Can I just say how refreshing it is to see you lay out Sylvain for what he is, like holy shit the amount of excuses people make for him is insane. He is an unrepentant raging misogynist, serial cheater and all around shitty person with ZERO character development. And it drives me nuts how many people pussy foot around his actions. Thank you for not mincing words.
See, that's the thing, he has character development, it's just not positive at all. And for me, that's honestly what sucks the worst.
Like, okay he acknowledges that he's a prick. And then what? Because of how 3H is written and structured, everything pretty much gets sidetracked for the war, but even then, Sylvain's still on his bullshit.
And I get it, I can see the things in him that people like: his hidden intelligence, his conceptualization of life and death, his bitterness towards status, etc.
But the fulcrum of his character is fixed around treating women like garbage because he fundamentally sees them as inauthentic gold-diggers who only want him for his crest and status, not for him.
And like... dude, shut the fuck up! That's literally something you made up in your head!
And because most of the women he interacts with in that particular way are NPCs, we're supposed to take him as is. The only times where it's flipped back on him is with Mercedes (she ends up coddling him anyway, the Crest babies line and her giggling about it makes me want to retch) and Dorothea (she could've been written to tell him off just like she did Lorenz but no they made it about her trying to get him back by talking about her looks and age in comparison to his Crest, when Sylvain apparently hit on Ingrid's grandmother).
This is the guy the creators wrote to cover up their blatant misogynistic writing with how Crest bearers are treated???
I was gonna save my Sylvain rant for when I get to Blue Lions-and no doubt I'll still have more to say-but truly, after going back and forth on how I feel about him because I didn't want my moots and followers to be sad about me disliking him, I kinda just need to bite the bullet and say that I think he sucks, and no hidden depths redeem him in my eyes.
