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Challenge beauty standards of a character that was supposed to be unrealistically beautiful.
Was she? I could swear in the books she was described as not conventionally beautiful
You're right. They just made her drop dead stunning in the games, so that's how the bulk of the fandom envisions her
If you ask me, Anya Chalotra is even MORE beautiful than the game version of Yennefer lol
Way to challenge beauty standards! 😄
I'm pretty sure the whole thing is that witches in the witcher universe can shape their faces however they want so they all choose to be super pretty? Am I misremembering or did yennefer make herself "not conventionally beautiful" on purpose?
You're completely correct.
This is just another way in which the TV show butchered the original, although it is far below the ladder in comparison with the fact that they turned the endless interesting philosophical debates into dull, uninteresting conversations.
She was ugly before she became a sorceress, if I remember correctly.