#dragon jaskier
I just finished Witcher s2 and I have thoughts. Once again, I bounced this off of @aplaceofnonsense, my enabler.
Me: Hey, remember that “Jaskier is immortal” theory I had from last year? I have to amend that. I don’t think he’s immortal.
Saph:…he’s not?
Me:He’s not immortal. He’s a dragon.
Saph:um…WUT
(Season 2 spoilers below the cut)
Me: This is a lot, so I’ll break it down.
The “Golden One” Story
- It was played as a joke that Jaskier slept through the dragon fight, but what if he was all “Borch got this fam I’m catching zzz’s”
- Who told Jaskier the story? The dwarves don’t like him. Borch was probs like “yeah, so here’s what happened, FUCKING MORTALS AMIRIGHT?!”
The Dress Code
- Borch wore this frankly obvious gold scale garb in the dragon hunt ep
- Jaskier wore this frankly obvious red scale, spiky garb in the same ep
- And then spends the entirety of season 2 cosplaying as a human dragon
- Hey look. He’s got scales going down his legs. Or are they leathery folded wings?
Literally Burning
- My boi singing his heart about about Geralt burning with steam (smoke?) coming out of his mouth. Sure, it’s cold in there (the set was outdoors in the winter) and he’s breathing pretty hard, but this happening on “BURRRRRNNNN” is too good. He’s also the only one that does this either above or in the sewers.
- Also, did that fire ever touch his finger? If it did, he’s fireproof cause there were no burns…Yenn couldn’t heal him and he used that hand just fine afterwards…
(pic from here)
Saph: So, he’s a red dragon?
Me: Well, the Witcher wiki says red dragons “can be prideful and aggressive, but also delightful conversation partners and debate competitors”.
Saph: OMG JASKIER IS A RED DRAGON
Dave, reading our convo: HOLD UP. If anything, he’s a silver dragon. Silver dragons LOVE telling stories, they love music, they’re flamboyant dressers, they can’t stop talking, they’re very curious…. The first thing Jaskier wants to do when Geralt breaks him out of prison is get a bath. Dragons are incredibly vain. Source: I played a silver dragon in a DnD campaign and did a LOT of research.
Me: (reading the Forgotten Realms DnD wiki) Yup Jaskier’s a silver dragon.
- Enjoys the company of humans and elves
- takes on the guise of kind and elderly humanoids or very attractive and young humanoids*coughJASKIERcough*
- waits for others to ask them for help (which Yenn and Geralt both do and Jaskier immediately agrees to help even though he’s angry)
- would attempt to right an injustice if they saw one (Sandpiper)
- interested in protecting the humans or elves it came to care for
- do not enjoy combat, but would own you if forced to fight
- have ice and gas abilities (is that steam from the cold or ICE BREATH while he’s angry singing?!)
Saph, Dave and Me: Dragon.
Me:Joey Batey is also a DnD nerd and is probaby doing this shit on purpose…and Valdo Marx is a rival dragon CHANGE MY MIND.
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Edit: I can’t believe I forgot to include that Jaskier tells Yennefer he’s like the elves because he’s in the “other” category. Artist? LGBT+? Dragon? Yes ;)
i am closer and closer to getting myself together and actually writing a dragon jaskier au for the new season. there’s a distinct lack of bamf dragon jaskier on ao3, gotta do everything myself over here smh
i missed all of you, so amazing to see so many of you still here can’t promise i’ll immediately be active again, but i’ve been slowly coming back to the fandom and hngh shirtless jaskier
