#anyway i like micaiah don't get me wrong khfwajhfkjwahkjfawh but this bugged me a bit

[thestarryskiesofpalaven]

after finishing por/rd and having two new fave fe games just after awakening i had many Thoughts but the premier of them is like. one of the few things i wished was different (like the lack of actual supports in rd lmao thats a biggie) was for something different to have kicked micaiah out of her ‘im getting much too comfortable with using the ‘its all for daein’ excuse for every horrifying atrocity im ordered to do’ state.

like i get what the game wanted to do w tibarn pretending to threaten sothe’s life and it obv works as it is (altho DON’T get me started abt the game having her and sothe become romantic w an a support after she talks the whole game about practically raising him lmaooooooo perish intsys!!). but micaiah. srsly. only when u and ur loved ones are directly threatened by ur actions is when u start to maybe think u shouldnt just go along w what pelleas says? u only found out abt the blood pact right before 3-12 so the 3-6 indiscriminate slaughter of retreating laguz soldiers is all on u bro lmaoooooo there’s only so far ‘i trust in my king’ can go and the worst part is u obviously know it.

but i digress. i just think it would’ve reflected better on micaiah’s character, bc she’s obviously a genuinely good person, if it wasn’t only one of her loved ones being threatened that could have caused her Realization™️ that she’s already hovering one foot over the moral event horizon, but some kind of piercing statement from sanaki/tibarn/etc. something to the effect of

micaiah: ‘... i have to do this. i have no choice! daein will die if i don’t!’

that someone, ofc not knowing about the blood pact: ‘........... if this is what it takes for daein (the country) to live, then perhaps it should perish.’

smt like that. the kind of thing that would hit micaiah real deep and finally make her hesitate and lead to the rest of the events of part 3