#I know shes not an SS but I LOVE her

[mousegirlracecardriver]

This is MY car btw. IF you even care 🙄

[gatoburr0]

She’s such a good mother figure it makes me cry.

Quick something because my brain has rotted to a degree.

[theycallme-ook]

Why do you hold the weight of the world?

She's seventeen. She's older than even the ruins of the surface. She's a small village girl. She knows each blade of grass across the continent intimately. She just wants to study for her Knight's academy graduation exam next year. She just wants her millennias old plan to save all of existence to succeed. She's fallen in love with her best friend. She needs to use his love to leave him and save the world. She is her father's daughter. She's not even a person anymore. Like what the fuck man

[coffeeshib]

Oh Kathryn Hahn, the woman that you are...

I KNOW........ i adore her energy & the way she plays her roles so much. also i was rewatching an ep earlier & i couldn't help but always feel so !!!!!!!! about her nose

[popppyfur]

obsessed with this thing

[mazojo]

It truly is me and my terrible taste against the world

[itz-pandora]

Huh. If my life was a quote, it'd be "one of those sad ones with a deceptively happy tune"

[mc-critical]

1.10 / 1.09

[randomnameless]

To continue the woobified view of the Elites and my comparison of them to the Black Eagles :

Same for me regarding the BE, especially because they also literally fought Edelgard's troops in WC when you choose their house, and even if you don't, they definitely still would know that Edelgard dus nasty shits in WC.

The idea that media literacy is dead is quite fitting, because the idea that even rotten persons have loved ones/that having loved ones doesn't mean you're not rotten is a known thing, yet the Eagles and elites get a pass solely because "they genuinely believe in the cause" and "they love and care for each other"

Probably Fraldarius was as devoted to Nemesis as Ingrid to Dimitri, Lamine very well may have been as sassy as Dorothea, perhaps Goneril was as brave and endearing as Caspar, or Maurice was as loyal to his clan's interests as Petra to Brigid's happiness (through a strong bond to the Empire) but like the BE, they are butchers, who relished in the destruction of everything those against them hold dear, lap dogs and rabid curs of someone they definitely know have crushed innocents and scorn the very idea of peace except under their domination.

The only meaningful difference between Edelgard-following BE and the elites is that we can know more about the BE and we are forced to dislike cutting them down even as they refuse to let northern Fódlan alone.

Honestly I need a fanfiction where the BE are called out for that bullshit.

Yep!

That's the tone deaf feeling I got from Nopes, the Deers are hunting someone bcs their leader wants her dead for no reason, but Raph only comments on how hungry he is.

Uh, sure Raph, you're not the most thoughtful character in there, but come on? Some commentary or exposition on what you're doing? Hello KT? Can we have characters be challenged or even react to the events of screen instead of wondering what's for dinner/teatime?

No??

I wouldn't say it's an issue of media litteracy being dead, but more something in the lines of people being more and more "all or nothing" nowadays, without any nuance and conflating liking a character with the idea/image that might project on you : if I like ASOIAF's Cersei, I don't think everything she does is "justified", but modern fandom, I feel like some people would categorize you as a "good" or "bad" person based on the characters you like, and it's just... not what fandom is or was supposed to be imo, I'm here to nerd and gush about favourite characters, not write litteral essays about the Geneva Convention.

Corollary is what, imo, made the Fodlan fandom hell : some people really take "criticism" against a character personally - sure the way FE16 was written invites projection, but at the end of the day, making a Berning Fire Joke is, just, making a joke about a bunch of pixels, nothing more.

Back to the BEs, they can have a sense of camaraderie and genuinely support each other... as they tear apart "people because Supreme Leader told me to" and fight side by side with Bob the Carpented who was turned into Waldi the demonic beast.

Ferdie can skewer Flayn on her father's lance because she is "a creature that has plagued humanity for ages" even if they reached a C support before shit hit the fan - and still protect Mercedes and Bernie from their abusing Fathers. Does that make him a great guy? A nuanced guy?

I think the trope is called "even evil people have loved ones" or something like that?

I don't think so, but he is no random one note villain sycophant either - now, what is the more annoying with the Fodlan games is how this dichotomy is never called upon : everything is just a giant blob or Hresvelg Grey ("morally grey" but only applied to Supreme Leader) where no one really is angry at her, and all the "sacrifices" she's making are off-screen while the characters on-screen always moan about her "ReFoRmS" and "IdEaLs" without talking about the cost bar some milquetoast "but war bad". And no one, in the game, will ever throw this hypocrisy to their face - Gallant Ferdinand will dream about the Opera as he wipes off the blood of a young woman who just wanted to return to the only home she had.

Yay.

FWIW, some mutuals and I have nothing but pure lols about Doro's line in the non-CF routes being "we killed Ferdie professor :'(" because, hey, why should I care more about Ferdie than about random loldier 55 ? Rhea? Felix? Claude? Ignatz?

Maybe the Elites were really friends and became """"nice""" persons with time, to their families and loved ones ?

Does this magically erase what they did before? Will that "good" they did erase all the "wrongs" they have previously done? Will theyr forever escape the consequences of their actions?

In a game that depicts Flamey as a terrorist for 11 chapters only to drop that plot point by the window to moan, again, about her "IdEaLs", "consequences" are maybe something you can eat as a snack, or throw in a trashcan.

So following the rules of this verse, given how Supreme Leader never receives flak for her Flamey stunts, why should the Elites receive any for what they did? Look, Maurice calls Daphnel his friend, surely he is not that bad of a man? Well yeah, he might have seduced women and planted a lot of wild oats here'n'there, but he cares about his friends!

Jeritza likes ice creams and cats! Surely it's more important to paint him as a cat lover than to deal with all the consequences of his stunt as the Death Knight, kidnapping and implied rekting young woman while he was in GM, under Flamey's orders, right?

Calling it now, after eviscerating Seteth's older brother, Goneril might have melted in front of one of Rhea's kittens, and adopted the cat asap. Surely that makes Goneril a "good" character right? And forget the entire "genocided a bunch of hippies living isolated in their village" stuff?

I don't have fanfics recs where the BEs are called hypocrites, but I confess I don't read a lot of fanfics in the FE16 fandom because of all of the aforementioned issues.

[sskk-manifesto]

Finally got around to watching ep 11 (´；ω；｀)

[obessivedork]

Was.... that supposed to be the end of FO4? 😐 Like once you've blown up the Institute you get this random nostalgic slideshow that has nothing to do with ANYTHING and that's it? You beat the game! Good for you! But we'll place you back into the world to keep playing I fucking guess? What's going to happen to your friends and The Commonwealth with all the decisions you made?😐 Don't ask us! Not like we're going to make an RPG with the infamous RPG IP, that would be silly!

[cheswirls]

looking @ old fic i started when i was 14/15 is so funny bc im realizing once again why i never mark fics as abandoned even if its been literal years since i've touched them. specifically i was checking docs for stuff i started and either did or didn't post to ffn.

and its like. nothing is bad??? like i can see where my outside-the-box ideal of fic writing comes from. not just fics but writing in general, i'm p sure. even if it's a total cliche plot setup, there are details on each that rly make it stand out like oh yeahhhhhh i did have this great idea once upon a time.

funny too bc was it executed well in prose??? no absolutely not i wrote like shit when i was 15. would i revive an idea one day and revise it to be less cliche or cringy while still keeping the stand-out elements??? yea maybe. i might. everything i'm currently working on that i started from 2021 up to now still holds my supreme interest, but like i'm not gonna say never.

esp since i write fic first and foremost for my own need and specifically what i like to read, it makes it impossible to consider an idea i've thought extensively about "not worth writing anymore". anyway not making this too long i jus found everything interesting to consider

[send-me-a-kae-via-subspace]

creature in stem!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[ladyrijus]

What aboutSkSw!Link? Do you think he had moments where he questioned if everything between him & Zelda were genuine or Hylia subtlety swaying him? Do you think he was mad at Zelda and/or Hylia? And do you think he was afraid that he and Zelda’s relationship would forever be broken?

While Link and Zelda's entire relationship was orchestrated by Hylia, I don't think Zelda calculated her every move. Keep in mind that she had absolutely no memories of her life as Hylia before the fall. She had to regain them at each spring she went to while traveling with Impa. That means every single day, up until she fell out of the sky, was a day that Zelda lived authentically, as herself.

So as far as Link is concerned, Hylia and Zelda are separate entities.

Remember when Zelda pushed Link off the edge of the island while his Loftwing was trapped? Maybe I have different standards for what is considered divine and human, but I really don't think Hylia would have done that. Like sure, Zelda might have had faith in Link to survive but it's not because she had that divine insight he'd be a hero chosen to eventually destroy Demise, it's because she knew that Link had a Loftwing to catch him.

It's for that reason, as he went through his adventure, Link did not once question Zelda's integrity. He did not see her as Hylia using him, even when she told him that she remembered a different life before this one, but as Zelda who needed him to be there for her when no one else in Skyloft would. If anything, he saw her as a victim of Hylia too. She grew up as her own person all this time with her own dreams and aspirations, and the invisible phantom of her ancestor took it all away.

(If it wasn't clear enough, Link isn't exactly pleased with Hylia's planning, but if it weren't for her, Zelda would not have existed to begin with. He begrudgingly acknowledges that, at least.)

As for whether he feared his relationship with Zelda would be broken, I think the Link we see and know is very, very stubborn. Whether that's unique to him or not remains a mystery, but Hylia must have foreseen it somehow that he would not give up on the girl ever. The hope that he will find her and protect her, the faith that they will be okay no matter what obstacles come their way, are huge components of the unbreakable spirit Zelda had him temper.

In short, Link never entertained the idea that his relationship with Zelda would be broken. That would have broken his resolve to pursue her, which in turn would have damned the Surface. Maybe their relationship would change, that he was aware of, but he would be there for her in any way she would have him. If not a lover, then a friend, if not a friend, then her knight. Just somewhere beside her side, if she allows him.

[llycaons]

okay I thought about the similarities between jfm and jc's unrequited crushes who prefer their 'servant's' company to their own and it looped around from being tragic to being really funny again. jc pined after wq so clumsily and unsuccessfully with the stupid fucking comb she didn't care about because SHE AND HER FAMILY WERE POLITICAL TARGETS AT THE TIME and HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HER AT ALL and she 100% always preferred the company of wwx, who was genuinely fun to be around, as intelligent and selfless as she was, understood and respected the delicate political position she was in, treated her like an individual, knew what was important to her, helped her family, and sacrificed everything for her safety. wq literally would rather have lived a doomed life in a starving refugee camp with wwx and her family than accept a marriage proposal from jc, jc wq shippers how does it feel to be fucking clowns

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

Anyway I think the twist being the main character was what they despised all along fucks actually