1988-fiend: Like, here I am, wondering just how much improv Henry had to do in his scenes with Roach

[dragonlady7]

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1988-fiend:

Like, here I am, wondering just how much improv Henry had to do in his scenes with Roach because they’re both adorable and awesome.

Leave it to Roach to steal a scene, not that I blame her at all.

THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT HORSES

top and bottom are the same but the middle one’s got a star and a stripe and longer ears, and the top/bottom one’s got a narrow wispy top end to her stripe and teeny ears

CANON ROACH REPLACEMENT

Comments

[bookscorpion]

the nice thing is that they CAN just replace Roach because Geralt names all his horses that, so well, Roach death off screen might just have happened :D

[dragonlady7]

Someone pointed out that all three different scenes in the original gifset (which didn't crosspost) are actually different animals, visibly so, which is hilarious.
Probably they're filming in several locations and they are just using a local horse each time.
And it just-- doesn't matter! Different horse, no problem!

This is a plotbunny though, now I have to write a Roach replacement. But I don't want to write a horse death so maybe I'll work around it.

[bookscorpion]

You can always write Geralt retiring Roach somewhere and paying people to let her live out her old age in peace OR ELSE.

[dragonlady7]

WIP excerpt:
Geralt didn’t like this line of questioning. He really didn’t like to remember that Roach hadn’t always been this Roach. He’d replaced her pretty recently, actually; lost the last one to a degenerating hoof condition. He’d caught it in time-- smelled it-- that he’d managed to sell her on, cheap even though she wasn’t lame yet because it felt dishonest not to explain why, to a farmer who’d promised to kill her quick when the time came she got too lame, but he wasn’t thinking about that now and he’d got this one trained up well enough that he didn’t have to think about it. The farmer was probably lying and would sell her on, passing her off as sound-- but this way, Geralt wouldn’t have to kill her himself, and wouldn’t have to think about it for years the way he sometimes did about previous horses he’d had to kill.

[bookscorpion]

I like this a lot already.
I can see this haunting him for sure.