Thank you very much for such kind words, I am so touched!😭💔

It’s been a difficult year (many years, if be honest) for my arts/creativity, and reading such a response... thank you and everyone who supports, it gives me strength and light not to give up❤️‍🩹💫

Malena from The Witcher 2🌿

the first artwork in new year~

Can finally post my piece for @dragonageannual! Morrigan exploring The Korcari Wilds :) 🍃

prints ✦ full process on patreon

Malena from The Witcher 2🌿

the first artwork in new year~

Don't you think Ciri would suffer alongside Crevan? with so many comparisons, irony and cynicism

Hi, anon!

I think fictional characters are unreal and do not possess real feelings nor make their writer fall under a moral obligation to treat them in a particular way. Characters are tools in a story. Characters in a story are not inherently deserving of anything (but good writing), as I believe is implied by this question.

Having established this:

I think Ciri's and Crevan's relationship will be emotionally difficult and complicated for both of them. It's precisely why I think they contain a good story. Suffering? Yes. Transformations? Yes. Unexpected kindness? Yes. Screw ups? Yes. (Mis)Understanding(s)? Yes. Comfort. Yes. Hatred? Yes. Love? Yes. I don't think they would ever have a consistent conventional 9/5 romantic relationship.

It's up to the author. Characters are tools in a story. A good story, usually, is not about being a socially vetoed relationship simulator.

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I have wanted to write a long post about why I think this relationship is thematically rich and emotionally satisfying/frustrating/exciting (to me) for some time. It is hard not to make it sound like a "ship-post", though.

I am not sure how to express it any more clearly: I "ship them" in seeing a lot of great stories between them that involve romance (yes, happiness and satisfaction involved, too). I don't "ship them" in a sense of romantic wish fulfilment according to what I want from a relationship, or what a mental health expert would recommend, or what a particular cultural code and tradition have prescribed as normal for a relationship.

𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐜'𝐡 || 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐟

I’ve long wanted to try something like drawing a character’s inventory, I got a couple of things here

And yes, there is Ciri’s "palm" 🕊️✨ on my boosty, you can watch 3 parts of the video with the creation of this art page and much more~

I'm sorry, Zireael…I have to do this…I have to protect you...

a little art gift for @livingonmyown !!^^✨The moment when Avallac'h immerse Ciri into a "dream" on the Isle of Mists in order to save her✧

Merry Christmas to all💖✨

Iorveth and Raeko (oc) 🦊🌒

little paintings before end of the year

My girl☁️

Zireael brushes, step by step, psd and video timelapse |PATREON|

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Art practice~

Imlerith 💀🗡️

Glad to show to you Imlerith! He won’t appear in my story any time soon, so for now we can look at him❄️ He once had long hair, traditional for his people, but later he lost it…

𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐜'𝐡 || 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐟

I’ve long wanted to try something like drawing a character’s inventory, I got a couple of things here

And yes, there is Ciri’s "palm" 🕊️✨ on my boosty, you can watch 3 parts of the video with the creation of this art page and much more~

What is even more disappointing about how game!Ciri is written is that CDPR Can give us compelling and complex “ trauma and grief can cause you to repeat the cycle of violence” arcs for characters like Syanna and Lambert but apparently completely forgot what a huge part of Ciri’s character that is

the first time I played I thought she got amnesia as well because of how much of her fiery temper was toned down, and how her trauma is hardly mentioned ( and it's not like the characters in this game trauma are completely ignored it is talked about in some quests) I wanna see what she really would have done had she seen Emhyr again

I feel like game Ciri had two distinct groups they were aiming for: people who found Geralt even more appealing because of the fatherhood angle so they had to work his actual kid in AND hot girl fan service.

The thing is, if they gave her too much personality or depth, she wouldn’t have fit into these groups well and therefore people would’ve found her annoying and/or off-putting. People already do sometimes but not to the degree that they would’ve if they even BEGAN to touch on the absolute shitstorm that is Ciris psyche after everything.

Also realistically, they made the Witcher games centre about Geralt bc he appeals to their large majority male fan base: combatant, dark mysterious tragic past, ripped, attractive, fucks hot women, is a good guy while still also getting to do badass things and beat people up. If you look in depth at Witcher fans on different platforms when they talk about him, a lot of dudes are very much “oh my god he’s literally me”. Ciri could never be the focus because she wouldn’t appeal to that same group, and we know that every time a game is released people throw the weirdest bitch fits about female characters, especially main ones.

This is also why Ciri is made an attractive character, when realistically that tiny little facial scar they’ve given her is nothing, she’s spent her developmental years on the run/being attacked/under extreme stress so I honestly can’t imagine her being a tall skinny but also hourglass woman with one or two scars, and put her in a cropped shirt (such a bad choice it’s mildly hysterical).

I think Lambert and Syanna are also a really good example of how people handle angry traumatised characters too, because Lambert gets a lot more leeway than Syanna (and I say this as a big fan of both!) Like there are literally people out there and on this webbed site who say she is pure evil, one of the evilest people in the Witcher for being a fucked up mean trauma victim who hurt a Poor Little Meow Meow (Higher vampire with decades of life experience more than her, incredibly possessive, responded to emotional manipulation by violently attacking an entire city). Like Lambert literally brags about axii’ing a guy to shoot himself in the head with his own crossbow.

Ciri got done very dirty, but I see how and why it happened. Book Ciri deserves rights but unfortunately I think Games Ciri will always be how people perceive her, and therefore portray her in fic, art and other work predominantly (praying same doesn’t happen with TWN Ciri). We’ve been robbed of such a complex, angry young woman and I mourn it 🙏

Edit: I can’t even touch on the Emhyr thing because the fact she can reconcile with him is honestly mildly fucking horrific. Like even if they’ve removed the nasty ass incest factor, that man quite literally destroyed her entire world and was willing to do so further in order to get his way. The fact she can call him father in one ending is genuinely vomit inducing and so disrespectful to Ciri as a character (also the audacity to play down that Ciri literally sees Yen as her mama WHILE playing devils advocate for War McCrime is a whole choice).

Éibhear Hattori 🥟🗡

"Now I make dumplings, I have to live on something. But...I feel sad without bellows and anvil..."

sea shell study and my first video process! 🐚🌊

practice, portrait

wow, what I found

this portrait has been waiting probably since last year and was drawn on an old tablet; I drew it just for training, for speed and technique (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

Geralt: To slay a monster, you need a professional. I’m a Witcher. I’ve got two swords. Silver is-

Iorveth:

Yeet