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McTimmy posted:She's supposed to be blonde in the opening cutscene, you can even see the green tips there. So she dyed it blonde as Seiros which explains why Nemesis doesn't recognize the feature at all. It just looks green anyway because of the lighting. Doesn't explain Byleth's hair, or Sothis's.
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Doc Dee posted:Doesn't explain Byleth's hair, or Sothis's. Her hair is originally green, she just dyed it blonde as Seiros. They just made a snafu since her roots should be green and not the tips, but maybe hairdressers just weren't very good a thousand years ago.
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Yeah, apparently the design notes in Seiros's concept art explicitly say that her hair is dyed but the original green is showing at the ends. Which is a really cool detail! I had actually never noticed the green at the ends but looking at the 3H intro cinematic it's absolutely there.
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It explains why Nemesis only worked out she was a Nabatean right at the end, why people willing to follow someone who “liberated” them from the Nabateans were ok with giving Rhea all her power and gives Wilhelm’s passed down story more weight if Seiros was more convincingly pretending not to be a Nabatean. It also might give another interpretation towards the Elite Diary abyss book where they are confused by Seiros’ hatred. Previously it was “what the hell happened why does she hate us”, which lent itself towards the Elites not knowing about the details of the Red Canyon as it’s pretty obvious why an obvious-Nabatean would hate what happened there, but now it could be a darker “why does this human hate us so much for doing the Red Canyon”. Shinji117 fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Jan 28, 2021 |
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Jan 28, 2021 02:56
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That is an incredible detail to just gently caress up in the big cinematic so that no one recognizes it. And when she dons her Seiros attire in CF, she doesn't dye her hair so it's lost there too. 
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Presumably at that point, she has no reason to disguise herself from Rhea anymore since Edelgard had already pushed her reveal into the open.
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When I was a kid there was a nerdy kid who used to like to tell everyone that 'antidisestablishmentarianism' was the longest word in the English language. Do you know what? I think Edelgard is an honest to goodness antidisestablishmentarian and is motivated primarily by antidisestablishmentarianism. e: OK I looked the word up and in my mind I introduced a doubled negative that wasn't actually there so I guess Dimitri is the antidisestablishmentarian and Edelgard is just a common or garden variety disestablishmentarian. Prurient Squid fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Jan 28, 2021 |
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Jan 28, 2021 15:20
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That dumb nerd wasnt even correct, floccinaucinihilipilification is longer
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Jan 28, 2021 18:32
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An image flashed through my mind of Bernie standing up for Death Knight, holding onto Death Knight's shoulder saying "do you have a problem with my Senpai?"
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Shinji117 posted:It explains why Nemesis only worked out she was a Nabatean right at the end, why people willing to follow someone who “liberated” them from the Nabateans were ok with giving Rhea all her power and gives Wilhelm’s passed down story more weight if Seiros was more convincingly pretending not to be a Nabatean. This also clears up whether Rhea is her "real" name/identity or not since it makes it pretty clear that Seiros was a wholly invented persona. Back when it looked like Seiros was green haired it seemed more ambiguous which was her real identity and which was a cover.
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Prurient Squid posted:An image flashed through my mind of Bernie standing up for Death Knight, holding onto Death Knight's shoulder saying "do you have a problem with my Senpai?" Bernie standing up would just be looking at the death knight and asking him to stop, and then if he asked what was she going to do about it, she would answer cry. And itd be so awkward hed leave.
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I assumed she changed her appearance every so often anyway to hide the fact that it's always been the same woman ruling the Church.
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Progress so far.
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Cythereal posted:I assumed she changed her appearance every so often anyway to hide the fact that it's always been the same woman ruling the Church. I thought something like that originally, but the way that people like Jerald and Seteth don't seem to find calling her Rhea odd despite it being hundreds of years since they last saw her/met her. Given that most people never personally meet bigwigs like the Pope, Fodlan doesn't have T.V. or photographs that could make her appearance public, and the few people who do regularly see her have a vested interest in not saying anything, it isn't that unreasonable that she could maintain the facade with minimal shits given. And besides who are you going to believe, our most holy chosen of Sothis the Pope, vetted by the most holy cardinals themselves? Or some some crazy person obviously possessed by the devil ranting that the pope is actually an immortal space lizard.
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So fun fact: There actually are no portraits/sculptures of Seiros. All the monthly murals keep her obscured and there's no statues on the grounds. (Only shoved in the corner of Abyss where no one save lunatics like I would look).
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galagazombie posted:I thought something like that originally, but the way that people like Jerald and Seteth don't seem to find calling her Rhea odd despite it being hundreds of years since they last saw her/met her. I mean both of them have very valid reasons why they are not freaked out about it. Thanks to the crest Rhea gave Jerald he has lived for a really long time and Seteth is another dragon. Hunt11 fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jan 29, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/SpaceDrinks/status/1354892700810584067 I found this amusing.
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Catharine absolutely smokes weed, and Petra totally knows what it is she just doesn't know what the Fodlaners mean when they say it.
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I like that Dimitri, Petra, and Alois all belong in that bottom row for different reasons.
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the ones that struck me as sus were Annette and Ashe, who both strike me as too goody-two shoes (but for different reasons). Annette in particular would be one of those who it just makes more anxious. also Mercedes is a healer, she does not "sell drugs" she prescribes drugs like a cool California doctor
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Hunt11 posted:I mean both of them have very valid reasons why they are not freaked out about it. Thanks to the crest Rhea gave Jerald he has lived for a really long time and Seteth is another dragon. You misunderstand me, I don't mean they should be surprised at her being alive, I mean they are apparently calling her by the same name despite all the time passing.
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I just woke up from a sleep and I can't remember the details but I was in a castle. And I realise that being in lockdown and playing hours of Fire Emblem means that mentally I live in a castle now.
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No way does Catherine smoke weed. She's a big narc.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:No way does Catherine smoke weed. She's a big narc. No one who hates herself as much as Catherine does gets through the day without some form of assistance.
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Cythereal posted:No one who hates herself as much as Catherine does gets through the day without some form of assistance. Alcohol. The classic.
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galagazombie posted:You misunderstand me, I don't mean they should be surprised at her being alive, I mean they are apparently calling her by the same name despite all the time passing. I mean Seth's been at the monastery for about a decade so he might have called her something different when he initially got there and adapted. And Jeralt only left when Byleth was an infant
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Alcohol. The classic. I can confirm it will make you hate yourself.
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Catherine does basically have "substance abuse" written right on her forehead.
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Rand Brittain posted:Catherine does basically have "substance abuse" written right on her forehead. In one of her conversations with Alois she has a bar tab she can't pay.
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do u believe in marigolds posted:In one of her conversations with Alois she has a bar tab she can't pay. Jeralt also has a bar tab he can't pay. Maybe the problem here is Alois.
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Jeralt was the biggest alcoholic in the entire game. There's another explanation for his bar tab.
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I just feel bleary this January and I've procrastinated so I'm still three weeks away from Taitlean Fields which I assume represents the end of the Crimson Flower route. I'd like to turn Bernie in to a Bow knight before then but I'm not too bothered about that. Anyway, I can really imagine the Fodlan equivalent of Shakespeare writing a play called Edelgard along the lines of Macbeth. And it's full of contrivances like Edelgard making a pact with Satan and plotting to murder her father and take the throne and killing anyone who was a threat to her power etc...
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Prurient Squid posted:Anyway, I can really imagine the Fodlan equivalent of Shakespeare writing a play called Edelgard along the lines of Macbeth. And it's full of contrivances like Edelgard making a pact with Satan and plotting to murder her father and take the throne and killing anyone who was a threat to her power etc... The Edge of Dawn is Edelgard singing a song about her trials and tribulations. Of course this song is from the War Opera made by the Mittelfrank Opera Company after Crimson flower and Edelgard's part is being performed by Dorothea.
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Prurient Squid posted:I just feel bleary this January and I've procrastinated so I'm still three weeks away from Taitlean Fields which I assume represents the end of the Crimson Flower route. I'd like to turn Bernie in to a Bow knight before then but I'm not too bothered about that. Whether it's a tragedy or romance definitely depends on who wins the war. One of the key features of Shakespeare's romances (like The Tempest or The Winter's Tale) is that a hero who would normally be undone by his tragic flaw like Hamlet or Macbeth is given a chance to grow beyond that flaw and have a happy ending, which is basically Edelgard's character arc in CF. It's also Dimitri's character arc in AM and Rhea's character arc in SS/VW. It could've been Claude's in VW but they make him too much of a good boy outside of of his route so you don't really get a sense that he has a tragic flaw that he can be undone by. What I'm saying is you could write a Tempest AU fanfic and use any of those three characters as a stand-in for Prospero.
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Natural 20 posted:The Edge of Dawn is Edelgard singing a song about her trials and tribulations. Now I want to hear Allegra Clark singing it.
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Any play about the life of Edelgard has to star Francesca Annis 
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I started this game a couple of days ago. I thought Gatekeeper was the best character in the game but I see now I was close but wrong. Hubert is the best character in the game. 90% of the time his supports are people thinking he's being sinister as gently caress when he's being a perfectly fine dude with resting murderer face and 10% of the time it's him being sinister as gently caress. I love it.
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Digital Osmosis posted:I started this game a couple of days ago. I thought Gatekeeper was the best character in the game but I see now I was close but wrong. Hubert is the best character in the game. 90% of the time his supports are people thinking he's being sinister as gently caress when he's being a perfectly fine dude with resting murderer face and 10% of the time it's him being sinister as gently caress. I love it. Welcome to the Hubert fan club.
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Digital Osmosis posted:I started this game a couple of days ago. I thought Gatekeeper was the best character in the game but I see now I was close but wrong. Hubert is the best character in the game. 90% of the time his supports are people thinking he's being sinister as gently caress when he's being a perfectly fine dude with resting murderer face and 10% of the time it's him being sinister as gently caress. I love it. single most correct thing ever posted in this loving thread, hubert is a bae
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