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learning more and more about ciris childhood has lead me to one conclusion and its we need to give ciri a gun (Your picture was not posted)

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i’ve forgotten my dreamwidth password, firefox saved the wrong thing and my password managers all disagree.

i need to go through, collect the passwords out of all my fucking caches and keychains and everything, and then

write them down on a piece of fucking paper

and then delete all of them from the autofills because they’re wrong half the fucking time

i can still crosspost but i can’t read and i can’t respond to comments so i’m sorry, DW friends, i see you but i can’t answer you until i resolve this.

i fucking hate password managers and i fucking hate how every fucking site has different password requirements (FUCK YOU and your needs a capital letter bullshit) and i swear to fucking Christ, I’m just going to laminate a card with them all written down and paste it inside my laptop, I am DONE with this FUCKING BULLSHIT. (Your picture was not posted)

i’m curious as to if it’s ever explained how la

bisexuality to her already written, it will get slotted in somewhere no worries, the witcher, maria louisa la valette, foltest/roche

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LOL anon– i was JUST THIS MORNING having a whole convo with akilah12902 https://tmblr.co/mmG9gp3S698rFJImW-pcxgg (who is writing Major Design Flaw https://archiveofourown.org/series/2228790, which is all the dirty work of getting Roche fucked-up before I get to fix him in my shit LOL) about this, about the whole Maria Luisa LaValette/Foltest relationship went down and how it affected Roche, and so i screenshotted this ask and sent it to them because the timing was SO perfect, and they wrote AN ESSAY ok, so I’m going to paste their answer first and then add mine in.

First off, there is absolutely a plan for fics about how Foltest and Louisa became a thing and how it wound up affecting Roche, as part of the young Roche and Foltest part of this story Roche did not get sidelined, Foltest continued his relationship with Roche throughout the entirety of his relationship with Louisa (poor Louisa). Actually Roche got more attention than usual while Louisa was pregnant, because Foltest was losing his fucking mind with anxiety and also smug as hell about it, and was smart enough (and in the middle of a war enough the first time) to not take those worries out on Louisa herself. Roche definitely resented Louisa a lot for a while, he didn’t think she was good enough for Foltest. It came to a head when she started a civil war over Anaïs and Boussy and told a chunk of Foltest’s nobles that Adda was both his daughter and his niece (some details in Under The Ribs https://archiveofourown.org/works/32764837) Louisa, on the other hand, was aware of the rumors about Roche and Foltest but didn’t actually think they were true… In large part because she doesn’t quite. Understand. Bisexuality. So to her, Foltest being obviously interested in her meant he clearly wasn’t sexually interested in Roche. She did, however, try and leverage some of the rumors to split Roche and Foltest apart a little, because she was aware that Roche did not like her, and she wanted to protect her position with Foltest. (I’m planning a fic about How Witcher 2 Got Started in our shared canon, and in the conversation that leads to it Louisa is also going to find out that yes, Foltest is fucking Roche, is in love with him, and has been in a relationship with him for… Fifteen years at this point. That conversation is just so much.)

And as for me, the bit of their relationship I’m most concerned with, I haven’t made entirely explicit I don’t think– I’ve sort of left it implied– but as soon as he had handed Anaïs over into Natalis’s custody, Roche concluded that the girl deserved to have her mother in her life, and despite his personal dislike of her, he stuck to that belief. He (rightly) believed that Luisa’s highest ambition was her daughter on the throne, and with that the case, she would no longer be inclined to cause trouble, so long as she were involved. He recognized how smart and ambitious she is, and argued that she should have an outlet for that, in giving her daughter some modicum of stability in her life.

Luisa, for her part, immediately understood what a clear-eyed and generous thing this was for Roche to do, and as soon as she understood that he didn’t have any ulterior motives– what ulterior motives could he possibly have? she tried to think of some and came up empty and had to accept that this was genuinely what he believed– she put aside her own differences with him.

They’re not bosom friends, but they have a goal in common.

and luisa still doesn’t understand bisexuality so it is increasingly funny that she assumes roche is disinterested in women, which he is Not, he’s just not into her for many very good reasons (Your picture was not posted)

fic snippet: Roche Explains Bisexuality To Luisa

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So I wrote this ages ago and mean to cram it somewhere in the various Roveth saga bits, but I keep losing track of which scratch doc it’s in, and since it’s relevant to the ask i just answered, I figured I’d post it here.

Just a short bit of fic featuring Maria Luisa LaValette, gossip from Nilfgaard (set well after the end of Pearls that I haven’t written yet), Roche, and some history.

(Luisa understands neither bi-ness nor ace-ness, as it happens, but mostly what she doesn’t understand is her own place on the attractiveness scale. I don’t mean to be mean to her but we all know someone like this.)

“Well,” LaValette said, “of course I’m pleased by this outcome– having a personal friend on the throne of Nilfgaard is beyond being convenient into being life-saving. I just feel, well. Sympathy, for Cirilla.”

“Sympathy,” Roche said, frowning. He’d been of the impression Voorhis was a perfectly nice young man, which was a great deal more than could be said of the average Nilfgaardian nobleman. Moreover he’d rather gotten the impression Cirilla could take care of herself.

“I thought you liked Voorhis,” Natalis said, also frowning.

“I do! I do, I’m terribly fond of him. He’ll be a– well, he won’t be a bad ruler, and I rather expect social functions will be fun with him about. I like him eversomuch.” La Valette seemed earnest, but amused, and Roche wondered what the punchline here was.

“But you don’t think he’ll be good to Cirilla,” Roche guessed, considering the angles.

“Oh, he’ll be good,” LaValette said. “I mean– he has to be, she clearly will be wearing the trousers there.”

“Meaning?” Natalis tilted his head.

“She’s the one with the power,” LaValette clarified.

“You’re raising a daughter to be a queen,” Natalis commented mildly, “I should rather hope you don’t object to that on principle.”

“I do not in the slightest,” LaValette said.

“You think Cirilla would be better off with a dominating husband?” Roche said, quite certain that wasn’t it at all, but still at a loss.

“No,” LaValette said, “no no. It’s just. Well.”

“Well?” Natalis was never terribly patient with these sorts of conversations.

“I mean nothing bad by this,” LaValette said, “and you know I love you as you are, Roche, but. I’m quite certain Voorhis is…. As disinterested in women as you are.”

Roche blinked at her, and traded glances with Natalis. “Uh,” Roche said. “What?”

“Oh come off it,” LaValette said, “we’re friends here, it’s silly to be coy about it.”

“I’m not being coy,” Roche said, “I just think perhaps you know less of my affairs than you think.” Natalis was actively hiding amusement now. He knew rather more of Roche’s affairs outside the palace, which, well. Roche had drunk quite heavily for a while in there and had not seen fit to waste much time worrying about his reputation.

“We literally shared a lover for years,” LaValette said. “Who was a man.”

“Only the one, though,” Roche said. “And while your other love affairs were my business, mine weren’t yours. If Voorhis likes women as much as I do then Cirilla will be just fine, believe me.”

LaValette drew herself up, and Roche wasn’t sure whether she were thinking of all the times she’d carelessly been nude in his presence, or the fact that he had just admitted to having been assigned to spy on her for years. This attitude did go some way toward explaining how cavalier she was about physical modesty around him, though.

“Luisa,” Natalis said, “dearest, remember we have a treaty about all the things we did under the influence of Foltest.”

“But,” LaValette said. “You–”

“Not to be blunt,” Roche said, “but one can like one thing and also like another. Men and women aren’t opposite things. It’s not odd to like both. Foltest did.”

“I know that,” she said. “But–”

“And it’s perfectly possible to be attracted to women and still be no more than polite to you,” Roche went on, a little gentler. “Voorhis having been impervious to your advances is no slight on you, but the boy is twenty and a spy, much as I was when I met you. A powerful awareness of something being a bad idea is sufficient to outweigh a great deal of temptation.” (Your picture was not posted)