The_Crows_are_Always_Watching
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In a cruel turn of events, Soap is abandoned by his favorite diver, Ghost. Left to rot in his tank, all alone! Never to see the man again!
The weeks trudge on, and he loses all hope that he'll ever be happy again. The mer falls into a deep depression, only coming out of his cave on rare occasion.
He decides he'll waste away as revenge...
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Simon goes on a four week trip to help his old captain with his diving company. It's a nice change of pace, but his thoughts keep wandering back to the mer he had to leave behind.
The weeks pass, mostly uneventful, until he receives a text that chills him.
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- Part 2 of Not Even the Depths
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The Leshy had been the final fucking straw.
For decades, Eskel had found himself increasingly sick of walking the Path and living the life of monsters and money.
He had spent most of his life being hated for something he had no choice in: becoming a mutant.
It was thankless work, people didn’t want to pay even when he’d bested their monster, and everyone was afraid of him.
But winter came yet again as Eskel made his way up to Kaer Morhen, badly injured by a fucking Leshy, of all things,
And by the time Eskel was deemed free of the Leshy and able to rest, everyone else in the Keep was wrapped around the fingers of Geralt’s daughter, Ciri.
So when the pass was clear enough for travel in the spring, Eskel had made up his mind: he was done with doing what was expected of him.
Eskel wanted to retire.
In years bygone, Eskel had spent some time in Oxenfurt, sitting in on whatever classes at the University that allowed mutants, and he’d thoroughly enjoyed that pursuit of knowledge, though he could never afford the tuition to attend as a student.
And that is how Eskel found himself sneaking silently into a lecture on music theory given by “Professor Julian Pankratz”. -
Let Me Down Slowly by Chlorokin for phiaura
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
28 Oct 2025
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“Freak.”
Geralt doesn’t flinch.
It’s nothing he hasn't heard before, usually followed by a derisive laugh. The stranger might not have meant for him to hear the word, muttered as it is while Geralt's back is turned.
Even when people have heard about Witcher Syndrome and know what to expect from it, they seem to forget about the more acute senses. So, he pretends that the insult was just an unconscious aside that the man behind him meant to keep to himself, and tries to continue his workout.
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Witcher Syndrome is a disorder that causes genetic mutations to occur to those who develop it. While some symptoms could almost be considered advantageous, others are clearly detrimental to those affected. As with any disability, there are those with prejudices against those that are “other” or “different”.
Geralt has spent most of his life learning to protect himself from those who won’t understand that his differences don’t make him a freak.But, it will take someone with quite a lot of zest for life and self-love, to show Geralt how to be okay with himself, and to remind him that he is still only human.
Someone like Jaskier.
OR: What if superpowers were a disability?
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- Part 1 of Witcher Syndrome
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(Un)Deserved Kindness by stingerpicnic
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
08 Jun 2024
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The man sighs heavily. "I guess you're right." He turns back to Aiden, bright smile back in place. "My apologies, dear witcher, it seems I've forgotten my manners." He offers Aiden his hand to shake with a flourish. "I am the bard Jaskier, graduate of Oxenfurt and Master of the Seven Liberal Arts.
What.
Aiden forces himself to take his hand in a firm shake despite the shock that's numbing his limbs. "Aiden," he says, flashing his teeth in a smile. "You're the Toss a Coin bard, right?" Aiden says, like Lambert didn't spend his whole winter bullying Geralt into agreeing to a late spring meet-up and then ditched Aiden for it specifically for the chance that the bard standing in front of Aiden right now would be there.
Sweet Melitele, Lambert is going to hate him when they meet back up next week. This is amazing.
Or: Aiden meets Jaskier when he least expect it. He promptly decides that if anything ever happened to him, he would kill everyone in this town and then himself. Which would be a shame, considering that this strange town has been so unexpectedly kind to him.
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- Part 1 of Treat You Better
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Jaskier is a semi-famous Twitch streamer.
Geralt is his biggest fan.
It's cuter/less creepy than it sounds, and shenanigans ensue.Yes, I know the series name is dumb af, but I had to
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