#*along

No sorries, I literally do not want to stop talking about this verse, I’m already annoying my friends on discord with it, and your asks make me very happy so!!! No sorries 😌💕

And now to the topic!! You know, I’ve thought about this - can’t remember if out loud or on here, so I’m just gonna ramble a bit and y’all have to deal with it hehehe

So, everyone’s adopted by Vesemir, right? And I haven’t yet decided how old Ciri is, but maybe like around 5? Just a smol bean. But she has not been with Vesemir that long, maybe for a year or so? And she doesn’t talk — she can hear them though and understand them quite well.

So she has her own version of sign language that the boys of course learn because it is very intuitive and she is patient and they learn new words/signs together. Maybe as the time goes by, they will learn proper sign language and “shape” her signs in a way??? I don’t know. She sometimes also shapes words with her mouth like hearing impaired/HOH people do, so the boys and Vesemir have learned to understand her over the year.

But I think maybe Geralt, when he hits nonverbal episodes, might actually converse with her mostly over sign language, whereas Lambert just talks to her and used the signs as support (that’s usually how it’s in German sign language which is the one I know a little of), and it’s also the most intuitive variant so as not to leave others out of the conversation too.

So yeah, I think that’ll be the best way to converse with Ciri: talking and sign language simultaneously and then Ciri signs back (this is also how to teach Ciri signs properly, wow, my rambles have brought me full circle look at this!)

TL;DR: The gang will totally learn sign language for and with Ciri — though I don’t know how big of a plot point this is gonna be because I’m already flying by the seat of my pants here 😂 ((it’s also gonna be pretty casual, just another thing in the Rivia household everyone learns to lovingly deal with))