This woman works at Bioware. This is who calls the shots in the game industry.
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Which...how did she become a witcher? And why? She had better powers already.
Also it conflicts with some endings of witcher 3.
Lastly, the manjaw...
One of the 'gaming media' is putting out there that she did the trial of the grasses, you know, the one that literally rips you apart from the inside to mutate you into a witcher.
This probably means the ending of her gaining a silver sword from Geralt to be a 'witcher' is cannon but in that she hunted a monster BEFORE they met in the inn so safe to assume she had her powers still after taking on the White frost. So why go through a trial that has a high chance of killing people?
If they just have a game set after W3 as Ciri, then she would be op as fuck and with the wild hunt dealt with, be a lot more light hearted. But we are getting too many red flags already to think they can actually portray Ciri anymore.
Well, yeah, but like...why. That's the only way to do it, unless they made some other shit up to justify it. Also, she had more power than a witcher. Why go backwards?
Also, I'm pretty sure the trials kill all women, and only men are witchers, unless I missed something. I didn't get super into the witcher stuff, so I'm not an expert on every bit of lore involved.
Knowing them they'll either go with:
she's trans all along! So stunning a brave! (but doesn't fit their real life denial of biology narrative)
the only men can survive the trial is just a lie told by the patriarchy.
According to the wiki, there's a special girl version. It kills 9 in 10 girls who take it, as opposed to the 7 in 10 of boys of the regular version. So basically it's a retcon that explains how Ciri did it and it's totally always existed and you just haven't heard about it.
The Trial of Long Grasses is administered in youth because the body is more receptive to change. I believe the insinuation is its basically an illusion to puberty and how the body changes then.
It doesn't make sense for Ciri to do it regardless of her powers because she can't live through it as an adult.
And if they say "oh well she lived because of her powers" then why would she need to do it at all if she still has them? Her Elder Blood powers are away and beyond any being left on their plane of existence. She doesn't need some comparatively hack job, bootleg attempt to become stronger.
In my mind, it's akin to a Primarch from WH40k, chopping his limbs off and jumping in a Dreadnought armor to "enhance" himself.
It just happens, you know? Like Rey in Star Wars, Captain Marvel and Mulan from the reboot. She was just born with godlike powers with no need to train before using them and no need for any mentors to support her. The only character arc needed is her letting go of the patriarchy and anyone telling her she can't use her powers.
It's such an empowering story! /s
This trope of “already-powerful female protagonist” is actually a warped reflection of a very true biological reality. Women have innate value to society thanks entirely to their ability to create life. They are born with this potential value, and they achieve it simply by being alive.
The misapplication of this biological reality is the problem today. Right now, in media and in real life, women are being portrayed as having “innate value” in arenas other than procreation - which they simply don’t have. In combat and business and government and the arts, you need to prove skill and competence and talent, none of which are innate to the female sex.
In fact, owing to their automatic value as wombs, women are evolved to be less capable than men in most arenas. So the idea that they are amazing at everything simply by din of existence is a total inversion of our observable reality. Women are literally worse than men at almost everything. Because men have no innate value and must quickly learn to demonstrate and prove themselves to others and society at large.
TLDR: the hero’s journey doesn’t really work for female characters because the struggle isn’t believable - and that’s if the author even bothers with depicting a struggle. It doesn’t mirror what we see from women around us. We’re too used to seeing them flee the frontlines of war.
Yep. The only flaw female characters are allowed to have is Lack of Validation. Everyone needs to openly agree that she's awesome and perfect or she can't girlboss enough to win. Thats why in Witcher 3 failing to validate Ciri enough causes her to die at the end.
It reflects the IRL female desire to be loved universally and never judged or criticized. It's narcissism as game design.
The world is turning to shit, do you tell your adoptive daughter that
A: It's going to be ok
Or do you
B: Throw a snowball at her
🙄
Some of the decisions in 3 were really stupidly written, similar to "push Dijkstra out the way" which results in your breaking his other leg and ending the assassination questline early.
Everything woke turns to shit.
Because progs are at odds with feminity, without outlets to express said power, all they have left is to usurp traditionally male roles