#spext: meta

[stupitunclehal]

fe3h and 3hopes alike would be so much better if the end goal wasn’t always unification

[stupitunclehal]

WAIT FUCK WRONG BLOG GODDAMMIT okay well. here.

you know, if they were SO hellbent on having an amnesia plotline with edelgard in AG, there are ways that could have been actually like... meaningful in any way. obviously, I'd just prefer it Didn't Fucking Happen and they learned to talk to each other instead, but if you're absolutely, gun-to-head set on it, the easiest fucking fix is to not regress her to being a wide-eyed toddler (bc dimitri's memories show us that she was already a bossy, headstrong child even when they were like 8; her AG state isn't even akin to that).

I think, if nothing else, it could be an interesting exploration of the ethics of killing an enemy who no longer understands WHY they're being killed or poses any direct personal threat (esp by a dimitri that's shown himself capable of pragmatic ruthlessness if pushed to it) and what personhood effectively means (how alive is edelgard as edelgard, the person, if she's just the physical vessel with no traces of the events that shaped her?).

...or just make it temporary like dimitri's injury. use it as a quick and dirty way to disarm them long enough for them to talk and share what pieces they've put together about what's going on.

really just... maybe just don't lobotomize yourself before going into the writing room. 🥴

[stupitunclehal]

You can understand and sympathize with one character and still disliking them and their morals.

reread that first statement. the emphasis lies on actively hating the other.

as in being willing to die on a hill shitting on them, reading takes from their fans in bad faith immediately, obsessively focusing on writing up metas about how bad and immoral and etc etc etc they are, and ending up sounding like a nationalist for a fictional country.

also I personally don't find fault with any of the lords for their morals. they're all a bunch of college-aged kids with extremely traumatic backgrounds trying to navigate an extremely fucked up continent and deal with the problems that have been dropped in their laps by generations past. they're all doing their best and working with the hand they've been dealt. each route is also semi-discrete bc byleth alters the course of it; the dimitri in CF is not the same as in AM and the edie in CF is not the same as in AM. you only get their "true" character, values, etc through 1. approaching their arcs/motives/charcters in good faith yourself, 2. picking apart each given iteration of a character, and 3. synthesizing it.

and yes, writing off one of them as just a character who Is Bad and You Don't Like is absolutely okay (not everyone needs to engage with media with the same level of analysis or obsessive interest), but it absolutely does make certain aspects of their narratives hit much less viscerally lmfao