The Witcherseries has spawned a lot of fanfiction, but that’s not entirely surprising. It’s a fantasy series starring a bunch of hot characters - many of which get it on, orcanget it on in the games. At the time of writing, there are 46,016 fics on the site Archive of Our Own - 11,567 of which are labelled as “explicit”. Turns out, the cast is very aware of this.

Speaking at MCM Comic Con this weekend, Geralt actorDoug Cockleadmits that he’s read some of these spicy fics, although not because he’s gone out looking for them. Turns out, fans like to send the work his way, and he’s actually brave enough to click on the links and give the stories a read. Very admirable stuff, to be honest.

At a panel forThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the actors for Geralt, Triss, Yennefer, Eredin, and Dandelion answered a bunch of questions about their time both on the game and in the fanbase after recording. Naturally, the topic of fanfiction came up, and Doug Cockle isn’t afraid to admit that he’s flicked through a few fics.

“Some of it’s so dirty, it’s disgustingly good,” says Cockle. “I get sent most of it. […] People will send it in messages, a link to something they’ve written or to something someone else has written and they’ve read and thought it was really good. Or they thought it was disgusting and they thought I’d like it - Which is absolutely true.

“So, I’ve read a number of things. A lot of them are quite sexual. And most of them involve all kinds of things.The bathtubfeatures in a lot of things.”

Jokes aside, Cockle seems to have a lot of respect for the Witcher fanfiction writers. “There’s some really good stuff out there. And some of it is quite naughty, and that’s even more fun.”

Of course, the games themselves get more than a little naughty from time to time. Elsewhere in the panel, the great “Triss or Yennefer” debate came up, only for their actors to make it clear that there’s no rivalry there. Naturally, this leads to them bringing up that scene you get in The Witcher 3 if you try to romance them both at once. I’m sure there are plenty of fanfictions out there that have made that moment much more beneficial for Geralt… Although as it stands, the two ladies in Geralt’s life make it clear that they won’t be played off against one another, and you’ve got to love that.

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