I don't think El is some heroic revolutionary or even really that concerned with social justice, but her declaration of war reeked of anti-aristocratic and anti-clerical rhetoric. There is certainly a theme of Edelgard utilizing revolutionary rhetoric to make her war of aggression sound justified, and then making herself into a dictator with a small circle of advisors being the only sort of check on her power.
I think it’s Napoleonic is all. He had those same bugbears.
I mean the church is very sketchy and Rhea sucks. So to me being "anti-clerical" isn't that unreasonable in this story, even Claude doesn't like the church he just also doesn't like dictatorship due to him being a nicey nice "freedom and diversity good" sort of guy.
You're forgetting the nonexistent racism that's he's dealing with.
It is so nonexistent I forgot that it was even a thing until you brought it up. The only thing I vaguely remember is Hilda is marginally racist because her family has to hold off Claude's people from the border constantly,
All I saw was an pirated artbook and an series of hieroglyphs within your castle.
His scheme is to destroy Fodlan and George Soros it with barbaric Almyrans when no-one remains to stop him.
So Fates hired a writer who made from what I understand a 500 page plot summary for each of the 3 paths (as-in 500 for each path), he was originally going to make a 10 page summary but he liked the plot and characters so much that he went full autismo mode on it. Their was a lot of stuff supposedly cut from this original draft, which is probably why characters like Rinkah and the whole ice tribe people exist as this weird side group of people who get mentioned once or twice and then forgotten about immediately.
that's actually an okay time to use contemporary politics to describe a character because it doesn't change anything major. Nor is it somehow screwing up a historical context. He wants looser borders. That in of itself is a contemporary idea.
With 3H specifically I blame it on the route split, bad presentation and over abundance of exposition through text only; so much stuff happens off-screen only.
The routes are important and very useful if you want to tell a war that can be justified from multiple perspectives like 3H tries to do without a bunch of incredibly contrived nonsense like "Here's the scene where Edelgard just talks about her childhood to a wall for the next 10 minutes, or to Hubert who already knows this information.". Byleth conceptually being used to drag all their is to see out of the 3 lords is useful to get the information you need to convey without forcing out exposition solely for the audience. Byleth is just a boring self insert, but his purpose is fine and an effective way to get characters like the lords to openly talk about themselves. 3H lacked the overall ability (budget, competence, time, etc) to use this ambitious story well, and when it comes to Byleth they lack vision as Byleth being a mute self insert is a terrible choice for what he's used for.
All it could have took was removing the voice lines so that we could get an engaging conversation like Robin occasionally provides...Or just write it off as being silent from getting PTSD as an child soldier.
All things considered, do you think he will hit over 60? He's been fat for a decade
He'll probably fix his shit well enough to do so. I'd expect Mekkah or Ghast to die of an STD though.
The Egg is hefty, but he isn't a deathfat. I bet he'd make it to old age, especially if he really has quit drinking, since that should decrease his calorie intake.
Diabetes risk is putting it lightly with all the artificial sugar
15 years of drinking and being overweight isn't exactly a shinning base for a long life.
