Maybe Geralt's just never met an Elf who crossdresses before? In 90 years he still may not have met many elves; his job seems to primarily involve humans and human settlements.
Or he was thrown by the whole "let me leave the room and change into a dress to converse with you, instead of just saying 'it was me, sometimes I wear dresses' like a reasonable person" issue?
Geralt as the Does Not Label Reused Bottles offender is an exellent concept. I feel like most witchers would have this absolutely beaten into them at an early age, because the Master Witcher in charge of alchemy lessons Definitely Does Not Appreciate idiot students who waste his materials and nearly poison themselves! But Geralt's higher mutation levels means he can get away with mistakes that even another adult witcher would deeply regret, as implied by that conversation with Triss about Geralt just... powering through stuff that most witchers would take damage from.
Possibly once or twice he even poisoned himself in his alchemy classes and nobody noticed including Geralt. (Picture, 100 years later, Geralt going to make Potion #79 for the millionth time and Eskel yanking a jar out of his hand to sniff and yelling. Yew, Geralt!? Are you senile? Blind? This potion calls for yarrow, pay attention! and Geralt is all, "uhhhhh, but I've always made it with yew? I swear that's how the recipe goes, what are you talking about?" Poor Eskel does a double-facepalm, because yew goes in the recipe for armour cleanser but not in anything applied internally!
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Date: 2020-06-02 12:58 am (UTC)Or he was thrown by the whole "let me leave the room and change into a dress to converse with you, instead of just saying 'it was me, sometimes I wear dresses' like a reasonable person" issue?
Geralt as the Does Not Label Reused Bottles offender is an exellent concept. I feel like most witchers would have this absolutely beaten into them at an early age, because the Master Witcher in charge of alchemy lessons Definitely Does Not Appreciate idiot students who waste his materials and nearly poison themselves! But Geralt's higher mutation levels means he can get away with mistakes that even another adult witcher would deeply regret, as implied by that conversation with Triss about Geralt just... powering through stuff that most witchers would take damage from.
Possibly once or twice he even poisoned himself in his alchemy classes and nobody noticed including Geralt. (Picture, 100 years later, Geralt going to make Potion #79 for the millionth time and Eskel yanking a jar out of his hand to sniff and yelling. Yew, Geralt!? Are you senile? Blind? This potion calls for yarrow, pay attention! and Geralt is all, "uhhhhh, but I've always made it with yew? I swear that's how the recipe goes, what are you talking about?" Poor Eskel does a double-facepalm, because yew goes in the recipe for armour cleanser but not in anything applied internally!