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    That may be the case, but I noticed her popularity rising once she was in Heroes as such a good unit. So it was probably a combination of the two. Though I personally find the comparisons of Micaiah to Corrin to be offensive, Micaiah was never that bad >.> As for Eirika, I noticed a lot of hate for her back in the day. I was never a fan of her game so it kind of stuck out to me just how much she got comparatively to everyone else, at least from a somewhat outsider's perspective.
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    Frankly, she isn't. Divisive doesn't equal hated, she even won CYL her first year being out. You want to see hated female characters? I point you to Micaiah after Radiant Dawn came out. Or Eirika. While the hate for these two has calmed down significantly the past several years (with Heroes playing a large part in Micaiah's) those two had so much vitriol spat at them that it makes Edelgard discourse look downright tame by comparison.
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    I've been over this several times, but what could one more time hurt? This is not everything, just to keep it from getting too long. General fixes: Nerf enemy resistance stats to actually make mages worthwhile, fix balancing, add a way for the DB to catch up to the GMs, be it either through auto leveling or through my proposed idea for a Part 2 rewrite in other threads, add support chains to certain character pairs (eg. all the GMs should support, all the DB should support, all the Crimean army should support, and then add other ones that make sense and leave the other characters that don't without support chains), fix Part 4 to add more development to the enemies and Ashera and wtf is going on. Part 3 could stand to be multi-routed like others have mentioned with an option to pick which group you want to follow with the other units auto leveling so they won't be under-leveled come Part 4. Stop with the second playthrough restrictions. Fix Micaiah. She's a main lord, she needs to be better. Bump her speed, give her better magic that isn't just Thani, possibly give her access to dark magic so that a grand total of 3 characters in the game can use it. She should have support chains with all the DB, Sanaki, Pelleas, Nailah, Ike, Elincia, Soren, and Tibarn at the very least. Sothe could stand a better promotion and better capped stats to make him actually useful come later game. Also maybe give him access to bows upon promotion, that would be cool. He needs a bigger part in the story and supports with all the DB plus some of the previous support partners to see how they've changed and developed over the years. Pelleas needs to not be a second playthrough character. The rest of the DB needs a slight buff and they definitely need supports to fill their characters out. Elincia needs a bigger part in the story (ergo Part 2 rewrite and more presence in Part 3) and of course supports. The Greil Mercs are mostly fine, just add supports and for the love of everything good in this world fix Mist. I'd like to actually be able to use her, thank you very much.
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    Awww thank you! That's so sweet! 🙂
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    .... I don't think I have ever had this much good luck from a banner. In 160 orbs I got: Fallen Ike Nah Fallen Lyon Fallen Lyon Fallen M!Corrin Fallen Julia Fallen Ike That means I got all 4 focus heroes in their debut banner and got multiples of 2 of them. I have never had that happen before.
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    You get someone with an Ike profile pic immediately followed by someone with a Micaiah one, so it's safe to say I'm biased as well lol. Radiant Dawn is personally my favorite FE I've played, including FE3H. It has a sense of scale and world building that is frankly unmatched by any other FE game I've played, the characters are great, the difficulty is there (anyone saying RD is too easy is... strange. It's been considered one of the more difficult classic FE games for a while but I personally find it to be a comfortable challenge), the maps are well designed for the most part and quite thematic. Also I like the animations but I get they're not everyone's cup of tea. PoR wasn't quite as stand out to me. Not only was it more basic without quite the same sense of scale as RD, I also found the maps to be a bit lackluster, especially around mid game. The character supports are where PoR really shines, it gives the characters a grounded, realistic feel that makes them still some of the best in the franchise. All in all, I'd definitely recommend playing them. Like any games they can be a bit divisive, so really it'll be down to your personal preference.
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    It's a pretty big what-if scenario, but how about Micaiah or Sanaki who were indoctrinated by the Senate? Or taken over by Ashera instead of being an avatar of Yune like Micaiah ends up being.
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    It is established that the Agarthans can make artificial crest stones. They're mostly used to create demonic beasts so it's not surprising that they might have advanced enough to make an artificial crest of the beast. Besides, it's incredibly unlikely that the Nabateans were walking around with two or more hearts, that would've been stated and they would've made multiple weapons out of each in that case.
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    My first FE game was Radiant Dawn. I got real good real fast thanks to that lol. Now I usually do several run throughs of the game and will only play on casual mode for grinding purposes or to just focus on the story if that's what I'm after. I don't really enjoy maddening difficulties but I can play them with virtually no resetting. I also don't really do challenge runs, I use who I want and don't worry about LTC or any of that crap.
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    Blue Lions here as well. It has the biggest concentration of characters I love in it (Dimitri being best in the game, Felix being second best, fight me). Dimitri is my favorite male lord, Felix is amazing, Ingrid has a surprising amount of depth, Sylvain has a great character arc, Mercedes and Annette swiftly became two of my favorite female characters in the game, and Ashe is precious. Dedue is really the only one I'm "meh" oh. They all work well together, they're competent even for beginners playing the game, and their supports are mostly top notch. Next would be Golden Deer. I love Claude, Hilda, Lorenz, Lysithea, and Marianne. But I'm eh on Raphael and Ignatz (they seem like good guys but they're not as interesting) and Leonie can be annoying at times. It's a good middle ground. Last is the Black Eagles. I really like Edelgard as a character but cannot support her as a person which lowers her ranking a bit. Hubert is entertaining but I also want to punch him sometimes. Caspar and Linhardt feel like they could have been excluded and nothing would have changed. Bernadetta is one of my least favorite characters in the franchise (losing only to Soren). Ferdinand, Petra, and Dorothea are truly great though, absolute standouts in the house and characters I always try to recruit. The only truly redeeming members of the Black Eagles are Edelgard, Ferdinand, Petra, and Dorothea. So the BE has the fewest number of characters I like the highest of characters I don't. I don't have the DLC so no comment on the AW.
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    Me too. I got a bit snappy there, my apologies. Anyway, back on topic. I do find Rhea to be quite sympathetic as a character. She's someone who has managed to hold herself together for a very long time to do what she believed to be right, even as the very people she's trying to help go and spit on her teachings. She dealt with the loss of most of her family and had to watch their bones be made into the very weapons that were used against her. I cannot even imagine how damaging that must be to someone. That being said, I don't think she was right to install herself as the head of the church for so long. I understand why she did it, she genuinely believed that getting Sothis back would be best for the world and honestly she might have been right. But we can't know that and her obsession was a major problem. She needed to be removed from power, I don't think you'll find anyone who will argue that.
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    First of all, I never mentioned Dimitri. We were not talking about Dimitri, and believe it or not bringing him up does nothing to help you. I do agree that they handled his recovery very badly. Secondly, just because that's the way the game presents it, doesn't mean I can't find it dumb as all hell and think it makes no sense. It may be a fantasy game, but that particular lesson it teaches is so ungrounded from reality as to be potentially harmful to someone suffering with problems. Same as with Dimitri since you want to keep bringing him into this. Love alone doesn't fix mental health issues, isolation definitely doesn't. Third of all, I never tried to pretend jack. For someone who talks all the time about people twisting his words, you sure do the same thing to other people a lot. I said it made 0 sense, not that it didn't happen.
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    Since none of you seem to want to believe me about what isolation does to people, here. You want a more practical answer? The isolation we're currently going through has caused depression and other mental health issues to skyrocket and that's only been a couple of months with the ability to still go out and get groceries and other essentials. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=effects+of+isolation+on+mental+health&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart Read up on some of the articles. It's not me saying it should've made things worse, it's science saying that. It's bad writing that it somehow made her better. Oh and by the way @omegaxis1you can literally see that she's in really bad shape. So bad that it takes her weeks of rest and healing to get enough strength up to even talk to you at the end of VW and SS. That's in the game, it's irrefutable. Not in the best condition is an understatement and unharmed is a misnomer at best, a blatant disregard for what we see at worst. My point is, it's insanely bad writing for the 5 years of imprisonment to have made Rhea better.
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    Maybe they didn't experiment on her, but getting better mentally is not how prison works and if you think it is, you need to do some research on solitary confinement. People are pushing for it to be outlawed as it's basically a form of torture and breaks people, it doesn't make them better. Her being a dragon doesn't really have any bearing on that, we all know dragons throughout FE history degenerate and considering how weak Rhea is in every route after you rescue her, she certainly wasn't treated well.
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    Let's also just take the time to point how how warped it is that 5 years of imprisonment apparently made Rhea "better". That's really not how 5 years of isolation works on people. Just take a look at Dimitri. Flayn and Byleth escape the insane negative effects of years of isolation by being in a magical dragon sleep and there's nothing suggesting that Rhea ever was, meaning she had to go through 5 years of imprisonment, likely entirely alone save some people bringing her food and possibly even experimenting on her. That should have driven her insane, not somehow magically fixed her.
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    None of that means you get to dismiss all the bad shit she did as "UWU Edelgard is an innocent flower who feels bad about what she did so it makes it all okay". No. Two things being bad doesn't make either of them good. You can debate which of them was worse until you're blue in the face, the fact of the matter is that they're both bad and need to be acknowledged as such. It was not okay for her to start a war. Obviously you have no idea what war entails, the decades or centuries of suffering that it can leave whole nations with. What the people not sitting in a palace or away from the combat experience. You may argue that sometimes war is necessary and maybe it is, but that does NOT make it okay and it does not make the aggressor right to declare war.
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    Crimes like waging a continent spanning war for instance. Helping the Agarthans, who she knows do awful things to people because they did it to her and her family, allowing them to turn people into crest beasts. Her feeling "bad" about doing these things does not change that she did them and the ends do NOT justify the means. If she or you think that the result was worth it, I want you both to go to the victims of a war and tell them that it's okay that their loved ones died because it was "worth it in the end". No. Most of them would spit in your face and for good reason.
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    Hard agree with @Crysta. Edelgard feeling bad for doing something doesn't absolve her of her crimes. It just doesn't. You don't get to murder my mother and then just say "Well I feel really bad about doing it so it's okay", that's not how that works. Is there anything she can do about that? ... No, probably not. It's just something she, and you two, are going to have to live with.
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    Congrats, you've answered why some people simply can't like Edelgard. The simple fact of the matter is that no matter how justifiable and "purely intentioned" you view Edelgard as, people are going to disagree and read her actions differently. She's not a purely good character and at this point it seems a lot like you're making excuses for her and trying to make her out to be a lot more lily white than she actually is. What she did still matters. Arguably more than her hang ups. She doesn't like that she had to start a war but she did it anyway and will trample anything in her way to achieve her goals. Her not liking it does NOT change that she still did it. Also I disagree with her goals being noble in the first place, they come across instead as arrogant and selfish to me. If I knew Edelgard was planning a continent spanning war that was going to spit in the face of people's sovereignty and lead to thousands if not millions of deaths (of innocent men, women, and children, let's not fool ourselves about what war entails), and the loss of so many other people's livelihoods I would have killed her on the spot. None of this means I don't like her as a character, but I could never support her. Also I would like to point out that at some point you need to take a step back and see if your strict defense of Edelgard might be having the opposite effect of what you want. It is with me.
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    S tier: Micaiah, Nailah, Haar, Tibarn, Zelgius A tier: Ike, Jill, Titania, Shinon, Tauroneo, Lucia, Naesala, Stefan, Caineghis, Giffca, Sephiran/Lehran B tier: Nolan, Ilyana, Sothe, Aran, Zihark, Geoffrey, Kieran, Danved/Devdan, Oscar, Boyd, Skrimir, Ranulf, Pelleas, Bastian, Nasir, Ena, Kurth C tier: Edward, Leonardo, Laura, Tormod, Muarim, Elincia, Marcia, Nephenee, Brom, Calill, Rolf, Ulki, Sigrun, Tanith, Sanaki Most laguz tier (seriously that charge bar sucks): Rafiel, Leanne, Nealuchi, Mordecai, Vika, Lethe, Kyza, Lyre, Reyson, Janaff, Gareth Meg and Fiona tier: Meg and Fiona, Heather, Makalov, Astrid, Mist S*** tier: Soren Most of this is a combination of unit usefulness and how much I enjoy their character. If I really enjoy a character it can majorly effect their ranking, overriding unit usefulness (see: Micaiah and Soren) and if they're absolute monsters or suck in game-play it can override how much I like or dislike them as a character (see: Giffca and Mist)
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    I feel this is relevant to this topic. Warning for language.
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    Excuse me, did you just try to argue that Asmodeus isn't evil? Just because someone "provides a necessary service" does not make them NOT EVIL. We're talking about a figure that tortures, executes, sacrifices, and who was evil before ever becoming the ruler of the nine hells. He wants power. He wants control. Just because he recognizes the Abyssal threat does not make him not evil. HaarHaarHaar is right about D&D morality, in D&D the ends do not justify the means. Evil actions are still evil actions no matter your intentions and your DM comment is still a bit erroneous as there are actual rules. The DM can choose to discount those rules but they still exist in canon. I'd also like to point out that, by D&D alignment standards, very few people would fall under true neutral. It's also important to recognize that just because someone may do a couple of things that are outside a defined morality, that doesn't make them not that morality if the majority of their actions are otherwise. That being said, I don't actually like the morality alignment system because it feels a bit too rigid and I tend to prefer the systems that have more options beyond the standard 9. Anyway, I guess I'll give a few of my own opinions. Edelgard: Lawful Neutral Dimitri: Lawful Good (I don't count PTSD based mental breaks as permanent morality) Claude: Chaotic Good Hubert: Lawful Neutral Dedue: Lawful Neutral leaning Lawful Good Hilda: Neutral Good Rhea: Lawful Neutral Seteth: Lawful Good Flayn: Neutral Good Now here's the interesting thing, I don't consider the Agarthans Lawful Evil. They're all Neutral Evil, self serving a**holes.
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    I completely agree. Mary Sue/Gary Stu is thrown around in fandom so much that it no longer has any actual meaning behind it and has become synonymous with "character I don't like so they're automatically bad". Someone goes throwing those terms around and I immediately tune out.
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    Because they are step-siblings. This whole thing about "step-siblings aren't actually related" just further stigmatizes actual step-siblings in the real world, makes them feel like they're not part of their family, and it's not right to do to people. Same for adopted siblings.
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    Eh why not, I'll jump in on this. Black Eagles Blue Lions Golden Deer Church
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