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solcorvidae · 3 months
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I've been thinking about how Lambert, Eskel, and Geralt all deal with the trials and how it shapes them into the people they would grow to become.
Lambert remembers his past. He is angry, upset, bitter, and vindictive. He's got this fire in him that is only stoked by the pain and suffering forced upon him. He remembers the boys who did not make it: the hell they all had to go through, and he has a complicated relationship with Vesemir that surrounds it. Lambert does questionable things that Geralt is bothered by in his grief and anger. Geralt calls him out for killing in cold blood, needlessly and mercilessly.
Lambert avoids Vesemir at Kaer Morhen and mocks him when he is not around. He may come off as childish and like an asshole, but Lambert knows what he feels. Lambert doesn't lash out because he can't control his emotions or because he doesn't understand the path of least resistance. He knows. He chooses to avoid conflict with Vesemir at Kaer Morhen by keeping out of his way. He knows he can't control his emotions effectively if he is face-to-face with him for too long. He knows, and he isn't stupid.
Lambert talks to Geralt about the trials and the injustice of it all. He probably looks up to Geralt, hoping his brother feels just as angry about it as he does. He went through the Trial of the Grasses twice for Christ's sake! Why is he not more angry? Why is he so apathetic?
And Geralt brushes him off time and time again. Such is life, is his attitude. We all went through it, he says. Geralt can't be upset because there is nothing he can feasibly do about it. He didn't choose to be a Witcher. He wouldn't have chosen this life. He would have some other job somewhere else, just like he told Regis. He can't change the past. He can't go back and fix something he never had control over in the first place. Besides, they can’t inflict the trials upon a new generation of kids, not anymore. It’s in the past now, so why dwell on it? What’s done is done and thank god no other kids have to suffer the way they did. It’s over. It’s time to move on.
Geralt doesn't enjoy fame. He tells Eskel this in To Bait a Forktail. Geralt is the famous twice-grassed White Wolf. He is The Witcher. The famed Geralt of Rivia. He has expectations piled upon him the size of mountains. He's got to be the perfect Witcher, he's got to be a loyal brother, a lover, and a best friend… Geralt had expectations put upon him that set him aside from the rest since he was a kid. He hates it. Underneath the banter and the wit, Geralt accepts that this is his life, but that doesn't mean he likes it. He tolerates it because it is his reality and nothing more. If he thinks about it for too long… maybe it will consume him.
"You remember her?" he asks Eskel about his mother.
Unlike Lambert, Geralt hardly knows what it means to live another life. He doesn't have that following him like it does with his brother. What little he remembers is not enough to erase the apathy drilled into him at such a young age. Maybe he has a more strict moral code than say, Lambert, (or if you want to bring in the other Witcher schools, most of the Cats and the caravan) but that doesn't make him the most ethical person on the Continent. How could you be? After all that he has endured, the things he was taught? Where do you draw the line? He kills monsters, but like in Velen, it's hard to see where the line's drawn in the sand.
Humans are monstrous too.
Eskel, however? Maybe he's jealous. He did everything right, why shouldn’t he be? He is superiorly skilled in magic, one hell of a good Witcher. He has a reputation for it. Maybe he's not as kind as your average person, but he gets the job done. He's got a more relaxed demeanour than his brothers which reveals itself in his reputation. He's reliable. He is damn good at what he does. So why does Geralt get all the attention? The fame? He clearly doesn't want it.
While Lambert got turned into a vindictive prick and Geralt became a quick-witted nihilist, Eskel? He's exactly who he should be. Why shouldn't he be praised for it like his brother? Why should he be forced to bend over backwards to accommodate people and keep up with his reputation? For what? His skills? Ha! He lives in the shadows of Geralt who's notably a good Witcher, but he's not quite as good as Eskel.
Eskel was beaten shaped into the man he is today because of the trials, his training, and everything else. Should he not get credited for that too? Why does someone who doesn't even want his fame get all the recognition? Genetic predisposition? Shouldn't his hard work be given more consideration and praise? Thank god Geralt survived the hell of being subjected to two rounds of mutagens rather than one, but why should that overshadow the efforts, the time, and the sacrifices that everyone else around him has made? Eskel is exactly the man that they intended him to be by the end of it all. He is an efficient hunter, he is outstanding with signs, and he works diligently for his reputation. He did everything right. He does everything right. Why is that not enough?
TL;DR: Lambert, Geralt and Eskel handle their traumas in different ways. Lambert gets vengeful, Geralt gets apathetic, and Eskel gets borderline jealous. (And it breaks my heart)
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0dde11eth · 8 months
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Just a lil much-needed queer youth joy - we need to talk about these students and allies in Hawai'i!
Students from Campbell- Kapolei Complex Schools used funding from one of our 50 States 50 Grants to give SO much support to their queer communities.
They bolstered their GSA clubs, held community based education events like a Halloween party and craft day, and even got to attend Honolulu Pride - where Hawai'i-raised Bretman Rock showed up for a surprise visit and marched alongside the students to honor them and their work, having attended the same schools themself growing up!
So proud of these students for recognizing what they need in their own communities.
And lucky for y'all...apps are open for the 3rd season of 50 States, 50 Grants right now through April 1, 2024 - if you're a high schooler or middle schooler in the US/DC/territories and have an idea for how you'd use the funds at your own school, don't miss out on applying: 50states50grants.org
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lassieposting · 1 year
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Alrighty things I'm emotional about today: Eskel and the fucking leshen
This leshen is parasitic. It infects Eskel, makes him increasingly unlike himself over an incubation period, and then mutates him completely. I'm gonna suggest that this leshen is based on some variant of cordyceps, an endoparasitic fungus that preys on insects, zombifying them. This sounds a lot like what happened to Eskel, right?
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Let's have a look at Eskel's timeline in this episode.
When Geralt finds him fully-transformed, he grits out that he knew something was wrong after his fight with the leshen, but he decided to return to Kaer Morhen anyway, because he believed Geralt/Vesemir could help him.
At this point, Eskel is still almost entirely in control. He made the sensible choice his usual self would make. If anyone will know what to do about his injury, it's Vesemir.
So Eskel goes back to Kaer Morhen. We don't know how long this takes him, but we can make a vague guess. He fought the leshen for six hours, so he probably rested and tried to tend to his own wound before heading home. He's had time to get to the castle, stop to extend an invitation to all the prostitutes, and make it up the Killer. A day or two, maybe?
If you look at him in his very first scene, he doesn't look injured. In any fight, a Witcher will get small injuries. Bruises, split lip, scratches, etc. When Geralt gets these injuries, he tends to keep them for the rest of the episode. There's not a mark on Eskel. All these other little injuries have already healed. So the leshen has had time to start exerting control over him; he's now in a deadly fight for his own body.
Eskel shows up at Kaer Morhen, and Geralt immediately notices that something is off with him. As we see from Geralt's flashback, the "loud, aggressive, fighty" energy Eskel has in most of this episode is not normal for him. He's normally, like game!Eskel, a thoroughly nice dude. They hug, and he asks if Eskel is okay. Eskel hesitates...then pulls away and says that he's fine.
Now, the whole reason he returned to Kaer Morhen in the first place was to get help. Even if he didn't want to publicly announce his injury, Geralt asks him this question quietly and in a way that Eskel could very easily keep it between them. He even looks like he wants to tell Geralt the truth - but ultimately he says nothing. This goes against all common sense for Eskel, but not for the leshen, whose best interests demand that it stay hidden until it has the best opportunity to infect the maximum amount of hosts/spread the optimal amount of infectious spores.
The leshen isn't letting Eskel tell Geralt. He's like a rabid creature who's desperate for water, but his body won't let him drink.
Notably, right after this, Eskel does actually make a reference to his injury. It's said in a jokey way, that the other Witchers should be glad they aren't feeling "the sting of one of those fucking roots", and he reaches for his shoulder when he says it.
So he's wrestling for control right here. He reveals his injury - that's Eskel - and then immediately downplays it, laughing it off - that's the leshen. He's got all this aggressive energy* when he bursts through the doors, then he seems himself again when he greets Geralt, and then goes back into Intimidation Mode when he spots Ciri. He's all over the place in this scene, because for half of it he's not in control of his own body.
(*Notably, from what I read - I am not a botanist, just a nerd - cordyceps does not usually make insects aggressive - to manage population balance, only a few ants from any one colony are infected at any given time. And we see from Geralt's flashback that Eskel is usually pretty chilled and easy-going, so his aggressive energy in this episode is highly OOC. Three possible theories on this:
Cordyceps kills its hosts eventually. Witchers make more resilient/more durable hosts. Making Eskel aggressive is intended to maximise the number of infected Witchers
The leshen is in Eskel's head, so it knows Eskel has brought it to Monster Hunter Central in the middle of fucking nowhere, and it's scared. Eskel is acting out because it knows that the one place it's most likely to be discovered is here.
Eskel is scared. He's a nice guy, but he's still a Witcher, capable of immense violence. Years of experience have taught him to get fighty when threatened, and now he's fighting for his life. Fully conscious, fully aware, while something takes over his body. Anyone would be terrified. )
We see later that Vesemir actually followed up on the hint Eskel dropped. He references that Eskel has "drunk too much for that sting", so he knows that one of his boys is hurt.
But he's like, highkey casual about it, so I don't believe he realises how bad it is, and I don't think Eskel has actually let him look at it. After making it all the way back to Kaer Morhen to get help from Vesemir, the leshen makes him deny he needs it. Interference from Vesemir is the most likely thing to get it discovered, and it can't risk that. Imagine being Eskel, hearing the monster using your mouth to tell the old man that you're fine, to leave you alone, stop fussing, while you're trapped in your own head screaming for help.
By the time the party** happens, he's deteriorating fast. He's practically begging for a fight with Geralt, and ultimately swings for him. He's snappish and short-tempered with the prostitute, especially when she brings up leshens, and even though he backs down from Geralt in the end, something still triggers his transformation and he kills the woman.
By this point, the leshen*** is almost completely in control. Eskel is shut away in his own head, unable to move his own body.
Still, he manages to speak to Geralt. He tells him he knew something was wrong, and he thought Geralt could help him. But this is, like, the last vestige of his ability to hold the monster back. By the time Vesemir arrives, the leshen has swallowed him up completely
** Now, I've seen posts criticising the decision to have this happen at all, when Kaer Morhen is supposed to be a closely guarded secret, which, fair. 1000% Eskel - the real Eskel - knows that stopping enroute to invite a bunch of hookers up to the keep is Not Okay. But it also works, in this scenario? Because what most benefits the leshen is infecting as many hosts as possible, and it would know from Eskel's memories that there won't be many people up at the castle. Just Witchers, a handful of them at best. Inviting more people to come and party fills the castle with potential hosts - and what's more, if it had infected the prostitutes, they'd all go back down the mountain and continue work for a few days unnoticed. Prostitutes meet a lot of people. If the Witchers had been more drunk, or less effective, or if Geralt had actually gone to protect Ciri and Vesemir had faced Eskel alone, the infection would have broken out and spread. The Continent dodged a fucking nuclear bomb here.
** It's also worth a thought that like. This leshen is vaguely implied to be a monolith monster, a new type of leshen. But it's probably not? It's a regular leshen who's also infected by the same parasite it passed on to Eskel. It's not in control either. It's wandered through a monolith into the world of the Aen Seidhe, but it's still just a slave to its parasite, and it's coming to the end of its time as a useful host. Infecting someone or something else is its top priority. That's...quite sad, too.
Anyway yeah I don't think the Netflix writers actually thought about all this or cared about doing his character justice/how OOC they wrote him, and I wish we'd gotten more of him, but. This is my theory and I'm sticking to it
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Lambert and Eskel resent each other for the same reasons they love and respect each other. Eskel wishes Lambert would stop being a nuisance and hogging everyone’s attention with his loudness and abrasiveness. Eskel also wishes he could be as open and unapologetic about what he wants or doesn’t want and stand up for himself. Lambert wishes Eskel would relax for a minute and stop acting like a parody of the teacher’s pet. Lambert also wishes he were as well-liked and seen as trustworthy as his brother, and didn’t have to put so much effort to act as calm and stoic as him. They both fight for Vesemir’s attention in different ways and think the other’s method is the best one.
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fangirleaconmigo · 1 year
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First off- I adore your Witcher Meta. It's exactly the kind of stuff I love to read and you lay it out SO well.
So that makes you the perfect person to ask: is there any canon backing up the common headcanon of Geralt (or other Witchers) not being able to cook well?
Ahhh thank you so much. I still get a bit self conscious about how extra I am, how detailed I can get, so I am very grateful I’ve found people just as nerdy as I am 😅
As far as book canon only, the only Kaer Morhen witcher I can remember being referred to as a bad cook, is Lambert! (People can correct me if they remember something else obv)
In general, it seems like they eat pretty well.
For Triss’s first dinner at Kaer Morhen, they served her “beer potage, thick with croutons and cheese,” and they drank cider, all of which sounds amazing.
The Geeky Chef made this potage which yes, looks absolutely delicious.
Then for breakfast the next day they served her porridge.
Kaer Morhen doesn’t have servants (maybe they did in the old days when the mages were there but not anymore) and they cook for themselves and so I feel like they eat quite well, even during long winters. Maybe rustic and simple but comfort food.
My headcanon is that Vesemir is the best cook, due to his experience and patience and role in caring for the keep. But I think Geralt, Eskel, and Cöen are no slouches, and if you let them make the meals they love, they feed each other well and put their little individual flourishes on there. I mean Geralt LOVES food. I can put a “Geralt and Food” post together if anyone is interested.
But as for Lambert, here is what Cöen says in Blood of Elves. He is training Ciri and they’re getting tired and starting to think about dinner.
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“I’m not tired, I’m hungry.”
“Bloody hell, so am I. And today’s Lambert’s turn and he can’t cook anything other than noodles…if he could only cook those properly…”
So it seems like they take turns, and that at least Cöen does not look forward to Lambert’s turn.
Me, I’m a Lambert. My sisters get together usually weekly to have dinner and whenever I volunteer to cook, everyone else “kindly” insists I do not go to the trouble. 😂😂😂😂
If I remember correctly, TWN put a little reference to this into season two. However, I haven’t rewatched S2 yet so don’t quote me on that.
Also, I must mention at this point @artanisnaanie has a fic called In the Kitchen of a Keep in the Mountains. She is a nerd about medieval cooking and the fic has a chapter and recipe for each character and it’s really fantastic. I recommend checking it out!
Thanks again ♥️
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essskel · 1 year
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​why waste time on billions of words of eskel meta trying to break down his tragedy and his conflict and his partial antagonism when I could just say: oh he’s the one who wears red. he’s the red character
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between-thepages · 8 months
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1, 4, and 14 for the asks to spread love <3
Thank you for the ask <3
A fanon characterisation that you love
I love the idea that Eskel is gay, and that the Succubus he talks about in Witcher 3 was actually an Incubus.
4. Link to a great meta you’ve read
There aren't that many meta posts I've read and remember, but this one about Triss, Phil and the Lodge is great, and resonates a lot with how I view Triss.
14. A ship or character that you started liking because of someone else (give them/their works a shout out!)
I started liking Foltest/Roche because of Major Design Flaw by Anoke, the whole series is fantastic and coincidentally one of the parts was released right as I started playing Witcher 2, which was one of the reasons I gave it a shot. A close second is Peace Tied by Bomberqueen17, which is one of the reasons I ship Iorveth/Roche.
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kuwdora · 2 years
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theowlseye · 1 year
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Thanks for that response about Keira! She shows up on fanfic a lot so I knew a lot of the stuff but I didn't know where it came from. I dont play video games but just from the fic Lambert is a special blorbo for me too so it's good to know their connection. I also often see Lambert depicted as very gender, which is one of the things I enjoy about him. Could you possibly tell me more about the time he got everyone to cross dress?
Hi! Thanks for this ask! Lambert's Gender is like one of my favorite topics to talk about ngl <3
Lambert is such a special blorbo, I'm so glad you agree <3 I have a lot of feelings about Lambert's gender which can be summed up by this post:
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I've got some meta on Lambert's relationship to gender that you can read here. I'm definitely not the only one that sees Lambert as being gnc or trans or both! Which is probably why you've seen more than a handful of fics where Lambert is very #gender. It's definitely a headcanon that originated in the games but then people have applied to non-CDPR fics as well (the times I've written Paulbert, I've still had Lambert be gnc or non-binary)
In regards to the Gangs Gets Into Dresses, there is a quest in The Witcher 3 called "No Place Like Home." This happens after Geralt goes back to Kaer Morhen with a humanoid creature called Uma (not to be confused with Thurman) who may have the truth to where Ciri is, but he needs helps from Yennefer and the other witchers in breaking the curse he is under. This quest also follows two other quests at KM, To Bait a Forktail and the Final Trial, during which you get to learn more about Geralt's relationships with Eskel and Lambert, and also Eskel and Lambert's feelings about themselves and being witchers. "No Place Like Home" builds on Geralt's relationship with his fellow witchers even further. They do this by getting drunk, playing Never Have I Ever, ribbing one another, playing cards...and wearing Yennefer's clothes!
Basically, the gist is, the witchers get drunk, Lambert complains about the lack of hot babes partying with them, so he gets the idea that they call up some hot lady witches using their Fantasy Zoom Call system. Eskel points out that they might scare off the woman they want to call, Ida, because they're men, to which Lambert says, "let's dress up!" and cajoles them all into putting on Yen's clothes.
You can watch a play-through of the drunken witchers part on youtube:
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Overall, yeah, it's definitely intended to be a transmisogynistic joke of "haha people who are perceived as male in dresses" (or in Geralt's case, leggings because the devs were COWARDS). Fortunately, I think a lot of people in the fandom took this as "how can I take what is a transmisogynistic joke and make it something more humanizing in regards to someone who is rather angry with their life circumstances." This informs a big part of my interpretation of Lambert's relationship with gender (among other things!) I think it's very notable that in this scene, Lambert is being very genuine overall. He's not teasing Eskel in a snide voice about having an hourglass figure, he's actually impressed! He seems to have a lot of knowledge about what would fit, foundational garments and color analysis for skin tones. He's not being sarcastic or quippy for once! I do think this is one of the few times where we get to see a genuine Lambert who isn't angry. I don't think this is per se what the devs intended, but I'll pull Death of the Author and say that I read Lambert as being inherently gender non-conforming. :3
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A lot of very good Lambert and Eskel sibling meta recently.
anyway girlies(gn) imagine me bringing you all little cakes and things in gratitude for absolutely wrecking my heart and brain.
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0dde11eth · 1 year
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I wonder what Lamberts intrusive thoughts are?
Or jaskiers? Or heck even Aiden?
Seriously they are so damn chaotic already.
But everyone has that little voice that makes even the person go "whoa! Too far, what the heck is wrong with me???"
What does that voice whisper to them, in the most innocent moments? That split second before they come back to themselves? Or In the dark of night when the darkness is around you, and within?
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(Eskels intrusive thoughts sounds suspiciously like Lambert talking regularly to him)
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witcherreborn · 2 years
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Things I want to write
Vampire Jaskier Werewolf Jaskier Time Lord Jaskier  (((Already wrote a starter))) Mutant Jaskier (X-Men) Enhanced Jaskier (Something Marvel) Meta Human Jaskier (Something DC) Warlock Jaskier (Based off Shadowhunters) Dragon Jaskier (Because that’s hot) Demi-God Jaskier (Son of Apollo) Shadowhunter Jaskier (Also based off Shadowhunters)
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kenobihater · 2 years
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lambert as a narrative foil
lambert acts as a highly effective character foil, primarily for geralt (as the most notable character foils are usually those who foil the protagonist), but also for the rest of the wolf witchers! putting it under a cut so i don't spam your dashes with my lambertposting <3
let me start with eskel, whom i have the least to say about because, of all the witchers, we spend the least amount of time with him. first of all, there's their personality differences: lambert can be an angry, cantankerous man, while eskel is much more affable and averse to conflict than lambert is (he admits to essentially walking on eggshells around lambert and not broaching certain topics at all with lambert in the mission no place like home).
then, there's their attitudes and how they talk about their pasts. lambert is bitter - i'd venture as far to say that it's one of his chief character traits. he's incapable of talking about his past without getting upset (and fair enough, considering the hell he went through as a kid!). eskel, on the other hand, is able to bring up his past (specifically when on the forktail hunt with geralt) and discusses it without rancor. yes, he's wistful that his memories of his mother are so fleeting, but he's able to look back on them without seeming to get bitter. his childhood likely differed little from lambert's after he made it to kaer morhen, meaning they share much of their trauma, but he's healed differently than his younger brother has and so perhaps the hurt isn't so near, or maybe he's just better at hiding it.
the easiest part to talk about when discussing lambert as a character foil to vesemir is their differing personalities and how they escalate or de-escalate conflict. lambert can have a pretty volatile manner of conflict resolution, at least when emotionally compromised, like how he is during following the thread. vesemir, on the other hand, almost always seems to have his temper under control, even when conflict erupts, like it did in white orchard. the only time i can think of where he gives into emotion is if lambert dies during the battle of kaer morhen, which is understandable but heartbreaking. lambert also is quite sarcastic, which stands in stark contrast to vesemir's genuineness.
another part of how lambert serves as a character foil to vesemir is through his age. his youth is the most noticeable when compared with vesemir, not only for the obvious reason of their age gap being the largest, but for their ages so greatly affecting how they view things. lambert is the youngest of the wolf witchers to still endure the trials of the grasses, and he has the mindset so often found in the young: a rebellious one, a mindset where he wants to overturn all of the established traditions and social mores of the wolves. vesemir, on the other hand, is more of a traditionalist. now, i'm not trying to say that he's wholly representative of the capital-m Man, nor is he at fault for all of the many tragedies that the wolf witchers have endured, both in childhood and on the path. i am trying to say that lambert likely views him this way at least in part, due to vesemir being complacent in the cycle of abuse that witcher trainees were subjected to. he was a cog in the machine, and while he would have simply been replaced had he stepped aside or spoken up, he is still responsible for making the wheels of the machine turn ever forwards, devouring more and more children. lambert knows this, lambert sees this, and he has a very difficult time picking apart his love for the old man from his anger at the part vesemir played, no matter how small, in traumatizing lambert and all of the other witcher trainees.
then there's how lambert acts as a foil to geralt. geralt is written to be a nice dude. not a perfect one, and you can certainly choose to make him kind of a dirtbag, but it's pretty obvious that cdpr wrote him to be nice. lambert, though i love him, is far from the first character to come to mind when i think of the word "nice". he has a grating personality to say the least, and shows affection through insults, which is quite a roundabout way of doing so. geralt, in contrast, is usually pretty blunt with his affections. he doesn't mince his words, but he's far from emotionally incompetent. neither is lambert (after all, he was able to befriend a cat witcher) but he's certainly more circumspect than geralt is about showing affection and kindness towards others.
the biggest way he acts as a foil to his brother geralt and helps to stress the overall theme of morality is through their differing codes of ethics. lambert, in my humble opinion, does have a code! in tw3 geralt's is obvious (always try to do good, neutrality is a luxury geralt can't afford, not all monsters are evil and not all humans are good) so long as you don't play him as a complete bastard, but lambert's is less so. he rarely comes out and gives justifications for his actions, but they do have an internal logic, one that is consistent throughout the story. those who do evil should be killed (like when he axiied the bandits to kill each other, or "visited" his abusive father), the good should be protected (like how he protects ciri) and, failing that, avenged (aiden, or voltehre). witchers kill monsters, and he doesn't agonize over this like geralt does when geralt meets a monster he deems good. he just kills them because they're monsters, and doesn't feel bad about it, because killing monsters? it's why he was made to suffer, and if he doesn't kill monsters and fulfill his duty, then what was the point? so, lambert does have a code, one more complex than geralt's, but a code nonetheless.
those complexities, and really all of the foiling work between lambert and the other wolves, does a fantastic job of showing the similarities and differences between four people raised the same way, under the same abusive system, and how that treatment affected them all differently and helped shape them into who they are in the narrative.
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fangirleaconmigo · 2 years
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I have set aside about an hour to write today. But what to work on?
I have about ten meta/analysis posts in drafts, (fanon or canon, Lambert char breakdown, Milva char breakdown) two WIPs on AO3 (Posada Remix and Eskel’s Angel) and like five WIPs in my Google drafts. One major (gladiator au) and four or so minor/pwps.
On what will I bestow my frustratingly inadequate amount of time on today?
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