Local Individual Yaps About Three Hopes (A Journal? A Writing Exercise? Who Knows)

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… because why not? Idk, there’s not enough yapping about this game and I’m on a new yapping platform so it’s time to yap

First, let’s set the stage here. I got on my current FE kick because I was playing a spinoff series of a spinoff series of a completely different franchise in Japanese for reasons that are another whole topic; the game itself is just a classic fantasy JRPG, and it had me hankering for other classic JRPG settings, and lo and behold I HAVE the GBA Classics collection on my Switch…

And from there I was off to the races. I finally got genuinely hooked on Sacred Stones and started my umpteenth playthrough of my maiden FE, Blazing Sword, and I was hungry for more. I emulated Awakening and Fates but I wanted something else I could play on my Switch.

And it called to me. The Game With No Good Ending. The game I knew would torment me that all my friends had lots of character-based opinions about. Three Houses.

And I resisted. I knew it would only destroy me.

But then there was the spinoff. The Warriors game. I had found Hyrule Warriors overwhelming, but that HAD been a while ago, and I had loved Persona 5 Strikers with my whole being… and there WAS a demo available…

And I was lost. I rode with my Luvcore senses and picked the Earnest And Kind But Troubled Prince and took on the shockingly sizeable demo to find that, who would have guessed, the characters WERE just as absorbing as my friends had made them out to be, and the worldbuilding WAS interesting, and oh no the game was FUN???

And so now here I am a month later having decided that the Azure Gleam route is the only one that exists and getting ready commit violence in the streets at the slightest bit of slander to any of my Blue Lions. I knew this would happen if I let it and here I am.

And I will still not play Houses because I still do not want to kill Edelgard and I will not play Scarlet Blaze because I do not agree with Edelgard enough to stomach being forced to kill two members of my beloved king’s EXTREMELY IMPORTANT support structure. I can’t believe everyone gets a BETTER ending and the closest thing the game has to a golden ending still has multiple characters left in the lurch. I get that war is hell and being in charge sucks but like –

Ahem. Anyway. Thus ends part one of me yapping. We will see if I do more later.

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PART TWO. This is much less organized because it’s about the characters that make me insane

I knew, okay? I knew Dimitri was going to make me lose my mind. I knew. I did not know he was a certified Luo Binghe.

For those not in the know, Luo Binghe is my favorite character in anything of all time, he’s the male lead of a gay Chinese novel that does the gay version of the villainess genre but predates the genre’s surge in popularity pretty significantly. He’s legally insane and also an extremely good boy doing his best despite his extremely limited list of trusted individuals and priorities to care about, and I am drawn to characters similar to him like a moth to the freaking sun.

But in Hopes??? Hopes Dimitri??? He’s doing SO GOOD???

Like he still suffers from ACTIVE VENGEFUL HALLUCINATIONS. And he made multiple military units dedicated to fighting against the hierarchical nonsense of his home, including one dedicated to his steadfast belief and hope that people who have done bad things can change, and HE WAS RIGHT???

I don’t know how awful Miklan is in Houses because I refuse to play it. I do know in Hopes I genuinely adore his arc. He goes out a hero in the line of duty BECAUSE DIMITRI BELIEVED IN THE POWER OF REDEMPTION. Kill me. Destroy me. Oh wait it’s too late Hopes already did.

Ahem. I’m normal I promise. Idk how many posts I need to make to unlock the ability to share my art with the class so I’ll just keep rambling into the void for now lol

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