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my pieces for fodlan's fables (inspiration from little briar rose, jack and the beanstalk, twinkle twinkle little star respectively). 2020

You know, when I first played the game, I held both Rhea and Edelgard in high regard, Edelgard perhaps more so by virtue of Crimson Flower actually showing Edelgard in all of her blood-soaked glory. Then I saw the vitriol people threw at Rhea while defending Edelgard —while accusing everyone else of doing the opposite— and decided to revisit my stances on both characters. It won't surprise you that I ended with a more positive and negative view of Rhea and Edelgard respectively.

I guess it goes to show how Edelgard can leave a positive impression on people when taken at face value, same with Rhea on the negative side. I remember feeling exactly like Byleth when the prospect of killing Edelgard showed up in my first playthrough of the game: Silver Snow.

But it's starting to become more apparent, with these conversations I'm having with you and Fantasy Invader, that Claude has failings of his own. His interactions with Cyril never sat well with me, I was thinking what the fuck Claude's problem was, leave Cyril alone??? I didn't pay much attention to how outspoken he was on Shamir and Alois paralogue vs being dead silent in Cyril and the pink haired slaver paralogue, it was only recently that I realized how poorly that spoke of him, especially in the greater context of "Rhea keeping Fodlan isolated" debacle (she does not). His support with Petra was sweet enough, I was focusing on their attempts to bond with each other as fellow strangers in a strange land, and not in how he didn't miss the chance to throw shade at the Religion of Fodlan (Now that I think about it, doesn't he do the same on his Leonie and Ignatz supports?)

Claude: True. The people of Fódlan believe everything is a blessing from the goddess. They've forgotten to be grateful to nature too.

Claude: Nature gives us life. Sustains us. Without it, we couldn't breathe. Couldn't live. It's everything.

Claude: It's fine to pray to the goddess, but we have to respect nature too. Don't you think?

Claude, you said it yourself, the people believe everything is a gift from the goddess, which would of course include nature. As far as you know, i.e. next to nothing, people are grateful to the goddess for her gift of nature and they showcase their gratitude by treating nature with respect, because they otherwise fear that they may upset the goddess the same way the people of Brigid fear they may upset the spirits. You fucking moron.

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@themoomoorn If it's not too much asking, what is it about Petra's support with Claude that you don't like? I'm rather curious.

​If I can jump in, for me it'd be this :

Petra : Harming Trees is bad because they have spirits and it's important, the tree gives us food and shelter but it also needs us. We live in harmony, all those things.

Clout : Ah yes, you're close to the nature, unlike those stupid Fodlan people who believe everything comes from their goddess and forgot nature.

Petra : Remember when I said Billy-sensei turning green looks like the spirits I am often talking about? And how the Fodlan Goddess basically made and created those spirits? - Who am I kidding, I can't tell you this, we're in a Fodlan game, you must always have a point and Church BaD.

Clout : Of course!

Clout : I mean, imagine if the Hresvelgs could trace their lineage to Saint Seiros herself, who is said to be, in her own scriptures, a Child of the Goddess aka not a human herself or at least a divine being. I'd look like an imbecile, right?

Also fun how "uwu nobility isn't a matter of birthright, status doesn't matter uwu" when the same guy tells to Cyril :

"nobility doesn't matter we're all equals uwu except when I could use my status to compel a random to do things he doesn't want to".

But back to the Petra support :

Clout : I've heard Hanneman say the same thing to Doro.

Petra : Wow you're so strange for saying those things! And you are a noble who can climb to trees! So weird!

Clout : Are we sure Caspar can't do the same? He knows how to pummel someone to death with his fists, maybe he'd also know how to climb trees or something, given how he didn't receive any education befitting a heir of a house, since his brother is the heir and he is naught but a spare. But hey, I'll totally call you strange because you are a princess of Brigid, nevermind the link I cannot tell you about between you being the princess of a foreign land and me.

Petra : But you know how to climb trees and take care of your equipment ! I'm so impressed, I've never seen any noble take care of his own stuff before. What is that? Ferdie oils his own weapons and armor? Who is that Ferdie you're talking about?

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Granted, given how Petra was trashtalked by Hubert (or trash thought) when he first met her and was around the most, uh, decadent part of Adrestian Nobility, I can't fault her for thinking Claude climbing to trees and tending to his own bow is extraordinary - but I suppose if she ever went to see any BL what she finds "abornmal in Fodlan and totes only Adrestia because that's the only place she visited" wouldn't be so... abnormal.

The Bakugou Experence(TM)

Bakugou: *punches Izuku*

Izuku, starry eyed: "Woow, Bakugou, that was so cool!"

Kirashima: "What a manly punch!"

Eraserhead: *grumbles, but is secretly impressed by how good a punch it was, even though he wants to improve his form a bit*

Shigaraki: *nods* "I can see why you're the one closest to Deku."

All Might: "What good friends they are!"

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.

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