Damn, so many posts to catch up since my last resposne, hehe.
All right, referring to all the "happiness" discussion + the statment from the OP about the bittersweet is an bad ending - even if mostly I agree with all the "sacrificing your own happiness for the sake of the others is usually not a very best solution" this could also be discussed for long long hours, because there is a very wide rage for interpretation of some things, even the whole word "happiness" can be interprated in many different ways.
Still I don't see why Ciri is somehow sacrificing her own happiness if she becomes the empress of Nilfgaard. I don't believe that in our lives there is only one, true way for each different person to achieve happiness. I think there are actually multiple ways for doing it. Same as IMO there is no such thing like one true love, there are actually multiple ones.
Just for example: what if she becomes the witcher and after few years of Emhyr overthrowing/assasination the rebelion starts in the whole Nilfgaard empire which causes thousands of people dead, another persecutions of non-humans, mages and witchers in the biggest scale that had ever be seen, having even Lambert, Eskel, Triss or Yennefer killed, maybe even the extermination of all elves in Dol Blathana. Do you think she would really be very happy about it when she realises that it all could have been avoided if she only decided to claim her legacy?
What I see in this ending is Ciri as a mature person who can take care of herself. A women who understands the importance of some decisions and the consequences, and this is why she is ready to make them on her own. To become a witcher, like Geralt is, was a nice dream - wandering around with the ones she loves, doing contracts, killing monsters, just helping people. It all sounds great but it is just a dream, a fairy tale. There is the reality, where in fact she is not a proffesional witcher (with the all the meaning of this word) nor a regular sorceress (btw. she never ended either of her trainings). But what she IS - a doughter of the emperor of Nilfgaard, the kid of a prophecy, the Elders Blood. And with it comes a great resposibility. And finally she is aware of that. Moreover she accepts that. She proves it at the final battle, when she decides on her own to fulfill her destiny and defeat the White Frost.
For me, her later decision to become an empress is just the very normal and expected result of her previous ones, because she finally understands and accepts who she really is.
It's that simple.
Btw. as for her trust to Avallach. The funny thing is that in the end it turns out that he was trust worthy person. It was my personal ultimate trickster of this game. I didn't trusted him from the "second one" he appeares. In the final battle when Eredin said "he [Avallach] tricked us both" my reaction was something like - yeah, knew that was coming. And then when we reached to the tower it turns out that it was actually both Ciri and Avallach's idea and it was Ciri who didn't trusted Geralt enough to said to him about her plans (which is understable - she was afraid that he won't understand and will try to escape with her or something). That was pretty awesome. As for Avallach's laboratory - I don't give a sh*t cause there was nothing really interesting, nothing that could undoubtly proof that he is only using Ciri for his own purpouses.
One more thing. I think many of you guys seems to forget that she spend her last several years (how many it was exactly? 5-6 years?) in some mystery world/world's. We don't know anything about what she was doing there. She might be much more experienced girl than we all think. That is why I put my trust in her and I think she knows what she is doing when she's making some decisions on her own.
All right, referring to all the "happiness" discussion + the statment from the OP about the bittersweet is an bad ending - even if mostly I agree with all the "sacrificing your own happiness for the sake of the others is usually not a very best solution" this could also be discussed for long long hours, because there is a very wide rage for interpretation of some things, even the whole word "happiness" can be interprated in many different ways.
Still I don't see why Ciri is somehow sacrificing her own happiness if she becomes the empress of Nilfgaard. I don't believe that in our lives there is only one, true way for each different person to achieve happiness. I think there are actually multiple ways for doing it. Same as IMO there is no such thing like one true love, there are actually multiple ones.
Just for example: what if she becomes the witcher and after few years of Emhyr overthrowing/assasination the rebelion starts in the whole Nilfgaard empire which causes thousands of people dead, another persecutions of non-humans, mages and witchers in the biggest scale that had ever be seen, having even Lambert, Eskel, Triss or Yennefer killed, maybe even the extermination of all elves in Dol Blathana. Do you think she would really be very happy about it when she realises that it all could have been avoided if she only decided to claim her legacy?
What I see in this ending is Ciri as a mature person who can take care of herself. A women who understands the importance of some decisions and the consequences, and this is why she is ready to make them on her own. To become a witcher, like Geralt is, was a nice dream - wandering around with the ones she loves, doing contracts, killing monsters, just helping people. It all sounds great but it is just a dream, a fairy tale. There is the reality, where in fact she is not a proffesional witcher (with the all the meaning of this word) nor a regular sorceress (btw. she never ended either of her trainings). But what she IS - a doughter of the emperor of Nilfgaard, the kid of a prophecy, the Elders Blood. And with it comes a great resposibility. And finally she is aware of that. Moreover she accepts that. She proves it at the final battle, when she decides on her own to fulfill her destiny and defeat the White Frost.
For me, her later decision to become an empress is just the very normal and expected result of her previous ones, because she finally understands and accepts who she really is.
It's that simple.
Btw. as for her trust to Avallach. The funny thing is that in the end it turns out that he was trust worthy person. It was my personal ultimate trickster of this game. I didn't trusted him from the "second one" he appeares. In the final battle when Eredin said "he [Avallach] tricked us both" my reaction was something like - yeah, knew that was coming. And then when we reached to the tower it turns out that it was actually both Ciri and Avallach's idea and it was Ciri who didn't trusted Geralt enough to said to him about her plans (which is understable - she was afraid that he won't understand and will try to escape with her or something). That was pretty awesome. As for Avallach's laboratory - I don't give a sh*t cause there was nothing really interesting, nothing that could undoubtly proof that he is only using Ciri for his own purpouses.
One more thing. I think many of you guys seems to forget that she spend her last several years (how many it was exactly? 5-6 years?) in some mystery world/world's. We don't know anything about what she was doing there. She might be much more experienced girl than we all think. That is why I put my trust in her and I think she knows what she is doing when she's making some decisions on her own.
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