#and none of that uwu alone b4 u uwu my arse

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Thinking a bit about @butchcraftmacncheese’s comment on the Rhea bedroom post -

I think it’s an entire missed opportunity to have made Seteth’n’Flayn be able to use the Sauna - because people could see their ears.

Likewise, Catherine can’t have a faerghian knight moment where she meets her liege who’s taking a bath and they both blush calling each other by their names... Because Rhea has to hide her ears.

If a Nabatean is ever injured on the battlefield, and if this injury happens to be a head injury, they cannot go to any healer to be patched up - because the healer might spot their pointy ears.

Heck, Mercedes or Annette, if they befriend Flayn, can’t braid her hair or accessorise it, for the same reason (if they move the wrong part, they might spot her ears!).

So while this can be seen as a funny trivia detail...

Rhea’s bathroom isn’t only here to show bathrooms exist (iirc there is only one game I ever played that bothered to show toilets for every level in a dungeon!), her rank bcs she has an en-suite bedroom so she’s not a random schmuck, but also (given the amount of details this artbook has that weren’t translated in the game) it’s here to remind/tease us that Rhea, and by extension the Nabateans, are still hiding their nature because the world, even Garreg Mach that is supposed to be her new home, isn’t “safe” enough to reveal her ears.

but hey, it raises random plotbunny ideas, like Seteth having to wait for Rhea to finish to finally get access to the bathroom, Rhea casually dropping to Cyril that yes, she and Seteth share the bathroom - they even used to bath together when they were younger! - Cyril asking confirmation to Catherine that it’s weird which prompt them to grill him about their relationship in their supports