#notw luka | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

sirverofarrows · 1 year

Photo

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

16 notes · View notes

lassieposting · 1 year

Text

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

105 notes · View notes

blossomdapple · 11 months

Note

16 and 18 for the hot takes

Thanks so much for the ask!!

Since no fandom was indicated I'll default to The Witcher ^^

16. You can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Aiden lmao. I keep hearing about him on Tumblr and AO3 and at first I thought he was someone's OC that become popular (cuz that happens in fandoms sometimes) but apparently he's a character who was mentioned ONCE in The Witcher 3 yet I seem to see far more content of him than of characters like Triss, Calanthe, Dara, Coen, Renfri etc

I get it, people project onto characters that are essentially blank slates but his popularity relative to characters with far more screentime and characterization in other media is honestly a bit ridiculous

18. It's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

NIGHTMARE OF THE WOLF. Unlike Blood Origin which everyone knows and (unfortunately) hates, no one in the fandom seems to even know what NOTW is which is a shame cuz I really enjoy the movie. Sure the timeline and lore are inconsistent with the show it's supposed to be the prequel to but besides that, I think it's entertaining and offers an interesting look into Vesemir’s backstory and events that happened decades before the show

I like how it characterizes Vesemir in a complex way. Plus I love Illyana and Luka as characters and I recommend it for the animation alone

#mine #ask #twn #the witcher #the witcher netflix #nightmare of the wolf

3 notes · View notes

bamf-jaskier · 3 years

Text

Introducting Luka, The Witcher’s First Gay Character

Love Wins 🌈 ✌️

#in case u can’t tell this is sarcastic and supposed to be parodying #specifically a parody of Disney’s first gay character #so yes do not take this seriously I swear to god #the witcher #notw #notw spoilers #Luka #Vesemir #gifs #my gifs #myposts #nightmare of the wolf

984 notes · View notes

ladycibia · 3 years

Photo

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Honey Cake continues

thank you @starstrungshitposting, @atomicr4ven and @juilina !!!

#3/12 done!#nightmare of the wolf #the witcher nightmare of the wolf #vesemir #witcher luka #witcher sven #notw #honey cake #the witcher netflix #the witcher #the witcher fanart #chibi witchers saga #quick doodle #cibiart #mine:witcher

540 notes · View notes

heschrafn · 2 years

Photo

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

84 notes · View notes

ajaxskingdom · 3 years

Text

I'm care them so fucking dearly, dude

#notw spoilers #witcher vesemir #vesemir #witcher luka #luka #the witcher #the witcher nightmare of the wolf #I will do anything for these two men #In MY canon Luka is alive and helped Vesemir raise the others while also helping him after Illyana's death #/lh btw #I am 100% writing a fic based off that tho

408 notes · View notes

skaldingrayne · 3 years

Text

Yo! Kaer Morhen's fanon hot springs now CONFIRMED canon!

Who's joining me for a soak?

Just gotta find one that's not already in use...

@continentcakeshop

#the witcher #the witcher fanfiction #witcher fanfiction #witcher crack #witcher fanfic #the witcher fanfic #nightmare of the wolf #witcher shitpost #kaer morhen #kaer morhen's fanon hotsprings #notw spoilers #notw #look i know the screen grabs are shitty but that's on Netflix's anti-screenshot code #yes i'm already working on the Sven/Luka fixit fic #there's 5k words already posted and i will get to them I promise

78 notes · View notes

tantumuna · 2 years

Text

To New Experiences Prompt Fill: self-cest Rating: E Pairing: Luka x Vesemir CW: none tags: explicit sexual content, face-sitting --

Vesemir's in trouble, and ever-faithful, Luka goes to rescue him. He doesn't expect to find a Doppler is the reason Vesemir's in a tight spot, nor does he expect to find the Doppler looks exactly like he does. What the Doppler wants in return for Vesemir's release is the last thing Luka expects.

--

@save-a-witcher-bingo

#the witcher #luka #vesemir #veska #luka x vesemir #vesemir x luka #nightmare of the wolf #notw #witcher 3 #witcher 3 wild hunt #tw3 #writes #SAWB #save a witcher bingo

4 notes · View notes

twelvemagpies · 3 years

Text

well that was certainly a film, wasn't it

cannae wait to ruthlessly cherry-pick it for vague details to wrangle into my own canon pie

#this isn't ~fandom wank~ or anything the film was fine #more than anything i'm just confused why twn seems to contradict its own canon with notw #letting alone any of the other canons #anyway! the animation was great and it's an interesting watch #and i can't wait to see how other writers are gonna try to wrangle it into making sense in canon #since a couple throwaway lines and what twn says about the year it takes place throw such a spanner in the works #bc i have so many thoughts about this film but i'm not gonna yell about them in public fjdskla also i don't wanna spoiler people #also one of the witchers is queer ig? but in like.....the disney way i'm afraid #also twn did me dirty with a character named luka after i literally just posted a fic with a witcher by that name i stg #the witcher #nightmare of the wolf #tire fire talks

15 notes · View notes

kittynannygaming · 3 years

Text

[Sims 2] The Witcher - NoTW

It was obvious that, after watching Nightmare of The Wolf, I would try to do something in the Sims 2.

So, I present to you

VESEMIR:

LUKA:

REMUS:

ESKEL:

LAMBERT:

GERALT:

What sort of adventures are waiting for them??

#KittyNanny Original Post #KittyNannyGaming!Sims #Sims 2 #The Witcher #Nightmare of The Wolf #Modern!AU #Eskel #Geralt #Lambert #Luka #Remus #Vesemir

14 notes · View notes

keirametzbrassknuckles · 3 years

Text

I'm treating NOTW as a very well bankrolled fanfic; something to be enjoyed and then more or less left. Luka however I am taking and keeping, he is mine now, belongs to me.

#it would make me so happy to see him become Aiden-tier in fanon #the witcher #notw

3 notes · View notes

bamf-jaskier · 3 years

Text

Young Geralt confirmed to have blonde hair and blue-green eyes in Nightmare of the Wolf

Geralt before the Trials: