#so anyway now i'm fucking THINKING... like them + Manuela and Hanneman and Hapi and Mercedes is gonna be 6 recruits

[calcescarp]

i thought i was done with my 3h recruitment fretting but i am back at it (oh my god i'm going to have to reblog this to keep blathering on in the tags. i didn't know there was a 30 tag limit)

#i'm doing CF right now. and i was fully set on bringing Felix and Lysithea with me for mostly personal reasons #meaning like. NOT narrative reasons #i'm not doing it because i think it's their proper paths or anything like that #so anyway now i'm fucking THINKING... like them + Manuela and Hanneman and Hapi and Mercedes is gonna be 6 recruits #i'm not planning on ACTUALLY using Manuela or Hanneman. they're gonna be on adjutant duty #so what the fuck am i gonna do with like. my actual team skzjzksjdks #Mercedes is benched because i just want her for Emile reasons #i'm basically benching Dorothea in favor of Lysithea but I think Dorothea is still gonna be my dancer #so that is 10 units. core 8 + Byleth + Lysithea #so who the fuck. am i gonna switch out for Hapi and Felix :/ #i could bullshit myself into benching Petra and claim it's eye roll #like oh sure i'm not gonna make Petra fight on the front lines for the country in which she is a political hostage #but 1) Petra is a good unit 2) that doesn't actually hold up well enough for me to stick with it 3) Petra is a good character + i like her #i would switch out Hubert for Hapi but that seems dumb. like no way Hubert would let himself be benced. no way #Linhardt for Hapi would be okay? like he doesn't wanna fight anyway. i'd be doing him a favor. but i also really like Linhardt #i'm guessing that who i bench will have to be decided after i see how everyone is growing :/ #like maybe Caspar will suck again for me and i can switch in a brawling Felix #but if he grows really well.... maybe not #i kind of wish i could grab Sylvain too but i can't justify it gameplay-wise #i mean i could grab him just for his monastery dialogue but. i don't know #wouldn't it be better to idk make myself deal with the emotional consequences of fighting him later #i mean i already did that in verdant wind. but crimson flower is so different #idk why i'm putting so much weight into these decisions like i'm probably just insane #but we knew that #like i'm obviously going to play these routes again and i could do them different next time. different recruits et c #but i don't know WHEN i'll be doing that #i mean realistically speaking it's gonna be either right after i finish my current playthroughs or 2 years from now #one of those will benefit from me thinking through so much. but the other won't #i hear that recruiting is done best for non-magic units around ch6 or ch7 so i have time to figure it out at least