#ferdie to dimitri's retrainers: wait you DON'T argue with your leader at every opportunity ??? but that is your job !!!

[aethele]

god ur post is so good.... i think the only reason ferdie can leave her in silver snow is bc ss already has so little appeal being an almost vw copy paste that itd be like “and heres THREE characters you lose!” ): sacrifices made i guess

i have a lot of Opinions on silver snow and i personally have a very strong CF / VW lean,   but i definitely feel like from a  “““choice based”””  ( pseudo-choice based ?  as it is none of your choices matter except the easily-missable CF one )  game perspective,   as a professional writer currently working on a choice-based rpg,   i really think you SHOULD have been punished more for abandoning your student. 

just like how lorenz and ashe will ditch ya in other routes,   i really think some beagles kids should have ditched you in silver snow.   like,  ya know,  consequences.   it would have been way more dramatic from a storytelling perspective,   having to live with your choices and fight your former students.   of course some of them have very valid reasons for leaving the empire  ---  petra for example  ---  but there should have been more.

i think ferdinand because:

he loves the empire.   in VW he says there’s a hole in his heart that will never be filled after you sack the empire,   and he’s super depresso in non-CF routes.

adrestia is already on rocky terms with the church,   and ferdinand himself says that religion shouldn’t be forced upon people ever.   so why on earth would he side with a church when he’s prime-minister-to-be of an empire that already thinks it has too much authoritative power ???  especially one set on destroying the empire ????  his home ?????

his dialogue just feels so bizarrely out of place since  in every other route  he is one of the most sympathetic characters to edelgard.   he talks about continuing her legacy after she dies !   he tries to get her to leave in VW so they don’t have to kill her !   but in silver snow every other line from every character is about how she’s just gotta die.   it just doesn’t make sense for him imo. 

he hates corrupt nobles.   that’s like,  the crux of his entire character.   he has some disagreements with edelgard,   but at the end of the day they have very very very similar ideals.   he clearly dislikes the current system and wants reform.   ever read the last line of their paired ending ???  “Their children,  born to those who had torn down the old social hierarchy,  were encouraged to choose their own paths.”   that’s good kush right there

it just would have made sense for edelgard.   she wants to get rid of ludwig,   ferdie wants to get rid of ludwig,   and ferdie becomes duke aegir / head of his house after ludwig is unseated.   house aegir is the most powerful of the great noble houses.   given her character and her hatred of TWS,   you would think she would prefer ferdinand retain his own house than hand it over to arundel  ( and look what happens there ! ).   plus it’s the only house / territory she outright seizes ?   ferdinand himself is the one who explains that she jailed count varley and allowed his wife to take over instead.   why wouldn’t she extend that to ferdinand ?   

ferdinand says he left because he didn’t want to be her puppet but i find it very odd that he would just abandon his own people and territory like that.  he has basically dedicated his life to them and talks nonstop about how true nobles serve their people before themselves.   he also sees it as his entire life’s purpose to guide edelgard and correct her when she is on the wrong course of action.   in every single route he chastises dimitri’s retainers for being poor retainers and not stepping in and correcting dimitri.   but then HE abandons edelgard ???   it makes no sense.  the prime minister’s entire purpose is to act as a balance against the emperor and he tells hubert that’s why he’s always challenging edelgard as her retainer.  and clearly in CF he is able to mitigate a lot of internal damage to the empire bc he prevents an entire rebellion in hrym.   if you don’t recruit him in other routes,   dorothea calls him a dog for staying with edelgard and he replies  “I will not try to explain my duty or hers. You would not understand.”  he clearly sees it as his duty to stay at edelgard’s side and challenge her to make sure she makes the right choices !  AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

anyway that’s why i don’t write him in silver snow.   out of the non-CF routes,  i think he fits best in VW.   the church stuff and lack of sympathy toward edelgard in silver snow just does not mesh with my interpretation of ferdie  ( of course other ppl are welcome to their own interpretations ).  thank u for reading my essay