I just finished playing the black eagle run, and I have many thought about Ashe.
Spoilers for chapters 17-18
WHY THE FRICK DID ASHE NOT HAVE A SINGLE CONVERSATION WHEN GOING UP AGAINST THE BLUE LIONS?!
Not even Dedue or Dimitri, I would have expected even the slightest comments at the least but there was nothing >:(
And that alone strengthens my theory that Ashe feels like an outsider in the blue lions. Each of the blue lions are part of a pair or groups, ex. The Faerghus Four, Sylvain and Felix, Dimitri and Dedue, Annette and Mercedes, the only people I feel he really connects to are Dedue and yes he’s got sweet supports with the others, but he’s rarely seen talking with many of the blue lions throughout the academy phase. He’s an orphan, adopted into a noble family that was killed by the church, the one thing meant to protect him, and even in his house he was alone.
Ashe is found often in the green house or the cathedral, which is heart wrenching to think about. The greenhouse is his comfort place, he feels safe and content working with the plants. But the Cathedral, the place of worship in the monastery, the house of the goddess, Ashe has a tumultuous relationship with his faith, Christophe was killed by the church over false accusations and when Lonato tried to avenge him, he too was killed by the Church. The two people who took him in and treated Ashe as family after years on his own and shunned by society were killed by the very thing meant to protect him.
Ashe’s trauma is barely mentioned at all through the story, only through Ashe and Dedue’s supports, yet Ashe had nothing to say to Dedue in that battle? The one character he actually speaks to during a battle is Yuri, TWICE may I add, yet they don’t have supports in fe3h?! I am still bitter about that. Yuri is the one character who knew Ashe when he was a child, yes it probably wasn’t as deep as Yuri and Bernadetta, but come on, even something is better than nothing.
And yes, I know they have support in three hopes but my point still stands-
Ashe is such a complex character, and it sucks how much he is overlooked, one of the first big plot points of the game involves him damnit!
Anyway, sorry for the rant, I have many feelings about Ashe
