#and then they can't use the church scapegoat idea for claude anymore

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

still wanna know where claude got his isolationism argument from.

like i genuinely don't get where he got that from (this not being the only case against it, but being one of the more heavy ones). he refers to it when talking about fodlan as a whole, so he's completely ignorant of literally anything ever from faerghus but just assumes what he thinks is true?? despite not actually knowing anything about a chunk of fodlan??

i mean was it a writer oversight or did they intentionally make claude like that? bc i know he's supposed to be different than in vw where it's like, in vw he has a similar view/doesn't know about faerghus but he's more positive about opening fodlan to a better worldview, versus in hopes where he's much more cynical about it and seems to have a more negative view.

in houses he thinks people will be able to mature and accept others. in hopes he seems to think the only way to get that to happen is to wipe out the central church, who clearly has not stopped faerghus from foreign relations, thus proving his argument false. it just feels like, because the people of fodlan are wary of foreigners (and considering they've been attacked by at least four foreign nations depsite not being the aggressors, that being almyra, brigid, dagda, and sreng), that he just assumes all nations are against foreign mingling (including with nations that haven't attacked them)?

but like... he doesn't know jack shit about faerghus, so he's just assuming he knows about them and... never makes an effort to find out.

tbh it feels really uncharacteristic of him, at least in vw (and in houses in general). based on how he acts in white clouds, i would think he'd be more interested in learning about that stuff from each area in fodlan. hopes pretty much put that knowledge seeking aspect of him well into the dirt, but that just makes his argument come off as much more arrogant on top of being ignorant.