#'she allied with people who turned my uncle in that spear you use and tortured Rhea for 5 years she can't even sit on warm rocks anymore'

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You said it in the tags but you hit the nail on the head. When FE villains spouted racist, colonialism and imperialism BS in the past, you acknowledge they're villains and you don't have emotional attachments to them. That's the true problem with Egg: because the narrative paints a love story with the self insert and an imperialist dictator, yet refuses to ever engage with Egg or challenge her BS, prejudice, ignorance, the narrative allows her to go unchallenged and spout complete nonsense.

That's why I ultimately think even AM, as the story of Dimitri learning to accept and let go of his hatred, ultimately falls, even if at the end he offers his hand to Supreme Leader.

The game cannot allow anyone to challenge Supreme Leader, or call her out on the most horrible aspects of her character, it's all about "she started a war" and not "she's using Jackie, the baker who lived in the next house, as a regular part of her forces as he was turned in a demonic beast".

Basically, everything that happened in WC is swept under the rug, so even during that "parley" it's goes from "war bad" to "ideals" to "sandwiches" to "actually you're strong".

The means Supreme Leader used (and is still using)? Swept under the rug with the grace of a beluga roller skating - no references to her own people used as guinea pigs, her preventive assassination attempt or Supreme Leader's very own disregard for human life, nope.

Nabateans? Who cares. We only learn about them, and/or care in Tru Piss, and only because Supreme Leader think they're inhuman creatures who cannot live with humans since their ears are pointy.

If Dimitri argued during this phoney parley about his father's death, the Duscur genocide and even what Supreme Leader is thinking about Flayn who sekritly controls the world and has ugly pointy ears - if Supreme Leader gave her usual "no u" witty one liner and Dimitri just gave up on reasoning with her, then why not, he accepts he cannot get along with her on anything, but he will still try to find a way to - as he doesn't erase her at the end of AM.

But no, those things are never alluded to.

So since Elincia doesn't exist in this game to shut her up with her "You care nothing for the people, [Supreme Leader]. You cloak your desire to rule with pretty speeches, but it is petty avarice nonetheless!" we end up with a half baked product, where Rhea, in her S-support, wonders if she should live with people she cares about because she has an alternate form, and the avatar not even telling her that "nope, it doesn't matter if your ears are pointy or not".

Where Sonya's sisters will never be acknowledged, no one can mourn on screen the "disappearance" of Baldo and Waldi, nor try to find a cure to heal them, no. Duscur and the consequences? Off-screen (only to be more or less solved in AG!).

That's why I was legit surprised when FEH, the gacha game, challenged Supreme Leader through her FBs, with Lissa first and Mila second.

#anon #replies #i still think it worked for FEH because KT isn't behind it #Supreme Leader can look like a fool and Rhea can have fun just like Dimitri #there's no need to warp everything to make her look good #Clout sufered a bit from this though his B!Clout version just annoyed me #a friend foddered B!Lysithea who sprouted similar nonsense #i mean imagine an AM ending where Flayn is the Queen of Faerghus and is forced to support the uwu fest #'husbando she wanted to permanently remove me from the land because my ears are not round' #'she allied with people who turned my uncle in that spear you use and tortured Rhea for 5 years she can't even sit on warm rocks anymore' #'what kind of ideal was she pursuing bar the eradication of our race?' #i miss elincia so much plz IS make her return