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edelest · 4 years

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black eagles recruiting plot fix!

as we all know, there’s a variety of characters you can recruit into the black eagles house, and we all know they’d follow you through any route. a lot of people tend to say that there’s no reason/it doesn’t make sense for some of those characters to be in the black eagles/crimson flower route, because no plot is provided, it doesn’t fir their character, etc. so i decided to make a list of why one of the students you recruited would follow edelgard/you even if it goes against their character.

felix: felix would join for more than one reason, and he already states one of these. he doesn’t want to follow dimitri, even if he does care about him. another reason would be his bad relationship with his father, and how the people of faerghus force all kinds of ideals onto him. the country is full of people who admire chivalry and those who follow their leaders blindly, which he despises because that’s what glenn did. edelgard is highly against blind obedience, as she is against the church and its followers and as she never truly forces anyone to be with her and support her (seen through black eagles strike force.) the only difference in opinion between el and felix is how felix hates the unnecessary bloodshed, but he does believe that edelgard can change the way the world is. and oh! the way that dimtri and his father blindly follow rhea and choose to ignore what edelgard claims is a fine example of the blind obedience felix hates. it actually baffles me how some people think felix has the least reason to be in black eagles/crimson flower, when in my opinion he has the most reason to be there.

annette and mercedes: this is harder to uh... give reason to, since gustave is a knight and mercedes is religious, but annette and mercedes are pretty strong and pursue when they believe in something. i doubt either of them support the violence bloodshed, but mercie would follow el because she believe in the goddess and sees something wrong with the chruch and how it operates. same goes for annette, she’d fight for what she believes is right, especially if she has mercedes beside her through it. and of course, gustave is a piece of crap. i also want to point out the way that the church basically threatens, everyone including byleth. rhea has literally once said “let this be a warning for those who choose to point their blades to the goddess” or something like that. and she says so many more lines like this, further proving edelgard’s point and convincing annette and mercedes, because, as stated, they are against violence. jertiza might also ge a weighing factor for mercedes.

sylvain, marianne, and lysithea: edelgard believes in a world where discrimination, blind obedience, tyranny, and injustice would be something of the past. these three characters have all experienced a bad life due to their crests. sylvain, because of his father and brother, lysithea, because of the crest experiments on her and her family, and marianne, because she grew up hating and fearing herself for a crest that was dubbed dangerous. in the world el envisions, these things would never happen again, and while the three of them are actually terrified, they want nothing more than to live in a world of love and acceptance, and in a world where crests don’t affect lives like how it affected theirs.

ingrid: hmm, i guess for her, even though ingrid wants nothing but to be a knight, her world and dreams have basically been crushed by her father who wants nothing more than to get ingrid married to a rich man. so while ingrid goes against the idea of what el believes in, she still hopes for a world where again, a crest does not factor one’s life path. (this applies to marianne and mercie too, because they were told by their parents to marry someone too. it’s just not as bad as it is for ingrid.)

ashe: of course, lord lonato plays a big part in this decision. i doubt ashe has actually forgiven the chruch for what happened with lonato, we even see this in the golden deer route if he’s not recruited.

leonie: not much of a reason other than jeralt. leonie “promised” jeralt she would protect byleth, and byleth probably mentioned to her that jeralt doesn’t trust lady rhea, which might have factored in the decision.

ignatz and raphael: i don’t really see a reason for them other than it’s better for their lives and families, if the empire wins the war. they are merchants, after all. especially raphael, who needs to look after his little sister.

lorenz: i don’t see a reason other than territory. he says it himself, the gloucester region makes it risky for him and his father to fight the empire with the alliance. and let’s be honest, lorenz is the type that does what benefits him, and doesn’t mind if it affects others.

that’s all i could think of! this isn’t actually related to the story though, i just made it so that if you feel weirded out plot-wise by how some characters would be with you in the crimson flower route and you wanted some more depth to their character being there other than “i follow the professor wherever they go!!!!!! >:T”

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edelest · 4 years

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blue lions recruiting plot fix!

hey fe3h fans! it’s been a while... sorry!

previously on this ongoing series: i made a post trying to give reason to why the students would join black eagles, because some people just couldn’t settle for “they’ll follow byleth anywhere.” someone requested a similar post to this, where i’ll be justifying why some black eagles and golden deer students’ll still be in blue lions post-time skip! my next post will be lions + eagles with golden deer :) please enjoy! and Yes, i DO stan edelgard.

here’s the link to my black eagles recruiting plot fix ~

petra: it took me a while to actually figure out why petra would join blue lions—hence the writer’s block that prolonged this post—but then i remembered the support between shamir and petra, and it hit me: petra doesn’t like the empire. and you might be thinking, petra doesn’t like them empire but trusts edelgard! see, that’s the thing. she TRUSTED edelgard. to be in a foreign land, completely vulnerable, she put her whole trust in edelgard (and others as well) only to find out that edelgard had been plotting to start this war behind her back all this time would crush her. she’d be hit with the memories of her people dying by the hands of the empire’s soldiers, only this time she’d witness the slaughtering commanded by edelgard, who broke her trust. in one of her conversations after war during battle, she says that she used to be a hostage (not sure if hostage, prisoner, or something else) but that it wasn’t the case anymore. she Admits that she was a captive of the empire through that conversation, which all the more supports my theory.

dorothea: dorothea makes me heart break, whenever i recruit her into blue lions/golden deer. dorothea went through a lot growing up, and went through a lot jusy to get into the officer’s academy as well. she puts her (incomplete) trust in her classmates and professor and hopes for a peaceful (with a rich noble in mind). even in her support conversations, she hints that she wouldn’t mind a future with edelgard. but dorothea is scared. scared of bloodshed, battles, and war. she doesn’t outright say it, but in a ton of her support conversations or any conversation you have with her, right before time skip and post time skip, she often finds herself wishing for peaces and she’s often sentimental over past memories. even when she levels up post time skip: "Feels like fighting is all there is." "I'm growing, but at what cost?" "All this power just to survive." dorothea hates the war, and it’s taking a toll on her happiness, of course she’d be afraid to join edelgard, the one who started the war.

ferdinand: ferdinand’s always wanted to one-up edelgard, probably due to either his father or his competitive spirit. so when the war breaks out and ferdinand loses everything because his father is stripped of his rank, ferdinand of course would want nothing more than to defeat edelgard and stop the war, to stop the unnecessary bloodshed caused by his self proclaimed rival. ferdinand would join byleth to save fodlan and at the same time prove his self worth... for years, trying to prove to himself that he IS as stronf as he says and that he’s strong enough to protect people. it’s always him trying to prove his worth; he says it himself when you battle him at the great bridge of myrddin. he says something along the lines of “maybe now edelgard will see my worth.” instead of trying to prove his worth to himself, he tries to prove it to edelgard. which only shows that he still cares for edelgard’s opinion after all these years, just that it changed to wanting recognition and acknowledgement.

linhardt: linhardt is scared of blood, and unnecessary fighting. his own morals are changed through the battles he goes through at garreg mach (i.e. remire village.) linhardt doesn’t want a war, he wants to nap and research about crests, and other things that interest him. he’d follow byleth and dimitri because he at the start knew that byleth would want peace and to stop the bloodshed, and he’d be glad to hear that dimitri was changed and now wants to protect fodlan as well. linhardt may not seem like he cares about much (he really doesn’t,) but he knows when something isn’t right. he knows that these people don’t have to die.

caspar: caspar grew up to protect people, not hurt them. in more instances than one, he gets angry for not being able to join certain missions or gets angry at certain people for simply being evil. he has a heart of gold, and a sense of chivalry that puts him right in with the blue lion class. his sense of righteousness is what pushes him to believe that dimitri can change, and that dimitri will change fodlan. he believes that blue lions is where he belongs, because it’s where people are most like him. hearts of gold, hearts of bravery... all around him. he’s welcome there. and he knows they can stop this reign of massacre.

bernadetta and marianne: i put these two in the same category due to similar reasons, both are shy and tend not to speak up for things and would rather not be involved in a war. imagine them out there, fighting edelgard’s fight when all they want to do is be at peace with life and live life in mundanity. they’re pushed into this world of madness against their own will, and are forced to kill or be killed. bernadetta literally says “Wish I could've at least died at home...not in this big, stupid field...” and all edelgard says is thank you for everything or something like that. bernadetta deserved better than that, she deserved to at least die happy. and marianne deserves a life where she doesn’t need to live in fear of the unknown everyday. let my shy girls live and be happy, for goddess’ sake!

leonie: we all know why leonie would join blue lions. leonie is against this war, she lives to protect those who can’t protect themselves, just like jeralt did. she will fight for what is right, and she’ll fight with those she knows will fight. claude tried to stay neutral for 5 whole years of the war. this is of course madness, as leonie is the type to believe in the ideology of helping those who can’t help themselves if you know you can have the power to assist. leonie would be mad at claude for staying neutral, because being neutral is being nearly as bad as the one causing turmoil. in cases of war, neutrality is ignorance, and leonie will do nothing other than fight for what is right.

lysithea: she would join the cause of faerghus for one crucial thing: her freedom. and you might be thinking, “of course everyone is fighting for their freedom it’s a goddamn war, op!” but here’s the thing, lysithea spent her childhood trapped in house ordelia, her and her siblings being tested on by those who sliter in the dark, her parents being powerless in the situation at hand, causing her to live her life being tortured in a prison-like environment, everyday wondering if this is how her life will be, or if she’ll die like the others. she was trapped, and pre-timeskip we see her do so many activities and try to quickly learn so many things. why? because she wants to catch up on all those years she lost in house ordelia. that’s why i sympathize with her when claude teases her for being young even if it’s only done in a humorous manner, lysithea has been through so much that she at least deserves respect (and yes, i know claude was unaware of it pre-timeskip, let me be emo.) when lysithea finds out about the war, she’d be struck with fear of being imprisoned by the empire again (at the time she didn’t know that TWSITD weren’t soldiers of the empire.) she’d join the cause of the rebellion, choosing to fight instead of staying neutral. her position (house ordelia) is of course a threat to her as well, they can be easily captured by the empire at any time any time, and she can’t help but flee for her life.

raphael and ignatz: both are sons of merchants, difference is raphael’s parents are dead, which makes raphael the one who has to provide for his sister. they, in my humble opinion, would join faerghus during war for no reason other than to protect their families and business. while i do believe that they want to save fodlan as well, how will they even provide for their family in a failing economy where war tramples over merchants? we know this happens because the merchants at the monastery constantly talk about how business is hard during war. raphael and ignatz need to keep their families alive and fed, not dying because of their pride.

hilda: hilda’s always been ‘the lazy one’, as we all know. but this, too, brought me to a halt. why would hilda join the faerghus rebellion? in the start of azure moon, if you recruit hilda she mentions something along the lines of edelgard is crazy and so is dimitri or something like that. so i kept digging and digging in my brain until i realized that the reason she would join blue lions is because of fear. fear that if she stays neutral in the leicester alliance that her position would cause her to die much easier than if she were to join byleth and dimitri and the rest. neutrality was a problem for the alliance, some wanted to join forces with the empire and some didn’t, which already made her a targer for assassination for the other houses in the alliance (to start conflict/to make a solid point.) and of course, staying in goneril territory would be terrifying too, because there are almyrans who would try to kill those at/near fodlan’s throat to take advantage of the weakness of this part due to the war. hilda is scared, even if she’s completely capable of protecting herself. strength doesn’t always equal bravery, and her whole life she’s gotten free passes to things due to her laziness, and now she has. to protect herself in a kill or be killed place, her instincts would tell her to go where she is safest, in the hands of her classmates from the blue lions, and in the hands of the professor.

lorenz: lorenz is a man of virtue, how ever absurd those virtues may be. depending on route, lorenz is either the cower in fear and succumb to the enemy to survive kind of guy or the fight for what you know is right and fight for those who can’t kind of guy. which leads me to believe that due to claude’s neutrality and wanting to protect the people of the alliance, (especially those in the gluocester region,) he’d join the cause of faerghus to stop the war once and for all.

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