Your Place for Problematic Fódlan and Dagda Takes

A place to submit all your anonymous takes on Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Three Hopes and Fortune's Weave, posted without comment or judgment. Be as problematic as you like!

[problematic-fodlan]

Welcome to Problematic Fódlan!

Inspired by older projects on Dreamwidth as well as by an unaffiliated blog that was unfortunately deactivated, here's a place for you to submit anonymous opinions, headcanons, and interpretations of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, or Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave without worrying about getting trolled, flamed, or caught in an endless reblog war. Takes will be posted without comment, though as more come in they will be tagged according to topic for easier searching.

Rules:

All asks and submissions must be anonymous. Those who do not adhere to this rule will have their names censored, and will be ignored if I can't fit the entire submission in at most two screencaps.

Do not send asks entirely in header font, or in all caps. They're annoying to read.

Asks must also primarily relate to one of the Fódlan/Dagda games. References to other Fire Emblem games or other media are acceptable provided Three Houses/Hopes or Fortune's Weave remain the focus.

References to real-life events/situations are permitted, but please remain civil. This includes not bashing or making generalizing statements about anyone based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. or making statements that could be considered culturally insensitive, i.e. bashing real world religions. Also do not assume any of these things about other anons or attribute any real-life political affiliations to them. References to especially charged topics, for example Nazis/fascism or the Palestinian genocide, are also banned. The blog owner reserves the right not to publish submissions considered to be offensive or deliberately inflammatory.

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Online names of participants in Fódlan discourse may be included, but this is not meant to invite trolling or harassment and ought to be understood as such by readers as well as by those making submissions. Harassment is bad, people. Don't do it. I also reserve the right not to publish any such submissions if they name people who I see publicly interacting with this blog, so as to head off any potential arguments.

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Happy posting, everyone!

[problematic-fodlan]

There isn't enough three lords simultaneous bashing fics in the world, they're literally 18~early 20s aristocrat shitheads they are the easiest possible people to bash. You don't need to make any of them sympathetic or even smart in ways that matter practically, they're the exact demographic Sun Tzu wrote "soldiers and horses need to eat" for

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My Blood is a good Rhea centric Rheagard fanfic. In terms of proper longfics they're fairly balanced out.

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[problematic-fodlan]

To the Rhea fic anon

Regardless of anyone else’s feels or preferences, please write your fic!

If there really aren’t many Rhea centered fics, then be the change!

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[problematic-fodlan]

She still says with her own damn mouth that she wants to kill her.

Either edelgard lied then or she's lying now.

I won't push this issue anymore. I don't want to break Mod's rules.

I appreciate that.

[problematic-fodlan]

Nonny is right, it's SO hard to find Rhea centric fics. Partly because she doesn't have any popular ships, and ship fics make up most of ao3. Rhealeth is controversial, and Catherine is usually shipped with shamir. So your best options are crack ships. There's Rheagard but they're usually more focused on Edelgard than Rhea, in my experience.

Hell I'm writing a Rhea centric fic and it's not doing well because most people don't care for protagonist Rhea. It's a real shame.

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[problematic-fodlan]

She literally gains support points if you say that you’d prefer to spare Rhea and loses them if you support killing here; this is a position that the game mechanics themselves prove to be her actual feelings.

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[problematic-fodlan]

Edelgard can *say* whatever she wants. It’s usually trying to get out of taking responsibility for what she is doing cause it’s “for the greater good” or someone else’s fault or acted without her knowledge (yet does nothing about it)

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[problematic-fodlan]

"I seek to obliterate Rhea and those who support her."

If it hasn't dawned on you that edelgard lies as easily and as intentionally as she breaths, I don't know what to tell you.

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[problematic-fodlan]

Edelgard claiming she doesn't want Rhea to die rings hollow when the ending cutscene of Crimson Flower is the goriest death in either game. Long death cry, blood everywhere. Nothing like the cutaways and clean pretty deaths other characters get. Even Claude killing Rhea in Golden Wildfire is more flashy and stylized as opposed to gory. And Scarlet Blaze is a total copout, Edelgard's enemies kill each other in a flash of light.

This is one case where Three Houses actually shows *and* tells, only what it's telling and what it's showing don't match up.

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[problematic-fodlan]

Kinda amazing how the game will sometimes show and many times literally tell you the faults and flaws of the characters in this game and people still get bent out of shape when *checks notes* people use that information in their fics to further explore the character.

Don’t know how some can play a game about a war and get upset when they see their fav portrayed negatively. There is nothing you can do about how others will perceive your favs, just let it go!

On another note: can we stop assuming about fan artists and fic writers when explore dark or sad topics? Doing so says nothing about the person’s character. Why are so called BNF accounts allowed to say and do what they want, but oh no, someone draw some gore or a bad thing happened to a frickin antagonist in a fic and it’s the end of the world!

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[problematic-fodlan]

Claude all but openly admits that he'd prefer it if Rhea was dead in the very first chapter of Verdant Wind: "But I'm not so sure whether it would be good for her to return as the archbishop… Rather, with her gone… Eh, never mind. This could be a dangerous conversation."

He dances around it like he always does, but this is still a pretty open by his standards; he very much sees her as an obstacle to be removed before anything else.

Conversely, Edelgard in Crimson Flower openly admits that her preferred outcome is that Rhea survive and be stripped of her power; she just isn't one to let those preferences get in the way of what she thinks needs to be done.

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[problematic-fodlan]

The only lord who wants Rhea dead is edelgard.

Claude is suspicious of her and wanted her gone for reasons the game proves are wrong (which the fic did not do) and thus he doesn't want her gone anymore. He only wanted her dead in hopes after he became edelgard 2.0

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[problematic-fodlan]

Rhea is really not treated well in the fandom. Even most seemingly Rhea positive fics just use her to bash Edelgard instead actually caring about her.

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[problematic-fodlan]

I don’t know why you’d be surprised about a Golden Deer fic being anti-Rhea, given that Claude’s the only lord who canonically *wants* her dead, rather than, at most seeing it as an unfortunate necessity.

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[problematic-fodlan]

It's really hard to find a fic with Rhea as a main focus (with any focus) that doesn't demonize her, bash her, or treat her like a negative presence.

It's doesn't even have to be an edelgard focus fic, meaning that they just treat Rhea as ticking bomb without edelgard's made up bullshot about her. There's a Golden Deer longfic which was basically a Rhea hit piece.

I'm not going to say it doesn't happen to the other characters. I am saying it happens to Rhea far more than all of them put together.

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[problematic-fodlan]

How much do khalid-stans intersect with the people who appropriate every brown character as black? Because I notice them alot in FE discourse, mostly 3H and FW of course.

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