You know, at least everyone and their mom knew the Tellius merchant guy only ranked as high as he did last year because of bots. The fact that this year so many people are actually putting their votes into the Gatekeeper is hitting my berserk button, and I want to roll my eyes seeing Bernadetta still place so high despite /just/ getting an alt a month ago. (1/2)
Seeing Fyleth up there is also just... Ugh. I was told that JPN fandom really likes the non-Kris avatar characters, which is probably /why/ but I still don't like it considering Byleth is by and far the worst one to exist. They're a plank of wood, for crying out loud. At any rate, really hoping Chrom pushes Gatekeeper out of 2nd place even if I can't spare any votes for him. (2/2)
Like seriously I’m just really hoping the people voting him for the memes chill the fuck out. This joke is so done to death.
F!Byleth I’m not super happy about either, but as much as I dislike Byleth at least they’re a character with a non-generic design that you actually spend significant time with. And you know what, I can see a lot of cool stuff they could do with F!Byleth, like base it on Jeralt or heck even go all out and have a dragon unit. Or kind of like Micaiah had Yune over her shoulder, they could have Sothis in her art.
Gatekeeper..? Like what do you even do with a generic NPC?
And Bernadetta was always going to score high. She appeals to that specific really obsessive fanbase that’ll fanatically vote for her regardless of any circumstance. No doubt she’s gonna be the new Camilla of CYL (in that she’s ridiculously popular regardless of how many alts she gets and Reddit hates her with a burning passion and will do anything to keep her from winning)
I don't like being on the same side as Reddit regarding Bernadetta but I am kinda annoyed the thing that's previously hurt characters like Eirika, fricken EIRIKA, isn't hurting Bernadetta. I mean at least I like Marianne so if by some miracle she managed to sneak past Femleth I'd be super happy (Marianne on a Horsie raining Icicle Doom from the Sky, sounds amazing to me).
I just want to know why out of the Byleths its the one with the uglier design... like I guess because the female side is less competitive, the male side still had Marth, Chrom, Seliph, Leif, Sigurd etc. All in contention whereas Female only has Eirika and the Famale Avatars and maybe Aqua if you count her (she's a main character and consistently top 10 so I count her).
But at least with Femleth as you said there's some interesting shit you can do, like Smash managed to make them interesting so I guess Heroes could too (although no lie I trust Sakurai more cause last years Braves really left me burnt they were so devoid of creativity it hurt like sure Brave Lucina is just her Promoted Class but at least she got a different weapon type than she's normal depicted with).
As it stands I'll be picking Eirika for my free unit and trying to get Marth and thats it.
I’m the anon who sent those asks, and yeah that’s my exact problem. Eirika and Anna got shot down in CYL after getting alts so close to it, but Bernadetta isn’t affected whatsoever (and neither are Hilda and Felix for that matter seeing as they’re in the top 5) popular or not. If we have to have a Byleth up there I’d rather it be the male one, but the men’s side is more competitive as stated, and it’s true that there’s potential as far as how they could design the Brave alt. Though looking at last year’s batch, I’d rather keep my expectations low to nonexistent as much as I enjoy using Dimitri.
I’ll most likely be picking Marth for my free unit and spending orbs to get Eirika, otherwise... eh. I just don’t want to see the Gatekeeper win, and that’s enough for me.


























