Fire Emblem Awakening's Japanese-only "Background" website featured several exclusive character illustrations and some bonus dialogue for scenes not appearing in the game.
My girl Rhaenyra being compared to the Undisputed Rightful Heir Unfairly Killed and Eternally Mourned Prince Mustafa when the main premise of her story is that no matter how good or special or charismatic Rhaenyra was she would never ever compete with the sacred legitimacy of the Holy Male Heir Aegon II and her entire legacy was smeared for even daring to challenge this and two centuries later she is still considered a whore and a traitor because she broke the Andal Custom "She was daughter to one king and mother to two more, yet she died a traitor's death for trying to usurp her brother's crown. It is law. Law, Davos. Not cruelty" like I get that we can all have opinions and I get that everyone is entitled to their wrong opinion but there is a point where going through the tags becomes a horrifying experience. Like you cannot possibly be so unserious
The Rhaenyra-Mustafa comparison is based on the fact that they are both the firstborn """""""""legitimate"""""""" heirs whose claim is threatened by a second wife. Congratulations you got the themes. If Rhaenyra was a man, which she is not and this changes the entire dynamic of that ridiculous comparison since this particular minor detail happens to be the basis of fire and blood and the very reason the dance of the dragons happened in the first place and I'm sorry that this unsettles you so much that you have to compare this woman to Mustafa since this is the only way to make noble-born tradcath "Mayhaps the whore will die in childbirth" Queen Alicent seem like an underdog when abusing and slut shaming a child. I should be grateful you didn't compare Rhaenyra to fucking Suleyman but I'm not because I'm sure this comparison will see the light of day because the misogyny in this fandom has no end. You simply consider Rhaenyra's gender irrelevant to this discourse because if you actually took it into account you would see how clear-cut the political conflict of the dance is and you don't like that because Alicent cries more prettily and is Madonna coded. Cope. I'm a hater at this point.
i like mustafa, but the way he's completely front and center of suleiman's sons and mehmed is basically just a prop for the fraying in mustafa and suleiman's relationship is annoying. i don't know much about ottoman history but according to this source, mehmed was a "prince of more exquisite qualities than even mustafa. he had a piercing intellect and a subtle judgment." it would have been nice to... i don't know... see that?