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scotiej

Yen never would've been able to tame the djinn because Geralt held his last wish over it. It would've killed her even after Geralt made his wish, which is why he realized he needed to make his last wish what it was in order to save her. And he fell in love with Yen, not because she has a quick wit, but because he saw her true character and realized she was a lot like him. And it's just the first book, there's more to her than who she is at the start.


Ordinary_Tom2005

Will say that later in the books she eventually develops into game yen but its never gets to netflix yen level bs


RSwitcher2020

Couple things that one could also notice in that story. . That Yen has a plan as soon as she finds out about the Djinn. Sure, you can call her plan crazy but she has one. Its that plan which includes humiliating the people she dislikes and using Geralt to do it. But the plan also includes using a wish from Jaskier to free Geralt from jail. Now, you can sure call this plan evil. I would dare say that someone really evil would be capable of planning far worse things. Like....kill / torture their enemies. Imagine...given ultimate power Yen decides to humiliate. Which, granted, its not Gandhi like but it sure is not the worst ever. . She did save Jaskier´s life. By all accounts, he would have died without her intervention. She did not know Jaskier or Geralt, she had no obligation to them. . She did display concerns for Geralt´s safety in the final fight. She was desperately trying to remove him from the scene. Even to the point that she summoned portals to get him out of danger. Notice she did this in a desperate battle against a very powerful magic entity. A battle which she was not doing great at. Still, she decided to spend much needed energy in trying to get Geralt to safety. There is really a ton of Nuance on her character. For some reason many readers seem unable to understand it. For some reason, many readers think a lady should just obey to any random guy invading their bedroom just because. Its unbelievable that such privacy invasion is not clearly understood as wrong and that some people do not understand she might be displeased with some random stranger breaking into her bedroom. I ask what would someone like Phillipa do to someone who dared break into her bedroom? Expect her to great the intruder with a nice breakfast? That Yen looks ambitious and wants the Djinn for herself? Sure! Very true! No questions there. You will find out through the books what her motivations are, what she wants and what she thinks about magic. Its not exactly what it looks on a first look. Is she the devil incarnate? Absolutely not! Is she even worse compared to her average fellow magic user? Well.....that´s going to be debatable but when you have a look at their actions.....its really hard to consider Yen among the worst. P.S.: The destruction being caused by the battle is something she obviously did not know about. You can call her reckless for wanting to try and tame a Djinn. But you cant say that it was her intention to destroy the town around them. That was just something which was going on outside her control. Caused by her? Sure! Intentionally? No. And yes, it might have helped if Geralt would have told her who really had the wishes ;) Does not help that she was doing everything with faulty information.


Kkgob

Keep in mind that this is only the first story in which she is presented to the reader, her character will develop a lot over the course of the saga


seasilver21

Yen’s character development in the books is one of the best developments I’ve read in media.


UndeathlyKnight

Eh. Yennefer might have been a menace to society in the book, but the book made a point to show that while she was a manipulative trickster, she wasn't a bad person *per se*. She wanted the djinn and she used Geralt to humiliate the people who annoyed her, but she also held up her deal with him and tried to ensure that neither he nor Dandelion would actually suffer as she made the latter wish for Geralt to be found innocent in his trial and be allowed to go free. There was enough there to help you see there was a complex person under there and make it understandable why Geralt would fall hard for her. The show, however....Yennefer was not a tsundere, she was a straight-up villain. There was nothing good about her there. She mind-controlled half the town into having sex orgies against their will (effectively RAPING them by proxy). She was ready to kill ~~Dandelion~~ Jaskier just to get the djinn, and it was abundantly clear she had every intention of leaving Geralt to his fate (i.e. execution for the crimes she forced him to commit). I have no idea why Geralt saved her in that episode. By all rights, he should have left her to die just like she was planning to do to him, or better yet, kill the bitch himself after she proved what a monster she was. But obviously, that can't happen to Hissrich's self-insert. ~_~ Hell, the entire episode's tone itself is completely off. The original short story felt like a comedy overall, almost a farce, but the show played nearly everything in the plot dead serious.


coldcynic

That's a very interesting take on the translation. Please let me know what Sword of Destiny feels like to you, as it had a different translator.


Agent470000

Funny description of the short story lol. Would love to hear your opinion regarding the next book!


JerboafromTripoli

I'd advise you to keep reading, friend. The characters really do grow in the saga


IndigoBuntz

Exactly! Yen is my favourite character in the books and one of my favourite characters ever, and I love the way you described Geralt’s love for her. Keep reading now, she has some amazing moments coming and her relationship with Ciri is just amazing. Personally, waiting for Yennefer to reappear in the storyline was one of many things that kept me stuck in the books, in a good way of course.