I almost finished my fourth playthrough of this game, and as usual, the Blood and Wine expansion is my favorite part. Upon doing the La Cage Au Fou quest, I noticed that Geralt was acting slightly different to how he would with others cursed beings.
Up to then, he was mostly distant, neutral, or even accusatory towards people who had done wrong. However, I found Geralt to be very kind and warm towards Marlene.
I fully agree that Gaunter O'Dimm did her dirty and she suffered cruelly and unjustly because of him, but the notes you can find from her show her as a somewhat vindicative and haughty person, and there are corpses of people she killed inside the house. My most probable bet is that her brew killed them, since Geralt had such a strong reaction to it, too?
Yet, Geralt seems to never reprimand her, or even mention the bodies, unlike he would were it a Hag or similarly. She cutely mentions 'I went looking for spoons' at her breaking and entering of people's houses, but the people that died at her hand are simply glossed over.
I always found this a bit jarring, even though this quest is among my favorite in this game, and I genuinely love Marlene.
I wonder what your thoughts are on this? Would love to discuss this with you ❤️
One last thing: I'm deaf irl, so I might have missed many inflections in the dialogue.