for the witcher 3 asks: 1,2, 7, 12 and 36 :)
1. What’s your favourite monster?
i love leshen so much. their design is gorgeous, i love their semi-sentience, and i love the ambiance in the fights with them (though i wish i didn’t have to fight them). if only they were real so that they could stop some of the more needless urban development going on smh
2. What’s your least favourite monster?
fuck a water hag, honestly. i mean, not literally.... lmao uh, i respect their grind, but their tactics are kinda cheap. like, mud balls? really? i hate the blinding effect and i hate fighting them. honorable mention goes to rotfiends 🤢
7. What did you do “in the Heart of Woods” and “the Nithing”?
made the pact with the leshen, ofc 🥰 sven’s vibes are absolutely rancid, besides. though, in my second playthrough, i did the opposite just to see what it would be like. would still side with harald in any subsequent ones.
lothar and jonna are both shit for what they did. but, to me, the lesser evil is to turn the curse on to jonna to kill her. yes, 10 years is a long time to have spent with someone for them to leave you, but, jonna, you do not have to kill their fucking son as retribution. and for that, i do not believe that she deserves to have lothar back, loveless as it would be. nor do i think it right for the mother and son to be cast into poverty. it’s a whole mess of a situation, honestly. i always walk away from it feeling gross.
12. What is your least favourite main quest and why?
at the risk of sounding trite, this is genuinely a hard question to answer because i do love them all very much. i think that the novigrad section is the dullest because i’m not a particular fan of the characters featured in it. the quests are also too mundane in the sense that they deal with more earthy matters aka no magic. that said, i definitely don’t hate the novigrad chapter, but when you compare it to, say, the skellige one? yeah...
36. Did you take Iris’ rose?
the first time i did not, no. i really felt iris’ fear and thought it more potent than her sadness. i think i would prefer to live in sadness than oblivion (though she also could have gone off to something better--who can say) also liked the idea of sticking it to olgierd by only giving him the painting scrap :’)
thank you very much for asking! 🤍