bunny!

How fucking WILD it is that Sylvain at the ripe age of 8 years old thought it was normal and fine behavior to flirt with full grown women. Even if we're accepting the theory/headcanon with the Ingrid's grandmother incident that "oh haha Sylvain just has bad eye sight that's why he flirted with an old lady and a scarecrow, how silly," he was still EIGHT YEARS OLD. He at the very least knew he was talking to an adult.

His whole character being "women only show interest in me because they want to have a kid with me, so if I flirt endlessly with every woman I see, I can pretend to have some semblance of control" is already tragic. But to have a direct line in game proving that mindset went all the way back to him being EIGHT is devastating. Think about the implications of that for 5 seconds and goddamnit, Edelgard was right for wanting to burn that whole continent to the ground.

between being groomed to flirt with women, watching his parents fight, and the possibility of CSA at miklan’s hand, this boy’s perception of romantic love was screwed from the beginning.