genuinely. my hc is that simon created his samurai persona as a defense mechanism both against himself and to keep him safe in prison and it just kinda... consumed him
but here he is grabbing athena by the lapels and yelling(?) at her in the courtroom
and it's just
it's always interesting seeing the prosecutors on the defense bench
they always, always get *interesting*
and simon switching from prosecuting - which i dont know if he's done since turnabout for tomorrow - to defending for this case is so interesting. i dont think he HAS prosecuted since turnabout for tomorrow and now he's at the defense bench because shit, isn't it nice to be free?
and as im writing this im thinking about simon's motivation as a prosecutor. its pretty complicated. like miles' path has a whole fucking game about it, ziska's is fairly well explained, godot is... godot, Klavier is earnest and seeking truth, and sahdmadhi is giving last rites.
but blackquill is prosecuting even as a falsely convicted prisoner. even though he KNOWS that if the prosecutor falsely prosecutes, people will be in pain, arguably more so than the defense attorney falsely defending.
iirc he makes fun of athena and apollo's continued defense even when faced with impossible odds. even tho he's a falsely convicted prisoner.
idk where im going with this. there's a character study somewhere in that clip.
Geralt hasn't stuck around a human for this long before, so at first he thinks nothing of it when Jaskier comes back to him year after year, looking just the same. And when he doesn't die even after he must've passed sixty in age, Geralt chalks it up to the fact that any human would live past the expected when protected by a Witcher. He does get a little suspicious when Jaskier still looks the same after a century on the path together.