Character discussion and Three Houses Crimson Flower spoilers under the cut
randomnameless: I'd just say that Linhardt's too bright for his own sake in CF and it can't end well for him. On a side note, I wonder if Marianne paralogue is available in CF...
Lin’s brain is big but he seems extremely... detatched? I genuinely can’t tell if he’s invested in a ANY of the politics surrounding the war, like if he’ll be happy/upset if a certain side wins/loses or if anyone dies. He loves Crests but Edelgard spouting that she wants to do away with them doesn’t garner a reaction from him and in his Byleth Supports he even comes to the conclusion that Crests are rather useless outside of life-threatening battle situations/for contributing to living peacefully (though I feel like this is the writers forgetting exactly what they’ve given us- Dimitri’s Superman strength is hella useful in terms of raw utility, plus the Patient Zero Crest holders living youthfully for hundreds of years...humans would WANT these things). Hell, when all the BE kids reunited in Silver Snow he’d just been being lazy at home for 5 years, so he certainly didn’t take any actions against Edelgard even on the route that gives him an excuse to.
flutterbatwrites: Marianne’s paralogue is available in CF. Also, not sure if this is of interest or not but in CF when you play Linhardt paralogue, Edelgard and Hubert are not playable units. The whole army sneaks off to fight this dragon because they think it will upset Edel if she knows they’re doing it.
That’s actually FASCINATING that on CF the game itself blocks you from bringing Edelgard or Hubert... it means that at least 3 members of the army collude to exclude them while making this trip, and I have to assume it’s cause Linhardt (and maybe Byleth) knows things might get ugly with a Saint involved so just... directly go against their ruler+general’s principals in order to more peaceably contact a third party (aka playfight with Indech and not murdenate him). I assume this was just the game Devs not wanting to lock you out from possibly getting a Holy Weapon (Cf’s already missing gobs of them) BUT the implications... Honestly now I’m even more unsure what to think on what’s going on with Linhardt and what he deems acceptable.