In Ep8, I noticed that after the Epic Bard Battle™️, no one bothered to heal Scanlan, like, at all?
Pike deadass went up to him, confessed her feelings but didn’t actually bother to heal the burn wounds and the literal burst eardrum. Go heal him if he matters that much to you 😭
Idk, maybe I’m being too harsh but they just kinda rocked up, Pike confessed her feelings, and then buggered off with Mythcarver. It felt so nasty that they straight up didn’t bother to check up on the guy who just saved their asses from the Evil Australian Bard. Especially Pike, go heal your supposed love interest, actually show that you care
Hey all! I commissioned the fabulous @smallpapers to depict one of my favorite interactions from an earlier SCOM chapter!
The False Golden Guard arc has lasted WAY longer than I had initially planned -- but I promise we will figure out their identity! They are just a devious little bastard who likes to torture Hunter (and me).
With the music Impulse added to the dragon fight, I can only imagine if as a concert battle with Gem and the Scotts (with Bdubs and Pearl subbing in for Scott).
Like, they're bards fighting a dragon. (Or mostly bards, with Bdubs being a barbarian and Pearl being a rogue)
Sooo, imagine that Geralt starts a trend with Jaskier. It becomes fashionable to have your own bard, and not long after the Djinn incident Yennefer meets at gets stalked nu Pricilla.
Yennefer and Geralt had their fling, Jaskier yearns, Pricilla works.
Then cue mountaintop scene, shit hitting the fan. Jaskier forlorny writing and singing Her sweet kiss.
Yennefer finds Geralt before he can find Jaskier. They become friends again and go looking for Jaskier.
Pricilla finds them in a tavern, preforming her smash hit about them:
Bad timing, she knows, when they are not together anymore but who cares anyway? Its her very best and gets her all the coin!
And Jaskier walks in, hearing a lovesong about the man he fucking loves by his arch nemesis’ tame bard.
”YOU KNOW WHAT FUCKING SUCKS??”
(And Jaskier march right out again, cue geralt running after him and smooching him senseless ofc)
im a half-elf bard and sometimes me and johann will play together. hes a cool dude!!! but the reclaimers always act like we're in some big rivalry and act like im trying to take his position with the voidfish... today i was playing in the courtyard and taako told me my playing was shit compared to johann.... its ruining our bardly friendship!
I’ve gotten a few questions about writing the last chapter’s Bard fight scene , and these kind of asks make me GIDDY AF.
Prepare for a long explanation!
Spoilers below.
I ALWAYS listen to music when I write, but before that I usually spend some time walking and listening to music. The movement and music jumpstarts my thought process, but it gives me a chance to shuffle through various forms of music and see how the intended scene is going to work.
For the regular scenes, the mood and lyrics are key. Sometimes I have an idea and I just can't seem to get it to work ... then random pulls up the PERFECT song ... and I discover something new, or rediscover something I forgot and -- boom -- I can hear the dialogue and the flow of the plot moves naturally.
Other times it just doesn't happen.
That's how it happened the first time Hunter faced down the false Golden Guard. All the songs I wanted Hunter to use to kick butt just didn't work. Then a friend started talking about Pulp Fiction, and I remembered Miserlou. The more I researched it, the more I realized how perfect it was.
We've seen Hunter use Bard magic a few other times in the series, but this was his second BATTLE and he is fighting it alongside Raine who we now know was his teacher and has become a close friend.
Even though Raine taught Hunter (more than just guitar) they have distinct styles. We know that they have jammed together in the past with Steve for fun, but fighting together was a different beast.
I imagined they'd use their fox violin/palisman (whom I called "Freddie" after Freddie Mercury in a shorter fic.)
Obviously, Hunter would summon his Rickenbacker... so I began to think about how rock music and violin would fit?
I began to think about Lindsay Stirling and her electric violin, which led me down a rabbit hole of her catalog. Roundtable Rival was a real contender here ... but I wanted Hunter to use a song that was closer to the quick sharp sound he'd used in that first fight.
I also wanted there to be a weather component to it since this fight takes place during Winter on the Boiling Isles.
Thunderstruck by AC/DC leapt right out at me. Yeah. Hunter would play Thunderstruck and summon a storm.
I began listening to the opening of Thunderstruck along side several of Lindsay Sterling's Violin pieces and came across Ice Storm ... which was just TOO good a match up. Ice Storm had a similar fury to what I was going for -- it had a weather based title, and it managed to be elegant while maintaining a modern undercurrent that hit the right notes (pun intended. I'll show myself the door.)
Aside from listening to the two songs back to back, I also listened to 2CELLOS version of Thunderstruck, which is as close to an actual mashup of the OG AC/DC song and Ice Storm as exists IRL.
