#bluevoidbubbles

@bluevoidbubbles replied to your post “FW ask post august direct”:

If Solel is playable, he would have a lot more grace given to him than Rhea (especially if he's the "ruler with flaws/mistakes because they're only human" trope). If that's combined with supports and potential romance, which granted Rhea was also given, then he could be a fan favourite. Though in a bizarre way, I feel like he would retroactively be used for more "Rhea Bad" as a "here is the ruler who has the people in mind vs the exact opposite." Cause I know for a fact that the Fodlan vs Dagda Nabatean governance will be a topic of fandom discussion. Never mind the fact that Fodlan is basically human-ruled with the exception of a mountain range for most of its known history...

Rhea has meaningful supports that aren't only avatar centered?

Where lol

All jokes aside, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape the Rhea BaD rhetoric as long as any game is set in the Fodlan verse : even if Solel does the exact same things, aka governance but with a hands off approach and only governs his city - not in mountains but on a lake - he will escape the same nonsense because :

1/No Earl Grey, no red herring and no Fraudulent lead (and no player I guess?) to prop up by blaming the nabs, so Solel and the Dagdan nabs, I suppose, won't be put under the bus because some moron believes clouds are askhually solid and blame the nabs for twisting said clouds

2/As you said, Fodlan is human-ruled and humans can do no wrong in Fodlan, it's always Slithers slithering around, or apparently, Rhea forcing people to marry, or being the reason why your toast always falls on the jam side, or why people want to have superpowers.

The fandom, in part, still bought the nonsense about "Fodlan is isolationist" and "Rhea promotes isolationism" when Fraud himself realises it's wrong (before saying the inverse) - so Dagsion welcoming people from various nations, even foreigners (Dietrich and Fabio) will be seen as very progressive and open-minded compared to Garreg Mach Monastery where, uh, I guess... foreigners weren't... allowed???

Also, Dagda seems to have a pantheon of gods and temples that are called temples, so all the projected takes about the "Medieval Catholic Church" glanned in Hollywood media, Kalla isn't leading a church, she's leading the cult worshipping her in her temple!

It's very, very different!

Tl;Dr : I doubt Solel'n'pals will be blamed as much as the CoS is to prop up nonsensical shit from characters that are supposed to be looked favorably by the player, and they don't have the "Catholic Church" aesthetic.