I read your review of syanna and I have to strongly disagree. You write that Dettlaff was wild and dangerous before meeting syanna and syanna decided to use him anyway. this argument is rather that syanna is an even bigger idiot and needs to be shortened by a head. she knew how powerful and dangerous a vampire is so she is and she decided to set him on people anyway. You cant blame gunpowder for exploding if you are the one playing with matches. syanna played with fire and instead herself she got the city burned. she only deserves to die.
if she wanted revenge on knights she could just go back to her sister's palace and discuss what hurts her. or just ask Dettlaff to kill those knights. instead, she games her own kidnapping and was responsible for the bloodshed in Dun Tynne. Everybody died there because of her.
Excuse me but to justify her because she was once mistreated is like to justify a murderer and a rapist because his father beat him in childhood. That mean we have to release all murderers and pedophiles from prison because they were mistreated in childhood? Absolutely not. not to mention that using Dettlaff is one of syanna many crimes. You can also look at it from the perspective of the saga. syanna is a Renfri created for dlc. what Geralt dif with Renfri? gutted her in daylight in the middle of Blaviken because he knew she was a murderer. he should do the same with syanna.
Anon, please chill a little. I don't even know what you're referring to because it's been years since I posted about Syanna, so I'm having to do some guesswork here. I think you might actually be responding to a reblog rather than a post I wrote? Regardless...
I sure as hell can blame Dettlaff for 'exploding'. Dettlaff choosing to kill hundreds of people for the actions of one was absolutely monstrous, and he wasn't so wild that he didn't know right from wrong - that was why he was hurt by being forced to kill in the first place. It's not like he didn't have any recognition of the value of human life (even if he didn't, I would consider a morality system that enables someone to mercilessly slaughter hundreds of innocent people evil. Maybe it's fine by vampire standards, but he was living among humans and killing humans). In regard to Syanna's part in it: to justify him because he was once mistreated is like to justify a murderer and a rapist because his father beat him in childhood.
And frankly, I like his faults. I like that he has issues with murder. He's one of my favourite characters. I have him in my icon for a reason, anon. I just happen to find Syanna more sympathetic. Her mistreatment was far, far worse than Dettlaff's and she only targeted people who'd hurt her. Were her actions incredibly dangerous, stupid, and cruel? Yes. But I also don't expect a girl who was labelled a monster as a child, viciously abused, thrown from her home with nothing but the clothes on her back, and then picked up by bandits to be the most stable or well-rounded of people. I'm also surprised you expect her to go to the palace for help considering they, you know, labelled her a monster, abused her, and threw her out to die, and she didn't go to Dettlaff because 1) they had been apart for years by that point, 2) Syanna specifically left because the intensity of his love unsettled her, so she had no intention of unveiling herself to him. The other thing about Syanna is the fact she's horrified by what Dettlaff does to the city and willingly puts her life at risk to try to stop Dettlaff. She sought to correct the mistakes she'd made, even if it costs her her life. I hold sympathy for Dettlaff too, of course, because it's pretty obvious he just wants to live peacefully and he'll go and live in caves - far away from humans - if you spare him. It's sad that that was ruined. When I talk about characters' faults, it's not about justifying their actions; it's about understanding and sympathising with them (and I'm not even going to touch on you bringing irl stuff into this, because that's ridiculous. This is about a video game character. Get a grip).
As for Renfri and Geralt, this is such an ugly way to frame that story. Renfri wanted to kill a man that tortured little girls to death in an effort to 'fix' their 'mutation', locked them in towers, and drove many of them to suicide. Renfri was one of his victims and she ended up dragged away from her home, raped, and lived a horrific life on the streets because of his actions. Geralt was rightly disgusted by what Stregobor did to those girls. Both Renfri and Stregobor came to Geralt and asked him to kill the other, and he refused both because he didn't want to be their thug. But Renfri threatened the townsfolk and he felt forced to make a choice. Geralt hated what he was forced to do. The story that follows The Lesser Evil is basically Geralt having a mental breakdown over his choice, and he outright dissociated after killing Renfri because of how traumatising it was.
There's also the fact that Renfri and her men hadn't done anything when Geralt attacked them. Geralt just couldn't risk the possibility that they would, so he acted. He did what he thought was the 'lesser evil'. And when Renfri shows up, she outright says killing the townsfolk would have been pointless and Geralt killing her men was pointless.
The canon does not support your reading of the situation with Renfri, nor Syanna. I mean, seriously, 'gutted her in daylight in the middle of Blaviken because he knew she was a murderer'?? Really??? He practically pleads with her to leave and that's what you got out of it???? He did not kill Renfri because 'he knew she was a murderer'; he killed her because Renfri forced him to. She was surrounded by the dead bodies of her men, so she knew how it would end. She basically committed suicide by Geralt's sword, and the event caused Geralt to dissociate and be thrown into depression because of how badly he didn't want to kill her.
(Unless you're referencing the Netflix series... which would be kinda dumb since TW3 came out well before the Netflix series and is specifically based on the books, which are very different from the Netflix series.)
Geralt's struggle with being forced to make difficult choices and do horrible things for good reasons is one of my favourite things about the character, so I'm annoyed that you're talking about him like he's an inhuman killing machine. And while referencing a story where he openly talks about not wanting to be treated like an inhuman killing machine, no less. Geralt has to live with the choices he makes and the consequences of them, and it's hard, and he doubts himself, and often struggles with self-hatred. What happened with Renfri haunted him. I don't doubt whatever ending you chose for him in B&W haunts him too.
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