kame-tan:

mysweetvilllain:

glorious-spoon:

mortuarybees:

yes i am a big advocate for realistic clothes and armor in media like

this is perfect and? extremely fucking hot

but also ive never seen anything hotter than when geralt is fighting without his armor and instead in tight pants and several of his shirt’s buttons undone and i want every fight scene from here on like that

Put the women in full plate armor, put the men in open-front shirts and tight leather pants.

Seriously. Both are sexy. Give me full plate armored women. PLEASE.

Give me open shirt, tight pants on men who wield a sword.

I will fucking eat that up like it’s my last meal.

@bikiniarmorbattledamage

This ties in quite nicely to a recent fiasco where a guy named Andrew Klavan, who is apparently an author of some sort, made an even more ignorant than usual rant.  It was about about how he hated the show because he considered it “unrealistic” that the women – particularly GoddessQueen Calanthe, were shown as capable of winning sword fights or doing a sword fight (it’s not clear).

Swords YouTube was united in their rejection of this notion – not just for his hilariously inaccurate claims about equipment but also because they unanimously agreed there are three major factors that decide who’s likely to come out of a battle second-best, and who gets to live:

  • Quality of training
  • Quality of equipment
  • Luck

Obviously a queen of a nation that regularly has battles and skirmishes would certainly have access to the best training, and commission the best quality armor – and we can all agree to that anyone who is born into royalty is lucky.

So really, if this author and those like him were upset at having to suspend disbelief about sword fighting, in a world with literal dragons, they’d be mad at these scenes with Geralt kicking ass in just a shirt.

Weird that he’s bothered by a realistic depiction of a powerful woman, but not a comically unrealistic power fantasy of a man.

Links to various YouTube videos discussing the matter below¹.

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– wincenworks

¹ If you’re wondering why one of the bigger, more self important names may be missing, its because hes already made his stance on women pretty clear – and it’s bad.

More of The Witcher on BABD 

This Witcher 3 mod lets you play the game as a woman

This Witcher 3 mod lets you play the game as a woman

This Witcher 3 mod lets you play the game as a woman

This Witcher 3 mod lets you play the game as a woman

Sadly it seems the Witcher series didn’t offer the same option to (eventually) play as another character that Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain did – but someone has gone and made a mod for the Witcher 3 that fixes that (kind of).

Geralt Human Doppler by ParKan

is flagged as NSFW on NexusMods because it allows you to pick your options for the female models… and since it’s a Witcher game that means nude models and ridiculous outfit options. 

Fortunately the demo video chose to go with the less ridiculous costumes. I mean, there’s a reason a lot of people who liked the game were more than a little disappointed at Triss’ DLC costume:

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There is also a mod for playing as Triss in Witcher 2 by the same modder, which is not flagged as NSFW.  Unfortunately in both versions, you will still have speak as and otherwise be treated exactly as Geralt – but we’re still grateful to the modding community for filling these gaps as best they can.

– wincenworks