so, [dons her geraskier tinted glasses]
the fact that geralt straight up ignores jaskier’s presence during the final battle has been niggling at me for weeks and i’ve been struggling to reconcile it with what we know about geralt. because, putting the mountain incident aside, geralt has always protected jaskier? whenever jaskier was in danger he would rush to his side in a heartbeat, literally from day one. not even acknowledging him until the battle is practically over makes no sense to me whatsoever?
i was watching the episode again last night and yennefer said this -
voleth meir is more personal than that. she’s more specific. she finds your weakness, the gaping wound in your heart, the thing that makes you feel hopeless, and she plunges her finger into it and makes it hurt so badly, you’d do anything.
which got me thinking. what if ignoring jaskier was really geralt’s way of protecting him? he knew that showing any concern for jaskier would shift voleth meir’s focus from him and ciri to jaskier. there was so much still broken between the two of them, that gaping wound in his heart that yen was talking about. so much hurt for voleth meir to draw her power from.
so, he ignores him. not giving any indication that the bard is important to him. doing everything he can to keep voleth meir’s gaze away from him. praying to the gods that one of his brothers will make sure he’s safe. that he would take the damn hint and get the hell away from there. hoping that for once in his life the bard would stay away from the fight and put himself first instead of geralt.
This is the type of media analysis I come to tumblr for. Good work OP.
