#remember how according to Willy's sekrit history she was controlling the world even when she was in a coma?

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My turn!

Question 8 for Flayn.

What’s something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

Well, there's basically a hellpit on some discord server that has, uh, takes about Nabateans in generals and Flayn isn't spared from the... rhetoric spewed there, but in general, that'd be too easy of an answer to pick here!

I get that everyone has their own reading on characters and maybe they appreciate them more as "characters who are OOC" rather than their canon version -

But damn if the "Flayn joins the BESF" takes puzzled me back in August 2019, and still do nowadays.

And I mean, join as in "not as a relic", but somehow joins because either the BESF are her BFFs, Rhea BaD or a mix of the two.

Sure, Fodlan's characters are written with the consistency of cream cheese because they must be able to follow the player's avatar wherever they go, even if it blows holes the size of the Atlantic in their characterisation - something Nopes, for all of its issues, corrected - and yet I still think that a small core of characters not being recruitable in house X or Y means that their writing couldn't be "that warped around the player's fingers".

I mean, we only have, what, 5? 6? 10? characters who won't be recruited by Billy in FE16 and those characters are the ones who receive the most solid characterisation - and yet we still had (have?) takes wondering, and not in a "what if AU" or mere "plotbunnies" why those characters couldn't join route X.

Again, if we're talking about AUs or fics, who are inherently dealing with OOC stuff, it wouldn't annoy me that much, but the fact that we still had "canon" discussion about how it's a shame that we cannot recruit Flayn in Golden Trasfire is just... if you're supposed to talk about canon!Flayn, then you really missed her characterisation.

Yes Flayn doesn't like lies and wars, but first and foremost, she doesn't want to lose her family! She already participated in a war against maniacs who wanted them gone (or turned in shiny weapons), if she has to fight to protect herself and/or her loved ones, she will.