Fire Emblem Nonsense blog

Behold my hours upon hours of pain and suffering.

your result?

Shadow Dragon and New Mystery have *a* lizard person who is worshipped as a god but the actual, alive dragons live in solitude away from mankind specifically because mankind was a bitch and started slaughtering and oppressing them. Naga herself doesn't seem to have much interest in telling mankind how to act.

Gaiden/SoV does have its two dragon gods take a much larger role in the plot. So I'll give you that one, though I don't think it's a secret that they're dragons and there's plenty of dragons who exist entirely as generic enemies doing fuckall with the government.

Genealogy and Thracia have thirteen dragon gods but only two have an active interest in influencing mankind. They collectively run a single kingdom and a cult. I don't think it's well known that they're dragons.

Dragons hold no influence in the Elibe games or Sacred Stones.

Dragons are Seclusionist in the Tellius games. The king is on a first name basis with the god of that game but he does fuck all with it, which is the point of his character.

Most, if not all, of the countries in Awakening seem to follow one of two dragon gods in Awakening, including a highly regarded dragon priestess, so point for Awakening. But again, very well known that they're dragons.

Fates I'll give you because of Anankos.

This post was definitely about Three Houses, because that's the game that's the most true.

PART 2

Because I think in hindsight we need to admit that Soliel was never really a lesbian, even as far as the Japanese script was concerned. "She's just at that age where she gets confused".

Because, again, in the Japanese version she's not actually gay. She's just got a temporary thing with girls, but she'll end up with a guy, obviously.

Anyway, to understand why this is the case, we need to take a look at Soleil's personal skill, Sisterhood.

What this skill name is evoking is the "Class S" dynamic. S here standing for sister. To explain it overly simplistically, class S was a socially acceptable way for Japanese women to have romantic relations.

At its best, it'd let women be gay in peace, not really considered "properly" married, but at least not actively criminalized like in the West.

At its worst, it was seen by most people as just "fake" relationships, "practice" for the "real thing" (a relationship with a guy). If you've seen yuri manga deal with this stereotype/prejudice, this is why. It's a thing.

And, of course, when Fates talks about Soleil's interest in women, her sisterhood with them? This stereotype is the one they mean. The clearest evidence that this is how the game treats Soleil's attractions - as just a confused teenager playing pretend - is her Support conversations with her mother.

Her mother, of course, can be one of a few people, depending on who Laslow married. But here's her Support with Corrin as her mother.

See? She's even extolling the feminine beauty of her own mother, in exactly the same way as she'd flirt with any girl. And of course, Corrin (and all her possible mothers) simply tell Soleil to stop teasing them.

Because Soleil isn't gay, she's just confused. This is the explicit intent of the script and how she's written.

Which, by the way, with the English Translation choosing to say "oh no she's definitely bisexual", they created the unintended subtext of... hey, uh, does Soleil have an incestuous crush on her own mother?