"He threw it?" Claude looks somewhere between amused and exasperated. Of all the stupid reactions he could have thought of, that one has to be pretty high on the list. It'd take more than a thrown notebook to hurt Geralt, of course, even if it had actually hit, but why throw something at the man you love at all? And why a notebook with sketches of such exquisite beauty, sketches that Jaskier must surely treasure now that he knows about them?
It seems to become more obvious in retrospect to Claude that he understood far less of Jaskier than he thought...and not because Claude was ignorant or inattentive, but because Jaskier's actions - especially when driven by high emotion - simply don't make any kind of coherent sense. Of course, emotional reactions aren't always logical, but Jaskier's often seem to be directly contradictory - if not actively toxic - to what he supposedly wants or values.
And how can anyone understand someone who self-sabotages to that extent? Someone for whom thoughts and desires and actions don't necessarily have any connection to each other?
Aloud, he says, "I wouldn't think he'd be inclined to risk damaging the contents like that. Or you, for that matter...actually, didn't he say it was right after prom? Weren't you injured at the time?"
Honestly, worse and worse. Even if Jaskier's miss was intentional rather than incompetent, the levels on which it was stupid to throw the book at all seem to be multiplying.
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Date: 2021-08-10 12:07 pm (UTC)It seems to become more obvious in retrospect to Claude that he understood far less of Jaskier than he thought...and not because Claude was ignorant or inattentive, but because Jaskier's actions - especially when driven by high emotion - simply don't make any kind of coherent sense. Of course, emotional reactions aren't always logical, but Jaskier's often seem to be directly contradictory - if not actively toxic - to what he supposedly wants or values.
And how can anyone understand someone who self-sabotages to that extent? Someone for whom thoughts and desires and actions don't necessarily have any connection to each other?
Aloud, he says, "I wouldn't think he'd be inclined to risk damaging the contents like that. Or you, for that matter...actually, didn't he say it was right after prom? Weren't you injured at the time?"
Honestly, worse and worse. Even if Jaskier's miss was intentional rather than incompetent, the levels on which it was stupid to throw the book at all seem to be multiplying.