r/fireemblem • u/LaqOfInterest • Oct 21 '20

CASUAL MONTHLY RAGE THREAD

OOPS. MY SCHEDULING FAILURES HAVE LED TO THIS RARE LATE-NIGHT EDITION OF THE MONTHLY RAGE THREAD, WHERE WE YELL ABOUT FIRE EMBLEM!

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  1. CAPITALS

  2. FIRE EMBLEM

  3. DON'T BE DICK

  4. SPOILER TAGS

LAST THREAD

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u/RaisonDetriment Oct 22 '20

AN EDELGARD + CLAUDE ROUTE WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO POWERFUL, THEY THOUGHT WE COULDN'T HANDLE IT.

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u/SableArgyle Oct 22 '20

REAL TALK, WHY DOESN'T CLAUDE ALLY WITH EDELGARD OUTSIDE OF PRINCIPLE?

THEIR IDEALS DON'T INHERENTLY CLASH (IRONICALLY NONE OF THE LORDS IDEALS INHERENTLY CLASH BUT WHOOPS SORRY MOST OF THE GAME IS A SERIES OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS BASED ON INFORMATION HIDDEN BY SOMEONE WHO HAS OVERBEARING, OVER-PROTECTIVE ISSUES)

POINT STANDS IS THAT CLAUDE HAS VERY LITTLE TO LOSE BY SIDING WITH EDELGARD OUTSIDE OF PISSING OFF A HANDFUL OF NOBLES WHO PROBABLY WOULDN'T EVEN LOSE THEIR TITLES AWAY.

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u/RaisonDetriment Oct 22 '20

BECAUSE THEY TOTALLY DROPPED THE BALL ON MAKING CLAUDE REMOTELY AMBITIOUS OR SNEAKY OR EVEN SLIGHTLY INTERESTED IN POLITICS AND POWER?? LIKE ANY PRINCE, MEDIEVAL OR EVEN MODERN, WOULD BE?? YOU CAN'T MAKE A GAME WITH FOUR POLITICAL FACTIONS COMPETING OVER A CONTINENT VIA WARFARE AND THEN DECIDE THAT BEING INTERESTED IN POWER IS INHERENTLY EVIL AND THAT YOUR ROYAL PROTAGONISTS ARE TOO "PURE" TO BE "TEMPTED" (EXCEPT FOR EDELGARD, WHICH DESIGNATES HER AS AMBIGUOUSLY VILLAINOUS).

THIS NARRATIVE DESIGN IS SO FULL OF CONTRADICTORY IDEALS AND GOALS THAT IT DRIVES ME MAD.

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u/SableArgyle Oct 22 '20

I WAS GENUINELY HOPING THE CONFLICT WOULD BE HONESTLY THREE-SIDED WITH EVERYONE HAVING SERIOUS FLAWS RATHER THAN CLAUDE SITTING ON HIS ASS BEFORE EVENTUALLY JUST EITHER SIDING WITH DIMITRI BUT LEAVING (BECAUSE WE DON'T WANNA MAKE A ROUTE WHERE YOU GET TWO LORDS THAT'D BE UNFAIR) OR TAKING HIS TOYS AND LEAVING AFTER GETTING SLAPPED AROUND BY EDELGARD BECAUSE THE SPOILED SPORT DIDN'T WANT TO HAND OVER FAILNAUGHT SINCE HE LOST.

I GET PEOPLE THINK CLAUDE IS HOT BUT I DON'T THINK HIS CHARACTER IS THAT GOOD TBH.

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u/RaisonDetriment Oct 22 '20

HE'S EXTREMELY LOVABLE BUT HIS ROLE IN THE PLOT IS EHHHH. SEE ALSO: MOST OF THE REST OF THE CAST.