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randomnameless · 2 years

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I was yesterday years old when I realised that FMA was more than 20 years old (it started in 2001!) and how I fell in love with it, and the general theme that you can’t dwelve too much on what you have lost, you must move forward and live in the present (especially if it involves resurrecting people through questionable means)

And then, how the Fodlan games completely shat on this universal (?)/general message, because if Rhea’s obsession with resurrecting her worthless Mother is detrimental to, well, her and Fodlan in general, which is what the game(s) really push (her focus on her mom made her blind to some other things), it is ultimately erased by the fact that player privilege means the world, and Fodlan, is saved because Billy - born, partly, from Rhea’s despair to resurrect Sothis - saves the day.

Nopes (tried to) lampshaded it, without Billy, Fodlan is more or less fucked (ignore AG for a moment?). No matter what the Fodlan people, humans and Nabateans try to do, as long as the Goddess’s vessel isn’t here to “guide” people, Fodlan will be ruined.

In other words, it’s because Rhea couldn’t let go of the past that Fodlan is saved, to make an analogy, it’s because the Elric bros tried to resurrect their mom that their world was saved, because the resulting... creature somehow was the key to save the world.

(well, Sitri wasn’t a creature like the ‘thing’ the elric bros created, but)

That’s why the Worst Support in the game (FE16) still has some positive traits, Billy who was born from Rhea’s despair and loneliness ultimately became (or always had been?) someone else, someone separate and a life that was born and decided to do things on their own.

Just like Citrus, what was supposed to be a host and a homonculi was instead a separate human being, with her own thoughts, emotions and will.

Rhea comes to realise it still being soaked in Hresvelg Grey though and can finally move forward.

Billy (and Citrus) aren’t only proofs of Rhea’s despair and loneliness, they are beings, regardless of the circumstances of their birth (creation?) who decided to do some Things on their own.

Back to Nopes -

Nopes is supposed to portray the cast without Billy’s influence, thus the cast who doesn’t solve their issues (or whatever clout is supposed to be).

What would be a Rhea who doesn’t solve her issues, or whose character doesn’t develop?

A hundred of fics earlier theorised that in the Nopes situation, she’d catpure Billy, make them sit on Sothis’s throne and force a Sothis take-over, hopefully, those fics were, fics, and moreover largely OOC.

A Rhea who doesn’t go through the journey SS tried to depict is a Rhea who is still stuck in the past.

While she knows who Billy is, she doesn’t pursue them, no.

But a Rhea stucked in the past is a Rhea who, for example, thinks she needs to apologise to her brother for having been a brat 1100 years ago.

(it wasn’t her, it was Seiros the Warrior, but she feels like she has to apologise.)

I made fun of that scene, but Seteth tells her that it doesn’t matter anymore, since it happened so long ago (and it wasn’t serious, i mean just a shield).

Rhea notes about the state of Indech’s hamlet and how there’s no place of his workshop anymore, when it has been several centuries that Indech left it - for sure it could be nostalgia, but when we know Rhea’s deepest desire was to meet again with her worthless Mother and “recover all” she had lost? Is she chasing after those memories and this time passed?

(why the sad portrait?She wanted to borrow more weapons?)

Seteth, again, tells her that the hamlet’s decrepit state was to be expected, after so long.

Once again, he is the one bringing back the present, and how those times she remembers have long passed.

In her special quotes, with Supreme Leader, Rhea laments Willy’s absence, and wishes he had been there - and in Golden Shower, Rhea even goes as far as to regret sparing the descendants of the Elites when Clout does his thing, confounding the current Riegan asshole to Riegan the Elite’s kid - when she more than anyone else knows that a child shouldn’t pay for its parent’s sins.

Again, while this could be seen and interpreted as nostalgia, given who we’re talking about and her deepest desire to return to a time where she didn’t “lose” everything, it gives the impression that while Rhea might express nostalgia, she really thinks this past will return, and will do what she can - within the limits we know - to make her dream a reality.

IDK, it’s as if the young Elric brothers, while they are gathering “materials” mention how they miss their mom’s potato stew, it could fall under nostalgia, but knowing they are trying to ressurect her?

“why, the first thing i’ll ask her to cook for us is a potato stew!”

Does it mean all is lost and Rhea will always try to return to the past if the Worst Support never happens?

Well...

No.

In AM, she returns “home” - which could be a red flag, but in certain endings, she will take Catherine with her, Catherine who is very much someone anchoring her in the “present” and has no ties to the past she longed for.

Which is interesting, because despite longing for a period of time she can never return to, unless Sothis returns, Rhea still lives and interact with the present/current times.

Not as much as the Fodlan “yippie imperialism” games would like, but Rhea, even if she wants to return to happier times, still saves people, cares for them and considers some of them as her children “she has to protect”.

In AG, while being engrossed in her Nostalgia trip to Indech’s hamlet... Rhea expressedly invited her son-figure, a human living in 1180, Cyril. She cares for him, and worries about his safety. She later seems to acknowledge Dimitri as an ally (at least!) she can trust (to some extent, of course!).

Billy is Billy, Jerry and Citrus’s kid, and not a key to meet her worthless mom or to bring back all the people she cared about.

So, in routes where people don’t want to kill her for the “lols” or because her ears are pointy, she makes some progress.

She had been making some tiny baby steps of progress through the years - being attached to other people bar those from the past - which more or less matches with what we know of the Sothis project : only 12 vessels in 1100 years means that, no, Rhea wasn’t always trying to resurrect “the past”; she tried (?) to live in the present.

Would she come to the Worst Support conclusion and finally move forward without Billy ?

I want to think so, because at least, as the AG route showed, Rhea still has her brother (or whatever Seteth is) with her.

And I really want to think (HC time!) that all those off-handed comments during the paralogue somehow lit a lightbulb in his head, on how Rhea’s attachment to the past is not normal and beyond mere nostalgia, and hopefully, he can help her realise that the past might be gone, but they are still alive and can live in the present world.

So while Rhea’s ultimate fantasy is to reunite and live with Worst Mom, Siblings n° 554 through n° 1987, Wilhelm, the Apostles, Luca, Iris, Marcelle, Gajus (and all the people who have a legacy golem), Cyril, Catherine, Jerry, Citrus, Aelfric, all the unnamed people she cares bout and a trillion of pets - this is just a fantasy that will never happen.

Rhea cannot recover what she has lost, but she can make new bonds and reunite and live with all the living people from the aforementionned list.

Tl;Dr : Instead of boring everyone with 15 different renditions of the Edge of Yawn, even including one in her battle theme (not the one where she dies to the sound of her own cries tho), Rhea as a character really reminded me of the Elric bros and their different theme (at least i think) songs -

From Brotherhood I think there’s a theme called Trisha’s Lullaby which immediately made me think of Rhea’s theme - the song of nabateans - being her mother’s lullaby

And from the 2003 anime, I can’t just ignore this song and the very fitting, imo, last verse :

So where do we go from here? And how to forget and forgive? What's gone is forever lost. Now all we can do is live.

i still think the plot would have been much more interesting if Macuil had been stucked in a :) golem, for all the fucks the devs gave to him, at least we would have had something new (and a new unit!)

#random musings #FE16 #FE16 and FMA comparisons #3 nopes #rhea stuff #how can you mess something like this honestly #or miss maybe #the Worst Ending isn't the Worst because of the ship of something #it's the worst because all those bonds Rhea made in the present or some in the past but were the people are still alive are erased #so yes she moves forwards with Billy #but everyone else is left in the dust #Ed'n'Al were never 'oh well we couldn't save Nina or Hughes so let's forget about them and move forward to a better tomorrow' no

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fyrapartnersearch · 6 years

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On the search!

hi! I am Lenài, a twenty year old female from the United States. I have been roleplaying for seven years altogether, but my skills have increased rapidly in the past three. With summer here and my new job promotion, I work less days with longer hours which leaves me with nothing to do on my days off except binge watch the same series over and over again. So today I am here looking for 18+ roleplay partner!

A couple of things... • I am a multi-character roleplayer. If you have a problem playing minor characters (ex. Fellow student, old woman carrying groceries, the fight attendant, etc.) the roleplay will probably get boring rather quickly.

• I write in paragraphs and in thrid person. I would prefer you to write at least two paragraphs. My plots are normally three paragraphs and my beginning posts are normally anywhere from three to seven paragraphs. I do not expect you to match my length, but be sure that I have something to work with. :)

• Please be literate. If I can not Understand what you are trying to say, I am not going to reply.

• Keep yourself seperate from your character. Let's say that I feel very happy today, but in the RP my character just got stabbed in the stomach. My character should not be happy she got stabbed. I love OOC chatting, so if you’re having a bad day or a good day, I’d love to hear about it. Please don’t portray it through the characters when it isn’t relevant.

•Yes, I know that I am a female and even in this new day and age I am still criticized for having mostly male OC's. If it is a problem with you that I play male characters as my main, please do not respond to this ad! Thank you!!!

•Face Claims. Personally, I love a good face Claim. I use them for all of my OC’s - anime and realistic. If we are using FC’s, lets be on the same page. I do not want to play a realistic face Claim if you are using an anime. It is hard to comprehend personally.

Contact •Email: [email protected]

Anime Fandoms: • Kamisama Hajimemashita •Kaichou Wa Maid Sama •FMA/FMA: Brotherhood •inuxboku ss •inuyasha •soul eater •fruits basket •zatch Bell •angel beats •Pokemon •Howls moving castle •fate/stay night •vampire knight •spice and wolf •death note •and others. Just ask!

Television/movie Fandoms: •Riverdale •iZombie •glee •ghost whisperer •greys anatomy •SOA

Book Fandoms: •The Program •House of night

In fandoms, I will only pair OCxCanon or CanonXCanon

Original Plots: Orignial plots are something I prefer to plan with my roleplay partner. I have many OC’s, mostly male, that can be expanded to reach nearly any roleplay horizon. I don’t feel the need to list general pairings here because I feel like everyone knows general pairings bc they are all the same lol.

A few ideas I am wanting to try are: •"Living with the bad boy..." - Exchange student lives with you for the school year •"I married a Prince?!" - Sudden betrothal to a prince •"Forgiveness will help heal, right?" - Vampire kills your loved one many years ago and you fall for him etc. •"I went back in time?!" - You fall into a river that brings you back thousands of years where you meet a man with otherworldly powers in the middle of a Great War •"Matchmaker" - A game show type roleplay where each of your choices and words will affect your relationship with (my OC) •"A run of your life" - You fall head over heels with your young bio professor who holds a dirty secret... His nickname is 8-ball and he is the leader of the 18th Street Gang!

Smut. I am a more fade to black person, but if you enjoy typing it and it has a decent story line - I am capable. That is something to further discuss, along with limits.

ANYWAYS, that’s all I have to say for now I guess. :) I hope to hear from you soon!

#oc rp #multiple paragraph #para #long term #email #submission

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bubblegalaxylove · 7 years

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"It's a shonen not a shojou"

I don’t understand, so if Naruto is a shonen it means that it can have a shitty ending, because Naruto’s ending not being logic or good is not only because of the pairings but the history itself. There were infinite of holes, like for example the way in where they were going to help the ninja system, or the Uchiha’s true coming to light for everyone, etc. Is not just about couples, but couples are important. Why? Because when you create two couples out of nowhere people are going to he confuse and it depends of who is the love interest that the other character is going to change for better or for worse. I can’t just create feelings in a character in a day and write how deep his feelings for this person are if they don’t have any kind of moments or reasons to support this pairing. For example, Naru/Hina this couple was going to be rare always. It doesn’t matter how many movies Pierrot wanted to create to try to explain their love, why? Because what happened after that was that they created a lot moments that aren’t real in the manga. Moments that the mangaka never draw, moments that non of us saw. So where is the logic? Why was Naruto alone all that time if in the movie says that Hinata was with him? Why was Naruto in pain if he said that he had a bond with Hinata? Why was he so desespare to save Sasuke if Hinata was the one who he wanted to protect? It doesn’t makes sense. And that, just destroys the logic of the manga. It doesn’t matter if is or not a shonen, SS fans and NH fans always have this excuse of “is a shonen not a love history” just to try to excuse their sad and illogical pairing. Why? Because non of the two had moments, both of the main characters aren’t they when they are with them. They are OOC. Naruto and Sasuke both that knows how is to be alone and the lack of a family, both ignored their own children and are shitty fathers. Sasuke who knows how important bonds are just leave his wife for 12 years. They tried to show how Sasuke is in love with Sakura but Sasuke had never show any kind of affection for Sakura apart of friendship, so then we have all this moments of Sasuke ignoring her again or rejecting her. Because he doesn’t love her. And the canon Sasuke is like that. “I don’t have any kind of attraction for her. Was she daydreaming about love? ” that is the canon Sasuke. And he hasn’t change that much, he let clear that the one who tied him to Konoha was Naruto. SS fans get angry with Pierrot for the lack of moments of their pairing but their pairing doesn’t have any. How is romantic when you had to look after your husband while pregnant? Is that a love history? Your daughter not knowing anything about her father for years? Is romantic how cold is Naruto to Boruto or his family in plural? They don’t have a base. And that is important. Is not just romance, is a part of the history. It doesn’t matter if is a shonen or not, is not a excuse. FMA, Hunter X Hunter, Inuyasha, Fairy Tail, Boku No Hero Academia, Dragon Ball Z, Kenshin, Re life, Digimon, ha! even Pokemon, all of them had love relationships that are deep and obvious and some of them canon. All of them are SHONEN. That is NOT a excuse. Love is not for shojou only, is a gender important in all histories. You can do it right or wrong. Kishimoto created two obvious and logic pairings, NS and SNS. Both of them with moments and a base, in both non of the two characters would be OOC. Because they have a history, it wouldn’t be of need to create fake moments or fucked up a manga. But he decided to choose NH and SS. Why? Simple. For kids out of the two main characters, he couldn't had kids from Sasuke/Naruto if both of them ended up in a romantic relationship nor from Sasuke and an "important" someone if Naruto ended up with Sakura. He needed kids from both so what he did? Simple, leave Naruto with Hinata and Sasuke with Sakura and the rest with someone, it doesn't matter if they barely speak in all the manga. He needed kids from the two most popular characters, and he couldn't leave Sasuke with a nobody so he leaved him with the ex heroine of Naruto, Sakura. He ignored Sasukes and Narutos feelings and created the most Disney fantasy for both of the female character, a side one who he knew was famous for two big reasons and the heroine who a lot dislakes but likes when is suffering with the black haired guy. :) You can ship NH and SS, but please don’t use the excuse of is a “shonen, not a love manga” to try to explain your ilogic pairing, is ridiculous. And I can give u a list of anime shonen that have love and aren’t ilogic or was needed to destroy a time line of manga to work. :)

#anti naruhina #anti sasusaku #anti nh #anti ss #anti naruto ending #anti naruto the last #anti kishimoto #naruto #logic?#sns #sasunaru #pro sasunaru #pro narusasu #pro narusaku

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