haxxiy said:
Ciri, in the books, is described as an innocent child who becomes basically a villain with good intentions, Daenerys-style, so I'd be glad that they recovered some of that characterization compared to the whitewashed version in TW3. Maybe they can retcon it as Geralt's fatherly memories of Ciri seeing only what he wanted to see in her, IDK. |
I feel it makes complete sense either way.
Geralt tries to supress his emotion but he isn't emotionless, apparently in the books he shows anger quite often. Pretty sure Geralt would be a bit pissed at people pointlessly sacrificing an innocent lady, he just wouldn't show it. Witcher's actually having emotions is shown multiple times, this whole "stripped of emotions" is a myth and played up by Geralt to seclude himself from normal life and be seen as nothing but a cold blooded killing machine because that's good for his job but he's lying to himself.
Geralt has been trained since very young and had much longer to trick himself into this emotionless nonsense, Witcher's are trained through childhood and moulded into teenage years and adulthood into the perfect killing machines. Ciri on the other hand is becoming a Witcher when she has already basically reached adulthood, that will have an impact on how she displays emotions versus others.
I think of it like the Halo Spartans, who are kidnapped children, they've known nothing but their training, they've known nothing except fight, they've supressed their emotions for all their life already, so when they reach adulthood they are far better than others at supressing emotions but it doesn't mean they have none, Ciri is someone who has already experienced the full range of these emotions for half of her life, it will be a lot harder for her to supress them than someone indoctrinated through childhood.
