#the random generator is picking on Dev... it's not his fault he doesn't have skills considered common nowadays

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rating OC headcanons

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tagged by @fortunatetragedy, thank you! I'll use the EWT trio

-Orion can play the guitar. (she can't play anything, but if she were to learn she'd go for piano first) -It would not take much for Orion to turn evil. (LMAOOOO extremely true) -Orion listens to 80s music. (I mean. the 80s wasn't that long ago for him. but he still listens to 30s-70s music too, so...)

-Devilant reads wattpad. (bro he doesn't have internet. or a computer.) -Devilant gets road rage (BRO HE CAN'T DRIVE) -If Devilant likes someone, they will give them a pretty rock. ("giving a pretty rock" is what Orion calls--I am sniped from a tall building)

-Madrigal makes your mom jokes. (no, she thinks they're dumb) -Madrigal can't handle criticism. (an understatement.....) -Madrigal is not good with social cues. (I'd say it's not that she isn't good with them, she simply chooses to ignore them lmao)

tagging @writernopal @jezifster @rhikasa @ryns-ramblings @revenantlore & open tag :)

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Speaking of lol’ed translations and missed opportunities and devs being cruel to characters, well, Billy in FEH has a FB with Sharena where she’s all depressed and doesn’t know how to people and is sad because she doesn’t have friends (Sharena offers to be her friend), then in No Hopes Jerry the worst father alive aside from Ionius insults his own child and Leonie joins in too and there’s no pushback from anyone, not even Billy, about that. In Disengage Billy doesn’t accept compliments because he always redirects the praise back to the other person. I’m not here to merit whether this is makes them a good or bad character, I’m just baffled that such low self esteem and sadness is apparently now part of their character and the games don’t really do much to ease that except for Disengage and FEH instead of the game(s) Billy originally appears in. Does KT hate them or something?

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Billy not knowing how to people and learning how to people from Rhea - who pretty much doesn't know how to herself - is a funny hc I had, but hopefully for Billy, the people at GM (CoS/KoS) know how to people for two.

While I don't think Fe Fodlan was intended to showcase shit parenting, Jerry took the cake and ate it in Nopes, while Sothis is just true to herself in both games (even in Nopes tried with her battle lines).

I still think FE16!Billy, despite some snow, is TV static and cannot say "this is not what i want"/ "this is not good" or criticise or comment too harshly on events happening because 1/ Avatar problem (if the player wants to marry someone s/he cannot have her avatar dislike that person? or be incompatible with them) + 2/ Earl Grey.

Now, it would have been fascinating to have Billy be a perfect "blank" state with no sense of what's right from what's good - and the lord/path picked actually shapes them...

But here comes the snow from the TV static - despite the general cardboard appearance, Billy shows some quirks, let them be mundane like "liking to help people" or picking random junk on the floor to help, to liking making friends and, in general, liking that job the evil lizard lady gave them and the gremlin in their head (who is the so called Goddess decried in a certain path...). Billy opens up to people - thus shitting on Jerry's decision - and loves people thus helps them, even if at times it brings them ruin like running to avenge Jerry because for some reason they loved Jerry, or being pushed down a cliff by rushing to help Rhea.

Now, while FE16 tried to mumbo jumbo something about their "lack" of emotions due to Sothis's crest stone and Sothis being dormant - even if the DLC shat on this by showing Citrus, who also had a dormant gremlin inside of her, giving a wide smile something Billy isn't supposed to be able to do before Sothis wakes up - Nopes more or less explained Billy's stunted emotional state might have been caused by their pacemaker, but it also originates from how their shit dad treated them...

And kuddos (?) to Engage to depict Billy's low self-esteem ; I mean you don't develop modesty when the dad you've prepared a spectacle for calls your efforts a nuisance, you develop, imo, low self-esteem.

Granted, we all know FE16 tried to mislead its players by having red herrings and unreliable narrators some the game pushed more than others - so Billy's state, initially attributed to the red herring (rather white lizard in this case) couldn't be textually explained by anything else.

Nopes at least sheds more light on Billy than FE16 did (maybe because they thought slaughtering Rhea was "explained and justified" enough in the routes this paralogue/support are available so they didn't need to use the red herring skill?), even if FEH and Engage also do it, which makes me really annoyed because why the fuck subsequent games (and unrelated ones!) explain more about a character than said character's base game?

So I wouldn't say it's only KT's fault - fwiw in Nopes KT shed more light on Billy than FE16 ever did - but it's just FE16 being... well.

The joke that "the writing team shitting on Billy is the proof they think Billy's part Nabatean" is more and more valid with each passing day lol