#luka witcher

[lakka-arts]

two poets excitedly talking and comparing notes abt sonnets and pieces from their respective universes plus their warrior bfs

#my art #the witcher #mcsm #jesse #lukas #jesskas #gerlion #geralt #dandelion #hehehehehhehe

[panur]

you know those time travel AU's where jaskier goes back in time to fuck young Vesemir influence Nightmare of the Wolf timeline, and while that's a lovely plotline i would gladly read it got me thinking...

what if instead of Vesemir, Jaskier met and rescued LUKA?? a hot, adorable, talented bard who is fiercely pro Witchers??

this man would be all over the bard in record time! and Jaskier!

a hot Witcher guy who has a sense of fashion, incredible hair and flirts back??

i want this so badly, if someone ever, please @ me!!

#it’s free real estate prompt just tag me so i can read

#jaskier #luka #the witcher #the witcher netflix #nightmare of the wolf #AU’s and UA’s make Panur a happy girl #it's free real estate prompt just tag me so i can read #prancing plotbunnies

[evilhorses]

Luka never got to do the cool potion that turns your eyes black so I fixed it 😤😤

#my art #witcher luka #witcher fanart #he deserved better #picks him up and carries him off #mine now

[thewolvesandtheirbard]

I’ve watched this TikTok so many times over (OP is hilarious 😂 Go check her out!) and thought that it reminded me of small gremlin Lambert with Geralt and/or Eskel and Papa Ves. However, now that I think about it harder, this isn’t Lamb. It’s Luka. Small unhinged, poor impulse control Luka vs Big Brother Vesemir who is tired of his shit and of Barmin yelling at him for all of it XD

#Tell me I’m wrong #the witcher #nightmare of the wolf #vesemir #young vesemir #witcher luka #vesemir and luka #kallmekris #hertiktoksarefire #witcher vesemir #school of the wolf #kaer morhen #kaer morons #Lambert would have planned the sibling betrayal from the beginning while Luka just decides then and there that Ves is going down with him #That’s the difference folks #witcher lambert #geralt of rivia

[lassieposting]

So uh. It's just occurred to me that the "bedrooms" bit of Kaer Morhen is still standing and probably wouldn't have been damaged too badly in the attack? Like. If you're a human all caught up in a xenophobic rage massacre, you've got bigger things to worry about than trashing someone's room? Like avoiding the monsters nobody told you would be there, or teaming up to take down the defending Witchers, because they're stronger and faster and better trained than you.

Anyway what I'm getting at is how long did it take Vesemir to realise that Luka's shit was all exactly as he left it the night they went out drinking

He barely recognises his own life at this point? He's the last surviving Wolf that he knows of, and he's managed to keep four whole children alive for however long without gutting any of them, and he doesn't remember the last time he had the coin or the time or the energy to get right properly drunk or fuck all the feelings away. He's facing the Sisyphean task of patching up the keep as best he can, by himself, and doing all the training that Luka and Sven would've been so much better at. Everyone he cared about all his life is dead.

And Luka's room still looks like he'll walk back into it any minute now, save for the stale air and the layer of dust settled on everything he won't be coming back for.

Bed unmade. Sleep shirt dropped on the floor. Book splayed open on his pillow - yep, a trashy monsterfucker shirt-ripper with a handsome Witcher on the front cover, typical. He misses the easy banter, misses being able to mock without wounding. He can hear the haughty "Maybe I'll lend it to you once I'm finished, Lord Vesemir. You might learn a thing or two," response like Luka's standing right behind him.

(He's not. They killed him. He died alone, and for nothing, all because Vesemir wanted to go drinking)

((He'll read the book. All the way to the end, even though the writing is appalling, the protagonist bland, and the Witcher love interest a cocky, arrogant arsehole. And when he's finished it, he'll go down to the memorial he put up when they first came home - Luka's not there, not really, but it's all he's got - and tell him what happens. And that it sucked. And that he's sorry.))

#the witcher #nightmare of the wolf #vesemir #witcher luka #anyway i have a lot of feelings about ves & survivors guilt #and also about these two bonding during training and being terrible influences on each other and stressing deglan out just. so much #netflix witcher

[heschrafn]

Looking forward to spring

#witcher #luka #witcher luka #witcher fanart #nightmare of the wolf #ntw #notw #netflix witcher #witcher fan art #my art #luka's last winter

[sirverofarrows]

WHO CHOOSES TO BE IN THIS PIGSTY?

character profile: Luka (inspo.)

#luka notw #notw luka #nightmare of the wolf #notw #the witcher: nightmare of the wolf #the witcher #pretty dream { gif tag } #based on my own portrayal of him of course #i love him

[gigi-does-art]

Haven’t done a ref. sheet in a while again, but I’m still continuing designs for characters from Nightmare of the Wolf. Luka my beloved. We need more content of him, he died too soon in the movie qwq. I miss him a lot.

#luka #the witcher #nightmare of the wolf #my art #catified #design #catified design #catified witcher

[blossomdapple]

Hey everyone I made a compilation video featuring gay moments from TWN + Nightmare of the Wolf I hope you enjoy <3

#mine #twn #the witcher #the witcher netflix #nightmare of the wolf #vesemir #luka #sven #geralt of rivia #jaskier #yennefer of vengerberg #chireadan #triss merigold #sabrina glevissig #fringilla vigo #francesca findabair #cirilla of cintra #cirilla fiona elen riannon #veska #geraskier #yentriss #trissefer #frinfran #frangilla #queer #lgbtq+ #all ships and characters are tagged in order of appearance btw #also don't mind the weird format changes i tried screenrecording these in three different ways #and even tho the last way resulted in oddly compressed videos at least they weren't back screens like netflix would've given me lol

[stellanimarum]

Keeks Witcher Season 3 Countdown (In which I cope about waiting for it by drawing my favourite ships: 1. Luka and Vesemir

#keeks witcher countdown #luka and vesemir #vesemir #witcher #luka #my art

[lakka-arts]

armor swap crossover between two of my favorite games atm :))

#mcsm #mcsm jesse #mcsm lukas #my art #the witcher #dandelion #geralt #for the armor that geralt is wearing. its the adamantine impervium armor #i would have chosen the dragonsbane one but I got my partner to choose the armor for me :))

[pherryt]

Save A Witcher Bingo is Complete!

I didn’t get a black out but I did get a bingo! I’ll take it.

You can find the entire series here or you can pop a look at any of the below and see what strikes your fancy:

B1 - Character: Lambert "Carved Medallion"  Rated G - 2468 Words - Aiden/Lambert

B2 - Monster: Kikimora "To Come Home"  Rated G - 5043 Words - Geralt/Jaskier, Aiden/Lambert

B3 - Healing "A Strange Garden"  Rated T - 6021 Words - Aiden/Lambert, Geralt/Jaskier

B4 - Old Ghosts “Lambert fighting Old Speartip"  non graphic - ART FILL - Lambert-centric

B5 - Wolf School "Twisted Magic"  Rated G - 2474 Words - Eskel-centric

N2 - Vision  "So Far From Home"  Rated M - 12263 Words - Aiden/Lambert

G3 – WTF "Two Witchers and a Gods-Be-Damned Peacock"  Rated T - 1786 Words - Vesemir/Luka

G5 - Forcibly Adopted "The Homecoming that Almost Wasn't"  Rated T - 3922 Words - Aiden/Coën/Lambert

O4 - Missing You "Lost: One Cat"  Rated T - 2501 Words - Aiden/Lambert

O5 - Sleeping in Strange Places "Winter Surprise"  Rated G - 4733 Words - Aiden/Lambert

Thank you @save-a-witcher-bingo I had so much fun with these, even if I didn’t finish them. I think my favorite might be “So Far From Home” but I loved all of them. Anyone else have a fave?

#witcher #save a witcher bingo #it's mostly one ship cause i fell in love #lambert/aiden #vesemir/luka #geralt/jaskier #aiden/lambert/coen

[starkcontrasts]

not the witcher:nightmare of the wolf killing off its only gay character🤪😭😭

#kill the gays #nah bc i'm bitter about my boi luka #died away from his brothers unware that one of the ones who raised/taught him had betrayed their whole creed #the witcher #netflix the witcher #the witcher: nightmare of the wolf

[powerpolyculeshowdown]

POWER POLYCULE MASTERPOST

people asked and i shall deliver!! here are our brackets - i plan to update each one with the link after they're posted, but do keep an eye on the #powerpolyculeshowdown tag in case im unavailable to do so until later, please!

Also reminder they're programmed to be posted 1min apart from each other, so from 1:00pm to 1:10pm (EST)

Round 1

part 1 (finished)

Tulio/Miguel/Chel (Road to El Dorado) x Yoo/Han/Kim (Omniscient Reader) Winners: Tulio/Miguel/Chel

Mane 6 (My Little Pony) x Sasha/Anne/Marcy (Amphibia) Winners: Sasha/Anne/Marcy

Rey/Finn/Poe (Star Wars) x The Doctor/Rose/Jack Harkness (Doctor Who) Winners: The Doctor/Rose/Jack

Cosmo/Kathy/Don (Singing in the Rain) x Ferris/Sloane/Cameron (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) Winners: Cosmo/Kathy/Don

Dave/Jade/Karkat (Homestuck) x Sora/Riku/Kairi (Kingdom Hearts) Winners: Sora/Riku/Kairi

Amaryllis/Sir Damien/Lord Arum (Penumbra Podcast) x Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot (High Noon Over Camelot - The Mechanisms) Winners: Amaryllis/Sir Damien/Lord Arum

Wu Zetian/Li Shimin/Gao Yizhi (Iron Widow) x Sadie Kane/Walt Stone/Anubis (The Kane Chronicles) Winners: Wu Zetian/Li Shimin/Gao Yizhi

Star Allies (Kirby Star Allies) x All 1008 Pokémon (Pokémon) Winners: All 1008 Pokémon

Hardison/Parker/Elliot (Leverage) x Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer (The Witcher) Winners: Hardison/Parker/Eliot

Suki/Sokka/Zuko (ATLA) x Sonic/Knuckles/Shadow (Sonic) Winners: Suki/Sokka/Zuko

Sweet/Cap’n/K_K (Deltarune) x Shiver/Frye/Big Man (Splatoon 3) Winners: Sweet/Cap'n/K_K

part 2 (finished)

Fred/Daphne/Velma/Shaggy (Scooby Doo) x Luka/Adrien/Kagami/Marinette (Miraculous Ladybug) Winners: Fred/Daphne/Velma/Shaggy

Wonder Woman/Superman/Batman (DC Comics) x Megaera/Zagreus/Thanatos (Hades) Winners: Megaera/Zagreus/Thanatos

Dekubowl (My Hero Academia) x Jolyne/Ermes/Foo Fighters (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) Winners: Jolyne/Ermes/Foo Fighters

Bocchi/Nijika/Ryo/Kita (Bocchi the Rock) x Tsukasa/Emu/Nene/Rui (Project Sekai) Winners: Tsukasa/Emu/Nene/Rui

Trevor/Sypha/Alucard/Greta (Castlevania) x Heizou/Kazuha/Scaramouche (Genshin Impact) Winners: Trevor/Sypha/Alucard/Greta

Rachel/Chloe/Max (Life is Strange) x Quanxi/Tsugihagi/Pingtsi/Long/Cosmo (Chainsaw Man) Winners: Rachel/Chloe/Max

McCoy/Spock/Kirk (Star Trek) x Frodo/Sam/Rosie (Lord of the Rings) Winners: McCoy/Spock/Kirk

Cassandra/Rapunzel/Flynn (Tangled Series) x Vivi/Lewis/Arthur (Mystery Skulls Animated) Winners: Cassandra/Rapunzel/Flynn

Aizo/Yujiro/Hiyori (HoneyWorks) x Panchito/Donald/José (The Three Caballeros) Winners: Panchito/Donald/José

Catra/Adora/Glimmer/Bow (She-Ra and The Princesses of Power) x Amethyst/Peridot/Lapis (Steven Universe) Winners: Catra/Adora/Glimmer/Bow

Bucky/Steve/Peggy/Angie (Marvel) x Hunter/Willow/Luz/Amity (The Owl House) Winners: Hunter/Willow/Luz/Amity

Round 2 (finished)

Tulio/Miguel/Chel (Road to El Dorado) x Cosmo/Kathy/Don (Singing in the Rain) Winners: Tulio/Miguel/Chel

Sasha/Anne/Marcy (Amphibia) x Hardison/Parker/Eliot (Leverage) Winners: Hardison/Parker/Eliot

The Doctor/Rose/Jack Harkness (Doctor Who) x McCoy/Spock/Kirk (Star Trek) Winners: The Doctor/Rose/Jack Harkness

Sora/Riku/Kairi (Kingdom Hearts) x Amaryllis/Sir Damien/Lord Arum (Penumbra Podcast) Winners: Amaryllis/Sir Damien/Lord Arum

Wu Zetian/Li Shimin/Gao Yizhi (Iron Widow) x Sweet/Cap’n/K_K (Deltarune) Tie!! Both move on!

Suki/Sokka/Zuko (Avatar: TLA) x Megaera/Zagreus/Thanatos (Hades) Winners: Suki/Sokka/Zuko

Fred/Dephne/Velma/Shaggy (Scooby Doo) x All 1008 Pokémon (Pokémon) Winners: Fred/Daphne/Velma/Shaggy

Jolyne/Ermes/Foo Fighters (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) x Tsukasa/Emu/Nene/Rui (Project Sekai) Winners: Jolyne/Ermes/Foo Fighters

Trevor/Sypha/Alucard/Greta (Castlevania) x Panchito/Donald/José (The Three Caballeros) Winners: Panchito/Donald/José

Cassandra/Rapunzel/Flynn (Tangled Series) x Rachel/Chloe/Max (Life is Strange) Winners: Cassandra/Rapunzel/Flynn

Catra/Adora/Glimmer/Bow (She-Ra and The Princesses of Power) x Hunter/Willow/Luz/Amity (The Owl House) Winners: Catra/Adora/Glimmer/Bow

Round 3 (finished)

Fred/Daphne/Velma/Shaggy (Scooby Doo) x Cassandra/Rapunzel/Flynn (Tangled the Series) Winners: Fred/Daphne/Velma/Shaggy

The Doctor/Rose/Jack (Doctor Who) x Hardison/Parker/Eliot (Leverage) Winners: Hardison/Parker/Eliot

Catra/Adora/Glimmer/Bow (She Ra) x Suki/Sokka/Zuko (Avatar: TLA) Winners: Suki/Sokka/Zuko

Panchito/Donald/José (The Three Caballeros) x Wu Zetian/Li Shimin/Gao Yizhi (Iron Widow) Winners: Panchito/Donald/José

Sweet/Cap’n/K_K (Deltarune) x Sora/Riku/Kairi (Kingdom Hearts) Winners: Sweet/Cap'n/K_K

Jolyne/Ermes/Foo Fighters (Jojo) x Tulio/Miguel/Cher (Road to El Dorado) Winners: Tulio/Miguel/Cher

Revival

Round 1 (finished)

Poll 1 Winners: The Doctor/Jack/Rose

Poll 2 Winners: Sasha/Anne/Marcy

Poll 3 Winners: Geralt/Yennefer/Jaskier

Poll 4 Winners: Yoo/Han/Kim

Round 2 (finshed)

Yoo Joonghyuk/Han Sooyoung/Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) x The Doctor/Rose Tyler/Jack Harkness (Doctor Who) x Sasha/Anne/Marcy (Amphibia) x Geralt/Yennefer/Jaskier (The Witcher) Winners: Yoo/Han/Kim (ORV) and Doctor/Jack/Rose (DW)

Round 4 - Quarterfinals (finished)

Tulio/Miguel/Cher (Road to El Dorado) x Yoo Jonghyuk/Han Sooyoung/Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)  Winners: Yoo Jonghyuk/Han Sooyoung/Kim Dokja

Fred/Daphne/Velma/Shaggy (Scooby Doo) x The Doctor/Rose Tyler/Jack Harkness (Doctor Who) Winners: Fred/Daphne/Velma/Shaggy

Sweet/Cap'n/Cakes (Deltarune) x Panchito/Donald/José (Three Caballeros) Winners: Sweet/Cap'n/K_K

Hardison/Parker/Eliot (Leverage) x Suki/Sokka/Zuko (Avatar) Winners: Hardison/Parker/Eliot

Round 5 - Semifinals (finished)

Sweet/Cap'n/K_K (Deltarune) x Yoo Jonghyuk/Han Sooyoung/Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) Winners: Yoo/Han/Kim

Hardison/Parker/Eliot (Leverage) x Fred/Daphne/Velma/Shaggy (Scooby Doo) Winners: Hardison/Parker/Eliot

Round 6 (March 8th 2pm EST)

Finals!

Hardison/Parker/Eliot (Leverage) x Yoo Jonghyuk/Han Sooyoung/Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) Winners: Hardison/Parker/Eliot

Third place!

Sweet/Cap'n/K_K (Deltarune) x Fred/Daphne/Velma/Shaggy (Scooby Doo) Winners: Fred/Daphne/Velma/Shaggy

Congratulations Hardison/Parker/Eliot for the win!!!!

#powerpolyculeshowdown #masterpost #polls #brackets

[fictional-musician-competition]

the moment you've been waiting for has arrived...

We have a bracket!!

Yeah. It's a 64-person bracket, the font is small, all that. You can try to zoom in, or there will be a list of matchups below the cut.

All but the first matchup have been randomly generated, please don't complain about the seeding or having to choose between characters. It just worked out that way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (ig you can complain about the first one)

Polls will be released Monday afternoon. The first round will once again be a week long, but after that we'll go to 24-hour polls until the final matchup.

May the best musician win!

Side A

Orpheus (Ulysses Dies at Dawn by The Mechanisms) on mandolin vs The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms) on mandolin, glockenspiel and others

Theodore (Alvin and the Chipmunks) on drums vs Wylan Van Eck (Six of Crows) on flute vs Squidward (SpongeBob SquarePants) on clarinet*

Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh (Bocchi the Rock) on guitar vs Vice Principal Nero (A Series of Unfortunate Events) on violin

Murdoc Niccals (Gorillaz) on bass vs Tsukasa Tenma (Project Sekai) on piano

Ibuki Mioda (Danganronpa) on bass guitar vs Jasiker (The Witcher) on lute

Grover Underwood (Riordanverse) on reed pipes vs Marceline "The Vampire Queen" Abadeer (Adventure Time) on bass guitar

Wei Wuxian (The Untamed) on dizi vs Rodrick Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) on drums

Toki Wartooth (Metalocolypse) on guitar vs Eddie (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) on saxophone

Chai (Hi-Fi Rush) on guitar vs Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes) on violin

Wirt (Over the Garden Wall) on clarinet and bassoon vs Alec Hardison (Leverage) on violin

Raine Whispers (The Owl House) on violin vs Scanlan Shorthalt (Critical Role, The Legend of Vox Machina) on lute and flute

Raiko Horikawa (Touhou Project) on drums vs Undyne (Undertale) on piano

Riebeck (Outer Wilds) on banjo vs Candace Flynn (Phineas and Ferb) on a variety of instruments that begin with the letter "B"

Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons) on baritone sax vs DJ Octavio (Splatoon) on turntables

Ronan Lynch (The Raven Cycle) on uilleann pipes vs Venti (Genshin Impact) on lyre and flute

Rocky Rickaby (Lackadaisy) on fiddle vs Hoid (The Cosmere) on flute

Side B

Sonic (Sonic Underground) on electric guitar vs Sal "Sally Face" Fisher (Sally Face) on Guitar

Demyx (Kingdom Hearts) on sitar vs Achilles (The Iliad) on lyre

Jade Harley (Homestuck) on bass guitar vs Ryan Akagi (Infinity Train) on guitar

Wednesday Addams (Wednesday) on cello vs Maki Nishikino (Love Live! School Idol Project) on piano

Sally Thorn" McKnight (Scooby-Doo) on guitar vs Hunter Sylvester (Metal Lords) on electric guitar

K.K. Slider (Animal Crossing) on guitar vs Will Treaty (Ranger's Apprentice) on mandola

Edward Cullen (Twilight) on piano vs Miguel Rivera (Coco) on guitar

William the Gonagle (Discworld) on mousepipes vs Marzipan (Homestar Runner) on guitar

The Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom of the Opera) on organ vs Dr. Teeth (The Muppets) on piano

Kris (Deltarune) on piano vs "Soul King" Brook (One Piece) on piano and guitar

Manolo Sanchez (The Book of Life) on guitar vs Greg Universe (Steven Universe) on electric guitar

Ebony Dark'Ness Dementia Raven Way (My Immortal) on guitar vs Figueroth "Fig" Faeth (Dimension 20's Fantasy High) on bass guitar

Link (Legend of Zelda) on ocarina and panflute vs Max Rebo (Star Wars) on organ

Klavier Gavin (Ace Attorney) on guitar vs Luka Couffaine (Miraculous Ladybug) on guitar

Melody (Crypt of the NecroDancer) on lute vs Musa (Winx Club) on all the instruments

Marcy Wu (Amphibia) on drums vs Victor Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy) on violin

*due to an unfortunate counting error, a 3rd person has been added to this matchup.

#fictional musician competition

[lassieposting]

not to get all emotional about notw again but one thing i love about the single parent vesemir dynamic is that the kaer morons would end up having a completely different training experience to basically every generation of witchers that came before them.

like. netflix!vesemir seems to grow up towards the end of the golden age of witchering. for him personally, witchering seems to still be a lucrative profession - he makes a very robust living, and he can afford to live in the lap of luxury in his off-hours, but he does also admit that he's built his brand on taking only the most dangerous contracts, which will bring in the most money. deglan, however, complains that he's "down two dozen witchers" in one year because they're struggling enough to take employment elsewhere, as sellswords or criminals. he's down enough manpower that he forces ves, his golden child, to join in with training the baby witchers - a chore he's spent most of his adult life skiving with zero consequences. so like. they're not doing great, overall.

but when vesemir was training, there were still plenty of witchers at kaer morhen, with a tried-and-true system for teaching youngsters. he probably would have had a mixture of academic classes (the three Rs, history, politics, languages, maybe some law? everything he'd need to keep out of trouble in various kingdoms once he's on the path), and then both theory and practical classes for things like alchemy, weapons training, monster lore, etc. there's lots of time spent poring over old bestiaries and potion recipes, lots of rote memorisation, before he's ever allowed to try anything out for himself.

(he's old for a newbie - twelve or thirteen and with zero fighting experience - so he's actually in some remedial classes as a kid. he's in the same group as Luka and Sven, both a few years younger, for all his fighting skills, because he's got a lot of catching up to do. at some point, once he's shown enough promise to impress, deglan gets personally involved in his training, gives him extra lessons, etc. It works out for him - he's a fast learner with a natural talent.)

but at the end of notw, kaer morhen is a smoking ruin, and vesemir and the four surviving baby witchers are? basically on the run. they wouldn't be able to go straight home; the humans are still riled up, and there's no way to know that they won't come back to finish the job if they realise some of the witchers survived. ves is an unparalleled fighter, but he's only one man. they'd swarm him, get around him and kill the boys easily. he'd have to give them time to calm down and lose the thirst for mutant blood before even considering bringing the last hope of the wolf school back into potential danger. so they'd be on the road for? quite possibly a long while.

so the kaer morons don't have access to the massive library at kaer morhen during that time. they don't have a bunch of trainers who've become highly educated experts in their respective fields. all they've got is vesemir. and while he's got a working knowledge of all the things a witcher needs to know, he's only an expert in one field, and that's fighting. he's also still got to work to support them, so the amount of time he can actually spend tutoring is, well, limited. they have to learn on the fly, often by trial and error.

they learn what happens when a witcher overdoses on potions the hard way: watching the fallout of vesemir actually doing it to survive a fight. he's sick as a dog for days, heaving like he's trying to bring up his own innards long after there's nothing left in his belly. they're young, but they know witchers aren't supposed to get sick, and it's horrifying for them. they're not entirely sure exactly why he reacted that badly - not like the long lecture on biology that vesemir got when he was in training - but they sure as shit know they don't want it to happen to them.

they learn healing the same way - by the seat of their fucking pants, more often than not. vesemir uses himself as a practical example, because he's never been all that spectacular at the theory side of things - when he's taking post-battle healing potions, he'll explain which ones he's using and why, or if he has a small injury he'll use it as an opportunity to demonstrate how to properly stitch or cauterise a wound. he's grouchy and short-tempered a lot of the time, sore and tired and with a hundred paces he'd rather be than airing his scars to fascinated and grossed-out little boys, but he does his best, because this, this practical shit, this he can do. they'll need this knowledge, eventually. but there are also times where he comes home on the verge of collapse, using the wall to stay upright and struggling to get out of his armour before keeling over into bed, and they have to learn to keep calm and put that new knowledge into practice independently and fix him up themselves.

eskel learns igni early, long before they're sent to nenneke, because sometimes the fire goes out while vesemir is off hunting or scouting or taking a moment to go out of earshot and grieve in fucking peace, and if he doesn't figure out how to relight it, his little brothers will be cold. he's seen ves do it. he knows how to make the sign, more or less. he just figures it out, trying to replicate what vesemir does until it works. he's naturally inclined towards magic, which is probably why it works for him, but he still works it out by himself.

geralt picks flowers for vesemir when they're on the move, between villages. he knows ves is struggling with balancing everything, and he thinks he recognises plants that he's seen in vesemir's alchemy kit, the ones he makes potions out of. he collects as many he recognises as possible, and when vesemir is stabling the horse at the next inn, geralt tugs his sleeve and hands them over. some of them are useful. some of them are useless, and some of them are poison. ves gets down on geralt's level and shows him how to spot the differences between this white flower and that white flower, and geralt gradually brings him fewer things that would probably make him sick.

lambert doesn't initially learn to fight in a safe, structured class with padded armour and a little wooden practice sword like ves did. he learns to fight by picking fights with eskel and geralt, both a few years older, and getting his arse handed to him, until he figures out how to use their bigger size and greater strength against them. by the time they get back to kaer morhen and vesemir has somewhere safe to actually do some proper training, lambert has already become pretty adept at just…getting out of the way of whatever is trying to hit him.

vesemir gets them all little daggers, for when he's not around to protect them - live steel, a big responsibility for a small child. remus watches how vesemir looks after his gear after a hunt and starts to copy him. vesemir oils his sword, remus oils his dagger. vesemir checks his armour for damage or wear and tear, remus checks his clothes for the same. he'll come sit by ves and just. copy him. eventually vesemir starts showing him how to mend a tear in a gambeson courtesy of the business end of a forktail, and he'll matter-of-factly rip a side seam out of a spare shirt so remus can practice fixing something that ves doesn't have to wear into battle again anytime soon.

just? baby witchers who get back to kaer morhen eventually and start their training proper, only to realise that they've learned a bunch of this shit out of order already just from living on the road with vesemir for a year or two, having to see the really ugly side of his job, and trying to make his life easier. witchering 101 baptism of fire edition for all of them

#the witcher #the witcher headcanons #netflix witcher #nightmare of the wolf #kaer morons #vesemir #dad!vesemir #i am having so much fun in the kiddie pool that is notw