What is people's obsession with putting Seteth and Flayn in Crimson Flower? I saw a long ass post of people like "Crimson Flower Seteth who just wants to make a world safe for Flayn" BY JOINING A WOMAN WHO WANTS THEIR KIND KILLED OFF?! How is that making a world safe for Flayn? JFC Made worse by the post saying that Flayn tells Seteth that their kind merely EXISTING has brought pain on the world. That's just horrible to me and it makes me sick to see.
Oh I actually know the answer to this one!
See, if Crimson Flower is the bestest most rightest route, that means absolutely nothing bad can happen in it ever. Which means they have three major points to contend with.
1) Felix because he will never have a happy ending outside of Azure Moon. This is why we get all of these weird mental gymnastics insisting that Felix’s life is somehow better without Dimitri, despite every single one of his endings being objectively worse in every way compared to their Azure Moon variation.
2) Seteth and Flayn because they, unlike Rhea, Catherine, and Cyril are generally universally likable characters that cannot coexist with a Crimson Flower run. Crimson Flower always results in bad things for them (and no I don’t count “being allowed to live and being forced to go into hiding for potentially hundreds of years” as better than just dying).
This is why we get all of this dialogue about how “isn’t it so great that you can let them live!” just don’t talk about what happens to them afterwards details details... Or we get the classic “the game messed up their writing and they would totally side with Edelgard!” Just ignore the fact that Edelgard is hella racist and the only way they live is if Byleth lets them go.
3) The other two lords because you have to take them down in Crimson Flower despite their complete lack of aggression towards Edelgard. So somehow you have to blame something that isn’t Edelgard for their conflict.
Claude, of course, they deal with by pointing out that you can spare him, and by making him Edelgard’s “black friend”. The whole “omg it’s so tragic that Claude and Edelgard never talked because they would have totally agreed with each other and killed Rhea together!” and “Edelgard isn’t racist because she totally would have gotten along with Claude!” thing.
Dimitri they deal with by dismissing everything he’s about, because he’s just crazy. It’s not Edelgard’s fault she had to kill him, he’s just obsessed with her and crazy. It’s not Edelgard’s fault she had to invade his country, he teamed up with the crazy dragon lady and is super crazy. And craaaaaaazy people deserve to die, so that’s obviously not a mark against Edelgard’s character. Though there is the slightly rarer variation of “Edelgard convinced Dimitri that he was totes wrong and he magically got over his craaaazy and all three lords got together and murdered Rhea #SlayQueen”
Basically... Shoehorning Seteth and Flayn into Crimson Flower is some sort of grotesque “fix it” fic hell bent on making Crimson Flower ~perfect~ and disregarding absolutely everything about the game in the process.
