#and are fridged as a result because you/the hero has to uwu about them

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Browsing redshit made me think about this,

I might be usually harsh him, but credit where it's due :

The game kills Jerry when Jerry is the one who calls Flamey "uwu not me but Solon i would have stopped them if i knew" bullshit

Oh, we've met all right. But back to you. You're the one responsible for the destruction of this village. Do not get the wrong idea. What in blazes does that mean? It is true that I am working with Solon. But that does not mean our objectives are the same. Had I known they planned to do this, I would have stopped it. You have my word. Your words are meaningless. Now, I'll have to insist that you accompany us back to the monastery.

(note how Jerry has the angry portrait!)

Of course it happens in the event where Jerry backtracks on everything he did before and realises he had been stupid but hey, the game and its red herring is written around this "plot induced stupidity" -

Assuming logic exists in a Fodlan game and Kronya missed his vitals - would Jerry eventually side with Billy in CF?

Regardless of Rhage talking about failures and garbage, I see them as willing to spare Billy (they're his beloved kid after all) or maybe talk some sense in them - like hewwo, did you forget Remire and all? Clownya?

Maybe like a red unit that turns green - but attacks everyone on your team who isn't Billy, which means, of course, Billy will have to end them.

But siding with Flamey, I mean, Supreme Leader?

Nah.

And then Nopes was released lol

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my full endgame thoughts

what i liked, what i didn’t like, in no particular order. 

[MAJOR spoilers ahead just FYI] 

WHAT I LIKED 

the final battle scene was so cool! seeing everyone together like that was wild. watching carol RIP the fuck through that ship was incredible. 

carol’s short hair. ughghghgughghghg i just about passed out she’s so beautiful. i also loved that they let her be quippy and sassy like god intended, because i was worried that they’d water her down but they didn’t, which was good.

scott reuniting with cassie made me fucking cry like HELLO????? i could’ve watched a whole movie just about that. 

the team setups were really good. i liked that rocket and thor stuck together, and that rocket helped him when he was getting into his head too much. 

i LOVED the scene with frigga so much. thor needed that. WE needed that. i’m interested to see what he does next. 

the one scene where all the ladies protected peter and then wrecked thanos’ shit..i mean wow...the power of women 

the opening with clint’s family god dusted was really well-shot

loki fucking grabbing the tesseract and then bouncing STAYS one of the funniest parts of the movie 

peter seeing gamora again and saying “i thought i lost you” and then stumbling towards her to touch her face made me ugly cry in the theater. so did rocket jumping on top of groot. 

the whole scene with thor and bruce, when bruce is touching his shoulder and telling thor how GOOD he is...that sent me. thorbruce CONFIRMED we STAY winning.  

speaking of which professor hulk is the sexiest fucking thing i’ve ever seen. he’s big and thick and shredded but also dresses like a sexy professor and has humor and confidence. not only is is AMAZING to see bruce finally being confident in himself, but it’s also INCREDIBLY sexy. i keep saying the word sexy but like literally it was i’m Gonna fuck him. the blue t shirt and the cardigan SENT ME.

say what you want, but lebowski thor was also incredibly sexy. he was BIG he was CHONKY and he had long hair and was wearing a drug rug. a4 thor was columbia flashback foggy nelson and that was hot. the beard looked a little fake though dkfjhdjk it looked like cotton candy. 

i liked that thor made brunnhilde the new leader of new asgard, and i was surprisingly pleased about him needing to go with the guardians. i think he really did need some time away from new asgard because he was really depressed there, and i think he needs a change of scenery in order to heal without having to worry about the fear of losing his people (again). he’ll come back.  

i liked how there was like a golden halo and then t’challa, shuri, and okoye walked out. however, what confused me was that sam was the one who reached out to steve, and he wasn’t the first one out? it would’ve made more sense. 

the ENTIRE nebula arc was so fucking good and i’m so glad she played a big role. i was incredibly pleased with that and i thought she was very well written. and i love that she swayed gamora to the good side by telling her that they would be friends/sisters in the future. 

scott was a gift the entire time 

STEVE WITH MJOLNIR !!! 

controversial of me but i liked steve’s ending. i get why people don’t like it and that’s okay, but i think he deserved to be rewarded for everything he did. seeing him old and happy filled my heart with joy because he DESERVES that he DESERVED that life. and he’d done all that he could in the present and could finally retire. the whole “moving on” arc was tossed out, yes, but it was tossed out with the snap. the snap destroyed that part of steve and do you guys genuinely think he’d EVER want to fight again after that????? honestly. and i get that like, you guys think he was sitting idly by while hydra infiltrated shield but 1) we don’t know that. we literally have no clue what he did or did not do there, so we shouldn’t make assumptions. 2) how much could he have really changed without fucking up the time-space continuum??? there were two steves in the 1950s--one with peggy and one on ice. future steve probably couldn’t fuck with too much because it would impact what his past self would accomplish. all the things that happened in the timeline had to happen in order to lead to the conclusion that thanos would ultimately lose. so if he changed even one thing, it could’ve resulted in thanos winning. i also don’t think he abandoned bucky, because bucky knew. he said “i’m gonna miss you”, which seemed strange because he was only supposed to be gone for five seconds. he knew that steve was gonna stay, and he was smiling and nodding to sam, so clearly he didn’t feel abandoned. he just wanted steve to be happy because steve is his best friend and they love each other. also sambucky is about to get some RIGHTS !!! steve was happy and deserved happiness after all the work he did like he was fucking EXHAUSTED. i think y’all forgot that it had been 5 years so naturally he was going to fall off the original course of character development because he was traumatized. he DESERVED to be with peggy and to be happy, and to rest easy knowing that everything would work itself out. 

and furthermore i don’t give a fuck about stucky like who fucking cares??? like lmao the time has come and gone this is sambucky’s house now and we’re HAVING FUN!!! “the movie sucked because steve and bucky’s friendship is over” oh boo fucking hoo they probably still visit him at the retirement home and stay friends. and furthermore, part of being with someone “’till the end of the line” is letting them do what’s best for them and putting their happiness first. bucky isn’t selfish. steve isn’t selfish. they both had to do what was best for them, and letting your friends be at their happiest is sometimes more important than keeping them close. like believe it or not part of loving your friends is not treating them like a possession and actually letting them go if they need to. steve was still in love with the past and he knew that bucky had a future in the present. they both had to do what was best for them and it’s OKAY. 

samcap made me cry the hardest out of the whole movie. i only cried three times but the Second steve unveiled the shield i started fucking sobbing because i wanted it for sam so badly. i wanted steve to have a happy ending but i also wanted falconcap more than i wanted anything else. sam was ALWAYS meant to be the next cap, gays we WON!!! and bucky just...standing there and smiling because he’s in love with sam and really proud of him i...it was a LOT. i can’t afford disney+ so somebody better let me leech off of them so i can watch their show lrkdjlkfjg 

overall i had fun and i was entertained but that being said 

WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE 

i didn’t like that there was no intermission because i thought there would be and i had to pee for like 2 and a half hours. i knew tony was going to die after doing the snap so i watched thanos dissolve and got up to piss while he was dying because i don’t give a shit gfdjklkjd i’m glad he’s gone and that we don’t have to deal with him anymore though 

i get why natasha chose to be the one to die (clint had a family and i get that) but watching her get fridged still sucked because for a good chunk of the movie afterward there were like No Women. but the scene itself/the acting was good. i also hate that tony gets this big fuckin funeral with a wreath on the water and natasha got a bunch of men arguing because they no longer had a woman to keep them in line. she was the one who kept shield together after the snap. she was the one who sacrificed herself for the soul stone so that they could win. what she did was just as important and she deserved a heroes sendoff.

i didn’t like how a lot of the other characters treated thor. there were too many jokes during scenes where he was trying to be serious. like when he was BEGGING to put on the gauntlet so he could do something Good, that was not a time for jokes. but still, they made a joke about his weight and i was like uh cool i’m gonna KILL YOU. like thor arguably went through the most because he experienced 3 genocides (losing asgard, thanos attacking the ship, and the snap) and felt directly responsible for ALL of them. and nobody was taking care of him. though i do like that it showed a lot of his vulnerability because we’ve never seen him hit rock bottom. it’s just that some of the other characters treated him like shit while he was going through something. they should’ve shown his trauma/panic attack as seriously as they showed tony’s but everyone is too far up tony’s asshole to give a shit about other characters’ trauma being treated with care. but tony is dead now clink clink bitch! 

clint going crazy going stupid and choosing to target the yakuza instead of white criminals in his own country was :/ i didn’t like that. but also i get it because scarlett probably asked to film a scene in her home country uwu we stan an asian american queen ldksjglkdfjlgkfdlkj 🤧

i hated how there was that starmora reunion and then she just like??? kicks him??? twice??? just like thor, peter’s trauma is played for laughs like shut the fuck UP!! 

lol so every single one of peter’s friends got snapped, huh??? i feel like that’s bad writing but they all needed to be the same age in far from home so like I GUESS. 

not enough carol :( 

i would’ve liked to see okoye on the time travel team but i also get that the world is falling apart and that she and m’baku needed to protect wakanda. 

i hated the fact that the mcu’s “first openly gay character” was just joe fucking russo with a dead husband. bitch i’m gonna kill you. 

like obviously it wasn’t a perfect movie, but the perfect movie doesn’t exist. i just took it at face value and had fun. it accomplished its goal of entertaining me. i had a good time and i’ll probably see it like...One more time to see what i missed. but overall i liked it because rocket was in it and he is a funny raccoon :o) 

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"#PLAYER PANDERING KILLED THAT STORY I TELL YOU" Do you mean Three Houses? At least it was better than Awakening and Fates.

Yes, yes I mean Fe16.

Chrom hold the idiot ball at times, and even if everyone loves Corrin was grating at times, it was no way on the level of Billy.

You play birthrout? Leo will fight against you, because he has values, he is a Prince of Nohr and you are also attacking his country. Arthur will not join you, and even Charlotte, a border guard, will die because Corrin might be special, characters exist without them.

Lysithea? Dgaf about her family, her friends or her country. Sylvain can ditch his childhood friends because teacher had huge bazongas when he was in high school and it'd be rad to join the country associated to the class this teacher taught.

Edel, Dimitri and Claude were supposed to be well rounded characters who can and could exist without Billy.

Edel? Gets the doodling scene, the rat scene and the wtf you put your war on hold because you looked for Billy during 5 years???

Dimitri? Dedue has to be fridged to make place for Billy. Much like Rhea, Dimitri has to forget about his friends and existing support network to make place for Billy.

Both Edel, Rhea and Dimitri share a twisted version of "I was alone B4 U uwu".

Claude? Opens up to... Billy. No, not to Hilda who is his more or less designed second, who shares his opposite bias (pre ts Claude is biased against Fodlan and its institutions, Hilda is biased against Almyra), both could learn from the other and show that people who thought were different are, actually, not so different.

But no, Billy's the trusted friend.

I'm not talking about ships here, ship whatever you want, but the story was written with Billy as the ultimate player pandering experience, as a result 85% of Fe16 characters suffer from the "I might have a developed character but it still has to be shallow enough to make me abandon it to join Billy" syndrome.

Remove Billy and the Lords, all three of them, might go through a better journey than the routes offered in the game.

Otoh, since Fe16 is Billy's story, it was bound to end like this. That's why I want my War of heroes dlc, because no avatar