"Destroyed? I doubt it. There's surprisingly little that I can do to make a dent in the decades of reputation-building that Dandelion dedicated himself to."
Like it or not, in the eyes of the common folk, Geralt is the White Wolf, heroic slayer of monsters and defender of the innocent. And, unfortunately, potential deflower-er of their daughters, though Geralt blames all of that on the bard's surprising aptitude for writing bawdy songs about his cock and ability to satisfy lovers. Dandelion had claimed, at the time, that he wrote them purely to improve Geralt's reputation in the brothels and get him better service, but they seldom stayed as brothel-songs. One of them that had gotten particularly popular was supposedly about the witcher giving 'fencing lessons' to a young lady, and afterwards Geralt received an annoying number of requests from bored noblewomen about becoming their fencing tutor. Geralt had threatened Dandelion with a tutoring if he let another song like that get out of hand, and in hindsight the bard had been surprisingly interested in what that might entail.
Best friend, Jaskier says. It's true enough, so whether he calls him best friend or lover or whatever else, it's fine. He's all of those things and more.
"But you're right, Dandelion was just as angry when he saw it," Geralt says, and he has the decency to at least look a little chastened about it. "I found a few ways to make it up to him. He never stays angry with me for very long."
What did he do to make it up to him? Who knows. Maybe he rubbed his feet, or listened to him try out his latest compositions. There are all sorts of things that a strong, willing witcher could do to please a humble bard.
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Like it or not, in the eyes of the common folk, Geralt is the White Wolf, heroic slayer of monsters and defender of the innocent. And, unfortunately, potential deflower-er of their daughters, though Geralt blames all of that on the bard's surprising aptitude for writing bawdy songs about his cock and ability to satisfy lovers. Dandelion had claimed, at the time, that he wrote them purely to improve Geralt's reputation in the brothels and get him better service, but they seldom stayed as brothel-songs. One of them that had gotten particularly popular was supposedly about the witcher giving 'fencing lessons' to a young lady, and afterwards Geralt received an annoying number of requests from bored noblewomen about becoming their fencing tutor. Geralt had threatened Dandelion with a tutoring if he let another song like that get out of hand, and in hindsight the bard had been surprisingly interested in what that might entail.
Best friend, Jaskier says. It's true enough, so whether he calls him best friend or lover or whatever else, it's fine. He's all of those things and more.
"But you're right, Dandelion was just as angry when he saw it," Geralt says, and he has the decency to at least look a little chastened about it. "I found a few ways to make it up to him. He never stays angry with me for very long."
What did he do to make it up to him? Who knows. Maybe he rubbed his feet, or listened to him try out his latest compositions. There are all sorts of things that a strong, willing witcher could do to please a humble bard.