#i keep trying to rewatch twn

[devotedlystrangewizard]

me?? juggling two hyperfixations and two special interests?? its more likely than you think

[smolalienbee]

1x05 except Geralt and Jaskier are already married by the time they meet Yennefer // 226 words of some crack-y nonsense

“Jaskier. Is she flirting with me?”

“Is she - Geralt, are you really asking that?”

Geralt doesn’t respond at first. He turns to look at Jaskier, brows furrowed. Of course he’s asking that - there’s no good reason why Jaskier would still need clarification - except Jaskier continues to just look at him, as though waiting for him to say something.

“We’re married,” Geralt elaborates slowly. “Why would she flirt with me if she knows I’m married to you?”

“You - if she - you think she knows?”

“Yes.”

“Geralt, are you forgetting the part where she quite literally asked you if I was just your friend? To which you responded with… oh, what was it? Right, nothing. You never did respond to that question. And this entire time you’ve really thought that she knows?”

“Hm.”

“Oh, don’t you dare just hm this, husband mine, your absolute lack of words is how we’ve ended up in this situation in the first place! And no, don’t give me that look, either, you know very well I couldn’t have said anything while I was still choking on my own blood.”

A third voice joins them then and they both look over at where Yennefer stands, right in front of them. In fact, she has been standing there for the entire duration of their conversation.

“...You two do realize that I’m still here, right?”

[gayregis]

i am so glad you mentioned vilgefortz and cahir’s writing in that last ask IT’ SO WEIRD i watched the netflix series first, then played tw3, read the books, & now i’m playing all the games. right?

and i recently rewatched twn with my dad because he wanted to see it and i was like eh i wanna rewatch it with book knowledge and i’m just.. HUH??? so many decisions were made but

1. cahir is a fully adult man. like a fully grown man. i dont know why they did that. book cahir is early 20something iirc and very importantly soft!! didn’t want violence!! i could go on but you’ve talked abt it before and YEAH

2. VILGEFORTZ.. deeply confusing bc as i remember in the books he was always established as 1 manipulative 2 kind of a shit head 3 powerful 4 obsessed with becoming more even more powerful (not the most nuanced explanation i’m just trying to keep it kind of short ciebdisj) so it’s so confusing seeing him in twn.. interacting with cahir ever for one but seeing him as a .. friend ??? of yennefer?

frankly i dont have the mental capacity to watch the show again and get a better idea of the relationship but it’s like :| why is vilgefortz friend shaped and why does cahir look like a 38 year old who would ask me if i want the blue or the green games at a computer shop. WHY IS CAHIR SO... UHTHJGKVLVNFKG

you pretty much said all there is to say! i feel that cahir and vilgefortz in the books are both interesting characters as far as they go, especially because cahir stops being a villain as soon as vilgefortz becomes one, during the coup of thanedd.

vilgefortz is canonically handsome (and this matters because it contrasts with geralt being described as ugly, same thing with foltest -- 'the handsome' are evil, 'the ugly' are good) so i suppose i don't terribly disagree with the casting, as they did choose a handsome actor... but rather, i imagine vilgefortz to be "handsome" in an offputting manner, i.e., extremely broadshouldered and looking something like handsome squidward from spongebob... the concept of societal ideals for men, but taken too far and distorted to look concerning and unnerving, so i think a better cast might have been -- oh. well. henry cavill, i suppose...

cahir's youth is extremely significant to his character and the cast of eamon farren really makes no sense. i know they could not follow through on this though because cahir's storyline and arc is one of the closest things the witcher books get to an anti-imperialist message (about how empires take young people to commit atrocities in the name of loyalty and pride, how there is no regard for human life under empire), and as a british/american made show, i believe that is the furthest thing from their minds.