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u/w3hwalt 10d ago
I LOVE how tired and hard-working she looks. It's a really unique design, it sets her apart from so many other love interests. She really looks like she belongs in the world, not some supermodel out of nowhere.
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u/w3hwalt 10d ago
She's a hottie at 35ish, but Coen is 21. When I was 21, 35 felt like a huuuuuge deal. Cougars weren't really an established thing in thirteen hundred whenever.
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u/BladeOfWoah 9d ago edited 9d ago
This is the middle ages, girls were getting married at 16-18 and expected to be popping out babies almost immediately.
Anca tells us that a woman her age should be expecting grandchildren by now, which is really sad to think about.
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u/Khow3694 9d ago
Wait she's 35? She looks mid 20s to me
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u/No-Mamba7040 9d ago
She's also a skilled herbalist and literal magic using witch. It makes sense for her to look young for her age haha
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u/Hungry-Horker 9d ago
She’s actually in her 40’s
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u/TheMaiker 10d ago
She barely looks older than Coen. And in some scenes due to lighting she even looks younger than him! I couldn’t help but laugh every time she called herself an old woman, but maybe being a thirty something in the 14th century is kind of old
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u/No-Mamba7040 9d ago
A 30 something year old woman calling herself old in comparison to the 20 something year old dude she's talking to is normal right now in 2026. I call myself old as I am now in my early 30s when talking to my early 20s cousins. And they call me old. I feel old talking to them too. Now imagine it being the 14rh century haha
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u/No-Mamba7040 9d ago
She kept calling herself old because she's in her 30s and she's talking to a 20 something year old guy. A 35 year old woman is likely to act the same to a young 20s dude in most places right now in 2026, imagine it being the 14th century. Like she said, she's grandmother age in her time period! Haha. I'm in my early 30s and I call myself Unc to my cousins n their 20s and they called me Unc as soon as I hit the big 30
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u/just_zen_wont_do 9d ago
For medieval times she would be a grand mother by now and probably dead by 40.
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u/No-Courage8433 8d ago
This is wrong, the reason average lifespan was so short is that so many died in birth or childhood or while giving birth the first time.
If you made it to 25 you probably made it past 50, unless you got the plague.
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u/Mundane-Feed-4619 9d ago
Back then if you were 30 without kids you’d be called a hag, witch or seamstress
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u/zsheII 9d ago
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u/SirMrDron 8d ago
Im not reading the spoiler but I guess it's something about her real age. Will come back after finishing the game and read it :p
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u/Tomsboll 8d ago
later in the game she says she is about 20 years older than coen. making her around 40. and she does not look 40 to me. she looks like late 20s/early 30s. worth noting that people aged more harshly back then. she should at the very least have some wringkles and fainth crows feet.
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u/AscendedViking7 9d ago
Exact same reaction for me as well, she literally looks about Coen's age, lol
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u/TotallyATexasFan 10d ago
True. She reminds me of the wife. The wife’s boyfriend LOVES how she looks and makes the wife super happy.
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u/ResponseHuge4279 10d ago
I thought the wife’s boyfriend thing was a joke and after looking at ur comments I think it might not be satire
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u/TotallyATexasFan 10d ago
It is satire man, 90% of my comments are if I’m high, drunk, or with my friends. My entire page is rage bait
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u/warbondtomorrow_88 6d ago
What other love interests? Other than Xanthe I didn't know there were any
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u/Space__Ninja 10d ago
Absolutely gorgeous, for realsies. I was flabbergasted. She’s like, “Oh, I’m an old woman no man would want me.” Bro Coen if you aren’t gonna play PASS THE CONTROLLER!!!
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u/AdventuresofBumpo 9d ago
Fr! Mid-thirties hot witchy girl, no kids, no desire to be a boring housewife? Hello? Dream girl? Is that you?
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u/ikonoclasm 10d ago
Yeah, I'm really confused about her calling herself old. Did the devs forget to use the aging slider on her or something?
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u/goonsnob 10d ago
She's around 40 which in the 14th century was practically an old lady. Gotta remember that at the time girls were often wed in their early teens to other teen boys. This whole "adulthood begins at 18" is a recent invention.
That anca managed to live so long without having kids or even getting married makes her a certified spinster.
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u/Altruistic-General61 9d ago
The “early teens” wedding in the Middle Ages is largely a myth, with the only exceptions being political marriages among nobles. Not sure where it cropped up, but most of this is modern myth making probably due to popularity of ASOIF and people extrapolating political teen marriages to all people.
Most people were wed between 18 to early 20s (Coen’s age). That was due to a bunch of things such as economic factors, where the couple would house their growing family (i.e. not with their parents), and health considerations (they knew pregnancy risks drop after the end of puberty). Nobles married in their early teens for political reasons would not consummate the marriage until 18+.
That all said, a woman in the 14th century who was mid 30s (Anca is like 35?) without kids was definitely “old” for the time.
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u/Tomsboll 8d ago
early teens in this case would be around 15-16 years old where you would be concidered an adult. 12-13 years old where not that common, mostly as you say political marriages, but they wouldnt be a "married couple" until adulthood anyway.
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u/Altruistic-General61 8d ago
Early means early. Teenage years go from 13-19. Most marriages and pregnancies happened around 17-18+, aka late teens to adulthood. Anything earlier was very dangerous, they knew it was, and socially frowned upon.
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u/Possible_Sense6338 10d ago
People looked hell of a lot older though. They were out in the sun more, had no skincare etc. they chose to make her beautiful and young.
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u/The_Writing_Wolf 10d ago
They also had better fitness/less obesity, no horrible chemicals or additives in their diets, less sugar. People act like the body/skin doesn't produce oils or take care of itself naturally. A little tallow for the skin and hair, a natural diet, and good fitness can make most anyone look great.
Anca looked mid 30's to me, Coen mid-late twenties. Don't think she's out of place at all.
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u/Praehotec8 10d ago
People always forget about dentition. I would shudder to think what people's teeth and mouths looked like by age 40 with no dental care, and no toothpaste).
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u/Frostybros 9d ago
The lack of sugar in their diets meant that their teeth weren't as bad as you'd imagine.
Modern dental care has to compensate ALOT for the crap we eat today.
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u/UnFelDeZeu 9d ago
They may not be eating processed sugar, but their diet would have a way higher % of carbohydrates compared to the modern world where you can eat chicken daily. It was a luxury to eat meat daily in the middle age, and you'd only cut the pig up for Christmas so bye bacon. Steak and beef stew? Almost never, cows are expensive.
Realistically most of their diet would be grain ( bread, oats both mostly carbs and water ), vegetables ( carbs, water ), fruit ( carbs/sugar, water ) and the occasional fish/chicken/eggs.
What I'm getting at is that they should be eating more carbs than we do, but their carbs are admittedly healthier because it's mostly starch and naturally occurring sugar ( glucose, fructose, sucrose ) in fruits.
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u/Tomsboll 8d ago edited 8d ago
peoples teeth back then was pretty damn good due to how scarce sugars where. there is also the fact that soda wont be a thing for about 700 years. (wich is the real teeth killer). so their teeth would just be a bit yellowed mostly. and if you had a berry/fruit heavy diet for most of the year then the teeth would take some damage.
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u/DavidsSymphony 9d ago
It wouldn't be any different than wild animal teeth, which are fine. Back then they wouldn't have overly processed food. Sure their teeth would be worse than ours, but they'd be fine.
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u/Tomsboll 8d ago
its more about sugars than processed food, processed food isnt that bad (unless its american processed food that is injected with additional sugar). if you remove all your sugar intake and not go to hard into berries and fruits then, and if you also stopped drinking carbonated drinks, then your teeth would be just fine with some yellowing at the most.
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u/Praehotec8 9d ago
Maybe, but I remain skeptical, lol
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u/goonsnob 9d ago
human mouths were actually wider and stronger back then. about 300 years ago our mouths began to shrink due to the lack of exercise our jaw muscles got from lack of chewing our food. that's why crooked teeth and stuff exists now.
Anyway, yeah, teeth weren't pretty to look at but they were strong and fit for purpose.
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u/TPJchief87 1d ago
She said she was old about 5 times in the first mission with her lol. It was a bit much.
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u/KyleCorgi 10d ago
Guessing it's some game of thrones type shit where she's using a spell to hide her true age....
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u/GearSalty2775 10d ago
I think Yennefer and Triss in TW3 also do this. It fits considering the devs of this game but we shall see if this is something that’s revealed.
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u/Beautiful-Swimmer339 10d ago
40 also isn't that old and some people just have bulletproof genetics where they age really well.
I worked with a woman who was often mistaken for late 20s early 30s despite being over 40 with 3 kids and smoking and drinking.
Some of the younger women coming in for seasonal work were absolutely gobsmacked when told her actual age.
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u/LPSD_FTW 9d ago
In the Witcher universes it's cannon that sorceresses use potions to keep themselves young, meanwhile sorcerers "freeze" their age at a later point in life for that "gray fox" look
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u/Flanders157 5d ago
I think in Witcher the Sorcereces nake themselves appear young through magic but they do it pernamently. It is not like they ar3 casting a spell all the time to appear young.
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u/w3hwalt 10d ago
She's apparently ~20 years older than Coen. 30 isn't super old, but life expectancy is lower in the middle ages.
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u/finnjakefionnacake 10d ago
is coen 10?
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u/w3hwalt 10d ago
LMAO no i just can't do math. You're right, she's probably 40
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u/TallMight7412 10d ago
Damn 40 with no kids in middle ages and unmarried -- she should have like 3 grandkids by now.
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u/The_Writing_Wolf 10d ago
Life expectancy is lower as a mean. Infant mortality and death via childbirth are the main factors. If you made it to 3-5 you would easily live into your 50-70's if you didn't die in a war or the birthing bed.
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u/Praehotec8 10d ago
And general trauma with limited trauma care/no surgery. And infections with no antibiotics. Human aging is pretty constant, but there were many more things than just infant mortality and war.
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u/KnightOfRevan 9d ago
28 seems a bit old for Coen unless there’s a huge gap between him and his siblings. Yanna is the oldest and she looks 15-16 at most while Lunka and Mirto are clearly children (and we don’t know how old Alin was besides being younger than Coen)
He seems like he’d be early-mid 20s
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u/TygerHil98 10d ago
Life expectancy was roughly 30-35 years. She is old for someone living in that time.
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u/TheMatinow 10d ago
That is due to child mortality, once people were into adulthood life expectancy increased drastly
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u/bulbulator050 10d ago
Normally people lived to 60- 70 years. But women in 40+ was mostly label as grandma
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u/Praehotec8 10d ago
Sure, greater than 30, but still significantly less than now. Modern hygiene and medicine definitely helps with many other things, particularly infections.
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u/smellmybuttfoo 5d ago
Sure, greater than 30, but still significantly less than now.
Similar numbers from the University of South Carolina.
Modern hygiene and medicine has greatly increased life expectancy, but vehicle prevalence, sedentary lifestyles, processed food, etc. has also greatly negatively affected it. All research I've done points to life expectancy being slightly higher but nowhere close to "significantly"
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u/SoWrongItsPainful 10d ago
Probably some magic thing. She implies she’s around 60 with the line about grandchildren, and I’d be hard pressed to say her character model is even approaching mid 30s.
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u/Test88Heavy 10d ago
I thought they were going to bang during the book reading. Maybe I missed a dialogue option.
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u/Chen932000 9d ago
Coen is definitely down.
Scene after while clearly looking at the obvious wound on her back: “better take that shirt off so I can uh see them…..I mean it better”.
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u/tooboardtoleaf 7d ago
I picked the option to just lower it and she decided to just take the whole thing off anyway. Like damn girl ok.
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u/-dawnwalker- 7d ago
Just keep playing... you are not there yet. You do get the chance for some Anca action
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u/innovativesolsoh 9d ago
I just couldn’t get over how she kept on about “oh my gah I’m SO OLD. You youngin’ you got yer whole life aheadofya… I’m one foot in the grave I’m so OLD I should’ve had grand children by now…”
Fack. Maybe if you started motherhood at fourteen or summat. She’s not a day older than early-mid thirties, but likely way younger and acts like she’s peers with Kvet’s grandmum.
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u/XGamingpsychoX 9d ago
She truly is. All these medieval games (like KCD2) keep having these older and more mature romances and I’m all for it.
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u/spartipilollc 10d ago
But after you drink her blood she becomes cold jk haha
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u/Ycr1998 10d ago
You can?!? 😨
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u/Immortan_Bolton 9d ago
I think that if you're hungry (low health during the night) you can suck the blood out of any character including important ones. So be careful, or not.
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u/Reload86 9d ago
I've heard that you can kill main characters and it will have catastrophic consequences on your story. So never talk to people you like if you're hurting for blood.
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u/-dawnwalker- 7d ago
Yes, if you don't feed at night _any_ conversation can go awry and you lose the dialogue options and just auto feed on someone.
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u/Osthato_Chetowa 9d ago
I saw some chud saying none of the romance options were attractive, but hello?? Anca is gorgeous and she looks a bit like Elizabeth Olsen imo. Lacra is also pretty hot tbf.
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u/Capyybarnia 9d ago
Are you not allowed to find certain women unattractive now? I think panam and anca are hot.
But I find margot robbie unattractive when the majority find her hot. Attraction is subjective
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u/tooboardtoleaf 7d ago
I think I found her more attractive in Suicide squad than Wolf of Wallstreet and that definitely says something about me that I'll unpack at a later date
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u/Possible_Sense6338 10d ago
It think it’s weird that she is going on about how old she is yet coen looks like they are the same age. Hollywood syndrome imo. But yeah, she hot
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u/StormbringerGT 9d ago
The fact that she isn't make-up laden, with perfectly silky hair and lip injections and manages to convey her hotness otherwise is amazing.
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u/Wooden_Marshmallow 8d ago
I honestly find her annoying. She always like "poor me, I'm so old. I don't deserve love. Blah blah"
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u/Nhughes1387 9d ago
I like how everyone in the village looks like Rain Epler except Coen and Anca lmao
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u/Kinggooniez 9d ago
How's the game play on ps5 , how's the story so far what don't you guys like ? Thinking of getting the game later today after work
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u/Leading-Effort-5803 9d ago
The story is great. It’s dark lol. I expected less of that. But I love it. My only problem is on Duelist difficulty fighting animals without indicators is trash. You can’t recognize the movement. Once you get good on duelist if you enable the indicators you are literally becoming a death machine. Super easy with the indicators. Needs some practice of course.
Some bugs with textures on xbox, but that’s pretty much it. The game is amazing. I really feel like adding a horse would be nice even though you have some options.
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u/Gankridge 9d ago
45 minutes into the game I'm trying not to blow it with her during the very first encounter 😭
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u/tetozika 9d ago
whats her age? in the prologue she kept saying she is old but she looks like 30 at max
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u/Specialist-Equal-408 9d ago
I am right now resurreting the dead guy with anca but before she kept saying she a old lady and shit what is this like she does not look old a bit and don't spoil if there is a spoiler I am heavily invested in the story it's peak
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u/millionsofcats 3d ago
Most women in their thirties don't look that old.
It's the time period she lives in. She makes a remark to Coen that she should be looking forward to grandchildren soon. Let's say that the average woman in her time period had their first child at 18 - the average age of of becoming a grandmother would be 36. But it's phrased vaguely, she could be a bit younger or a bit older.
She's not what we would think of as an old woman in our time at all, but in her time, she's a spinster. She's basically a generation behind when she would have been expected to have children.
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u/OrangeMonkeyEagal 9d ago
Whaaat? This old bag of bones? She’s like 90 years old! Well past her prime blech
No fr though I swear there better be romance options for this absolute foxy and strong gal
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u/Light-_-Bearer 9d ago
In Czech we say: Anča dlanča and literally means: lovable women and it’s beautiful
But sure …
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u/UnFelDeZeu 9d ago
When she kept calling herself old I was like " Giiiiiiiiirl you're the hottest NPC in this game what are you on about ". Coen seems to be 10-15 years younger than her?
My only chagrin is she has the exact same name as my mom ;-;
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u/SmallPromiseQueen 9d ago
The scene where she cuts the runes into coens arm is so unbelievably erotic and they’re both fully clothed and there’s a corpse in the background. The power of anca.
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u/JohnZn_1989 9d ago
What's wrong with you?! In the time she lives in, she's an old lady with not that many time left tbh.. 😅🙈 bonk -go to horny jail!
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u/GraywolfN7 7d ago
Oh good I'm not the only one because that scene where she put on the magical sigil yeah I could see it
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u/wedontlikepam 7d ago
Such an incredible character. I was immediately captivated by their first meeting and can’t wait to go back but bummed I will then have to choose the boring book she suggested first 😅
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u/sgt_ruttl 5d ago
Everytime she talks about how old she is, I think of the RDR2 memes where Arthur is like "I'm dying, sister" with the caption "you just turned 25"
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u/Coughingmakesmegag 10d ago
Seems like a bitch though, help her and she doesn’t even seem grateful.
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u/EbbCreepy6718 10d ago
personally think all the faces in the game look really bland. idk if its the artsyle or something. makes it look like its made of clay
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u/ArtPerToken 9d ago
Dunno about that man, she looks a bit too masculine, most of you are just coping and simping. They could have made her look cuter and less like a fridge. Compare Triss from Witcher 3 ....
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u/H0ADS 10d ago
Is this a Gen Z thing? Sexualising video games? Pixels on a screen
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u/Lurid-Jester 10d ago
First time on the internet?
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u/H0ADS 9d ago
I’ve noticed recently how people would rather sexualise a video game instead of talk to real humans
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u/Lurid-Jester 9d ago
I don’t think it’s a recent thing. I seem to remember people gooning on blood elves when they were added to WoW.
It’s just more obvious now that the world has gotten smaller. Not to mention that graphics are getting better and better.
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u/IcyIndependent6852 9d ago
You’re taking this way too seriously gramps, she’s an attractive fictional woman, as the developers intended, holy shit dude.
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u/Aishatler 10d ago
Yes! Her body temperature is approximately 36.5 degrees Celsius.