#Sad'n'lonely excuse needs to take a permanent leave lol

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Sometimes I wonder how much of the game's issues are due to creative differences or disagreements between IS and KT. Like, we know RoTK is the only thing KT is ever capable of writing (that's why they rewrote it 20 times!!), and that current IS loves their avatar worship, lonely waifus and uwu sobfests, but also that imperialism and genocide justification is NOT something they would do. Also, Nopes not getting any DLC while Engage gets a manga, a 900 page guide, Switch profile icons, etc.

Uh...

Sad uwus and "I was lonely once" + copious amounts of brainwashing was, iirc, the crux of Feh's last book which led to Book 1 Vero being retconned to oblivion and Embla's sad backstory being as ridiculous as you'd expect (her death line being iirc don't forget me sad uwu) somehow paving the way for a cute duo alt, despite the brainwashing, manipulating, killing and all kinds of funsies she did during said book.

At this point I'm sure, unless the new boring summer TT retcons her, Eitri won't have an alt bcs she wasn't designed with an "uwu sad'n'lonely once" backstory and ditto for Hel (Feh had to bring out Ganglot, aka axe fodder but who looks younger and has larger jelly melons to saddle with the "sad'n'lonely" backstory, too bad this character will only be remembered for her fodder).

So IS they can still have the "imperialism /war + killing for funsies" bad if the female characters aren't marketable, thus aren't "Sad'n'lonely", but if they are ? Look at Veronica, whatever she did is basically Flamey during part 1, no one gives a fuck anymore, and everything is well that ends well around a cup of tea.

I still think there were/are creative dissonances between IS and KT and the lack of Fodlan merc, when, as you pointed out, Engage has a manga !, is weird, but I think IS wants to drop any engagement (lel) with this verse, especially since Nopes received those extremely harsh reviews on their home market !! - and Nopes is more of a KT child than an IS product.

I'm sad because it ultimately means IS won't release mangas about Fodlan or even guides in the near future (rip war of heroes), but even if Feh tries to "correct" the aim and messages of the game, I'm pretty sure Fodlan will be an odd duck in maybe 5 years, like it will be acknowledged as Fe16, but IS will move on (or already has). Ike is still a fan favorite and has nods everywhere, Billy ? I don't think they will be on Ike's popularity or still popular in 5 years, ditto for Supreme Leader (popular as in non discourse related discussions and popular amongst the people who aren't her very devoted fans).