#good for rhea too!!

[rheasbrvtality]

and stole the man’s glasses

#she looks good too #rhea ripley #damian priest #finn balor #the judgement day #montez ford #wwe #wwe smackdown #survivor series

[brotherconstant]

Best Of KAROLINA NOVOTNEY in SUCCESSION (Script) | 2.09 | DC

#successionedit #people *hate* his face #succession #karolina novotney #shiv roy #shivlina #beegifs #dagmara dominczyk #in the script shiv is watching connors fist-pump and sitting in the car with rhea at the same time. still it was too good not to include it

[ramyeonguksu]

Put in the tags whether your FE3H OC would thrive outside of their "main" route or not!

#fe3h oc #fe3hoc #fodlansona #fire emblem three houses oc #hillevi lore #as for hillevi her main route is CF #SS would be interesting because in this route (for canon compliance reasons) she'll say that edelgard's methods are too extreme #even if she agrees with the reasoning behind them #AM would definitely not be that good for her #because Hillevi has a lot of expectations on what kind of nation Faerghus would be #but the more she learns about it the more she's like... disappointed? unhappy? #especially with how faerghus' culture chivalry and crest advantages affecting her peers and classmates #also the whole thing with Faerghus being too connected with the church wouldnt sit too well with her #VW she would thrive though #claude is there to teach her about almyran stuff a lot once she learns about his heritage #and also claude does stand up against rhea at some point verbally

[dynamitekansai]

RheaRipley_WWE: Family always support family ⚖️

#wrestling #wwe #wwe raw #dominik mysterio #rhea ripley #damian priest #the judgement day #seth rollins #was a good ass match too

[phantasyhalation]

I've been reflecting on Three Houses discourse lately. Terrible idea, I know. But between a few conversations and digging through YouTube cutscenes, I think I've reached a new perspective on it: 3H discourse isn't obnoxious due to any extreme flaw of the text. Characters do act inconsistently across routes, and Rhea suffers from particularly fragmented writing (and underwriting for that matter: she could use supports). The game certainly lacks the nuance required to give any real Commentary beyond its position in the series worth mulling over for any prolonged period of time. However, i feel the key issue at hand is that 3H itself is deeply unconcerned with its politics, themes, and world despite all appearances to the contrary.

I'll be clear: CF and BL are both perfectly serviceable FE plots in isolation, and hit enough of the beats they need to in order to provide a satisfying initial experience. GD and Church suffer from being so disconnected from the main conflicts, which I can forgive for Claude, but really not the Church. In terms of narrative structure and character writing, ~95% of 3H is serviceable to good. The real issue worth talking about is the baffling playtime inflation required to walk away feeling like you had a full narrative experience: other 60 hour RPGs don't demand four replays, and if you're with the developers in the 'people should play it once, or twice' camp, then we're talking about 80% of a narrative. That's a failure of its own, and it only gets worse if you start to turn over the holes and inconsistencies you're still left with after going through the whole experience.

That said, the game doesn't say anything. The game is content to throw child abuse, forced marriage, even genocide at you constantly in its support writing, and every route has some Dark Themes of its own to throw at you despite 3/4 of them being generally triumphant stories on the whole. So how do the characters respond? How do these people, caught up in the physical and emotional center of a thousand years of turmoil and oppression, seek to change their circumstances, or the world? How's it all resolved?

Well, they don't care to change it. And they don't care to resolve it. Despite the dozens of hours you can spend digging through miserable supports between miserable people about their miserable little lives, the House Leaders and Rhea are the only ones who can do anything about it. This is fairly typical of this sort of interactive fiction story structure, although not ideal. But they don't do anything either! Rhea's motives are all personal, tied to the ancestors of Evil Underground Race Of Child Torturing Elites rather than her main living adversary. Even then, they're barely elaborated on in any coherent or sustained manner despite her position as literal immortal authority of the Sad Continent. So what about Edelgard? She's the main catalyst for change, after all! Well, she writes a manifesto offscreen, and waxes poetry about the Divine Right in supports a few times, but the main indication of... really, any of her meaningful beliefs beyond "shit is fucked up and things should be fairer maybe" comes from a Ferdinand support five years after she starts the damn war where she considers a very basic Policy she'll need to enact . Claude has his one policy, and it's "we should participate in the global economy maybe". Dimitri has none, because Blue Lions is a Fire Emblem Story, and the two policies available to Fire Emblem Characters are warmongering or opening an orphanage. Ironically, this makes him look like a worse ruler than the game seems to realise, because he wants to maintain and restore a status quo which made everyone he knows and himself miserable. Edelgard's naivety and shortsightedness in certain areas* would probably be less polarising if she was working on any solid ground to begin with. And while Claude has some ideas, he's extremely inconsistent on the issue of Rhea in Houses, and suffers from the Church route outline throwing him around every direction with little emotional drive behind it. Everyone else at least gets to cry through the screen at you about their compelling personal problems.

(*By this, I'm thinking of the issue of the other, chiller Nabateans, if she knows they exist (this is not clear), and being able to articulate the fucking Casus Belli she supposedly produced a manifesto on. The reconquer-kill in retaliation dialogue wasn't great translation, but it doesn't excuse every other interaction. The closest she gets to articulating a sense of societal injustice is saying "I personally chose war death over status quo death" outright and closing the case. Did Fodlan's intellectuals never have a rhetoric phase? Good grief.)

And what of the minor characters? Well, despite the restricted and smaller cast all being around from the start, we don't actually get to see them reckon with the world at all. You'll get some interesting Monastery dialogues if you do strange recruitments, : otherwise, the support system needs to be universal, and it needs for most of the writing to occur before there's any sign of change on the continent. Characters will discuss serious personal traumas inflicted upon them by institutions and society while not seeking to do anything about it, receiving nothing beyond simple empathy or a little pushback from the other party. Every Byleth support is a therapy session with a brick wall, and every other one is nice frivolous banter or Extreme Society Time. No characters get to do anything interesting with any of this, of course, as Society is reformed in very basic terms before every endcard, and non-Lord students might as well not exist in Part 2. Fire Emblem's structure can facilitate interesting characters, and they can be strengthened through gameplay! Three Houses is bad at this, however, and despite getting to know characters and their relationships much better than most other entries, we barely get to see them respond to the world they're constantly moping about.

For contrast, Engage, maligned as it is (for some reason), gets at the theme of family with its cast and the important beats of its simple plot with greater consistency, lucidity, and depth than anything Three Houses attempts. I'm going to spoil some basic character details, so please skip the next paragraph if that's a concern.

Engage is laser-focused on Alear's development, expressed through their conflict with Sombron (deadbeat father) and relationships with Veyle (disempowered younger sibling of conflicted allegiance) and Lumera (literal found family). Other characters in focus include Vander and the twins, who have a mentor-successor kinda dynamic, and the Royals, who all have particular relationships with their parents, country, and younger siblings, which leads to some interesting supports between them all. The retainers all have their reasons for sticking by their employers, and usually have lives back home of their own: Rosado and Kagetsu come from cultures contrasting to the elite cast which they both love, Pandreo and Panette are siblings from a broken home who roll with the punches very differently, Citrinne and Lapis have mirrored class backgrounds but both support one another and Alcryst in their own ways, etc. Even beyond that, you've got characters like Seadall and Yunaka who have very contrasting relationships with Mentorship, or Saphir and Lindon, who've both lost loved ones under very different circumstances and approach their later years and relationships very differently as a result. You can't break Three Houses down like this, and that's not because it's complex too. Three Houses is all motif, and any attempts to get past the superficial layer of a given theme aren't given room to breathe or are terminated by the support system's limitations.

Despite all this, the game is fun. The support writing is compelling, the setting is fascinating and very well-introduced in the opening hours, and the stakes are consistently high. 3H is a fun romp. It knows this! What it seems to have missed is that taking on all those mainstays of darker fantasy and Intrigues common to epics and Hard genre works gives the game the gritty sort of texture which draws the audience's attention social realism and high politics, both of which the game cannot engage with. Where institutions or Ideology exist, they're expressed through singular characters who themselves are angled as having rich internal worlds, and all discussions of war and politics start and end at pathos. Three Houses is actually aiming to encapsulate the most intense experience of unit growth and character development in the series through the setting and gameplay structure. Unfortunately, there's also a world attached, with character motivations given astronomical weight by constant escalation of stakes across several timelines, and all these gestures towards History and Politics which ultimately go unfulfilled. This dampens it a bit, I feel - and it's those very gestures which got people so riled up fighting over a bunch of colour-coded autocrats who never discuss taxation over 200 hours.

#this is very ranty but a bit Too well articulated for what i want. i don't want to be perceived on 3h discourse. but i needed to unleash it #love three houses. love edelgard. love claude. love fodlan. love all the secondary characters. wish i could love dimitri and rhea. #...wish the writing was good. #(btw this was Totally Unresearched for fact checking. im sorry if i forgot dimitri and edelgard's cindered shadows A support about GST) #fire emblem #latency.txt #fodlan

[i-am-just-a-girli]

Hey soo today was my 1st board exam and well it went really well so I decided to order some pizza to yk celebrate my happiness (tho it was English but still). Now I also ordered pepsi along with my pizza and I only got the pizza. There was no pepsi. So I thought of complaining (in the app as I noticed after the delivery guy was gone) but then I realised I'll have to talk and explain and just urgh. So I just decided to give it 1 star. And now I feel pretty stupid.

Yeah.

🫠🫠🫠

#rant #rant post #bhai gussa aa raha #khud pe he #i honestly don't think it's the restaurant's fault #i think it's the delivery guy's fault #he was just yk like talked in such a manner ki “i just want to get done” #and was on call with someone else #the entire time #anw. #i didn't even get to enjoy my pizza #i just some how ate it #it wasn't bad but not too good either like 3.5/5 I'd say #urghhh #rhea's voice #frustrated #hmphhh #🫠🫠🥲🥲🥲😭😭😭😭

[rinnysmuses]

Pulling her legs to her chest, Rhea swallowed hard. She wasn't worth it. Worth nothing. She was garbage. Complete garbage. Why did anyone waste any time on her? She was...

Why was she even here? Why was she even trying to help them? With their goals?

She was nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Except for garbage.

#ic #;the traveller #;trails into the sun #lechter: yeah rufus wishes u were a noble sometimes cause that would make things easier #rhea: crashes and spirals to the bottom of the bucket basically #shirley from afar: she doesnt look too good :/

[rillette]

pspspsps idina menzel would make a cool carol ferris

Consider: rhea ripley

#asks <3 #ty for the ask!! #idina is the girl from frozen and the mom from glee to me sorryyyyy #fancasts always suck ass as a rule but rhea is who i model my carol off of #if ur wondering why my carol never looks like her its bc im always too lazy to pull up refs #and my visual memory is. not good

[its-sports-anime-life]

Rhea's wrestlemania 40 entrance just itches that part of my brain where I'm just sitting here rewatching it over and over again.

#like its frustrating me on how good this is that i cant stop watching it😭 #and she looks so pretty too!! #wwe #wwe wrestlemania #rhea ripley

[rheasbrvtality]

i cant with this man 😭

#HE IS TOO GOOD #r truth #rhea ripley #dominik mysterio #finn balor #damien priest #the judgement day #wwe #wwe raw

[randomnameless]

Rhea BaD

#Fe heroes #At least something good from the anniveri #Hardin vs Hardin is awesome too #Just like ippei #Or wingman Nemesis #Rhea stuff #Fe16

[i-am-a-meat-popcicle]

Honestly the only thing Hanneman had to say to me was "Lore" and suddenly I was all over that old man.

#I wanna talk to him about crests. #I have so many questions. #If it's true that most people with crests tend to crave sweet food #does that mean anything significant? #Like does channeling the power of a crest use up certain nutrients in the body more than normal? #What does that mean for Edelgard and Lysithea? Could they have severe problems with vitamin deficiencies due to their two crests? #Sweet cravings could be indicative of multiple things- #Hanneman I wanna know #Not to mention the fact that Byleth doesn't seem to have that issue/preference since the player can pick either sweet or spicy food #their body seems to be very good at maintaining homeostasis for the most part #considering they can eat mountains of food and go days without it #is it because they're part Nabataean? #I mean; yes that is most likely the case #but does this apply to Rhea; Seteth; and Flayn too? #or is that just special protagonist stuff? #I need to know I need to know everything #-grabs fe3h by the collar and shakes it- GIVE ME YOUR WORLD BUILDING LORE #fe3h

[saulbaby]

I love how Bob said that the difference between Jimmy and Saul wasn't conning and fast talking. That's all Jimmy, he says, he's been doing that since he was a kid. The difference is that Saul is when he became completely aware of all the consequences and decided not to care.

#better call saul #jimmy mcgill #saul goodman #i think its very interesting bc no scams isnt his lesson #in fact he kinda scams his way to redemption in the most earnest and genuine way imaginable #i just loved that bc i think it really genuinely puts the character in a different perspective #bc hes the same guy. hes flashy and obnoxious and can talk anybody out of anything and that is not the difference between saul and jimmy #kim isnt still on the dark side bc she uses her bar card to get into the prison #jimmys lesson is to look the people you hurt in the eyes and make amends. #his skills are his own but what he chooses to do with them and how he responds to that is whats important #my jimmy.... #i love him #he said it on the podcast and it made me so happy bc the writers seemed surprised too #same when rhea got mad when vince said that kim was mad when ppl tell her jimmys not good for her #rhea was like kims a grown ass woman capable of making her own choices and shes not internally conflicted that other people might be right #nobody needs to save her bc she obviously knows her own relationship better than anybody and she doesnt need ppl telling her whats best #anyway i love them a lot.

[narcan-necromancer]

The fact that Rhea Ripley is straight is a fucking travesty. What a waste.

#watching her fight for the second time in a row #like literally #she's too good for men wtf #rhea ripley

[i-am-just-a-girli]

how did your chem practicals go? i hope it went well <3

Aww thank you for asking <3

It went great actually I think I might get 30/30!!

#rhea asks #answered #mutuals <3 #tysm for asking hehe #i read your post too I'm happy yours went good too #♡

[casstration]

omg u have glasses describe them 2 me pls I feel like glasses say a lot abt a person so I need to know xxxx love u

rhea hello hello!! and ok my glasses....they're like a squircle shape, not too square and not too round, and they're a mix of dark and light brown. like tortoise shell vibes i think (<- im doing a horrible job describing so im putting a picture under the cut lmao)

i also have a hangyodon case for them that i bought in japan! he's my fave sanrio character so that's very fun

#i hope they say good things... #very basic glasses tbh but they're my first pair so i didn't want anything too crazy #my sunglasses r green though!! #mail #rhea tag