So the biggest Witcher enemy pairing is based on video game canon and to talk about it in detail is probably a giant spoiler for show fandom? And I think also for book fandom? I read up to but not through the last book chronologically; and okay I just checked wikipedia and it is revealed in the last book but uh, learning the way it is revealed makes me actually not want to dig any deeper into this pairing right now! Okay! We're just going to assume the video game is set in a slightly different universe because none of the game fic I've read has alluded to that even a little bit.

Anyway. Witcher is a medievalish fantasy fandom. Geralt is a Witcher, a traditionally politically neutral travelling monster-slayer who somehow keeps getting mixed up in politics anyway. Emhyr is the Emperor who is going to conquer the world. They frequently find themselves at cross purposes. They occasionally find themselves allied. They fit the archetype of "Person who has become so powerful nobody dares disrespect them/the only person left who is too out of fucks to care, and constantly disrespects them anyway" which is a pretty great dynamic.

Also they were allies first when Emhyr was a young prince in exile under an assumed name and gave his daughter into Geralt's care. So there's that between them too.

TV show fandom is much bigger than video game fandom, but a lot less enemy-slashy, although I have read some Yennefer/Dandelion that does the triangulation-around-Geralt thing in a fun way, so have some of that as a bonus!

• Prickly (26783 words) by softestpunk
  Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Emhyr var Emreis/Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia
  Additional Tags: Curses, magic being both ironic and bullshit, helpless woodland creatures, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, everyone loves Priscilla, Emhyr has both a literal and figurative soft underbelly
  
  The Emperor gets turned into a hedgehog (for real this time) and only one person can help him.



• A history of dragons in popular culture (17922 words) by Deputychairman
  Fandom: The Witcher (TV)
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion, Jaskier | Dandelion/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg
  Additional Tags: this is the story of that post, where Yennefer & Jaskier become drinking buddies after the dragon hunt breakup, bitch about Geralt, and accidentally on purpose sleep together, and instead of playing Despacito he writes a song for her, not to make Geralt jealous you understand!, Geralt internally when he sees them together:, WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK, only a jealous threesome can resolve that kind of mess, ft. the only m/f dynamic that means anything:, if she can't have him executed, there's too much equality going on, and he is Into That
  
  Jaskier writes Yennefer a song.