This is by no means a comparison. Just parallels of two of my favorite characters that I love and am absolutely obsessed with portrayed by phenomenal and brilliant actresses, Anya Chalotra as Yennefer and Jodie Comer as Villanelle. These two phenomenally powerful, complex characters make me feel like I can do absolutely anything.
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Yennefer: She circles Geralt like a predator waiting for the right moment to pounce on its prey.
Are all witchers similarly blessed?
Villanelle: Leans in close to sniff her own perfume on Eve's neck with the tip of a knife firmly aimed at the edge of Eve's sternum.
You have a very nice body.
Haha! Funny coincidence, they both met their love interests under very mysterious and interesting circumstances in episode 5 of the first season of the shows.
Yennefer: I believe I sized you up quite right.
Which was after one meeting and dressed Geralt because she can. Tells him, scratch that, orders him to bathe and wear the clothes. Draws a bath for him while looking at the fine specimen in front of her but doesn't extend the same courtesy to him, again, because she can.
Knows exactly the belt Eve needed to complete her look just watching her from a glance in the boutique, sneaks in the belt to her dressing room, and is gone without Eve seeing her. Steals her suitcase throws out her not so fashionably good clothes and replaces them with some really gorgeous, expensive clothes and a gown in particular that is exactly Eve's perfect size hugging her body in all the right places.
Unapologetically powerful
Yennefer: I want to be powerful. It's what I'm owed.
When you have power like this, never apologise
Villanelle: I know, I'm amazing.
I'm expensive. Will you give me everything?
Yennefer: Lilac and gooseberries. Tough to get in your head. You have a strong will but you can't contend with me. Sorry I couldn't be direct. I knew you'll fight it. But I do love a good old-fashioned trap.
Villanelle: I want to smell powerful. I want to make people gag with it. I want to smell like a Roman centurion who is coming across an old foe that once hurt him greatly. Oh since then that Roman centurion has become an emperor and is now powerful beyond measure.
Know what they want and go for it
Masks, facade, underneath it all, vulnerable
Yennefer: You're born helpless so you find strength. Then that's all they want you for, to use you. And you find love, but it isn't real. It's... it's a wish someone made once, before they even knew who you were. And you... you find power, and it turns to ash in your hands!
I dreamed of becoming important to someone. Someday.
Villanelle: Most of the time, most days, I feel nothing. I don’t feel anything. It’s so boring. I wake up and I think, “Again? Really? I have to do this again?” And what I really don’t understand is, how come everybody else isn’t screaming with boredom too? I try to find ways of making myself feel something, more and more and more but it doesn’t make any difference. No matter what I do, I don’t feel anything. I hurt myself, it doesn’t hurt. I buy what I want, I don’t want it. I do what I like, I don’t like it. I’m just so bored.
I feel things when I'm with you.
They don't have to carry weapons. They are the weapons!!!
They are feminine in all their glory, wearing gorgeous clothes and killing in them literally.
Above all, they are survivors