ive been answering these privately out of respect but i feel i need to answer this one publicly so I’ve left out the username.
first and foremost, i cannot control what you make. i knew that the moment i posted the .psd file for everyone to use. but I can monitor what i put on this blog.
>why are byleth/student ships not allowed?
it’s grooming. flat out, it’s grooming. Byleth is their professor for a year when any time skip is only 5-6 months. you can try to defend this by saying they had 5 years apart from Byleth but that falls apart when, even after 5 whole years, the students still call them professor. there’s even a time skip-only dialogue with Leonie in the monastery where she attempts to call you by name and cant because its too awkward, you’re always going to be her professor to her.
and you can’t pretend that romance isn’t there pre time skip, because there are character who will still flirt with byleth, or byleth will be given some creepy dialogue choices (most of which will give you points towards supports), or the goddess tower scenes! edelgard is pushed to have a crush on byleth the entire game, for her to like byleth from the very start of crimson flower she has to have any sort of feelings before the time skip (when she’s 17).
this game pushes for grooming in every aspect, and it gets to hide it all behind the time skip. “theyre adults now, its fine!” its not. its disgusting. its a legitimate form of trauma for many people, including myself. when will any of you listen to trauma survivors?
so, no, I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to support it. I don’t want it on this blog.
>if it’s not byleth/student?
the biggest one off the top of my head i can think of is mercedes/annette. Do I need to explain this to anyone or do I need to give a crash course on ages in 3h? mercedes is 23 at the start of the game and annette is 16. and with their history of magic school together, mercedes still definitely met her when herself was an adult and annette was a little kid and.
hubert/ferdinand is a popular ship! we can’t deny how close they get and that their paired ending in the japanese version is a lot more romantic than the translation. but in the pre time skip, ferdinand is 17, going on 18, while hubert is 20. shaky ground but its not mercedes/annette. pre time skip of this pairing is not allowed, post time skip is fine.
same thing applies to dorothea/petra. dorothea starts the game as 18, petra is 15. don’t do that!
anything not byleth/student comes down to ages, which they all have listed on their id cards you can look at in game. unless you ship any student/faculty (one popular one is dorothea/manuela. stop. do not pass go. do not collect $200), then that is doubly not allowed for the same reasons as byleth/student.
>EDIT: Anonymous asked me: But can’t they execute Byleth at any point, without consequence? They still hold power over Byleth, don’t they?
stop trying to defend grooming on my blog. Linking this ask here so it doesnt get lost down the line and someone tries to make me answer such a stupid question again.
