#bignutz victory

[themoomoorn]

Keep in mind that if Iggy is filched onto CF in Houses, he will express an utterly OOC and really creepy joy at the prospect of recapturing Derdriu's destruction/capture in a painting -

It's yet another instance of the game making characters snort Hresvelg Grey. And given the weak wills of some of these characters, I'm more than willing to believe that some of them can fall under Hresvelg Grey's thrall (or drink Claude's Golden Piss, in Hopes' case), and Ignatz kinda falls under that category? He can show a very strong backbone when he wants to (not recruited on CF, or telling Lysithea off in their Houses Support for one), but he's also wishy-washy with his desires. That being said, I've always put him in the "less likely to be swayed" category, even though I can also see him go to the Kingdom in Houses under certain circumstances. I guess this is him in a weaker state of mind.

As far as the Arval question goes, I'm convinced that having Shez preserve his stupid cycle is him mimicking something Flamey says in Heroes: perpetual war is better than what they deem a "false" peace (AKA a state of not-war with the one major religion centered around pointy-eared elf people in place, no ballistic missiles flying around, and the Empire isn't the sole power on the continent). It's megalomania, really.

I'm... kind of confused about this? Like Ignatz is basically saying the only way for people to move forward is by continuing to fight and destroy? That's a pretty awful message in general, but coming from Ignatz it just feels weird. It sounds like he's just accepted war and that it's just... something that happens so we should shrug it off and move on?

I know this game tends to have very strong pro-war/pro-invasion messages which is already really gross to me, but it went from being annoying and icky to just making me feel disgusted. Also, Ignatz of all people shouldn't just shrug his shoulders and be like well that's just the way of things, I guess! There's an active war going on so it makes sense that towns could be rebuilt and destroyed again. It doesn't mean just give up on it.

Also really doesn't feel like an Ignatz thing to say.