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Anon is a Witcher (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

tbh 9/10 cases in the Witcher III are just people trying to hide domestic murder behind folklore shit.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In fairness, that's not far off from reality.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bridget_Cleary

an Irish woman who was murdered by her husband in 1895. She was either immolated or her body was set on fire immediately after her death. The husband's stated motive was his belief that she had been abducted by fairies and replaced with a changeling, which he then killed.

I think about this woman a lot. It really seemed like she wanted to go and do things, enjoy life, and then life and circumstance just said "no"

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Classic witch talk.

[–] philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Almost like witcher was commentary from the beginning. Almost.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to know what you think this "commentary from the beginning" is. Please, elaborate.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Admittedly only dumped ~20 hours into one game, so may not have the most holistic view on the game.

But feels like there's a ton of quests that are "go hunt this monster", find out the monster's motivations, realize it was the humans/"civilized folk" who dealt the first blow / profaned nature / failed to perform some ritual, Geralt grits teeth and sides with civilization against obviously wronged nature/monster.

So yeah, I didn't see any "its actually domestic abuse" quests, but the games are crawling with "humans have hubris/pride that is their own downfall" commentary.

[–] philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I wasn't talking about the third game in the series but the books the games are based on.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 points 15 hours ago

Can't speak to those myself, but also the show had some similar themes so would assume that's an underlying motif to the whole series.

I'm def not the best guy to be answering your question, but from what I've seen, it has been a pretty prevalent notion of the franchise.