"Can I call you Vicky?" "Absolutely Fucking Not."

Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand:

Takemura: You're pre-

“It’s incredible,’ the Witcher smiled hideously, ‘how much my neutrality outrages everybody. How it makes me subject to offers of pacts and agreements, offers of collaboration, lectures about the necessity to make choices and join the right side.”

With tons of new people joining the fandom through the netflix series, there's bound to be some confusion. Let me enlighten you.

First of all, Jaskier and Dandelion are the same person.

Jaskier is his name in the polish novels, Dandelion was introduced in some translation and used in the Witcher games.

Kinda random, right? Normal fantasy name and then suddenly - flower?

Well, hold fast to your seats, friends.

Jaskier is polish for

Buttercup

(Also, please take a moment to consider that Jaskier is blond in the novels. ...Yeah.)

So, as the translators came to the conclusion that this ray of sunshine can't very well be called Buttercup, a grave mistake if you ask me, they decided to use the significantly more serious and not at all equally adorbs name Dandelion.

And don't get me started on how Jaskier actually is a nickname or stage name, that Jaskier probably picked himself. Jaskier's real name is

Julian Alfred Pankratz viscount de Lettenhove

But he travels the continent fucking calling himself Buttercup instead. He introduced himself to kings, queens and a hulking, scary, badass witcher with Buttercup.

The obvious conclusion is that Jaskier is a tiny yellow flower that must be protected at all costs.