One more reason Lysithea being able to be recruited to CF without recruiting her in WC (since everything is wrong with it lmao) is that her being at Derdriu fighting for Claude actually means so much?? Because otherwise House Ordelia was completely uninvolved with it, with Lysithea specifically pointing to Claude as to the reason why that is - and with her saying that Claude told her that before the battle started. Which means she wasn't there to protect her house - it's already protected by Claude letting it be left out the fighting - but because she was fighting for either her own desire to fight the Empire or because she believed in Claude (or both)! Either way it was Lysithea making the deliberate choice to fight for Claude, which then gets IMMEDIATELY pulled away because Lysithea can just join the Empire in a second!
The argument for why this happens can’t even be “oh well Lysithea believes in Edelgard’s cause more than Claude’s” because she can be recruited WITHOUT ever getting her supports with Edelgard?? So she’d never actually know her ideals - and if what is known from an outsider’s perspective is enough for Lysithea to join her, then why doesn’t she just do that from the word go? Why ever fight for Claude at all? Why not leave once he tells her that it doesn’t matter if they fall to the Empire?
And then the in-game explanation makes absolutely NO sense at all. “Yeah when Claude told me that it doesn’t matter if we fall to y’all or not I joined THE NATION WHO RUINED MY FAMILY and THE PERSON I KNOW FOR A FACT IS WORKING WITH MY TORTURERS with NO HESITIATION”?? BITCH WHAT?? And again, this can happen while Lysithea has literally no connection to either Byleth or Edelgard. They just invade her home, potentially kill her friends, beat her ass, and that’s somehow enough to have her join them?? HUH??
