Yes in the trial of grasses he had some weird things happening to him and he is the only Witcher who's hair become white
Accoding to my memory he wasn't the only one who survived, Geralt and Eskel were in the same group of kids who were to pass the trial of grasses. They both survived, only Geralts hair turned white for some reason, it's nothing unusual, after all the purpose was to mutate them, white hair - is just one of many possible side effects to it.Adonai- said:
I don't think Geralt is different from the other Witchers, he's passed all the trials and turned into a Witcher fully, just like all the others did.
The theory about him being emotional can not be taken seriously. He's a living being, even if he's a monster slayer and he can feel things. He also has a character. There were normal humans in game and in books that are much more cruel and colder then any Witcher can be, so it's not that he's a unique Witcher that he is more emotional it's just his personality.
Geralt took the first batch of mutagens so well that the Witchers decided to add the dosage, and in result he ended up losing pigmentation, which is not typical for other Witchers.
That's more like a superstition that the common folk believe in, since the Witchers usually work for money, with little emotional connection to their problems, and the Witchers themselves have started to buy it as well, but actually they express a healthy range of emotions with people they're comfortable with. There is no indication that Geralt is in any way special in this regard.
I never read those discussions as actual, factual truths. Geralt assumes that he's different since he keeps experiencing emotions that by common wisdom shouldn't be possible for a Witcher, and Yennefer assumes that he's special because he shows her emotions that other Witchers don't. But what we see from other Witchers does in no way indicate that they would be emotionally stunted in any way, they're just aloof and vary of strangers.
I never liked the interpretation that Geralt is somehow special because of his mutations or something. He's special simply because he's a Witcher who intervenes in matters that usually aren't part of Witcher's job description, and finds himself mixed in international politics.
According to the books, while Geralt was undergoing the Trial of the Grasses, his body adapted to the mutations extraordinarily well. Sorcerers being sorcerers, they got curious about what he could withstand, and used the opportunity to try out some more extreme experiments that they'd not been able to do before. As a result, his hair turned white, and his reflexes are even more enhanced than other witchers'.
It's also said a few times in the books that Geralt doesn't necessarily consider himself the best Witcher (modesty perhaps?), however his reputation has been magnified because he's friends with Dandelion. Need I say more about that?
In terms of emotions, no, I don't believe *any* Witcher has impaired emotional development. I think that's just peasants rumours that people have taken to be true. From reading the books and playing the games, none of the Witchers seemed overly stony or hard hearted. Although, Geralt does play on this a bit - when Yennefer disagrees with him on issues she sometimes jokes that its his stunted emotions that cause him to think differently - he then goes on (the example I'm thinking of is in Sword of Destiny, the one with the golden dragon) to avoid all her further questions by claiming that he is an emotionless stone golem, unable to answer any of her questions, or something like that.
It's also said a few times in the books that Geralt doesn't necessarily consider himself the best Witcher (modesty perhaps?), however his reputation has been magnified because he's friends with Dandelion. Need I say more about that?
In terms of emotions, no, I don't believe *any* Witcher has impaired emotional development. I think that's just peasants rumours that people have taken to be true. From reading the books and playing the games, none of the Witchers seemed overly stony or hard hearted. Although, Geralt does play on this a bit - when Yennefer disagrees with him on issues she sometimes jokes that its his stunted emotions that cause him to think differently - he then goes on (the example I'm thinking of is in Sword of Destiny, the one with the golden dragon) to avoid all her further questions by claiming that he is an emotionless stone golem, unable to answer any of her questions, or something like that.