#your honor claude and byleth are soulmates platonic or not idc they just are

[saint-cichol-is-watching]

I hate how Claude’s character development and relationship to Byleth is brushed off by the fandom as a whole. Don’t get me wrong the developers definitely dropped the ball there but it’s actually quite funny to see how Claude actually parallels Fodlán as a whole.

He is first introduced as the odd one out, the outsider by his own words and he is shown to be extremely isolationist as he thinks about his safety first and foremost, ‘isolationist’ being term that he himself use to refer to Fodlán since, for a long time now, the continent as a whole refused to grow actual ties with other countries outside of it.

But then by the middle of the game through the five years of flack between part one and part two, he who bounced off and abandoned his comrades at the start of the game when he saw thieves in order to preserve himself, is now leader of the Alliance, and is specifically said to be the one holding it together.

The offensive phase to try and stop the Empire’s aggression only start when the friend in which abilities he believed in so much that even after five years of disappearance he trusted more than anything that they would come back even though he saw them fall to their most likely death, actually does come back. And all he can to them at the time is that he would never gave up on them coming back, sentence that makes Byleth, a person who has felt numb most of their life and still has trouble showing their emotion genuinely smile at him.

And during their final fight, he makes a whole ass speech about reaching their hands in friendship in order to open their true heart to one another while he and Byleth actually reach out their hands in friendship and smile at one another (and literally open up their heart to one another if S-Support there is lmao)

Which then again comes back to the Fodlán parallel as it finally learns to open its borders and creates friendly relationships with the world around them.

#this was supposed to be like two lines and it almost turned out in a full analysis lmao #i actually almost put myself at my desk to write a whole ass ten page essay going in full details lmao #claude von riegan #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #your honor claude and byleth are soulmates platonic or not idc they just are #yes i already said that a long time ago and like a lot of my opinion on 3h changed this one didn’t #fe16