hmm trying to fold in S2

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so i have the problem that during the S1-S2 hiatus of the Witcher, the world ended and I lost my mind and I wrote a whole pile of gameverse fic. The games being set after the ends of the books, and the Netflix series being an adaptation of the books, that necessarily means that all that stuff is set after the events of the Netflix series too.

Now that S2 is out, I’ve been poking it a bit, but– I was going by the books for the rest of the events, and they have made some significant changes. Some of the characters we now love after S2, in varying ways, are significantly different from their book selves, and it presents a challenge to me, of how to go on.

Lambert, for example: I’ve written a lot of him now, and he’s pretty gameverse. Some of his scenes work fine if you imagine his showverse self, but– the show Lambert is much less sharp and more of the “galoot” style of asshole than the extremely sarcastic game version, though you can see how they’re related. I like to imagine some of my scenes as showverse Lambert, if I reread a little, but most of them don’t work.

But other characters– see, I’ve leaned heavily on the book-canon treatment of the Aen Seidhe, and so I have staked rather a lot on the Vrihedd Brigade, and on Francesca Findabair and Dol Blathanna as described in the books. Book!Francesca is a great deal more cold in her calculations, a great deal less emotional, and the ways in which she’s revealed to be a monster are infinitely more haunting and less violent. It’s quite subtle, and I’ve got her set up to be that kind of monster in my works, going forward.

It’s going to be weird, though, because of course what they did with her in S2 was so interesting, but I simply can’t shoehorn it in, partly because I already have a different character set up to do the Miracle Baby thing, and to attempt to have gone back and shoehorned in any of S2′s events would change the tenor of it rather horribly. So I’m going to have to stick with Bookverse Francesca, alas.

Fringilla, however. I had been holding off on using her as a character at all, because she’s so marginal to the games and I wasn’t sure where she’d fit. But probably I can get away with making her be friends with Francesca, and seeking refuge with her.

It just means I’m going to have to sort of cobble up my own adaptation, here, because I’m sort of backed into a corner by not having realized how much they’d change for the S2 adaptation. But it means i have to pay more attention to these characters, who I’d just planned to make shallow Ambiguous Villain types. I’m delighted to adapt Fringilla’s Netflix appearance, and also am utterly thrilled to discard her frankly boring and gross bookverse plot (I get that Sapko was writing satire but ugh); Francesca is going to need a little bit of thought before I know what to do with her, exactly. (Your picture was not posted)