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227: Taken from here:

"Asian traditions hold to the belief that if caught and then released, the Ladybug will faithfully fly to your true love and whisper your name in his/her ear. Upon hearing the Ladybug’s message your true love will hurry his/her way to your side."
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Mv.c9: DAMN, I want Witcher 3 NOW. When the game finished it answered some questions but then created 50 more mysteries that has me babbled.

I cant wait to see Yen model, a long black hair, if she is anything like the book describes and the concept art show, then im in LOVE. I know she is not beautiful but she must have something that geralt went for her, right ?!
Lol. :) Best post ever:))
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Mv.c9: oh, come on, this is the witcher, everything means something, the developers dont waste time to creat a lady bug and detail it that up close so that it would mean just nothing . . . Lady Bug does have the lovers meaning, but every country interpret it in a way. some say takes you to the lover, others say takes the lover to you . . . and etc . . .

right ? lets make this beautiful, and deep. this is a beautiful game, not just kill people and have sex, right ? the story is a master piece and I personally refuse the idea that the lady bug was there just for a shallow meaning. These things are not easy to make. A scene like that was thought up, planed through, conceptualized. this is not a movie that as long as you have a camera you have a scene. everything has to be perfect, specially cutscenes.

even the circle in Siles chest meant something, as it glowed when she called the dragon. so you see . . . nothing is just like that.

right ? please say you agree (^_^)
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Adokat: I don't agree. And you didn't read anything I wrote, or at least, you interpreted what I wrote to mean what you wanted, which is kind of my point.

This game isn't supposed to be like the Da Vinci code or Lost-not everything has to be some deep hidden reference. In fact, I think that searching for all that deeper stuff sometimes ignores the simple beauty of the scene, which is more powerful in my opinion. I just appreciate it for what it is, not what-through some deep interpretations- it could be.

Oh, and where did I say it meant nothing? It was one of my favorite moments from the ending.

Really, what you're positing is certainly one possible interpretation, but can you see why I say it's shaky? I mean, I can interpret it to mean anything I want. Maybe it was supposed to reference Geralt's feelings for Triss, or even Ciri. All are just as plausible, but none are any more supported.

Now, if that ladybug had been sitting atop a lilac, then I'd be inclined to agree with you.
Trully agreed. There is no stable explanation for it, so its left to your imagination. The only and most appropiate explanation is one of yours, Adokat:
The witcher, the best monsterhunter in the galaxy, the fear of nonhumanoids (even trolls beg him) a fearsome killer, is more human and sensual than any charachter of the game by observing that ladybug and letting it fly.
It makes the impression that he knows truly how nature works. Which life can be spared and which one should be eliminated. By this act proves somehow his knowledge and right to have Yennefer, the fabled perfect women.Proves that he is not a monster, a mutant. He has more soul than any other.
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Supergibb: I interpreted it as Geralt just taking solace in the fact that there are still beautiful things in the world. Among all this shit, there's still purity.

I really hope CD Project don't force this whole Yennefer love story on us. I want to find her to recover Geralt's memory, but my Geralt is dedicated to Triss.
It's actually explained in one of the books geralt has. Can't remember the specifics but I know is related to Geralt's and Triss Ending. Either there or on the Journal. Would have to check this is out of the top my head.
Correction: it's about Geralt and Whoever he ends up with.
Post edited July 26, 2011 by einarabelc5
An explanation that insists on stopping at the ladybug being a thing of nature and beauty, a pure and fragile thing that Geralt simply chooses to let live, and insists on declaring that there is no deeper meaning, is not much of an explanation at all but rather an attempt to foreclose discussion.

Had it been anything other than a ladybug, there probably wouldn't be this discussion. Had Geralt done something other than watch with great concentration as it flew away, there probably wouldn't be this discussion.

But it was a ladybug, and Geralt did watch closely as it flew away. Not only that, it is the central event of the scene. For that moment, there is no Triss, there is no gate, there is only Geralt and the ladybug. So it's either something non-trivial, or it's a cutesy, sloppy waste of the key moment of the ending. I'm giving the authors the presumption that it's the former.

Among the many superstitions held about this much-loved insect is the one that if you let a ladybug fly off from your hand, the way it flies will be the way in which you will find your true love. In a game and a world that is intentionally packed with European folklore, the idea that this carefully placed and composed scene means anything less is a non-starter.

At the end of the game, Geralt knows who his true love is. On the strength of this scene, he now knows the way he must go to find her.
Post edited July 26, 2011 by cjrgreen
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227: "Asian traditions hold to the belief that if caught and then released, the Ladybug will faithfully fly to your true love and whisper your name in his/her ear. "
I had a bug fly into my ear once, and for over a day I could feel and hear it buzzing around in my ear cavity (and don't bother, I've heard all the jokes).

I had to go to the local doctor and get the little bastard flushed out.