Criminally Underused Bird Nicknames for Jaskier
I love "Lark" as much as the next Witcher fic reader, but there are so many more options we could explore! Here are a few:
Jay / Bluejay
This one has excellent potential because 1) jays are incredibly beautiful, colorful, intelligent, and social and 2) their songs are terrible. (Examples here, here, and here.) As such, it'd be perfect for a fond-yet-teasing nickname for Jaskier. Plus, it sounds like the first letter of his name!
Magpie
Magpies are corvids like jays, so they're similar in many ways. This one has the extra connotations of collecting shiny things for bonus fun teasing <3
Sparrow
Sparrows have lovely songs! They tend not to be very colorful, but they're very cute and the name sounds endearing. I've seen this one used in fic occasionally and I like it!
Sanderling
Sanderling is an adorable name for an adorable bird -- they're little sandpipers that run around on beaches! It works perfectly as a reference to Jaskier's role as the Sandpiper and I think it's really sweet.
Peep
Peep is a general term for the smallest few species of sandpipers (they're hard to identify at the species level, so calling them peeps is most convenient). It's similar to Sanderling in that it references Jaskier's role as the Sandpiper and sounds adorable!
Bonus: Songbird
I have seen this one used in a few fics and I love it every time! It's vague enough to let you imagine whichever bird you want while also sounding very sweet.
Extra options include, but are not limited to: warbler, finch/goldfinch, nightengale, robin, kinglet, titmouse, mockingbird, and starling.
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A futile search for permanence
Yet i try and try again
Hoping that this one will fit
Hoping once again
That this time maybe, possibly, they'll like me enough to stay
They'll be the one who i can come to
Be it sunshine moonbeams or rain
I try and try and try again
I fall i crumble i break
I cry and cry and cry again
And patch myself up like tape
Fixed for the moment but not quite stable
Leaping for the next one cause they might be able
To calm my racing mind and take care of my fragile heart
Maybe they could love me in ways that i cannot
But strangers unseen face to face
Feelings found with a digital trace
No strings attached no commitment to boot
Of course they'd leave, you silly goose
It was never meant to be, we never should have met
Yet i remember you more vividly than some of my best friends
I held too strong and so did u, we saw what love could be, saw what it could do
And you, you ran, as far as you could
Didn't wanna get attached
Broke my heart in two
Why did u ever come back
Why did i let you?
Why'd you leave again
Why can I not forget you
I try to move on with life
Most days i don't think of you
A love that could have would have been
The person i would have always run to
But things in life come as they do
The most perfect being
The most imperfect situation it's true
Cause life is yin and yang
Good and bad
Big and small
And once we had our little infinity
I would never get u to myself again, never
at all
~chaoticaptendyte
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