Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26222852-20150319173634/@comment-26662770-20160615220608

SORCERESS70 wrote: Yes you are right, but Yennefer had hard time evolving though. She remained vengeful in nature, a pity in my opinion, but it was the vengeance that moved her onwards and gave her strength.

Look, she is deeply troubled, she is highly traumatized and humiliated, emotionally distant yet does everything to protect the ones she loves. Not only does she have scars, but cannot fulfill another thing which would bring her happiness, bearing a child despite being a sorceress...And she was alone for a long long time, without friends in the age long before she met Geralt.(adolescence and young adulthood).

And all this turned to pride, and then ambition, and then envy, and then scorn, and then malice...I am not saying some of these are bad things, but in her they serve to her own self-destruction, where she would not forgive herself if she would fail to achieve something.

Any of you got Yennefer as scornful and way too proud? Sure it might go to her own interest to prevent people humiliate her in any way and not to understand her as "just another hussy"... She does things only if there's something in it for her, not being able to "give and expect absolutely nothing", out of...I don't know...Altruism? There are moments though (when she helps the dwarf family) but in general she sought her expression in the world to be: "Now will you see who I am".

I get that we all do what we have to survive in this world. But the mode of survival of abused persons always has this pattern (I might be wrong in my view)-pride, ambition, envy, scorn, malice,"getting what you want no matter what", anxiety, insecurities, coldness,wrath, despair, being convinced that you are always right, and then again...Round and round...

I actually don't really like Yennefer at all plus she and Geralt are probably the worst couple ever. Both of them have deep scars on their souls, strive to dominate their relationships (Yennefer is a no-brainer as her father rejected her completely and she quenches her thirst for dominating men in her relationships) and Geralt likes to play with sorcereses to virtually pay-back emotional wounds to his mother (his games with Koral in Season of Storms, fabricated lies and sentimenst to Fringilla Vigo...)

That being said, they are made for each other in a sense that, in case they both step way out of their comfort zone, they are able to heal each others wounds by pure, undistilled, fated love. Against all odds...as Borch the golden dragon predicted...they painfully realize they can not live without each other. Ciri and externalized maternal/paternal feelings do a lot of work in that regard.

Both Geralt and Yennefer are complicated, complex characters with lots of emotional(and even physical) woes. But that's what makes them so intriguing and worthy of portraying on the big screen. N'est-ce pas?