Facts/Headcanons/Questions Meme!

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Facts/Headcanons/Questions Meme

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Write up some facts about your characters, or some of your headcanons! Or both; anything you can think of that you want to share is fine!

Other people ask questions about whatever they can think of/are interested in knowing.

Questions are usually OOC, but IC is fine too! Just make a note if it's IC.

Answer questions, with tl;dr if you like~

Have fun!

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ciri | the witcher

[ichaer]

— Her birth mother was a Princess of Cintra and her father is Emperor of Nilfgaard. Through them (and her father's conquering of other lands) she has a number of titles: Queen of Cintra, Princess of Brugge and Duchess of Sodden. Heiress to Inis Ard Skellig and Inis An Skellig, and suzeraine of Attre and Abb Yarra. She honestly doesn't care much for all of it.

— Ciri is known as an Unexpected Child and is bound to Geralt through Destiny. She came into Geralt's care through what is known as the Law of Surprise which is an old custom that a man saved by another is expected to offer to his savior a boon whose nature is unknown to one or both parties. Upon lifting her birth father's curse, Geralt asked for, "That which you already have but do not know." already knowing that her birth mother was pregnant.

— Usually when the Unexpected Child turns out to be a girl, a witcher will trade her for a boy with the Dryads and thus the girl would be raised as one. The Queen of the Dryads offered her a choice and despite having just met him, Ciri choose to stay with Geralt.

— She was most likely born during the Belleteyn festival meaning her birthday is either the 30th of April or the 1st of May 1253.

— For a short time, she was a pit fighter though much against her will. She had been kidnapped by a bounty hunter before being imprisoned, beaten, drugged and literally forced into the arena. After she is reunited with her adopted parents, she returns to Calremont and burns the arena to the ground.

— She's sensitive about her facial scar and tries to hide it with loose strands of hair. She also mentions in game that she began unbuttoning one more button on her shirt because it tended to help keep eyes off her scar and somewhere else instead.

— Caring for her swords is a super important part of her day. She treats them better than she treats herself, especially her silver sword which was a gift from Geralt.

— Being a Source (a fancy word for a person born with innate and very powerful magical abilities) she'd be capable of being an incredible sorceress but has rejected her ability to use magic. She used to also be able to see the future (mostly whenever someone was going to die, fun at parties) and even use telepathy but it's doubtful these abilities will reappear anytime soon, if ever. Her ability is buried under a hella lot of trauma and self-hatred.

— Despite having not lived as a princess for many years, it's mentioned she still has some noble-like qualities that have remained. Her glare is apparently the most noble thing about her and is said to resemble her grandmother's own famous glare. With that in mind, she probably knows how to dance and sing with an instrument or two (harpsichord, harp??) thrown in there somewhere.

— Her absolutely adores horses. No really, they're the absolute best in her mind.

— I've always pictured her with something akin to an eidetic memory. Since she has been shown several times to repeat back things that people have told her and things she has read or seen perfectly.

— She stubborn, so so so stubborn. Once she sets her mind to something, you won't be able to change it without a fight.

— Her name Cirilla is a corruption of the Elder Speech word "Zireael", which means "Swallow".

[hybridification]

I am not canon familiar, but! What are her thoughts on children? In the sense of eventually having them or just interacting with them in general? :o

[ichaer]

She's actually rather fond of children. There's a section in the third game when you play as her where she rescues a child that has been abandoned in the woods by her father (woods that happen to be home to a powerful werewolf btw) and you learn later she made sure the girl settled into her new home. I think she's fond of children just because her childhood was such a shit show and she really wants kids to have the best they can get even though it might not be possible amidst all this war happening.

As for her having children. She's pretty turned off on the idea. There's a prophecy that says her son will control half the world and his son will control the whole world. Needless to say, Ciri's had to escape a lot of people that only wanted her because they wanted her to have their child.