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lovelybottom) wrote2020-12-04 11:49 am
lovelybottom) wrote2020-12-04 11:49 am
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Current Characters in Victory Road: none
Character
Name: Geralt of Rivia
Series: The Witcher (Netflix)
Timeline: Post-Rare Species, pre-finding Cirilla
Canon Resource Links:
Wiki page
Personality:
Geralt, the titular witcher of the Witcher series, is a mutant monster hunter who grunts and fucks his way across the Continent, cutting bitches and banging witches.
Witchers are generally regarded by the population at large as dangerous, unfeeling, and barely better than the monsters they're paid to kill. Geralt does little to dissuade anyone of this opinion on his own, as his demeanor is usually taciturn and disagreeable. Couple that with his obviously inhuman features, like his yellow slit-pupil eyes, pale complexion, and white hair, and there are few people who would attempt to get to know the man underneath the mutations.
Though Geralt gives the outward appearance of preferring his solitude, it isn't as simple as it seems. The life of a witcher is a hard and lonely one, as they travel alone due in no small part to prejudice and the fact that people will avoid paying them for their work if they can. The only time that Geralt meets up with his fellow witchers is during the winter, when he returns to Kaer Morhen, the home of the Wolf School. However, he's not as content with this lonely, friendless situation as he's supposed to be, and that can be most clearly seen in his decades-long friendship with Jaskier. Geralt met Jaskier when the bard was eighteen years old and fresh out of Oxenfurt Academy, and despite Geralt's attempts at scaring him off for his own good-- even after punching him in the stomach-- Jaskier decided that he was going to fix this big brute's awful reputation through the power of song and set off with him to travel the Continent as his loyal companion. As Geralt's mutations give him greater strength and endurance than the average human, and he's also on horseback, it would be very easy for him to lose his hanger-on by simply galloping off into the sunset. Considering that he hasn't done that after twenty years, the only reasonable conclusion is that not only does Geralt not mind Jaskier, but he actually likes him. Geralt can sit around in bathtubs and claim that he needs no one as much as he likes, but this is the same man who was abandoned by his mother at six to the horrors of the witcher lifestyle and has named every single horse he's ever owned the same thing. Like, sure Jan, you totally don't have abandonment issues.
Geralt's desire for, but complete inability to successfully articulate, human companionship is readily apparent in his general protectiveness towards his bard companion, which goes beyond the bonds of courtesy, if Geralt would've even cared about something like that. Not only does the witcher protect Jaskier from the standard dangers of the road like monsters and brigands, but he also shields Jaskier from his own poor decisions. Geralt defends Jaskier from cuckolded husbands, angry fathers, and anyone else who happens to take offense at the bard's promiscuity, and does it without payment. Since witchers are notorious for doing nothing without getting coin for it, and Geralt insists more than once that he's not a mercenary for hire, the fact that he's willing to both play bodyguard for Jaskier and do it for free is significant. Geralt's love language is acts of service and with the bard, the best way to show that is to look after the little shit when he gets into trouble, even if Geralt grumbles about it later.
One might think that, after a decade or two of the most popular bard on the Continent singing your praises to turn your reputation from 'that guy we stone whenever he walks into town' to 'the guy we call the White Wolf and literally throw money at', a man might get a swelled head. And while Geralt has plenty of professional pride in his knowledge of monsters, alchemical skills, and general sword-stabby abilities, his actual self-esteem is approximately that of a lemon. The reasons why Geralt has less self-esteem than you could fit in your average thimble are many and varied, but is the end clusterfuck result of parental abandonment, being raised in the witcher lifestyle which is full of intergenerational trauma and whose training system necessitates that 7 out of 10 of all boys die in the first trial to become a witcher, Geralt receiving additional mutagens because he had reacted well to the first set and becoming essentially a mutant among mutants, and society at large's intolerance for non-humans, which means that Geralt's life is dedicated to protecting and serving a population who fears him and would be just as glad to see him dead as the monster that he's saving them from. He envisions no life for himself outside of performing his monster-slaying duties-- Jaskier asks him once what witchers do when they retire, and Geralt's response is that they don't retire, they just get killed by a monster when they get slow. He doesn't allow himself to hope for a better life for himself, because it's useless to hope for something that he'll never get.
Despite the fact that Geralt continually says that he must remain neutral in the affairs of men, he also literally never does that. Years before the start of the show, Geralt earns himself the moniker the Butcher of Blaviken due to his reluctance to get involved; he has the option to aid or stop Renfri, a former princess who is on the warpath to get revenge on the mage Stregobor for his role in labeling her as a mutant and forcing her into exile. Geralt tries to remain neutral in the situation and attempts to convince Renfri to give up her quest for revenge; she refuses, and takes her gang to the Blaviken marketplace to hold everyone there hostage. The witcher intervenes at that point to try to prevent bloodshed, and is forced to kill Renfri and her men. To the townsfolk, it appears that the witcher has butchered them for no reason, and he's run out of town. The pattern of Geralt trying to remain neutral before his conscience forces him to act repeats itself multiple times in the series, for good or ill. Ultimately, Geralt has a difficult time remaining idle, especially in cases of imminent violence, when he could possibly act to prevent it.
While Geralt has a number of noble traits, he also has his fair share of vices. Aside from his cantankerous and crotchety nature, he has the bad habit of falling into broody silences and communicating with grunts rather than using proper language. His temper also gets the best of him sometimes, especially when he’s uncomfortable or stressed, which usually results in him saying cruel or thoughtless things to the people around him. An angry outburst while looking for an insomnia cure, for instance, resulted in a djinn taking Geralt’s demands for Jaskier to shut up as a wish to shut him up permanently. Geralt almost always regrets these outbursts after they occur, but his stubbornness and aversion to admitting that he’s wrong means that he doesn’t directly apologize for them, either. Instead, he tries to make up for his offenses with actions; in the case of Jaskier and the djinn, that took the form of finding the closest sorceress who could fix what the djinn did, and then offering her literally anything to save him. As of the end of season 1, Geralt has yet to make amends with either Jaskier or Yennefer for his actions on the mountain during the Rare Species episode, though, as with other instances of being cruel, he likely regrets it.
He also has the bad tendency of assuming that he knows best, which can result in him making decisions for people even when they don’t want him to. He does this with the djinn wish in the Bottled Appetites episode, making his wish to try to save the sorceress Yennefer even though she doesn’t want him to, and the consequences of this wish taint their romantic relationship from then on. Similarly to this, Geralt hates the concept of Destiny and the idea that he may not be in control of all of his decisions and their outcomes, and actively rails against it for a significant portion of the first season, including when he gets a child by asking for the Law of Surprise as payment after just witnessing how much chaos the Law of Surprise can cause. Unfortunately for him, Destiny is actually a major force in the Witcher series, and any attempts he makes at circumventing or derailing it are doomed to failure.
On the whole, Geralt is a decent man with poor social skills and a terrible job who really just wants to get paid, take a bath, and get some sleep, but keeps getting dragged into Big Problems.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Fletchling
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample:
VR TDM thread
Victory Road Sample:
[For what must be the first time since Geralt arrived in this strange new world, he feels like he’s standing on solid ground. He’s dressed in sturdy clothes, all black as is his usual preference, the closest thing that he could get to armor in this place; the weight of a Doublade at his back is so similar to that of the silver and steel swords that he would normally carry for his witchering that he almost can’t tell the difference. The Mudbray that is his newest mount—Roach, of course—grazes nearby, albeit eating dirt rather than grass because this world is insane. He’s stopped questioning it. At least she’s immensely cheap to feed.]
[He takes the device out of his saddlebag that everyone uses around here to communicate with. It’s like a xenovox, albeit more complex and capable of greater feats, and Geralt has come to learn its uses with all the skill of an octogenarian navigating the latest smartphone. He’s from fantasy medieval Poland, give his pierogi-eating ass a break.]
[After a few moments of prodding, the device makes a little clicking noise that Geralt has learned means that it’s sending a message. He makes sure that it’s pointing at his face before he speaks.]
I am Geralt of Rivia. A witcher.
[There haven’t been many people who have recognized that term, and it’s been… a strange experience. There have been more times than not that he’s walked through a town and no one has even cursed at him, nevertheless thrown a stone or driven him off. No mothers worry that he'll steal their children.]
I hunt monsters. I am offering this service again, if anyone is in need of it. I can remove any dangerous or troublesome creatures and relocate them, for a fee. Either contact me or the bard, Jaskier.
[He hangs up. Hasn’t quite gotten the hang of phone etiquette, it’s probably fine.]
Name: Inky
E-mail: inkblot.meringue@yahoo.com
Preferred Contact:
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Victory Road: none
Character
Name: Geralt of Rivia
Series: The Witcher (Netflix)
Timeline: Post-Rare Species, pre-finding Cirilla
Canon Resource Links:
Wiki page
Personality:
Geralt, the titular witcher of the Witcher series, is a mutant monster hunter who grunts and fucks his way across the Continent, cutting bitches and banging witches.
Witchers are generally regarded by the population at large as dangerous, unfeeling, and barely better than the monsters they're paid to kill. Geralt does little to dissuade anyone of this opinion on his own, as his demeanor is usually taciturn and disagreeable. Couple that with his obviously inhuman features, like his yellow slit-pupil eyes, pale complexion, and white hair, and there are few people who would attempt to get to know the man underneath the mutations.
Though Geralt gives the outward appearance of preferring his solitude, it isn't as simple as it seems. The life of a witcher is a hard and lonely one, as they travel alone due in no small part to prejudice and the fact that people will avoid paying them for their work if they can. The only time that Geralt meets up with his fellow witchers is during the winter, when he returns to Kaer Morhen, the home of the Wolf School. However, he's not as content with this lonely, friendless situation as he's supposed to be, and that can be most clearly seen in his decades-long friendship with Jaskier. Geralt met Jaskier when the bard was eighteen years old and fresh out of Oxenfurt Academy, and despite Geralt's attempts at scaring him off for his own good-- even after punching him in the stomach-- Jaskier decided that he was going to fix this big brute's awful reputation through the power of song and set off with him to travel the Continent as his loyal companion. As Geralt's mutations give him greater strength and endurance than the average human, and he's also on horseback, it would be very easy for him to lose his hanger-on by simply galloping off into the sunset. Considering that he hasn't done that after twenty years, the only reasonable conclusion is that not only does Geralt not mind Jaskier, but he actually likes him. Geralt can sit around in bathtubs and claim that he needs no one as much as he likes, but this is the same man who was abandoned by his mother at six to the horrors of the witcher lifestyle and has named every single horse he's ever owned the same thing. Like, sure Jan, you totally don't have abandonment issues.
Geralt's desire for, but complete inability to successfully articulate, human companionship is readily apparent in his general protectiveness towards his bard companion, which goes beyond the bonds of courtesy, if Geralt would've even cared about something like that. Not only does the witcher protect Jaskier from the standard dangers of the road like monsters and brigands, but he also shields Jaskier from his own poor decisions. Geralt defends Jaskier from cuckolded husbands, angry fathers, and anyone else who happens to take offense at the bard's promiscuity, and does it without payment. Since witchers are notorious for doing nothing without getting coin for it, and Geralt insists more than once that he's not a mercenary for hire, the fact that he's willing to both play bodyguard for Jaskier and do it for free is significant. Geralt's love language is acts of service and with the bard, the best way to show that is to look after the little shit when he gets into trouble, even if Geralt grumbles about it later.
One might think that, after a decade or two of the most popular bard on the Continent singing your praises to turn your reputation from 'that guy we stone whenever he walks into town' to 'the guy we call the White Wolf and literally throw money at', a man might get a swelled head. And while Geralt has plenty of professional pride in his knowledge of monsters, alchemical skills, and general sword-stabby abilities, his actual self-esteem is approximately that of a lemon. The reasons why Geralt has less self-esteem than you could fit in your average thimble are many and varied, but is the end clusterfuck result of parental abandonment, being raised in the witcher lifestyle which is full of intergenerational trauma and whose training system necessitates that 7 out of 10 of all boys die in the first trial to become a witcher, Geralt receiving additional mutagens because he had reacted well to the first set and becoming essentially a mutant among mutants, and society at large's intolerance for non-humans, which means that Geralt's life is dedicated to protecting and serving a population who fears him and would be just as glad to see him dead as the monster that he's saving them from. He envisions no life for himself outside of performing his monster-slaying duties-- Jaskier asks him once what witchers do when they retire, and Geralt's response is that they don't retire, they just get killed by a monster when they get slow. He doesn't allow himself to hope for a better life for himself, because it's useless to hope for something that he'll never get.
Despite the fact that Geralt continually says that he must remain neutral in the affairs of men, he also literally never does that. Years before the start of the show, Geralt earns himself the moniker the Butcher of Blaviken due to his reluctance to get involved; he has the option to aid or stop Renfri, a former princess who is on the warpath to get revenge on the mage Stregobor for his role in labeling her as a mutant and forcing her into exile. Geralt tries to remain neutral in the situation and attempts to convince Renfri to give up her quest for revenge; she refuses, and takes her gang to the Blaviken marketplace to hold everyone there hostage. The witcher intervenes at that point to try to prevent bloodshed, and is forced to kill Renfri and her men. To the townsfolk, it appears that the witcher has butchered them for no reason, and he's run out of town. The pattern of Geralt trying to remain neutral before his conscience forces him to act repeats itself multiple times in the series, for good or ill. Ultimately, Geralt has a difficult time remaining idle, especially in cases of imminent violence, when he could possibly act to prevent it.
While Geralt has a number of noble traits, he also has his fair share of vices. Aside from his cantankerous and crotchety nature, he has the bad habit of falling into broody silences and communicating with grunts rather than using proper language. His temper also gets the best of him sometimes, especially when he’s uncomfortable or stressed, which usually results in him saying cruel or thoughtless things to the people around him. An angry outburst while looking for an insomnia cure, for instance, resulted in a djinn taking Geralt’s demands for Jaskier to shut up as a wish to shut him up permanently. Geralt almost always regrets these outbursts after they occur, but his stubbornness and aversion to admitting that he’s wrong means that he doesn’t directly apologize for them, either. Instead, he tries to make up for his offenses with actions; in the case of Jaskier and the djinn, that took the form of finding the closest sorceress who could fix what the djinn did, and then offering her literally anything to save him. As of the end of season 1, Geralt has yet to make amends with either Jaskier or Yennefer for his actions on the mountain during the Rare Species episode, though, as with other instances of being cruel, he likely regrets it.
He also has the bad tendency of assuming that he knows best, which can result in him making decisions for people even when they don’t want him to. He does this with the djinn wish in the Bottled Appetites episode, making his wish to try to save the sorceress Yennefer even though she doesn’t want him to, and the consequences of this wish taint their romantic relationship from then on. Similarly to this, Geralt hates the concept of Destiny and the idea that he may not be in control of all of his decisions and their outcomes, and actively rails against it for a significant portion of the first season, including when he gets a child by asking for the Law of Surprise as payment after just witnessing how much chaos the Law of Surprise can cause. Unfortunately for him, Destiny is actually a major force in the Witcher series, and any attempts he makes at circumventing or derailing it are doomed to failure.
On the whole, Geralt is a decent man with poor social skills and a terrible job who really just wants to get paid, take a bath, and get some sleep, but keeps getting dragged into Big Problems.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Fletchling
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample:
VR TDM thread
Victory Road Sample:
[For what must be the first time since Geralt arrived in this strange new world, he feels like he’s standing on solid ground. He’s dressed in sturdy clothes, all black as is his usual preference, the closest thing that he could get to armor in this place; the weight of a Doublade at his back is so similar to that of the silver and steel swords that he would normally carry for his witchering that he almost can’t tell the difference. The Mudbray that is his newest mount—Roach, of course—grazes nearby, albeit eating dirt rather than grass because this world is insane. He’s stopped questioning it. At least she’s immensely cheap to feed.]
[He takes the device out of his saddlebag that everyone uses around here to communicate with. It’s like a xenovox, albeit more complex and capable of greater feats, and Geralt has come to learn its uses with all the skill of an octogenarian navigating the latest smartphone. He’s from fantasy medieval Poland, give his pierogi-eating ass a break.]
[After a few moments of prodding, the device makes a little clicking noise that Geralt has learned means that it’s sending a message. He makes sure that it’s pointing at his face before he speaks.]
I am Geralt of Rivia. A witcher.
[There haven’t been many people who have recognized that term, and it’s been… a strange experience. There have been more times than not that he’s walked through a town and no one has even cursed at him, nevertheless thrown a stone or driven him off. No mothers worry that he'll steal their children.]
I hunt monsters. I am offering this service again, if anyone is in need of it. I can remove any dangerous or troublesome creatures and relocate them, for a fee. Either contact me or the bard, Jaskier.
[He hangs up. Hasn’t quite gotten the hang of phone etiquette, it’s probably fine.]