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Is the dice balance maintained with the moss inside? :0c

Idk what’s worse; the fact that you subjected my eyes to this, or the fact that, for a moment, I thought this was an official render

send me literally anything and ill tell you something i hate about it

U KNO I AM A SEAL STAN BUT TWO THINGS

ONE. THIS SEAL PIC WHICH I THINK OF EVERY SO OFTEN. THERE IS SOMETHING SO FUCKY ABOUT THE EYES. THEY ARE 2 CLOSE TOGETHER AND LOOK SO BULBOUS. THIS THING LOOKS LIKE A RAT. I KNOW RATS CAN BE CUTE BUT I MEAN LIKE THE NASTY RATS I SEE ON THE NYC STREETS. I DONT TRUST THIS MAN

TWO. ELEPHANT SEALS IN GENERAL FOR SIMILAR REASONS. OR AT LEAST MALE ONES SINCE ONYL THEY LOOK LIKE THIS. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE THAT I WOULD TRUST. THIS IS SO SCARY

is the hate because of how shitty of a unit he is in FE2? just curious

You’re totally okay for asking, and I’m sorry that this is about to get long but I couldn’t do this without bringing in examples. The best way I can sum it up is that the narrative puts him on a pedestal through just about every character possible, while simultaneously not giving any reason for why the player should feel the same way and trying to excuse some of his actions and behaviors. Additionally, the inflated praise goes so far as to impede the character expansion and development of many of the game’s female characters. It feels like the writers are really trying to force the fact that you should like this character for no reason other than we the writers want you to like him. 

To give a couple of examples in regards to his actions/behaviors, the game does not provide any narrative evidence that he intended to help his sister when she was kidnapped.

Act 1:

Clair: Oh! Good day, Fernand. And what brings you here?

Fernand: Need you even ask? When I heard you had been taken prisoner, I mounted my finest destrier and sped here at once. Sir C/ive couldn’t leave the hideout without its commander, of course. But I see I am a step behind regardless.

C/ive does not even address the matter when his sister arrives, talking about his own feelings about the situation, and Clair goes on to apologize for worrying him. The same occurs with Mathilda:

Act 1:

Archer: Sir C/ive’s lover, Lady Mathilda, used to fight by his side in the Knights of Zofia. She was every inch as strong as him, and clever as an old cat, to boot. But Desaix took her captive, and now keeps her locked up in his fortress. He’s made many attempts to use her as leverage to force our surrender. But still, Sir C/ive refuses to submit. One day Desaix will tire of these games, and then she’ll be in peril most dire… Knowing this, Sir C/ive grows less bold as the days pass. Who can blame him?

Apparently here “refuses to submit” = sitting on his hands until ??? 

Upon being reunited, Mathilda also apologizes for getting into the situation in the first place.

The story tries to brush off his lack of action as if to tell you that it’s okay that he didn’t do anything to help the situation because he was still really, really worried. 

Act 1 (before rescuing Clair):

Lukas: One thing, Alm… You may be right that some of the blame lies with Sir C/ive… But please, tread soft with him regardless. Lady Clair is his younger sister. I’m sure no one’s head is hanging lower than his own right now.

If his head is hanging so low, then why doesn’t he actually do something about the situation?? The story never provides a reason for him not to go help her.

Yeah, he’ll admit to it all later, but it all comes off as fishing for validation from Alm. He never apologizes to Clair and his “apology” to Mathilda falls again into seeking validation for his actions.

Act 3:

C/ive: Forgive me, Mathilda. I should never have left you to suffer for so long. Speak now your loathing for me, and I will gladly bear it all.

Mathilda: Oh, stop your nonsense. You did what any commander ought. Your judgment was sound. And I bear the blame for my capture, not you. I was careless. So let us speak no more of blame.

(Sound judgement? Didn’t the archer before say that if he continued not to do anything, Mathilda would befall an even worse fate and then she almost did??)

On top of all that, he derails a lot of potential character exploration and development for many female characters, limiting them to only their affections for and relation to him. Support conversations, as much of a mixed bag as they can be sometimes, serve to discuss and explore either one of the characters that are present in the conversation. There are some exceptions to this, but other conversations will sometimes make up for it. Unfortunately here, and this is a larger criticism of Shadows of Valentia as a whole, nearly all Support conversations between women center on men that they are related to or have affections for. For example, I was expecting Delthea and Clair’s Support Chain to have an interesting conversation with such a unique combination of characters; instead we got “your brother is The Best and mine is The Worst.” I learned nothing about either character outside of what they think of their brothers.