fe worm brains: three houses edition
Sep. 7th, 2020 02:44 pmseeing Kronya in FE:H aether raids reminds me that right around where she was introduced was the start of the beginning of FE: Three Houses loosing its magic on me in the first play-through.
Like... I *love* the idea of a backstabby character that was teamed up(?) with Edelgard / the other magic guy that I can't be arsed to remember - but what the hell was her deal ? why is she vaguely purple in her "undisguised" mode? does she have a corrupted Crest or something? I can deal way better with the idea of her also being a former student experimented on like Edelgard by the Slither folks - gives it a slightly more tragic 'living weapon' twist that explains her relative power. maybe she's always been an average crest-less student who the Slither folks basically seduced in making a death machine. (what she doesn't realize is they're warping her humanity by taking crest experimentation shortcuts - i love the idea of her being slowly transformed into something inhuman, just... at a slower rate that she doesn't realize the whole crest body horror thing.)
and given they were experimenting on Lysthia - pump them up as this mysterious group that's been using the Academy as a pool to pluck promising students from and increase their ranks ... there's enough lowkey horror to that in both the academy phase and the war phase for it to be a sustained arc in itself, kind of like how Claude's 'go find all the crest weapons!' sold way better to me than Dimitri's whole... shtick.
(edit: after looking at the FE wiki, apparently Thales and Solon are different characters LOL. god, just... merge them or something. Izuka is a better one-note boss than those two. get more of the mad-scientist vibe with the Slither folks and like ... let them be the antagonists they so needed to be in Edelgard's path. Have them temporarily kidnap Hubert and have Edelgard go semi nuts and do a rescue attempt with Byleth. )
GAHHH THIS GAME WAS SO CLOSE sob
Like... I *love* the idea of a backstabby character that was teamed up(?) with Edelgard / the other magic guy that I can't be arsed to remember - but what the hell was her deal ? why is she vaguely purple in her "undisguised" mode? does she have a corrupted Crest or something? I can deal way better with the idea of her also being a former student experimented on like Edelgard by the Slither folks - gives it a slightly more tragic 'living weapon' twist that explains her relative power. maybe she's always been an average crest-less student who the Slither folks basically seduced in making a death machine. (what she doesn't realize is they're warping her humanity by taking crest experimentation shortcuts - i love the idea of her being slowly transformed into something inhuman, just... at a slower rate that she doesn't realize the whole crest body horror thing.)
and given they were experimenting on Lysthia - pump them up as this mysterious group that's been using the Academy as a pool to pluck promising students from and increase their ranks ... there's enough lowkey horror to that in both the academy phase and the war phase for it to be a sustained arc in itself, kind of like how Claude's 'go find all the crest weapons!' sold way better to me than Dimitri's whole... shtick.
(edit: after looking at the FE wiki, apparently Thales and Solon are different characters LOL. god, just... merge them or something. Izuka is a better one-note boss than those two. get more of the mad-scientist vibe with the Slither folks and like ... let them be the antagonists they so needed to be in Edelgard's path. Have them temporarily kidnap Hubert and have Edelgard go semi nuts and do a rescue attempt with Byleth. )
GAHHH THIS GAME WAS SO CLOSE sob
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Date: 2020-09-11 04:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
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