#what the hell is edel doing

[edeluette]

ame mochi like this

Yes Mr. President

#hetalia #Mochitalia #america mochi #Mochi america #hws america #aph america #ask #what the hell is edel doing

[sverige-ikea-employee]

I thought I was your favourite?

(@ask-hws-norge)

Not even close.

#aph sweden #ask blog #hetalia ask blog #hetalia fandom #what the hell is edel doing #aph #hws sweden #ikea sve responds #hws norway

[ecclectricity]

me: i don’t like this character

also me: going on a deep, passionate rant about the reason I hate her raving fans, but as a character she’s fascinating and really complex and fun and was disserviced by not only her frothing fans in the twi//tter fanbase, but also by people who just mindlessly hate her because of said thoughtless eggheads

Three guesses who I’m talking about, and two don’t count

#// ᴄʜᴀᴛᴛʏ ᴄᴇᴅʀɪᴀʟ { ᴏ ᴏ ᴄ } #{ it's beagle leader you all know it I know it #red is my favorite color okay #and look I have like #three separate OCs that have very similar attitudes and motivations that just #don't quite grind my gears? #but the difference is that my OCs never took that final plunge into the blood pool of villany and I respect the hell outta El for that #but people refuse to acknowledge that SHE acknowledges that's what she's doing and that is staggeringly underrepresenting her power and #quite honestly also ignoring her pride and stubbornness #she's capable and well spoken and conniving in all the right ways #but her stubborn pride ( and yes it's still pride ) and demand to do this on her own ( outside of really Hubert ) make it so difficult #she vexes me and I love her but I can't STAND people just blindly like #SHE'S NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG IN HER LIFE #or worse? alleging she has the least bloody route? talk to hubert and her for two seconds iN THEIR ROUTE #literally Edel vc: the pool of blood at my feet is growing larger. Those stains can never be washed clean #them: SHE'S A PURE BABY #me: square to doubt #I've been so mad at her route for so long and I'm sick of it so I'm just #diving in and forming my own opinions and reworking her in my brain to make her make more sense #who knows what if anything would come from this but #tag rant done omg sorry lol #also hope this doesn't come off as too mean I really don't want to upset anyone or be like IF YOU LIKE HER BLAH BLAH BLAH cause that's not #the case at all #I will never yuck someone's yum #I just #I have Feelings and Concerns and enjoy her concept but think that the writers failed her #which with the way production happened? duh unfortunately #but I am REALLY hoping #really really hoping #lol get it 'hoping'

[butwhatifidothis]

Claude, 15, 16, and 25 for the meme

15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)

Dimiclaude!!!!!! Like man, there are just so many things about the potential of these two characters being together that FASCINATE me and have me in an absolute chokehold. I've said it before but this ship is actually just straight up my fave in 3H period, and is one of two ships ever that has latched itself on my brain (the other being a Bleach ship I've been shipping since I was, like, 13 lmao). I've seen some pretty, um, yikes-inducing interpretations of them, but that just can't beat how much I just like them independent of anything much to do with the fandom lmao.

16. What's your least favorite ship for this character?

...and on the other hand there's Edel/claude. Like, unironic and genuine Edel/claude, as I personally have exclusively seen it portrayed. It strips Claude of nearly his entire character just to prop up Edelgard in literally every single iteration of it I've come across, and that soured me on it a lot. Plus their vibes do not gel well as anything but Bitterly Divorced Ex's, like holy hell is the chemistry between these two as a romantic ship nonexistent lmao these bitches can't STAND each other.

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

First impression: Wow, this guy is gonna be the bad guy for sure. But he also looks like he'll make the ride of bein' bad fun as hell, plus he's the best looking of the three lords to pick from. I'm goin' with him.

Now: Wow so like this guy can be a dick at times but what the hell he is actually so nice and chill. Why is he damn near gap-moe with how mean his words sound vs how nice his actions and beliefs are. FUCK is he handsome

#ask #anon #ask meme #i still love dm/cl even though i HAAAAATE how Hopes affected the fandom's perception of it. hate hate hate it to bits i will not perceive i #still don't like Genuine Unironic ed/cl because it's basically EdeIgard and A Guy Who Looks Like CIaude But Has EdeIgard's Brain shagging #and i thought Claude was gonna be the bad guy and came out seeing him as like. one of the nicest people in the game lmao

[bnbc]

Alrighty. 4,5 and 11 for the RT lore ;)

WOOOOOO thank you so much for the ask LET'S GO

4. How did your RT feel about Theodora? How did they feel when she died?

Oh, boiiiii! Theodora's ghost haunted the von Valancius' flagship for months, and Idira had nothing to do with it.

Isabella didn't have time to develop any feelings for Aunty Theo when she was still alive but after her death? She became sort of obsessed with her predecessor, tried to know as much as possible about her… and used it to look more like her.

No, Iza didn't model herself and her decision after Theodora, but she worked hard on keeping a certain resemblance between the two of them for people to have less doubts that Isabella has rights to her high position.

Even the signature Isabella's feature, her wig collection, is coming from this place: she wanted to resemble Theodora even visually, so ✨ big hair ✨, high boots, dress jackets and some of Aunty's mannerisms were with Isabella for a long time before the 3rd chapter finally happened.

But this all Theodora lore hunting made Isabella deeply respect her predecessor and regret she didn't have more time with the aunty, even tho Iza suspected that Theodora would find her too soft xD

5. What was their relationship with Edelthrad? Would your RT have been happy with an advisory role, or had they always wanted something more?

Look, I replayed the prologue about 10 times recently and Edel was nothing but a piece of shit to my girlie, who did nothing wrong (yet).

In the beginning, she would be drawn to Edel because he, like her, is a psyker, and as close as Isabella's previous crew became to her, there was always one thing standing between them: they were not psykers. They were her people, but they didn't truly understand if you know what I mean.

And she longed so much for the company of other psykers! After all, she grew up surrounded by psykers and AAT people, so she was even excited to finally have one close, again. But Edel was straight-up hostile towards her.

I think she would be deeply unhappy as one of his advisors, and would long for her old crew she could not come back to. Eventually, Edel would try to get rid of her, and rather sooner than later. I'm not sure she would win this stand.

11. Any non-companion NPC's that your RT has an interesting dynamic with?

Let me indulge myself and tell you how much Isabella von Valancius values her High Factotum. I say 'indulge' because question stands for interesting dynamic but these two are just work besties, nothing truly special — BUT THEY ARE SPECIAL TO ME

So, Isabella spent the last decade serving in the supplies division (I still don't know how you name this service correctly), so when she got to her shiny new position she took it with the motto FUCK IT WE TRADE LOGISTIC MATTER.

First, she gave Janris Danrok the hell, personally diving into details of ship logistics and trade contracts, but she found his work more than satisfying and he found his new Lord Captain understanding the trade and supplies. And they just 👀🤝👀

But okay, to add some spice. I believe I mentioned that at some point Isabella sent Jae from her ship to work from some other spot, saying she's got enough of her lies but still wanted to use her connection and talents. The final straw that bought Jae a one-way ticket from vv flagship was an absolutely minor innocent lie, not worth any drama.

The truth is, Isabella got pissed off because of Jae harassing Danrok, calling her High Factotum all sorts of derogatory quartermaster-connected names, and ON THIS SHIP WE DO NOT TOLERATE HARRASING OUR LOGISTIC TEAM OKAY also Jae never became a friend close enough to find out Isabella served in logistics too, otherwise she would watch her words and wouldn't fuck up so much.

Anyway yes Lord Captain was being fucking petty but who could stop her

TYSM FOR ASKING AGAIN

#Rogue Trader #oc: Isabella von Valancius #ask game #tysm for the ask

[atamascolily]

princess tutu re-watch, episode 12

wow, the opening monologue is getting hardcore

love how the rose from last episode has withered, as if we've stumbled into "Beauty and the Beast"

oh my god Tutu had to help Fakir back to his dorm room and he HATES EVERY SECOND OF IT hahhahahaha

cut to Tutu passed out on Mytho's (empty) bed next to him

Fakir: why the fuck are you dressed like this?

Ahiru: Because Tutu isn't technically a student, and if I get caught in here, I can magically ballet myself out of trouble.

Fakir: That is… surprisingly sensible, actually. But don't go around thinking we're friends or anything! I told you I work best alone!

Ahiru: Okay, well, what if we found Mytho together? Just this once?

Fakir: .... No comment.

Rue made a nest in the chapel out of feathers. Mytho is back to being a puppet again.

Rue breaking the fourth wall to address Drosselmeyer directly is HILARIOUS and freaks him the hell out! But she gets him right where it hurts: she offers to tell him the best story, and he is all ears.

(this is where the "Scheherazade" of the title comes from, heh)

are there any official/fan-made maps of Gold Crown Town anywhere?? I'd love to know where all the places are in relation to each other. They seem to visit the pizza place a lot.

I SAW THAT FOND SMILE FLICKER ACROSS YOUR FACE FOR A MOMENT, FAKIR, YOU'RE NOT FOOLING ANYONE

oh no, Mytho is evil now. He makes fun of the knight for getting torn to pieces by the raven in the original story.

Fakir: HEY THAT'S THE THING I'M SENSITIVE ABOUT.

oh, that's why Mytho was acting so much like Rue, because it was a crow-puppet Rue was using instead.

Tutu was originally a bit character in the original story, but Ahiru takes the news better than Fakir because she had always seen herself on the sidelines.

Edel: I'm here to be a plot device!

Ahiru: But I love you anyway!

Edel: ... No comment.

Drosselmeyer: I hate it when my puppets develop feelings!

(can you imagine his reaction if all the puppets unionized?)

we hear a random horse neighing and for a moment I thought it was Fakir's as-yet-unnamed horse, but nothing comes of it

Drosselmeyer confirms that he's only using puppets because he can't go directly into the narrative without major consequences.

Bonding time in the catacombs!!

I didn't know ducks could grin so smugly, but Ahiru manages it when she transforms in front of Fakir.

Fakir: OH NOOOOOO SHE KNOWS MY SECRET IDENTITY!!! *barf*

Fakir: "Wait, can ducks drown? No, knowing her, it's possible". (actual quote)

Fakir: Wait, I don't speak duck, please transform--OH SHIT, A NAKED GIRL, I TAKE THAT BACK.

Fakir: Why do you have TWO secret identities, that's so unfair!

Fakir reading the original story to Mytho and him being interested in Tutu's disappearance (and wanting to save her) is so cute!

Rue challenges Tutu to speak her feelings, knowing that's the one thing she cannot do. It's clever and dramatic, I'll give her that. Good thing ballet is all about expressing emotions without words!

Drosselmeyer: Dance, my pretties! Dance for your miserable LIVES!

truly, this episode has everything, by which I mean it's mostly Ahiru and Fakir bouncing off each other for twenty minutes, which is all I really want out of life.

#princess tutu #lily liveblogs

[emblemxeno]

Why do you think the 3H lords are always pre time skip? We know the post skip is more popular from CYL and other things but they honestly pretend like it doesn't exist. My conspiracy theory is if they did post skip they'd have to deal with who Edel actually is and we can't have that! There's no reason to ignore the better designs especially this late past the games release

It's most likely because, in spite of the fact that there's constant discourse and analysis of what happens in the war phase, the academy phase is the most prominent, marketed, and well-known portion of 3H. And usually the longer half of the routes.

The teaching/skill grinding is associated with the school more than the war meeting equivalent, most of the mystery and intrigue happens in part 1, all of the characters are present at the academy during part 1 so it's easy to make house-to-house references, etc. I imagine it's also the more popular look for the characters in the Japanese audience as well, for similar reasons why Persona and it's high school/pre-adult casts and stories are popular; adult life is complicated and hard, so fun, mysterious, school time RPGs and drama is appealing to people getting home from a grueling day at work. Hell, the school calendar in 3H goes by Japanese school calendar rules by starting in April, so home audience appeals are probably important.

#queue #fire emblem discourse #feh

[chocolatepot]

I've been meaning to sit down and write out all of my thoughts on "High on a Rocky Ledge" because that song does something to me and every time I listen to it my brain is like !!!!! and I grin hopelessly.

I totally get why this song isn't a Big Deal in the fandom, because it's used before Ed comes on the scene at all. But I'm going to ramble on now about why it affects me so much, because I keep thinking up these points and not jotting them down.

So the context where it's used in the first episode, when Stede is reading to the crew. It sounds a lot like a lullaby, positioning him as their father (along with the fact that he's ... reading a child's story to the crew), for all those found-family feels.

He's also dressed in blue and in bluish moonlight which just makes for an excellent image.

Moondog sounds like some kind of traveling pre-modern singer who travels from village to village, and we all (we are peasants in this scenario) gather around him at the fire at night and listen to him sing his strange stories. This one has an otherworldly edge to it, there is a truth behind it that we can't quite reach.

The tune is quite lonely. Stede has always been lonely. He's definitely a lot less lonely with his crew, who are finally on his side at this point in the episode, but he's still alone. He doesn't really have a second-in-command the way (we will find out) that Ed does.

He doesn't even know that he has a SOULMATE out there, just waiting for him to come along! He thinks he's about as happy as he'll ever be - away from his marriage and boring life, on a ship with a crew that finally seems to accept him. He doesn't know what we know!!

The song itself! Man!

High on a rocky ledge lives a Mädel Edelweiß Shy as a shadow, lovely as lace, and cold as ice High on a rocky ledge, I pledge my love to her Ev'ry time I climb up to Paradise

How many times I've been up to see her, goodness knows Huffing and puffing, dressed in the warmest climbing clothes How many chances would be taken in my Hopeless pursuit of the Schnee Mädel Edelweiß

Then spoke a spirit, "If you would win your lady love There's only one way: fall to your death from high above You will begin to grow in snow beside the one You have waited for to be mated with"

Now, I'm an Edel vice to my Mädel Edelweiß Dying to be with her wasn't any sacrifice We're so deliriously happy on our ledge Where I pledge my love to my Lady Fair

You who are climbing breathless to see me and my love Snow flowers growing fonder on Lover's Ledge above If you've the yen to pluck, then pluck us both For we who have lived as one wish to die as one

So like it's all about a love that's hopeless on the face of it - a man is in love with a flower. He wants to be with the flower but he's a human and she's a flower so it won't work. Some kind of magical being tells him that if he falls off the mountain, he'll be reincarnated as a flower as well, so he does it and it works. That's DARK and weird.

It parallels himself and Ed, who are born to such extremely different positions that they might as well be a human and a flower.

In some ways, Stede is the narrator of the song - he has to die in order to be with the one he loves. This happens multiple times: he's said to have died when he leaves his family to be a pirate (a transformation), he gets stabbed and hanged and nearly dies of the fever as well at the time of his meeting Ed (very liminal), he fakes his own death to be said to have died more truthfully and get closure so that he can be fully with Ed.

At the same time, Stede is the flower. Stede loves flowers (and he has been treated like shit his whole life for it); he's picking flowers in the flashback where he's tied to the oars of a rowboat. He is definitely a figure of beauty to Ed, and kind of a damsel in distress - this guy who doesn't know what the hell he's doing as a pirate, who needs to be rescued from himself. (And "lovely as lace", something definitely associated with Stede.)

And that ending: "If you've the yen to pluck, then pluck us both / For we who have lived as one wish to die as one." Hooooooo. A definite parallel to the ending of the season - Ed tying himself to Stede rather than allowing him to be killed.

#high on a rocky ledge #ofmd #our flag means death #okay I think I'm done now #ed x stede #ed/stede #blackbonnet #ofmd meta

[metanarrates]

go off about the tree axe special boy arc speedrun

I know NOTHING about the axe because we only watched one episode this week (whatever one introduced the tree idgaf about which number it actually is) but good lord. its bad.

okay random numbered list of things because my brain has been depression deep fried lately and its easier to just throw together a list of my thoughts rather than making a coherent post:

- the pacing of this episode and this show in general is so fucking weird. we had like six episodes that were kind of nothing and now we're getting a Major Plot Development speedrun. wham, ahiru has issues about her ability to move the plot. wham, there's a secret drosselmeyer cult(?). wham, fakir's author powers (only introduced last episode mind you) are because he's drosselmeyer's descendant. wham, mytho and rue are having the exact same issues we've seen for the last six episodes. wham, there's a magic tree. wham, fakir gets absorbed by the tree. just kidding princess tutu saved him and now ahirus over her insecurity. any single one of these plot points is worthy of an entire episode but they just crammed it into one? its not good. actively makes me not give a shit about the characters anymore too, since they're now exposition machines

- I DON'T LIKE THE DROSSELMEYER CULT. now part of this is admittedly because I am a cult survivor, and the depictions of "hooded guys with secret knowledge" always bug the shit out of me. those depictions never have anything to do with actual cult life and just exist to make something feel spooky. it's cheap. but there's more to it than that.

so drosselmeyer has been in a weird place this season. s1 establishes drosselmeyer as an odd, ominous figure who stretches his fingers into the plot in subtle ways. he gave ahiru her pendant and can take away her transformative powers if it suits him. he created edel and was responsible for her demise. he can stop time when talking to ahiru. though his power over the world is quite indirect, he is still a force to be contended with. there are clear stakes to dealing with him, and he presents an effective threat to our heroes. how can you fight the author of your narrative when he is using all his power to make it a tragedy?

s2 has demoted him to "funny guy who exposits to the audience." he has almost nothing to do now that the raven is the most active antagonist. he talks. he paces in his clock world. he talks to ahiru once or twice, but he's a far less active manipulator of her than he used to be. all that really sucks, but the introduction of drosselmeyer followers completely obliterate any sense of mystery he may have had. he is no longer a shadowy untouchable force that only ahiru (barely) knows about - he is a physical entity who existed in this world, had children, and those descendants can grasp at his powers. rather than being a completely mysterious force to our characters, he suddenly has people who know all about his mortal life.

it completely punctures his sense of threat. if drosselmeyer's powers can be dissected, inherited, and replicated, what is his effectiveness as a threat? if he is a knowable entity who existed within the world of goldkrone, then what is his relationship now to that world? previously, he existed fully outside of it, which made goldkrone feel like an interestingly surreal collecting place of fairy tales, rather than a place that followed the laws of conventional reality. if drosselmeyer existed within goldkrone, and a character within the fairy tale he wrote is now reincarnated as his direct descendant, is goldkrone instead a previously normal town warped by his power? why isn't there much indication of this? how powerful is/was drosselmeyer? what is he to the world, and more importantly, what the hell is he to the narrative of princess tutu?

he no longer exists as a purely representative entity, is what I'm saying. any sense of an established world and his place outside of it has been destroyed and replaced with something WAY less well-defined to the audience. and as for his power...

-fakir being his descendant sucks.

-no, really, I don't think I need to get into all the ways it sucks. it replaces the fakir we know (guy who is a reincarnated knight from their fairy tale who doesn't wanna get killed) with a different guy with different motives (guy with a mysterious bloodline who wants to use his author powers well????) it doesn't make sense narratively. it just HANDS our heroes the power to solve the story, rather than making them work hard to earn it. it's bad and stupid and sucks. if I make an entire post about it ill just get mad with how many ways it sucks. so I'll just relate all this to the tree problem.

-the tree is almost impressively not symbolically charged. i mean, sure, you could pull some symbolism out of it. it's probably a reference to merlin being trapped in a tree. you could pull out some connection to yggdrasil, and of course it's concerned with all things being connected, which is very... tree-like. but it's not remotely connected to anything in princess tutu's themes or symbolic suites! what does it have to do with ballet, or fairy tales, or fate? hell, what the hell does it have to do with WRITING?!? that's what it's meant to be a power source for, isn't it? why?

and look, I don't like the writing plot. at all. it sucks. but if you must include something for it, the object you use to connect to its power should probably seem appropriately symbolic, right? they call people with that power "spinners" - why not a spinning wheel? that feels like it would easily slot into some fairy tale motifs. or I don't know, a magical quill or something. it would make way more sense than it being a magical tree.

a symbol exists to establish meaning. it's a way to quickly define what ideas a story is working with, and what those ideas mean in the context of a world. I know it sounds silly for me to care so much about drosselmeyer and the tree not representing anything, but it's symptomatic of a larger problem.

what are the themes now in princess tutu? why does the tree suddenly talk about "all is one" etc. as a means to hypnotize fakir? what does that have to do with anything that's been established? sure, it talks about defying fate, but at this point, I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. is fate becoming one with everything? is that what the tree's speech means?

previously, drosselmeyer worked as an effective symbol for the concept of fate, as an active personified antagonist who only wanted the characters to experience tragedy. but as discussed, he's been undermined. this new symbol has none of the necessary establishing work done to make it an effective replacement. the raven also doesn't work very well as a replacement. I have no idea what "fate" is in this story now, or precisely why it matters that our protagonists fight it.

and that's the crux of the problem with princess tutu at this point in time. nothing means anything. I don't know what the characters are supposed to be. I don't know what narrative role certain things are supposed to play. I don't understand how certain things are meant to be significant, or what the stakes are supposed to be now. what is happening now has very little to do with what has happened before, and it makes me feel as though nothing that's been established in the show really matters. I'm just watching them all hurtle towards an ending that feels unearned and uninspired.

#narrates #ptutu #theres a LOT more problems to it obv but these are the biggest ones to me #basically my long rambly way of saying its blown up every past stake in favor of creating much less well defined stakes

[gascon-en-exil]

Oh hell, some peeps claim that Rhea hiring Billy effed up Monica's rescue plan, because Jeritza is the teacher instead? Like, the reading comprehension is so low holy shit. CF duo said that since Kostas is dead they might have a chance, Kronya had to salvage the bandits. But honestly, Monica was held up a year, WTF were the moles doing??? She has a crest, so Hapi 2.0??? Why the hell did Edel decide to save her, when she let her die back in 3h? And Monica's a simp, she needs a better lust object.

Oh and when Dimitri or Claude does that instead, it was under the guise of a mission, considering in 3h you waste Kostas and the rest of his crew. Jeritza would not give a shit honestly, it was dumb luck but also poor story structure. I pity Solon, as he's the only one to act and his cover was blown because his colleagues couldn't be brother to dispose of some girl he help kidnapped. You can say that in 3h, he does to put on a presentation in Remire.

I'm just now getting to Scarlet Blaze today so I haven't seen it from the Eagles perspective myself yet, but my impression is that Three Hopes messily attempts to capture the spirit of what was already a messy plot in Three Houses Part 1. A lot of it doesn't seem to make a ton of sense or line up with the events of the other game, but because Three Hopes is so much more focused on what comes after the school plot I'm not sure it cares very much. It's just rushing through the key points to get all the relevant players into position - which for SB evidently includes Jeritza and the real Monica. Jeritza is a terrible character as always and I have no thoughts on Monica at this time, so...yeah.

I've got my fingers crossed that Hubert will be the highlight of SB, just as he was for CF.

#Fire Emblem #FE16 #Fire Emblem Three Houses #Fire Emblem Three Hopes

[docholligay]

LITERAL LOL. “My characters are idiots and there’s a ton of terrible shit going on in the background, where is the sense of narrative???” I also miss Edel, Drosselmeyer, you’re not alone in this. I really am anxious to see if we ever find out exactly what he created, and how he’s stuck in this weird limbo. Is this a sort of hell for writers with unfinished WIPs? (oh no)

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#Doc watches Princess Tutu #PT episode 18

[edeluette]

This was funnier in my head

#hetalia #aph #hws #hetalia axis powers #hetalia world stars #hws liechtenstein #hws switzerland #aph liechtenstein #aph switzerland #skibidi tag #hws russia #loosely #what the hell is edel doing

[sverige-ikea-employee]

Hey Sve! Who would be a good teammate to work with at IKEA?

Germany… well.. Danmark could learn a thing (a lot of things, really) from him. I admire his work efficiency.

#hetalia #aph #hws #hetalia fandom #hetalia ask blog #ask blog #aph sweden #hws sweden #aph denmark #hws denmark #what the hell is edel doing #Ikea Sve responds

[slyfire]

FE: Engage - Chapter 7

silly divine dragon

Supports

Alear & Chloé C watching him sleep...again?

😀 what the hell 😀 I mean shoot your shot ig?

Alfred & Céline B Our first B support! "You're a barbarian in prince's clothing." / "Thanks! 😊😊" . Not him flexing like 🦴.

Vander & Framme B

Etie & Boucheron C

Clanne & Vander C hunky-dory!

Alear & Yunaka C

Alear & Ćeline C not a comment on the support itself, but interesting that some of her dislikes in the ally notebook include 'overwhelming happiness' and 'forced positivity'...

oh god Chloé's here watching us sleep again.

oop DLC time LMAO 'Emblem of Rivals'

"I thought Dimitri's stories were getting better with every telling." oh god.

okay, I put Micaiah on Framme so I can get some staff skills. I also put Yunaka w/ Marth, to get some avoid skills.

skirmish time!

skirmish time over! it was fun using marth on someone else.

Céline & Louis C I just fucking realised Louis is J. Michael Tatum.

Clanne & Louis B I really need to see the A support. what is it cooking.

finally, awoken by Alfred; in a conversation that sounded like innuendos 😌.

arena time!

okay, paralogue time!

oh boy, it's Anna. ...she just hid in a chest.

[BATTLE START]

Alear's after-kill laugh line 😳

oh shit, master seal!.

[POST BATTLE]

Alear when someone brings up family: 🥺

Alfred & Yunaka C Abso-tutly! She called him a silly lad. She's so real. WDYM you get that question a lot 😭😭. Oh, even yunaka pointed it out.

Framme & Clanne B Extrovert vs Introvert. "Who cares about the Divine One's shoe size?" / "We do." pfft

Céline & Chloé B please kiss already.

Céline & Jean C

Clanne & Vander B

Alear & Boucheron C "Going to war is stressful for anyone." 10/10 commentary /j.

Alfred & Boucheron C Starting off with a "Nice~" from Alfred while staring at Boucheron. Also what were those sounds, Boucheron. Oh, this is the Alfred thirsting over Boucheron's muscles.

"I heard you have some trouble waking up" oh Alfred...

Okay more supports.

Alear & Louis C

Okay, gonna do the Emblem Tiki paralogue.

Mar-mar!

[BATTLE START]

oh god this map's big. I haven't plays any Archanea games, but I assume this is a reference map.

OMG that map almost killed me. There's was this one dodge I really needed from Chloé that she couldn't do, so then she was in danger + stranded, so I had to save her and yada yada it was a mess. Yunaka w/ edel emblem really saved me in the last few turns. Anyway, I still did enjoy the map!

[POST BATTLE]

aww, I'm glad to see marth & tiki talk. I wish there were more interesting emblem/emblem conversations.

Alfred & Sigurd B reminded me that Lumera asked him something that we didn't see...what does he know.

omfg Edel talking about impressions to Yunaka is so fucking funny since all the house lords did at least 1 in houses 💀💀💀

Alear & Framme B "The Divine Dragon loooves to drink water." so true! a great reminder to be like Alear and drink up! Framme is even a fan of the pepsi hair.

Framme & Cholé C

Céline & Etie B I loved that little Etie animation when she said "And look at me now!" oh my god it's the training teacups again.

Yunaka & Etie C "Whatcha need, pumpkin-seed?"

Etie & Clanne B

so the ally notebook now says that she has a distant relation to Vander...interesting. WTF is judging beets.

Alear & Alfred B If Alear won't eat them, I sure will. Alfred playing the flute to help Alear sleep 😀 He really is trying his best though. noooo Alfred, Alear should be the worthy one, not you!

'[Alfred] was ill as a child, and now seeks to compensate through exercise' 🥺🥺

okay, chapter map time.

lmao "[I'm doing] even worse then usual."

anyway, as expected, I love Alcryst very very much.

she's just like me fr.

we be getting some xenophobia up in here.

[BATTLE START]

Rosado & Goldmary seem like my fav retainer duo so far, just from one conversation.

oh dear, cordelia!Lucina's here.

well that map felt pretty easy.

[POST BATTLE]

man, I hope Lyn's alright...

Well, chapter over!

#fire emblem #fire emblem engage #fe17 #fe17 spoilers #SlyEngaged #my post

[butwhatifidothis]

can i just say, i find it very funny how a good majority of GW defenders’ counter arguments essentially boil down to “GW makes perfect sense actually you’re all just too DUMB to understand!!1!” hdhdhsjjf fe3h fans in general have such a superiority complex, it’s genuinely hilarious watching them ardently defend the world’s most mediocre dogshit writing💀

That's such a huge part of what makes them so infuriating lmao, they act like they're so smart just cuz they're willing to overlook blatant contradictions.

"Yeah, sure, the game exclusively wrote Shahid to be a murderous racist towards Claude and wrote exactly 0 positive connections between the two of them, but Claude killing Shahid in self-defense would totally make him completely willing to kill completely innocent people! How can GW detractors just not see that!!"

"Yeah, sure, Claude himself says that Edelgard 'might be hoping she can vanquish the Alliance and the Kingdom in one go and rebuild Fodlan from the ground up' and that Edelgard wants to 'bring the fight to the rest of Fodlan,' but it TOTALLY MAKES SENSE that him reading Edelgard's manifesto OFF-SCREEN and only mentioning this AFTER SHE LIED TO HIS FACE would make him 180 and make him believe that getting rid of the Church would make Edelgard stop her war! It just makes so much sense!!"

"Yeah, sure, in 3H Claude says that Edelgard's violence both ruins his ambitions and is something the people can't stand behind, but Claude was sus of the Church and Edelgard wanted to COMPLETELY DESTROY IT, which are totally the same thing and which totally explains why Claude just becomes Edelgard 2.0 in Hopes! YOU just never understood Claude's character and only wanted him to follow Dimitri around (unlike us, who totally don't just want him to follow Edelgard around)!!"

"Yeah, sure, Claude's ENTIRE GOALS revolve around bettering foreign relations, but it makes sense for him to worsen Faerghus/Fodlan's foreign relations with Sreng because the Church was doing that already! What's so hard to understand!!"

"Yeah, sure, the devs said they wrote Claude around the idea of him being more ambitious while simultaneously giving him no ambitions for after the war and 180'ing on what he wanted to do during the war, but isn't what he's doing so much more ~interesting~ and ~dark~? Hopes!Claude haters just wanted Claude to be a goody two shoes!"

It's all just incredibly condescending and pretentious as all hell. Because it can't POSSIBLY be the case that Claude - in a noncanonical spin-off game, with a different director from 3H's in charge of it - was just written badly and OOC. It can't POSSIBLY be the case that even when disconnected from his base 3H character, Hopes!Claude is chock-full of contradictions in his characterization between his Part 1 and Part 2 iterations. And it DEFINITELY can't POSSIBLY be meaningful in any way that damn near ALL of the people that insist that Hopes!Claude is either completely congruent with 3H!Claude or is what 3H!Claude SHOULD have been... all either prefer Edelgard or ship Edel///claude (the ship which can be overwhelmingly condensed down to "Claude doing whatever it is Edelgard wants without having any character of his own" and oh, would you look at what he does in Hopes, oh gee must be a coincidence that they all lap that shit up).

Nope, Claude fans who prefer Claude as their fave lord? Secretly never liked him! It's totally US who have a fanon version of Claude we like over the canon version, and definitely not the ones who like him doing shit and saying shit and believing shit that runs diametrically opposed to literally everything he stands for in 3H ("the Kingdom threw us to the wolves first 300 years ago" yeah THAT isn't fanon Claude, nope). Claude fans who don't wholeheartedly accept that Hopes!Claude is either who Claude was all along or is otherwise 100% in-line with his 3H counterpart never liked him at all.

And don't even bring up people who like Claude but prefer Dimitri lmao.

It's just this weird habit of fandom I'm seeing nowadays, where if you don't accept the writing as perfect and if you point out blatant inconsistencies then OBVIOUSLY you either were never a fan or you just "don't understand man." It can't ever be the writers at fault for writing something bad anymore, it's always the fans who are lacking something to be able to "appreciate" what's given to them. Just look at how any and everyone who criticizes Edelgard is automatically deemed a hater of her. There's a mutual of mine who literally buys merch of Edelgard, buys zines of Edelgard, and will readily have Edelgard in their Top 5 favorite 3H characters, and even they get accused of hating her just because they have the gall to... point out that Edelgard has very noticeable flaws, both as a character and in her writing.

That's basically what I'm seeing happen with Hopes!Claude. You criticize him? You're making discourse, you aren't a fan of him, you're a hypocrite in some way, you never understood him. His fans - much like Edelgard's, oh wow would you look at that hmm must be a complete coincidence again - make it so fuckin' hard to like him, even if you do genuinely like Hopes!Claude. If you like him as the bad guy he very clearly is because he is making very clearly villainous actions? Nope, you're not liking him the right way. If you like him in concept but feel his execution was lacking? Nope, you're not liking him the right way. Just like with Edelgard, you have to like Hopes!Claude in a very specific way or you will be called a hater of some kind. And that attitude just isn't conducive to a welcoming fandom environment

#ask #anon #clyde discourse #fire emblem warrior: three hopes spoilers #fire emblem warriors three hopes spoilers #Clyde defenders are just so DEFENSIVE it's unreal #they throw shit at anyone who dares criticize his garbage-tier writing #they get mad at people for pointing out it's mostly Edelgard fans who like Clyde fans #before literally turning around two seconds later and accusing every single Claude fans who dislikes Clyde of ACKCHUALLY preferring Dimitri #and ACKCHUALLY never liking Claude at all #the mere act of pointing out contradictions in Clyde's writing is itself discourse to these people #they pull up ThE dRaFtS as if they have anything to do with what was actually written in the actual game #because god forbid they just like a character with poor writing - that they can overlook the bad parts of the writing and appreciate them #despite that #because something with poor writing is impossible to like/love i guess

[saviourkingslut]

I know this is kinda becoming Byleth Criticism Hour but omg like it's honestly so frustrating to see how hard characters fall for them - especially the lords and especially especially Gardy Wardy, with Dimitri being pretty damn strong as a character on his own and Gardykins being absolutely ruined by Byleth. Claude is about the only one that it "works" with but that's because there's barely any player pandering at all with him in the first place!

Byleth doesn't do anything for them!! Not on a personal level anyway! All they do is just let them arbitrarily go on about their lives without ANY prompting from Byleth 90% of the time, it almost always feels so forced whenever a character goes on about how much Byleth means to them personally. Sorry for ranting but it's always bugged me 😭

yeah it's one of the things about them that annoys me the most honestly. every single character immediately clocks byleth as their closest confidant and looks up to them even though byleth isn't doing anything to deserve that kind of treatment - as a merc maybe, but not a moral compass or the all-knowing being that the game presents them as. characters get unreasonably attached really quickly considering byleth is supposed to be about as emotionally unavailable as it gets. they just show up, and suddenly everyone's monologuing their deepest fears and brightest hopes at them. honestly, if you ask me, most of the time byleth barely has a hand in their character arcs, it just seems that way sometimes because everyone's monologuing themselves through their own arcs whenever they're in a support with byleth. i think one of the worst aspects of this, and this is also a result of the recruitment system, is that grown-ass characters that have entire careers can be 'taught' by byleth and act as if they're the pinnacle of knowledge. so much dissonance there.

and yeah lmao the lord characters definitely suffer from their uhhm forced attachment to byleth. edel is obviously the worst example of this, because she attaches herself like a shackle and a lot of her narrative and character is centered around byleth to the point that it hurts her individuality/strength as a character at times. hell, her 'feelings' for byleth crop up in routes where she isn't even taught by them. honestly though, while dimitri may be a very strong character on his own as you say, his immediate attachment is very much present and there are parts of the story that i dislike for the way byleth is pushed forward in the narrative. i will never truly enjoy his pivotal rain scene because byleth is really pushed as Thee most important person in his character arc that shows him how to heal. like, what for? why does the teacher you have a narratively forced attachment to interacted with for a year have this role. like what could they possibly mean to you that your, idk, life-long friends don't. and i know they couldn't have it be another character bc classic mode exists, but that doesn't mean it doesn't still annoy the fuck out of me lmao

as for there being no player pandering in vw, idk, i think there's player pandering in every route, tho it's stronger in some spots of the story and with some characters than others. what helps claude i think is that he is suspicious of byleth at first, rather than admiring - that actually fits pretty well. i mean, makes no sense that a merc with no knowledge of the church and a really weird disposition is suddenly rhea's favoured prof at garreg mach, right? his fascination comes from a different angle. i mean, it does eventually morph into the admiration/attachment without any real prompting in the end (read also: leaving it to byleth to rule fódlan for some reason) though i feel that it's never overbearing as it can be with some other characters. overall claude's initial distrust feels a lot more natural than most other characters' responses and that in turn has an effect on byleth's role in vw as a whole.

#byleth critical #asks #var don't look