I am genuinely so proud of this painting and had a really nice interaction with her. She seemed genuinely impressed by it and I gifted her a smaller version, which she immediately installed on her desk! Yesterday was such an amazing day lol
From "history of the world"; i can't be the only one who thought this, right?
Its genuinely funny that one pf the biggest "points" people have for claiming CF is the worst route is deaths yet it apparently from what i can find, has the lowest mandatory death count for students of all. 2 deaths to AM's 3, VW's 4, and SS's 5.
Like in CF i do not think the game went out of its way to down right tell you if the casualties were gonna be worth it (it left it as something for you to decide) i know that SB and CF edelgard are practically the same (and i love the both of them) but seeing as she legits fulfills her goals in both golden wildfire and Scarlet blaze as well her destroying TWSD early on rather than later + this and other dialogues.
it feels like it paints her in a less morally devious light and like the narrative itself would support her? (compared to three houses where if the route was not CF the game would try its best to portray her as the villain)
I can't stop thinking this hilarious fic where byleth had this massive theory about the church manipulating everything and her dad being the first emperor in disguise and telling jer class about it while edelgard in the back laughs her ass off. I just keep wondering what a Crimson flower sequel fic of that would look like.
after rereading the last wish this quotes stuck in my head, "evil is evil. lesser greater, middling it's all the same. if i'm to choose between one evil and another, then i prefer not to choose at all." - geralt of rivia by playing all 4 routes it's make me think this quotes and in all of the evil edelgard is the lesser one that all the 3 endings of the game in am you stop that war but in the future many woman and children suffer, and in the vw ending it's the same but there a skirmish and claude is using byleth and for ss ending the church is in control and people still depended on that, but with edelgard she wants people to be the one in control of there fate not not in the hands of noble or the church but them self's and she want the future never depend with the crests because with all know that the cost why many woman and children be come at disposal for the nobles, just like what they did to dorothea and mother they leave them like it's was noting and many woman become victims with that system let alone experimenting on children for that if edelgard never declare war on the church many people with suffer and die with that system let alone many woman we suffer on SA and force them to have kids even they don't want too, that why the war is necessary we all know many people will die but in the end many we be save and in the ending of the game let alone she go to war with those who slither in the dark in the secret so no one with be experimenting on children or die in the process, so that way she's the lesser one that all evil let alone she a morally gray character which i like because and world is not always black and white it's always gray no matter how you look at it and we know there are people will go against her even she tell her plans because those on top we disagree with her ideas and think she's crazy so i think the war is the necessary for the better future and for everyone to have a chance in there life.
i just got my byleth figma today and the first thing it come in my mind it to do this with my edelgard figma.
She is always thinking of her mentor.
Wouldn't it have been funny if Byleth had recognized that Rhea was Sothis's daughter during the scene in the holy tomb and Byleth just pretended to be Sothis in order to punish her disobedient child? Something like "Of course I'd side with Edelgard. You're the one who tried to bring me back when I never asked nor really wanted you to!* Problem solved, and Edelgard/Rhea and Byleth go to destroy the Agarthans once and for all. Dimitri would need another minute to think about it, but all Edelgard had to say was that she knew who was actually responsible for the Tragedy of Duscur.
It's clear from the BL version of WC that Dimitri harbored his own suspicions about Arundel/Thales.
And Claude could have easily been persuaded, had
!BylethSothis simply gotten on Rhea's case for closing Fodlan out and restricting information.
Golden Ending. Boom.
It might just be me honestly but I kinda hate if you write a fanfic that has over 100,000 words and 56 chapters and then nothing else in 3 years, or another of their stories that has over 136 chapters and 200,000 word and no updates.