i'm also thinking about moments like the cai and leda confrontation where it's framed like a beat in leda's personal arc regardless of which route you're playing, specifically because cai's role in the greater narrative is to be a contrasting opposition to the darkness around him
it's really juicy to me that fortune's weave isn't afraid to make a specific lord the Main Character(tm) for a story beat when it makes narrative sense for it to happen. there are lots of bits in three houses that felt like this
Replying to @stasiscommand
at first i thought it would be theodora due to some pacing issues that I had with her part 1, but her performance in part 2 was so generational that it saved her for me
at first i thought it would be theodora due to some pacing issues that I had with her part 1, but her performance in part 2 was so generational that it saved her for me
it is very rare that a fire emblem game gives me multiple lords and i cannot pick a clear favorite or least favorite. but fortune's weave did it for me
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non spoiler tagged timeskip designs on my timeline without a single keyword I could've muted. i hate you people
was really bummed about not being able to make it to gateway fate for [gestures] reasons. so my sister googled "final fantasy" to draw the first character she saw in a fun little outfit for me
Replying to @Shock_and_Roll
if i get 2 or 3 more obtuse replies on posts that mention her im gonna become a truther. an edelgard did nothing wrong-er. a free edie-er
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Okay: Gamer still confused as to whether Fortuneโs Weave is a prequel or sequel to Three Houses.
โUrsula? Haha she totally looks like Marianneโs descendant! Or ancestor. I donโt know. Whatever. What buttons do I need to hit to marry Dante?โ
i'm used to three houses discourse. but it has genuinely been 7 years and people are still considering character analyses as defenses of colonialism, genocide, Murdering Women(tm), etc. as if the most exciting thing about three houses isn't all the fucked up shit these mcs do
>edelgard is a red axe lord who is a subversive take on a traditional FE archetype and serves as a major antagonist for 3/4 the routes
>bertrand is a red axe lord who is a subversive take on a traditional FE archetype and serves as a major antagonist for 1/2 the p1s
>unrelated
characters can parallel each other while having clear inalienable differences that still add to said parallels! this is like, one of the core metanarrative functions of the sothis games!! come on
notice how i never said bertrand is a colonizer in the original post. notice how i explicitly pointed out that he and edelgard have a clear difference in ideology when it comes to civilians in wartime and ends justifying the means. come on
Replying to @stasiscommand
How are you going to white wash the whitest character in Fire Emblem? Bertrand deserves better than being compared to that colonizer.

















