Nooo Ionius IX :'(
All jokes aside, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts about Lorenz!
What can I say, I'm a true barbarian, I'm completely unable to appreciate the basileus' sex appealđ.
I'm going to disappoint you, but I don't have many thoughts on Lorenz. It's like "I don't like him" and that's it. It's visceral.
The worst offender for me is his design. Especially his academy design. When I first saw that wonderful purple haircut, I was like "WTF is that? Mais ma chÊrie ça va pas tout ça!". (But then again, I'm a barbarian so maybe he's too enlightened for me).
One shouldn't judge a book by its cover. I know. But his design repelled me. It gets better post-time skip, though. But doing better than that isn't that difficult actually and it's still one of the worst offenders imo.
Apart from the fact that I was never that interested in discovering all the nuances of his personality (if there are) what I saw didn't convince me. The classism, the arrogance, the relentless pursuit of women who don't seem interested (like Byleth even has to tell him to leave the female students alone...)...I didn't find anything that held my attention.
The final nail to his coffin is that I never felt the need to use him in game.
On a positive note, I appreciate the fact that he's the only one to speak some sense to Klaude in Nopes (from what I've seen). I especially liked when he reminded everyone of WHY people are hostile to the Almyrans (the depiction of the Almyrans in Nopes is...something) when Klaude was crying: "Nuh I don't understand why Fodlan is racist and isolationist. They hate my people for no reason". Idk, maybe it's because your people regularly come to pillage and Nader wants to keep ships as souvenirs, idk?
Nopes made me feel sympathy for Lorenz and that's no meager feat.
