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The thing is that it doesn't really matter if Byleth is a pure self-insert or an extension of the player or not. The point stands regardless, that if we would accept FantasyInvaders thesis of the game being build around the mandate of heaven, the player still is heaven. They decide who gains the mandate and who not and if we are nice to the other non-CF endings, then the final ruler still represents wangdao by archieving unity, stability and harmony for Fodlan and ending its chaotic fractured period.

Yeah, ultimately its really more of an aesthetic difference, it isn't really different from for example picking Sith or Jedi in the Star Wars MMO, regardless your character ends up being a hero of the galaxy.

I will also add that FI engages in alot of cope, because no matter what, Silver Snow is still regarded poorly and is fairly unpopular with the playerbase. In terms of popularity, Edelgard and Dimitri seem to be fairly up on the top, while Silver Snow polls consistently as the least popular route. And as a route, it is also fairly divorced from the Black Eagles as a House when it comes to its fanbase. There is a reason why it gained the title Church-Route, because the players simply do not perceive it as the real Black Eagles route. Its fanbase is also mostly invested into characters such as Catherine or the Nabateans over the Black Eagles cast.

Moral Ambigiouty: For Dummies

So I got shown another stupid post from our old friend FantasyInvader, the weird conservative guy who dabbles in white boy orientalism, and its barely funny enough to go over it.

I think if Edelgard haters don't want to be considered conservatives, maybe they shouldn't make highly conservative arguments that make appeals to religious morals, especially if we are talking about a religion none of the developers are likely to ascribe to. But lets humor him.

The issue with argueing with the Mandate of Heaven is that it doesn't really just apply to Edelgard here, but to every ruler. Shorty speaking, Mandate of Heaven states that a Ruler gains divine authority through Heaven, aka Tian, a spiritual moral force that will withdraw the mandate if the ruler rules badly. This doesn't just apply to amorality, but also can happen through incompetency or failure to uphold the peoples welfare. It is a very pragmatic concept in its core, because it both offers divine legitimacy to rulers but also justifies rebelions and usurpations, which makes it distinct from the christian divine right of kings, that didn't have such mechanisms, the authority of a king was bestowed to him by gods will which couldn't be challenged, even if the king ruled badly.

Now the issue is, that if we accept the thesis that the game does invoke the Mandate of Heaven, then it isn't just Edelgard who loses said mandate in most routes. In fact, in this case heaven is represented by the players choice and to a certain extend also Byleth, as their choice of Lord will decide who will creat the new order of Fodlan in the end, therefore inherit the mandate. After all, Claude, Dimitri and also Rhea will lose their authority in the majority of routes as well, as 3 Houses has a strong winner takes all approach Edelgard isn't much of an outlier.

I also don't know what hadou is supposed to mean, someone enlighten me, but I suspect FI is refering to badao in this context, which is correct, Edelgard does represent this concept. Primarily because she seems directly inspired by Cao Cao from the three Kingdom Period, who is often considered an archetype of this concept. Though again, if we operate from a confucian lense, yeah, Edelgard does act amorally through relying on Badao in 3 out of 4 rules, but her successfully uniting Fodlan with the ending strongly implying that her rule is one of peace and benevolence would under a confucian lense mean that she successfully transitioned from badao into wangdao after the war is united.

We also have to consider that many confucian scholars didn't consider badao outright evil, even through it was amoral. Confucianism is an incredibly pragmatic and nuanced moral philosophy and badao was considered a lesser path compared to badao, scholars acknowledged that it may be necessissary to establish order in chaotic time and that a hegemon can claim the mandate of heaven, but the issue is its lesser sustainability and instability compared to wangdao. So FI is leaving out alot of nuances here, nuances that the writing team behind FE3H often dabbles in, as seen in their more positive reception of Cao Cao as the Hero of Chaos, which makes his argument easily fall apart as Crimson Flower Edelgard would, based on its endings, have claimed the Mandate of Heaven and transitioned to wangdao. One could use her ending card giving her the title Flame Emperor over Hegemon as a sign that she archieved a kingly path.

If anything, the endings present Edelgard as representing wangdao the strongest, as she archieves an ending of true piece that results in the final absence of conflict, while Azure Moon and Silver Snow depict conflict waging on and Verdant Wind conflict never having ended. Wangdaos strongest trait is that it leads to sustained societal harmony.

The localization depicts Edelgard as worse than she is in the jp original while favoring Dimitri though, this has been widely discussed already, so dunno what he is on about outside of spreading the typical misinformation. And again, what is it with conservatives and not understanding nuances or the art of storytelling? Yes, the game was created around Silver Snow, because it has been the first route written, but branched out from there, with Edelgards original role being a rival and foil to the protagonist, stories can evolve and change during the process of their creation and in the final product, the opposite is the case. The Black Eagles natural progression is hindered by siding against Edelgard, with their supports with her leading them to the natural conclusion of their arcs.

Don't know what he is rambling about with Hopes, though Hopes would actually contradict FI's view of Silver Snow as the true route for the game because it fully abandons it. And lets not forget, 3 Hopes was written by mostly the same writing staff and Intelligent System still owns the Fire Emblem brand and could have intervened if the Black Eagles route being purely Edelgard focussed was against their intention, they didn't. If anything it shows that while Silver Snow is the original outline for the story, it ended up being mostly abandoned afterwards, with DLC material and Hopes depicting Rhea as more villainous than the basegame did. Also Edelgard isn't ever refered to as the Lady of Deceit, but I guess this has something to do with FI's idea that Edelgard is a homosexual sinful sexual seductress, I feel sorry for this mans mom.

The game contradicts him here, but then again, conservatives. The game frames Edelgard in all routes as a well intentioned morally grey Villain who at the worst faith interpretation the games text, not the headcanon of a guy who has a very obvious and severe madonna-whore complex, is misguided and misled by the agarthans. And Edelgard is symbolically actually very ambigious, she is both tied to darkness and the shadows through her connection with the Agarthans, though the same also applies to Lysithea, while also being linked to Fire and Flame, which symbolizes Sothis. If anything she belongs neither to the darkness nor the light.

In Short, she is Revan.

Birthright is a simple good vs evil story and if anything, Conquest is much more of a clear cut villain route than Crimson Flower ever comes close to, considering how Nohr is basically what if you mix Azure Gleams Adrestia with Faerghus on its most noble days.

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Moral Ambigiouty: For Dummies

So I got shown another stupid post from our old friend FantasyInvader, the weird conservative guy who dabbles in white boy orientalism, and its barely funny enough to go over it.

I think if Edelgard haters don't want to be considered conservatives, maybe they shouldn't make highly conservative arguments that make appeals to religious morals, especially if we are talking about a religion none of the developers are likely to ascribe to. But lets humor him.

The issue with argueing with the Mandate of Heaven is that it doesn't really just apply to Edelgard here, but to every ruler. Shorty speaking, Mandate of Heaven states that a Ruler gains divine authority through Heaven, aka Tian, a spiritual moral force that will withdraw the mandate if the ruler rules badly. This doesn't just apply to amorality, but also can happen through incompetency or failure to uphold the peoples welfare. It is a very pragmatic concept in its core, because it both offers divine legitimacy to rulers but also justifies rebelions and usurpations, which makes it distinct from the christian divine right of kings, that didn't have such mechanisms, the authority of a king was bestowed to him by gods will which couldn't be challenged, even if the king ruled badly.

Now the issue is, that if we accept the thesis that the game does invoke the Mandate of Heaven, then it isn't just Edelgard who loses said mandate in most routes. In fact, in this case heaven is represented by the players choice and to a certain extend also Byleth, as their choice of Lord will decide who will creat the new order of Fodlan in the end, therefore inherit the mandate. After all, Claude, Dimitri and also Rhea will lose their authority in the majority of routes as well, as 3 Houses has a strong winner takes all approach Edelgard isn't much of an outlier.

I also don't know what hadou is supposed to mean, someone enlighten me, but I suspect FI is refering to badao in this context, which is correct, Edelgard does represent this concept. Primarily because she seems directly inspired by Cao Cao from the three Kingdom Period, who is often considered an archetype of this concept. Though again, if we operate from a confucian lense, yeah, Edelgard does act amorally through relying on Badao in 3 out of 4 rules, but her successfully uniting Fodlan with the ending strongly implying that her rule is one of peace and benevolence would under a confucian lense mean that she successfully transitioned from badao into wangdao after the war is united.

We also have to consider that many confucian scholars didn't consider badao outright evil, even through it was amoral. Confucianism is an incredibly pragmatic and nuanced moral philosophy and badao was considered a lesser path compared to badao, scholars acknowledged that it may be necessissary to establish order in chaotic time and that a hegemon can claim the mandate of heaven, but the issue is its lesser sustainability and instability compared to wangdao. So FI is leaving out alot of nuances here, nuances that the writing team behind FE3H often dabbles in, as seen in their more positive reception of Cao Cao as the Hero of Chaos, which makes his argument easily fall apart as Crimson Flower Edelgard would, based on its endings, have claimed the Mandate of Heaven and transitioned to wangdao. One could use her ending card giving her the title Flame Emperor over Hegemon as a sign that she archieved a kingly path.

If anything, the endings present Edelgard as representing wangdao the strongest, as she archieves an ending of true piece that results in the final absence of conflict, while Azure Moon and Silver Snow depict conflict waging on and Verdant Wind conflict never having ended. Wangdaos strongest trait is that it leads to sustained societal harmony.

The localization depicts Edelgard as worse than she is in the jp original while favoring Dimitri though, this has been widely discussed already, so dunno what he is on about outside of spreading the typical misinformation. And again, what is it with conservatives and not understanding nuances or the art of storytelling? Yes, the game was created around Silver Snow, because it has been the first route written, but branched out from there, with Edelgards original role being a rival and foil to the protagonist, stories can evolve and change during the process of their creation and in the final product, the opposite is the case. The Black Eagles natural progression is hindered by siding against Edelgard, with their supports with her leading them to the natural conclusion of their arcs.

Don't know what he is rambling about with Hopes, though Hopes would actually contradict FI's view of Silver Snow as the true route for the game because it fully abandons it. And lets not forget, 3 Hopes was written by mostly the same writing staff and Intelligent System still owns the Fire Emblem brand and could have intervened if the Black Eagles route being purely Edelgard focussed was against their intention, they didn't. If anything it shows that while Silver Snow is the original outline for the story, it ended up being mostly abandoned afterwards, with DLC material and Hopes depicting Rhea as more villainous than the basegame did. Also Edelgard isn't ever refered to as the Lady of Deceit, but I guess this has something to do with FI's idea that Edelgard is a homosexual sinful sexual seductress, I feel sorry for this mans mom.

The game contradicts him here, but then again, conservatives. The game frames Edelgard in all routes as a well intentioned morally grey Villain who at the worst faith interpretation the games text, not the headcanon of a guy who has a very obvious and severe madonna-whore complex, is misguided and misled by the agarthans. And Edelgard is symbolically actually very ambigious, she is both tied to darkness and the shadows through her connection with the Agarthans, though the same also applies to Lysithea, while also being linked to Fire and Flame, which symbolizes Sothis. If anything she belongs neither to the darkness nor the light.

In Short, she is Revan.

Birthright is a simple good vs evil story and if anything, Conquest is much more of a clear cut villain route than Crimson Flower ever comes close to, considering how Nohr is basically what if you mix Azure Gleams Adrestia with Faerghus on its most noble days.

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Delves are such a fun system, they really feel more like what M+ originally was supposed to be. Though I still hope that if they keep them around, that we get more followers. Having Anduin or Alleria for them would be funny. I haven't tried out tank Brann though, I'm usually letting him heal.

And its super nice, you can get 2 heroic pieces per week through delves, one by completing a delvers bounty at 8+ and another one from the great vault for 8 or higher, which you can all turn with the catalyst and then upgrade for the heroic and at 5/8 mythic set skin. I got lucky this week and got my heroic tier shoulders. You also get up to 31 gilded crests with delves, 10 through the map and 21 by doing 11 delves.

And I liked m+ originally and thought they were a great alternative to raiding back in legion and BfA, but then they just became harder and harder, to the point were they aren't fun anymore and you have to practically study even trashpacks to know what to do. Though the Devs hinted at a combat overhaul, where they hinted at toning down the complexity and making mechanics more visible ingame, combined with really wanting to tone down combat addons.

Made a Discipline Priest

Atonement: Passive: Power Word Shield, Flash Heal, Renew, Power Word Radiance, and Power Word Life apply Atonement to your target for 15 seconds. Your spell damage heals all targets affected by Atonement for 28% of damage done. Okay, so, it's Kardia but I also get a regular Regen with Renew

Renew: Fills the target with faith in the light, healing for 148 over 15 seconds.

So, Regen.

Slap a Renew on the tank as well as a PW or Shield and I'll heal as I do damage. (Doesn't say that it stacks with Atonement, but the wording suggests it will. Who wants to be my guinea pig?! :D)

So far (I'm only level 12, just got off Exile's Reach) it's looking like a mix of Sage and White Mage.

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No problem. I'm also primarily doing delves right now because m+ feels like too much to bother getting into, though Blizz hinted at making them easier again in the future.

Oh, I don't know if you know, I only learned it a few days ago, but you can get mythic class skins through delves. All you need to do is turning a heroic level item with the catalysator and then upgrade it to 5/8, this way you get both the heroic and the mythic skin. Works the same with champion and vet for the next higher item level.

Got me quite hyped and fall even more in love with delves when I learned this is possible.

Made a Discipline Priest

Atonement: Passive: Power Word Shield, Flash Heal, Renew, Power Word Radiance, and Power Word Life apply Atonement to your target for 15 seconds. Your spell damage heals all targets affected by Atonement for 28% of damage done. Okay, so, it's Kardia but I also get a regular Regen with Renew

Renew: Fills the target with faith in the light, healing for 148 over 15 seconds.

So, Regen.

Slap a Renew on the tank as well as a PW or Shield and I'll heal as I do damage. (Doesn't say that it stacks with Atonement, but the wording suggests it will. Who wants to be my guinea pig?! :D)

So far (I'm only level 12, just got off Exile's Reach) it's looking like a mix of Sage and White Mage.

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Yes, it all stacks. Atonement is basically like Kardia, just with the difference that instead of setting it up once and then forget about it, you have to keep up the buff on the targets you want to heal. Your bread and butter spells to apply atonement are Power Word Radiance because its AOE and Power World Shield on the Tank, Renew is more for larger groups and if you need to apply atonement while either is on CD. Oh and pain suppression is great once you get it, its basically like a full on Tank CD you can apply to anyone.

Generally Discipline is more like Sage while Holy leands alot more into White Mage.

Made a Discipline Priest

Atonement: Passive: Power Word Shield, Flash Heal, Renew, Power Word Radiance, and Power Word Life apply Atonement to your target for 15 seconds. Your spell damage heals all targets affected by Atonement for 28% of damage done. Okay, so, it's Kardia but I also get a regular Regen with Renew

Renew: Fills the target with faith in the light, healing for 148 over 15 seconds.

So, Regen.

Slap a Renew on the tank as well as a PW or Shield and I'll heal as I do damage. (Doesn't say that it stacks with Atonement, but the wording suggests it will. Who wants to be my guinea pig?! :D)

So far (I'm only level 12, just got off Exile's Reach) it's looking like a mix of Sage and White Mage.

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Okay, so I'm already aware of the fact that seemingly every single inflammatory Post in the Problematic Fodlan Blog is somehow attributed to me. As I already admitted, I did some troll posts there and yes, also inflammatory and instigating shit, though I'm fairly sure I get attributed to alot of posts which aren't mine. I found it funny for a while, but it reached the point of a witch hunt and outright implicit slander against me which is too much.

Now it reached a boiling point when some asshole made an ask where they wrote that Dimitri would support the genocide in Gaza, which people implicate me in. First off, go fuck all of you. Secondly, no it wasn't me and I strongly resent that asshole who did this ask. We all do inflammatory and trolling shit in this community. Some more than others, like the people who associate a Fire Emblem character with the Holocaust or the ongoing genocide in Ukraine.

And just like this two examples, this goes to far and is just outright vile and disgusting. Though I will also say, fuck problematic fodlan. We already know this blog is a pure drama farm, some of y'all probably still participate in it. I will not go all buthurt and demand anyone who follows me block them, all the power to you and it was all fun and good laughs for a while. But lets not kid ourselves, they control exactly what asks they publish and which they ignore. They can try to distance themselves as much as they want and play the neutral party, but they made the deliberate choice to publish a post claiming Dimitri Blaiddyd would support the genocide on Gaza. And this is disgusting and morally bankrupt behavior. They are already publishing alot of questionable asks, going against all directions in the FE3H Fandom and I really hope that whoever owns thig blog will at the very least accept some accountability there and have the maturity to apologize for publishing this ask. This is on them and if you ask me, they could have been just as well the person typing the words, it doesn't matter. They crossed a very sensible red line.

To make my stance on the matter clear, nobody in the Fire Emblem cast would support the genocide in Gaza. Not Dimitri, not Rhea, not Claude, Edelgard and not even Thales. Because lets not fucking weaponize an ongoing genocide as a fucking gatcha in a fucking video game.

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Girl, I wish I could like Edelgard even a fraction as you do, but I do not get it at all.

Like, she is such a cool character and she is sympathetic, don’t get me wrong, but I cannot look at her or play her routes without saying to myself that she’s poorly written.

She has the biggest army in all of Fodlan, considering the Empire consists of 50% of the continent, yet still works alongside TWSITD willingly. That whole five years' worth of war definitely gave them a whole lot of orphans and prisoners of war to experiment on, and that's not including the times in canon where they transform the soldiers in her own army into Demonic Beasts! She’s so hypocritical, lamenting about the traumas she went through (which is completely valid; she lost her family, she's allowed to be), but letting it happen to her people right in front of her just leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

Also, the whole thing with Petra and Brigid. Forcing a princess of another country to fight in your war, or else you’ll declare war on her kingdom too? Petra was around ten when she was held hostage in the Empire, so that's five years since the war was first declared, then another five with the war itself. A whole decade of keeping a foreigner prisoner, not even having the decency to teach her the language of the country she’s now stuck in, so the girl has to teach herself, and even then, still struggles after all that time. Her treatment of Petra alone would be enough to make me hate her (like how I hate Ingrid and Hilda for similar reasons).

Plus, I can’t help but wonder what would even happen to Fodlan after the war is over. Fodlan has Sreng and Almyra on two sides, who have shown that they do not like Fodlan very much and are only being held back by House Guatier and Gongril, respectively. I doubt that anybody in Faerghus is going to be fighting back Sreng soldiers who see it as an opportunity to strike, and I doubt the Almyran King is going to be all too happy to hear if his son died by the Emperor’s hand (even if Claude isn’t killed, who’s to say he won’t ascend to the throne and go after Edelgard when Fodlan is weak? Because I know damn well him saying he’s in your debt is a lie, it’s Claude we’re talking about.)

Seriously, Crimson Flower and Silver Snow are effectively the worst routes for Fodlan in the long run. Both have nothing to protect Fodlan from invaders after the war; both Rhea and Edelgard are hypocrites, and will only send Fodlan backwards one way or another.

Crimson Flower is a bad route, Edelgard is a bad character, and it needs a lot of reworking and polishing to make it remotely enjoyable. A pity, too, because there is potential there.

Okay time for another poll.

Based on this thinly veiled incel raged fueled rant...

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Sylvain and Dimitri being 2 silly boys, inventing fascism

The title says it all. Had a fun round of discourse today on the site formerly known as Twitter and I became just aware that actually, Sylvain and Dimitri basically invent fascism in 3 Hopes

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I saw this one and considered it funny, because it seems like now they accuse every troll and Edelgard fan there of being me.

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It seems like I have defeated my old sensei Raxis and now I am the Absolute One of the Fire Emblem 3 Houses discourse community. Though please could you @ me when someone mentions me? Its funny and I don't want to miss out on being the center of fandom wide mass hysteria.

I know you’re on here, Diaphin

At first I wasn't going to post this because it's directly addressing someone, but then I realized that there's no way I or anybody else would know which anon is being addressed here, so fine.

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To be honest, I would also argue that the problem with the Nabatheans is probably the same as with the Agarthans, in that the game on one hand frames them as a race of people but on the other hand isn't really interested in exploring them and adding nuances to them as a group, a narrative or a conclusion for the Nabateans as a whole, similarily to how the games also at one hand throw the agarthans as a culture of the original humans on Fodlan at us, gives us little hints at them considering Fodlan their native home and fighting for the liberation of their people but then just using them as evil cultists, with the most nuanced one only getting a short paralogue and a single chapter with him as the villain in the spin-off game.

We have Seteth and Flayn, but those two aren't even manakete anymore but functionally just immortal humans and for the most part the game is very pragmatic about their nabatean origin, it doesn't even matter much for the majority of the plot overall or their supports. For the most part they really exist for Rheas role as the divine dragon of the game, but even her importance is mostly relegated to Silver Snow and Crimson Flower, with her being nothing but serving exposition and the recycling of the Shambhala chapter in VW and being practically non-existant in AM.

We have the Indech and Macuil paralogues, but even those are ultimately not really that much more relevant than the Arval Paralogue in Hopes, giving us tiny tidbits for Seteth and Flayn in their role as Nabateans but otherwise being just optional dragon bosses to unlock some special weapon, them staying in their exile afterwards and being of no relevance to the plot otherwise. And ultimately there is really no further conclusion to the Nabateans, in AM, VW and SS the status quo for them is just restored with them Seteth and Flayn staying in hiding and Rhea in the best case scenario marrying Byleth but otherwise just continuing her role as the officially human archbishop.

Like, I do love to flesh out the Agarthans more in my own headcanons and rpg's, but probably to everyones shock and surprise the Nabateans are also something I like to expand alot more and give them as a group more importance and a way forward.

I joked earlier with my fwend about how disappointing the duo Rhealt could be, I mean, sure we're teased about her finally reuniting with her mother, but we know FEH, even if it goes in uncharted territories, can't compete with Fodlan' DNA of Hresvelg Tea so we won't be able to have Rhea meaningfully interact with her Mother about how she feels unsafe in Fodlan because humans want to turn her in a shiny club or don't accept her ears -

So I came up with the milquetoast "they will have one or two lines about being together, and then the interactions will be all about Sothis wanting to spend time with the students, and Rhea getting along".

But I forgot the elephant in the room, as Sharena's MYH revealed :

Seteth who ? Flayn who?

Anyways, and since the lines aren't out yet I'll make a new prediction : Sothis and Rhea will try to come up with a present for Billy to thank them for making them reunite (??) and their duo lines will mention how happy they are to have met them.

No more Nabatean lore, nothing on the songs, no mention of Seteth'n'Flayn.

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Dorotheas class resentment is like, an established flaw of her character. It is one of the central elements of her support line with Ferdinand, that she thought the worst about him due to his noble status, though at the same time it is also a legitimate character trait that makes her likable to many because she does have class consciousness, primarily noble women, are opressed and suffer due to the conditions of the system they still remain the overall oppressor and exploiter class. And its not a good look to be overly outraged over a marginalized person expressing class resentment and prioritizing the wellbeing of her own class over that of their oppressors.

Naturally, there is a character who aims to dissolve this conflict and reform society towards the notion of class and social standing ceasing to exist, so there would be no nobility and no commoners anymore and the social issues members of both classes suffer under would dissolve, though in this particular route they're on the way to kill this person.

Thinking back on the WTF lolcalisation about Liprica's fate in SoV and some trend I've noticed with the general "Nobles BaD" discourse -

The "Liprica became a noble y'know since she got to live in luxury!" add-on after specifically explaining how she came to live in the castle, aka after being kidnapped and raped enough to get a bby felt really crass and gross -

And yet, I can't shake the feeling that, somehow, someone thought "important enough" to add that even if she was effectively abducted, abused and lived a shit life until her ultimate death, she still had a life of luxury, aka had it better that a random commoner (who cannot get a life of luxury sad uwus) ?

Are we supposed to, uh, not give a crap about Liprica's being a victim of marital rape because, by being kidnapped and raped, she became "nobility" ?

I mean, the order of the sentences is important here :

she was kidnapped

2. she was raped

3. "despite the luxury I guess her life in the castle was difficult!"

Hell - fucking - o ???

But then I remembered this quote - which imo illustrates the same issue - exists in Kusakihara's Fodlan :

But we can't let the commonfolk get hurt. We should try to confine the damage to the noble section of town.

Considering this exists in her native route, where she can has a support with Hanneman learning how Hanneman's sister, despite being a noble, was also forced to pop up children like candies, Doro, even with Billy's guidance, still cannot get over her hatred of nobles and wants them dead, or at least, to get hurt.

When the party is all about "no casualties!", we have here, one character, who wishes for some, but only for the nobles, not for commoners (or, in VW, when the party will notice that the people weren't evacuated and are used as meat shields!).

IDK what Hubert's sister did to her, but apparently she's an acceptable casualty, like Hanneman's nephews, Lin's mom (if she's still around) or Flèche.

And that's not taking into account how "commoners" also work in mansions and all, like Doro's very own mother.

Writing this (but not only Doro's lines, even if Leonie gets a better development thanks to having natural character development with Lorenz), are we supposed to root for Doro? Or pretend she has a point? Why was this line added? What does it bring to Doro's character ?

Just like lolcalised!Irma told us Liprica lived a life of luxury, Hubert unnamed sister or Hanneman's nephews are acceptable casualties because they were born as nobles?

If Kusakihara really wanted to walk the walk, I guess he could had her basically tell Bernie "If casualties cannot be avoided, then I hope your mother dies/suffers" ?

@fantasyinvader I guess this is another case of Fodlanism, but coupled to Kusakihara's wish to insert "Nobles BaD" in a franchise that doesn't shy away from depicting corrupt and asshat nobles, but also often stars royalty and various nobility as your core characters, it reads as particularly tone deaf.

I can't wait for a NPC in the sure to happen Jugdral remakes to tells us that Hilda tortured Tailte to death "but despite the luxury, I guess dungeon life proved most difficult on Tailte, who left the world shortly after being brought in Castle Friege".

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Thats just my opinion, but I always perveived her most genuine male supports to be with to be with Yuri and the Black Eagles, romantically Hubert and Ferdinand in particular who are among the most queer coded men, though Ferdinand is also the only opportunity where Dorothea gets to bully one of those noble guys for a bit.

i always thought her Interactions with Hubert are particularily interesting as he clearly is an enigma to her, which makes sense. He is a man who submits himself toba woman and centers his life around her wellbeing genuinly out of loyalty and respect, without any expectations or hidden motives.

I think also that the tension in Dorothea's character is extremely recognizable as a queer woman trying to navigate a heteronormative society

The way that she is so relaxed and flirtatious with women, openly joking about marrying them, but always lampshades it as her just playing around so that the other party always has an easy out

The way that she forces herself to flirt with men who she dislikes and makes herself miserable dating some of them

The way that she over-romanticizes romance but doesn't actually think she's worthy of it herself, the way that she doesn't expect reciprocation for her feelings, the way that she looks for excuses to be close to Edelgard and Petra and Ingrid so she can Secretly Pine without any hope of it leading to anything else while making marriage proposals to men that sound more like business proposals

(And that's not to say there aren't a few male characters Dorothea can have a happy ending with, but the ratio of happy romantic relationships vs cold business arrangements in her male supports is very skewed)

Like, Dorothea's relationship to sex and sexuality is so complex, but of course you wouldn't notice that if you're too busy judging her for being an openly sexual female character and assuming she's just pandering to the player

[diaphin93]

Lol, people on tumblr are really obsessed with barely active old me. I did some ragebait there and participated a bit in the het Dimitri meme for fun, but this one wasn't me. Not that I didn't find it funny and fully support Dimitri fans getting a taste of their own medicine.

I'm 95% sure serial killer anon is Diaphin, who IIRC already got brought up a month or so ago as a known troll who's obviously hatestalking this blog. She always uses the most OTT Inflammatory rhetoric imaginable just to provoke people, classic troll behavior. Ex. calling Dimitri a serial killer (or het), overusing the terms colonialist and genocide, calling Rhea a groomer or Rhealeth incest, and having a weird fixation on Gascon-en-exil, the "groomer youtuber"...and the accusations against him and how they don't really hold up have also been litigated on this blog before.

Personally I suggest ignoring any asks making those kinds of statements. I know the mod will still publish them, but other anons don't have to engage.

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[diaphin93]

When your family is so shit that a 10 year long hostage situation was better for your mental health.

you’ve been a prisoner of war since you were ten years old but the prodigal son is finally returning and this time you have a battle plan. you’ve been to war. you’re the trueborn son of a lord and your only living sibling is your older sister (notably a woman), so there’s no threat to your succession. basically? you have this lord of the seven kingdoms shit in the bag. there’s a red comet in the sky and that comet is YOU, baby! got your nice doublet on and everything. everything’s coming up theon everything’s coming up greyjoy this time for me. Unfortunately your dad is immediately pissed at you he says theon you look gay as fuck. theon i bet that necklace wasn’t even looted. theon did NED STARK turn you GAY during your CAREFREE YEARS LIVING IT UP AS A CHILD PRISONER OF WAR. Like omg i JUST got here. and to make matters worse while you were away everybody became a feminist so you aren’t even heir to pyke anymore you’re just somebody’s flop gay son. you’re just somebody’s flop gay son on a rock in the ocean foreverrr

[diaphin93]

somebody cut off Jaimes lil lion

when tywin lose his own legacy (crowd cheers)

[diaphin93]

I'm curious if this guys youtube playlist has the entire who is who of anti-woke grifters.

I can’t fathom why you’re an Edelgard fan when she’s kind of the worst. She MADE UP her siblings to make Byleth sympathise with her????? She’s the worst of the fucking worst I genuinely don’t get it. Please elaborate because you glaze her so hard that it makes me uncomfortable. She’s a fascist, even Lysithea is better than her because at least she doesn’t bitch about the experiment all of the time. Edelgard is an unbearable, lying psychopath. I feel like Edelgard fans always exaggerate her ‘trauma’. She really wouldn’t have anything without Crest. She’s literally ONLY popular because she’s a girl

I got that exact ask 6 times and I want to settle this with a poll, is this an Incel?