#and geralt's not exactly the bees knees either for a witcher whose lived for a hundred years

[teatitty]

I love writing Dandelion because he's a performer. An unreliable narrator of his own life. He exaggerates and lies through his teeth and will dig and dig and dig into the backstory of a friend but clam up the second you ask him anything about his own and find ways to deflect and demure. He's hyperaware of how people view him and just doesn't seem to care. If you think he's a silly bard without a brain that's how he'll act for you and if you only see him as a flirt who makes terrible jokes that's how he'll act for you, he puts on whatever mask he thinks people want most from him which is why it's so compelling that his bestest friend in the whole wide world is Geralt - a Witcher who can effortlessly see through it all and strip him down to his bones if he wants to

Truly the mortifying ordeal of being Known

#the witcher books #meta post #kinda sorta it's close enough #it annoys me a lot how many people assume he must've been the worst spy ever #because if he was truly as bad as all that he wouldn't have survived the war for so long with such a position #you forget that he doesn't *always* travel with geralt #obviously he knows how to look after himself he just turns off some of that self-preservation #when he's with his friends because he's safe enough to do so #and geralt's not exactly the bees knees either for a witcher whose lived for a hundred years #you'd think he'd know better than to use a fish hook and wire to sew a wound shut but nooooooo #it's part of the best friend code that when you're together you become dumb as fuck and do stupid shit