The fire escape is narrow, cramped with the two of them on it, but the air, at least, is fresh. Sort of, anyway; the smoking probably isn't helping, but at least that's familiar. That tastes the same.
Xu holds out her half-done cigarette in offer, because it's easier than getting up and finding the pack. Her slight shift sends an ominous creak through the weather-worn metal.
One day, all this old metal is going to rip right off the side of the building, and send both of them plummeting with it.
I hate New York.
But she loves Chi, so Xu turns her attention away from the generalized annoyances, and to the more immediate issue:
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i could genuinely read you talk abt your ciri portrayal all day op. its nuanced and developed and interesting. so i have a question dunno if you've already replied to it, but what's your favorite ending for her storyline? either just taking into account the third game end options or just. generally what you consider the most in-character ending you could give her
auuughhhh ueueue thank you so much eve that means a lot to me ๐ฅบ i do have a favourite one, discussing under a read more for spoilers (vinn don't look)
my go to is the witcher ending just bc i think it's the most true to her character !! quite frankly i think the empress ending sucks and i've played it once for completion's sake and i'll never play it again. it's extremely ooc for her and she herself even says she can't see herself as empress. i think the witcher ending is everything i want for her, can't rly think of a whole different thing i'd give her, except maybe making some small changes (i'm a big cirys truther i think they should b together <3)
it gives her a chance to choose her own story, to go where she wants, to finally be in control, and do something she's good at, at least for as long as her non-mutated body can hold out. that's mainly what i want for her: to be able to choose.
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"Yeah, well, tell that to the SeeD exam coming up," she groans, congested all to hell, sneezing and coughing her way through what has to be at least half a dozen tissue boxes at this point in the weekend.
What perfect timing-- she finally gets him to come down to visit her, and it's the weekend that every little child carrying every little germ in the world in Garden has decided to give them all to her as a gift.
Another coughing fit, another wad of tissue dropped into an overflowing trash bin. She groans again, and drops her head on her arms for a minute, covering up all the maps and data and reports that she's been staring at with a rapidly-reducing sense of comprehension for the last several hours.
Of course, her elbow bumps the cup of tea, long since gone cold, spilling half of it over her papers before she can right it again with reflexes significantly delayed.
The half-empty box of cold and flu medication on her counter would beg to differ. She's fine. She's totally fine. She's worked through worse.
She's worked from home, too, before. Rarely, but she has. This isn't without precedent on her part.
"I'm fine," Xu repeats, looking up at him when it's clear he doesn't actually believe her. The bathrobe and the lack of makeup on her face, and the extremely red nose are obviously really helping sell that lie.
"You didn't have to come over just to check on me."
How bad had she sounded on the damn phone? Like she was dying? Because he's looking at her like he thought she was dying.
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Quistis doesn't have to tell her twice; Xu is already beelining for her best friend's bed less than a minute after walking through the door. She doesn't really care if Almasy is in it, either; she'll throw him through a window if necessary.
Her face hits the pillow.
There's probably a clever retort that she could make to Quistis' comment, but she doesn't have the energy for it right now, so it comes out more of a mrrmph against the pillow in question.
"I hate children," she adds, rolling onto her side long enough to grab Quistis' hand, pressing a very cool palm to her own feverish forehead. "Why can't we just like... disinfect them before they come into the damn building?"
She can't be sick. She doesn't have time to be sick.
i love your interpretation of ciri and the way you address some of the plot points that were uh. handled /flippantly/, letโs say, by sapko and cdpr. i know this is a big question, but how would you incorporate the aen elle and the hunt into her story if given the opportunity
first of all thank you for this question and your kindness, i really appreciate it !! made it really hard to focus on finishing my puter science vids but sdjfhsf i am now here and ready to rant.
secondly, let me issue a content warning for my response, as you'll likely have anticipated. in order to answer your question i will be mentioning (not discussing in detail) topics of (sexual) abuse and imprisonment of a minor. though i will keep it as vague and brief as i can, if these topics are in any way triggering to you, please do not read this. unfortunately, ciri's story is full of them, which is, i would assume, what sparked the inquiry. i don't like talking about these either. there will also be major spoilers for the witcher books and some for the third game, obviously with regard to ciri's backstory.
it's very difficult because i don't want to scrap everything. it's taken time and some conversations with victims to figure out how to deal with the mistle plot, and my conclusion was to keep it as is, but only bring it up in what it did to ciri's mental health, and to emphasise that it was wrong and harmed her greatly, and that it was never truly love but ciri was manipulated and abused. i'd take a similar but not exactly the same approach when it comes to auberon / the aen elle / her time in tir nรก lia.
my biggest issue is the consistent theme sapkowski has with making everyone obsessed with ciri's sexuality and reproductive system, be it the way the aen elle blackmail her into giving them a child, or vilgefortz's whole ordeal, or gods forbid emhyr's plans, and the two other weird small encounters with side characters, or mistle... he consistently speaks about her age, and she is a minor for the entirety of the books, which makes it highly uncomfortable and gross as fuck.
cdpr took a step toward fixing this, by making the hunt focus on wanting her for her world & time traveling abilities rather than the son she is supposed to bear. i think this was a good idea, but the way they went about it, kind of just ignoring the fact that avallac'h heavily traumatised ciri, not only by keeping her prisoner but also blackmailing her into their deal, was gross and too simplistic. their dynamic should have been a different one after everything that happened, not as close as cdpr wrote them to be. they did also kind of seem to want to write out ciri's presence at auberon's death in general, with how the third game shows it in that dream sequence (also ciri not knowing about it ??).
i think, in essence, what i would change would be smaller things. such as ciri not agreeing to the deal with avallac'h (if it were my choice he'd never have proposed that deal to begin with), ciri NEVER offering herself to avallac'h OR auberon, eredin not being creepy as hell toward her, etc. I'm tempted to go for the approach cdpr took, but i feel it would be too dismissive.
if i could rewrite it entirely, i might indeed go with that, and say that they never wanted her for the child she could give them, but for her own abilities. i enjoy the hunt plot generally, i like the idea of the worlds being slowly eaten by the white frost, ciri possibly having the power to stop it or at least move people between worlds, and Evil People wanting to take advantage of that. but the way andrzej went about it was not it, especially because of the patterns he has when it comes to her.
i'm not sure that was a satisfying answer, i'll be thinking about this for a while i think sjdhfgsdf but thank you again for sending, i really appreciate so much that you're curious about my thoughts on this, and i hope i at least somewhat satisfied your curiousity !!
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