tell, no way to fix it.
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Dandelion and Vesemir finally meet for the first time in Corvo Bianco at Geralt's autumn dziady, a bi-annual ritual for celebrating and communing with the souls of deceased family. Vesemir mostly wants to sit in the corner and brood, but Dandelion's never been terribly good at leaving witchers to do that in peace.
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Usually, if they had to quickly flee a village in the middle of the night it was Jaskier's fault. Usually, but not always.
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Like Real People Do (The Day Before the Night of Remix) by Octinary for limerental
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
01 Oct 2021
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Geralt has never celebrated Valentine's Day before. Despite never celebrating it herself either, or really having any clue what she is doing at all, Yennefer decides to remedy this atrocity.
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It was not news to anyone at Caer y Seren that Erland was prone to throwing himself wholeheartedly into his work with a singular focus, and while it was true that the keep was in dire straights, with Griffins returning every autumn with less and less coin and provisions and more and more stories of prejudice and hostility toward their profession, the pace Erland was currently maintaining was not sustainable. Keldar could not recall the last time he had seen the man in anything remotely approaching repose. He was the rock on which their school was founded and the steady light at the heart of their mission, although lately he more closely resembled a battered bulwark or a candle burning brightly at both ends. And if he went out…