Man, I Really Hate Shippy Fics/posts That Are Exploring Jealousy With Geralt At The Moment, Because Theyre

Man, I really hate shippy fics/posts that are exploring jealousy with Geralt at the moment, because they’re all way off the mark. Geralt is not a man that gets violent or angrily jealous. He’s not a possessive man. He isn’t above demonstrating some displeasure with people after his love, but he considers his SO’s interest in someone else ‘their right’, and the moment there’s significant competition? He bows out, because that just confirms he isn’t good enough for them. 

We have a canon example of this, where Istredd is pursuing Yennefer and he goes on a diatribe about how little Geralt can offer Yennefer, and not only does Geralt not argue against this (his argument to remain with Yenenfer is simply ‘Yennefer wants him’), when he finds out they have an equal chance to be with Yennefer, he immediately forfeits because he doesn’t perceive it as an equal chance; he just sees it as validating Istredd’s insistence that he is too inhuman to offer Yennefer anything.

And:

He doesn’t get angry. He doesn’t try to get back at Yen. He behaves despondently, tells Yennefer he won’t get in her way, internalises and repeats the things Istredd said about him, and the incident is so damaging that he attempts suicide later in the story. 

People who portray Geralt as this alpha male whose response to jealousy is to get angry and fight for who he’s with are completely off the mark. He’s a man who has been abused so badly throughout his life that he’s quick to accept that he isn’t worth being with, and he’s such a depressed, self-loathing wreck that he would rather court death than deal with losing one of the few people who treat him like a human being (this isn’t even the only time he decides death would be better than dealing with loss). I realise him being depressed and self-loathing will make Geralt less palatable for a lot of people, but that’s who he is. 

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My quilt is finished! I think it took about 10 months, if I compress the time it took to find all the fabrics.

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I albeit sloppily painted Little Miserable Beepo. 

Somebody, give this pitiful being some grease..