Talk:Yennefer/@comment-27334094-20160303211103

I like this comment by imnotlikeanyofyou:

i think it was great writing with the two choices. such a contrast and pretty divisive.

triss is a clear choice, very warm personality and a good friend in tw3 regardless of romance choices. plus, she starts the game in a terrible position and you get to “rescue” her and be her savior.

yen, however, to many people, is an inscrutable icequeen bitch. she’s rude to geralt and everyone he knows. she’s already rich, has powerful allies, and doesn’t need anybody’s help. she’s arrogant yet insecure.

i personally found yen’s behaviors to be endearing. if you play through the game knowing that yen 1) considers herself ciri’s mother and 2) has been deeply hurt by geralt but still loves him, then all of her actions make sense.

i enjoyed seeing her being stone cold in order to make the hard choices for the people she loves. she raised a corpse from the dead, endured manipulating its rotten body and mind, and made an entire island hate her – all to find ciri. she completely drains herself in order to lift the curse on uma, and she bears the burden of possibly killing it or destroying it with those chemicals, all the while the witchers give her shit and second-guess her. so many times she’s basically the person who has to be the thankless adult in the situation and apparently many people who play the game resent her for it. and she’s doing all of this not out of some power trip but out of love.

throughout the entire game she shows no sign of weakness or warmth to anyone, except at key moments when she lets herself be vulnerable to geralt even though he’s hurt her countless times. i found those moments of vulnerability extremely touching. it’s a different kind of love than falling into someone’s arms and being giggly.