#fodlan stuff

[randomnameless]

Uh, weird math time -

We don’t know when Sothis went to sleep after the Nuke Wars, but we know she never met Flayn, in Nopes, she says Flayn isn’t the “Benevolent One” she remembers, and even is awed by her existence!

(is it because Flayn was born after her “sleep” meaning Nabateans could, uh, create other Nabateans without her help, or is because Flayn is an hybrid which would be something impossible during the war (between humans and Nabateans) so by existing she sorts of shows that at least for shagging Humans and Nabateans could work together?)

But we know Flayn is no older than 1400, since Enbarr was built 1400 years ago.

I heavily suspect Nemesis didn’t do his thing back then - otherwise I don’t see Cichol meeting a human, fucking and then going to Rhodos to live a domestic life after the Red Canyon.

The War of Heroes roughly ended in 100 - Flayn thus feel in her coma - meaning, assuming Flayn was born the day Enbarr was built, Flayn was around 300-ish when she “died”.

So the timeline would go like this :

Sothis lands and shares tech

Some nabateans are born

Rhea is the last born

Nuke Wars

Sothis goes to sleep

-220 Rome Enbarr is built

Seteth meets his wife in a church,

Flayn is born

They move to Rhodos’s coast

Nemesis’s party

-41 Seiros the Warrior appears near Enbarr

That’s 1400 years or lore done with, only 8600 years to go!

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

nah but like

they're "seiros lapdogs" because they're fighting back against the people who attacked them completely unprovoked??? also because it so happens that thales is at garreg mach so they have to go there to reclaim the area to defeat him???

i just hate this because it's just perpetuating things about faerghus and its people that just aren't true. it frames it like they jumped into the war willingly for the church and that they're only here for the church. like nah buddy, it's not faerghus' fault you're out here fighting to protect thales and ludwig.

it also is batshit to me how he and leopold are fighting to stop faerghus from advancing but like... they know what's happening to the empire and that edelgard isn't even calling the shots anymore, yet they still stupidly fight for the very person who is literally razing their country and burning their villages. they know the empire is in shambles and that the kingdom isn't targeting them and is specifically aiming for gm to get it back from who? thales; who, mind, at this point is in his real form and not posing as arundel anymore. everything is laid out plainly, but they still act like faerghus is the bad guy.

but yeah, okay. faerghus BaD for defending themselves, fighting back, finding out who is behind all the puppeteering and heading to take him out. sure, that makes them seiros lapdogs. like what are you, an agarthan mouthpiece??? may as well be like yeah you go retreat and leave you agarthan lapdog. if they don't realize it's Someone Else in charge of course, then ludwig lapdog works fine too.

and it sucks because other than this shit, i like waldemar just fine as a character. it's just like, it feels like they forced someone to have to stick in that final faerghus BaD insult before the grand finale so they just randomly picked someone to remind us that faerghus is Always Wrong as long as they continue to fight back and prevent being attacked in the future.

waldemar here is just basically ag caspar. fighting and risking his life for thales, who is destroying the empire and basically holding the emperor hostage. if the writing here had any decent plot points, they would've all stopped and have been like hey wait, shouldn't we be fighting to get our emperor back? why are we stopping these guys from killing the people who are destroying this country?

and like, they literally went from siding with ludwig during the insurrection to siding with edelgard in this timeline to... jumping immediately back to ludwig as soon as he was at the top of the food chain (thales notwithstanding). as soon as the person in charge changes, they jump ship immediately; then of course get mad that the people they attacked are coming after them... and fighting them as they defend the very people who are letting adrestia become a literal, physical ruin.

it really just tells me that these people don't care about adrestia itself, but status, power and wealth. they don't care about the country itself as long as they're doing well. that's like, the only thing i can get from still fighting with/for ludwig/thales. the fact that they just fight for ludwig again as soon as edelgard is out of commission is also pretty gross to me. they have no loyalty at all.

and it's like, i want to like waldermar and leopold, but they come across as just selfish, entitled and only there for their own asses to be covered. and i get that - that is a realistic take on politicians, but the fact that the game regularly loops back around to faerghus BaD despite that and despite portraying these people as opportunistically selfish is like... what are they even trying to write??

[alienducky]

Seeing @sevarix-blogs' amazing work doing all the number stuff for Fodlan made me want to do it too, if only so I wouldn't be a massive bother constantly asking for loads of different sizes of/distances between places now I know it can be worked out

And this is what I ended up with, using (I think?) a completely different method

Cut because long and rambly and pictures and maths

So yesterday I asked my (maths teacher) brother for help, and he said if I can fit Fodlan into a X by 2X rectangle, then that makes working things out easier

(The colour coded map is from here btw, and if I understood how reddit worked or how to find their username I would say so but I'm dumb and I don't so I can't I'm so sorry TT__TT)

The blurb from the picture for ease of reading is:

Total area of Fodlan = 6,786,666 sq km / 2,620,346 sq miles So X by X is half = 3,393,333 sq km / 1,310,173 sq miles Square root of = X = 1842 km / 1144 miles Half (Green/Yellow) = 921 km / 572 miles Quarter (Black/White) = 460.5 km / 286 miles Eighth (Pink/Red) = 230.25 km / 143 miles 16th (Blue/Orange) = 115.125 km / 71.5 miles 32nd (Purple/Green) = 57.46 km / 35.75 miles

The colours refer to the rectangles and boxes on the Fodlan map to the right, which I freely admit were eyeballed and freehanded using the CSP rectangle tool, so are a smidge out here and there

And the bit about Sreng:

Half of Sreng is the Kingdom's. But I'm not entirely sure if that means some of what is now Gautier used to be Sreng, or the bottom half of what is shown here as Sreng should be included in this box? If including Sreng in the outline box, then this scaling works (more or less) If not, then the scaling is a little off because the outline box should be smaller/the countries should be bigger Because the box will always be 1842 km / 1144 miles tall, only change is how much map fits inside it

I lean towards half of Sreng should be included, and it would fit quite nicely into the white gaps of the cut up map on the left, because 1) we get sent on missions to Sreng and the marker is firmly in the Sreng region right of the mountain range and 2) it's referred to as a peninsula, which I don't think it would be if some of it used to be in what is now Gautier? But this is very much a "your milage may vary" thing, so as I said, if you don't want to include Sreng, then the boxes should be slightly bigger/contain slightly more landmass (but I don't know how much without making another guesstimate rectangle and cutting up Fodlan again, and I don't want to do it a third time)

And speaking of boxes:

Here's the Three Hopes map of Fodlan with all the territories highlighted in different colours overlaid with a square grid, with each square being 57.5625 km or 35.75 miles long/wide

I would have done the Three Houses map as well, but as I said when I tried to match them up yesterday, the maps don't bloody match!!!

(Which I am not at all still upset or annoyed about, no, why would you think that? ¬__¬ )

Anyway. The grid lines mean that you can zoom in and work out some sort of scale against measuring tool of choice to then work out smaller distances. Which is pretty neat.

Also, when I move the box layer around to line it up with things, I can see that: Deidriu is one box wide and two boxes tall, (so 57.5 km by 115 - 6626.88 km², or 35.75 miles by 71.5 - 2556.125 miles²) Fhirdiad is maybe 8 boxes total? (it is such a weird shape I hate it) (26507.53 km², or 10224.5 miles²) Enbarr is give or take one box tall and three wide (172.68 km by 57.56 - 9940.32km², or 107.25 miles by 35.75 - 3834.18miles²)

I think?? Maths isn't my strong suit and I don't want to bother my brother too much since I accidentally woke him up at 3am when I finished and sent him this to see if my initial maths work out blurb was right ^^;;;

And vaguely related, but it looks like @nerdnag was right about there being a perspective difference when I was pulling my hair out yesterday over the Houses/Hopes map, because when you look at the world map compared to the local/chapter map:

And then overlay them:

Yeah

So my plan on fitting my game screenshots onto the grid so I can calculate from the close ups is scrapped, but eh.

Also disclaimer that this doesn't account for terrain. At all. I would have no idea where to start with that so I won't

Also disclaimer that while the maths is solid, my photo editing skills aren't, so there's a lotta leeway there. Like. Oodles. So this might not be accurate at all

[unrealcities]

Claude: The Church of Seiros has held total sway over the society and government of Fodlan for far too long. It's time to tear down the walls keeping Fodlan trapped within a system that only benefits the Church and the nobles lucky enough to have Crests. Edelgard: Agreed. To war, then. Claude: Hey wait a minute.

[astranova]

headcanon crumbs for sothis? pls i beg. that art slaps so hard.

aaa yes!!!! omg i have so many like a whole document full!!!

i really do hc sothis as an actual captial G, some kind of celestial god or creator being that chose to fall or create a physical or “mortal” form around herself intentionally to be around life on planet. because mortal people literally wouldn’t be able to comprehend something like that it was depicted as a meteor or earned her a reputation for bringing disaster. like okay, the cosmic alternative universe in league of legends (cringe) i guess?? i kinda imagine she’s a being like that. ik sothis is connected to sirius so in my hc thats the last star she made or the remains of the body she shed to become mortal idk, like stripped of its spirit and godhood it just became a dead husk

i hc she stood at 10 ft tall in a human form at her most mature and for funsies!

she speaks w/ multiple voices!! like more than just the usual nabatean distortion in their dragon form

she bleeds ichor, which makes her different from other nabateans who’s blood becomes green when they shift forms. i also hc that nabateans come from her just existing (like fairies popping out of flowers and stuff!! her “divine influence” made them, and they are in her image. and then her children were immaculate conception by pulling from nature imo :p, i think thats the difference between “saints” “apostles” etc. im also a saints being her literal kids truther) but that at her core she’s not just limited to the title “nabatean”. like a square is a rectangle but not every rectangle is a square?? if that makes any sense????

i hc her dragon form as looking more owl like! since everyone in fodlanverse loves owl feathers and can all receive friendship up points w/ them. shes a giant, very long serpentine-owlish dragon, specifically barn owl bc i like them the most. i usually draw her about the size of a mountain but she can be any size! she’s beyond physical limitations so she can be super tiny too. and that the inside of her wings reflects space and she has multiple pairs.

okay this one is weird and personal but hear me out :’), i hc that her original hair color, as a celestial was like cosmic dust or gas and starlight, bright, colorful. and that when she fell she evolved according to what the environment demanded, lots of greenery and nature, so her hair and eye color became green as an evolutionary trait. like environmental camouflage. so she wears the ribbons to emulate her original “color”, so i reject the CoS sothis being depicted w/out them

i also hc that she’s a little bioluminescent, or has some bioluminescent spots!! like how stars shine at night

she also makes the sound of bells or chimes wherever she walks! her entire being just screams unreal

i hc she can manipulate time anywhere, in any reality, since that seems to be some of the least of her powers, despite what the team at heroes depicts

in my headcanon she didn’t sleep within byleth, when they were a baby she was a baby and they grew up together etc. ik that for gameplay sake the literal mechanic had to be introduced and she had to be introduced as a game character, but in my mind palace (bc im more important) she was completely reborn alongside byleth and they grew up like siblings and she acts like that to her children because she’s influenced through byleth and she has no memories of her life after the fall at all, or even before, just a base instinct of the things she’s capable of. and the arrogance she displays is just the usual for someone that young and in possession of that much power and how they might behave. i do think she was still dead/unconscious in sitri though, just her magic sustained sitri’s life.

[ashes-of-ailell]

Hello! I sat down to write some of my yuriashe fic this evening, so I figured I'd share the beginning! I hope you enjoy!

Bathed in the silver moonlight, clear skies overhead providing a fantastic view of the stars, the courtyard at Garreg Mach Monastery has never been more peaceful. The winds are calm but steady, providing a welcome breeze that's a relief from the days' earlier heat.

Although the Monastery has certainly been in better condition, the bits of ruin and debris scattered around, evidence of the battles it's faced these past few years, almost add to the atmosphere. A near sense of accomplishment, and the feeling of finally letting go of a breath you didn't realise you were holding for far too long. The scars of war run deep, wounds, both physical and mental, take time to heal and there's no way to rush them - this goes for both the people and places affected. Though, being the site of multiple major battles, as well as being a fairly intricate piece of architecture in general, Garreg Mach will take a lot more work to repair than what some may originally believe, both above and below ground.

For the time being though, on this beautiful night, one of the first of hopefully many not strained by the shadow of war hanging over their heads, Yuri and Ashe find themselves laying on the grass, side by side, completely at ease in each other's company. There's no bustling to be heard from the Knights, it being late enough that most have retired to bed for the night along with the rest of the world.

Everything is completely still and, for once, they are entirely alone.

[wofemblem]

Byleth pre and post-timeskip! A case of pigment loss that has also happened to Edelgard, Lysithea and the Nabateans. It’s not at all visible, but Byleth and Sitri also have distant SeaWing ancestry.

[magic-biscuit]

She has a cool design and all but my Norwegian arse cannot take her effing name seriously to save my life.

Ah yes the powerful sorceress who can bend time on a whim

G U L L V E I G

She can be the coolest villian to ever grace this damn franchise and I'd still meme her to death because wtf is that name-

(For the curious it transelates to "Gold Road" or "Golden Road" if we wanna be fancy)

EDIT:

My older sibling pointed out they might be going for this -Veig instead. Which makes a bit more sense, but it still sounds ridiculous so yeah

[emblemxeno]

If we're being honest, I got a lot of issues with Ingrid because I feel like she has the wrong character development

Her support with Dedue is realizing that she shouldn't apply her negative view of Duscur onto every Duscurian indiscriminately

That kind of thing works for Oboro because Nohrians really did kill her parents

But, Duscurians didn't actually cause the death of Lambert or Glenn, so her development should've been to learn that all those years of hatred were misdirected, and she hated them for no reason

It also didn't help that Dimitri states multiple times that Duscur didn't commit the crime, and Ingrid is still ignorant about it

I have this unhinged hatred of the Faerghus Four as a concept because every time, it's like they're consciously refusing to acknowledge the importance of Dedue in Dimitri's life in the present "Oh, these are Dimitri's childhood friends. Of course, they're close." Yeah, sure.... They're totally closer to Dimitri than Dedue is in the present.... *Internal screaming*

Combining these because my answer to both is similar!

In my opinion, it showcases how 3H's writing philosophy is ultimately shoddy in its foundation. The backstories, supports, and character-to-character dialogue itself is great in theory, but execution it clashed with what both FE usually tries to do and what 3H desperately wants to do.

FE typically has characters join chapter to chapter, with important ones having plot moments, while side characters fall to the background once their designated chapter is up. But this isn't at the cost of character interaction, pre-established relationships, and the micro-to-macro worldbuilding precisely because they're not overly important. You can have canon romances, friendships, familial relationships, etc. because that's all supplemental side material.

3H was written in a way in which the characters were all connected to its grandiose world, to the point where Fodlan itself can be almost considered a character. Multilayered backstories that infer key points in the narrative, each character no matter how trivial having opinions on how the world works, shifting dynamics, etc.

The problem though is that these two philosophies clash already at base, but also run into the problem of FE's gameplay integrated story elements.

None of the Faerghus Four can meaningfully comment on their relationship with Dimitri during a story cutscene because they can die. Ingrid can't meaningfully change her perspective on Dedue or Duscur beyond her supports because she can die. Therefore, all you get are (admittedly pretty good) supports, the monastery dialogue, and other tidbits intentionally disconnected from one another so as not to be important enough to write around potential death. The comments they do get in cutscenes were intentionally written in a way to be surface level and easily replaced. Look at the FEdatamine site for example, where conclusions are reached by Byleth, the lord, the unkillable retainer, and other important story figures, with numerous possible instances of "if X character is alive they comment this, but if X character is dead this line is skipped."

That is proof of how sloppy 3H's writing is in foundation when you think about it long enough. The game that has such an intricate world, thorough details, and fascinating story beats, is actually extremely bad at delivering a story, especially an FE story. Being the judgmental and petty cunt that I am, 3H gets a pass most of the time a) most don't care or bother to care about actual stuff like this and b) the game has the aesthetics of being a down to earth, gritty, serious narrative. The foundational issues don't matter when you have Edelgard yapping about "THE CREST SYSTEM", dark character circumstances, and intriguing mysteries to solve in part 1.

People want the appearance of sophistication, especially after Awakening and Fates bent a lot of rules to fuck around with their respective stories. It's why Engage, despite not having nearly as many basic issues at conveying its plot and is actually extremely good at being a Fire Emblem story (e.g. more character being able to actually die, pre-established relationships, chapter to chapter joining, not nearly as much centering on Alear as the ultimate decider on a character's fate compared to Byleth), is panned because... why? Its bright aesthetic? Its good dragon vs evil dragon plot? Its softer or humorous moments?

Hell, even its call backs to past FE games is called cheap, soulless, or a gateway to gacha (one video I saw even described it as something like "when art becomes obligation" or some such nonsense), despite it LITERALLY being the prime anniversary title. The main character is the Fire Emblem, and the writers-through Lumera-wish a happy birthday to Fire Emblem!!! What about that is lacking heart and soul?

But yeah, again, I preface that I'm a judgmental asshole who proudly proclaims that the audience (at least the western one) has for years been too obsessed with yearning for darker serious aesthetics of FE's past (despite said past being wackier than they remember), that when a new game has them in overflowing spades, the many fundamental video game writing issues do not matter as much anymore.

Aesop for the day: Serious tones and aesthetics are not automatically better than lighter, heartfelt, or funny ones. You still have to write well for a story to be good.

EDIT: Funny enough this is also why Three Hopes is a more comfy environment for the Fodlan cast's in terms of tangible development, because the things the writers want to do with that game's story complements its gameplay. Because KT is better at making Warriors plots than FE plots.

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Frustrating fodlan lore:

Brighid has a bunch of stuff in its lore about spirits, but the most interesting thing to me is the idea of spirit posessed people who petra compares byleth to. And then it's never mentioned again.

Which to me signifies there are nabateans outside of fodlan proper. What are *they* up to?

Another interesting one to me is that when petra kills stuff she will often say "Flame spirit watch over me" and at some point the students are aware that byleth has the crest of flames.

Are these related? Is petra functionally saying byleth watch over me? I wish we had answers!

.

[randomnameless]

At least I'm glad Engage is kinda acknowledging that SS is Billy's route/story rather than the "church route". I just wish Intsys would acknowledge Edel is the villain and that it's okay to like villains, buncha cowards.

Well,

Supreme Leader is the marketing waifu of the Fodlan games, if the sailor fuku was any indication, and you can't tank a waifu :(

I mean, with all the excitement around the Fallen Heroes banner in FEH, or at least with people cheering when Fomortiis was released, you'd think some people would realise that no, liking a character who's Satan himself isn't any indication about your personal beliefs or if you are a "GoOd" person or not but...

Waifu sells, and controversy around her writing/agency/role/whatever you want managed to make FE16 still relevant after a year of global pandemic and still kicking so, yep, if you add a copious dose of "uwu waifu" it'll make your game sell like hotcakes.

I mean, look at Vero from Feh.

IS is still using the "tried'n'true" recipe, bad woman was "brainwashed sad uwus" or "lonely uwu" when she isn't manipulated by a man because she had feelings for him or wanted to use her womb, so all of her agency will fly over the window and you can sell a lot of cute alts in the gacha game.

Back to SS, the more I think about it, the more I think that it couldn't have been a Nabatean/Church route for the kind of same reasons, if you shed too much light on Nabateans, then opposing them because they have pointy ears or what not will look dubious, and if the Fodlan games are a masterpiece in writing fog and smoke to avoid calling an ox an ox, full-on refusal to consider another sentient race as deserving to do things/live because they are "different" would look way too bad for the usual "controversy" needed to sustain discourse for years.

(even Nopes erased it because you can't have Sailor Adrestia suddenly tell people they cannot rule over humans because of their race!)

So yep, SS is half-baked, as is the rest of the game (except maybe AM because it doesn't even pretend to give a fuck about Fodlan's history and the Agarthans) because of the pathological need to shed any light on Nabateans - and is an unconclusive Billy route -

where Billy can't even react to the fact they are not 100% human (that is learnt in the DLC!) and their daddy dearest found them too "unatural" to stay in the Monastery with the person who saved their life and is most likely the only other family they had.

And yet it's the route where Billy (regardless of the player wanting to join the r/atheism sub) realises they can do much more for Fodlan than being a mere person who kills for money and ascends to their destined - but ultimately chosen - path as Fodlan's leader.

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

soooo is this man implying it's the empire that was the problem with uwu fodlan's border problems?

'cause i mean. that's basically what he just said.

[alienducky]

Crack theory:

The reason Rhea blocked Fodlan's tech advancement was because she doesn't want them to discover steam power, and thus steam punk

Or she doesn't want to develop computers and phones and have to learn how to text and email

[unrealcities]

Lightning-bolt realization that I have been obsessed with the idea of an Edelclaude loveless political marriage canon divergence AU since forever because the ideal Edelclaude loveless political marriage canon divergence AU is just. The Queen's Thief.

[fantasyinvader]

But, really thinking about it, even by Edelgard's own ideals her rule should be illegitimate.

The whole idea is people need to not rely on others in order to be strong, and that those who are deemed strong should rule. But when you think about it with Edelgard, she does not meet that criteria. She gets support from TWSITD, and therefore aids their experiments as well as knowing what they did in order to weaken the Kingdom and Alliance. She needs the support of the Imperial armies that are not under the direct control of the Emperor, so she promises Count Berglitz control of the Alliance territories for his support. She needs someone like Ferdinand in order to make her ideals work, while also needing someone like Hubert to put down rebellions and any other threats to her regime from the shadows. Hell, she can't even win without Byleth supporting her where she takes credit for their leadership.

Now, people will cite her speech against Rhea as proof she grows beyond this mindset but that's not the case. The Japanese text for her solo ending uses the word independent in the context of people not relying on others, not that she brings them freedom, and even if she did grow out of those ideals that means she started a war and all the stuff before for ideals she abandons therefore calling the necessity of the war into question. She'll state the game's major thesis of working together at the end of Flower, but that goes against her own beliefs so she doesn't act on them.

And it's only in Azure Moon where those beliefs are properly explained, leaving the player ignorant of what she really thinks in Flower.

And even then, the fact is Edelgard only wins with Byleth's support. Byleth, the person who could take down Edelgard after her leadership cripples the army following Gronder with just the Church resistance forces and without the backing of any national army. Snow even makes the case that for all of Edelgard's talk of merit, Fodlan will have a leader based on merit when Byleth defeats her. By supporting Edelgard, you're undermining her very ideals. The principles she wants the world based on, which ironically would mean that Silver Snow is the route where Edelgard's merit is on full display. In the routes where's she's defeated, she falls based on her own merit with no support from the player. Supporting her undermines her cause.

Byleth supposedly has all this merit as a leader, yet Edelgard does not award them with any lands or titles. The only answer I can really think of is... well, Edelgard believes that Nabateans shouldn't have any power or authority over humans. She knows Byleth is of Nabatean descent. Basically, she ignores Byleth's merit and instead focuses on their bloodline. Their heritage. Byleth doesn't get to be a leader in her regime simply because Byleth is a Nabatean and therefore shouldn't have any power according to Edelgard.

Edelgard is racist towards Byleth at the end of Flower, while Hopes makes her admit that her being drawn to Byleth is simply her crest resonating with theirs. Somehow, a worse love story than Twilight.

[fireemblems24]

Do You Ever Feel People Just Don't "Get" Dimitri?

I talked to my brother about Three Hopes, and he wanted to see an "evil" Dimitri. He wanted Dimitri to kill innocent people and other horrible stuff he didn't get to do in Three Houses.

I was just flabbergasted. Because that's so counter to the core of who Dimitri is that even thinking there's a chance you could see it in an official piece of Fodlan media just floored me.

He's not a Dimitri hater at all. He's primarily a Claude fan, but thinks Azure Moon and Dimitri got the best story. He doesn't like Edelgard and doesn't care about Rhea. He never participates in discourse and doesn't know anything about famous "takes." Just your average FE fan being honest about what they would enjoy.

I get where he came from. He felt Dimitri's actions didn't go far enough in Azure Moon - too justifiable for the "fallen man" plot. I disagree, but I get it. I also get the desire to see villain!Dimitri, in fanfiction only though.

I think some people want Dimitri to be something he's not - morally grey like Claude and Edelgard. Core parts of them are "grey." Dimitri's just not. He's black-and-white - good or bad. Dimitri's driving principle is to protect and serve the disadvantaged. Injustice and others' suffering infuriates him to a detrimental degree and mixes it up with his own unresolved trauma. Having him willingly and gleefully injure someone innocent is against the most prominent part of his character.

Dimitri's black-and-white in a universe of grey. He's the "square peg in a round hole." When the character doesn't fit the role they're supposed to play, the conflict created makes things more interesting. He's a Lord of the Rings character trying to survive Game of Thrones, if you will. And that makes him soooo interesting - how he doesn't fit. I understand people wishing Dimitri to be something he's not, but I think it's exactly what they wish wasn't true that makes him stand out so much.

I was just so amazed someone so neutral could get Dimitri so horribly wrong.