Geralt/Jaskier
| Pairing | |
|---|---|
| Pairing: | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier |
| Alternative name(s): | Geraskier, Gerlion, Geralt/Dandelion |
| Gender category: | slash, m/m |
| Fandom: | The Witcher |
| Canonical?: | No |
| Prevalence: | Popular |
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Geralt/Jaskier, also known as Geraskier, is the slash pairing of Geralt of Rivia and Jaskier in The Witcher fandom. The pairing is a slash juggernaut in the fandom.
Prior to the release of the first season of The Witcher on Netflix, the pairing of Geralt and Jaskier was a rarepair, with only a small number of fanworks. Since then, interest in the pairing skyrocketed, becoming by far the most popular for the franchise and ranking in 4th place on Tumblr Fandometrics' Year in Review 2020 top 100 ships.
Canon
Jaskier is Geralt's closest friend and frequent traveling companion.
Bookverse and Gameverse
In the original books Jaskier and Geralt were close. They loved each other, Geralt openly admitted that they were friends even when other people slandered Jaskier for being a dandy.
Showverse
The show brought Jaskier into more stories than he was originally involved in in the books, correctly predicting that he would be a fan favourite.
Throughout the first season, Jaskier follows Geralt obsessively around like a lost puppy, singing songs to praise him while also relying on The Witcher's protection when needed. In episode six, the pair even share a lovers' tiff of sorts after it's made clear that the Bard disapproves of Geralt's romantic interest in Yennefer. And then there's the specific language Jaskier uses too. How often would a "friend" say something like, "Oh, you usually just let strangers rub chamomile onto your lovely bottom?" Lovely. Bottom.
David Opie[1]
Season 2 saw Jaskier's song, "Burn, Butcher, Burn", about his breakup with Geralt. Being seen by fans as a song of a burned ex.
Fandom
No Ship War
In the early days of the fandom after the premiere of The Witcher on Netflix, there was virtually no ship war between shippers of Geralt/Jaskier and Geralt/Yennefer, the love interest of Geralt in canon. There instead arose a thriving OT3 of Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer.
Tam[2]
Common Tropes in Fanworks
- Kidfic: About raising Ciri, Geralt's adopted daughter in canon, together as their daughter.
- Apology scene: Geralt needs to beg and crawl to get Jaskier to take him back after the season 1 finale mountain breakup
- Hurt/Comfort: Jasiker receiving the hurt, and Geralt providing the comfort, is the most common
- Modern AU: placing Geralt and Jaskier in a modern setting, this might be a mundane AU or still involve fantastical elements, sometimes with reincarnation/soulmate backgrounds
- Top/Bottom Dynamics:: Top Geralt tends to be more popular, but Top Jaskier is also fairly common
- Jaskier is not fully human: having Jaskier be half of a fantastical race is common, some popular choices are fae, elf, or demon. This may be one way to ensure that the pairing has a long life together, because witchers life longer than humans, and it may also be a way to explain why the actor never ages on the show
- Threesome or Poly: with the most popular choice for a third partner being Yennefer, although fanworks that include one of the other witchers, like Eskel, can also be found
Challenges
Awards
- In 2024, the relationship won 6th place in the fourth MLM Ship Bracket Tournament out of 112 entrants.
Fanworks
Bookverse
Fanart
Gameverse
Fanart
- geralt coming upon jaskier in the woods for the first time, Archived version by egosweetheart
- Either love is, Archived version gif set by seance
Meta
Showverse
Fanfic
- Here we go again~! by Likorys, Jasker is an omega in a world where they're on the top of everything, fertile and precious, yet still used by those around for political marriages and the likes. Witchers are always alphas, always golden-eyed and always seen as one moment away from snapping and becoming mindless with lust or rage. Jaskier doesn't buy into it and when he sees a Witcher harassed in public, he intervenes.
- The god of scraped knees. by spqr, Jaskier’s been pretending to be human for so long now that he hardly remembers what it feels like to be a sorcerer. He doesn’t want to remember what it feels like to be a sorcerer. But people still murmur his name with reverence in certain dim halls; Dandelion, Dandelion, destroyer of worlds.
- New Monster Stories by kathkin
Fanart
- Modern AU by труп жмыха (ottozs)
- Somebody came to apologize, Archived version by journeythroughunknownlands
- Inspired by “The Meeting on the Turret Stairs", Archived version by saeculorum-art
- the only surefire way to shut up a bard, Archived version by sunatsubu
- Scenes that got cut out of the tv show, Archived version by ellenchain
- Second Chances, Archived version by bonesbunns
- What they might be talking about?, Archived version by thistlearts
Meta
Fanvid
- i found by lady disaster
Example Art Gallery
Geralt and Dandelion in tavern by Bathorygen (2014), this art based on the book version of the characters
Art by jaskiervevo (2020), this art based off the video game version of these characters, and mimicking an online meme
You’re my destiny by haflacky (2020)
Go to horny jail Jaskier by elalalune (2020)
your honor they love eachother by iocarus (2020)
Geraskier by Kirashion (2020)
Sunset by maXKennedy (2020) – Jaskier placing a flower crown on a sleeping Geralt.
Tarot by maXKennedy (2020) – Geralt and Jaskier in the "tarot" art style.
Bards & Braids by Tonbane (2021)
geraskier by kyber-erso (2021)
Resources
References
- ^ "Is The Witcher gay, or very gay?". Archived from the original on 26 Dec 2019.
- ^ Tam (23 January 2020). "I love the witcher fandom because ship wars?". Tumblr. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020.