#babby ciri

[spellwing777]

I suggest a random prompt generator if you're bored. Especially when it gives you cute ones like this.

[roughentumble]

i originally had cahir, milva, and angloume on the list but then i decided i wanted it set after tw3 and not when ciri was babby. also philippa almost made it on the list because i love evil lesbians, but i didnt want to boot her girlfriend triss to do so. maybe the wild hunt snatches up a lot of humans like powerful sorceresses n stuff when it becomes obvious the continent will soon be no more, eaten by the white frost to birth a new reality? so philippa is this indoctrinated wild hunt megaboss until they get her out, and she doesnt have any homestuck powers or classpecting or god tier pajamas but she DOES still have magic. so mostly she can get by

[craiteys]

Chapter 12 is long and getting looooooooooooooooooooooonger

[fangirleaconmigo]

Rereading Tower of Swallows and once again I cried when Yen is in the temple trying to procure the diamond.

TW: talk of suicide attempt and Yen’s shitty childhood

When Yen defiantly refuses to apologize for both the revenge she took on her father and her suicide attempt???? Dear god I love that.

Because in her childhood flashback, when her mom hurts her, babby Yen asks, wasn’t she good? She had been good! You can hear her as a child blaming herself. Believing her abuse was her own fault.

It rips my heart out because she felt so much shame. She FEELS so much shame all the time. She doesn’t believe she is good enough for Geralt. She told him she wasn’t worth all of the trouble the day they met. And HE KNEW INSTINCTIVELY to hide the fact that he could see through her magical “enhancements” because it would enrage and humiliate her.

She feels shame for having been a victim or “weak” by her standards. And that is so goddamn common for child abuse survivors.

But there in the temple she holds her head high and literally standing in front of a GODDESS saying fuck you (in so many words) I will never ever ask for forgiveness for those things. (The goddess wasn’t asking her to but Yen thought she would)

Because even though she feels shame and struggles privately with low self worth, she refuses to GIVE UP. To raise the white flag and let OTHER PEOPLE shame her. She is goddamn indomitable. She is defiant. She will never debase herself or submit herself to anyone for approval.

I swear I just…that means a lot to me. Having a woman character, a victim of abuse actually get revenge on her abuser and refuse to apologize for it…it’s powerful. Having a person who suffered suicidal depression refuse to apologize for an act so shamed and stigmatized? Also incredibly powerful and meaningful for me to hear.

She is just so powerful and it has nothing to do with her magic. And she is also vulnerable and complex. She fucks up. She can be awful. She does shit she DOES have to feel bad for, to people who don’t deserve it. (Though I feel like I have to specify because of TWN that she WOULD NEVER lead Ciri to the deathless mother like in TWN. She can be an asshole-and she proudly refers to herself as a bitch-but she would never harm Ciri or any child like that I don’t care what is on the line. And she would never harm someone Geralt loved she just would never do that to him I don’t care what the stakes are)

And a lot of her assholery stems (in my opinion I’m not gonna pull all the quotes right now) from her deeply held belief that she just doesn’t deserve or doesn’t get to have things like love and family. Sometimes it even feels to me like she’s actively sabotaging herself.

But it’s her inherent capacity for love and goodness (that she thought of as a weakness and abhorred in herself) that Ciri was able to tap into and that Yen was brave enough to embrace for the good of Ciri that gives Yen her found family with Ciri and Geralt.

Because Yen is loneliest character in all of those books.* Geralt has Kaer Morhen. Dandelion has Geralt. The Hansa has each other. But who has Yen ever had? The sorceresses are all vipers to her.

But she found the love in her. She chose love. And she was ultimately loved. I’m gonna go cry now.

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(*The show makes the sorceresses friends, so Yen does have friends in the show. Jaskier feels like the loneliest char to me in TWN. But that’s a side note)

[notemily]

The Witcher episode 5:

Oh yay! A young man with a collection of body parts! There's no way this can go horribly wrong.

"The White Flame made me who I am." That sounds like some bad news.

Doppler is now Mousesack. And Mousesack is... dead?

"You don't know what she is." That was the question at the end of last episode too.

Yennefer goes to see a man with a million hourglasses. He wants more money from her, so she sets up a shingle in town. This angers some dude.

Ciri is a girl with the powers of a weapon. Like when she uses scream power? Huh. She did open a whole chasm in the earth that one time.

"The sword of destiny has two edges." Is one of them serrated? That way you can cut bread.

"What is time, anyway?" My thoughts exactly, Jaskier. I so desperately want to Google "Witcher timeline" but I will be SO spoiled if I do that.

Geralt can't sleep. He wants a djinn.

Geralt says Jaskier's singing is like a fillingless pie. Oh, it's not that bad!

They try to free a djinn from a bottle so Geralt can sleep. Jaskier immediately starts wishing for ridiculous things but before he can get a third wish out he stops being able to breathe. Uh oh.

Jaskier coughs and vomits blood. That's not good! They take him to an elf doctor.

His throat was attacked? But he needs his throat for the singing! Noooo!

The elf says there is one (1) mage in town, and that mage is imprisoned in the mayor's house. There's no way this can go horribly wrong.

Yennefer wants a cure... For what? Her infertility? I don't think that one's coming back dude. Your uterus was yeeterus.

Teal Witch, who is still wearing teal, offers Yennefer a teaching position to shape the next generation. She is not interested.

Dude at the mayor's house says "money opens all doors," so Geralt hits him in the face with his money bag and is like "yes it does." Lol

There's an orgy happening in the mayor's house! But like there's fog everywhere, so I have no idea if any of these people are real. Yennefer is real, though. They meet at last!

Poor Jaskier can't even enjoy the orgy, he's barely breathing.

"Just a friend, I hope?" Are you asking if they're dating? Yennefer, are you hitting on Geralt?

Geralt offers to indulge her curiosity all night long, as long as they can help Jaskier, like, now. It's kind of urgent.

Yennefer says the safeword that ends the orgy, and everyone looks embarrassed and leaves. Hee. She helps Jaskier and tells Geralt he stinks and needs a bath.

"Go ahead, ask about them. Everyone does." Meaning his scars. "Everyone else is boring." She decides to get naked and join the bath instead.

Geralt guesses that Yennefer had some "ailment" before and that her childhood was miserable.

"Do you doubt my capabilities?" "No, just your intentions." He is correct to doubt them.

Now Geralt is getting distracted by the smell of lilacs and gooseberries. And Yennefer is kissing on him. He sleeps! Well, I guess that's the nap he's been wanting. It's also apparently a trap.

When he wakes up, Elf Doctor tells him he's been on a rampage, doing Yennefer's bidding. Elf Doctor tried to stop him but they assumed he was there to help, I guess because of anti-elf racism?

"I just remembered, I left my... cat... on the... stove..." Hee hee hee.

"Toss a coin to your Witcher, oh valley of PENIS" This episode has some great lines.

Geralt wishes that the dude torturing him would burst, and he does. He's the one with the wishes!

"She wants to be the vessel." Well, in a manner of speaking. She wants a babby. It's interesting that the amphora she draws on herself looks a lot like a uterus.

"Dammit Yennefer, tell me what you want!" "I WANT EVERYTHING!" I think there's a loophole there where you can't wish for "everything."

Geralt wishes for something, and we aren't allowed to hear what it is. The whole damn roof collapses. Yennefer portals them out of there.

"This can't be happening." By Talos?

Elf Doctor is a bit in love with Yennefer. Because she's a quarter elf?

"When did you last feel happy when you felt trapped?" He has a good point.

They kiss. There is jaunty music of sexy shenanigans.

Jaskier wonders what to do with his life. He's planning to write the BEST song about it, but then Elf Doctor spies on their sexy times. "They're alive!" "Bollocks."

"My plan worked," Geralt says. Yennefer asks, "What did you wish for?" I still don't understand what his FIRST wish - oh, he wished for Jaskier to shut up. I get it now. (I SOMETIMES FIGURE THINGS OUT ALL BY MYSELF WITHOUT HAVING TO ASK KATE)

Fake Mousesack has come for Princess Cici, years in the future.

MAKE HIM DRINK FROM THE WATERS GUYS. Doooo it. Come on come on come on.

The leader of the dryads tells Ciri to be vigilant and ask the right questions. I'm like, yes, be vigilant RIGHT NOW! Dammit.

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[trustinginthelight]

okay-- so hear me out: basically if i were to add more witcher characters

i think i’d add pre-transformaiton yen and i have a feeling i’m going to get attached to babby ciri from the books so i’m keeping that as a possibility too tbh

so uh just saying if that happens eventually don’t be surprised

[tumbleweedtech]

DAMN RIGHT LIL BABBY CIRI

[masterpost]

Out of the mouth of babes…

[loraznerd-archive]

*runs next to you and hugs you* YOU POOR BABBY *ciries*

Lorenzo: thank you but th-this kinda hurts, I'm sorry

[honorpmoved]

SPOILERS FOR THE WITCHER 3 UNDER THE TAG it’s just me ranting about how much i love the bloody baron

LIKE FOR STARTERS I WANNA SAY he’s still p fucked up he was abusive to his family BUT I LOVE HIS CHARACTER LIKE

IT STARTS OUT WITH A SUPER HOSPITABLE DUDE WHO HELPED CIRI AND THIS LITTLE BABBY WHO ISN’T EVEN HIS KID!! and he’s just so nice and gives so much and as you go you find out he’s a horrible abusive alcoholic and it’s like!!! dude!! gross!!! fuck you!!! but last time i played i kinda went with that mentality and didn’t help him fully so i got the bad ending BUT THIS TIME I PLAYED TO HELP HIM BC HONESTLY I LIKE HIM he has mega ptsd so he drowns himself in alcohol so i wanted to give him like the benefit of the doubt like HIS FAM HATES HIM but outside of that he really is like a superb human just putting aside the abuse??? AND THEN YOU FIND OUT IT WAS ANNA TRYING TO ATTACK HIM AND SHIT AND IT WASN’T COMPLETELY JUST HIM SOLELY BEING AN ABUSIVE CUNT TO HIS FAMILY AND HE’S SO HEARTFELT ABOUT NEEDING HIS FAM BACK AND GOING TO HELP ANNA im gonna die like he’s so good the game makes it so steered to him being evil bc LIKE I MEAN HE IS SOME OF HIS CHOICES ARE INSANELY LIKE IMMORAL AND ESP THE FACT HE HIT ANNA A LOT BUT it’s so sweet at the end he vows not to touch alcohol anymore im like BARON !!

AND ALSO LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT HOW HE TOOK THE HOUSE HE’S IN AFTER THE WAR BC IT WAS EMPTY AND HE TOTALLY USES IT FOR HOSPITALITY and a little for his own greed BUT LIKE HE SAYS EVERYONE WHO LIVES THERE WANT FOR NOTHING AND SHIT he’s such a good but has such a violent and horrifying vice

[teddylacroix]

I LOVE the idea of Geralt nursing back babby hedgies!! But being in North America, I definitely pictured more like elk, wolves, deer, hawks, owls, cougars, and the like. A friend of mine worked for a zoo and routinely cared for porcupines, kangaroos, skunks, ostriches, gators, bison, and so on! Also now want to draw Geralt caring for a wee babby hedgehog 🥰 Ickle Duny huffing at anyone else who tries to touch him who isn't Geralt or Ciri!

Journalist!Jaskier

So I haven’t seen this one yet. A modern AU where Jaskier still does music, still has a great social media following, all of the usual, but one of my fav aspects of Jaskier is that he’s a writer. He writes poetry and lyrics, he writes prose in books, he writes his spy reports in verse. He wants to save Geralt’s reputation across the continent, he wants his messages to be heard, he wants to steer the course of politics and policy.

So modern AU Jaskier goes to uni, and he studies journalism.

Over the course of his career, he goes from small local press to a larger press to a TV newsroom to starting up his own press for the stories that he finds interesting but aren’t deemed worth the big news

He starts off in his college town but eventually makes it to a big city and then winds up sent all around the world

He totally ends up with a podcast called In the Weeds that talks about what the world of journalism is like

bc he loves to write, but he also still loves to hear himself speak

He writes all his own background/intro/outro music for his podcast

He met Geralt pretty early on in his career, when he reported on some dangerous wildlife from the nearby woods that’s been lurking through town at night and killing animals, trying to shame the local government into coming and doing something about it

Geralt was an intern for a wildlife management facility who was sent over when Jaskier’s story did what it was meant to

Jaskier followed him around, peppering him with questions, doing his journalist thing and generally driving Geralt completely mad

Turned out the “dangerous wildlife” was some sociopathic conspiracy theorist in town who was killing the pets of people who’d laughed at or mocked him or otherwise pissed him off

(This is NOT Filavandrel btw just some random loony)

Anyway the guy attacked them bc they were too close to the truth or some such nonsense but Geralt manages to get them free and knock the guy out and call for law enforcement, who show up and arrest him

From them on Jaskier keeps an extra close ear open for issues related to wildlife and conservation

He even works for National Geographic for a while, and that’s a cool gig, but ultimately, his focus is on people, so he doesn’t stay more than a few years

He and Geralt run into each other over and over and Geralt resigns himself to this journalist he can’t shake

They date various people over the years, Jaskier’s tastes ranging from indie creatives to state-level policy makers to lowkey celebrities, and Geralt’s from vets to politicians

Eventually one of them is between jobs and between relationships so they go to stay with the other for a while

Probably Geralt goes to stay with Jaskier bc Jaskier has more money and stability and Geralt keeps getting into fights with his superior officers for doing things his way instead of waiting for red tape

And it becomes a thing

Whenever Geralt is between jobs he winds up at Jaskier’s

Or if Jaskier is between employers and focusing on his independent work he’ll go badger Geralt for a while

Eventually Jaskier helps Geralt secure funding to open his own wildlife rehabilitation center

And Yennefer, his politician on-again-off-again ex, helps him push the paperwork through And he opens Kaer Morhen

And he hires Ciri, an intern studying wildlife veterinary medicine

And his old mentor, Vesemir Morhen, comes out of his partial retirement to help teach him how to run a nonprofit

And it just happens to be within a couple of hours of Jaskier’s place

So Jaskier also comes out whenever he can

Even if he still has his own work to do while there and doesn’t actually know shit about how to care for the animals

But he is really freaking good at remembering information and making connections

And still pokes his nose in areas he isn’t supposed to

So as Kaer Morhen gets bigger and they have to hire more people, Jaskier can help train them when Geralt and Vesemir are busy

And they save their little piece of the planet one creature at a time

And now I’m off to bed, GOOD NIGHT/MORNING/AFTERNOON/WHATEVER

[notemily]

The Witcher episode 6: THERE'S A DAGRON

"It's like a sexy goose." Jaskier wut

"You feel it just the same as me... That hole inside you." Excuse me?

I'm not sure what it is about the last team that makes Geralt agree to go on the jour--oh, is that Yennefer?

Well then.

He just leaves his horse there? Not even gonna pay anyone to watch her or anything?

Ok I really wish I knew what the fuck was up with the timeline right now.

"You're in love with her." Boring. "Or... The danger here isn't the dragon." More interesting!

"Geralt! It's one of your friends again!" Is Geralt friends with all monsters?

Brave noble knight guy just hacks away at the poor thing.

"I don't think it'll make me prettier, but I need sleep too." Hee.

I guess the conversation about the elves getting stronger is meant to fix us in the timeline. So we're not caught up with Ciri yet.

Green dragons, red dragons, black dragons... Gold dragons are a myth? Or are they?

Geralt is a good guy! He doesn't like to kill endangered species!

Fake Mousesack is getting fed up with Dara asking too many questions. Dara is suspicious for good reason, of course.

Jaskier is AGHAST that someone murdered the dude while his pants were down.

I do like that when Yennefer is like "do you think I'd make a bad mother?" Geralt is just like "clearly"

Geralt admits that he has a "child surprise" and Yennefer accuses him of cheating fate to steal a child, which is funny because like, he didn't even want to take ANY payment.

Fake Mousesack tries to take Dara's weapon but it burns his skin! Handy trick.

A short cut to DEATH! This is very Lord of the Rings, trying to cross Caradhras, but with less snow.

The dude falls, oddly poetically, and his goose girls follow him. I thought he was going to turn out to BE a dragon or something, with how the ladies kept talking about him.

Geralt is sad. Jaskier suggests getting away for a while.

"I quite like your nonsense."

"That scent, the moment I dread most every time you leave..." How many times have they even met? Two?

"They say Witchers can't feel human emotion." "They say whatever justifies despising our kind."

Geralt says he didn't have a choice over whether to be a Witcher. Yennefer admits she didn't have much of one over whether to become a mage either.

Geralt is falling asleep, not because he's bored, but because she calms him. Hmm.

She sure is wearing a fuckton of eye makeup.

Yennefer wants the dragon so she can cure her infertility, AGAIN. Gurl. I think you need a uterus before you can have babbys.

Ciri is rescued? By the black knight? Who is talking about the white flame, which sounds like some bullshit to me still. People who call themselves or their cults "The White _____" are usually on some kind of purity trip.

Oh but no, it's not Ciri! It's the Doppler again! What happened to Ciri???

Yennefer pauses the dwarves so she can get to the dragon's cave first. That's a good trick, like on "Out of This World." (A sitcom that ended when I was 8 years old, and yet, I still remember it. The powers of syndicated television.)

A dragon - with an egg! It has a baby! Well, now you can't kill it, can you, Yennefer?

The goose girls are back. I knew the dude was the dragon! Gold, just like he said.

The lady dragon is dead :( But the egg lives!

"Aard, now!" Yennefer kisses Geralt and he somehow yeets a bunch of the dudes away.

What the fuck is an Aard? (I did look that one up, apparently it's the yeet power that Witchers have. I assume she strengthened it with her magic?)

Geralt and Yennefer save each other during the battle, which is cute.

Lol, Jaskier slept through the entire thing. He's like Bilbo at the Battle of Five Armies.

The dragon gives the dwarves some dragon teeth for proof of death. If they're really made of gold, they can probably just sell those. Who cares about a reward when you have solid gold teeth?

Dara saves Ciri! But he thinks she's like her grandmother, and says he can't be there for her anymore. Noooo I liked him! At least she probably won't be as prejudiced against elves as her grandmother.

Geralt admits that he made a wish, and Yennefer thinks that his wish is why she is drawn to him and gets angry. What exactly did he wish for? I need to hear the Exact Words of this wish before I pass judgement on whether he has Violated Yennefer's Free Will or whatever.

"And though you didn't want to lose her, Geralt, you will." Do dragons have prophecy powers? He also tells Yennefer she will never regain her womb. I could have told her that. The dragon says what he's missing is still out there, meaning Ciri, I suppose. His density.

Geralt says some very mean things to Jaskier. My heart is breaking 😭 he is just a soft boy, why do you have to hurt him

"She is the key, but you are the commissioner." I have no idea what that means.

Fringilla says they will spread "his supremacy" all through the land. Yeah. Like I said. Purity bullshit.

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