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alchixinren Since: Jan, 2001
Aug 19th 2022 at 1:36:50 AM •••

Should Triss be moved to the "Geralt's Other Lovers and Friends" page given how much importance she has in the games?

awesomestguy1 Since: Nov, 2021
Jan 14th 2022 at 8:05:27 AM •••

Removing Triss' Double Standard Rape: Female on Male, because it's not an example, and I'm not sure how this has gotten misconstrued.

In Blood of Elves, where this is supposed to happen, there is zero mention of love potions. What the book ''actually says is this:

  • "It had fascinated her to such an extent that… …she had seduced the Witcher - with the help of a little magic. She had hit on a propitious moment, a moment when he and Jennifer had scratched at each other’s eyes yet again and had abruptly parted. Gerald had needed warmth, and had wanted to forget."

It is possible to interpret "with the help of a little magic" to mean "love spell", but that's overlooking the fact that Sorceresses in this universe actively use magic to make themselves more physically seductive, and nothing implies Geralt was magically unable to say no. The actual text suggests Geralt himself wanted the relationship specifically as a rebound thing from Yen, especially as Geralt later breaks off the relationship due to him seeing it as just a fling.

Now, I should be clear, I don't read Polish, I'm basing this on the official English version; maybe in the original Polish, it's more explicitly rape, but I've not seen anything online to suggest such, and from what I've heard much of the criticism of the English translation is it's too literal to the original version without changing details to better fit English cultural standards (IE, why everyone is a Motor Mouth).

I'd also note that, given that Yarpin Zigrin was introduced as someone who is explicitly OK with gang-raping Yen and laughs when she's sexually assaulted, only for Geralt to treat him as a trustworthy friend, the 'double standard' aspect is entirely void.

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