[The Venn diagram of willing, consenting adults and people whom Geralt is willing to fuck is a circle.]
[So the issue here is not that Claude somehow doesn't meet the witcher's admittedly rock bottom standards-- Geralt wouldn't kick him out of bed if he thought that Claude knew how to shut up in it. The issue comes immediately after Claude says out of courtesy to Jaskier, as that is the exact moment that Geralt understands that Claude, like all other men, lies.]
[He lies politely, of course, though that's hardly surprising when it's well known that Geralt and Jaskier are friends, and that Jaskier doesn't take kindly to it when he's insulted. But Geralt has heard enough nobleman's doublespeak to know when it's being used on him, and the excuse of courtesy to a friend is just a diplomatic way of saying 'I wouldn't touch you with a ten-foot pole but I don't want you to take offense about it'. There would have been less offense had he just not tried to spare Geralt's nonexistent feelings.]
[But Claude would not be the first man to try to avoid the ire of a witcher. Even without his mutations, Geralt is aware that he is a large man.]
[Not surprisingly, it is at this point that his tolerance runs low.]
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[So the issue here is not that Claude somehow doesn't meet the witcher's admittedly rock bottom standards-- Geralt wouldn't kick him out of bed if he thought that Claude knew how to shut up in it. The issue comes immediately after Claude says out of courtesy to Jaskier, as that is the exact moment that Geralt understands that Claude, like all other men, lies.]
[He lies politely, of course, though that's hardly surprising when it's well known that Geralt and Jaskier are friends, and that Jaskier doesn't take kindly to it when he's insulted. But Geralt has heard enough nobleman's doublespeak to know when it's being used on him, and the excuse of courtesy to a friend is just a diplomatic way of saying 'I wouldn't touch you with a ten-foot pole but I don't want you to take offense about it'. There would have been less offense had he just not tried to spare Geralt's nonexistent feelings.]
[But Claude would not be the first man to try to avoid the ire of a witcher. Even without his mutations, Geralt is aware that he is a large man.]
[Not surprisingly, it is at this point that his tolerance runs low.]
Fuck off, Claude.