#witcher reread

[vulpinesaint]

your vampire steals a mule and calls it dracula. your bard is writing a set of memoirs called “fifty years of poetry” when he’s only been writing poetry for twenty years. your main warriors are 1) guy who loves his daughter to the point of incredible violence and 2) guy who tried to kidnap that daughter multiple times. traveling party full of silly motherfuckers

[ettadunham]

i've been thinking about ciri so much lately with the new game announcement. she's a princess. she's a juvenile delinquent. she got banned from seeing her childhood friend because she upstaged him so hard in extreme sports that he fell in love with her. she got a tattoo and a face scar at age 15. she's besties with a unicorn. she once killed a dude for being homophobic to her. she has the power of god and anime on her side. she unironically suffered more than jesus. she once asked her dad why he's being a centrist. and she's even bisexual.

[monikarozaa]

Biblically accurate Ciri is a Żabka cashier

[mishavoltaire]

Ciri nation how we feeling

[dancingwiththefae]

Geralt when other people try to fight destiny: you are a fool

Geralt when destiny comes for him: I’m pretty sure I can fight destiny

[ehay]

Yennefer, inspired by several scenes in the Austen AU by @clydethistles, which I had the pleasure of rereading last night.

(Highly recommended)

[saessenach]

"He knew those wild, black curls and the obsidian star on a velvet ribbon. What he didn't know and had never seen before was the face. It was a face of rage and fury, the face of a goddess of vengeance, destruction and death."

Yennefer of Vengerberg, in black and white

[graveyarrdshift]

I'm about to be sooooo not normal about the Witcher 4

[cliji]

thinking about sapkowski putting that traditional marriage vow (and dandelion's pear analogy) as the chapter divider right after yen and geralt reconcile like...what was that...

[distant--shadow]

experiencing the joys of reading ur own fic and being like, damn, this slaps, I am so immersed, I need more

also experiencing the frustrations of oh man, writing is such a pain in the butt though

[vulpinesaint]

can’t take this guy anywhere. the complainerrrrrrr

[bittersweetbark]

Once is random, twice is a pattern - I had forgotten how Geralt had thought he was dreaming of Yen when Iola fucked him. That, together with his name slip with Fringilla, is giving me the new head canon that he only has sex with Yen in his head :'D

Shani? Yen. Essi? Definitely Yen. Did I forget anyone? Also Yen.

[essskel]

Angoulême as Geralt’s false Ciri is a concept that always obliterates me. She’s introduced as Ciri, deconstructed as a hopefully avoidable future state of the real Ciri’s, and then blends back into Ciri when harmed in front of Geralt. She can only be Ciri when she’s bleeding, which luckily she does a lot. Angoulême is the photo of Ciri on the dashboard of the Hanza’s van that they all stare at as a reminder of what they’re truly after. Angoulême reminds Geralt of what it’s like to be a father, but makes him ever farther from it because she is still False and the absence in him has a shape now. To parent her would be wrong because that’s not his daughter that’s just a girl. He parents her anyway. Angoulême is the doll given to a grieving mother who needs something baby-shaped to hold. And it is comforting. You start to love the doll as a doll too. The doll has her own clothes now, she answers when you speak to her.

On the other hand: Ciri is both a princess and a street rat, but she’s most importantly neither of those things. Those two false but very real roles that she runs from and into are so overwhelming to her narrative that they exist as people in the story: The False Cirilla in Emhyr’s court, and Angoulême in Geralt’s Hanza. False Cirilla and Angoulême, but especially Angoulême are characters of their own who I hate that I sound like I’m downplaying or tossing aside as nothing but imagery to further Ciri’s story, but also you can’t talk about either of them without talking about how they overlap and grow off of Ciri like a cell in mitosis.

Angoulême is here because Geralt loves Ciri, False Cirilla is here because Emhyr has a daughter-shaped cage that collapses unless it’s filled. The two fathers confront the reality of their daughter while staring at a girl who they have no relation to, but it’s alright, they realize what they need to realize anyway. There was no medicine in that pill, it was just sugar, you got over the pain on your own, good job.

And then we reach the bloody ending and it hits us that Angoulême is so much more that Ciri, and that we love Angoulême too. That we and Geralt and the story were cruel to try and twist her into this shape, she’s such a great kid, she deserves her own story she’s going to be such a woman. Fuck this post Angoulême isn’t Ciri Angoulême is Angoulême and these comparisons are getting so old and played out. Then she dies in Ciri’s arms.

[starfal1z]

I love forcing men to listen to my info dump about the Witcher franchise and how much I want to fuck both Ciri and Geralt 🙏

[dancingwiththefae]

when you’re writing your fics never forget that geralt likes to relay his findings to his horse like he’s sherlock holmes

[ontheheights]

read nearly 300 pages of a physical novel today so I think I'm basically cured of my fleeting attention span and various & sundry issues?