Comment on The Two Genders

hannesh93@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Sas@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They exist? But she’s practically his daughter🤢

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  • jagermo@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Uhm, actually, if you think of the historic period…”

    Or some bullshit like that. Screw these morons, seriously.

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  • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The key words here being “I bet…”

    OP is just raging at no one in particular.

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• Rinn@literature.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m 100% for Ciri being the main character and I’m also complaining “what about the lore”. You can do both at the same time. There’s a vocal minority of people who’ll use the lore argument to be sexist assholes, but people who have actually read and understood the books can have some valid concerns (ie where and how did she go through the trials, why can she use magic again, where did she even find how to do the trials, and just… why? She didn’t need them and it’s a bit of a character regression. She was basically already a witcher by title.)

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  • soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The way I understood it was that she did not loose her ability to use magic, but rather decided not to use it any more after what happened when she had to draw power from fire.

    Spoiler

    She also used magic to escape Bonhart/Skellen/Rience after Kenna’s attempt to read her mind unintentionally gave her a bit of magical power.

    Even if it would be a bit disappointing, I think an explanation as simple as “she grew older, and had a lot more time to deal with the trauma of what happened in the desert” would be sufficient to explain why she is OK with using magic again.

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• soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone who is curious about how they are going to explain the lore (in case you haven’t read the books: Ciri forswore magic after she had to draw power from fire in an emergency situation and that nearly escalated - also, you are missing out, the books are great), I feel offended by your statement.

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  • hannesh93@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think it’s possible to have her somehow take back that magic in a desperate situation, or to have her go through the trial for some reason, too (she always was kind of interested, but Geralt didn’t allow it)

    I mean Geralt died in the books and is somehow alive for the games. A lot of stuff can happen and be explained in a way that fits with the lore good enough to spin a story around it

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