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Just like the unpopular fire emblem opinions thread, share your unpopular opinions and why you have that opinion, or don't, I can't stop you. Because we already have a thread for unpopular FE opinions, keep anything FE related off this thread, anything else video game related is allowed though.

Okay so unpopular opinion time! I don't think Peri is a poorly written character. In fact I believe her to be at least decently well written. I mean she's not as deep, complex, or nuanced as say xander, takumi, or laslow but I wouldn't go so far as to say she's a downright awful character in terms of writing. Now to elaborate, what i consider a good character is character I can understand or relate to. I don't necessarily have to like the character or agree with anything they do or say but I have to at least be able to understand why they are the way they are. Now to be fair there are a lot more contributing factors when judging whether or not a character is good like consistency, role in the story, etc. but in my opinion that is what separates a good character from a bad one at least in the most basic sense. In the case of Peri I think she meets that criteria. I mean she does have an understandable reason as to why she acts the way she does. She witnessed her mother's death at the hands of one of her servants at a very young age and because she was so young all the servants just kind of looked the same to her so she didn't really know which one to enact revenge on so she she just started killing all of them. It can be inferred through that she just subconsciously associates her servants with the death of her mother so even when she more or less got over the death she continued to do it because of that reason. It then becomes a habit because her father knew and just never stopped her. In fact in a way he encouraged her behavior by just replacing the servants that were lost. Killing at that point just became a game and something she finds fun. Speaking of her father, we can infer based on what we know from this backstory that he probably never really spent a whole lot of time raising peri which is why she acts so childlike. With Peri, it's important to note that she, mentally speaking, is still a child which is pretty obvious considering her speech pattern, mannerisms, rash judgements, her simplistic worldview, and excessive whining when she doesn't get her way. Again I don't have to agree with Peri's actions, motivations, words, etc. but I at least need to understand them and from what we know about her backstory I do understand why she is the way she is. Now that's not to say there are flaws with the way Peri is written. For one her supports with xander are extremely inconsistent with his character and contradicts a lot of things he stands for. Her support with odin makes little sense and is contradictory with her character. Really the main issue with peri that I can see is that she's inconsistent and her role in the story tends to contradict a lot of what we know about other characters like xander and corrin. However even with all that I can't say she's a terribly written character because again she has a good reason for why she is the she is and with a few exceptions she does remain fairly consistent with what's established about her character. Though those are just my thoughts feel free to disagree.