#on the worst parent ever scale i still think Sothis wins to Xillia's Maxwell

[randomnameless]

This MAY be a stupid question... but is Rhea your favorite in Houses and/or FE in general? :o You talk about her more than any other FE character which is why I'm curious. :o

It's not stupid lol, but with the Jugdral feed a bit empty nowadays I can't post about the Velthomers as I used to

Honestly I wasn't thinking much about Rhea at first, I kind of dropped the FE Fandom for a few months because I returned to Tales, especially Xillia, and I kind of noted some similarities between Rhea and Muzét (too bad Bamco turned her character in a giant sex joke but that's for another post lol), they both seem to be calm until they're not, they have an unnatural attachment to their "parent figure" who doesn't give a fuck about them and seemed to have a complicated relationship with their "sibling" -

Witnessing their breakdown (ToX1 Muzét's made me feel so bad lol Maxwell was really an ass, and for Rhea, I played CF first and killed Seteth'n'Flayn) made me feel so bad lol -

But then it was just the smaller details and clues during my CF run that made me wonder what was Rhea's deal, and how everything Supreme Leader accused her of doing was... well, bonkers. I remember wondering more than once during the run "why do we even want to kill Rhea?" and bar the "pointy ears = EvIL" I couldn't find any reason, especially with all the spiel Supreme Leader was throwing between maps on how Rhea is evil and secretely controls the world.

First with the javelins, and then the "Rhea doesn't like humans she manipulated my ancestor" when, triggering the convos, I heard (tfw playing with jp!Audio) a Rhea who lamented having to fight against Willy's descendant, and who named one of her ultimate protectors after him?

Then I made the mistake to venture to Redshit and -

Well, I couldn't recognise the character from what they were depicting, someone told me Rhea was similar to Mithos from ToS but it didn't feel right, and doing the other routes was just an eye-opener : Rhea is the fandom's scapegoat and while I didn't really care about it bar "no Jan, you got the canon all wrong" it started to grow really irritating as some circle really grew in importance, and how Ao3 was full of "Rhea ate a roasted baby after glazing it with honey" fics.

Ultimately, I think I saw a post where someone pointed out how Rhea is like a FE protagonist who already finished her story, and complete with the Hresvelg history (they descend from one of her allies) I was really hooked, and started to nerd about Nabateans, Magic and what not, especially in knowing/thinking/HC'ing from how it happened to ultimately how it failed in the current Fodlan.

Maybe it's because I was in the Tales fandom just before FE16, but I'm fond of the story of "two different races (save for Elympians in Xillia, they're just your modern capitalists complaing about paying too much taxes lol) who have to learn how to live with each other and coexist peacefully", just like FE Tellius (and FE Elibe?) did, so Rhea who managed to trust and befriend humans fascinated me, and since FE16 is completely dry on that topic I had to nerd and think about Rhea's past life as Seiros the Warrior and ultimately her War of Heroes days.

So basically, I talked a lot (and still do lol) about her because I really think a part of the fandom got her completely wrong (yes, Pat included), also because, just like Julia, she was completely shafted by the plot when she could have been something/someone much more interesting so here I am with my hundred of AUs.

Also, because it's funny to troll some people who smash their keyboards with 10k words essays the second you say "Rhea not BaD" hahaha.