#ch 6 toc is excruciating but it is so cathartic and relieving to read :’(

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the scene i find most relatable in all of the witcher saga is ciri in the korath desert, and idk what that says about me, but… probably nothing good 😅🙃

#i am emotionally connected to these events and her characterization during this chapter in ways i can’t even understand #this chapter is also probably singlehandedly why i think the witcher makes a brilliant YA series even if it’s not originally marketed as YA #ch 6 toc is excruciating but it is so cathartic and relieving to read :’( #because every young person has felt betrayed abandoned powerless and lost #ciri’s entire feeling beginning here which she recounts in ttos ch 1 to vysogota #that she felt so betrayed by the morals and goodness which geralt instilled in her because it was useless and did not save her #the whole series is about: if goodness does not save then what is the point of being good #and then when she goes insane from fire magic and shouts she’s going to make cabbages grow in the desert #this entire chapter is just what teenhood-young adulthood is like lmao #oscillating rapidly between ‘i am going to die here i am utterly powerless’ and ‘I CAN DO ANYTHING’ #and her revenge fantasy exploding into killing everyone she loves because paranoia says they will also one day betray her #idk what else to say. really hit the nail on the head with ciri’s character. i understand now how she is the evil and geralt is the good #the elbow high diaries