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Rhea did everything wrong and that's why I love her

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Rhea did do nothing wrong is the thing

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Going in between 3h tumblr and Reddit spaces is such whiplash

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I wouldn't definitively call Edelgard the most popular Fire Emblem character ever, but I'd say its a race between her and Dimitri to be honest. 3H is still the most sold Fire emblem game of all time, so naturally the Lords from there will have the biggest fanbase, with it being obvious that a majority of the fanbase is split between Dimitri and Edelgard, with Claude being usually third place. Not by a large margin, but still. Its absolutely either one of those two, Lucina or Chrom.

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Indeed, they're two different things.

That's not the issue.

The real issue is people having this assumption of Byleth automatically being incapable of ruling because of xyz, when the real reason people like to discredit Byleth as a ruler is because she's not their favorite primary color lord.

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fantasy invader is hardly a bnf though. He’s just some nobody yapping nonsense to his like 5 followers while some loser is standing outside his house screaming and banging on his window telling him to shut up

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"Rhea did nothing wrong" Rhea fans are a very Tumblr specific phenomenon. A lot of the most passionate Edelgard detractors I've seen were also passionately against Rhea.

Similar deal with anti-Edelgard Byleth or Silver Snow fans, both the character and the route just aren't liked much outside Tumblr.

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Being a good fighter and knowing how to run a continent are two very different skillsets, shockingly enough.

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The only people who care about these so called big fan accounts are the other so called big fan accounts. These people think way to highly of themselves.

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re - Edelgard being the most popular character ever according to FEH poll:

That same year Jorge, a NPC from Tellius, was included in the top 20... because a person on Reddit created a bot program to constantly vote for him and shared the code around.

And also by that point highly popular characters like Ike, Lucina, Lyn, Camilla, Roy, and Hector were already removed from the voting pool.

That's not to say her popularity is all a lie because we all know how popular 3H characters are, but claiming that popularity in a poll that could be botted with choices removed isn't the objective measurement some think it is. Especially in the case of FEH, where the fanservice-y girls of each book have also won despite having very little character at all (Baldr, Veronica, and Guliveg)

Although let's be real here - who cares about popularity in a series that is 30+ years old and has potentially hundreds of individual characters? You'll be a lot happier if you like who you like and stop feeling so insecure that others don't like them in turn. That's 80% of the toxicity of FE fandom in a nutshell.

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The boogieman Fantasy Invader strikes again!

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>Byleth is a divinely ordained leader with no experience in statescraft

So are all the nobles (except 2/3 of them are more "descendants of genociders pretending to be divinely ordained") and they still can't achieve their military and political goals without an ~unqualified~ commoner

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Catch these CYL vote counters never bringing up that the Deer have the most winners with 3 and are on track to grab another win with Hilda as a popular frontrunner for next year, yet they're unquestionably the least popular house in both the fanbase and FEH as a whole. But sure, CYL is an extremely accurate gauge of popularity.

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Using a Heroes poll is hardly a worthy measure of popularity, and definitely not when comparing Edelgard and the character her fanbase rabidly hates for ruining their poor little empress’ life despite not doing a thing wrong to her. Edelgard had the most votes of anyone sure, but the vote counts have gone down significantly over the years and again, why would that rabid fanbase vote for Rhea? She’s a great character but you’ll never see any of them admit it.

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A reminder that references to specific groups of fans in a negative sense, or using common derogatory labels, are not allowed per the rules. Currently that applies only to groups of fans for specific Three Houses characters, although based on some of the antagonism between fans of these games and other Fire Emblems I've considered expanding that if I have to.

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You could try being a simpler guy and stop pretending like any of this fandom's many wannabe BNFs matter half as much as they think they do.

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I'm a simple guy, I see people using Fantasy Invader as a source without admitting it and I start struggling to take anything they say seriously.

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