#character: philippa eilhart

[elfsroot]

[uiuishii]

I'm surprised by the lack of popularity of Imodna. Don't get me wrong, the ship is popular, but it could be more.

These days, I was thinking about wlw/mlm representations, and it's just crazy how a majority of people seem more enthusiastic about mlm ships. I like mlm, but why would people prefer it? I don't understand the "love is love, but mlm > wlw" logic. I'm saying that because I'm pretty sure that if imodna was a mlm ship it would be waaaaaay more popular. When you search on AO3 (Critical Role) there are around 8353 mlm fictions and only 5434 wlw. Why? 

It's like with powerful male characters vs powerful female characters. I mean if Philippa was Philippe, a powerful and morally grey gay sorcerer, I'm pretty sure he could be a top 5 fan favorite characters of the Witcher fandom. Same for sooooo many fictional characters. You only have to switch the gender to change the fandom perception of a character/ship.

Yeah I'm really random tonight but this thought was stuck in my brain and I had to write it down somewhere.

No offence to mlm or male characters btw.

Why am I thinking about that at midnight.

[sparrow-in-boots]

commission for @windflowerofskellige of their Radovid as a bebe and Philippa. thank you so much for the comm!! <3

for comm info, click here or check my ko-fi!

[gotham-at-nightfall]

The Witcher Season 3 Character Posters

[sapphiccharacterstournament]

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round One (Bracket 7)

[alder-saan]

I have been looking for someone that wrote for the witcher books as x reader for awhile, who are your favorite characters ( could be game characters to)

Great question, I really like them all. But I think I have some favourite.

Philippa/Filippa Eilhart

(This is an official visual)

Lord I love her. Badass, lesbian, owl, all the story is literally because of her (I won't spoil for those who haven't read the books). In the games she is perfect, In the books too. I have hopes for the tv show... I wouldn't have choose Cassie Clare (tbf I wanted them to go further in the native theme, because she is so native coded in the games and a bit in the books, and to choose a native american/australian actress), but why not.

Anna Henrietta of Toussaint

From the books a bit, but more from the games. Blood and Wine is an awesome dlc. Queen step on me. I like her sister a bit too. I love how this story is borderline coded. I wrote a fanfiction of her and a maid (being a higher vampire), but turned it into being a part of my original universe. I really love Toussaint in the game, very southern France alike, it's fun.

Cerys An Craite

(Artist : Nikivaszi)

Lord, Cerys... I am a whore for this woman. I want to be her property. Ciri x Cerys is so hot btw. She is the reason why I love the Skellig part so much in the witcher 3.

Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzief Godefroy (Regis)

(Artist : shalizeh)

I don't love him in a romantic way, but he is really cool. I think I prefer him in the books, but I also love him in the game (in which they erased a bit his feminism, pro-lgbt and pro-choice positions and that's why I prefer him in the books). I hope Pedro Pascal will be his actor in the tv show... Same here, I won't spoil, but let's say I relate a lot to his questions about the world.

This man is a greeflag.

Lydia Van Bredevoort

(The artist isn't written on it, if I remember well it's an official visual but not sure...)

I like this sweetie pie (she is only a sweetie pie in the books... wtf Netflix I don't understand why did you do that). We don't see her a lot but... she is cute.

I love Yennefer too (more in the books than in the game btw, in the game I chose Triss), but I think these five really are my favourite. I really like Ciri. And of course, Geralt is really cool. I love his character, his development, his relationship with Yen and Ciri. Jaskier/Dandelion is cool too... But... eh... He cheated on Anna Henrietta so jail now. You can't cheat on her. She is perfect.

[resipunk]

I haven't been in the Witcher fandom for a few years now but I need people to stop shipping Philippa, a canon lesbian, with men. 😐

[blackqueercharacters]

Cassie Clare as Philippa Eilhart

Appears in season three of The Witcher (2021).

[lovealicent]

who the fuck in the writer’s room was writing that shit about philippa refusing to fight for the north

[pendovah]

Multifandom: female characters with (magical) powers

Fringilla Vigo, Yennefer of Vengerberg, Triss Merigold, Philippa Eilhart, Francesca Findabair (The Witcher), Claudia (The Dragon Prince), Ruta Skadi (His Dark Materials), Katara, Azula (The Last Airbender), Moiraine Damodred, Alanna Mosvani, Siuan Sanche, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara (The Wheel of Time), Galadriel (The Lord of the Rings), Morgana Pendragon, Morgause (Merlin), Alina Starkov, Zoya Nazyalensky (Shadow and Bone), Melisandre (Game of Thrones).

[pavus]

◇ make a poll of your favourite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most! ◇ i was tagged by @gallusneve, @qunarirook, @leopardmuffinxo, @rosenfey, and @elminsters. ◇ i'm tagging @happilyobsessing, @camelliagwerm, @tethrras, @sotc, @greenecreek, @nidstiniens, @virmire, and whoever else would like to participate!

[endiness]

not to continually rant about this but it is so fucking ridiculous that people keep trying to bring up book!radovid and game!radovid when talking about show!radovid and using it to disparage not only him but his relationship with jaskier (not to mention their fans).

first off, unless i'm mistaken, these are the only references to radovid in the books:

Prince Radovid was a minor, Queen Hedwig had been devastated by the tragic death of her husband - the aristocracy, terrified, had become stupid, and was disunited and divided into factions.

— Baptism of Fire

“I know [Calante] had wedding plans for Ciri, to join her with young Tancred Thyssen of Kovir or perhaps to the Redanian prince, Radovid, I don’t know exactly.”

— The Tower of Swallows

'Long live His Holiness!’ A few voices came from the crowd, obviously bribes. Novigrad’s hierarch Cyrus Englekind Hemmelfart rose and blessed the people and the army with his outstretched hands, while irreverently covering Queen Hedwig and young Radovid with the skirts of his robe.

Nobody shouts, “Long live Radovid”, thought the prince covered by the hierarch’s fat ass. No one even looks at me. No one is screaming in honour of my mother. No one remembers my poor father. Even today, at a day of triumph, which he so richly deserved. After all, that’s why he was murdered.

He felt a gaze on his neck. Delicate like someone he did not know - or knew, but only in his dreams. Something that was soft like a brush of a woman’s warm lips. He turned his head. He discovered the dark unfathomable eyes of Philippa Eilhart fixed on him.

Wait, thought the prince, looking away. Just wait.

No one could predict or guess then that this boy of thirteen years, which at that time was a person without any relevance in a country ruled by the Regency Council and by Dijkstra, would become king. A king who, after he paid all the insults that had been given to his mother and him, would go down in history with the name Radovid the Stern.

— Lady of the Lake

that’s it. that’s all the information about him there is. so coming at show!radovid from the angle of "[spooky voice] ooo people don't know what they're in for with him given how he is in the books~", like, what are you talking about!?

and if we're talking about the games... why? the show is based off the books not the games and even game!radovid is really not based off the books because based off what? there is so little information about book!radovid that the games pretty much did their own thing with him just like the show is doing with their version of radovid. (plus, at the end of the day, the show is still its own thing anyway. it's not the games. it's not the books. it's the show.)

and as far as the whole "but they aged radovid up, ew" thing goes. like, you are not serious people. but ignoring that and pretending like this is some serious argument: radovid in the books hardly exists as a character in the first place so it's not even like the show is taking some well-established child character or anything like that? they've basically just taken his name (which, js, but he’s not even the only radovid in the books; there’s actually multiple kings throughout redania’s history named radovid which the books cover), the location he's from, and the royal title he has and they've made their own character.

[uiuishii]

Happy lesbian

visibility day

[deadrlngers]

Make a poll of your favourite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

tagged by @dekarios and @elgaravel thank you both sooo much!!

tagging: i feel like everyone already got tagged so if you see this and want to join go for it :]

edit: missed a r in yennefer's name the shame is eternal but pretend you did not see it bc i don't want to remake the poll <3

[ao3yennaia]

Skylark

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/uhpVX4J by Rilirili After the sorceresses return to Aretuza from Vilgefortz' lair, Tissaia sings one last time. Yennefer listens and accepts Tissaia’s invitation to dive into her past, hoping to find something that will convince her to stay. Not quite the usual fix-it. Spoilers for up to and including ep3x8. Words: 25884, Chapters: 8/8, Language: English Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F, Gen Characters: Tissaia de Vries, Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, Francesca Findabair | Enid an Gleanna, Klara Larissa de Winter, Philippa Eilhart Relationships: Tissaia de Vries/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg, Francesca Findabair | Enid an Gleanna & Tissaia de Vries, blink-and-you'll-miss-it Tissaia/Phillippa, Tissaia de Vries & Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: mostly show with some book/game lore mixed in, preemptive mourning, no actual suicide in this fic tho!, no vilgefortz either, Hurt with a splash of comfort, bit angsty as well, Minor Character Death read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/uhpVX4J

[windflowerofskellige]

In a move surprising literally no one, I am once again thinking about Philippa Eilhart. Dress and how Philippa is dressed in the books as a whole are very important to her characterisation but the outfit I think is peak characterisation is her Thanedd Banquet Dress.

We consume this banquet from Geralt's point of view, we see the politics at play, are told the politics at play, but Geralt does not have a wider understanding because he is not a politician. The outfits are meant to describe a lot about the characters, they're easy to pick out at first, Sabrina, Keira with her Ankh juxtaposing her dress so sheer you can see the mole on her left breast, etc. And then Dorregaray of Vole talks with Geralt. Geralt has been pulled every which way told everyone is spying for someone and Dijkstra and Philippa are the most obvious yes? No. Dorregaray points out Philippa's dress is trimmed with an extinct fur, Diamond Ermine. When Philippa comes to steal Geralt away he points it out explicitly, he even adds that the species was officially declared extinct twenty years ago. No, corrects Philippa Eilhart, it was thirty years ago. She even mocks it, saying that she thought about instructing her dressmaker to trim it was raw flax, but then the colours wouldn't have matched.

This says nothing to Geralt, this says EVERYTHING to the reader. The two most notable aspects, the trim of her dress is a fur that is extinct now. The trim of her dress is ermine.

Ermine has historically been defined by heavy sumptuary laws and is a status symbol of royalty. The pointing out of its extinct nature serves to show you the reader she's been at this longer than we suspected.

This dress trim tells us many things about Philippa Eilhart Geralt doesn't know, that he will see through Keira's eyes next chapter more clearly. Philippa Eilhart is not Redania's spy, Dijkstra is. Philippa Eilhart is Redania's Queen Regnant, a puppet master. She has brought Redania's spy, and is there dressed as Redania's Queen in the interest of Redania as well as to have an alibi for the usurping of Vizimir the Second of Redania.

As Tissaia says in the next chapter, Redania hasn't had a King, not for a very long time. This dress shows that.