@WDZMN:ย a modern / neon-noir au version of geralt of rivia of sapkowskiโs witcher series. book inspired but heavily and basically entirely headcanon based. mutuals only / 21+ / written by charlie (she / they). full bio + rules brief are below cut.
this is a space strictly dedicated to my neon-noir inspired modern au for the world of the witcher at large, blending it with other modern-fantasy and horror media, though geraltโs characterization / arcs are rooted and based around the canon of the novels. i take no inspiration from the way that he is portrayed in the games / netflix series, though i am happy to interact with blogs based in these media.
RULES BRIEF:ย please do not use heavy additional spacing between words / characters or gradient-coloured text when writing with me. in general, heavy formatting is hard for me to read. blog is nsfw heavy and thereby exclusively 18+. all triggers are tagged with #trigger /. minors will be blocked. mutuals only, all mutuals are welcome / invited to im me or ask for discord. if i donโt like you / the things you post, i will soft/hard block as i see fit.
REFERENCES:ย sideblog,ย pinterest,ย playlist
BIO:ย ย
age: 116, appears 40-60 due to greatly decelerated agingย race: witcher (genetically reconstructed human)ย pronouns/pref:ย he+him / bisexualย commonย aliases:ย ravix, the butcher of beลchatรณw, white wolfย ย nationality: polish, expatriateย occupation:ย monster hunter for hireย physical:ย 6โฒ0โณ, broad & strong shouldered, narrow through the hips, unnaturally athletic in his youth, fibrous and tough to look at, as though he would be hard to chew, strong but now softened / slimmed with age, gold-red amber eyes usually appearing strange and black due to manual pupil dilation to hide their unusual colour, milk-coloured & ashen hueless hair, peppered dark flinty silver / grey, aging from ashen to a hard soot-grey
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notable features:ย heavily scarred, a few small tattoos but for a large swallow canvasing the top of his right hand, highly athletic and deep in build in a manner that is somehow animal in feel, strange black eyes with no clear delineation between pupil and iris, graceful and poised in movement, light-footed, something of an acrobat or a dancer in him, rests weight upon his left foot in repose, now a distinct limp / occasional locking in the right leg and right arm which fluctuates with intensity of use, suffers from chronic pain and tremors associated with past frequent physical trauma
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abilities:ย enhanced strength & body composition, physiological immunity to most illness & disease, accelerated healing factor, greatly increased reaction time, enhanced endurance, resistance to toxicity, greatly exaggerated hyper-human senses, mutated vertically dilating pupils allow for sight in near-total dark, practiced control of normally involuntary physiological functions, in possession of legacy tech capable of detecting supernatural / magickal energies on top of a natural sensitivity to such energies
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skills:ย hyperpolyglot, intermediate to advanced fluency in multiple languages (polish, english, french, russian, spanish, danish, slovene, czech, lithuanian, dutch, german), novice sub-fluency in multiple others (mandarin chinese, romanian, latin, greek, old norse, norwegian, anglo-saxon, japanese), expert marksman & individual combat proficiency, highly athletic and acrobatic, highly-trained fencer, medic training, deep botanical / medicinal knowledge, some automotive / mechanical skill, deep knowledge of anthropological occult & mythological history, minor magickal abilities through proficiency in witcher signs
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important info:ย geralt is a witcher, a man born human who was forcibly mutated via magick as a child using genetic material selected from supernatural creatures for the purpose of creating the perfect hunter of those same creatures. he was then raised as a weapon. there is literally magick in his dna, and he is a monster hunterโbut in a contemporary setting these dead / secret histories that he and his profession come from are considered fiction. to a mundane person who isnโt hiring him for supernatural work, he will not reveal anything even approaching his โspeciesโ / profession.
in the eyes of the criminal underworld where they are only vaguely known, witchers are considered no more than hitmen with a melodramatic name. in this environment, geralt is famousโknown by various codenames, recognized for massacres / killings / crimes that are a byproduct of his true profession. the victims of his prey have been pinned on him by association, and often killing humanoid or passing creatures leads to the assumption that nothing more than a hyper-violent hit took place if cleanup is compromised. some situations have arisen (such as the public slaughter of eight people in a night market in beลchatรณw, poland) which are results of his work as a witcher or situational complications but are viewed by the world as the acts of a brutally efficient and theatrical assassin.
if you are involved in similar work or frequent large cities in central europe, you may have heard of him either in description / association or as a kind of noir myth, though these stories are attached only to various comic-book-esque titles heโs been given by people spreading said storiesโthe white wolf, the butcher of ย beลchatรณw, and a compromised pseudonym he once used when taking contracts, ravixโand not to his real name
important hcs (please read before interacting): main arc,ย chronic pain, physical presence, aging 1, aging 2
















