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Church BaD.

Of course they’re BaD, why didn’t they intervene in Galatea beforehand, to teach them how to farm poor agricultural lands?

What’s that? The Count didn’t invite them before? Faerghus BaD? Well, if Rhea made flyers and distributed them around Fodlan as she ought to, telling people her church can help them with various issues, like growing crops, this situation would never have arisen.

Tl;dr : Faerghus BaD, Church BaD

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29 and 38 for the ask game!

Thank you for the ask! And I apologize that it is late!

38: Who's your favorite tea time companion?

[Looks at my 100+ pictures of Claude] I don't have a definitive favorite aknskssn Okay but seriously I used the tea time specifically for Claude Far too much during my first play through and I made sure to host one for him on his birthday during my current AM run. I have his prompts pretty much memorized

29: What character should've gotten more development?

People are gonna think I'm insane but tbh I wanted more development out of Felix. (My criticisms below the cut)

I understand he already gets a lit, but for me it didn't go far enough especially in-terms of making amends for past shit he's done and said. I'm replaying AM rn and a lot of his dialog in supports and elsewhere during White Clouds (I'm thinking Dedue, Dimitri, Ingrid, a lot of people...) goes beyond "edgy teenager" territory for me into "he's a fucking Prick." And not in a fun way either.

I'll admit that I'm not fond of White Clouds Felix 😅 I do think he gets better as AM goes on; however, for half of the story he rubs against a character set of traits/archetype that really squicks me out. I would've liked to see more of an apology in Both words and actions. Especially to Dimitri. It's been awhile since I've played AM (which is why I'm going through it now), so there may be some things I forgot, but I've always felt wanting for more.

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@dimiclaudeblaigan replied to your post “About that Listhea and Edelgard dialogue on crest...”:

Miklan wasn't removed from the family for not having a crest actually. He was disinherited but still part of the family. He was disowned after years and years of trying to kill Sylvain and being a bandit.

​Yep!

I still don't really like how FE16 tried to "uwu" Miklan's story to make Supreme Leader have a point about the crust system - as you said, if possession of a crest, rather lack of, was the only reason why someone would be removed from family, Miklan would have been ousted from the Gautier fam the second Sylvain was born, but it wasn't the case.

Dishinerited yes, but not disowned, and we know several characters (Rufus, Ingrid's bros, Gustave!) who have "crested" siblings, and yet aren't kicked away from their houses or left with a loaf of bread and a glass of water.

But FE16 - at least the spoken lines by the characters, because Hresvelg Grey - completely elude this to harp on the "crust system", and as some people pointed out, between "first son gets the title" and "first child with a crest gets the title" rules, I can't really say which one is worse lol

we know how it happened in jugdral, in a verse where Azmur picks Seliph as the next king of Granvalle because he's Deedee's firstborn son regardless of his minor Naga Blood, without Julia, the world is fucked the second Manfroy reads the "Loptyr" bedtime story to Julius

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Post ask: sorry it's giant but u know me yeah??? yeah.

Since that was a response to someone else's post and I don't have enough to say in terms of all or most of the topics to reblog it in response, yeah, I'd say the Agarthans are the lesser of the two evils to Edelgard. If it was the other way around, I would imagine she'd ally with Rhea to get rid of Thales and Friends, but she chooses Thales and Friends over Rhea.

I understand she needs their assistance to win her war and all that, but Edelgard could've just as easily allied with Rhea after telling her the truth about the Agarthans and whatnot (Hopes notwithstanding since that's a different situation and would for another post/ask/etc), and she'd have a power equal to the Agarthans allied with her. By which I mean, Rhea and Thales+the other Agarthans are basically at the same strength, so she more or less had a choice between the two sides to ally with. Having Rhea would also mean having the KoS which isn't a group to scoff at.

So yeah, that said, I think she determined Agarthans were just less evil in her mind (especially considering she has similar values to them, such as saying in the Lonato chapter that she'd sacrifice her own people for her goals, but that's also exactly what Solon does to Kronya, and in Hopes, what Arval does to Solon. In other words them doing that isn't a moral nope I'm out for her/obviously wasn't a deciding factor).

Also, I think it's very likely that she preferred to side with humans over dragons. It reminds me a lot of this one line in FE9, where an NPC says he'd rather side with humans/his own kind because "at least you know what you're getting". Considering the hatred she seems to have (for unexplored reasons) toward dragons, it would make sense that she would choose to side with the people who are human like her.

She seems to have more reasons/goals/things in common with Agarthans overall, and if she doesn't accept Rhea's values and such, it makes sense that she'd have a preference toward Agarthans. No idea if you could say that Thales has a part in it because he's by appearance her uncle, so maybe that plays a part too? Again, unexplored, but it could be a factor since Thales has had her uncle's body for years now and is pretending to /be/ her uncle to the public.

Yet again, UNEXPLORED LOL, but I wish they went more into depth of like, why would she side with the people who tormented her and killed all her siblings? Why would she listen to anything they told her, much less ally with them? I was much more preferable to SB's situation because it felt more like the right thing to do as far as her character. If they had that much of a chokehold on the Empire, there was still nothing stopping her once she was safely in GM and could've talked to Rhea privately, and also asked that she doesn't do anything to raise their suspicions that Rhea and Friends have caught on/know what's happening because it could put her/the Empire/etc in danger.

The whole "they have us in a chokehold" kind of thing isn't really how it goes in CF because she does willingly want them allied with her to use their tech and whatnot, so it's a mutual usage and she does target Cornelia who ends up being collateral damage for being in Faerghus when she attacks Faerghus (again, a technical ally who she ends up killing).

Which like, she didn't have to attack Faerghus at all because Cornelia had so much power there. Again, that was an ally of hers technically; though I guess it gets muddy because Rodrigue still trusted Cornelia and was working alongside her in CF, so it's highly likely Cornelia was fighting /with/ Faerghus to take out Edelgard before truly running the place with an iron fist (which like, that might be true in general; I don't really remember since my memory on CF overall is a little hazy in comparison to the other routes).

Also makes me think that was another thing they should've put more focus on (which they absolutely could have considering CF was cut short chapter-wise). Thales gets mad that they attacked Cornelia, but was Cornelia actively fighting the Empire with Faerghus, or was she holding back (i.e. Faerghus was fighting the Empire but Cornelia personally was trying to mitigate damage because it would benefit the Agarthans)?

If Cornelia wasn't doing anything, yeah, I can understand Thales getting mad, but if she was, then he can't really be mad that they killed an Agarthan in the middle of that conflict. Like, Faerghus was going to fight back no matter what, but Rodrigue was treating Cornelia like a commander or something? So like... what was the Agarthans' role in all that? How much did they help Faerghus fight back? Obviously they want to weaken the Empire for more control, so it makes sense to side with Faerghus in part, but it's just a really condensed arc because it only lasts for one chapter.

This got a bit off topic BUT I wrote it anyway because it was relatively related. I just feel like there were better methods to write out the whole Edelgard and Agarthans thing, but they made CF a lot shorter than the other routes and effectively shot themselves in the foot by doing so with the story.

I feel like they did that with the chapter count because CF was supposed to be much more of a secret route, but since they made the conditions significantly easier by their own admission than they intended to originally, they gave themselves like what, five chapters less to work with the story? Makes it more convoluted than it could've been.

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for what it's worth, in heroes, she calls them both monsters/beasts !

Beasts hiding in the light. Monsters slithering in the dark.

So she knows they're both non-humans, but having pointy ears is worse than having pale skin ?

And yet, the lizard are just so BaD with their "non human-ess" that she always targets them first - because let's be real, in Nopes, she just kicks her uncle out of Enbarr, but doesn't make sure he's dead or his cult is dealt with, no, she returns to her top priority, make Fodlan a lizard-free world.

Part of her hatred against Nabateans must come from agarthan slithering in Adrestia since... uh, the moment Seiros left? and some of it might also be part of her growing up as an Adrestian Nobles, and being Big MaD (tm) that the stupid church let those barbarians get their own country 400 years ago :( Maybe her rac- specism comes from those two sources?

About Cornelia - in CF Rodrigue seems to work with her, but we have also to be reminded that in CF, Cornelia is still under cover and supposed to be the nice lady who cured the Kingdom - she can't pull all the things she does in the non CF routes or manipulate Rufus like she does in AG because Rhea (and her knights) is in Firdhiad! I personally thing she was mitigating her efforts - not actively helping the Kingdom, and having to prepare her Titanus army in secret because the second the capital, aka Dimitri hears about this, there's a possibility Rhea will know too, and the gig would be up (Rhea herself isn't that familiar with Titanus, but she most likely knows giant robots are either Nabatean, or Agarthan - coupled with Cornelia's permanent youth it could raise way too much suspicions).

Yep, I also think so regarding the chapter count! CF was supposed to be the bonus/bad end route so it'd make sense if it is shorter, but imo, also because the writers wrote themselves in a dead end - if Rhea has to be the main enemy because her ears are pointy, you can't suddenly throw Agarthans in the mix and for Supreme Leader to demolish them at first, and then taking Rhea's head because her ears are pointy!

They already wrote themselves in a bretzel knot with the "nu uh it was Rhea who launched those missiles trust me uwu" where even the CF writers couldn't possibly imagine that no characters would ever call doubts on her bullshit of the day - but imagine if the rest of the cast had to come clean with Flamey's association to Agarthans, what they did (hello war assets!) who they are and what they want?

I know CF operates on a "suspension of disbelief" level - but even at this point I think it would have been hard for the FE16 writers to make any sense of it.

Giving more screentime to Supreme Leader's association with Agarthans (especially since she believes she needs them to off Rhea, after all, she asks her Uncle to come and watch the final battle, so maybe she thought he could summon "reserve troops" if everything failed like what happens in the non-CF versions of the Assault in Garreg Mach?) would also means giving more spotlight to Flamey's actions during White Clouds, and we know FE16 is allergic to that.

So, in a nutshell, I think Supreme Leader targets the lizards before targetting Uncle'n'co because :

Both are non humans but pointy ears are even "less human" than Agarthans because pointy ears are "beasts"! (which would explain why in Nopes she immediately shifts her target on pointy ears after Thales is only "outed" of the Empire and not killed - bear in mind she targets Rhea when Thales is still alive, but in CF, killing Rhea is her top priority!)

She needs Uncle's help to target pointy ears (which doubles as horrifying if she counts on Thales'n'co's abilities to get rid of Nabateans because she checked their resume and/or they told her how they genocided them all save for half a dozen remaining ones)

Getting rid of Pointy Ears means she'll be able to MAGA (one of her main goals!) while getting rid of Thales won't bring her any step closer to unifying Fodlan under Adrestia's banner

She's more pissed at the Goddess not answering her prayers when she was being tortured than at the people torturing her themselves! (Thales lit says he gave her the CoF so she'll become their greatest weapon! So she knows the one who cut her open wasn't Aegir, or acting on Aegir's orders, but the mole men working with Thales!)

Granted, as you pointed out with the PoR comparison, if both are non humans, an usual "racist" human wouldn't want to side with either of them - Thales is a monster, Rhea is a beast, so who should she side with?

That's why I suppose she has some personal grudge against Nabateans (more personal than any grudge she can have against the one who butchered her and her own siblings!!) to make her hate them much more viciously than hating Agarthans. Is it because the Church recognised Faerghus' right to be independant? Or something else?

i still have my au/verse/hc where Emperor Willy named his half-nabatean son Lycaon as his heir, when he had other older fully-human children who felt like the half lizard stole their throne, and since then House Hresvelg harbours a deep resentment against nabateans, who are supposedly better than themselves (else why would Willy have picked his latest kid and not a human one???).

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@dimiclaudeblaigan replied to your post “Now I can’t say FEH really was warning us…because...”:

Also about Leopold, he's relatively likable sometimes in Hopes, whereas that's not the impression I got from him in Houses. Caspar was TERRIFIED of him in Houses. He literally expected the man would murder his own son (Caspar himself) on a battlefield. That's not the impression I got from AG Leopold, at least.

​Well,

I have my own beef with Leopold, first by being a retcon but that's not the most important, imo Nopes made the deathly choice of...

Not having Leopold explain why the fuck he

1/turned against Ionius to begin with to side with Aegir and

2/ turned against Aegir to side with Supreme Leader -

It's, imo, as bonkers as having, in FE7, recruited Jaffar without ever talking about that "incident" with Leila.

FE16 suggests Supreme Leader bribed him (iirc?) but in Nopes, bar being "dumb muscle Sr", we don't learn anything about Adrestia, his eldest son (Caspar's bro who is supposed to inherit his title?), why he changes allegiances like Supreme Leader changes her outfits, or anything of importance.

The War against Dagda'n'Brigid? Icing Petra's parents? Leopold doesn't talk about it, doesn't even talk about who asked him to ice them, what were his thoughts about it, no, nothing.

FE16 tries to have Doro (as always!) play the violon for him saying he accepted to lay down his life so his men would be spared in Enbarr which we are supposed to find honorable - and sure, it is in a way, because he stops or at least reduces the bloodshed, but damn if coming from the corrupt Minister of War (who ends up with Leicester in Tru Piss) who was in charge of leading the invasion of several states is a bit... too much. Bergliez is willing to offer his life to save his men, but wasn't giving a fuck about trouncing loldiers/civilians defending their home?

Even if he is in some sort of similar shoes, I still prefer Burian (or whatever is his name now!) of Dozel over Leopold, both are generals to an Empire who does Empire things and target civilians, but Burian wasn't presented as a weatherwane like Leopold was and he only wonders, as he dies, if he was fighting on the "wrong side", showing, imo, how misguided he was (without summoning Doro and her "sad uwus" concerto).

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gw could never

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Really? 

In GW he apparently pretends to do everything he does for Leicester (uhhh)’s sake, or to make sure his allies with end up on the winning side of the war.

But yeah, it hinges on Supreme Leader not Aymr, I mean, Labrunda’ing his ass as soon as she finishes cleaning up Faerghus and getting rid of the Evil Lizard Lady, and that’s completely stupid lol

It’s good to see that, in FE16 at least, Claude has enough braincells to know that allying with Supreme Leader will actually put his allies/people in danger, as opposed to the brain commotion he had in GW!

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@dimiclaudeblaigan replied to your post “Relieved to see the "Church bad" stuff in 3H was...”:

I got the feeling that the reason Seteth "disagrees" with some of what she preaches was only mentioned bc he's been so loved and popular in the fandom. By doing that it separates him from Rhea and even tho Rhea BaD, Seteth is salvageable despite being her second in command. That way ppl can enjoy Seteth while still hating Rhea and have it make sense.

​Yeah, Seteth being "Rhea sus" in FE16 was already strange, especially with the Billy focus (compare his reaction to reuniting with Billy in SS and reuniting with his sister/relative who was in danger of being relic'd after 5 years of zumba in Enbarr) - we had to wait for fe heroes to gain some focus on their relationship outside of plot/Billy events (tfw Halloween!Rhea knows Seteth would think her dress isn't decent enough and would make a fuss about it, or the 4 koma where he has an attack seeing her swimsuit, and how she tries to bullshit her way through) and Nopes finally gave us the paralogue...

But yeah, as you said, since Rhea must be sus, Seteth, despite having the severity of someone catching his younger sibling stealing in the cookie jar when he finds out about Rhea's "experiments", has to be separated from her, so the Rhea BaD underlaying current from the games won't affect him too much and he can still be marriable by the protags who might uwu about Supreme Leader (even if they don't uwu that much, since he's not available on her routes :( ).

Now, for the tenets he disgrees with, it obviously must be something like "the Goddess accepts polyships, as long as you treat each of your partners with the consideration and respect they deserve".

at this rate, i wouldn't be surprised if the mention about cichol having multiple loves in the tome of comely saints wasn't rhea's petty revenge against him for being such a prude

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@dimiclaudeblaigan replied to your post “Tbf to Jeralt, it's possible that his merc band...”:

Yeah I could tell they wanted to mirror Greil but they did it so poorly lol. The GMs /were/ kinda humble as far as food they had iirc, but they no doubt had more than Jeralt's group (they were very skilled but had far fewer ppl to feed, which means more jobs thus more money but less mouths to feed). Greil also didn't do anything nearly as questionable as Jeralt (Greil's worst crime was not telling his kids that laguz existed tbh... even tho they lived in Gallia before).

​IIRC the Greil merc pick their jobs, so they don't take the first ones available, is it because Greil has so many "offers" he can chose what he's going to do and the kids will be fed anyways, or because he is still someone decent, and won't accept taking an offer to, idk, attack refugees or something?

Also, iirc, Greil took orphans under his wings at least 4 times? First with the Oscar siblings (even if Rolf's mom is still around?), then with Soren?