#..... he's on redania's side tho. that won't end well will it.

[thirstyforred]

in the light of the FUCKING STELLAR NEWS of The Witcher 1 Ramake and copy-pasting my discord ramblings from few weeks ago

another Rod though, bc y'all love to enable me 🥰

somewhere between the acts of tw1 Foltest throws a tournament. for some reason, maybe Adda's 30-something birthdays (sic) or her engagement with Radovid (tho im half sure they got actually engaged after the striga shenanigans).

anyway there's a tournament in Vizima and you will very easily guess who competes 😌

and bc it's not enough for temerian nobles to be slightly annoyed that the wet weasel is surprisingly good at this knightly sporty stuff, Adda makes a move that's 100% calculated to make everyone mad. as the lady in name of whom this whole even takes place, it's customary that she would, symbolically, give someone her ribbon or something as a mark of her favor. and it's not completely out of the left field to give it to Roderick, he is her adjutant or whatever.

But everyone hates it. Foltest is like 'daughter of mine, your very likely future husband is watching, wtf"

Radovid is like 17, so whatever he thinks it's personal

temerian nobles are like bleh cunt de Wetter 🤢 bc he's just that annoying

Jacques is trying to make a good face, but apparently, none of his lectures about maybe Rod growing some spine were ever listened, and also operation "getting into Adda's good graces" was supposed to be secret, and it's hard to keep it that way when now everyone assumes they're fuckin 😒

Rod also hates it, but only after agents of Redanian Intelligence visit him and break his arm

it does bring out memories of the last time…

Rod ofc gets his arm fixed in like an hour, thanks to being in a gay catholic cult. but he thinks "well, last time something like this happend, it was bc my father decided to be a bitch, and then i did nothing to retaliate, but what if? this time i was the bitch?" and then he challenges r5 to duel

yes, radko is like 15 years younger than rod, but he didn't spent all these 15 years of his life training. no, he was getting bullied by his cousins, and then traumatised by mages, and then he just became a kid king

(im extremely fond of the hc that both Siegfried and Aryan are Radovid's cousins, their moms are related, and Radko was back then a bit younger than the other two, and anyway aryan sort of seems like a mean type, and thinking about sieg successfully bulling someone is very funny to me, and besides radko is just this vindictive over-reactive type)

ppl try to laugh it off, like yeah sure, count de Wett, that's sure a great joke, amazing jest, splendid prank, but you can't duel a king, lol different social standings or something like that

so rod pulls out his fantasy nilf ID, to prove that actually? with the death of Joachim de Wett, now he, rod, hold the title of prince (of whatever the fuck they were princes of back in nilf)

(the fact that joachim died executed for treason is strategically glossed over lol)

so as a prince, who was deeply offended and bodily harmed, he actually can duel whoever the fuck he wants

since in the north princes are most often just a stepping stone to being a king, no one actually thinks to argue with him on that 🤷

JdA who makes it his whole thing to know what his men are capable of, take rod on the side and tells him: I won't stop you, bc chaos is the ladder, ya'know, but for fucks sake, try to just humiliate him and not straight up kill the king of redania, ok? can you do that for me?

and rod is obviously :flunched: bc jda believes he will win? and asks him to not do something, for him specifically? :flunched: :flubbed:

(but truth is that jacques is ready to, worst-case scenario, set radko on fire, bc well, in the end rod is also his horny lemming pet project, and ppl can't just damage it. and it's bad enough that adda is writing on rod like he's a blackboard 😒 )

foltest is willing to let this whole thing thru, bc he just thinks it's a prime entertainment at this point. and well, it's more of adda's problem anyway. maybe it will teach her something, unlikely, but still adda gripes with the fact that she knows rod is lying about princedom, bc he hates his father and would never invoke him like that, meaning he's very pissed now. but also the fact that it's actually only partially a lie? and adda somehow forgot that this dude she's sleeping with, who seems to be in love with her, is actually in position where wouldn't get chased off if he tried to ask for her hand in marriage? but he never even mentioned it before?

just adda lying to herself that she's not stressing about whether or not rod would want to marry her if he can

radovid is delusional about his chances and manages to guild trip siegfried into helping him 'train'. actually he's just gonna guilt trip sieg into being his second/representative in the duel. about which siegy is obviously not very ecstatic

come to it, siegfried can totally wipe the floor with rod, and everyone know that, but like, he doesn't actually want to support radko in whatever this is

ok, but spinning this concept a bit more, it could actually be turned into a quest, or even a whole new act extravaganza

reds hire me to write tw1 remake!

player would be in power of solving the situation, helping rod or rad (lmao), or just somehow screwing both of them

like you could stick to Adda's 'storyline' and by influencing her make her choose which of them she should continue showing support and thus win. or maybe make her stop them both idk

i mean there's like 3 endings here, but just the ways of getting there are multiple

even adding yaevinn and elves to the mix wouldn't be thaat hard, they for sure would try some terrorist shit, hey, maybe gerult can actively help them in it? let's cover all the possible choices :cryingevillaugh:

alvin is there, completely entranced by gay cult and very cool grandmaster

salamandra is there, professor high as kite, they're selling so much fantasy coke

replace Siegfried as radkos champion, congrats rod gets to die in shame and jda is pissed bc now someone else will have to curse adda lol

[eerna]

THE ADORABLE ELVEN BOY THAT HELPED CIRI IS BACK??????????????