Lovely to get lore on Volakian rankings and confirmation this dude is indeed a Divine General.
Now. A thing I’m finding interesting here is how Julius is thinking about this society as purely a meritocracy predicated on power. He’s not wrong honestly. The society does seem like that.
I’m frankly rather curious what Felt or Crusch would think seeing this country? Because they are all about people standing on their own merits as individuals. They’d obviously have moral issues w/ the society, but I think it’d be fascinating to see their reactions to a warped version of their idealized dreams.
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Well hellooooo there Marcos, saying such things to Felix on his masculinity. Damn. Rickert got wrecked in LN 4 by Crusch for prodding at Felix’s issues but seems Marcos was able to just be fine saying this since no Crusch around.
Honestly though, I’m not shocked Marcos holds the stance he does on Felix and the refusal to conform to the feminine identity Felix has since Marcos in the LN 4 epilogue was firm about calling Felix his masculine name. This scene merely made Marcos’s disdain more explicit.
Anyways. Bro Julius and Reinhard left Felix out to dry lmao. C’mon guys. C’mon.
Hmmmm. Think I’m gonna disagree with Tappei on this one. I think pre-amnesia Crusch is more interesting to me. And not because she’s cooler or something (because Ex 1 clearly shows she is still a dense gal) but because there’s something about a firmness in identity that I find captivating.
Tbh I get Crusch a bunch here. I don’t really think about the clothing I wear in the confines of my place despite living with others.
I… okay. I guess I can understand why Crusch feels like a “fallen person” compared to her old heights? And objectively, she sorta is? However this new Crusch has gained some things that the old Crusch was patently unable to do.
Uh-huh, SS’s made it clear but hooooh boy. Tell me she won’t turn it off at some point afraid of Felix’s answer at something. I bet she will and it’ll be such a disaster.
Aaaaaand there goes Tappei pointedly not addressing the post-amnesia Crusch. Yup, yup. Everything I just said above feels more validated. Felix gonna be suuuuuuuch a big problem.
About what I thought, yeah.
Well, I’ll chime in here. I’ve not exactly obviously had the events Arc 3 Subaru had to deal with. However, I can confidently say that once hit with a sufficient amount of very traumatic events back to back in a cascading sequence your brain generally indeed does tend to shrink down to something more child-like.
It’s not a full regression into a child-like mind though despite what I’ve said. It’s more something where the section of one’s emotional regulation (or ability to emotionally read what people are implying/saying) will become as murky as a child’s in an effort of the brain to protect you from tangential things and allow you to fixate on the main root of the issue that caused one to enter this protective state of mind.
That… Tappei lowkey highkey dodged the question on what impression Crusch was picking up from Subaru initially via her DP? Huh.
We know from previous Crusch Q&A I did that Crusch has trouble reading Reinhard w/ her DP too, so I’m curious if generally people whom have come back from death are hard for Crusch to discern unless they are spiking with a particular feeling engulfing their entire being like madness for Arc 3 Subaru.
I suspect post-amnesia Crusch ain’t nabbing this spot anymore. Perhaps Reinhard does now with how uncannily on the money he can be. Or maybe Subaru. He also could be a good fit with how perceptive he can be.
Mkay, so I got ahold of the other Joshua Q&A but based on it’s dating I think it’s got Arc 6 Spoilers.
What I’m going to do is the Crusch Q&A I finally recently got ahold of, then later today the Julius Promise Notebook SS + a Q&A of his, so this means I’ll start Ex 4 tomorrow.
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Urgh the 2nd (and final) Joshua Q&A I wanted to cover has a broken link.
This reminds me of the #4 Crusch Q&A on this list being broken aswell and me being irked I basically never got around to do doing that one. Welp, the limitations of being an English speaker I suppose.
Who do you think of the candidates are the most likely to actually jmplement equality with regards to demihumans? Also how do you think they would do it?
Like I know Emilia seems obvious but you have highlighted it before how she kinda seems complacent and that really isn't her goal. I do agree with that but I'm really unsure of how she would even go about it.
Anastasia seems like she would do it and you had highlighted didn't you in one post.
I'm a little unsure on how this would play out.
I have indeed highlighted in a post how Anastasia does seem to be the most successful Candidate when peddling racial equality, yes.
Now. This question on which Candidate would be the most successful at ushering in racial equality is a bit tricky. I believe a lot of the Candidates have goals that would have a secondary effect of increasing racial equality.
To expand on what I mean by that.
Felt wants a kingdom where there is no real class lording over anybody anymore. Crusch wants the citizens to be able to stand strong independently and support the Kingdom without Volcanica. Priscilla wants everybody to be equally revering her. Anastasia wants the overall Kingdom to improve as something she owns.
None of these causes explicitly target demi-human equality yet they all have a clear domino effect where some of that would inevitably occur.
This makes it a wee bit difficult to say which Candidate would do the best at racial equality being solved even if it does give us a clear blueprint on how they would tackle racial equality since their tackling of it would be a natural byproduct of their main mission.
Based on what I have seen of all Candidates however, I think it is fairly reasonable to say Anastasia would be the most effective at handling demi-human equality simply for the fact that on screen she has shifted views of demi-humans that other characters like Joshua have whilst not being a demi-human herself but simply lifting up people around her whom are.
Now. On Emilia. See, there is some stuff I do genuinely believe she could do that she hasn’t for her goal. Which makes sense why she hasn’t done what I’ll point out since you highlighted what I’ve said about the matter, so it’s not bad writing but moreso purposeful that Emilia isn’t doing stuff to promote demi-human equality much.
Basically. A BIG thing Emilia could’ve done is imo utilize the fact one of the 5 Great Cities in Costuul resides in her sponsors domain and the fact she has a bunch of displaced demi-humans from the Sanctuary needing a place to go.
Emilia could’ve feasibly sent a good chunk of the displaced Sanctuary folk to Costuul and began integrating them within the city as more hands for their industries. Especially since Costuul did get a bit damaged during the SS’s focusing in there and having some people to come help repair would’ve been useful.
In time, it is plausible that once Costuul kept developing positively people could come to see demi-humans as a net positive if one of the 5 Great Cities was continuously improving with their presence.
Also. Since Costuul is a Great City with a lot of items that are sent out into the rest of the Kingdom, word of merchants whom have a good time in the city would also spread. Thus, bringing more positive views of demi-humans outside of the reach of the Mathers domain.
Instead, we canonically get the Sanctuary residents being moved to Arlam or the Mathers mansion. An easy choice but one that doesn’t boost demi-human support outside of the Mathers domain where it is already strong.
It is a very smart writing decision on Tappei’s end to have Emilia pick the more easy and uncommitted option of sending the Sanctuary residents there since Emilia in truth isn’t doing much to push her proposed ideals she is running on.
It just further highlights the point Emilia made in Arc 4 that really, she is indeed running just for the blood to save the elves and that’s truly it at its core despite the nice veneer of racial equality ontop.
So honestly, it’s a real big point of writing that I appreciate. It’s subtle. But nonetheless appreciated by me.
Ooooooooh. Love this scene. 100% my favorite of the SS for Anastasia’s part so far. It seems I was correct on what bothered Julius earlier with Crusch. But he expands upon it here further then I’d taken it and I appreciate it bunch.
I also appreciate how basically this convo was Tappei explicitly (instead of via subtext as he usually does w/ this topic) addressing how Crusch primarily is doing this so Fourier won’t be forgotten actually and not primarily 1st and foremost to better the kingdom.
Reinhard’s dialogue of pushing back on how in the end it’s fine since Crusch wouldn’t govern badly is great as he and Julius go back on forth on Crusch’s motivations. It feels to me like a great 4th wall break because Tappei is essentially lookin at the audience here whom see that Crusch isn’t 100% about bettering the kingdom 1st and foremost and validating what they have noticed.
Anywaaaays. Final tidbit but hahahaha Julius’s last line. My word. He’s going to feel so utterly betrayed whenever Scarfdona is revealed as a thing his Lady kept from him. Can’t wait to see that eventual chekhov’s gun go off.
