I told my kids last week that Manuela’s VA is Ash from Pokémon and every day since Anya has come up to me and exclaimed ‘I CAN’T BELIEVE MANUELA IS ASH’.
It talks about her rejoining the opera and doing a tour, and Hubert comes to every show, but then they say it was a covert operation to route out dissidents and fucking of course it was, why not?
Felix and Lysithea's paired ending
Felix is doing mercenary shit and comes across Lysithea and her family baking sweets for everyone and decides he wants to be the best sweet baker in the world and he and Lysithea invent sweets to bake that become renowned the world over.
i'm like 3 chapters from the end of the game and caspar is still in the "maybe if i weaken some bad guys to let him score kills he can level up and be good" phase
him and ferdinand both are like 15 points behind everyone else in strength
Any chance you can put Killing Blow on him? If he's got decent speed that's an extra 24 damage per initiative if he's using his fists
Edelgard has very good supports with Hubert, Ferdinand, Dorothea, Byleth, Lysithea, Linhardt, Hanneman... I'd argue she has a lot more full-blown winners than she does middling ones. Probably her only one I'd point to as being "weak" is her one with Bernadetta, and even that one's pretty nice in the A support
This isn't a specific spoiler for any path, it's just something you can get through one of the advice questions in the chapel (and most people won't see it just because there are so many of these):
So, when Hubert was little he wanted to be a Pegasus Knight
They
They need to include the Dark Flier in the DLC, and make it usable by male characters, so my evil son can live his dream
This isn't a specific spoiler for any path, it's just something you can get through one of the advice questions in the chapel (and most people won't see it just because there are so many of these):
So, when Hubert was little he wanted to be a Pegasus Knight
They
They need to include the Dark Flier in the DLC, and make it usable by male characters, so my evil son can live his dream
This isn't a specific spoiler for any path, it's just something you can get through one of the advice questions in the chapel (and most people won't see it just because there are so many of these):
So, when Hubert was little he wanted to be a Pegasus Knight
They
They need to include the Dark Flier in the DLC, and make it usable by male characters, so my evil son can live his dream
Thinking about it, Hubert might actually be one of my favorite character in this game?
I love that he just fully leans in to his Evil Goth aesthetic, and that (general Hubert support spoilers)
a bunch of his supports imply that he only keeps the Evil Advisor bit going because he (and possibly Edelgard as well) thinks it's hilarious.
Also, in a house full of insecure family issues and tragic pasts, it is very funny to me that the edgy goth kid is probably the most well adjusted one.
Crimson Flower Chapter 12
Hubert's line delivery when he announced that he had his father assassinated was hilarious.
Sometimes you just gotta kill your dad and gloat about it, ya know?
The chapel questions are hilarious when you’ve learned everyone’s profiles and can pander to them with your answers.
BE Chapter 13, this route is rough
Why’d I have to kill Judith? Why would Byleth so willingly invade the Alliance (especially since Byleth hasn’t been privy to the prior 5 years’ events). Why is Byleth just rolling over like a good little dog and accepting everything Edelgard is planning and saying?
It still doesn’t make a ton of sense that Byleth would have ever followed Edelgard to begin with; I guess this is my punishment.
At least the battle only took 5 mins because I’m a little overpowered at this point and didn’t have to strategize at all.
This isn't a specific spoiler for any path, it's just something you can get through one of the advice questions in the chapel (and most people won't see it just because there are so many of these):
So, when Hubert was little he wanted to be a Pegasus Knight
They
They need to include the Dark Flier in the DLC, and make it usable by male characters, so my evil son can live his dream
But he's scared of heights!!!
Sounds like he might benefit from some exposure therapy! If he wants to try it, I will support him
So I'm about 40 hours into this game, playing the Blue Lion path since Grey Ghost and Blankzilla nabbed the other two routes before I could choose, and also because Dimitri is my King in the North
...
Y'all ever think about how this game would be a lot shorter if the monastery just hired a therapist
So I'm about 40 hours into this game, playing the Blue Lion path since Grey Ghost and Blankzilla nabbed the other two routes before I could choose, and also because Dimitri is my King in the North
...
Y'all ever think about how this game would be a lot shorter if the monastery just hired a therapist
So I'm about 40 hours into this game, playing the Blue Lion path since Grey Ghost and Blankzilla nabbed the other two routes before I could choose, and also because Dimitri is my King in the North
...
Y'all ever think about how this game would be a lot shorter if the monastery just hired a therapist
Hahaha, yes
Byleth needs one too, tbh
What chapter/story stage are you at?
Seriously, of course all the kids are fucked up, you hired Byleth, Byleth hasn't even been to school!!
I am past the time skip
We're marching to the capital and just got reinforcements from Felix's Dad and Dimitri really just needs to *talk* to somebody
So I'm about 40 hours into this game, playing the Blue Lion path since Grey Ghost and Blankzilla nabbed the other two routes before I could choose, and also because Dimitri is my King in the North
...
Y'all ever think about how this game would be a lot shorter if the monastery just hired a therapist
Hahaha, yes
Byleth needs one too, tbh
What chapter/story stage are you at?
Seriously, of course all the kids are fucked up, you hired Byleth, Byleth hasn't even been to school!!
I am past the time skip
We're marching to the capital and just got reinforcements from Felix's Dad and Dimitri really just needs to *talk* to somebody
GIVE MY BOY A HUG
(Seriously, it’s pretty heavily implied how touch-starved he is, too)
The chapel questions are hilarious when you’ve learned everyone’s profiles and can pander to them with your answers.
BE Chapter 13, this route is rough
Why’d I have to kill Judith? Why would Byleth so willingly invade the Alliance (especially since Byleth hasn’t been privy to the prior 5 years’ events). Why is Byleth just rolling over like a good little dog and accepting everything Edelgard is planning and saying?
It still doesn’t make a ton of sense that Byleth would have ever followed Edelgard to begin with; I guess this is my punishment.
At least the battle only took 5 mins because I’m a little overpowered at this point and didn’t have to strategize at all.
I mean, I think it makes pretty good sense
Byleth believes in what Edelgard is striving for: a world free of the nobility system and the crests, where the church does not act as the ultimate arbiter of righteousness, and humanity is free from the strangling hand of the gods and those who style themselves as gods
Considering that Edelgard has half the lords of Fodlan on her side after distributing her manifesto and has mostly just held on to Garreg Mach while Claude made sure that the Alliance didn't interfere in the battle at all, the five year war has mostly just been border skirmishes before Byleth's return. Edelgard is the strategist of the army, while Byleth is the tactician; Byleth directs a given battle, but Edelgard sees the war from a much larger scale. To her, they can bring the Alliance into the fold through two battles, which is about as bloodless as such a thing could be made to be according to her understanding
The big thing about how Edelgard and Byleth relate to each other is that they are the two essential halves of the campaign to bring down the church: neither could accomplish what the other does, and each trusts the other implicitly. If they didn't trust each other... well, Byleth would have sided with Rhea, I think
mostly i just have a hard time believing that invading the alliance would ever be a good idea
like, invading a sovereign nation to kill the factions there that are against you seems like a good way to make more of the factions turn against you, not turn the country into an ally
if it had been styled more like a covert operation by the strike force that the rest of the alliance saw as a mysterious string of deaths then i still wouldn't like it but at least i'd understand it
mostly i just have a hard time believing that invading the alliance would ever be a good idea
like, invading a sovereign nation to kill the factions there that are against you seems like a good way to make more of the factions turn against you, not turn the country into an ally
if it had been styled more like a covert operation by the strike force that the rest of the alliance saw as a mysterious string of deaths then i still wouldn't like it but at least i'd understand it
Crimson Flower Chapter 13
This assumes that you're going to change the minds of people who want to join your side in the war by facilitating their joining your side in the war
The Leicester Alliance isn't actually a sovereign nation, it's a collection of independent states that share a loose government headed by its five largest houses; what Edelgard is doing here is making it reasonable for the half of them that want to align with her to actually do so by tipping the balance of power that Claude has worked so hard to maintain
mostly i just have a hard time believing that invading the alliance would ever be a good idea
like, invading a sovereign nation to kill the factions there that are against you seems like a good way to make more of the factions turn against you, not turn the country into an ally
if it had been styled more like a covert operation by the strike force that the rest of the alliance saw as a mysterious string of deaths then i still wouldn't like it but at least i'd understand it
Crimson Flower Chapter 13
This assumes that you're going to change the minds of people who want to join your side in the war by facilitating their joining your side in the war
The Leicester Alliance isn't actually a sovereign nation, it's a collection of city-states that share a loose government headed by its five largest houses; what Edelgard is doing here is making it reasonable for the half of them that want to align with her to actually do so by tipping the balance of power that Claude has worked so hard to maintain
the game doesn't spend much time here cuz it's interested in other things, but like
they're an alliance. even if the different houses disagree, they're still, y'know, allies. by invading and killing her political opponents even though they were maintaining neutrality, edelgard undermines the argument that her war is morally justified. moderates would be horrified by her actions, and anyone that was on her side because they thought she was in the right would be given pause, and a lot of them would probably abandon their previous stance. i'm just not convinced that attacking the alliance would do anything other than needlessly start a war on a second front. it's a plot contrivance that i just kind of have to not think about to keep enjoying the story.
mostly i just have a hard time believing that invading the alliance would ever be a good idea
like, invading a sovereign nation to kill the factions there that are against you seems like a good way to make more of the factions turn against you, not turn the country into an ally
if it had been styled more like a covert operation by the strike force that the rest of the alliance saw as a mysterious string of deaths then i still wouldn't like it but at least i'd understand it
Crimson Flower Chapter 13
This assumes that you're going to change the minds of people who want to join your side in the war by facilitating their joining your side in the war
The Leicester Alliance isn't actually a sovereign nation, it's a collection of city-states that share a loose government headed by its five largest houses; what Edelgard is doing here is making it reasonable for the half of them that want to align with her to actually do so by tipping the balance of power that Claude has worked so hard to maintain
the game doesn't spend much time here cuz it's interested in other things, but like
they're an alliance. even if the different houses disagree, they're still, y'know, allies. by invading and killing her political opponents even though they were maintaining neutrality, edelgard undermines the argument that her war is morally justified. moderates would be horrified by her actions, and anyone that was on her side because they thought she was in the right would be given pause, and a lot of them would probably abandon their previous stance. i'm just not convinced that attacking the alliance would do anything other than needlessly start a war on a second front. it's a plot contrivance that i just kind of have to not think about to keep enjoying the story.
We'll have to agree to disagree here, then; I thought it made pretty good sense in the sociopolitical context they'd cooked up
it does need to be said that they're not much of an alliance, though, and that what Claude was actually doing for five years was keeping them from all going to war with each other
mostly i just have a hard time believing that invading the alliance would ever be a good idea
like, invading a sovereign nation to kill the factions there that are against you seems like a good way to make more of the factions turn against you, not turn the country into an ally
if it had been styled more like a covert operation by the strike force that the rest of the alliance saw as a mysterious string of deaths then i still wouldn't like it but at least i'd understand it
Crimson Flower Chapter 13
This assumes that you're going to change the minds of people who want to join your side in the war by facilitating their joining your side in the war
The Leicester Alliance isn't actually a sovereign nation, it's a collection of city-states that share a loose government headed by its five largest houses; what Edelgard is doing here is making it reasonable for the half of them that want to align with her to actually do so by tipping the balance of power that Claude has worked so hard to maintain
the game doesn't spend much time here cuz it's interested in other things, but like
they're an alliance. even if the different houses disagree, they're still, y'know, allies. by invading and killing her political opponents even though they were maintaining neutrality, edelgard undermines the argument that her war is morally justified. moderates would be horrified by her actions, and anyone that was on her side because they thought she was in the right would be given pause, and a lot of them would probably abandon their previous stance. i'm just not convinced that attacking the alliance would do anything other than needlessly start a war on a second front. it's a plot contrivance that i just kind of have to not think about to keep enjoying the story.
We'll have to agree to disagree here, then; I thought it made pretty good sense in the sociopolitical context they'd cooked up
it does need to be said that they're not much of an alliance, though, and that what Claude was actually doing for five years was keeping them from all going to war with each other
Also
This is ignoring that Edelgard isn't just warring to get vassal states. She's actively out to dismantle the class system. Nobles who join on effectively are giving up a system of inheritance that has benefitted them for ages; this is also why there's probably such a high number of states opposing her despite thinking that the church is trash.
Also it probably means that the commoner population is largely in support of her, especially in a Crimson Flower run. We just don't get to hear those voices
mostly i just have a hard time believing that invading the alliance would ever be a good idea
like, invading a sovereign nation to kill the factions there that are against you seems like a good way to make more of the factions turn against you, not turn the country into an ally
if it had been styled more like a covert operation by the strike force that the rest of the alliance saw as a mysterious string of deaths then i still wouldn't like it but at least i'd understand it
Crimson Flower Chapter 13
This assumes that you're going to change the minds of people who want to join your side in the war by facilitating their joining your side in the war
The Leicester Alliance isn't actually a sovereign nation, it's a collection of city-states that share a loose government headed by its five largest houses; what Edelgard is doing here is making it reasonable for the half of them that want to align with her to actually do so by tipping the balance of power that Claude has worked so hard to maintain
the game doesn't spend much time here cuz it's interested in other things, but like
they're an alliance. even if the different houses disagree, they're still, y'know, allies. by invading and killing her political opponents even though they were maintaining neutrality, edelgard undermines the argument that her war is morally justified. moderates would be horrified by her actions, and anyone that was on her side because they thought she was in the right would be given pause, and a lot of them would probably abandon their previous stance. i'm just not convinced that attacking the alliance would do anything other than needlessly start a war on a second front. it's a plot contrivance that i just kind of have to not think about to keep enjoying the story.
We'll have to agree to disagree here, then; I thought it made pretty good sense in the sociopolitical context they'd cooked up
it does need to be said that they're not much of an alliance, though, and that what Claude was actually doing for five years was keeping them from all going to war with each other
Also
This is ignoring that Edelgard isn't just warring to get vassal states. She's actively out to dismantle the class system. Nobles who join on effectively are giving up a system of inheritance that has benefitted them for ages; this is also why there's probably such a high number of states opposing her despite thinking that the church is trash.
Also it probably means that the commoner population is largely in support of her, especially in a Crimson Flower run. We just don't get to hear those voices
I’m not so sure
I forget the exact line, but Edelgard’s already made it clear that she’s willing to sacrifice commoner bodies to achieve the end results, and how much are people really given a choice in that?
For all of her ideals, she’s still the Empress, and from the commoner perspective (obviously we learn otherwise) she’s had a privileged life and went to an elite school where her classmates were nobility.
mostly i just have a hard time believing that invading the alliance would ever be a good idea
like, invading a sovereign nation to kill the factions there that are against you seems like a good way to make more of the factions turn against you, not turn the country into an ally
if it had been styled more like a covert operation by the strike force that the rest of the alliance saw as a mysterious string of deaths then i still wouldn't like it but at least i'd understand it
Crimson Flower Chapter 13
This assumes that you're going to change the minds of people who want to join your side in the war by facilitating their joining your side in the war
The Leicester Alliance isn't actually a sovereign nation, it's a collection of city-states that share a loose government headed by its five largest houses; what Edelgard is doing here is making it reasonable for the half of them that want to align with her to actually do so by tipping the balance of power that Claude has worked so hard to maintain
the game doesn't spend much time here cuz it's interested in other things, but like
they're an alliance. even if the different houses disagree, they're still, y'know, allies. by invading and killing her political opponents even though they were maintaining neutrality, edelgard undermines the argument that her war is morally justified. moderates would be horrified by her actions, and anyone that was on her side because they thought she was in the right would be given pause, and a lot of them would probably abandon their previous stance. i'm just not convinced that attacking the alliance would do anything other than needlessly start a war on a second front. it's a plot contrivance that i just kind of have to not think about to keep enjoying the story.
We'll have to agree to disagree here, then; I thought it made pretty good sense in the sociopolitical context they'd cooked up
it does need to be said that they're not much of an alliance, though, and that what Claude was actually doing for five years was keeping them from all going to war with each other
Also
This is ignoring that Edelgard isn't just warring to get vassal states. She's actively out to dismantle the class system. Nobles who join on effectively are giving up a system of inheritance that has benefitted them for ages; this is also why there's probably such a high number of states opposing her despite thinking that the church is trash.
Also it probably means that the commoner population is largely in support of her, especially in a Crimson Flower run. We just don't get to hear those voices
To build on this just a tiny bit more
It's revealed in Lysithea's backstory that the Alliance basically abandoned her house after they gave even a tiny bit of aid to a part of Empire territory, which allowed them to fall from grace and nearly cease to exist, which is what allowed The Twisted to show up and do what they did
The Alliance is basically Greece and they care about fucking with each other a lot more than they care about the rest of the continent
mostly i just have a hard time believing that invading the alliance would ever be a good idea
like, invading a sovereign nation to kill the factions there that are against you seems like a good way to make more of the factions turn against you, not turn the country into an ally
if it had been styled more like a covert operation by the strike force that the rest of the alliance saw as a mysterious string of deaths then i still wouldn't like it but at least i'd understand it
Crimson Flower Chapter 13
This assumes that you're going to change the minds of people who want to join your side in the war by facilitating their joining your side in the war
The Leicester Alliance isn't actually a sovereign nation, it's a collection of city-states that share a loose government headed by its five largest houses; what Edelgard is doing here is making it reasonable for the half of them that want to align with her to actually do so by tipping the balance of power that Claude has worked so hard to maintain
the game doesn't spend much time here cuz it's interested in other things, but like
they're an alliance. even if the different houses disagree, they're still, y'know, allies. by invading and killing her political opponents even though they were maintaining neutrality, edelgard undermines the argument that her war is morally justified. moderates would be horrified by her actions, and anyone that was on her side because they thought she was in the right would be given pause, and a lot of them would probably abandon their previous stance. i'm just not convinced that attacking the alliance would do anything other than needlessly start a war on a second front. it's a plot contrivance that i just kind of have to not think about to keep enjoying the story.
Crimson Flower Chapter 13
Part of what shapes this as plot contrivance or something else, is if you have recruited certain folk in this path I think.
Like Lorenz is like,
"Yo, the moment you roll over Claude, the Gloucester Family will rally the others who are waiting for the empire."
You get the sense that the Gloucester House will be dealing whatever political pushback there might be,
So there is this immediate idea of the lack of an unified alliance. You get a greater sense that these are rebels of imperial rebels (the kingdom), and that some of the houses are just waiting to join back up with the empire.
There's also some less explicit but interesting bits found in dialog and things like the roster "notes" personal history log
Where are other alliance houses that are stated to support the empire with the recruitment of golden deer members, that you can find in their time skip roster log. It's also just kinda heartbreaking to read about how some of the folk you recruit from the kingdom wind up being disowned as children.
There’s more I can say but unfortunately I can’t say it without spoiling the Blue Lions route. Spoilers for Act 1 of the Lions:
I feel like the game shoots itself in the foot with Edelgard a bit by not knuckling down on the church being even half as evil in the other routes.
But it’s also interesting that there’s no equivalent scene to the Blue Lions chapter 11 scene. Seeing deranged, evilly laughing Dimitri (who cracks a fucking skull with one hand) would have gone a long way to bolstering Byleth’s support for Edelgard.
But no! Dimitri only gets that cut scene in his own route!
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The rest all feel like strangers talking.
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Once you get past the initial ridiculousness it's almost kind of sweet?
Felix and Lysithea's paired ending
Any chance you can put Killing Blow on him? If he's got decent speed that's an extra 24 damage per initiative if he's using his fists
Her support with Lysithea is very good.
Shamir teaching Raphael how to be stealthy.
They're so good for each other.
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Got Ferdinand's C-rank
So, when Hubert was little he wanted to be a Pegasus Knight
They
They need to include the Dark Flier in the DLC, and make it usable by male characters, so my evil son can live his dream
But he's scared of heights!!!
Thinking about it, Hubert might actually be one of my favorite character in this game?
I love that he just fully leans in to his Evil Goth aesthetic, and that (general Hubert support spoilers)
Also, in a house full of insecure family issues and tragic pasts, it is very funny to me that the edgy goth kid is probably the most well adjusted one.
Crimson Flower Chapter 12
Sometimes you just gotta kill your dad and gloat about it, ya know?
BE Chapter 13, this route is rough
It still doesn’t make a ton of sense that Byleth would have ever followed Edelgard to begin with; I guess this is my punishment.
At least the battle only took 5 mins because I’m a little overpowered at this point and didn’t have to strategize at all.
Sounds like he might benefit from some exposure therapy! If he wants to try it, I will support him
...
Y'all ever think about how this game would be a lot shorter if the monastery just hired a therapist
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Hahaha, yes
Byleth needs one too, tbh
What chapter/story stage are you at?
Seriously, of course all the kids are fucked up, you hired Byleth, Byleth hasn't even been to school!!
I am past the time skip
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(Seriously, it’s pretty heavily implied how touch-starved he is, too)
And yes, yes, lots of talking, too.
Byleth believes in what Edelgard is striving for: a world free of the nobility system and the crests, where the church does not act as the ultimate arbiter of righteousness, and humanity is free from the strangling hand of the gods and those who style themselves as gods
Considering that Edelgard has half the lords of Fodlan on her side after distributing her manifesto and has mostly just held on to Garreg Mach while Claude made sure that the Alliance didn't interfere in the battle at all, the five year war has mostly just been border skirmishes before Byleth's return. Edelgard is the strategist of the army, while Byleth is the tactician; Byleth directs a given battle, but Edelgard sees the war from a much larger scale. To her, they can bring the Alliance into the fold through two battles, which is about as bloodless as such a thing could be made to be according to her understanding
The big thing about how Edelgard and Byleth relate to each other is that they are the two essential halves of the campaign to bring down the church: neither could accomplish what the other does, and each trusts the other implicitly. If they didn't trust each other... well, Byleth would have sided with Rhea, I think
like, invading a sovereign nation to kill the factions there that are against you seems like a good way to make more of the factions turn against you, not turn the country into an ally
if it had been styled more like a covert operation by the strike force that the rest of the alliance saw as a mysterious string of deaths then i still wouldn't like it but at least i'd understand it
http://www.audioentropy.com/
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Crimson Flower Chapter 13
The Leicester Alliance isn't actually a sovereign nation, it's a collection of independent states that share a loose government headed by its five largest houses; what Edelgard is doing here is making it reasonable for the half of them that want to align with her to actually do so by tipping the balance of power that Claude has worked so hard to maintain
they're an alliance. even if the different houses disagree, they're still, y'know, allies. by invading and killing her political opponents even though they were maintaining neutrality, edelgard undermines the argument that her war is morally justified. moderates would be horrified by her actions, and anyone that was on her side because they thought she was in the right would be given pause, and a lot of them would probably abandon their previous stance. i'm just not convinced that attacking the alliance would do anything other than needlessly start a war on a second front. it's a plot contrivance that i just kind of have to not think about to keep enjoying the story.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
We'll have to agree to disagree here, then; I thought it made pretty good sense in the sociopolitical context they'd cooked up
Dorothea where is your JoJo hat
Though granted before they last saw me my hair and eyes spontaneously changed color so...
Ashe got hot
Bernie's hair is weird now
Petra's outfit fucking rules
Ferdinand, I know I said it already, but cut your damn hair
Also
Also it probably means that the commoner population is largely in support of her, especially in a Crimson Flower run. We just don't get to hear those voices
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I’m not so sure
For all of her ideals, she’s still the Empress, and from the commoner perspective (obviously we learn otherwise) she’s had a privileged life and went to an elite school where her classmates were nobility.
To build on this just a tiny bit more
The Alliance is basically Greece and they care about fucking with each other a lot more than they care about the rest of the continent
Crimson Flower Chapter 13
Part of what shapes this as plot contrivance or something else, is if you have recruited certain folk in this path I think.
"Yo, the moment you roll over Claude, the Gloucester Family will rally the others who are waiting for the empire."
You get the sense that the Gloucester House will be dealing whatever political pushback there might be,
So there is this immediate idea of the lack of an unified alliance. You get a greater sense that these are rebels of imperial rebels (the kingdom), and that some of the houses are just waiting to join back up with the empire.
There's also some less explicit but interesting bits found in dialog and things like the roster "notes" personal history log
Where are other alliance houses that are stated to support the empire with the recruitment of golden deer members, that you can find in their time skip roster log. It's also just kinda heartbreaking to read about how some of the folk you recruit from the kingdom wind up being disowned as children.
But it’s also interesting that there’s no equivalent scene to the Blue Lions chapter 11 scene. Seeing deranged, evilly laughing Dimitri (who cracks a fucking skull with one hand) would have gone a long way to bolstering Byleth’s support for Edelgard.
But no! Dimitri only gets that cut scene in his own route!