Don't Go Stealing My Heart
is a The Witcher (2019) fanfic by TheSilverQueen, published in 2022.
Jaskier the bard steals a wolf medallion from a lord who refused to give him proper payment for a performance. That night, Jaskier finds himself sharing a dream with a strange man named Geralt, who tells him that he is a witcher who was cursed into a magical sleep more than one hundred years before. Jaskier sets out on a journey to find Geralt's body and break the curse.
Don't Go Stealing My Heart contains examples of:
- Aroused by Their Voice: Before even hearing Geralt's name Jaskier is enamored with his voice when he starts talking, thinking of the odes he could write about it.
- Forced Sleep: Geralt's been cursed into a magical sleep for over a hundred years.
- Improbably Quick Coma Recovery: Lampshaded when Geralt gets out of bed immediately after awakening from the curse, even though he has been asleep more than one hundred years.
- Living Lie Detector: Geralt says he can hear it when someone lies to him.
- Powers via Possession: Geralt briefly takes control of Jaskier's body to channel fire to save Jaskier from freezing to death.
- Pretty Boy: Lambert calls Jaskier a pretty boy, which Jaskier takes offense to.
- Shout-Out: Several elements are stated by the author to be deliberately borrowed from fairy tales.
- Sleeping Beauty:
- Geralt is put under a sleeping curse and mistaken for dead.
- True Love's Kiss is the cure for Geralt's curse.
- Snow White:
- Geralt is described as having hair as white as snow and lips as red as blood.
- Geralt is put in a glass coffin.
- Geralt's brothers are mistaken for dwarves after they retrieve Geralt's coffin with pickaxes.
- Sleeping Beauty:
- Stealing from the Till: Jaskier steals from his employer on the way out the door when the man refused to give him his proper payment.
- Talking in Your Dreams: Jaskier and Geralt meet while Jaskier is sleeping and Geralt is suffering from a sleeping curse. Geralt's medallion that Jaskier is wearing allows them to communicate via a shared dream.
- True Love's Kiss: Jaskier wakes Geralt from his sleeping curse by kissing him.
