4, 8 and 9
4. Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?
Hmm… Byleth and Jeritza. It’s popular at least in the sense that it got talked about quite a lot when the news dropped about it being an option. I don’t know if it’s more popular than Byleth and Linhardt, if it is, that’s kind of sad. I honestly don’t get being attracted to serial killers - or wanting Byleth to be. The most popular M/M option for Byleth right now is probably Yuri, rightfully so IMO.
Another - I’d say Ignatz and Lysithea. This one doesn’t actually get talked about aside from what I’m about to say, which is Lysithea was being a mega bitch in their supports.8. Have you received anon hate? What about?*I wouldn’t call it hate towards me precisely, but I did get some heated asks regarding the thing about all of the M/M options for Byleth being so-called “twinks” or “femmes.” There were some asks sent to me that spoke of “twinks” and “breeders” negatively IIRC. I got the impression that someone was venting to me.I did answer most of those asks, so if you look in the fe3h gaycourse tag you can find them.All of the actual hate I’ve ever received was off anon. One example was being called some kind of slur or something similar because I didn’t agree with the idea fire emblem/three houses was trying to send a message to players that masculine gays don’t exist or aren’t valid.
That post easily generated the most amount of controversy on my blog so far.
As a refresher/short summary of my opinion on this:
I think having a variety of different guys for M/M options is ideal (including types I don’t personally care for, like ojiisans or bodybuilders)
however, if there isn’t a wide variety, then that isn’t the developers necessarily insulting the kind of guys that weren’t options or the guys who like those kinds of guys.
An important piece of context is that in the vast majority of games with M/M options for western english players (aka the people I was interacting with/talking about), either all of the options are masculine guys (who are often ripped) or there’s a variety of different guys. All femme guys almost never happens in those games. So FETH having supposedly all “femme/twink” options (the only one I’d call that is Yuri) is not the end of the world.
9. Most disliked character(s)? Why?
Three Houses:
I dislike pretty much ever aspect of Edelgard, for reasons I’ve discussed before. The few things I like: her very handsome pre-skip outfit, her voice, her battle pose. I can’t take her post-skip outfit seriously, she looks like a shitty cartoon villain.
The slithers are awful in general and boring as shit. There’s nothing interesting about them. Generic evil people. I liked Kronya’s design but she lasted 5 seconds. Also see Metodey.
Randolph’s “I’m invading Garreg Mach to protect my family” goes to show how unintelligent he is.
Fates:
Hana: Nasty to Corrin and several other characters in their supports. It’s like a worse version of Lysithea with even less reason to be prickly.
Nyx: I could be misremembering, but I heard she’s an example of some localization changes. I heard she was changed to basically being a cranky grandma. See Hana for reasons I dislike her.
Inigo/Lazlow/Soleil: In general I have a tendency to dislike the characters who are super horny for girls. When some class is added to the mix as with Virion or Lorenz, I can enjoy them. I’ll also say that skirt chaser characters tend to be a lot more interesting in my opinion when they aren’t talking to girls (or aren’t talking about girls) - see Sylvain and Felix, Virion and Libra, Inigo and Gerome, etc. This lets them break out of their trope a bit and let’s see you what there’s behind it.
Nina: I don’t remember anything interesting about her, she just seemed to be an example of an annoying yaoi fangirl. Hopefully there’s much more to her but… that’s what I remember.
Awakening:
Validar: The generic evil villain. I think perhaps Awakening had most well-rounded cast for me out of the three.
