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i cannot FATHOM the fact that they made Catherine male-byleth exclusive when her supports and relationship with Shamir exist.

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Just Finished the BL Route.

There is such a great attention to character detail in this game because let’s face it, that’s really the only detail this game has but really, it’s all it needs. What is a story without characters? However, I wanna make something very clear: Just because I’m critical of a character’s motivations, I’m not bashing them. I think this is a fantastic game and everyone has something to love about it. But I do, have some grievances and this is like...80% grievance.

Unpopular Opinion but Dimitri’s descent into madness makes total sense. The kid is clearly hanging on by a thread the moment you meet him and it’s only enhanced by Felix’s observations. One thing important to note here: Boars aren’t aggressive until they are provoked.

There’s a lot riding on Dimitri from the very beginning. He’s the one that’s going to put Faergus back together. He’s the one that’s going to protect what’s left of Duscur. He has to come back to his country a leader worth following. He tried to stop the burning of Duscur and in the end, he only saved one person - nearly dying himself. Again.

That’s all before you meet him. He’s the foil to Edelgard for a reason, and he rises to meet her at every challenge. If she’s an unstoppable force, he’s the immovable object and Claude is the result of the collision.

Edelgard and Dimitri also see the concept of Family very, very differently. Edelgard clearly sees any family ties as burdens, reminders of a horrible ordeal that took her life away and nearly destroyed her. Whereas Dimitri is desperate for any kind of family connection after a horrible ordeal that took his life away and nearly destroyed him. Foils.

In a way, Edelgard is stronger or at least more constructive than Dimitri. While Dimitri was stuffed in a jail cell and nearly executed, Edelgard went out and did something about what she thought was wrong with the world. Although, I think the way she went about doing it is outrageous. Honestly, I could write an entire book on why the Sympathetic Imperialist is a bad trope. All I’ll say on the subject is: Just because you call in “unification” doesn’t mean it’s not Imperialism.

Dimitri has an extreme - almost unreasonable - sense of duty and justice. This spreads virulently into Ashe and Ingrid who frequently have to be brought back down to Earth before they get carried away as shown in their supports with Catherine, Sylvain and Felix. Everything in Faergus is riding on him being a worthy leader, it makes sense that he would think avenging the dead would fall into that category. The country’s hopes rest on his shoulders, the dead are subject to his protection as well. Auditory/visual hallucinations and flashbacks are a common symptom of PTSD - and I have my own theory about Dimitri being a disorganized Schizophrenic but that’s a whole ‘nother ball game.

Before Remire Village, Dimitri is very slow to anger. He doesn’t acknowledge anger and out of the three he is the most level headed. Naturally, this makes him the most unbalanced. Which would’ve made for a killer dynamic among the 3 house leaders. God I would give my left tit to see this game redone to give Edelgard, Claude and Dimitri a much deeper bond. Because the Dimitri/Claude dynamic comes out of nowhere in the third act of the game. Even weirder, it’s right after we beat his ass and killed his friends at Gronder field. A battle that he really didn’t need to be involved in in the first goddamn place. Oh man, just think of it, the story of Claude trying desperately to hold his two friends together and then depending on which route you choose, him realizing that one, the other or both are beyond saving. That way he could actually...y’know...BE IN THE OTHER STORY ROUTES.

Even though I adore the Blue Lions story route, it pretty much falls apart after the battle of Gronder Field. The game starts to depend more on the emotional impact of killing your fellow students and teachers rather than actual storytelling. Personally, this had very little effect on me because once I failed a few times, I got angry to the point that I truly did not care about straight up killing any of them.

Rodrigue’s death was almost entirely pointless and only served to make me feel really bad for Felix who spends two months distinctly alone and grieving. His entire journey coming to terms with his father’ death is just glossed over with a few lines. Meanwhile Dimitri is apparently cured of his PTSD even though it’s clear he’s still suffering. It’s just never really resolved because apparently winning a war means you’re no longer traumatized.

Even though I adore him, I completely understand why a lot of people don’t like Dimitri because it’s the same reason a lot people dislike female characters in certain media. He has very little - if any - agency in his own story. The tragedy of Duscur, the Burning of Duscur, attending the Officer’s academy, Edelgard’s war...it’s all just...happens to him and keeps happening to him. He has almost no say in anything in the story. Gilbert pretty much makes him participate in the war while he’s clearly mentally unfit for duty. Everyone just kind of makes choices around him, he suffers for it pretty much every time and then he blames himself for it instead of calling those people tf out which is just counterproductive. And when he does call them out he comes across as Whiny 90s Anti-Hero rather than a Broken Man Who’s Had Just About Enough of This Nonsense. His Mental Instability is treated more like a tragic character flaw than his Wrath, which is ...y’know...the actual tragic character flaw.

There are a lot of things the Blue Lion’s Route just leaves up to the other story routes: Claude’s general existence, the church plot no one explains, Edelgard never explicitly states what her ideals are, Those Who Slither in the Dark abruptly appear and disappear, Rhea just fucks off to live in the red canyon for the rest of her life, and the plot just hopes you forget to ask about it because they never explain it.

That being said, I adore this story route and my Blue Lion Children. I’m playing Golden Deer next.