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How about 10, 13, 14, and 20?

10. favorite support conversation? im very fond of sylvain's a-supports with both mercedes and dorothea! they both know he's putting up a facade and they know how to make him drop it and be earnest with himself and others. he has a low number of a-supports (fuck intsys forever for not giving him an a-support with dimitri) so these instances where you can see how complex of a character he is are everything to me. mercedes making him cry bc she likes him honest (read: being his fucked up self, not his persona), sylvain telling dorothea, who's afraid she'll lose her worth when her beauty fades, that he'll still love her when she's a grandma and meaning it, that's the kind of stuff i love about his a-supports.

13. what's one thing you'd change about fe3h? the argarthans. the way they were implemented in the story as is simply doesn't work. during white clouds it's all right as far as it goes - their presence is noticeable, they're involved in some of the major events such as byleth getting trapped in the void, but after timeskip the narrative pretty much loses all contact with them in all routes. like, they show up a few times, but the war efforts take up so much of the narrative (which is not a bad thing) that there isn't any room left to work the argarthans into it in any natural way - they just show up to drop a nuke and then suddenly you have to play their godawful map. especially on vw i found that it hurts the narrative bc they take up space that isn't there, and then the big climax (fight with nemesis) receives almost zero buildup and feels like an afterthought. in general you can question whether their presence was needed at all. the war against edelgard could've worked without them, if you ask me. azure moon barely pays attention to them and they're never missed. always feels to me as if they were put into the story as a plot device for white clouds but then no one really knew what to do with them after timeskip so they end up like the wrong piece jammed into a puzzle

14. most emotional moment? rodrigue's death and dimitri's subsequent recovery will always touch me but i think my absolute most emotional moment is when dimitri comes back to faerghus to take up the crown again and he asks 'am i fit to be king?'. chris hackney fucking kills it delivering the lines in that scene, it really makes you feel how much dimitri loathes himself and what he's done and how unworthy of his people's trust he thinks he is. it's a happy moment and at the same time there's something sad about it because it's such a moment of struggle for dimitri himself.

20. unpopular opinion? now, if you like byleth id suggest not reading this, bc while it is not a completely unpopular opinion there's a lot of people who disagree with me. id normally never say all this bc im not an asshole and a lot of people like this character, but you asked, so: i don't like byleth, i don't think they can be classified as a well-developed character (instead of an avatar to project hcs on) and i think the way the narrative makes all the characters like them instantly and makes byleth responsible for all their emotional growth is a detriment to the development of the other characters in the game and their interactions with each other. im just really not a fan of the way all the characters imprint on them, tell them all their deepest troubles and for the rest of the game no one can function like a normal human being unless byleth is there to help and advise them.

it annoys me in particular on azure moon bc byleth is presented as the one person dimitri can rely on and the one person who's responsible for the start of his recovery. i hate that so much it half kills the scene for me. there's all the blue lions right over there, several of which he's known since childhood, but it's the teacher he's known for a year and a half and who has almost no personality to speak of that's going to do the heavy lifting here? wasted opportunity to have the blue lions/faerghus four have their ultimate moment. not a huge fan of byleth being the emotional support crutch in the animated post timeskip scene in the monastery either, it all feels so forced and player-pleasing to me. here's the messiah who everyone likes and who happens to be your player character! it's terrible on silver snow too; the game needs byleth to be Important and In Charge so bad that it does this trick where seteth explains what's happening every chapter and lays out his plans, and then the game pretends they were byleth's plans all along and they're the saviour here, with seteth thanking them for plans and actions that he orchestrated?? bro we both know byleth has no idea what is going on and you're the chief.

#asks #byleth critical #these are just my opinions ofc like if you like byleth you like byleth you do you #im not here to start a discussion im just here to say what i personally think

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