#regis headcanon

[dyemberrr]

Today I learned about Leslie Howard as Scarlet Pimpernel. Now look at this and say this is not young Regis. Just look.

I'm in awe.

[imaginethewitcher]

Do you have headcanons for any of the characters (your choice) in a modern au? Like jobs, hobbies and the like?

Ciri:

She’sa YouTuber, making videos about sword fighting, but also about camping innature

Makesvlogs from time to time, in which she tells weird, but funny stories about herfamily life

Alwaysgets asked to do a collaboration with Eredin, but she’s suspicious of that guy

Collaboratesmostly with Cerys and Hjalmar

Spendsmost of her time at the gym, training with Cerys and Hjalmar

Goeson dates with Cerys to their favourite barcalled “The Chameleon”, run by oneof Ciri’s friends (They always get food and drinks for free)

 Geralt:

Geraltworks as a detective

Hisactions as detective are mostly just and he defends and helps the ones in needas best as he can. He’s not very popular with the police, because he’s betterat solving cases, knowing both sides of a coin

Whilehe complains a lot about the job, he still enjoys doing it and getting thepraise from the people he helped

Livestogether with Yennefer in a mansion in the woods nearby a bigger city

Sometimesis a guest in Ciri’s videos, showing different sword techniques

Oncea month meets up with his friends at “The Chameleon” and plays Gwint

 Regis:

Teachesmedicine at a university

He’sa well-liked professor and gives the best explanations. His students always pass

Sometimeshe covers philosophy classes

Hehas countless notebooks filled with his thoughts, new methods in medicine andstudies of anatomy

Inhis free time he meets friends or goes to the library

 Triss:

Worksat a pharmacy, making and selling herbal medicine

Likesto take walks through forests, collecting herbs

WheneverCiri got wounded in training, Triss will provide her with medicine

Hasa blog about plant aesthetic, baking recipes and nature cosmetics

Likesto go shopping and sitting in a café with Yennefer

 Yennefer:

She’sworking at an antique store

Sheenjoys the quiet and sophisticated atmosphere of the shop

Knowsa lot about antiquities and their history. She can easily convince costumers tobuy something

GivesCiri advices for practical hairstyles and clothes, yet still fashionable, forfighting and appears sometimes in her videos

Getsher make-up mostly from Triss and often visits her

Frequentlyvisits the library

[rowyndodendron]

Can you expand on the Geralt, Regis, and Philippa being autistic? I'm intrigued...

Yes friend. Yes I can. As it happens I’ve already talked about Phil at length here, but I got distracted by…Life before I could get to the boys. So I’ll do that now. Much like Phil’s this isn’t going to be very ordered….Or detailed, unfortunately, bc I can’t remember everything I wanted to say on the subjects, and I don’t have the spoons to go trawling through the books atm. 

This is all, also, entirely book based, because I’ve never played the games (I just occasionally reblog gifsets here bc a)- pretty, b)- CONTENT and c)- oh look nice visual representations of my children) but idk what’s going on there. 

Regis: 

Regis presents some potential vague problems with the autistic thing bc he’s not human…but as I’m not suggesting all higher vampires are automatically autistic, and because I love my dear awkward bean, I don’t really care and we’re pressing on with haste. 

-Okay, okay, the biggest/my favourite thing for this hc with Regis is his habit of infodumping/overexplaining EVERYTHING. He either just gets really into it/excited about Sharing His Knowledge, or else he can’t filter what of all the many things bouncing around in his brain are actually important (bc they are all important) so he just says everything meanwhile the hansa are all just ‘Regis pls we got the point ten minutes ago STOP TALKING’ And he knows he does this, and he’s tried so many times to get a hold on it and stop but it just…It’s not happening. 

-Regis having special interests in herbs/plants, particularly if they can be used for medicinal purposes…Or making moonshine. He’s had several lifetimes to Indulge this interest and he pretty much knows everything about everything. 

-He has a pretty distinctive pattern of speech. And I like the idea that his Extreme Authentic Regis-Flavoured Politeness that’s a fairly staple part of his character is something that’s developed over the years, first from a coping type mechanism bc the politer he was, the harder it was to accidentally say something wrong and offend someone, and eventually transitioned into an internal rule so this is now just the way he is/has to be. 

-Kind of a combination of the above point and the first: Regis explaining things in ways he thinks are very clear and explicit (while also maintaining the necessary politeness rules) but everyone around him is just ???? regis wut???? 

-Regis calling himself a coward when it comes to combat situations because he doesn’t know how else to explain the fact that he freezes up and panics in these situations (the dude basically cannot die, okay, this isn’t a mortality fear, but there’s something going on). The truth is, though, that battles are sensory hell, too much noise, too much feeling, too much visual stimulation too much and he can’t deal with it (sweet bean) 

-I like Regis being on the other end of the empathy spectrum to, say, Philippa, and being hyperempathetic (which I think fits him fairly well - I mean….The guy is an immensely powerful, centuries old higher vampire….and he spends his time chilling, making moonshine for passing strangers, and being a bloody barber surgeon and helping people with his vast wealth of Knowledge. And also the way he responds to, say, the girl in the village when he performs the whole fire miracle thing to save her, despite the fact it’ll expose him, because he just nope, not having this. And he feels things so deeply, he CARES so much, he’s such a good soul, this suits him well) 

-Okay but in contrast to that Regis is pretty fucking unflappable. He doesn’t really do big displays of emotion very well, and tends to approach most things with Logic. (See: that moment in LotL when Geralt is like ‘okay ppl we have a job we are LEAVING’ and the hansa just explodes into action and rushes off to hop to it. Meanwhile Regis sits there, chill as you please, just like…yes, okay Geralt, an explanation if you please, I require Reasons before I leap into action thank you very much) And he’s got that expected ‘comes across as pretty withdrawn/composed’ thing going on too.

Geralt: 

Geralt, like Regis, presents a few slightly thorny problems bc a lot of the things that read as traits for him are muddled up with the whole witcher mutations…but again…i Relate too much to care, and I’m too tired to get into a debate with myself concerning this, so onwards and upwards… 

-I feel like he’s somewhere in the middle of the empathy spectrum. Like you’ve got Phil who’s just…None and doesn’t give af, Regis that’s just like *feels everything so much and vibrates with it* and then Geralt’s in the middle where he….Can’t really read people’s emotions very well, but there’s also a fairly large heaping of compassionate empathy in there, in that he WANTS to help people he just…Doesn’t quite understand them very well? So he’s like…Trying His Best on the empathy front. (bless) 

-Geralt kind of going the opposite direction that Regis went with the talking/socialising thing. Where Regis is really polite/long-winded to kind of compensate and attempt to cover all bases, Geralt is just...To the point. Blunt. Says what he’s thinking/what he means. Doesn’t have time for anyone who does anything other than that. He gave up trying to riddle out manipulation/lies long ago. Either talk simply, or don’t talk at all. 

-Geralt repeatedly being like ‘what is this feeling I am experiencing?’ *prods it uncertainly* which has a name: alexithmiya, and is Great Fun btw. 

-Let’s be honest here, he’s really not the world’s biggest emoter. That isn’t to say that he doesn’t have emotions/doesn’t feel (ofc he does) he’s just really not very good at showing it. 

-Absolutely less than zero, well into negative figures here, interested in politics. There’s too much lying, too much manipulation, too many games, too many exhausting little factions and social rules and nuances to try and figure out and he is decidedly Too Old For This Shit. 

-Same vein: hates spies/spying. Can’t be doing this with all this under the table, betraying, two-faced bullshit. Wasn’t made for it, can’t be fucked with it, stop doing it, please and thank you. 

-Geralt transcending the typical autistic realms of same!clothes/same!food and heading into the territory of same!name: every horse I have ever, or will ever, own is called Roach. Nice and simple. 

-His witcher medallion ending up being a comfort object because of how constant/present it is. It’s a nice weight, and it probably doubles as a stim toy tbh because the spiky bits can get rubbed between fingers. 

-Geralt having very set Internal Rules/demonstrating black and white thinking. He’s very firm about these sorts of things in the games, things along the lines of not killing dragons/intelligent beasts etc, etc. But also his views on neutrality/not taking part/wanting to be removed from what’s happening (these do change slightly, but it takes a damn long time) 

-I can make an argument for Geralt being change resistant/struggling to adapt without too much trouble. He does the same thing day in day out and has done for years, and doesn’t seem in any great hurry to stop doing that. 

-Literally every speech Geralt makes to the hansa is just...Geralt. Child. Ur trying. But lead by action, okay? 

I could go on but...that’ll do for now. (also this took 16 years to answer and I apologise for that I hope your intrigue didn’t die in the intervening time D:) 

[imaginethewitcher]

Hii, sooo, could I get some headcanons about Dettlaff, Geralt, Ciri, Iris and Orianna, or Regis and Dandelion playing The Witcher 3? I'd have asked for God of War but since you haven't played it yet... I will ask again once you played it xD It's so good!!

I really like this request, so I wrote headcanons for all of them. :DAlso my final exam is near and I will have more time to write. Enjoy some headcanons for now. Scenario will come again soon.

Ciri:

Alwaysbrings Geralt and Yennefer together

Collectsand crafts every single sword

Isthe best sword fighter of all the characters

Playson hard-mode

Herfavourite part of the game is Skellige, because she meets Cerys there

Dandelion:

Flirts with everyone

Reallylikes the voice of the narrator

Playsthe game 100% and gets every achievement

Alsouses many save slots, so he can play every choice and story path

Playson easy mode. He plays rather for the story and side quests than forchallenging gameplay

Downloadsmany mods

Dettlaff:

Mostlychooses the rude decisions by accident

Justwants to be nice

Sometimeslooks up what’s going to happen and checks the outcome of major decisions

Wantsto stay focused on the main story, but ends doing every single side quest

Geralt:

Playsthe game the most correct

Liveswith bad decisions and outcomes

Oftenvery grumpy

Lovesplaying as Ciri. He’s proud of her and loves seeing her develop

Alsoreally likes the parts with his love interest. He appreciates her and treatsher loveable

Helpseveryone in need

Emhyr’sgreatest enemy

Iris:

Spendsa lot of her time not actually playing, but creating mods

Shecreates several mods for extra paintings

Isa pure sweetheart and tries to help everyone

Reloadsa save slot whenever she’s not satisfied with the outcome of a choice

Regis:

Weighsevery outcome of a decision very carefully and considers every possible outcome

Heneeds a lot of time finishing the game, since he contemplates about decisions,which is very time-consuming

Readsevery single entry, book, letter and note and explores every inch of the world

Knowsthe most about the game’s story, world and characters

Orianna:

Playsvery sneakily

She’spretty clever and always figures out where the plot is going and what decisionsare the best

Picksthe evil choices most of the time, because it’s makes the game much moreinteresting and unexpected