#do you think matpat has seen this in his retirement

[rainyraisin]

The fact that screen rant just posted an article talking about something that Matpat pulled out of his ass ten years ago as if it’s fact is so fucking funny to me

No FNAF isn’t based off of a Chuck E Cheese shooting numbnuts people complained Scott’s models were scary so he made a scary game go touch grass

[nintendork135]

Because it's coming up soon, I wanna make another post about MatPat and his retirement.

I've seen some people calling this man a terrible person, a bigot, etc. While I might be wearing rose-tinted glasses, I also would like to think that if you take a look at him now, his recent content, et cetera (see his GT Live videos and such) that he is a man who genuinely tries to improve on his flaws and shortcomings.

Has he made problematic stuff in the past? Yes, that's a fact. Had he tried to better himself since then? YES. I understand that he's made comments and said/implied things that have hurt other people accidentally or no, but he has since made an effort to ensure all of his research and such is better and his content does not demonize others.

The man would not have lasted as long as he has on YouTube if he was either a) that controversial and terrible of a person or b) his content was not that good. And considering that I haven't seen nearly any big drama review videos or the like on the man, I think it's safe to say he's not the big bad bigot people claim he is. You can dislike him all you want, people, but I've seen people sending him death threats??? What the fuck is wrong with you? You don't do that to ANYONE. Period.

Call me a dickrider or whatever. I know this man is flawed, but everyone is. The difference is that he has improved and continually improved upon his flaws. He has hosted charity events, he's tried to make sure his content is well-researched as opposed to his older stuff, he's openly admitted that HE DOES NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING HE PUTS OUT. The man just wants to have fun.

I made this post because I wanted to make a tribute art for him and I was scared to out of fear that I'd get harassed for saying/making anything positive regarding him. But fuck that.

Thank you, MatPat, for the fun you've put into people's childhoods. The delighted rage you've made people feel over spouting nonsense about robot bears. And the love you've poured out for the people who have made a community around you.

Retire well.

[fantasyinvader]

So, with Hapi’s support with Dimitri I think I can finally piece together what really went on with the Insurrection and Duscur. I’ll try not to sound like MatPat here, but if you start hearing his voice reading this let me know. Maybe I can send him a script or something. Long-ass post incoming

Let’s start this off with the ascension of Emperor Ionius. As per Edelgard’s Goddess Tower event, a few years after graduating the Officer’s Acedemy he returned to the monastery, met Anselma, they fell in love and Edelgard was born shortly thereafter in the year 1162. However, Anselma was just one consort among many who produced children, and not the politically motivated main wife. This marriage ended up raising House Arundel to prominence within the Empire.

Of course, this comes into conflict with the setting. It’s established early on that an Imperial Heir hasn’t attended Garreg Mach in generations, while Edelgard’s story implies her father is quite young. So he couldn’t have been there. Likewise, the only mention of Ionius being married is to Anselma. There is nothing on the politically motivated main wife, other consorts, or even Edelgard’s siblings minus a mention by Hubert. There is very little to collaborate Edelgard’s story here, let alone that her father loved Anselma above all else.

So what we can verify is that Anselma became one of Ionius’s consorts, an act that raised her family’s social standing, and then gave birth to Edelgard. Going by Ferdinand and Lysithea’s paralogue, during the early years of his rule Ionius tried to centralize power and authority within the Empire on himself. House Martritz was abolished in 1157 when it’s leader died despite his wife being pregnent. Ionius’s policies caused House Hymr to attempt to defect to the Leicester Alliance in 1167 with the help of House Ordelia. This resulted in the Hymr family being essentially wiped out by Ionius, House Ordelia being put under Imperial supervision, Duke Aegir governing Hymr’s former lands. Those placed to supervise Ordelia were members of TWSITD, who experimented on the children leaving most of them dead along with Lysithea obtaining two Crests and a shorter lifespan.

This also caused unrest within the empire’s nobility, and in 1171 six families staged an insurrection against Ionius. Volkhard von Arundel was among them, alongside the head of House Vestra. House Vestra is the Empire’s black ops, doing things in the shadows to keep the good image of the Imperial family. While Hubert believes his father acted out of greed, his support with Hanneman hints he may have been trying to protect Hubert from something. Given that lord Vestra is the one who told Hubert to always look after Edelgard, but then joined the Insurrection, it seems like an odd switch. But if Vestra had found out something in one of his black ops missions, something that put his son in danger, it could cause him to switch sides. Like, I dunno, TWSITD and their experiments in the Ordelia region?

Arundel flees to the Kingdom with his niece, keeping her identity and location a secret less people in the empire find out. Around the same time, Anselma is led there as well by her old friend Cornelia. Except at this point, Cornelia was replaced by TWSITD. She takes the name Patricia, meets King Lambert, marries him, but is never given time alone with him due to Cornelia’s interference. Her status is something of a secret within the Kingdom, and she is unaware of Edelgard being there as well.

Hapi was captured by Cornelia at some point and experimented on. Patricia found out and opposed her treatment.

In 1174, the Insurrection ended with Ionius beaten. Arundel, who had been a pious man up until this point, stopped donating to the Church and returned to the empire with Edelgard in tow. There, she was handed over to TWSITD to be experimented on. It’s safe to assume that 1174 was when Arundel was found in the Kingdom and replaced by Thales.

We know the experiments happened because Edelgard not only bears a second Crest, the long extinct Crest of Flames, but also because her conversation with Arundel as the Flame Emperor confirms they did acts in Enbar that they would be punished for. The existence of the siblings is still a little wonky though. Edelgard does say that her sisters called her El, but we also know that Dimitri calls her that and looked like a girl as a child (per his support with Catherine). For all we know, Dimitri may have been the “sister” she was talking about and she took parts of Lysithea’s story to embellish her own tale.

Edelgard’s claims that the nobility put her under the knife were attempting to make a strong emperor to rule over Fodlan. Now she kinda takes advantage of the fact Byleth somehow knows less than Sargent Schultz and never brings up how her father tried to consolidate power, but even without that it still doesn’t make sense. Why would greedy nobles who were fighting off the emperor’s attempt at taking away their power try to create a super-emperor to rule over not just them but the entire continent? And with Constance (who reflects the Crimson Flower route) blaming Ionius for what happened to her family while only being mad at Aegir for not helping her family in their time of need following the war with Dagda a year after the Insurrection, something seems up.

My best guess is that Constance’s remarks hint that it wasn’t Duke Aegir, who Lysithea said was a bad man but not a monster, that ordered the experiments. It was Ionius. His actions prior to the Insurrection were him preparing to launch his own war with the help of TWSITD. He wanted to be the strong emperor to rule over Fodlan, and the experiments on House Ordelia were originally for meant to power him up when the time came. It would explain how he looks like so old and weak despite being roughly in his 40’s. Those experiments failed on him, leaving him weakened, but he did them to Edelgard, who believed the war took it’s toll on him. Vestra found out about this and joined the Insurrection to help prevent a continental war‌ that could endanger his family (would also explain House Gerth’s involvement, since they are the family who roll diplomacy with other nations). But that’s just a theory (a game theory…I’m not done yet).

Sometime after Edelgard left the Kingdom, Patricia found out that she was there from Cornelia. Cornelia manipulated Patricia into blaming Lamber and, wanting to reunite with her daughter, to help conspire his death at Duscur. In 1176, Lambert is killed while visiting the neighbouring country. Patricia’s carriage is not targeted, but she goes missing and is never seen or heard from again. Likely, she is dead and her involvement was meant to cast suspicion that the whole thing was engineered by the empire. Not helping matters is TWSITD claiming they performed Duscur for Edelgard. Considering that the aftermath of the Tragedy saw the Kingdom destabilized with a weak regent, and a growing number of bandits‌ (with dark mages in their ranks), it really just seems like TWSITD wants as many people as possible to die in their mission to wipe out the dragons.

The fact Emile killed his family in 1176 and was found afterwards by Edelgard kinda blurs the line over Edelgard not being involved with TWSITD. After all, she was somehow able to get him appointed as the heir of House Hymr. It doesn’t make sense why the nobility would be fine with the heir to the throne making someone a lord, so Arundel/Thales may have been involved. We do know that she helped turned Emile into Jeritza/Death Knight with help from TWSITD (his armaments and his use of dark magic), that Monica was abducted a year prior to the start of the game and Tomas came back to the monastery the same year after retiring to Ordelia territory. So, Edelgard was involved with TWSITD sometime before the prologue happens and maybe even as far back as the events of Duscur. TWSITD are trying to manipulate her into attacking their targets for them but Edelgard has her own goals. She wants to be the strong emperor of Fodlan she was made to be, and she does manage to manipulate TWSITD to this goal.