#but for the scoiatael… how’s he ever gonna be anything but a monster (again. only based on canon so far)

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hi!!! if you don't mind me filling your inbox i want to talk about roche a lil bit because i have many thoughts about that one specific line in tw3 and i wanted to share it with you.

if you bring letho to kaer morhen and pick the third option roche will tell geralt this:

'You know what Geralt, I've done many things in my life I wish I hadn't, but I always respected those who I served always put my trust in them'

this makes me think that maybe he's not THAT bad! i saw a lot of your roche takes and while i agree with most of them i don't think that roche is an irredeemable monster who enjoys killing (he's for sure brutal) or he doesn't have regrets regarding his crimes. DON'T GET ME WRONG THO he's still a terrible bastard and his crimes can't be justified in absolute any way. i just don't think he's a lost cause and it's not so wrong to put a lil bit of fate in him. regardless of how he acted in tw2 (the man was going through an emotional rollercoaster and that might've changed him in a way).

also love your autistic roche hcs they're so real

Don’t mind at all!! And don’t worry I agree, I don’t think he’s irredeemable over all, he spends nearly all of tw3 making generally misguided but ultimately good willed decisions, and I’ve always found his relationship with Ves to be nothing but genuine and kind (even if their lives are fucked up and they have some issues with each other) Also this is the witcher … we’re hard pressed to find a protag that has not done something horrific lmao

However, I personally don’t think he’s anything but a villian from and Elven perspective - at least not with the canon material we’ve been given. He may ‘regret’ some of the things he did, but he never breaks that down further or offer any form of apology/aid to the Elven community as acknowledgment for his part in Temeria’s war crimes. On the Scoiatael, he just says he doesn’t care anymore. So this regret - what does it mean and does it even matter? But I also know that this is pretty much just because he’s a minor character and his scenes with Iorveth got cut from tw3 so … there’s not really anything to analyze either way.

That’s sort of the core of it. I see no canon reason that the Elves (Iorveth esp) would ever be comfortable around him, so it’s all up to fanon to fill in that gap. And tbh that is a massive gap that I didn’t think I was handling with the consideration it needs given the source material. Hope that makes sense ?? Thanks again !

#yeah idk it’s just based on perspective #ofc he’s a protag and he’s there at kear morhen for Ciri bc of course he is #but for the scoiatael… how’s he ever gonna be anything but a monster (again. only based on canon so far) #ask #anonymous #double shot