#Lamia is a young Hilda

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Goddamn, the jump to a fully-3D game fucked over 3H hard when it came to it's boss variety; out of 27 paralogues across all the routes, 9 of them have unique bosses that aren't used elsewhere in the game, with the other 18 paralogues having Jeritza, Hubert or Catherine, generic fodder with slightly-amped stats pretending to be bosses, or no bosses at all.

Honestly, the Jeritza and Hubert inclusions may be my least favorite method of the three; it puts them in stories they have nothing to do with character-wise just for the sake of not making it too obvious that the side content is severely lacking in unique bosses, while also needlessly increasing Jeritza's already-comically-high amount of fights from 7 to 8 and Hubert's actually-reasonable amount of fights (post-route split at least, but i don't think it's too fair to count the prologue sparring matches as proper mini-boss encounters) from 3 to 5.

LOL

Bar the boss variety, what seriously pissed me is the lack if special battle convos with the bosses.

Flayn'n'Seteth have no lines against Maurice or worse, Nemesis himself!!!!

Heck, you could even make lines between Kostas and Leonie, Kostas going all uwu "you noble brats don't know what it is to be born a commoner !" and Leonie rekting him, because she wasn't born a noble, and yet, she's not killing children because someone paid her to do so (tfw jerry is a mercenary who kills people for money :()

Granted, I'll give credit where it's due, Tru Piss has the most battle convos, and reading them is a blast.

I'd have prefered for Flayn to have more convos against her classmates (maybe a special one with Linhardt who might have guessed who she is!), but it's Tru Piss for you.

But for the paralogue, ultimately, yes. Jeritza, or Hubert, or a random NPC. Man, imagine having to fight Leopold or Whodislava in a paralogue, like Grégoire was sent to "negotiate" with the Brigid people, or Leopold is the one rounding up the "imperial militia" in Hrym when Ferdie and Lysithea visit for their paralogue...

But no, we don't have any side or NPC character, and imo, it also participates in making Fodlan so bland - no NPCs, only the same two guys for some reason...

At least in the Yuri paralogue, we have Myson!

But he doesn't have a sprite :(

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Someone posted an interesting theory that the lack of evil women in FE is related to the artists reluctance to draw women that are over 40(physically before anyone breaks up Manaketes or Laguz) or ugly like that the evil men are. I did notice in Three Houses, unlike the baby faced & sexualized Kronya, Miklan has a lined & narrow face, a cro magnon forehead, & of course a disfiguring scar.

Well yes, but what about Hilda?

She’s wonderful, and her trading card game (the old one) shows that she’s a middle-aged woman over 40. Cornelia seems to be ageless in comparison.

Niime is the only playable old woman we had, iirc.

I think it’s most likely tied to the fact that we don’t have boss 1 female brigand bandit, we don’t see a lot of random women bosses with faces.

Lamia was interesting in that regard, but true to the first sentence I typed, it’s because she’s based on young!Hilda.

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Chapter 4 - Thove to OMG André you just didn’t - Silesse

Siggy just can’t believe what happened! Aideen’s brother made an apparition! And he did some nasty things she should be ashamed of, while Erin rages of despair

Do you have spies of your brother managed to send a last carrier pigeon?

no :’( That’s something Julius’d say, not a random guy like you with no holy blood! How dare you

Pamela warning Misha was orphaned because of that blond pirate who has a shiny bow don’t go near her don’t go after us you’ll be wrecked

OH NO You’re not attacking Bridget, but Silesse!

at long last honestly if the guy did this before we joined you you’d be dead because Daccar + Maios are too much trouble for you to handle alone

Haa? You have wing clippers? lol@ the sheer terror of Pamela’s might, you can stay stories but no, terror. What are we dealing with, the goddess of Thunder? Hilda herself??

oh, so you’ll be the one to pack a wing clipper? Oh wait, do you have the sword rank for that?

You know, this Rahna line makes me wonder if somewhere, someone wrote a Manhya/Rahna fic.

it’s the queen/retainer scenario and I’m starting to see romantic undertones here. The Rahna genes made Lewyn find her hot

THE LAST PERSON WHO SAID THAT LOST HIS HEAD DON’T SAY THAT

HERE HE IS OUR HERO HAS ASCENDED NOW HE IS THE ONE AND ONLY, THE DUKE!

Alas, poor Ring, he died of a flu, right? Poor Ring indeed. An entire legion of bow knights? If only Quan mimicked them...

HIM AND HIM ALONE WAIT WHO IS THAT BRIDGET I KNOW NO BRIDGET

STOP BEING SO AWESOME ANDRE - i really lol’d at “winged ponies” you have no idea. This guy here is so arrogant it’s wonderful

Manhya has lines while fighting her old comrades. It’s kind a of cute and annoying at the same time, why should a NPC be offered this privilege when our “enemy that turned allies units” won’t do it?

they were at the Silesse academy

hey don’t badmouth her lover okay

petty jealousy strikes. What, you wanted to be Rahna’s favourite? Hell, you don’t even have a retcon kid to give you more depth WAIT YOU HAVE ONE HE WILL BE THE DUKE OF JUNGBY

Way too late, the glorious Duke André’s behing with his bows.

Silessian knights are honorable, and Granvallians dastards because they only win due to the bows’s advantage and surprise attack? I’m seeing a pattern, Isaachians are honorable, Silessians are honorable, Agustrian knights are, next what? Miletos people too, only Granvalle is full of scumbags? (after Siggy’s demise, of course)

Meanwhile Holyn promotes, he wants to look cool in front of his pirate not-lover, but the old man said they’re in love.

BUT HE WILL NEVER STAND A CHANCE AGAINST THE BEST JUNGBY EVER

and Mahnya dies unceremoniously to a random loldier. That was anticlimatic.

my brother who came on checking WTF i was doing saw this and said “this guy looks like a 12 years old playing a RPG, using the strongest weapon availble to destroy mooks from the first level to feel gud at the game”. GG bro

But while André’s gloating, Rahna has a breakdown :’(

Err... no I’m not? No one makes jokes like that, unless they’re bald and wear an eyepatch.

how could you know it from that place? Anyways, it’s kind of sad to see everyone react to Manhya’s death. Poor Phila could have been so much more.

Well you used your brave bow against them what did you expect??? (granted Midayle can’t pull what André pulls even if they wield the same weapon because lol @10 skill)

H-HEY REMOVE THAT DASTARD NPC FROM MY WAY

WOW WAIT - this is why i had to reset (reload a save state) because no one was at Thove save for Aideen, I thought the villagers would come earlier so I had everyone warped to Sailane and it was a BAD Idea.

What’s with your Granvalle knights conquering castles ? But we will save the family reunion for later, see you later André!

YOU HAVE ANDRE TO THANKS FOR THAT

TFW defensive line is made of mages - have you ever heard about armors? “nah they suck”

i bet with your sprite you’re an axe wielding unit

WOW WAIT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO RAHNA??? DON’T LET HER TO THAT BARBARIAN

run random, that Freege mage needs you to become useful!

hey you don’t seem so concerned about your Queen Manhya and Eldie’d like to share words with you and you know what i’ll let you die just for you to meet them

why were you even searching for them? round them up to sing “Glory to the new King of Silesse”?

Oh no you just wanted to murder them. Some people have strange hobbies, have you heard of the Loptyr Sect barbarian friend? They recruit people like you.

“yes sir - oh wait he isn’t a sir. yes dude?”

pff, as if he was destroying them for a reason. some people enjoy mindless murder you know?

WOW WAIT WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN BY LESSON??

OH FUCK NO - Siggy was right, I can’t unsee those people pouncing on her :’( Eww. You’re so going to die random barbarian.

then i have a weak stomach young!Hilda, raping defenseless queens is too much for me. Fuck you Daccar.

young!Hilda is a mercenary? Maybe she’s a relative but not from Viccy, explaining her lack of Vala blood.

Infernal = fire well maybe you really have something to do with Hilda.

again, dastards are using mercenaries to guard their castles. Were is even his own army? They were just peg knights? You usually send mercenaries to die on the frontlines, and you keep knights to defend your castle...

Funny stuff, Lamia’s unit is entirely made up of ladies. And they were hired by the psycho who let a random seize Silesse. Go Figure.

I’LL DESTROY YOU

Guard the castle? You wanted them to kill villagers some screenshots ago! Make up your mind!

Azel helped a random woman. Not out of selflessness, nope.

BUT BECAUSE IT ALLOWS HIM TO GET RID OF HIS STUPID POINTY HOOD AND WEAR SOME PANTS! YAY PANTS (and pony)

Erin is so angry, she’s full of... fury

daw. She didn’t do a thing, Midir’s roomate killed her. (and don’t mind Erin’s suicidal attack, i resetted after because i thought killing Pamela made her girls disappear too)

it’s precisely because she is a fledgling knight that can kick your butt Pamela, because she has the fledgling knight’s dedicated weapon: the brave lance!

HA! TOO EARLY FOR THAT PAMELA

Meanwhile... TAILLTE MURDER HIM, USE WRATH - she did and killed him.

in another dimension - Pamela fights against Lewyn

You can’t surpass the dead Pamela! They’ll forever be honoured and their names will be given to flying ponies, while you’ll be forever mistaken for Dithorba.

OH MY GOD A CRITICAL HIT HE GOT SO BURNT WITHOUT VALFLAME

I TOLD YOU TO WATCH FOR THE BLONDE PIRATE LADY WITH THE SHINY BOW - wait steel kind of shines in the snow, right? “b-but she looks like Lord André”. With this, Bridget murdered her bro’s GF. How will he react??

Siggy comes to the rescue! Rahna is happy he’s here and doesn’t want him to feel bad for not coming here sooner, it’s not like it’s his job to protect Silesse or the Queen, or even this woman who is not his mom.

:’( You’re too good for this world Rahna

they were totally lovers

Promises you can’t keep 12 : they already returned to Granvalle! 

Again a promise?

Siggy requestin authorisation to stroam castles? My, mature!Siggy is still here, but i don’t know if he’d ask the same thing if Rahna died.

IT’S JUSTICE TIME - said someone

thanks Naga you’ll be coming and I won’t have to backtrack AGAIN

And that’s it!