I Just Want To Point This Out.

I just want to point this out.

In this year's Rider series the MC Shouma is half-granute, his father being an alien from another dimension and his mother being a human. The villains are Shouma's half-siblings, pure-blooded granutes who look down on humanity as nothing more than ingredients. They killed Shouma's mother out of this racism when their father died, using her to make dark treats, and even tried to do that to Shouma who was only saved because he was part granute. As such, he now fights to protect humans from his siblings and the junkies sent after him.

The reason why I bring this up is how people act that Byleth being part Nabatean is a flaw, and that them becoming entirely "human" is a good thing as they kill other Nabateans. People even act as though Byleth ISN'T a Nabatean, with them losing their power at the end just them returning to being "normal." Normal means rejecting the idea of coexistence, treating the other race as something to be disposed of simply because they are not the same.

It's a villain trope, one Houses inverts by making it so that the villains are actually all humans. Hell, that last one is pretty big considering how many games end with dragons, demon kings, Gods of Law, etc. Humans are the cause of suffering, the non-humans are just scapegoats for their shitty actions. Kinda sounds like something out of The Witcher novels really.

I think it started off as a misconception because, as far as I know, Dimitri's first support is also locked after a certain chapter, though I don't remember when.

And then it turned into Claude's support not only being locked after moment like the other two lords, but also locked specifically after Byleth gets the SotC, just like Edelgard. This way, people would say that Edelgard wasn't trying to manipulate Byleth by opening up to her only after she showed she can be useful, because "Claude does it too", so either Edelgard isn't manipulating her or they're both manipulating her.

You know lowykey I always wondered who first said that Claude's C support only opens after Byleth gets the Sword of the Creator since like. That's not true. Like not only is that not true Claude is quite literally the only one of the three lords to NOT have his C support locked behind a chapter. You can get it immediately so like. wuh happened

Only related to a post I saw but it IS wild that

Things that Dimitri Fire Emblem can rightfully be criticized for:

Using excessive violence against his enemies

Dedicating a massive amount of his life to revenge

Actively seeking death when he’s made promises he needs to be alive to keep

Leading people who loved and were loyal to him on what is essentially a suicide mission

Being a dick to people trying to help him

(All of which are acknowledged by the story and he changes)

Things Dimitri gets criticized for:

Defending his home country against imperialism

Some bullshit “status quo” argument

Being mentally ill

Because she's a fave.

100% just because she's a fave.

Did Edelgard hold a trial for Dimitri when she was "forced" to kill him? Or for Claude or Seteth and Flayn when she killed them too?

"She spared them!"

As if vanishment isn't a horrible fate as well. And she still didn’t hold a trial for them.

I suppose it is my lack of attachment toward Edelgard that makes me feel that way (me shaking Edelgard like : you were almost my favourite but your writing fails you) is that I see people saying that of course the Eagles siding with Edelgard makes sense in the Tomb (CF) because can you imagine seeing the Archbishop condemning your house leader without trial ? Someone you admire getting condemned without any fair process ?

Meanwhile I'm like

The Eagles siding against Edelgard makes sense in the Tomb (SS) because can you imagine learning that your house leader is involved in almost all the shit that went down during your academic year, including sending the Death Knight against you multiple times, and you almost died, and saw death around you, multiple times... And she was actively involved in it ? She was an active participant in it ?

It's interesting. I think.

That's the thing I think a lot of people miss, or intentionally leave out, when it comes to the outcome of the war of the Eagle and Lion. Rhea's interference was ultimately for the EMPIRE'S benefit.

Remember, Rhea only intervened in the aftermath, except she didn't intervene as much as she was brough along, and she only brough along after the to be kingdom WON. After Loog WON. When you take that into consideration, it would be more likely that Rhea tried to convince Loog into accepting his victory without asking or taking much more from the empire, because honestly, what was stopping Loog from keep going and rename the entirety of Fodlan into the kingdom of Faerghus? His sense of honor? Not that the empire would understand...

WHY Loog needed the church to recognize the newly founded kingdom's sovereignty is a topic for another conversation, but it doesn't change the fact that it was the better outcome, because otherwise Faerghus would've steamrolled the empire until every fighting man died, as they already proved they were too much for Adrestia by beating their asses and then go to the church to make it official to further rub it on their loser faces.

But the empire, and specially the fandom, doesn't understand this. Instead, they view it as one of the reasons why they resent the church, resent Rhea, so much. They probably thought Rhea should've come up and tell Faerghus that their victory doesn't count or something, getting angry at her for conceding, even though they couldn't have done anything about it because they just lost. If they didn't want Rhea to "divide the masses to make them bicker among themselves", the empire should've thought of that before losing the rebellion.

In fact, if they didn't want a rebellion in the first place, the empire should've thought of that before severely mistreating the people of the north.

For ME one of the craziest takes I've seen float around is that Rhea Bad for helping Loog and Faerghus as a whole gain independence from Adrestia because Wilhelm Existed. Like, just because Rhea was Wilhelm's friend and Adrestia was close to the Church, fuck Faerghus' freedom. That's so fucking wild???

Wot? That's a take? Fr? On Sothis?

Was she supposed to not mediate the situation and let Faerghus steamroll the Empire or something? Was she supposed to side with the empire when she only had the KoS and Faerghus had a shit ton relics?

For Wilhelm my ass. That dude gave up ruling before he died lmao.

Mini comic sketch for James, featuring Scarlett and Fodoquia 🥛