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Why Toga didn't work for Me

Toga's plotline and how it ended felt hollow to me at best. To begin with, while tragic backstories can help make a character more sympathetic, characters with tragic backstories tend to lose their effectiveness in provoking sympathy from me when the course of action from said backstory is completely disproportionate such as Toga deciding to help Shigaraki kill pretty much everyone.

Secondly, the foundation of her plotline being the mental effects of her quirk which was only revealed after 100 chapters in, and the idea of Quirks affecting how people think while interesting should've been revealed a lot earlier and with more grace because shouldn't characters such as Mina have an urge to destroy things? Shouldn't Shinso have an urge to brainwash people, which undermines his mini arc? The point is the idea of Quirks having an effect on how individuals think is something that should've been brought up ages ago because it's not something that would be obscure like the Quirk Singularity theory, it's something that would be relevant in various fields and would be one of the fundamentals of how Quirks work.

It doesn’t help that it feels to me that Uraraka's response to Toga back in the first war arc of if you're going to hurt innocent people, I will stop you is treated as wrong by the narrative with Uraraka actually apologising to Toga for her treatment of her during their travesty of a rematch in the final arc.

And yes, I consider Uraraka's rematch with Toga a travesty because Uraraka spent literally most of the fight caring more about Toga's feelings then the victim's and wasting energy constantly trying to talk her down even after Uraraka got stabbed. Sure, it ultimately worked out with Toga deciding to die saving Uraraka from blood loss she inflicted, but that only happened because Uraraka decided let's not subdue the threat to literally everyone there before going talk no jutsu on her, and ended up getting stabbed for it.

You can have the most tragic backstory known to man, but it doesn't justify harm to innocent people. There has to come a point where the tragic backstory will no longer function as an get out of jail free card from responsibility.

You know what's the funny thing, people criticise Naruto for talk no jutsu on his enemies, but the thing is that each time Naruto actually waited until his enemy could no longer pose a threat to anyone before trying Talk No Jutsu.

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not a fan of how EVERYONE acts like this exchange didn't exist

"Claude was right about Rhea and the church promoting isolationism"

okay, Frieza.

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with the latest episodes of mha, can I just say I do not care for toga at all. yes, her backstory is tragic and her parents were awful but at some point she had to realize she was also part of the problem. people aren't scared of her because she likes blood, people fear her because she lacks boundaries and enjoys killing people.

imagine being izuku and having someone you met a total of three times(training camp, the provisional exam, and the shie hassaikai raid), and all three times included her attacking you, declare her love for you in the midst of a war. this complete stranger who has only tried to hurt you just drags you from your spot, ending in preventable deaths/injuries, to ask you to be her boyfriend. of course he thinks she's crazy. that is crazy.

i saw someone saying that toga was an example of queer romance, since her love isn't accepted by society. that's so stupid. i'm sorry. toga's idea of love is stabbing people, painting them in their own blood, obsessing over people who don't know her and when they rightfully freak out at her advances, she takes it as a personal attack against her.

maybe try not stabbing people and visit a blood bank

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How the show is gonna treat Adrien finding out Marinette lied to him about how his father died and that he was actually Monarch:

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The Problem with the Mecha Suits

So with the ending of My Hero Academia, we have two high tech armours, the suit All Might wore against All For One, which was subsequently destroyed with the data gathered from his fight with All For One used to create the armour used by Izuku to replace One For All, eight years later.

The problem I have lies in the lack of foreshadowing for All Might's suit and how it undermines the efforts of everyone and the threat posed by All For One , as prior to the fight, we have little to no indication that there's technology able to allow an half dead man to fist fight All For One, one of the strongest characters in the setting and would've killed him multiple times if it weren't for Rewind.

All Might's suit undermines the efforts of everyone and the threat of All For One because it's literally iterated several times how most people struggle to keep up with the power of One For All and All For One, with Endeavour even resorting to actual eugenics. And yet, there just happens to be technology capable of being condensed down into a wearable form that allows All Might who is half dead at the best of times to fight All For One face to face. Another thing that is iterated throughout the series is the effort everyone goes to in order to improve themselves which is undermined by a random suit to outdo all of your efforts.

Yes, I understand that the suit is expensive, costing All Might his fortune, but the problem still exists that there's wearable technology that makes an powerless All Might able to fight one of the strongest characters in the setting, and inflict meaningful damage on him, which I feel undermines the physical threat that All For One poses.

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I was scrolling trough instagram and I saw somebody's images of Molly very humbly painted over group images of other sailors as one of them, so I decided to make this for that anonymous person of the internet.

Since Molly is not an original sailor, I thought maybe she could be a new one, like the Amazon Quartet, instead of using an older uniform.

For the colors I followed the nature idea of Sailor Jupiter, but used teal because I tough grass plus ocean gives teal, sort of, and fuchsia because I wanted to retain the flower motive. I also gave her gold earrings because Nephrite used them, as a tribute of sorts.

In conclusion, the girl was attacked almost twenty times in the anime, she deserves being able to fend for herself.

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The devs mentioning that the 3H's lore was meant to support Silver Snow came from the Nintendo dream interview

Which route specifically did you make as the foundation for the worldview at the beginning? Kusakihara: Part One and the Empire route of Part Two… or the “church route,” as players call it, Silver Snow. In the process, you make an enemy out of your house leader, Edelgard… I’d decided on that flow from the beginning.

From there, each route’s story and the nitty-gritty of each house leader were opened up by the scenario team at Koei Tecmo. Your house leader leaves you, so I imagined the Black Eagles as the hardest route.

Thanks for the ask and the source.

Greatly Appreciated, thank you.

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I personally prefer the three goddesses at the top as distant gods with Hylia and such below them.

In my headcanon, I imagine the religion of the Kingdom of Hyrule to be similar to the Roman Empire where they'll integrate gods into their pantheon.

I think a major reason why people have issues with Hylia because in Skyward Sword, she seemed to come out of nowhere and given a very major role even supplanting the role of the Seven Sages in forging the Master Sword, there was no explanation of why she wasn't mentioned in other games, and then out of nowhere in Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom at the far end of one of the timelines, she reappears randomly.

Okay, another poll bc I have some beef with 'recent' zelda developments

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I feel very very strongly about the Hylian major religion being polytheistic and think making it monotheistic is boring and a coward move, BUT I am looking for diehards to chat with about it.

TO BE CLEAR i am looking for doylist conversations, not 'canon supported' stuff. I just want opinions.

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Edelstans: "can you please keep your personal drama out of my personal blogpost clowning on you?" Also Edelstans: "Don't mind us sealioning but you guys harassed our friend and drove them out of the fandom and during a convention" It really is a rules for thee not for me world for them.

Hi there, Thanks for the ask.

You see considering Diaphin refused to provide any evidence of some of Edelgard's fans having an harassment campaign led against them. I am forced to come to the conclusion that Diaphin was being untruthful and was projecting as usual.

That's not to say there hasn't been cases where people critical of Edelgard have gone too far and crossed the line, but as far as I am aware, such wrongdoings have been limited to individuals, unlike Edelgard Apologists.

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“Bübche knibbelt Retour” appears to be German, possibly slang because it doesn’t even make proper sense in that language. The literal translation is something among the lines of “boy chews back”

Thanks for the ask. Yeah, I tried the likes of Google Translate, Deepl and even resorted to ChatGPT, and couldn't get a consistent result.

So, the phrase doesn't really add anything in the end.

Thanks for the effort.

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Faerghus shouldn't have taken the land from Sreng regardless of the latter invading them first ? Yeah sure, but that's the point isn't it? That's why Sylvain is trying to learn their language and his endings show him trying improve relationships with them. There was nothing racist unless this person thinks countries should forever be in isolation, which is really hypocritical given how they seem to give Adrestia's relationship with Brigid a pass.

Hi there, Thanks for the ask.

I will freely admit that the Sreng part of my post was the weakest part of my argument. If Diaphin had simply said, hey I think your argument about retaliation by Faerghus has bad implications. Instead of bringing in ongoing real life atrocities like it's nothing more then something to hurt people, I would've simply apologised as I would've been in the wrong for my argument.

The main reason why I have a big issue with the argument that the Church as a whole spreads xenophobic beliefs is that it is taking accountability away from the likes of Almyra. It is acting like the three nations of Fodlan have the sole responsibility to fix relations with the invaders while the invaders get off scot-free when it is the invaders who hold a responsibility and arguably a stronger one because they're the ones causing the issue.

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More I think about it the more I realized that a lot of the Edelstans' bellyaching can be nullified by the fact that devs said that the game and the lore is meant to support Silver Snow. And especially when you consider the fact that Nemesis, someone Edel looks up to, is a dark emblem in Engage, nothing is going to change that. Them trying to demonize Faerghus in order to justify their emperor-chan invading it doesn't matter because the game and developers make it clear that she's in the wrong or at the very least misguided.

Thanks for the ask. I've seen people like FantasyInvader say that the developers said that the game and the lore is meant to support Silver Snow, but I've never been able to find it, so if someone could direct me in the correct direction, that would be greatly appreciated.

Edelgard and Nemesis do share a lot of similarities in their ideology from what little we see of Nemesis's at least, of how the talented or strong should rise to power. Although, I would say they would differ in that Nemesis's take on the idea is more of a supposed honourable warrior type deal with how he talks smack about Byleth and Claude jumping him in Verdant Wind , while Edelgard's take on the idea seems to me to be more, do whatever you need to do to get to the top.

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Bübche knibbelt Retour

I don't know what this even means.

Sounds like you're afraid of people criticising your argument to me. Reddit coded? White Knight? Do you actually know what those terms mean or are you just mindlessly spewing out garbage without regard for it's meaning? Edelgard literally sets out to conquer the continent while willingly working with genocidal maniacs, that's what she's criticised for, not for supposedly being a queer icon.

A good girl? Don't make me laugh, considering your history with making jokes about the holocaust that even Raxis of all people had an issue with. The way you responded to my outrage shows that you don't care about the real suffering going on. So go ahead and keep on making yourself look worse.

Bold of you to assume that the people of Sreng don't thrive in their homeland. Especially considering when they go out of their way to attack Fhirdiad, which shows that the raids are less out of desperation and more out of a desire to hurt the kingdom.

You are not a clown, you're the entire circus. Not only are you willing to spew out nonsense, you seem to lack the ability to read. That quote from Rhea you just quoted literally talks about how people who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Sorry to burst your bubble but pointing out that a long lived species will remember history better doesn't count as seeing humans as inherently lesser species.

Do you even know what Moonlitboar did to justify an harassment campaign in the eyes of your compatriots? He said that it seemed like Sitri had a happy life at Garreg Mach and that Lambert's invasion of Sreng made him an interesting character. That's it.

Oh, don't pretend to be the victim here. There has been no evidence of Edelgard fans being harassed. In fact, it is your lot that lead harassment campaigns against anyone who does anything to draw your ire. Fanfiction Author? Are you referring to CaptainFlash? Performing a detailed review of an author's work and only their work is not harassment. I know projection is a favoured tool of you, Edelgard apologists but it's rather obvious.

You're not a clown, You're the entire circus. Each time you make a post, you literally make yourself look worse. You have demonstrated that you care nothing for the suffering of others beyond how you can use it to hurt others.

Damn, thats racist Episode V: M'Lady Bübche knibbelt Retour

You all now, I originally I didn't reblogg because I wanted to comment without engaging in an argument with some reddit coded white knight, who makes his entire identity being obsessively hateful towards the only queer and only female Lord of the game whose entire deal is wanting to abolish feudalism and divine rule.

Now on the other hand, I'm doing it because it became instantly super fun, knowing that it obviously pisses him off. Also I'm doing him a favor by not doing that on Twitter. Like, I had my fair share of over the top edgy takes and bad jokes here on Tumblr, after which I took a pause from it and now decided to make this the site where I'm on my good behavior. I'm a good girl now here. Twitter on the other hand? Ever since Elon took it over, I really don't give a shit about my account there, so thats where I go all out with little fucks to spare, so I really would have gone all out with the M'Lady Fedora chud jokes. It would have been super funny.

And yeah, I don't believe his fake moral outrage, thats literally after I told him how shitty the implications of him justifying Faerghus stealing all the fertile lands of Sreng and forcing them into a frozen desert were, especially in our current day and age. Should I have done it? In retrospect probably not immediately, but he really doubles down and decides tha thet validity of faerghian colonialism, because Faerghus has a right to defend itself, is the hill he wants to die on.

Also he is still all about how brown people lie about racism in his video games, because there is no way that a medieval catholic coded church lead by whiter than white dragon people who view humanity in its entirety as inheritly lesser creatures could ever be xenophobic, lol.

Finally, I still don't know what this deal with this Moonlitboar person was, the only thing I know is that he allegedly said something shitty, got backlash and pissed off afterwards? While...you know...meanwhile Edelgard fans constantly receive targeted harassment, like a fanfiction author being bullied off of social media and even a fanartist getting harassed during a convention recently, and there is constant bait and harassment post in the Edelgard positive tag, not to forget this guy tagging Edelgard even when his posts don't have anything to do with her.

All in all, I get the slight suspicion that this guy is not just a clown. He is the entire Margrave Matthias Raoul Gautier.

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You know it's really interesting how you refrained from reblogging my post, tagging me in this post or even putting your response in the same tag as my post, almost like you didn't want me to find your response. At the very least, you didn't follow in the footsteps of your compatriots like Flamingarc who hides their response to Tumblr posts on Twitter, an entirely different platform.

I never mentioned Rhea in my post at all, and other people such as Random have already covered Edelgard's opinions towards non humans in detail. But sure, go ahead and throw stones from your glass house.

The game literally says multiple times about how Almyra continuously invades Leicester's borders without reasonable cause and no, fun doesn't count as a valid reason to invade your neighbours. It's literally what the game says, covering your ears and having a tantrum about it won't change a thing.

Finally you actually address my actual argument with how you criticise my section on Sreng and I can kind of see the train of thought you're on despite the stretches you made which is unfortunate given how atrocious your argument is. Tell me, does the suffering of others mean nothing to you beyond your satisfaction? How dare you take a ongoing atrocity and use it for the sake of your satisfaction. Do you even care about the lives being lost or are the innocent lives lost and being lost just another thing to use for the satisfaction of your desires?

Here's a fun fact, Claude has only been in Fodlan for a year prior to the start of the game. I wouldn't expect anyone to be able to understand the deep problems of a nation well enough to suggest change after only a year in said nation, let alone the other two nations on the continent. Claude does question Lorenz's interpretation actually, https://houses.fedatamine.com/en-us/scenarios/230, that Lorenz's interpretation of the doctrine is just that, an interpretation of the doctrine. Sorry no, your interpretation doesn't hold up, as per usual because it isn't backed by evidence.

I don't recall being called out, so you'll have to provide me a link. I don't recall harassing anyone either as I know I haven't block evaded like Raxis or lead a harassment campaign to the point users left Tumblr like what was done to Moonlitboar, which I recall Raxis saying was deserved. So, go ahead and keep projecting your sins upon me, all the while throwing stones from your glass house.

Why on earth do you keep bringing up Edelgard supposedly being a queer icon, no one has ever said anything that would actually begin to warrant you bringing it up. Are you seriously trying to escape responsibility by playing the victim here? Sorry to break your delusion but deconstructing an argument does not count as harassment of queer people. The LGBT Community already has enough problems as it is from the Right Wing without you taking the struggles of real people and use it as a get out of jail free card from responsibility. Tell me, does the suffering of others mean nothing to you beyond your satisfaction?

I posted it under Edelgard Discourse, because you and your fellow Edelgard Apologists like to use it as an argument, treating it as a complete certainty that the Church of Seiros as a whole spreads xenophobia in it's doctrine.

In conclusion, most of your response is a deranged rant about things I didn't even mention in my post, and the one section that actually addresses my argument is so morally atrocious, you should be ashamed. I will repeat this for the final time, Tell me, does the suffering of others mean nothing to you beyond your satisfaction?

Damn, thats racist

The title says it all. Like damn, why is it that Edelcrits always cry about how she's such a racist when she tries to dethrone the whiter than white people immortal dragon demigods in power of her entire land but when its about the actual themes of racism in the game, they're all about "ackchually, the browns and the blacks are the real racists". His entire Sreng argument also has some rather...uncomfortable...implications, considering the entire Israel situation and like...Israel using exactly the same argument to justify settlements and genocide and all...

But I mean, this is also the guy who gets triggered over getting called out for he basically makes his entire fandom identity obsessing over a queer character and harassing her to a large extent queer fans, lol.

But we can also always trust a M'lady themed account to question the experiences of a mixed race character with racism, when his whole character is all about how due to being mixed-race, he experienced racism wherever he went to. And the faerghian branch being even more racist than the central church isn't exactly the argument people think it is. Later on, in chapter 6, we see this xenophobia in the church as well, with Dedue being immediately suspected for Flayns kidnapping because he's from Duscur. Later on Lorenz confirms xenophobic teaching by the church of seiros, contrary to popular believes, Claude never debunks that. He goes "But does it...?" to talk himself out of having to explain why he knows an almyran General, while in Hopes he is much more forward about this actually being true in his support with Dimitri, something he never debunks or argues against.

Also why the fuck is this troll posting this under Edelgard discourse, when the entire topic has nothing to do with Edelgard? He does make remarks about wanting to improve relations with foreign regions, but the churches xenophobia is predominantly Claudes plot point, so its obvious this guy just wants to stirr up drama for me personally.

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So Called Xenophobia.

You know it's really funny to me that people take the word of Claude as gospel, the only evidence needed to mean that the Church is xenophobic, when it is clear to see that Claude understandably sees his country through a rose tinted glass and ignores that Almyra has for many years launched assault and assault on Leicester territory, and the only reason as revealed in Claude and Hilda's C support that the reason why the frequency of the attacks have gone down is because of Holst, and as soon as he is out of the picture, Almyra launches an assault as seen in Hilda and Edelgard's interludes.

Secondly, it is literally pointed out in Chapter 2 that part of the reason for the Western Church's dispute with the Central Church is how it has allowed foreign students to study at Garreg Mach. So at most one branch of the Church of Serios, the most unhinged of the three branches we see in Three Houses.

Something that is somehow always missed when the idea of the Church of Seiros spreading xenophobic ideas around is brought up, is the fact that the majority of the neighbours of the three houses with the exception of Duscur lead numerous unprovoked invasions such as Dagda's invasion of Adrestia and as previously mentioned Almyra's invasions of Leicester.

And before someone brings up Sreng, it is important to mention that it's fertile land was only taken in retaliation for Sreng's continued assaults on Faerghus. It is unfortunate for the citizens of Sreng, but their leadership screwed up. You cannot expect to launch an invasion and expect that the defending nation will just stand there and let you launch as many invasions as you want without reprisal.

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Imagine being pathetic enough to take criticism of Edelgard's morality for her at best morally dubious actions as a personal attack, accusing anyone who dares criticise Edelgard's actions, of being homophobic, misogynistic and every single accusation to one's moral character in the world, taking no consideration of the meaning of those words.

The rights of groups such as women and the LGBT Community already have enough problems with bigots trying to rip away every hard earned right for simply existing on the same planet as them, without people having the ego to make real problems all about them.

It's the height of hubris to take real problems and make it all about you. To you, is the marginalisation of vulnerable groups nothing more then a vehicle for you to use to hurt people for the simple act of criticism of Edelgard's actions? Does the suffering of others that people have died to alleviate mean nothing to you?

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I mean the concept is simple, genocide is bad, regardless of whether the Nabateans ruled as gods or governors/citizens or whatever (and like you said, neither translation give weight to this idea that they were oppressive tryants, it's like saying Edel is an oppressive tyrant because she ruled Adrestia).

And the people from that server trying to justify genocide and double down with conspiracy theories and racist rhetoric makes them look like complete dickpistons.

Thanks for the ask.

You would think that the concept of genocide being bad would be easy enough to grasp. The bar was literally so low that someone could trip over it, and somehow people still find a way to not meet that simple bar.

The ironic thing is that there are other franchises such as Attack on Titan or Lostbelt 6 in Fate Grand Order which do a better job, at making it tempting to support the genocide of a group, all without arguing something way out of context on purpose.