diary of a yennskier hoe: day 69,420

The Adventures of Fun Uncle Jaskier™ and his Pocket-Sized Princess™

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CIRILLA OF CINTRA'S SEASON 2 DRESSES costume design by Lucinda Wright (requested by @lvsfgrss)

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CIRILLA OF CINTRA'S SEASON 2 DRESSES costume design by Lucinda Wright (requested by @lvsfgrss)

A Dictionary of Literary Symbols, Michael Ferber // The Tower of Swallows, Andrzej Sapkowski // Ciri & Mistle, Denis Gordeev // On the Relationship between Birds and Spirits of the Dead, Christopher M. Moreman //

I didn't know what it would mean to me.

Those who are afraid of what you are are dead weight.

Cirilla of Cintra | 1.02 "Four Marks"

WIP of Ciri having a bad time with the crown (it's made of cheese)

the maying

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.

sweet mother o mine

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a little sacrifice isn’t the only song Jaskier sang that Ciri remembers

Anyways those unicorn balls amiright?

THE WITCHER | 3.08 "The Cost of Chaos"

"Ciri!" "Yennefer!" THE WITCHER: Season 3 Volume II