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randomnameless · 8 months

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It's still wild to me that people will go to bat for the nothing characters that are Randolph and Fleche as proof of Dimitri being bad; we know next to nothing about them, they have miniscule screentime, what little we do know of Randolph paints him as human scum who'd do horrific things if it meant a chance at a promotion, and Fleche illogically only ever holds a grudge against someone for killing her brother if that someone is AM!Dimitri, with her completely vanishing from the game in every other route.

Eh,

I'd say they play the same purpose than this random child in TS in Roland's story - at this point, both lords want vengeance, and they have to face someone who also wants (misdirected!) vengeance at them, smth smthg like war sucks because people die.

But it's completely wasted in FE16, because, as you said, Randy isn't a random or a civilian or a war orphan, he is a general leading an attack on refugees/civilians/randoms to gain more fame, and dies in the process.

Now, can we say Flèche's anger and death are ultimately directed at Randolph, who died for nothing and took his sister down with him in his quest for "muhrit" ? Or are we supposed to think that this scene is important because Dimitri, the Blue Lord, isn't supposed to fall as low as the Imperial Army - something he comes close to (apparently?) ?

And yet again, it completely fails.

Because for one Randolph - who also had a family and loved ones - we have 50 Waldos and Baldis, whose lives aren't given any fuck about.

We don't see a war prisoner, or an Adrestian civilian accusing Supreme Leader of having sent her/his wife/husband/daughter/son to death with a conquest they never asked and trying to off her.

Only Dimitri receives this backlash from - invaders who wanted to invade and suddenly remember they have loved ones so are very sad when their loved ones dies - Flèche, but not Claude nor Billy, as you rightfully pointed out.

And Supreme Leader never receives any backlash - or wake up call - from a real third party/civilian/casualty who could have done the exact same thing.

Emile mentions how, during her attack, the Holy Grounds near Garreg Mach were turned in a slaughterhouse, why don't we have any civilian who survived from that try to take a jab at Supreme Leader? Waldi's best friend? Baldo's mother? A war captive from Leicester/Faerghus or a conscripted Adrestian?

I laughed about it with friends earlier, and again with the teatime paralogue, but it truly feels as if only 1/3rd (since the church doesn't count) of the cast will face consequences for the war and suffers backlash from the constant fighting (they didn't even start!).

Whenever you have to deal with serious stuff in Fodlan, it'll be for the BL members.

The rest? Will sip tea, talk nonsense, try to solve "mysteries" and live as if nothing is happening in the background.

Just imagine how both deer routes could have been much more impactful and interesting - instead of being a recycled Billy route with a different infodump at the end - if Raphael's sister popped up to a War Council, asking Claude to stop coddling the Empire because their lands were invaded, her grandfather put to Aymr and her inn destroyed by the Imperial Army, or how Ignatz's older brother discovers how Adrestia is burning pieces of art and history and every material related to Leicester and Faerghus history because they want to push an "Adrestia Eternal" narrative. Heck, Claude could even discover more "lore" by picking a Leif route, sort of rescuing the people "handpicked" to become new Baldos and Waldis, discovering the secret of the artificial crest stones and maybe having an infiltration map where, lo, instead of receiving an info dump, they maybe witness Rhea being turned in a relic or used to "produce" artificial crest stones.

War BaD, but only when we can make the BL suffer for it, for the rest, it's just a bgm.

And even then, it can't be too critical of Supreme Leader, because she was made to sell alts in FE heroes or dubious Cipher Cards.

"Supreme Leader", "cute girls" and "I want to see how Faerghus and its knights will deal with the aftermath of the Tragedy while defending against the invading forces".

Tl; dr : Flèche and Randolph are named, which is a cheap way to make people care for them despite their role in the plot, but the demonic beasts and the civilians dying aren't mentionned nor talked about.

Hell, why do you think I gave names to the artificial demonic beasts? The game doesn't want you to think too much about them, but if I talk about Baldo and Waldi, maybe the fandom will?

#anon #replies #cheap drama and cheap devices to make people feel something #and it's so painfully one sided again #this is how those damn games try to make people feel #'look dimitri bad he killed someone'#but no one will talk about the people dying to Supreme Leader?#they dont' have names so they're just concepts?#the death of one named person is more impactful than the death of hundreds of peons?#FE16 #I prefered how TS dealt with it to be honest

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bookgeekgrrl · 1 month

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My media this week (25 Feb - 2 Mar 2024)

nancy is the superstar of this show. she's in it for 5 seconds, drops the best line, steals the scene

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 What I Used To Be (thepinupchemist) - 117K, stucky, omegaverse trauma recovery fic - a relatively light tone, mostly escapist fic focusing on the recovery, not dwelling overly much on trauma details, kidfic but I really dug it

😍 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi #1) (Shannon Chakraborty, author; Lameece Issaq & Amin El Gamal, narrator) - just gonna KJ Charle's review bc she's better with words than I'll ever be: "Good god, this was incredible fun. Absolutely cracking. A sort of take on Sinbad but with more historical accuracy (apart from the demons, marids, etc), with a middle-aged retired lady pirate getting the crew back together to take on a Frankish coloniser/sorceror/baddie. It's just fabulous exuberant fun." I cannot wait for more!

😊 The Werewolf Companion (MargaretKire) - traumatized derek hale, intriguing larger worldbuilding, hot, wet, messy sex that really leaned into the 'definitely not human' aspect of werewolf fucking without going full xeno. super enjoyable

🥰 My Man Jeeves (Jeeves #1) (PG Wodehouse) - our intro to Bertie & Jeeves 💖 [via Serial Reader app]

💖💖 +50K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

A Fine Cure from Fennel Seed (Lucius Parhelion (Parhelion)) - original work, 10K - absolutely delightful amuse-bouche of an original fic; short, hot, slapsticky hilarious, set in the '30s

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi read a FIERY letter exchange

Hot Ones - Quinta Brunson

D20: Adventuring Party - s3, e1-5

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "The Mystery of the Haunted Subway" (s7, e3)

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "We Need to Talk About Cody" (s7, e4)

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Trouble at the Tunnel" (s7, e5)

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Collaborators" (s7, e6)

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Parade of Peril" (s7, e7)

Ghosts (US) - s3, e3

Um, Actually - s9, e1

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Fracas at the Frostyfaire Folk Festival" (s21, e8)

D20: Adventuring Party - "I See Your Butt Plug and I Raise You a Fist" (s16, e8)

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How To! - How To Let Go of a Friendship

⭐ Switched on Pop - Beyoncé's Country

The Sporkful - Gary Gulman’s Ice Cream Joke Was A Cry For Help

Overinvested - West Side Story (2021)

Consider This from NPR - How The Underground Railroad Got Its Name

⭐ It's Been a Minute - Da'Vine Joy Randolph on 'The Holdovers' and becoming a matriarch

⭐ 99% Invisible #438 - The Real Book

⭐ Vibe Check - Be Forreal!

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Wendy Williams

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Jerry’s Hat Museum

Short Wave - Is It Possible To Feed To World Sustainably?

Decoder Ring - The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"

Off Menu - Ep 228: Ray Winstone

⭐ Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - All About That Bass

I Said No Gifts! - Oscar Montoya Disobeys Bridger

Throughline - The Right to An Attorney

The Assignment - Polyamory Is Having a Moment

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Black History in Plain Sight with Places Editors Jonathan and Michelle

Short Wave - Could Dune Really Exist? What Scientists Think of Our Favorite Sci-Fi Worlds

What Next: TBD - The Supreme Court Takes on Content Moderation

Dear Prudence - Am I a Bad Father If I Don't Want to Acknowledge My Kid Publicly? Help!

Welcome to Night Vale #243 - Lost and Found

You're Dead to Me - The Inca Empire

Today, Explained - It’s Shotime!

It's Been a Minute - Three ways to think about journalism layoffs; plus, Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation

Consider This from NPR - Are We Alone In The Universe?

99% Invisible - Roman Mars Describes Santa Fe As It Is

Under the Influence - Seeing is Believing: The Power of Demonstration Commercials - Part 2

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

CREDITS: Carole King

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gascon-en-exil · 5 months

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Do you have any thoughts on Engage mostly doing away with minor bosses and having you repeatedly fight the Hounds instead?

FE16 was already headed that way anyway, with a bunch of one-off bosses (Lonato, Miklan, Randolph and Ladislava) getting a modicum of story development to disguise the fact that they were indeed one-offs. This had annoying knock-on effects in the discourse with people acting surprised that the writing continues to treat these characters like the cannon fodder that they still very much are, but what can you do?

Minor bosses like that are a necessary evil of FE being structured the way it is, and they're unmemorable as a rule unless they're particularly hard (ex. several in FE6) or become memes (ex. Batta, Gheb). Engage had the additional need to work in bosses with Emblem effects, so it makes sense that they'd reuse the Hounds as much as possible to make that happen. It's not terribly interesting...but it's not like the alternative is any better, really. Let's not forget that quite a few of those old games resort to extensive palette swapping for their one-off bosses; at least fighting the Hounds over and over doesn't leave the player with the impressive that most of the game's bad guys are sets of identical twins/triplets.

#Fire Emblem #FE17 #Fire Emblem Engage

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the-fab-fox · 1 year

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[ FE:3H ] Not Another Flowershop AU

Title: Not Another Flowershop AU

Ship: Caspar von Bergliez x Linhardt von Hevring

Chapters: 2 of ?.

Summary: Caspar Bergliez is on summer vacation but is working most of it as his father put him in charge of his flowershop.

Caspar isn't particularly pleased about it but loves to help out his dad so he's not too bummed.

…it also helps that it's because of this shop that he meets the cutest guy he has ever seen.

This story takes place in the same au universe as my Ashez multichapter fic Not Another Coffeeshop AU. You do not need to read both to fully enjoy either story. I just love connecting my fics. It's fun.

❀ 1 ❀ 2 ❀ 3 ❀ 4 ❀ 5 ❀

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Chapter 2

"—at the end of Summer."

Caspar, who had been distracted by the other's smile, didn't catch everything that was said.

"I'm sorry, what?"

"I said that I'm afraid that my father and I will be leaving at the end of Summer."

Caspar felt his mood drop significantly.

Of course that would be his luck. Meet the cutest boy, have him dangled in front of him like a carrot on a stick, and then rip him away.

"Aw. Well, that sucks."

Linhardt tilted his head.

Caspar decided right then and there that this teenager has no right to be this freaking cute.

"Does it? How so?"

"What do you mean?"

He was amused by the formal way Linhardt spoke. He wondered if it was because his family was rich and he went to a boarding school or something or if it was a personal choice.

"Well, in what way does my leaving at the end of the Summer suck? We don't know each other. We've only just met. For all we know, you could completely hate my existence by the end of Summer."

He looked quite serious too. Not in a way that said he thought that was what would happen, but in a way that said he really could see it going either way.

So he was a neutral type, huh?

Not Caspar.

He never accepted defeat without a fight. Sometimes more than one fight.

"Not if I can help it," Caspar said with a grin. Linhardt looked intrigued by his answer. And maybe a little impressed, if he wasn't reading too much into it.

"And how do you propose to tip the scales one way or the other, Caspar?"

Caspar felt heat rise up the back of his neck and into his ears.

Why did a cute boy saying his name affect him so much?

Simp, he thought.

"Oh that's easy." He placed his hands on his hips. "Obviously, I'm going to get you to be my best friend by the end of Summer."

The green haired teen laughed. Such a lovely sound it was too.

"I'm not sure how you plan to manage that when I've never had a best friend, but I won't discourage you. If nothing else, it promises to be amusing."

Caspar grinned wider.

"I'll take it!"

Linhardt chuckled and shook his head before glancing at a cellphone now in his hand.

"I should probably let you get back to work, but I can come back tomorrow if you'd like?"

"Dude, yes! I mean, yeah, that'd be great."

Linhardt smiled.

"Until tomorrow, Caspar?"

Again, his neck and ears grew hot.

"Later, Linhardt."

Caspar watched as he left, and kept watching as he passed by the display window.

"So, who was that?"

Caspar glared at his uncle and—not for the first time—wished he worked at a pillow store so that he could chuck something at Randolph.

He seriously doubted his dad would see things his way if he yeeted a vase at the jerk's dumb head.

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childofaura · 9 months

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Last of the FE Echoes VA ask but what do you think of Ben Pronsky?

He played Atlas and Randolph.

We’ll have to wait until Randolph gets into FEH (which, at this rate… it could take a while), but I can talk about his role as Atlas at least!

Performance? PERFECT. He’s got a good rugged energy and enthusiasm that he brings to Atlas, but at the same time, he’s laid-back and confident. I want to say his take on Atlas is a parallel to SA2/Sonic Heroes Knuckles when he was voiced by Scott Dreier; an assured, easygoing voice (that doesn’t need to push that super-deep brawny tone) that can get rough and tumble at the flip of a switch. I appreciate that about his voice for Atlas, especially since he was a fun recruit for me. We just need an Atlas alt sometime soon.

I think he fits Atlas perfectly, especially with his “TIMBERRRR!”

Won’t say much on range until Randolph gets added to the game. We’ll just have to wait.

So no official score, but personally he’s an 8/10 to me. Hopefully Echoes will get more alt recognition soon.

#Fire Emblem Heroes #FEH #ask game #I really like how Atlas looks like Dad Nier too lol

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cafeleningrad · 8 months

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alright, actually I wanted to stay out of any FE 3 Houses discourse because some arguments seem to wrapped into 11 layers of previous fandom dramas and I still have to finish Azure Moon, and still have to go through Silver Snow.Also, as someone who's in the ASOIAF fandom, having to read takes about morally grey designed characters, and conflicted moralities about an RPG which is way more barebones in worldbuilding and sides (although clearly inspired by GoT), it does seem tiring to me.

On the other hand, I did scroll over a post in the vain of "[Edelgard was so wrong to start a war against the Church of Seiros.] Actually the crest system isn't bad. If it really was oppressive then Mercedes and her mother wouldn't have been fallen into poverty. Constance too, btw." Apart from somehow trying to argue the fact that the crest system, a system which privileges social status automatically by bloodline, is a not subtle stand in for a nobility based social hierarchy, the game pointing it out as a problem in the very early chapters, there was also a glaring overlook of systematic sexism in the game. Or in other words, it finally clicked to me, someone who avoided fandom discussions, why such arguments are brought up, and to an extend why the Edelgard vs Rhea discourse (TM) exists in the first place: This fandom doesn't like women. Or to rephrase, this fandom doesn't like women who're not written in a morally conflicted manner. Women who's trauma, decisions and behavior can not be couched into sweetness or quirkiness. Say, women afforded agency but therefore all the pitfalls and nuance that comes with consequential decisions.

The crest system is as much a problem in Foádlan as much as sexism is. These two systematic problems are interlinked.

I think everyone is allowed their space to like or dislike a certain kind of character but I find it very interesting how the most discussed character are women (Edelgard and Rhea) in a role, in hindsight of the fandom's history, usually a man would have in an FE title as villain with a cause - and fun thing, these men are barely talked about or praised for their nuance (Lyon). At least I've not seen much discourse about Randolph starting a war because of Duma's impending downfall. (And I get why "actually that female character is the best, all she does is amazing" is annoying when in the text the character is actually flawed. On the other hand, I get the reactionary sentiment because fandom spaces in general like to dump down on female characters more aggressively than on any male characters, most of the time.)

So, sexism in Fódlan. Clearly, FE 3 Houses is not the first tile to tackle systems as the problem rather than ghoulish non-creatures by force-of-darkness-dragons. But it is also true that in it's history, women of the title series were victim of sexist writing. In Awakening the Aversa on the evil side isn't only dark skinned but also clad in sexy latex, the darkest character we get is Tharja who's creepiness in repackaged as quirky yandere behavior. Eirika is a)not even cleverly duped by Lyon's schemes leading to the dark hour in her route b) not afforded the moral conflict with Lyon's complicated, ambiguous motivation like Ephraim, excluding Eirika from any more layered storytelling. And, 3 House's predecessor, Echoes, oh boy...! Listen, I like Echoes but this there're is such a load of sexism in in it. Celica is given the more difficult choice how to deal with Mila's absence while also being manipulated by Jedah. Her mistakes get punished by death, which Mila ex-machina-fied but from Alm's route. In Alm's route we do not have only one but entire four damsels in distress, in Celica's route, counting herself it plus her being brainwashed, two damsels in distress. Oh, and all the endings where only Silque is granted autonomy, every other girl is pushed into a cozy marriage with childbirth. (And ouch, Faye still being hung up on Alm with own family.)

So yeah, I kinda understand why the fandom is, in a historical sense, not used to women with agency or narrative conflict. Even less so with tackling sexism within the narrative. Women in the title series are barely unpleasant, and if they're on the "evil" side it comes with sexually aggressive character design, and not much character depth.

But whereas the game is very explicit in pointing out that arbitrary birth lottery systems like the crest system is bad by displaying the Church's enforcement of the crest order, and reasons why people might want to turn against it with Lord Lonato, and Miklan in Chapter 4 and 5, the problem of sexism is not named this explicitly. Yet it is constant theme and source of struggle in the life for the female cast. Interestingly, the most freedom of choice about a life is afforded to women within the Church. Most women who're not depend on a men to have a career as cleric, or warrior like Shamir, Catherine, and Manuela (her dependence on a man is entirely for romantic purposes and played as a joke) is in the Church. Well and of course, Rhea as century long leading Archbishop. In contrast, most women outside the Church don't have that freedom, in fact their crest becomes a problem.

The only exception might be Leonie: Outside the church order, lowborn, choosing a career as sellwsord on her own. What is also strikes me as interesting detail is the fact that Leonie is by behavior, interests, and design rather gender non-conforming. And well Petra, who's culture lies outside the faith and system of Seiros.

But already with Dorothea, another lowborn girl, the problem of a woman's position in Fóadlan becomes very apparent, especially in her exchange with Caspar: Without a crest (for which she was discarded on the streets), without a high social standing, even as a famous singer in the opera company, not being securely married means an incredibly unsafe future. For Caspar, the male equivalent of having neither crest nor remarkable, is making a career in the military - in spite of him being born as a noble.

Dorothea's problem gets mirrored so often in the life of noble women. Dorothea has to find a got match, the noble women are forced into it, and they can't get opt out of participating in the system. Ingrid's constantly pressured and guilty to marry and pass on her crest - otherwise her family will fall from their noble position. Part of the reason Ingrid's still hung up on Glenn is the fact that she a) genuinely liked him b) without his existence her future, a marriage with a noble who would've also accepted her wish to become a knight, therefore her family's future is incredibly uncertain. Her family does all to present her as good match, to the point of likely starving in order for Ingrid, the crest bearer, to survive. In spite of Ingrid describing her father as kind, on sidequest reveals how urgent the matter of marrying Ingrid off is to him that he possibly overlooks less favourable candidates. And Ingrid herself feels incredibly guilty for prioritizing warfare, the liberation of her kingdom over making a match.

There're so many unseen women in the story who's tragic stories revolve around the crest system. Hanneman's sister died due to the burden of the crest system, Balthus's mother's crest was not seen as something prestigious she was chased away from the happy marriage with Lord Albrecht. The crest didn't protect her. Balthus himself gets continuously harassed by his stepmother because she sees his crest as a danger to her own son's fortune. Also note, the one's suffering physical abuse due to having crests are all women: Hapi, Edelgard, Lysithea. They've explicitly fallen victim to human experimentation because of their crests. The Agartha's are those who conducted the experiments on the three, but in Edelgard's and Lysithea's case those who handed them over in the first place were the Adrestian nobles. Who actually get retaliated against with stripping their power when Edelgard ascends the throne. (Just to make it clear, this is not a pro-Edelgard point, it is to point out that the text explicitly names that human (male) nobels very much exploit the crest system for their own.

Also, there's Marianne. Instead of being cared for, and helped through her fear and guilt caused by the crest of Maurice, her uncle expects her to act all the noble part. While both of them seem to be in agreement to not talk about the crest of Maurice, for Marianne it brings too much pain, Marianne is left alone with her sorrow which might have not been resolved if not for the support and care of her classmates.

And let's get to Mercedes because the comment that the crest system isn't at fault for Mercedes' and her mother's social downfall is so crassly overlooking the text for an easy "gotcha" against a disliked character who is waging war against a system. Because yes, sexism and the hierarchical unfairness link in Mercedes' story. As mentioned before, lowborn women either marry or go to the Church for a more autonomous life, noble women with crests, like Ingrid are pressured into marriage. And the latter is very much true for Mercedes and her mother. Lady von Martritz only remarried because the Bartels wanted her to birth a crest bearing heir (Emil). Her entire function was serving a prestigeous childbirth. They both fled House Bartels because they got treated badly after their function to baron Bartel's was disbanded.

When Mercedes became of age she was viewed as an access to prestige not as a noble person. The problem here isn't that the crest system doesn't make a person not privileged. the problem is, that women in Fóadlan aren't given a personhood outside male dependency/inside the church. Even though Mercedes desperately tries to remain within the sanctity of the church her own stepfather, and a greedy merchant try to pry her away from it in order to exploit Mercedes as crest producer. (I mean, despite Mercedes' so gentle demeanour, her story line is extremely oppressive. The reason for Emil murdering his own father was because to protect his sister from getting sexually exploited.) So the Ladies of House Matritz, like Ingrid, are seen only as valuable as in they can pass on crests. It's sexism that lead the poor treatment of the remaining members of House Matritz - because the crest system interlinks with sexism in making women only as valuable as the crest they bear.

(Note on Constance why House Nouvelle fell: Well, she's a woman, duh. No but seriously, partly Constance is an unfortunate position because she's an additional DLC character who needed a bit of liberation from the Adrestian Empire in her actions because the Ashen Wolves are written as outcasts. Within the text, her proximity to Mercedes is interesting as she basically was befallen the same social downfall situation as Mercedes. And well yes, she's a woman who didn't receive any help, like Mercedes didn't receive any.)

In short: Whereas Miklan is an exemplary in the story why the crest system as class issue leads to abuse and neglect of human lives, notice how many women are victim to forced marriage, bad life conditions by failing to bring up the expected crests, or not having one. The crest system only gives women so much value as their crests are considered worth passing on. The crest itself doesn't protect women, within the events and background stories of FE 3 Houses it was only cause for exploitation and (physical) abuse. Last note: Whereas for Sylvain his struggles stem from the cycle of abuse passed on from Miklan to him because of the crest system, it is interesting how for many male characters other issues like poverty, racism, false ideals are more at their personal forefront of the many systematic problems Fóadlan entails for them. For the women, most issues are caused by the crests they bear. (Even Flayn/Cethleann isn't spared from it, although in her case it's a bit more complicated.)

Unsorted note on my thoughts on women the FE 3 Houses fandoms likes to bash on: (In a more tame version, it can be seen how some people despise Ingrid. Sorry, but in a game which has many sideplots about people growing together, out of the systematic barriers they're caged in, it is quiet unrealistic that only face- and nameless NPCs are perpetrators of systematic problems like racism. Ingrid being first abrasive to Dedue because of bias and unresolved trauma about Duscur, to later fumble her way in seeing her mistakes and doing better to Dedue is like... part of the theme? And funny enough, Hilda brushing over the fact that Cyril was previously enslaved by her family doesn't get as much scrutiny.)

#Lewis rambling #Fire Emblem meta #FE 3 Houses #first thoughts might edit a bit later

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indigowallbreaker · 1 year

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Top 3 FE characters you think deserved better than what they got

In no particular order--

Randolph and Ladislava: Unwritten characters that you're meant to care for but ultimately die no matter what you do. I would have given anything for any sort of solid ground for these two to stand on. Mile for mile, I think you're given more information about Randolph than you are Ladislava, but I'm still grouping them together because both make me want to grab the writers by the shoulders and shake them until lore comes out.

Emmeryn: She needed to have support conversations with Chrom and Lissa (and a number of others but most importantly those two). Everything else about her part in the story and post-story is fine (I'm even fine with her losing her memory) but she should have gotten to talk to her siblings and reconnect with them!!! Her only supports are with Robin and (if she married M!Robin) Morgan. Which is NOT ENOUGH!

Mother Fraldarius (unnamed): You're telling me that I have to play Three Hopes to even know she's alive? Absolutely not, I'm not doing that. Felix has a whole falling out with his father that you hear about from both sides in 3 Houses-- and not ONCE do either think to say something along the lines of "My wife/mother wishes we were on better terms but blah blah blah...." to tell us players she's even a factor. The mothers in 3 Houses get the short end of the stick overall but I'm especially pissed about Mama Fraldarius getting the shortest end >:(

#swankaliciouschekov #wanted to wait until I could get all the spelling right sorry for the delay!#fea #fe3h

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lananiscorner · 2 years

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I didn't realize you'd only played 3H tbh. Of course, 3H seems to be the topic you most discuss but I just figured that was your favorite lol. I won't spoil any of the other FE games. But I think if you play more, you might notice a trend with them. See, Edelgard isn't a unique villain: she's one of a long standing FE archetype called a red emperor or just emperor type. That's why her stans are so insufferable: they act like Edelgard is a hero when her archetype is a villain trope always.

Thanks for your ask, anon.

No worries--I'm pretty sure I already got spoiled to at least a few things from the older games by reading my mutuals' blogs. One of the joys of playing FE3H as my first FE game was being blissfully unaware of the Blue Lance Lord, Red Emperor and Green-Haired Girl Is Secretly A Dragon archetypes, so I didn't have everyone's roles identified from the prologue alone lol

That said, they were still incredibly obvious with certain things. E.g. in Eagles White Clouds, Edel practically screams "I am shady and working with the bad guys" since chapter 4 and in Lions White Clouds, you know it's her from the moment she drops the dagger. Even on Deer White Clouds you have that NPC in chapter 11 who mentions how Monica being a villain was no surprise and she always hung out around Edel so... And then of course there were Jeralt and Randolph, who couldn't have been more obviously doomed to die if they had been called Jenkins and Leroy.

I'm not sure yet if I'll ever play the previous FEs. I have way too many unplayed games in my Steam library already.

#asks #anon #Fire Emblem: Three Houses #FE3H #Edelgard critical

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dimiclaudeblaigan · 1 year

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Don't kill me but what is por

Also which popular ships and characters don't you like? (I literally just had surgery and am in pain so I will take anything that distracts me from reality! Even discourse)

PoR is Path of Radiance, the ninth FE game. If you're still unsure, it's Ike's first game.

I hope you feel better very soon! Please take something to knock out some of that pain!

Popular ships I don't like rly do be like (disclaimer: i may still write some of these for comms bc unfortunately we all need money to live)

D1miM@ri (another anon asked me abt why I don't like it but I haven't finished my reply so it's been sitting in wait...)

D1midu3 (I have a LOT of strong feelings against this one)

D1miF3lix

L1nCas (I don't... hate but it's reeeally not for me)

Don't rly care for F3rd1ebert, it's rly whatever for me but I can't reasonably see it ever working out bc Hubert would never leave Ed3l for him, and I can't imagine a feasible world where Ferdie would aid her and actually be in character (did you see him in three hopes lol they REALLY trashed his ENTIRE character and brain so he could simp for her, I'm not even kidding)

Mercie/Ann3tt3 (damn if girls can't just be close friends in media or they're automatically shipped romantically smh)

Cl@udel3th (so many nos for me on this one. not gonna explain why bc it's my personal pref and I rllllly don't feel like going over it but noooo no no no. Particularly F Byleth, I have an incredibly massive aversion to Claude paired with F Byleth. idk why my brain decided to have such a drastic separation based on M or F Byleth but it did)

Cl@ur3nz

R@phn@tz (is it popular? idk I don't like it lol)

H@pi/C0nstanc3 (p much the same issue as Raph+Ig and Mercie+Annette)

I have them written all weird to keep them from showing up in the searches bc the search engine will pick ship names that are just written in a post even if they're not tagged. I know it wouldn't be my fault for that but I'm aware it's an issue and that it might be seen by those shippers just trying to search for content, so I'm writing them abnormally in hopes the searches won't pick them up.

I don't hate them all with a burning passion to the point of being disgusted when I see them, BUT I do feel that way with four of them. I guess three and a half really bc one is like yes it bothers me a LOT but I don't think it's on the same level on the other ones?

I just have Preferences and Feelings and for some reason sometimes those feelings are like yeehaw you don't like this ship.

Characters:

We Know The One (Edgelordturd)

Berandetta (one of my most hated characters in the franchise. Tolerable in Hopes)

Marianne

Lysithea (I don't have like, absolute disgust for her, but... yikes)

Leonie (MUCH more tolerable in Hopes and a significantly better character there)

Fleche (not just related to the whole AM route thing, but in general I find her to be extremely repulsive as a person)

Randolph (less hate than his sister, but damn sonny, this is the face of a man who is spoiled, selfish and has no care or consideration for anything in the entire universe except his status and his uwu sister)

Ladislava (exists purely to uplift uwugard and literally, absolutely nothing more to the point we don't even know what this supposed backstory of uwugard saving her was, so she's just another pawn to make someone look good and has no characterization of their own)

Note how the randoms from the Empire are pretty popular but they don't actually do anything to make them actual characters? they just support uwugard and do absolutely nothing else in the entirety of two games and are adored by the fandom for it LIKE NO LITERALLY and that also heightens my burning, deep, engrossed hatred of all three of them. they did nothing to deserve being such popular characters except their absolute and utter obsession with uwugard)

I don't think I'm missing anyone else who is supremely popular and utterly adored in the fandom whose face I hate seeing in and out of game but there you go, nonnie!

Lysithea is probably my least despised in the sense that I only dislike her overall but I don't just outright loathe her? She pisses me off a ton and I would literally slap her square in the face for bullying Ignatz in their Houses supports :), but sometimes she's a decent person. Sometimes. Not usually though.

No, trauma doesn't give you the free pass to be a piece of shit to other people. May as well say "I was bullied in school so now I too have gained the right to bully random innocent people I don't really know simply bc uwu it happened to me". Which... isn't okay. At all.

This is my like... lowkey and mellow version of my massive loathing of those characters LOL.

Marianne is a tricker one to say I outright loathe because I don't loathe her so much as her behavior as well as how the writers handled her character. I couldn't stand her or even remotely tolerate her entire existence in the first half of the game, I shit you not. She got better and that's the only reason I can see her and not be totally repulsed lol.

YES I KNOW I SAID IT'S MELLOW AND USED HELLA STRONG DON'T-LIKE-THIS LANGUAGE BUT! I am expressing the strength of those feelings while not being super duper extra yeehaw about it!!!

And bc I don't wanna go into detail, esp right now because to actually go over that kind of thing I have to really sit and write about it.

And like, no hate to people who like or love fictional characters. I just don't vibe with those particular characters and am forever tormented by how popular they all are lol.

#DCB Ask #Ship list is under the cut bc I ain't out here tryna hurt ppl's feelings #anyway por is perfect and u should play it

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elluia · 2 years

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My contribution to the Fódlan appreciation hour thanks to @fireemblems24

I feel like there is one rollercoaster of a chapter in Azure Moon that is criminally underrated: the Great Bridge Coup, aka the Great Bridge of Myrddin map. For context, as a relatively old fan of FE on my first unspoiled playthrough of Three Houses, I expected to re-recruit Lorenz at some point, and I was convinced Dedue would return because of the end of his paralogue (it just screamed: the game will remember that 😎). My out-of-house recruits were the Church characters, Lorenz, Lysithea, Ignatz, and Leonie. I got into the Kingdom route fully expecting to fight the Empire so I purposefully avoided recruiting the Black Eagles for maximum pain.

The battle opens with Dimitri confronting Byleth on their desire for revenge after Jeralt’s murder. You can admit you weren’t so different from Dimitri then… But also support Felix when he says that hanging onto that feeling is pointless because the living need you more. At this point Felix opens up, and Byleth shows their growth. It really feels like, as a team, you’re trying to reach out to Dimitri, even if it’s not working yet. After what happened to Randolph, the atmosphere is still grim.

Then you discover the map, and… FINALLY Lorenz is there 😭 Besides the (alleged) loss of Dedue, he was the only student who missed the reunion at Garreg Mach, all because of the Empire’s pressure on the Alliance border. I could finally get him back in my party! (coming from a Radiant Dawn fan who loves all the side-switching available in that game). Also feels nice to go against the kill everyone policy Dimitri lives by at the moment 😄

So you start the battle, you’re progressing to take the ballista, bring Lorenz home, and… Wait, a cutscene starts at the beginning of a turn? But it’s not reinforcement??? IT’S DEDUE?!!! And he looks great but all these scars 😭😭😭 Dimitri can’t catch a break but neither does he! I actually gasped with joy and continued to give baby pet names to Lorenz and Dedue all map long because of how happy I was XD

(Gameplay-wise I actually like that you need to go out of your way to save Dedue, FE has been too nice in that regard since Awakening. I was molded by the insane requirements for Radiant Dawn’s true ending so locking CF behind a cutscene or Dedue’s survival behind a paralogue is just… child’s play really XD)

Anyway, what really matters is that… at long last, YOUR TEAM IS WHOLE AGAIN. (Doubly so for me) And with the Blue Lions being as close as family, and the overall themes of that route, and the JUICY supports you know you’ll get after the battle… The Hype is real!

There’s also the sheer hilarity of Acheron popping up only to get murdered by your units, and since I had recruited Lorenz, I was more than happy to oblige for round two against this guy XD

And yet, amidst all this hype… it’s the first time on AM that you must kill an unrecruited student. Ferdinand. The last time Byleth saw him, he had just lost everything because of Edelgard… You can imagine how much he struggled to get there, and now you have no choice but to cut him down. In my playthrough I didn’t have Dorothea to mourn him in the next chapter’s exploration, so I had to live with the fact that his dream to be remembered would never be fulfilled. Azure Moon can be nothing but bittersweet.

Having your first battle in Adrestia be against Ferdinand (a fallen noble fighting an uphill battle to restore his name), Lorenz (pressured into compliance to protect Gloucester), and Ladislava (a respectable general who rose through loyalty and merit), also drives home the point that your enemies are not just monsters. Actual nuance there, when CF has the audacity to blame the Blue Lions who defend their nation from invasion.

Ferdinand’s death felt like a tragic waste of life (Lorenz too if he’s unrecruited), which gives more weight to Dimitri’s conflicted feelings after the battle (I’ll get back to that). I’m actually glad I didn’t recruit him because it balanced out the happiness in that chapter and 3 years later, I still remember the impact it had on me.

The battle concludes with the sweetest reunion scene between Dimitri and Dedue, others have said it better so I’ll just say I cheered so hard 🥰 Then you see the first crack in Dimitri’s cold-blooded murderer mask when he isn’t happy for this victory against the Empire, calling their death foolish in a sour tone. He tries to justify to himself that they were just beasts, but even he doesn’t believe it at this point. So there’s a heart still in there.

Final scene is Fleche joining your army with Dimitri’s permission and you know shit is about to go down in the next chapter. Can’t be happy for too long amirite?

Conclusion: This map has great dame design with all the reinforcements, beasts, possible recruitments, chests to pick, a ballista to capture. The emotions run high (and it’s finally something else than depression since the time skip) with possibly Dedue and Lorenz making your team whole again, and your probable first fight against a former student. The chapter’s replay value is also underrated based on whom you saved/recruited or not. Overall great gameplay and the story finally gives you a sliver of hope that Dimitri can get better. And it’s on that amazing high that the Battle at Gronder Field opens, a chapter that will go on to make Azure Moon the character-driven masterpiece I think it is. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

#fodlanappreciationhour #fe16 #fire emblem three houses #long post

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