#(YRMR in particular takes this and ruuuuns with it :D)

[dirtyoldmanhole]

(rev spoilers)

you know something else i love about gunter as a character.

he never actually .... apologizes. to corrin/(the player)/"the good guys".

i don't have time to grab the exact screengrab (it'd be in here) but the most he gives after you "bring him back" from the possession is a vague regret at killing scarlet, and him being explicit with acknowledging that he was using corrin, and ... that's pretty much it? his epilogue is a beautifully done, but also very vague "stands watch over corrin's coronation out of that longstanding complicated relationship to corrin specifically, and then walks away, closing that chapter"

i have a fondness for villains who never get declawed / who are honestly kind of right in a lot of ways, and gunter for sure has a lot of legitmate beef with royals.

and i love. love that the game gives him that richly textured, nuanced sense of at least still retaining that steel-spine .... half resentment, half dignity of holding to that, even after everything.

so many JRPG's have villains have abrupt "im sowwwy" moments at the last hour (as much as i love lehran his own is. ehhh.) - and fates, thank god, never forces him to apologize in front of the royals because quite frankly that alone would break his characterization in half. he just wouldn't.