So, while I do appreciate the nod to Rience’s end in Lady of the Lake… where Ciri skates over his fingies and he loses them and then drowns… I was so looking forward to that scene in particular.
Like, that has been, and will likely always be one of my fave things about the books. Because the juxtaposition— Ciri was a princess. But she became a Witcher. She was hardened like steel, she became ruthless, she was Falka. But she returns to herself — to Ciri. And she faces and deals vengeance out like a motherfucking Princess.
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theres another battle with Rience between Yen and Geralt but Geralt is so confused because Rience and Yen keep talking about Yen's husband but Yen's not married???
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wholly skippable post, not trying to piss anyone off ok, but i got an itch about this.
listen
i get it, i really do. i get why burnt hand whump is so favorite for our bard. i do honestly really get it, and i love burnt hand whump too, but--!
plea under cut, addressed to those who have not watched twn s2 but do read the fics.
i need everyone who's reading all this delicious angst and trauma over a canonical physical injury to actually watch the episodes in question, not JUST read fic
because canonically it just ain't that bad. i'm sorry! it's not! in canon it's not, it's really clear that the worst of the torture was legit psychological. firefucker smacked him around and tied him up, then *started* burning his fingertips. enough to freak an anxiety-fueled musician the fuck out, and enough to hurt *at the time*
i've had worse burns working at starbucks. in fact i had nerve damage from repeated burns working at starbucks. i could still play guitar.
it's been fully healed since like a year after i stopped working there.
rience did not even hold the not-a-lighter under jaskier's fingers long enough to fuck up his fingerprints (i got a match head stuck burning to my thumb when i was three and now my left thumb has a different TYPE of print from all my others. also it was healed in two weeks.)
jaskier's hand is FINE. he was playing the spoons in jail after!! that's impacty! he was not using his wrist. we have seen his hands! he was practically juggling that jasper, he was superduper wringing his wet shirt out, he in no way favored that hand. his hands are physically absolutely fine (and very pretty)
his MIND is not! that was traumatic. that was torture. even if it hadn't been torture it would still have been traumatic for him!
look. i was three. *thirty nine years ago* i burned my thumb playing with matches. i'm STILL afraid of matches. i smoked for 20 years and NEVER used matches. (i am quit for a year and a half now!! :D)
canonically he is gonna be fucked up about it for a WHILE, but his hand was already fine by the time geralt picked him up.
SO MY POINT IS:
whump the bard, WHUMP HIM, write all the fucked up permadamage hand fics and i will read them ALL bc i LOVE them, but darling dears who get your twn content from reading fics, please oh please be aware that that level of damage is not canon.
fuck yes fic is for making shit up and exaggerating shit and exploring what-ifs and all the wonderful stuff people write!!
(i rly love bardburn fics)
(just, it is not actually a big deal physically in canon)
(this is a thing for me because i started with fanfic and gifsets and i KNOW how it is when you haven't canoned yet, and i am seeing really good and prolific writers cheerily talk about it like it's the incontrovertible truth, and it may be in the vast majority of post-twn-s2 fics, but it's not in canon hhhhhhh)
