It's Just A WIP For Now... Rhea Is Singing 'In Time's Flow' To Raphael In Their Hypothetical Support.

It's just a WIP for now... Rhea is singing 'In time's Flow' to Raphael in their hypothetical support. I also wanted to make a Post Time Skip version.

YOU, 3H ARTIST

SHOW ME HOW YOU DRAW RHEA FIRE EMBLEM

this image disgusts me to the core.

you know call me Crazy but I think a man who’s been practicing archery since he was a child and who can hold on to the back of a wyvern off just the power of his legs and who can pull of a Parthian Shot consistently shouldn’t be a twink. let Claude have muscles

So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I'm going to try it.

Laundry day

oh God... all this talk about how the voice actors hated Rhea got me thinking...

What was it like for Cherami to work under such environment?

I don't want to accuse people of bad stuff just because they have bad takes, but if it really was the whole cast who hated Rhea, I can't help but wonder if Cherami felt some of that.

Sorry for being a bitch but people who think rhea "gets a pass in the fandom" are fucking stupid. Bitch where??? Everywhere I look people dunk on her?? Where is this alternate timeline where Rhea is more popular than Edelgard and how do I get there??

What about the rest of the world who was zapped due to his whims? Why should I care about the feefees of someone who slaughters billions and not the feelings of the ones slaughtered?

Because those billions are nothing but background characters, and Thanos is a main one.

And I think this phenomenon is a natural consequence of not engaging with the story beyond a surface level. It creates a cognitive dissonance in which we know what Thanos did was bad but people who don't see deeper than the surface can't internalize the magnitude of how bad the things he did were, of all the people he's hurt, because those people aren't named characters, so it's easy to ignore.

And then, when his actions do affect a named character, Gamora for example, the story decides to frame this as a tragic moment for Thanos, who is oh just so willing to do what it takes for the right thing, rather than as a tragic moment for Gamora, whose life and story being tragically and undeservedly cut short. It's like a zero-sum game, either they focus on Gamora's death, so Thanos looks like the villain he is, or in Thanos' feefees for killing his own daughter so we don't focus on Gamora much, outside of using her as a prop for Thanos to have some more uwu sob moments.

Same with Naruto and his ninja hitlers. Same with AoT, Same with MHA and all its villains (though, to be honest, I don't think Hori really knows how to engage with consequences of a character's shitty actions, I do not like how he handled kacchan or endeavor)

If you only focus on a story on a surface level, you can easily eat up whatever sob story the writers serve you, while ignoring the ramifications of the actions of the villains. But at the same time, I do agree that content creators do have some responsibility for the message the viewers walk away with, because they're ultimately the ones who decided to put these sob stories at the foreground and the damage the villains cause at the background.

Which leads us to the big one.

Edelgard's actions as presented in game are hard to discuss because they're simultaneously at the front and center and not talked about at all. We know that nigh everything that happened in WC can be traced back to her, for she's the Flame Emperor. The Prologue, Lonato, Remire, the Chapel... We see firsthand the damage Edelgard is leaving on her wake to attack the church, but because almost all of these instances happen to NPCs, it's easy for players to move on without thinking too much, blame it on someone else, or straight up forget it happened. Because the game, for all intents and purposes, forgets that Edelgard was the flame emperor, made most apparent in Crimson Flower.

Three Houses has a unique problem of the narrative being laser focus despite having four chances to explore the world at large, which include the people living in it. After the time skip, the commoners are all but forgotten, because they're the most affected by Edelgard so focusing on them will make her look back. The only time in the war phase where we see firsthand the effects Edelgard's war has on commoners is on Ferdinand and Lysithea's paralogue, one of the most missable paralogues of the game, (the others being Caspar & Mercedes and Linhardt & Leonie) and that is not accessible in Crimson Flower.

Edelstands blame everything on the Slithers, insisting that their precious Eddie was helpless to stop them and would've never approved of their deeds, despite the fact that not only is she not exposing them, she's also covering for them, because those horrible things benefit her so it's not like she hates their actions enough to stop them. And she does plenty of horrible things on her own, such as waging a violent war of conquest on the continent for six years.

To take it even further, people would rather blame RHEA for her response to the shitty things Edelgard has done, such as accusing her of using the might of the knights to oppress commoners even though those commoners are launching an attack at her, hurting people along the way. They say she's making Ashe fight his own father as a sadistic move, even though Lonato is the one attacking the church while Ashe is there, and this logic doesn't even apply to the BL/GD versions of this map. They harp on Rhea not giving people a fair trial even though they were caught red handed in trying to assassinate her AGAIN. Everything Rhea does is wrong; Rhea is the only one who does anything wrong. Edelgard can do no wrong.

Which is why we end up where we are now. Edelgard's fee fees take priority over the damage she's done, because that's what the narrative chose to prioritize. And the fans, rather than thinking they may be wrong about her, decide to double down and even shift blame away from her.

Not to bring irl shit but when you consider that there are people who believe in their own moral superiority, that everything should burn to the ground, people should die for their cause and those they don't like deserve to die for justice, it makes sense why there would be Agarthan stans despite how comically evil they are in the games. Not saying it's good (it's not), but it's the same sort of edgelord doomer nihilist mentality. Or maybe I'm thinking way too hard about this and they just support them because their waifu is working with them and they can't be bad if she's "purely good" despite their actions in game saying otherwise.

Uh...

I guess everyone knows there are people who are pos around, but what became more and more annoying with the years is how some of those beliefs have been romanticed for X and Y reason (marketing purposes because earl grey sells) and if you add to that the performative era - where being a fan of a character means you have to endorse everything this character says or does, we end up with some mess.

And I think while the devoted fans we all know and love have their part of responsability in this - as you say - supporting characters no matter what to the point of swallowing their nauseabond rhetoric because waifu allies with them before backstabbing them offscreen...

I still believe content creators are sort of also to blame with this, see the earlier earl grey marketing reasons.

IIRC, in the Marvel movies the purple guy who erases half of the universe is/was/got a cup bcs sad uwus he's ready to sacrifice his daughter for the greater good?

Cry me a fucking river !

What about the rest of the world who was zapped due to his whims? Why should I care about the feefees of someone who slaughters billions and not the feelings of the ones slaughtered?

Take Kishimoto : trying too hard to make people sympathise with his anti-heroes ultimately means that their victims have no voice to any chapter, Ramen Guy will never be able to express anger (if he wasn't dead when Konoha was flattened) at Nagato turning his daughter in a pancake, or Sakura will never weep for her parents, etc etc... but we get a long FB about Nagato's sad backstory with, what can be summed up as "the world fucked me over so I'll fuck over the world and you can't stop that unless you decide to fuck me over too" without anyone telling him that his reasoning is puerile and quite frankly stupid.

Madara being very sad not being elected big boss so he takes out his salt by launching repeated attacks at the village and its inhabitants? "Who cares, he was very sad (tm) when Hashirama decided to kill him to protect the village, what a hypocrite !!!"

The less is said about AoT, the better we all are lol, but in honor of MHA ending I'll just say that... I fucking loved the panels at the end (or last chapters?) where randoms civilians are shitting on Shigaraki, even if the panel with the old lady who blames herself for not helping him back then or taking his hand was hilarious, considering that in his FB, he said he would have killed her too "oh poor him if only i died for his sake he might not have grown up as a vilain" come on that's too much earl grey i'm out of this.

As for FE Fodlan, given how earl grey was used to sell and advertise the game, I guess you can't talk to Garcias or Nathalies and ask what they're thinking about the war that is razing their homes because someone wants to unify the world and is willing to sacrifice them to do so, or hell, we can't even listen to Merlinus voice his thoughts about the strange plague in Remire and how horrible it is, to Amy wonder why the fuck her parents transformed in demonic beasts and tried to kill her.

So when even content creators believe that their vilains have to get a pass regardless of the amount of shit they pulled off - I can't exclusively blame devoted fans for going very very far with their takes to support the bae.

Special mention to Miura (rip) who never lost an occasion to portray Griffith as manipulative and conniving, and yet some people really believed (and some still do?) he did nothing wrong...