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I wrote a thing?
They're about Peta, who was a little girl Geralt found on the streets in Novigrad and brought to Kaer Morhen without realizing she wasn't a little boy.
lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven (14740 words) by kawuli
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Vesemir (The Witcher), Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Original Witcher Character(s), Lambert (The Witcher), Triss Merigold, Eskel (The Witcher)
Additional Tags: Witcher training, Pre-Canon, Original Character(s), canon-typical horribleness, ie witcher training and the trial of the grasses are arguably child abuse, Genderqueer Character
Series: Part 1 of Antennas to heaven
Summary:
"Everybody says witchers steal kids. Are you going to steal me?”
The witcher looked over, smiling slightly. “Do you want me to?”
“You lied to us, Peta,” he said. “We don’t recruit girls to be witchers.”
Peta felt her face get hot. She looked down at her shoes -- good leather shoes, hand-me-downs from someone but still whole. She curled her fingers and felt the new calluses starting to grow from sword training. Then she looked Vesemir right in the eye and said, “I’m not leaving. I like it here. I want to stay. Besides, I never lied you just... assumed, and I didn't say anything.”
“I want to be a witcher,” Peta said. “I don’t care if it hurts.”
Vesemir made a sound like a growl in the back of his throat. “Peta,” he said. “You can’t be a witcher. You won’t survive the Changes. And I am not going to let you kill yourself in my fortress.”
“Vesemir, please,” Peta begged. “You don’t know for sure--”
like a daydream or a fever (3952 words) by kawuli
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: OFC/O???C
Additional Tags: Genderqueer Character, Sex worker OFC, gender is for humans, what even is gender??
Series: Part 2 of Antennas to heaven
Summary:
Peta had always avoided Novigrad. Not enough contracts, too many people, and too many hazy memories she had no desire to bring out into the light. Better to just stay away.
But now she'd just finished a job nearby and had gotten paid well enough for it to justify a hot meal, a few pints of ale, and a bed in an inn. And anyway, she was curious.
In which young witcher Peta finds both bad memories and good possibilities