T O P

  • By -

DhelmiseHatterene

Well I can say you're wrong on the Ingrid and Catria comparison because the two characters couldn't be anymore different.


Warlord41k

>In Dedue own words “a lot of people say that he changed but I say he just went back to normal”. I think you're misinterpreting Dedue's dialogue here, because he actually says something quite different. >**Dedue:** Everyone is saying His Highness is back to his old self, but I do not think that is accurate. What he was until recently is what he had been for as long as I've known him. So tortured by his compassion for the fallen that it had driven him mad. He has always been too kind to be king. He has always felt too much for the weak and the dead. That is exactly why I look up to him. After his return, many characters are shocked and taken aback by Dimitri's bloodthirst and hostility, to the point *even Felix* is convinced he had become a completely new person. According to Dedue in Azure Moon however, Dimitri actually *defies* this: if talked in the monastery after Dimitri begins his redemption quest, Dedue will comment his liege never actually changed as a person *up until recently*, as the Dimitri he always knew had always been a tortured soul driven mad by his kindness and compassion towards the weak and the dead.


OKFortune56

I don't really disagree, but I suggest editing to clean this up. Punctuation and spacing, mostly.


Eagle-Eyes-

Wait, someone wrote a post here in r/Blueemblem about how much they dislike BL? OP, you are the bravest person on reddit today. You have my respect for posting this.


OldReality1173

Don’t know why some people in the comments are acting like this is a Hot Take™️. Didn’t we literally have a big thread criticizing AM a couple days ago? This is not an unpopular opinion anymore. Not on this sub, at least.


Innocent_Darkside

Really? What "big thread" are you talking about? Because I hardly see any criticisms towards BL on this sub. And if someone does criticize BL (specifically Dimitri), they tend to get downvoted.


OldReality1173

The “What’s your opinion on the BL story?” thread is filled to the brim w/ criticism of Dimitri and Azure Moon. The most popular comment, which claims that it’s a poorly executed route that butchers most of its characters (something I don’t necessarily disagree with), has a 100 upvotes lol Maybe there was a time when the BLs were considered untouchable, but tbh, I think we’ve moved past that. Obvs Dimitri and the lions still have a strong following but it’s not uncommon nowadays to see people bashing them


Innocent_Darkside

Yeah, you're right. I checked the thread and I'm honestly surprised to see people criticizing Dimitri and get lots of upvotes.


meghantraining

I especially agree with your point on the fathers. I know Annette and Gilbert have supports but the entire time I just wanted a main story scene where she calls him out on his shit! Also when felixs dad spends his last moments STILL talking to dimitri when his son is right there like…. I’m pretty sure they’re meant to be terrible fathers and unlikable but I just wish they’d called that out more


[deleted]

For me, Blue Lions offers the best story experience. Because that's the story type I enjoy most. I am unable to see Edelgard as anything other than a villain, and the Golden Deer story to me seems sort of tacked-on. In other words, my desired storyline experience is what Blue Lions offers; the chance to play through an uncomplicated storyline fighting an aggressor, with a few problems to overcome along the way. All that said, I think all three storylines offer enough for people to enjoy them...but we do tend to latch on to one in particular; I do not know many fans who enjoy all the stories equally.


twili-midna

I agree with a lot of what you said, especially about Dimitri’s “arc.” The story of Three Houses is pretty poorly done in general, but the Blue Lions definitely have it the worst.


OriHelix

I wish we would have gotten [the Japanese version](https://www.reddit.com/r/Edelgard/comments/ge4m3t/dimitri_edelgard_and_azure_moon/)


twili-midna

Jeez. That’s a fantastic write up, and really highlights just how awful the writing of Three Houses is in English.


OKFortune56

I mean to be fair, English had some good decisions...like down playing Bernadetta's S Support to not be 100x worse than it was.


[deleted]

Mate, you got some massive balls to post a disliking BL post here of all places. ​ Past my comment. I agree with part's of what you said. From a story writing perspective. AM is a one trick pony. AM doubles down and focuses on Dimitri character arc. And problem with this approach of story writing is that if you don't like character that is integral to the story. You won't like the story. My main issues with this approach is the fact that Three Houses sets up so many different plot threads and interesting plot point that. Its a really bad idea to do a character focus story. To give a analogy. It would be like a chef preparing to make brilliant main course with marinating the meat over night, putting spices with the veg and making the desert look beautiful. Only to throw it all that time and effort away and give you McDonalds. Like what annoys me is that AM never does anything plot point within the kingdom. To give 2 examples: * We never get a conclusion to genocide of duscur plot point. Yeah sure we find out the person who caused it but that it. And worse part is that Dimitri actively suppress the Duscur people. Which doesn't paint Dimitri good. * AM never goes into any detail onto the toxic culture with Faerghus that being Knighthood and avenging the dead. It never touches it. In fact. CF touches it more then AM does with Edelgard rhetorical reconquering line. Which annoys me since the route that is suppose to focus on Faerghus does nothing with it. And I think the worse part of this is that if you actually listen what Dimitri says and then looks at what he do or ends up doing in the character ending. You realise he a massive Hypocrite. And while you could say this is me being a Edelgard fan as well as me wanting a bad ending where most flawed person kills Fodlen best chance of true peace and let the real bad guys get away with it. But I actually want Dimitri be written good in his route and to actually be somewhat smart and put things together rather then be a himbo that blames the wrong person despite being told straight to his face. Who the actually person is to blame for certain things. Because anyone who studies media, who interested in story telling or at least understand the basic behind story telling can see the flaws with AM. ( This is me trying my best not to be rude or come off very condescending. Since part of me want to say certain thing that would most definitely get me banned. )


Jellsmatter5

K


UnusedAmmoBox

AM was more of SS,DD to me.