#Edelgard has inspired my own writing because I dislike how she was handled

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Remembering once again how much I dislike Edelgard von 3H as a character, and how I don’t think she’s a good example of morally grey writing at all and how when I was full force in this fandom, it felt like you weren’t allowed to hold that opinion. It was very “you can dislike her but admit she has good writing.” But genuinely— I have writing objections.

I low key think that Rhea is by far the best 3H/W3H ever did a morally grey character but has it been long enough to voice such a thing? Will I get pounced???

#Edelgard has inspired my own writing because I dislike how she was handled #my issue is that she’s transparent manipulation of pathos #I was starting to feel so defeated by the moe being used in place of earned tenderness #the writing was like ‘take these war crimes now she’s going to be uwu shy about her Byleth fanart and aw scary rats’ #it felt cheap #her characterization is so good in ‘Edge of Dawn’ #I wish that was stuck to more #But I just felt like they were trying to force me to like her with waifuness #plus I really found the weird political rhetoric of W3H in particular objectionable #there was this sense that people prolonging war by defending their homes were just as bad as the aggressors #good gracious me #this is not a personal attack on anyone who likes her #remember when I posted about someone telling me you can’t criticize characters people deeply love? #it was her #I’m opinionated #FE3H #fire emblem #three houses #you can’t say it’s misogyny because I like Rhea as a powerful flawed woman #her being both kind and ruthless at different moments was done well #Rhea was dumb in CF but it felt like 11th hour scrambling to make Edelgard retroactively right #fudge nuggets I’m remembering how awful it was #CF is like ‘let’s see how much we can poke people with sticks’ #and then ‘look! they hit back! proof the poking was justified!’