#the witcher -

[eeriehowl]

eredin for the character ask thingy of course! but also maybe auberon? 👀 up to you

thank you so much elis!! i really appreciate it.💛

eredin

sexuality headcanon: gay. i actually tend to block ppl if they ship him with women no matter who he is shipped with because this is my strongest sexuality headcanon in witcher...it's obviously not anything inherently problematic, just makes me personally very uncomfortable, so i curate my experience. gender headcanon: he's definitely masculine and enjoys it, that's all i can say. a ship I have with said character: avallac'h. i'm usually not much of a multishipper, so...that's it. a brotp I have with said character: imlerith! he actually has the opposite effect of ava on eredin though...when ava is around, his impulse control is better, while imlerith makes it worse. they are besties though. a notp I have with said character: ciri. over all else is that i think it's creepy but i can also easily add further to that. i'm sure there is no attraction from either side, ciri has an aversion to anything actually happening between them if her anxiety is anything to go by. i find it strange that people think her attraction to him was genuine. however, this is about eredin, so i will go more into how he acts and feels towards her instead. eredin isn't even slightly attracted to her. the only line that could even slightly indicate that is an offhanded comment... he notes that some prefer being roughly caressed and that he would not personally do something of the sort non-consensually ("only if you permit me"). this p much potentially points out his own general view on sex and i do not think at all that he was actually flirting. he changes the subject without any further ado because he doesn't care for continuing that topic...it was, as said, an off-hand comment. ciri very much specifies that he showed no interest in her or doing anything with her; he stares at her with cold eyes and only thinks about his own shenanigans and straight out specifies how little he thinks of her *twice*...he straight-up says that he doesn't think that she is special in any way, seemingly not even believing that she has any powers at all from the way he talks. explains that he thinks ava & auberon are wrong about her. in conclusion, why people think ciri & eredin would want anything to do with one another is beyond me. a random headcanon: eredin had a decent relationship with his mother before he left her to be independent. he never met his father but that doesn't matter to him and didn't affect him. eredin got his brutal honesty from his mother, she was like that too. she was not toxic in any way though. in the end, he ended up seeing value in the things she had taught him, but did not choose to take her name because it did not seem vital to him that he'd have his origins be clear in his name. she had already given him his own name and he would carry that with him as a reminder instead. eredin wasn't born into a higher up family, pretty much got his recognition by just being an extremely talented swordsman. it was a passion of his. he's got the personality of a natural leader and earned the respect of many despite his sharp tongue...though he was partially feared too and would grow to be revered and feared more and more over time. wasn't much of a surprise when he ended up becoming a general. general opinion over said character: i love him. i didn't give a shit about him in witcher 3 after seeing his face because i thought elves were boring back then...i wanted him to be a monster...and here i am now. he is a type of monster, but very different from what i initially wanted him to be. eredin in the books has lots of layers and can be interpreted in several different ways. he's also very clearly intelligent to a certain degree. game eredin is just all about loving violence and dominance with little to nothing else.

auberon

sexuality headcanon: he's tried everything. gender headcanon: i think auberon is too old to care about his gender. a ship I have with said character: with shiadhal. lara looked at them and hoped she would find something like what they had. she did not truly find it until she got to know cregennan. shiadhal died young, at least for an elf. many depict her as a warrior and i like that idea. a brotp I have with said character: never had many close friends, and many individuals he did consider friends are gone. i imagine he was sort-of friends with avallac'h's mentor. a notp I have with said character: i guess i could say with eredin, because i've seen some of that and it's not for me. doesn't induce disgust in me like ciri with aen elle does so i don't mind running into it much but i don't enjoy it. a random headcanon: his relationship with avallac'h isn't exactly friendly, it's very professional. auberon calls ava "crevan", mainly to express his authority and only partially because that used to be his potential "son-in-law" (or whatever the elven equivalent of that is, at least). general opinion over said character: i have very mixed feelings about him, though i think it leans more towards dislike. he makes me uncomfortable in many ways, which makes it ironic that his gwent card's 3rd stage is my favorite card in gwent....

[eeriehowl]

communicating with unicorns and getting well deserved headaches

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some other old uwus

[eeriehowl]

i didn’t mind netflix’s version of jaskier. even liked some of the changes to him. didn’t mind the popular ship with geralt either even though idc for it. but now that he has consumed the entirety of the witcher tag because of a ship, pushing yennefer and ciri to the side for it and making them mere accessories if they appear, i..... can not stand seeing his face anymore. had enough of this. please for the love of god.

[eeriehowl]

return of my tiny doodle posts, maybe.

[eeriehowl]

i am about to see his proper introduction now................

[noraestheim-blog1]

playing a bit of the gwent beta. i like a lot of the aesthetic choices, but gameplay-wise, it isn’t especially fun. fast-paced, which i like, but it lacks some of the variety of the minigame in witcher 3, while also solving problems in ways that just create new ones.

for example, now at the end of a turn, both players draw 2 cards. while this solves certain problems, like spies being overpowered (although so far they do not seem to be in the game at all), it creates a new one in the third round of the game where people just... ‘heart of the cards’ it, leave it to luck.

the first round doesn’t matter much, who wins. usually, you fiddle and flip flop around until one person blows a big card, other person forfeits, and we start round 2. fine. the problem comes in where round 2 is essential, and unless the player who won the first round is willing to forfeit and leave it all to round 3, most of the time people blow every single card they have to win. and that means round 3, if it occurs, is entirely left to the two cards drawn to start.

also, now pretty much every card in the game does hits or boosts to the strength of other cards; there is much less variety and intrigue with the special abilities of cards. in witcher 3, a card that did something would be the foundations you play a round on. maybe even the thing you build your entire deck on. here, it’s the norm, and it made the different decks - scoia’tael and northern realms and monsters and whatever the new one is called - too similar despite having things in them similar to their witcher 3 counterparts.

it also takes away a uniqueness to gwent and kind of just makes it another magic or hearthstone-style card game with the units fighting more directly. it’s obfuscated in stat buffs and debuffs, but ultimately that’s what it becomes.