How am I just now really understanding these lines?!
“The leader who rose against the lioness”
The wording makes it sound like it’s an endorsement.
“The bard’s songs claimed that you were the King of the Elves”
And this! In the episode S1E2, we heard Jaskier call Filavandrel the king of elves and such, but it’s never mentioned in Toss a Coin. So this is a line from a different song.
“At the edge of the world” is a direct quote from Toss a Coin, so we can assume the other lines are quotes as well…
Which means, that scene wasn’t just to show Yennefer and Fringilla talking to him, it was also to provide a hint that when Jaskier wasn’t singing about Geralt or his love interests… He was using his songs for political activism.
He (probably) publicly sang a song, for the elves, about their Uprising, in favor of the cause. He supported them, and might’ve not only been singing them to the elves, and could’ve also tried to rally people to their cause by singing to other races and showing them what the elves were fighting for.
Because if the song was merely to report what was happening, it might’ve been worded more like “the rebellion against the crown, the foolish false king, a rioter, insurgent, heretic” but no. Those aren’t the words he used. It’s hopeful and it’s more like an appraisal to Filavandrel’s work for his people.
Jaskier probably saw the damage that Toss a Coin contributed to (reminder that he was roughly 18 when he wrote it) and decided to go get educated and wrote better songs when he understood more of what was really happening.
Brb- gonna go cry at Jaskier’s growth after he escaped the human’s propaganda, went out and got woke about Elven racial and sociopolitical issues, tried to sing songs to help (the only thing he’d ever felt like he’d been able to do), and then when he was fed up with feeling helpless he became the Sandpiper, to actually do something to try and save as many of them as he could.
Witcher s2 was so heartbreakingly, unspeakably bad as a story, and in terms of how it treated the characters, and in terms of directing, music, costumes, acting etc that I am very, VERY uninspired to draw more Gersaskier just beacause I am incredibly angry at this show.
I hope this will pass, and I will just ignore all of this horrible castration and mutilation of not only book characters, but also those characters that were somehow established in the S1 (which had LOTS of flaws, but evnetually made me like it enough to draw fanart). And will be back to this ship again.
I just need some will power to plainle delete S2 from my memory and pretend it never existed.
But I will never forgive them for:
Eskel’s death
Vessemir being an idiot and cruel to Ciri
Lyvellin’s story and how the turned a tragic tale of redemption through sacrifice into a stupid puritan story that says “a criminal once, is forever acrimian and no redemption is there for him”
