#occasionallydiverting

[trek-tracks]

James “Hubris” Kirk

[cerastes]

For real.

I was dreading the seemingly inevitable moment in which Minerva would warm up to Claude, I really, really was, and then, she lets loose one of the best, realest speeches I’ve seen in any game.

The “I’ve always hated you” speech felt so refreshing and real. Some people just won’t ever see eye to eye, and that’s just life, baby, it takes more than fire-forged bonds for some people, it takes something that just simply doesn’t exist. They’ll work together, they’ll get results, but that’s one thing, and this? This is a whole ‘nother story.

[setethsbigbaratitties]

hey i gotta question for you about your FE OC's tiddy magic. also a question about that staple stuck in your forehead but that one can wait

YEAH SO. my fe oc is kind of a wild gal. her backstory is that she’s a princess who really isn’t interested in being involved in politics and ESPECIALLY isn’t interested in a political marriage. she’s also an archer (insert reference to disney-pixar’s brave here). so partly to make herself seem less attractive to potential suitors and partly in reference to the rumor that amazon women would remove a breast to make them better archers, she had her twin brother use dark magic to remove her tiddies. it’s actually a really difficult and specialized skill but what else are siblings for am i right

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occasionallydiverting replied to your post “Conversation about Edelgard makes me really nervous and I think I’ve...”

I think the character I’d compare Rhea to most would be Lady Eboshi. They’re both charismatic and want what’s best for their people—and will go to great lengths to further that goal—but are unwilling or unable to confront the cost it will have/has had.

Fantastic comparison (further aided by my recent re-viewing of Mononoke)! Lady Eboshi’s charisma is so intense that it’s easy to side with her for most of the movie, too, and I can understand how Rhea would have the same effect on people, despite the extremely sinister framing and dubious acts of censorship that happen literally in front of you during White Clouds. 

In Mononoke, the tables are kind of turned, in that the ‘rebellion’ figure - the gods of the forest - are clearly losing and have kind of made peace with that loss. It’s also aided somewhat by the fact that Eboshi is an aggressor, while Rhea isn’t, and I can’t help but wonder if that’s where people get lost - people who see war as something that is Obviously Bad and you should Never Do, and unable to really grasp why any good person would actively start one. 

...You know, it’s also kind of interesting how Mononoke manages to sanitize Eboshi’s punishment. Even in the climax of the movie, when the damage being caused by human expansion is now really obvious to the viewer, Eboshi won’t give up on her hunt for the Forest Spirit. The only thing that finally gets her to stop and confront what she’s done is RETALIATION. The Forest Spirit DESTROYED IRONTOWN. But because it does that in a very magical way and nobody died and the framing was “oh wow how pretty! huh i guess we lose”, it’s easy to gloss over the fact that this was AN ACT OF VIOLENCE. 

But ultimately, that’s what it takes for her and her followers to really accept that what they did was wrong, and “revolution” didn’t have to mean going to Forest Spirit Jail or anything like that; it was just the recognition that they needed to start over, and more than that, to do better than before. 

Edelgard’s situation is far more grim. Rhea already has political control over Fodlan; the violence against her victims is more subtle, less overt, and it’s easy to see Edelgard as an instigator. But with those details aside, I feel like it’s almost exactly the same story, except Edelgard doesn’t owe Rhea a second chance, and probably doubts that Rhea would accept one if it was offered (even though she does, in verdant wind [even though that conversation felt REALLY weird and stilted and forced tbh]). 

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occasionallydiverting replied to your post: Oh my GOD, Dimitri is frustrating. Dimitri talks...

it’s doubly frustrating because one of Dimitri stans’ favorite memes is Edelgard saying the church is bad but having no justification for it… like, Dima, where is YOUR justification for anything? did you take five gap years as a serial killer because Fhirdiad U gives credit for it?

On the side of discourse, playing this route is absolutely infuriating lmao

In the time it takes Dimitri to stop being a dickhead, Crimson Flower ends.

People love to go on about Dimitri’s character arc but he doesn’t really have an arc, stuff just happens and he coin flips between personalities. 

They LOVE to call Edelgard a war criminal but the dude who breaks Dimitri out of his break down says, in his dying breath, “Sins and punishments don’t exist on the battlefield”. 

So much of the stuff this game tries to pull off is so unearned it’s not even funny.

[vilkalizer]

i know but I WANT THEM NOW

[phenixfarts]

Cherche and Cordelia in R2, perhaps? ^_^

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I'd like to request Lyon, if you don't mind ^_^

absolutely! he says hi