Avallac'h/Ciri

First, let me analyze Avallac’h’s feelings for Ciri in the original.

His feelings were not expressed particularly obvious in the original, so I could only make some guesses here based on the plot. But I can be sure that his feelings for Ciri was very complex, and could not simply be summed up "hate".

“...The Swallow can fend for herself brilliantly, she carries power within her to make everything fear her. So, your help is unnecessary. And thirdly… Hmmm…” “Thirdly… Thirdly, someone else will help her now. I hope you are not so arrogant to think that this girl is only associated with your destiny.” 

Avallac'h debuted in ‘the Tower of the Swallow", where he warned the witcher Geralt to stop trying to take risks to save Ciri, which were worthless. He very clearly implied that the destiny of Ciri was also associated to him (Aen Elle) in addition to Geralt. Although Ciri was the generation of Lara and Cregennan, the elven blood mixed with dh'oine blood, but he believed that Ciri belonged to the elves. She should also return to the origin of the Elder Blood, the community of her ancestor Lara-the Aen Elle. The symbol of Swallow was new life, and she was also the only possibility to lead the elves to victory over the prophesied White Frost. His thoughts here may be limited only to the hope that Ciri’s ability to through time and space would once again return to the Aen Elle. But he definitely didn’t think of Ciri as a common dh'oine, he inwardly considered her an Elven child.

"Anyway," the dark-haired elf said in a mocking tone, "I can see something special about this little Dh'oine. I can see and recognize her value. It's like finding a gold nugget in a pile of dung. " Ciri's eyes flashed with anger. Avallac'h turned his head slowly. "You talk," he said slowly, "like a dh'oine, Eredin."

He said, "If you ask me, it's more like a pearl in a pig's dung, a diamond in a rotting corpse's finger. "

"You speak our language very fluently, yet it is still a foreign language to you." "I understand what you say. Every word is understood."

Avallac'h had never insulted Ciri. He never despised her for the differences that set her apart from their Aen Elle.

Both Auberon and Eredin had made disparaging remarks about her, and he had never made any negative comment about her appearance. He could see the shadow of Lara in her when everyone thought she had only few elven features in her. He even spoke out in her defense when Eredin belittled her. In his eyes now, Ciri was not a mere dh'oine, she was the carrier of the Elder Blood, she was Lara's daughter, she was the Aen Elle(his)'s hope, no matter who could not speak out against her.

Another point, while the other elves spoke Ellylon, which Ciri did not understand, to humiliate her, he always spoke to her in Hen llinge, which she understood. He affirmed her ability and did not despise her for it.

"Indeed you should not have." The elf's tone grew serious, "Auberon respects you and treats you as a fellow Aen-Elle.”

"I suppose you," said Avallac'h, changing his face, missing his usual calmness,"didn't say anything like that to him?"

"I didn't say anything. As much as I wanted to."

"Be careful. You don't know what you're risking."

When Ciri mentioned Auberon's disgust for dh'oine and discrimination against her, Avallac'h educated her seriously and angrily. He was afraid that after these words were heard by Auberon, he would simply refuse to have children with her. Thus, his plan was broken, and she has only one way to go, which was to go to his laboratory. Although Ciri was forced to have a child with her own grandfather, this path was already the least harmful for her. If she went to Avallac'h's lab, she would have suffered a lot of torture and he's doing everything he can to avoid that. 

“You are worthy of being her daughter, and I will not let you take away even the memories of her with you."

He walked up to her and embraced her."I've forgotten." He said gently, "Don't ever mention it again."

When Ciri suggested that Avallac'h himself to fuck her , he emotionally exploded for the first time and almost strangled Ciri. This was the ironclad proof that people love to say he hated her, so let's explore it. Why were he so angry?

In fact, as Lara's fiance, he should have been the father of this "destiny child", so Ciri's best bed fellow should be him. But now he tried everything to make this object into Lara's father. Why?

Because he thought that his Lara's characteristics were inherited from Auberon, thus he expected this child to become Lara 2.0. But he was wrong, he increasingly saw Lara in Ciri. He didn't really need to expect that child anymore, because the ready-made one was right in front of him. An imperfect stand-in. But this discovery made him begin to fear, and even reject extremely. So when Ciri raised the possibility, he became irritated.

The reason he rejected Ciri was not because Ciri was a dh'oine, but "I won't let you take away even the memories of her!" This statement made it clear that if he slept with Ciri, he would forget/be confused about Lara and lost the memories of Lara, and more crucially, he knew that he could successfully sleep with Ciri even without aphrodisiacs-he could get an erection on her. He may have predicted all this so he would try to make Auberon and Ciri have children, he was afraid so he would be directly annoyed after Ciri broke his mask to poke his heart out.

So he choked her, not just because he hated her.  On the contrary, he was angry because he had discovered that he could actually think of Ciri as a stand-in for Lara; angry because he had been poked by Ciri at his own hidden thoughts.That was all because he saw Lara in her, he couldn't outright hate her, he had special feelings for her. This feeling was very complicated, love-hate. Noticing her because of Lara, and hating her because of Cregennan. Not just simply hate.

This quarrel ended with a unnecessarily mild hug, interesting! I guess he regretted it a bit when he choked her.

"Because if it weren't for me, the only thing you could have chosen would have been Avallac’h and his lab. Go there and give yourself over to another possibility - and you don't even understand what that means."

Ciri should actually have a total of three options.

sleep with Avallac’h

sleep with Auberon

go to Avallac’h’s lab for artificial insemination

In one of them, he directly rejected the first option by saying that he "can't let her take away his memories of Lara". The third option was more damaging to Ciri, so he largely dismissed it too, and never even mentioned it to her. The second option, on the other hand, was less damaging to Ciri and could potentially lead to a Lara 2.0, which was why he did his best to push it forward. This was the main reason why he forced Ciri to have a child with Auberon.

The original plot about Avallac'h ended abruptly here, and his feelings for Ciri can be summarized as follows in my opinion.

She was the hope of the Alder, the blood of the elves, and she must return to the Aen Elle, return to where she was meant to be.

He saw Lara in her, but he was afraid and rejected this association.

He disliked her rudeness, narcissism and arrogance, and other typical dh'oine "bad personalities".

It is true that book!Avallac'h does not have deep feelings for Ciri, but it is by no means just hatred. People like to criticize him and their relationship just by virtue of the original plot, claiming he only always saw Lara in Ciri. They just totally ignore the whole game plot. From the beginning of the original to TW3, according to the game timeline, the two escape for almost two years. (Not counting the inconsistency of time dimensions in different worlds) It is very normal for the thoughts and feelings of the two to change during this period. And in the game, many positive or side depictions make me very sure that he has definitely developed some feelings for her! 

Okay, next let's analyze the game plot! 

TW3 was a game that continued the plot of the original "Witcher". Both of Ciri and Avallac'h's  personalities in the game had transformed considerably compared to the original, which we could see as a kind of character growth.

In TW3, the Aen Elle world may be destroyed because of the threat of White Frost. In this case, Avallac'h chose to persuade, teach and protect Ciri, who was being pursued by Eredin, as a way to use her Elder Blood to stop White Frost once and for all. His initial attitude towarded her can be illustrated by a report from his lab in the game.

more of Lara in her than I had ever imagined possible.

Cirilla was his for the taking

to regain her confidence and trust at any cost.

It was very obvious that this was a report written after Auberon's death and before he decided to go to protect Ciri. It was clear from the formulaic tone and wording of the report that he just saw her as a tool at this point, a tool that would solve the problems he was troubled with.

But feelings were unpredictable, the game presented a tension between them, and not simply just use, which made people imagine what on earth happened on their way to escape. It's just a shame that the story was left white, which was why people were surprised by Cirillac'h and couldn't believe the huge transformation between them. The Cirillac'h story in the game was a dark thread hidden beneath the surface, for the most part hinting at it. So, I'll go through the plot again to analyze what kind of thoughts and attitudes Ava, after returning from their escape, had towarded Ciri.

A: Ciri came for you. She sensed you were in danger, tore you from the Hunt's grasp, then deposited you in the woods near Kaer Morhen.

G: Did Eredin start hunting her because of that? Because of me? Why didn't she say anything?

A: Ugh. What would it have changed?

K: Come now, who aside from you would know that?

K:Well, we know they were well acquainted, and traveling together.

Avallac'h knew Ciri very well, including not only some small details not related to stopping White Frost (Ciri's sword, mare's name), but also for Ciri's temper. Even Keira said nobody would knew these things except Geralt. He knew that Ciri did not want to tell Geralt it was his fault that she was targeted by Eredin, so this villain would be him to become, to tell him everything. What she did not want to say he would say for her. Moreover, he also understood that whether Ciri told Geralt about the matter or not, she would make the same choice. He also knew that one of Ciri's biggest weaknesses was Geralt. So when she was unhappy, he chose to let Geralt make her happy again.

Velen, probably - the mage opened a portal for her. Then he fought her attacker.

Although Avallac'h was still in a weakened state with the curse, but he still let Ciri escape first, he stayed behind to directly vaporize the Wild Hunt soldier who had wounded Ciri before. In such a critical situation, he still took the safety of Ciri as a priority. He had helped Ciri escape capture and had drawn his sword on his own people, which was a crime that could be prosecuted. He had made a great sacrifice to protect Ciri.

But you know how elves are - he asked many more questions than he answered.

You'll need to do neither. I'll give you a xenovox. It's a bauble that will let us speak over some distance.

Found it in the mine, along with the lamp.Thought it was part of the lamp at first. Didn't realize what I'd actually found until later.

When they were separated in Valen, Avallac'h found Keria and asked a lot of questions(where’s Ciri? Where’s Ciri? Where’s Ciri?). He was very worried about her. He made the very rare xenovox for communicating with Ciri at a distance when they were on the run. I assume he had been using this to communicate with the lost Ciri. After having no luck, he left it next to the magic lamp that he also gave up, left important messages for Ciri and then left Valen.

A:Don't stare, help me.Help us both. 

G:Wait, so... you actually wound up there by accident? I thought you and Avallac'h had arranged something.

Ciri fell through the portal into the sea and it wasn't long before Avallac'h was finding Ciri and asking Skjall for help. Sage, who had been staying in his lab in Skellige, found Ciri seconds after she used her power, which was the same as setting a special ringtone on your phone and then answering it seconds after it rang, how worried were you about Ciri? He was speaking slowly and in a low voice at this point, in a very weak state, even to the point of asking for help from a human he depised. His curse was about to explode.

I know he probably found Ciri easier because he was familiar with the movement patterns of the Elder Blood. But was this bridal carry too close? And looking at the skilled posture, he must have done this more than once. In fact, he bridal carried her once more after this time. As a powerful elven sage with countless ways to keep her floating in the air, how could he possibly hate her when he chose to bridal carry her himself? To me, it's a proof that he valued her.

Ciri...Zireael...Can you hear me?

After they had been apart for almost two months, Avallac'h finally got Swallow back. He called her by her real name first, the first time in the entire game that he had called her by her real name in front of her. During his time in his lab, he had experienced for the first time what it was like to lose Ciri. Now that he's lost and found, and with the fact that Ciri was quite injured, I think he was a bit emotional at this point, which was why he can't help but call her by her real name first. His tone was soft and anxious.

In the original, Sage always called Ciri "Swallow", but in the game he started calling her by her real name, a shift that I suspect is as follows.

Just like when Ciri spent so much time in Tir ná Lia in the original that she unconsciously spoke of humans as dh'oine, it was a natural and subtle shift. For they did spend enough time together to change each other without realising it. Avallac'h also began to address Ciri like a human.

 Avallac'h began to treat Ciri as an equal individual.

Ciri asked Avallac'h to call her by her human name.

The Wild Hunt tracked down Ciri and the kind Skjall took Ciri to Drowned Dead Rock. When Ciri saw the danger Skjall was facing, she asked Avallac'h to help him, but they had their own trouble so Avallac'h immediately refused. As she kept pulling at him, he cast a spell to stun her, then quickly picked her up and put her in the boat. (bridal carry again!)If he had just used her as a tool, he could have just let her fall to the ground and found a way to throw her in once he was done with the boat.In an emergency, whenever he had a quicker alternative, he always chose to settle with bridal carrying her.

The most interesting thing to note from the video was that when Geralt asked UMA some questions, he was the most responsive to Ciri's question, despite turning into an UMA. The fact that the Uma curse has caused him to lose his mind and yet he was still unconsciously trying to express something in this situation shew that Ciri had touched his heart.

Her blood… Elder Blood… to open the gate. we can not, we can not allow this. In Skellige… Follow it… Into the mists. Hurry… Hurry!I tried to protect her… But the curse…

After the curse was lifted, his body was extremely weak and he was basically speaking in a breathy voice for the last few sentences, but at this point he still put Ciri first and worried about her well-being.

As I said earlier, he chose a different approach to stop White Frost, but he was also using Ciri. Only in contrast to Eredin, he was adopting a gentle policy. Many people totally disagree that he was obsessed with Ciri because of this-he was using Ciri. But I think it's possible to use Ciri and obsessed with her at the same time, there's no contradiction between the two. He gradually grew fond of her as he used her, and he kept fighting himself.

V:Violently twitching fingers, pupils that don't react to the light… Seen it many times before. Too many.

Y:Toxins have permanently damaged his nervous system. Even if he does pull through… Do you understand?

Ugliest Man Alive - The Uma Curse was meant to shame Avallac'h, and was reasonably speculated to be CDPR's sanction for his dark history. In the original, all the sorceresses who opposed Ciri leaving the Lodge of Sorceresses to find Geralt were killed off by CDPR in the game, leaving only one, Keria, who had helped Avallac'h inquire about Ciri and made a potion to delay the curse's outbreak, half dead. With this experience and the subsequent Trial of the Grasses, which caused permanent damage to his nervous system, Avallac'h pretty much paid off his black history debt in my opinion. He had paid enough cost.The equivalent of being dead once and reborn, he had given everything to protect Ciri.

Avallac'h - he prepared some special ointments for me.

These special ointments for scars had nothing to do with Ciri going to stop White Frost at all. We all knew Ciri hated this scar on her face, she was very happy her scar was a little healed by these ointments. If making a more realistic guess, it would be Avallac'h's gentle policy to win Ciri's trust,  a more sentimental guess would be that he cared for her or that he wanted to see more of Lara in her.

Yennefer's magic ran out of power to support the shield and White Frost magic swept across Kaer Morhen. Ciri's fellow defenders were frozen in place, and Vesemir, who had taught Ciri about how to become a Witcher, came close to killing herself to protect her. Caught in a state of utter helplessness and despair, Ciri faced the approaching Wild Hunt, lost control of her power and went straight into a rampage. Although the move forced back the almost victorious Wild Hunt army, the Kaer Morhen crowd was also affected, with Eskel's ears even beginning to bleed and Ciri herself about to have the energy backfire. The weakened Sage came online in this situation and single-handedly channeled the flow to control Ciri in his rampaging state, saving the day for everyone. I think the reasons why Avallac'h was able to take control of the situation so quickly are as follows.

He studied the Elder Blood for a long time and had the theoretical knowledge to face the unexpected situation.

When they fled, he had had the experience to solve this situation before.

His own magical power was powerful.

Even if there is nothing anyone can do, even if the situation is critical and bad, don't be afraid, I am here. 

This episode visually demonstrates the unparalleled sense of security that Avallac'h brought to Ciri. I therefore can totally understand the same unparalleled trust that Ciri had in him.

Wait, she needs time. We must let her resolve her grief on her own.

When Geralt chose to go and see Ciri, Avallac'h stop him and explained why. This shows that he knew Ciri's temperament very well, probably better than even anyone else. He knew how to deal with all sorts of situations when Ciri lost her temper, which I suspect was the result of experience. You don't get yelled at much on the run,  do you? My dear Sage lol.

Discouraged after a mere eight attempts? Zireael…

He knew her so well that he was aware that at this point Ciri probably did need an opportunity to vent her grief and anger, rather than just asking her not to think about what had just happened, so he quickly turned to Geralt for help. Ciri's comment about kittens and vanilla pudding was more figurative, and I suspect it was Avallac'h's suggestion that she should think about it to help her get over her pain and cheer up.

Sage sighed with an expression of only helplessness, not half-hearted impatience or disgust. Although he was largely expressionless, there were still some fleeting micro-expressions to refer to, and he never showed an expression of contempt for Ciri throughout the game.

You humans have… hm... unusual tastes.

Avallac'h looked at the erotic pictures of the human with obvious hints of sex, and found a more neutral "unusual" from the pile of adjectives to keep it light. All of his drawings in his lab had missed the most obvious difference between human and elf appearance - the ears - and he had only drawn Lara/Ciri's face + Ciri's clothes, when he was still in a state of torn and self-fighting. But now, he was looking at a human erotic picture, no more elf (Lara) shade. He locked himself in his room and was finally able to let his guard down and faced his innermost thoughts when he was alone.

Later in the game he also only admited that he did feel superior to other races, but did not stop discriminating against humans as a result, so it was very unlikely that he specifically went to see the human erotic pictures. It was also very unlikely that he was attracted to the element in these pictures, as we knew from the original that the elven pornography was better than the human pornography. His reference to unusual tastes was an arrogant expression of a man who didn't want to show her real thoughts.

So I presume he was looking at these pictures to brainstorm scenes where Ciri was posed in this way. The episode implied that his self-fighting had slowly ended and started to surrender from the time when he decided to give up his obsession with Lara and went through the time of losing the news of Ciri - and started to allow himself to be sexually interested in the human (Ciri) body which (Ciri) was sexually attractive to him. Simply put, he had desire for her, which was the most straightforward expression of good feelings between a man and a woman.

G:Do you like my new model? Something of Lara Dorren about her, wouldn't you agree, Crevan?

A:Her height, perhaps. Nothing more.

Ge'els representd what Auberon, Eredin and almost all of the Aen Elle thought in the original, that the attributes of Lara in Ciri were basically nothing but green eyes, and not nearly as much as that in a random female elf. Avallac'h who knew Lara best, on the other hand, saw the strong Lara-ness in Ciri in the original (Worthy of her daughter), and he must have complex feelings everytime he saw Ciri. The portraits he drew in the lab implied that his memories of Lara were fuzzy in TW3, and his memory of Lara had indeed been confused by Ciri.

G:From the look of things, pretty soon Ciri won't need your help anymore.

A: Nor yours.

When Geralt touched this sore point with Avallac'h - if Ciri succeeded in stopping White Frost - that's the end of their relationship. Ciri no longer needed his tutelage and protection, and he would no longer have a reason to be with her. He rebuttalled it immediately, waving his right hand with a very dismissive look and a wonderfully sour taste. Because even if Ciri didn't need Geralt's help, the relationship between them would always be there. Unlike Fox and Swallow, if no one was willing to compromise that relationship was dead.

I shan't force her to do anything, if that's your question.

Geralt was always a bit veiled and side-tracked in his conversations with Avallac'h. Avallac'h was quick to understand what he really want to ask. This response also showed that the current Sage would never use wordplay to force Ciri to do something she didn't want to do, just like that Ciri had told Geralt she would have a choice. He who intended to control the Grail (Ciri) in the original had now decided to let go.

You look at her and see a human, a ward, a daughter, even. I look and see the Elder Blood - a power that can destroy the world, a power that must be kept from Eredin's power-addled hands at all costs.

Geralt asked straightforwardly this time about Avallac'h's reason for helping Ciri. We all in God's perspective knew that Avallac'h's main purpose for helping Ciri was to stop White Frost with her power, but this was a secret that the two kept until the end. His explanation here was that he cannot let Eredin have a nuclear weapon (Ciri) that can destroy the world, which meant he was against Eredin invading other worlds.

This reply was also a self-referential one, with Avallac'h implying that he should treat Ciri as the researcher treats the descendants of the Elder Blood. On this point, the two were surprisingly consistent. Ciri said he's only interested in my power and nothing more; Avallac'h said I look at her like a nuclear weapon and nothing else. As a result, one hid in his room looking at erotic pictures and the other smashed up his lab when she saw his mistress. Surely the body is much more honest than the mouth?

When Geralt came back from helping Ciri smash the lab and asked Avallac'h again why he's protecting Ciri, he refused to show his feelings anymore. He could have said that he had to watch over (and protect) the nuke because she was so uncontrollable that the world would have been destroyed if she hadn't accidentally gone berserk. I didn't know that our dear Sage cared so much about the end of the world.

Earlier, when we were in the Isles together, Avallac'h mentioned a laboratory.At one point, he wished to teleport there… to retrieve something. And he refused to take me with him. It was all very strange…

First, @seinyacarol​ suggested that the two were almost inseparable, going everywhere together. So on the rare occasion that Avallac'h wouldn't take Ciri with him, she got suspicious. He was very honest in the game and didn't hide any of his petty thoughts (except for his affection for Ciri), answering all questions and requests, even though only Ciri trusted him.

Secondly, the reasons why he was reluctant to take her along are, I suspect, as follows.

Not wanting her to see the research material and family tree of the Elder Blood.

Not wanting her to see his mistress.

On the first point, Ciri had previously spoken to Geralt "he's just doing it for my powers, nothing else" and she had a clear perception of that. The two must have also had an open and honest conversation about the partnership, and she should have been psychologically built up accordingly to be a little more receptive. Since he knew her so well, he should have guessed that she knew this in her heart, so this reason should be less important.

Then, the key reason was the second point. They were just teachers and students, even if the teacher had a mistress at home, that was his private life and the student had no right to interfere. Why did you still not want her to see it? Because the existence of his mistress was an irony, an insult to their ambiguous relationship. And he obviously didn't want to see that happen.

Whichever reason it was, it will cause Ciri to drop her good opinion. The dialogue before the ending showed that Ciri had long been determined to stop White Frost, and there may be a layer of good feeling towards Avallac'h, but mostly she identified with her mission. Her dropping her crush on him wouldn't affect her eventual mission to stop White Frost, but it would seriously damage the relationship between the two of them. 

That was the fundamental reason why he was reluctant to take her to the lab-He didn't want anything to ruin their relationship.

It's definitely you. Hm, really captured you.Sure Avallac'h's only interested in you for your magic abilities?

He painted seven portraits in his laboratory. There are conflicting accounts of the portraits, so let me make one thing clear first: the original never mentioned Ciri's resemblance to Lara; the only thing she inherited was Lara's green eyes. In the game's setting, however, Ciri's features look similar to Lara's, but they did't look identical. On the basis of this, I have summarised and summarised three ideas:

He tried to portray Lara, but he had confused Lara and Ciri, so the portaits were of Ciri's look-alike.

He drew a Ciri with a healed scar, so the portrait was of Ciri's face.

He pretended he was drawing Lara, but was actually trying to draw Ciri, so the portrait was a Ciri lookalike.

Idea 1: "I won't let you take even the memories of her!" Isn't this a slap in the face for our Great Sage? You can't even remember Lara's face? Ciri's face is all that's in his head now! This is the most mainstream idea.

Idea 2:He made the ointment to heal Ciri's scars. In the original, Ciri's scars were horrific and disfiguring. In the game it has been refined into a linear scar - half healed. If the healing process continued, Ciri might be able to regain her original appearance. But instead of causing a disturbance in her appearance, Ciri's scar was a sign of her in TW3. If the scars were indeed fully healed, it's possible that Ciri had lost her best feature as well. I think this idea is less likely.

Idea 3:This is what I think. He had just taken the first step in saying goodbye to the past and reconciling with himself: he gave up the magic lamp in the Velen lab-he wouldn't communicate with Lara's ghost anymore since she remained silence. This phase in his lab in Skellige was when his self-fighting was at its most intense, and he was now thinking of Ciri, but he didn't want to admit it. He didn't draw the scar so that he could explain to others (himself) that he was not drawing Ciri, but Lara. And this was also the first reason Ciri denied it, believing that without the scar she was not her. Again, these two are surprisingly consistent in finding the same excuse.

Even if two people looked more alike, the senses couldn't be exactly the same. As separate individuals, there were subtle differences in eyes, expressions and temperament. As an adoptive father, Geralt was able to identify the girl in the paintings as Ciri at a glance, and even more directly questioned Avallac'h for having ambiguous thoughts about his daughter for he had saw Lara's statue before-he knew how Lara looked like and could tell the difference between Lara and Ciri's looks.

To spy on him? He tries to save you every time you do something stupid,  Isn't it enough?

It should surprise you to say this, but he's told me a lot about you.

He said your features resemble Lara's, but I don't agree, that comparison is like drinking from a mud puddle. But I think that belief helped his mission somewhat.

Do you think he follows you around just for the fun of it? Even I'm bored of seeing you.

She's not human, she's an inferior half breed. It's a shame that we have no choice but to submit to such things.

Well, the famous scene lab drama. This is also one of the most disagreed episodes. Because the words of the elfess confirmed that Avallac'h "hated" Ciri. ok, so I'm going to analyse this episode in my own interpretation.

The mistress had showed up before in the original. At the time, she was due to go on a boat ride with Avallac'h, but Ciri turned up and she had to give up her place. After Avallac'h had kissed her hand, she left, rolling her eyes at Ciri in defiance of her before leaving.

First, no matter how the elf described Avallac'h's hatred of Ciri: the stupid things she did, the fact that he help her because he want to use her, etc., at least one thing was clear: He talked about Ciri all the time, even when he was separated from her, in his lab with his mistress, he still said a lot about her. Contrast that with the fact that he found her as soon as Ciri came out of the portal, and that Sage was really thinking about Ciri all the time.

Secondly, considering that report I gave at the beginning about Auberon's death, he treated Ciri in the original as well as before the escape as if he were talking about a tool. Before the escape, he did have little affection for her, just as in the original, and was full of thoughts of use, which was what the elfess mentioned "to complete the mission". If his attitude had been the same as when he wrote the report, there would have been no need for the mistress to take on the "official" position of dealing with a "outsider" and just roll her eyes like in the original. There must have been a noticeable change in the tone and attitude of him when talking about Ciri, which made her realise that there was more to it than that. That's one reason of her jealousy.

Thirdly, He was under a curse and still drew seven portraits in a short period of time, averaging one in a few days, which was an alarmingly high frequency. Either he was talking to the elfess about Ciri or he was painting a portrait that looked suspiciously like Ciri. This lab, though Ciri never set foot in it, was everywhere: the family tree, the portraits, the Elder Blood research materials, even the chatter about her. When these two were alone, the "Ciri" content was too high. I think the female elf had a certain meaningful misunderstanding of her position. Seeing how arrogantly she provoked Ciri, I thought how close she was to Avallac'h. It turned out that when Geralt went to ask Avallac'h about it in a subsequent episode, his attitude was indifferent. He probably started off treating the female elf as a stand-in for Lara and now treated her as a stand-in for Ciri. One went for sex and one still went for love, which was why the female elf was even more jealous of Ciri. Because he hadn't even begun to have sex with Ciri before he was obsessed with her, and Ciri's Elder Blood that he was obsessed with was something she could never have.

Therefore, she was deeply jealous of Ciri. What she said was in doubt. Why was she so jealous? What explanation is there for a mistress being so jealous of another woman? Isn't this the most obvious evidence? Because she felt that her man had some special feelings for this woman, which gave her a sense of crisis.

The laboratory plot is a mirror version of the plot in the original “A Shard of Ice”. Yennefer (Avallac'h) had a long-term stablemate, Istredd (the female elf), whom she did't love, but he gave her security. That was, until she(he) met Geralt (Ciri) and she began to falter. On one side was true love that could bring harm, and on the other was stability that would always remain as it was. Yennefer eventually chose to break up even after Istredd offered marriage. 

So, Geralt and Yen were quickly able to perceive the current relationship between Avallac'h and Ciri when they saw the female elf, and they both went to question him upon their return to the ship.

Y:Or maybe you're just obsessed with her?

A: I'm obsessed?

Having been in the same position as Avallac'h (with a long-term lover), Yennefer could empathise with him and make a rough guess as to what he was really thinking, despite the fact that they were torn for different reasons. So she guessed straight away that he was obsessed with Ciri.

If Avallac'h had no crush on Ciri at all, he would have simply answered "No" or dismissed it with "are you kidding". His response to this was a declarative sentence with a question mark. He said this line with a slowed tone, rising intonation and a fading voice, as if he was lost in thought. This indicated an uncertainty in the spoken language, a doubt about the self. Inwardly he was still reluctant to admit that he had indeed been obsessed with Ciri.

A:I pursued those studies to protect Ciri. To protect Lara Dorren's blood, in whomever's veins it courses.

G:Ran into someone at your lab.

A: Did you now?

G:Mhm. A she-elf. Claimed you hate Ciri. So how's that fit you trying to protect her, whatever the cost?

A: Not at all. You don't really expect me to confess my feelings to you,do you?

When Geralt first mentioned the experiments with the Elder Blood, Avallac'h replied very calmly throughout. But when he mentioned they met a female elf, Avallac'h avoided Geralt's stare and turned his face to the side, his eyes drifting to hide the emotions inside. As a teacher with a student's parents, there was absolutely no need for him to be afraid to face them just because he had a mistress at home. Even if the female elf had spoken out despise of them, he didn't care what others thought of him at all, according to his earlier solitary nature. Therefore, his concern was due to the fact that their relationship was not just between a teacher and a student's parents, but that he had been "caught" by the parents of his ambiguous partner.

He thought that the female elf's claim that he hated Ciri was worthless "NOT AT ALL", and probably he thought that any statement made by the female elf was worthless and nonsensical. This showed that the elfess had a low status in his heart and had no feelings to speak of. All her statements were also of such low truth that there was no need to bring them up for discussion.

When confronted with Geralt's more subtle questioning, he refused to answer with a direct rhetorical question. What, do you expect me to tell you my FEELINGS? If he had no feelings for Ciri, he could have simply said I had no such thoughts. But his refusal to show his thoughts would suggest that he had at least some thoughts about Ciri. And when Yennefer asked earlier, he still doubted himself for a while, but at this point, after thinking about it, he simply refused to state it. I think he sensed his feelings, but he wouldn't admit it. He couldn't even get past himself, so how could he possibly talk to outsiders?

G:So maybe you're hoping to gain control of Lara herself? After all these years?

A: Lara is dead. My only hope is that Ciri will fulfill her calling and survive.

In the original, the tone of Avallac'h's voice changed in a flash as he gently and discreetly stroked the arm of Lara's statue, and now he was finally able to accept her departure with equanimity and honesty. "Lara is dead."This line was spoken in a calm tone, with no rise or fall in tone, and the look remained as it was, just a normal statement of fact. I think it showed that he had let go of his obsession with Lara and that he was now concerned with whether Ciri would survive stopping the White Frost.

Stopping the White Frost was what the female elf called completing the task. The task had been completed, so what did it matter to him whether the tool was dead or alive? If he really despised and hated Ciri, shouldn't he want her to die in place after stopping White Frost?  He couldn't have deliberately lied to gain Gerolt's approval, because Ciri had agreed to stop White Frost, and Geralt's low favourability towards him wouldn't have caused her to refuse to complete her mission. So this statement suggested that he sincerely wanted her to get out in one piece. After all these years, he had finally come out of the past and changed the target of his concern from the virtual Lara to Ciri before him.

Oh, yes… the Elder Blood can be fiery.

Avallac'h rejected the idea of Ciri going into battle and asked her to stay on the shore, but Ciri never failed to verbally whine while acting on her own whims and ignoring his requests completely. After Ciri's tantrum, he not only didn't get impatient but helped her with all the excuses - not her problem, the Elder Blood were all like that.

Gealbhan was a Sage of the Alder Elves. He fell in love with an Aen Seidhe elf - Dillian. Yet she spurned him.On the day the White Fleet was to set sail, Gealbhan gave Dillian a gift - the Sunstone.He believed Dillian's heart would soften in time.Once her longing for him burgeoned, she was to use the Sunstone. Though worlds away, he would return for her.

The plot of the Sunstone legend alludes to Avallac'h's feelings for Lara and his willingness to come for her even if he was thousands of miles away when she returned to him, but Lara died and ended up loving Cregennan, so this old love letter was useless. In the lore, Gealbhan (Avallac'h) died of depression because he didn't get a response from Dillian (Lara). I think this might be one of the parallel worlds where he ended up, but not this time.

C: "I give you my heart?" What kind of a spell is that?

A:It's an old love letter. Ancient.As I said, this stone was to reunite a pair of lovers.

This time, Avallac'h handed this old love letter-sunstone to Ciri, which was reciprocated by Ciri. The two, nearing the end, "confess" to each other in such a wonderful way. He spoke this line in a soft, slow tone, leaning towards Ciri while holding the sunstone and looking at her, as if he were speaking from his heart by explaining the sunstone - this is an old love letter from me to you.

He looked deeply into the mind of Ciri, who was next to him, and what was going through his mind at that moment? I have a couple of guesses.

She was about to defy his orders once again and took the fight into her own hands. He was worried about her.

If she insisted on killing the enemy herself, he would have to think about what advice to give.

Based on their ensuing conversation, he was torn between his two apprentices.

Ciri did want to take on the battle herself, and Avallac'h first used the excuse that she had not yet fully mastered her power to persuade her to stay. After being rebuffed by her, he knew she would really have to face the enemy alone this time, and called out Ciri twice in a row to stop her, each time with a more intense tone. This was also the second time in the game that he had called Ciri by her real name directly in front of her, and he looked serious and emotional at this point, desperate for her to stay. After another unsuccessful attempt to dissuade her, he made the choice to sacrifice his apprentice (adopted son) Caranthir to ensure Ciri's safety. This decision was in fact a difficult one. He felt great regret and pain at the fact that Caranthir had followed Eredin and that he had feelings for the apprentice.Despite this, he still chose Ciri.

Ciri finally left, and Avallac'h finally allowed himself to take off his mask of disguise, and for the first time he showed such a sad expression. What was he thinking at this point? I suspect the reasons for his sadness were as follows.

For the first time since their escape, he was not accompanied and Ciri went to face the enemy alone, and he feared that she would be harmed.

Lamenting the fact that his two apprentices were fighting with swords.

regret for the fate of Caranthir.

The empty dock, snow in the air, nothing but silence, he stood alone. The hood hided most of his face, making it impossible to really see his expression. He looked down at the calm surface of the lake, was he also calm inside?

This Real Time Rendering was eight seconds long and it revealed his extremely mixed feelings at the moment. He was not an elf without emotions, he was just good at disguising himself.

With all this analysis, I think Avallac'h definitely didn't hate Ciri. He might not love her, but he had an obsession, a crush or even a desire for her. Although Ciri's feelings were more obvious in this relationship, he was internally more dependent on Ciri's company. The pain of being alone all the time was doubled by the loss of the long-lasting companionship he had gained before, and he actually need her more.