Talk:Something Ends, Something Begins (quest)/@comment-177.133.152.113-20190422072413/@comment-35089194-20190730205341

OP was so close to getting it, so I can only assume they went out of their way to miss the point entirely simply due to not liking the choice Ciri (and Ciri alone) made in the Empress ending.

Yes, you do spend the entire second half of the story either sheltering her (Negative) or allowing her to be independent (Positive), well done for stating the obvious. You clearly understand that this is a choice she makes of her own free will, you even state yourself that she chooses to become the next monarch. She also explicitly states that this is what she wants (interesting that you left that part out)... so why did you suddenly decide to pretend that she was forced?

Both the Witcher and Empress endings can only be achieved by allowing her to make her own decisions, so trust me; just because you don't like her choice, doesn't mean it suddenly stops being her choice - one which she doesn't even get to make if Geralt doesn't take her to see Emhyr. More to the point, if you've gotten to the end and still genuinely believe that anyone can force Ciri to do anything, you haven't been paying attention.

I get that it's just a video game at the end of the day, but the fact that you prefer the ending in which she dies to the one where she makes the choice to put herself in the best position to make the world a better place... that doesn't say good things about your psychology.