Can we cry about Geralt for a minute?
He was taught from a young age that the human world isn’t for him to get involved, that it never ends well and could easily result in his death. He’s taught that he’s one step up from a monster, a mutant untrustworthy and dangerous, kept around only because humanity wants their monsters slain without having to actually confront them themselves.
Geralt’s mother, Visenna is a sorceress, but she was human, once, and she gives him up easily, and doesn’t even bother to say goodbye. Geralt was abandoned on a mountain path to face trials, one with only a thirty percent chance of survival.
Visenna didn’t even bother to tell Geralt she loved him before she left.
But Geralt sees Marilka, a girl who dreams of escaping her hamlet, and jokes with her. Gives her kindness, a sliver of hope of a life outside of Blaviken.
Geralt meets Renfri, another girl called monster and mutant by humans who call Geralt exactly the same. He offers her an out again and again, but she refuses and eventually forces Geralt to kill her.
Human men, from every hamlet, village, town and city tell Geralt in every place, every pub or tavern or brothel he enters that he’s other, unwelcome, untrusted. No matter where he goes, society tells him to fuck off.
But Geralt meets this naive, idiotic, happy-go-lucky human bard who trails after him no matter how coldly he treats him- and Geralt doesn’t force him to leave. Geralt stays with Jaskier, plays the sad silk merchant and occasional bodyguard to stop him from getting murdered, even offers himself up to Yennefer in exchange for healing Jaskier.
Geralt tells himself that he’s learnt his lesson, that he’ll stay uninvolved with humans, and then turns around and still opens himself up to getting more hurt because despite his bluffing, his gruff demeanor?
Geralt never really gave up on people.
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