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Found myself going for Triss, Yen is a total bitch

posted 10 years ago by Jonthan22
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Like most book readers, I was slightly angry in the first two games that Triss swooped in and took advantage of Yennefer's absence to snag geralt, so much so that I went with Shani in the first game and was pissed when Witcher 2 had lumped me back with Triss against my wishes.

I mean, its Geralt and Yennefer, Yennefer has always been the one. Not Triss.
So was excited when it was announced Yen would be in Wild Hunt and fully intended to go with her over Triss or anyone else.

So, I played the game and during the Novigrad parts, found myself actually falling in love with Triss. She is so sweet and grateful for all Geralt does to help the mages, I admit I was swept up in the moment and chose the "I love you" option when she went to get on the boat.
"damn it," I thought "Never mind though, I will surely get to romance Yen later in the game" So imagine my surprise when I get to Skellige and Yen is actually being a complete and total bitch and treats Geralt like *beep* condescending him, putting him down all the time. Keira and Cerys had both mentioned in the game how bad Yen treats Geralt and I actually started to see it.

So I did the Djinn quest and in a moment of anger said "I dont wish to be with you anymore" still thinking "yeah I may be able to pull this back at some point" giving her the benefit of the doubt.

Then I go to Kaer Morhen and by christ she is an ultimate *beep* b!tch *beep* from hell.
First of all threw Triss' old bed out the window, then continued to rip into Geralt for "shagging her best mate while she was away", then when I tried to explain that "I had amnesia" which actually translated as "Witcher 2 made me do it, I had no choice!" she teleports me out of the castle and into a Lake somewhere.......so I run back....
then when we all sit down to decide what to do about Uma, she is disrespecting Vesemir, Lambert and Eskel and generally being a stuck up piece of sh!t. I liked Lambert's line to her "woah! You're not talking to Geralt here lady!"

Does she really treat Geralt bad, and has everyone seen what I had failed to? Even in the books......I have to say....yes....Yen is actually very horrible at times, nasty piece of work, a user, and a stuck up cow!!

[–] Jonthan22 10 years ago

Oh and I didnt mention the turning point either.
For me it was Skellige, the mission where she reanimates the dead boy who had nursed Ciri back to health.
He was outcast by his clan because they claimed he had run from the battle with the Hunt and let his village die, when I learned to truth that he had escaped to get Ciri out of there I fel sorry for him.

His last wish upon reanimation was that I clear his honour and tell his clan the truth.
Yen basically tells him to STFU and just answer the questions.
Given that he sacrificed everything he held dear to help my daughter (Ciri) I said to Yen that she could have been more sympathetic to him, and she then proceeded to tear me a new one for caring about "a rotting corpse" and why I hadnt immediately enquired as to her health after such a powerful spell, when i asked if she was okay she makes some snide remark that she is pissed that she had to remind me to ask her that.

Plus the way she licks Duny's (Emrhys) ass as Emperor of Nilfgaard.
I was somewhat belligerent toward him I admit, Geralt is a Witcher but he is still a Northman, and Nilfgaard HAD invaded the North (and not for the first time), so I wasnt going to bow and scrape.
Yen then lambasts me because she insisted we stop our investigation to report to the Emperor when I was like "*beep* the Emperor, I am finding Ciri for her sake not for his", she then got all shirty with me for that, saying something along the lines of I shouldnt bite the hand that feeds me or something.......

Just found her most unlikable

[–] grimjac100 10 years ago

God, yes! A thousand times, YES!!! I haven't read the books, so don't have those to go on, just the games, and the contrast between Triss and Yen is definitely noticeable. Triss treats Gerald like a friend, partner and equal; Yen...doesn't. From the first meeting at the White Orchard Inn, she acts like she's the boss and Geralt shouldn't ask any questions, just do what he's told. She never gets over that initial attitude; in fact, it gets worse. She gets all cranky that Geralt was with Triss in W2, but I got the sense she wasn't exactly celibate during their separation. As much Emperor butt as she smewches, I'm pretty sure there was more to the Imperial Favors than Geralt is told.

Seriously, lovers separated by quite some time, supposedly the love of each other's lives, and your first meeting is all, "Get on your horse, we have a meeting with someone way more important than you, or whatever `us' you believe there is."

I kept expecting her to stab him in the back somehow, either for the Emperor or the Circle or her own twisted reasons. She was definitely not a sympathetic character and she proves the adage that `beauty is only skin deep'. My first play-through I wound up with her; my second I'm seeing if there's some way I can trade her to a rock troll for some rotted meat.

I do not like her and I respect Geralt a little less for putting up with her crap.

"I know you got guts...I can see 'em!" Norbert Sykes

[–] Jonthan22 10 years ago

definitely agree with the last line.
Absolutely no way Geralt should have to put up with her sh!t, most of which is totally uncalled for.

[–] jedite1000 10 years ago

I too told triss I loved her and I also said I live you to yen.

After awhile both knew what I was upto and played a little prank on me for revenge

[–] Jonthan22 10 years ago

Just re read the first book and am on the second story and already Yen has treated Geralt like *beep* cheated on him (slept with him at night and went and banged some other guy the next morning). Now Geralt and the other guy are having a duel to the death over her because she cant decide who she wants to be with. This woman is a grade A *beep*
Triss all the way

[–] Glaramara 10 years ago

I'm afraid I've not read the books, and carried on with Triss after the first two games (actually I think I went with Shani in the first, but I'm not sure now). Yennefer irked me quite a bit until I told her I didn't love her, she looked really heartbroken there which left me feeling a little bad - a bit of a decent person shining through at that point maybe since it was the only time she seemed to demonstrate any real feeling towards another person other than condescension.

[–] mvitale24 9 years ago

She's one of those people who likes to put others down, prance around like they're better than anyone else, uses people and then justifies it all by saying it's important or something that had to be done despite what others might like or want. If she wants it, it's reason enough for her to do it.

Thing is she had cast a spell on Geralt making him a love-sick puppy, following her around, doing whatever she wanted and then that djinn spell that bound them together forever meant that no matter how many times they'd break up when he'd had enough of being treated like a dog, they'd always wind up back together.

I really don't know how much she really loved him during those 20 years they were on and off again but in TW3, in the quest The Last Wish, she wants to know for sure. Her plan, despite insisting constantly that they haven't a moment to lose and need to find Ciri -- this was her excuse for basically torturing that poor boy by using black magic to raise him from the dead so she could question him about Ciri -- she decides she needs to know if Geralt really loves her without the djinn's spell binding them together.

Only I think it went well beyond that since the spell would only ensure that they'd always find their way back to each other, not that they'd love each other. I'm thinking she must have removed her spell on him as well to see if he really loved her on his own volition.

So there they are, djinn's spell is removed and she professes her love for him and Geralt has the opportunity say that he doesn't love her. I absolutely loved it! I loved how crestfallen she looked. No one in the world deserved it more than she did. I didn't feel sorry for her at all. She'd spent years treating him like a dog, using him, lying to him, manipulating him into doing things she knew he'd object to, then running off for months even years at a time without a word to let him know where she was, what she was doing. She slept with anyone she wanted and used them as well.

And Triss, she turned Ciri (her "little sis") over to the Lodge when it suited her. Triss doesn't care about anyone but herself. She desperately wants to be in the spotlight and her push to get the mages out of Novigrad was the perfect opportunity to do just that. There's another mage she tries to help who pretty much calls her on it. He resents the position she'd created for herself, saying that it was self-serving and who in their right mind would follow her anywhere.

Some people can apparently see right through these women. Others, like Geralt, seem to have a real problem dealing with them.

But neither of them really is worth it in the end.

[–] SlickySlixta 9 years ago

I'm only using these women for sex.

Don't put the devil in the picture, cause' the religious groups won't wanna see it.

[–] mike_the_bloody 9 years ago

My first play through I went with Triss keeping in line with my Witcher 2 decisions and then on my 2nd time through I went with Yen

I do prefer Triss though

"I'm just a happy camper! Rockin' and a-rollin'!" - Patrick Bateman, American Psycho

[–] washclothrepairman 8 years ago

Yen is a bitch in the books too.

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