#FeH apparently forgot the dev interview
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Following the “glass half empty half full” principle -
Even if this FB is a lore mess, at least it gives us more insight in Seiros the Warrior.
Tl ; Dr : at least this FB implies Seiros the Warrior already had a phase where she gave in to “despair” and lost herself, but she managed to return to her senses.
Seiros is surprised when she learns her future self tried to resurrect Sothis, going all “I...”.
Is she only surprised, because Seteth reveals what are her own desires right now (even as the Warrior, Seiros wants to meet her mother again) or because she never expected her future self to want to meet Sothis?
Rhea, both in her nonsensical S support and in this FB, often mentionned the desire to meet Sothis again, since Zanado.
But as pointed out way back in time, Seiros the Warrior seemed to have curbed down this need - or even ignored it - during part of her tenure as “Seiros the Warrior”. While she wanted to kill Nemesis to recover what she lost, Seiros also managed to have friends, create Adrestia and take care of a Church - Seiros wasn’t thinking only Sothis could “lead the wayward” Fodlan, but vested this duty on the Hresvelg humans.
If the Hope to meet Sothis was the only thing that managed to keep her from crumbling, then by learning what happens to her future self Seiros would also doubt... but she doesn’t.
Is it because she dgaf about Sothis, or because she thinks she still has some worth, even when Sothis is not here, as Fodlan’s heroine, or guardian ?
(Now, SS!Rhea thinks she’s not worth a thing or maybe even the reason why Fodlan was at war - and true to the source material, no one will ever tell her that nope, the continent was at war because Agarthans managed to convince Supreme Leader that Nabateans were evil incarnate and she should kill them all to MAGA and create a better world).
Leading to...
Seiros know perfectly well what her future self suffers from, and immediately makes the right call about her depression.
Seteth mentions in FE16 how Red!Rhea (depressive Rhea, but not as depressive as the one we see here) was already seen once - could it be that Seiros went “red” once, but returned to her senses?
What made her snap, and what made her return?
Maybe this is just HC land, but I’ll die on the hill that Rhea’s depression is also fueled (amongst many things) by her isolation - even if Seteth returned 20 years ago, she was alone to deal with the Nabatean Legacy, guiding Fodlan and protecting humans (sometimes against their will) while being afraid of being skinned alive if she showed her ears for 1 000 years.
Then she makes some “friends” and finds her “family” again while she’s in her monastery, Billy is / or not Sothis’s second coming and even if they’re not they can take over her role... No matter how fragile or flimsy those relations were, they managed to prevent her from being depressed again.
But Supreme Leader happens, and Rhea’s jailed for 5 years, implied to have been tortured and ate nukes. In VW she dies without any mention in AM she doesn’t eat nukes and can live peacefully with her devoted no homo knight, and in SS, everything goes wrong because they needed to have a boss.
During the War of Heroes ?
Rhea starts alone, finds a bunch of humans and reunites with her living fam. Seiros the Warrior is not alone, not at all during the War of Heroes.
But we know post War of Heroes, her living family left her - Apostles too - and her human friends, the Hresvelgs, are turning more and more dickish with each passing decade (the start of her 1k years long loneliness?).
And yet, between Zanado and the end of the WoH, Red!Rhea appeared, Rhea gave in to her “despair” and became wild. Which would fit with Seiros depicting very precisly what happens with her future self when she’s lost.
What was she despairing about? Sothis? No, Sothis and her siblings being dead is a known condition since day 1. Maybe her human friends (Willy, Gajus, Luca, Iris and whoever else with a legacy golem) were killed? IDK. Believing humans and nabateans could never live together when she learns why Nemesis partied in Zanado? maybe.
I’d have LOVED if the cure to Rhea’s despair, in this FB, wasn’t some flimsy hope that her shit for a mother will meet her again, but instead a general “you’re not alone” or what happened in Ninian’s FB, with Halloween!Rhea telling her there’s a life beyond Sothis and while she protected and tried to guide Fodlan all those years, it wasn’t because Sothis told her to do so, but because she genuinely loves humans, learnt to trust and befriend them and can live with them.
But that’d imply shitting on the gremlin who is, for some reason, a mascot, and we can’t have that, especially on the eve of 3nopes release
even if this FB is pretty brutal to her, like she doesn’t even appear when Rhea (and Seiros the Warrior) are calling her FFS
#random thoughs#fe heroes#heroes nonsense#rhea stuff#FE16#TFW you try to honeypot something to make sense of a plot hole#but the hole is too deep and the honey jar shatters#FeH apparently forgot the dev interview#Rhea doesn't only want to meet Sothis for the sake of meeting her shit for a mother#she wants to meet her because she's the creator#and she truly believes Sothis can make the world a better place like way better than her#give a toxic mom to a person with low self esteem and you get Depressive!Rhea#I'd die on Seiros was depressive but managed to 'heal' during the WoH but later on she despaired again until the Rhea we know today
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