what the hell is it with fire emblem three houses that turns people into psychopaths? who the fuck is edelgard and why is it always about that person? is it a pro/anti skub situation and the game/character is just alright? I just wrote the entire thing off to begin with cause I didn't much like the 3DS games and 3H looked like more of the same, but I never stop hearing about the crazy people who care entirely too much about it. the 3DS fans were obnoxious but I don't remember them being this outright batshit insane. iirc it wasn't any more complicated than them wanting to fuck the entire cast. there's a deeper autism at work in three houses.
Three Houses is a great game, but it is also the highest selling of the series, meaning bad fans were inevitable. Three Houses, for better or worse, took a dive into the casual market, the one that likely made Persona 5 such a hit, and as such has a similar fan base of those who worship it. I mean, FE3H literally stole mechanics from P5, so the crossover was likely to happen.
The cast in 3H is actually pretty solid all around, some may claim even the best, so people took to them pretty quickly. As for why Edelgard specifically gets the fan base she has, it is due to her inconsistent writing, a problem that three out of the five main leaders suffer from, with Claude and Seteth remaining consistent and understandable, Dimitri being more on the iffy side, but relatively solid, and El and Rhea darting all over the place in terms of personality. Most get very defensive of Edelgard because they want to believe that she is fully in the right, but her personality darts so rapidly between routes that it is impossible to fully understand any motive, so saying she is squeaky clean is laughable. Dimitri and Claude fans seem to pile on El as well since those two characters are more or less in the right, that it creates super defensive El fans that sell their soul to her. She is also lesbian, so many are in it for representation or hot Byleth and El crotch play, completely clouding their judgement.
For more context to the above, and why she is controversial.
El works with shady figures that boil down to the game’s Nazis of sorts to gain power.
The beginning has bandits she hired chasing down school students to kill them.
The people she works with try to kill the students, kill Byleth’s father, set a village on fire and make zombies of the people, and are responsible for genocide on dragon people.
She starts a war and is unrelenting, killing multiple innocents in the process and destroying Fodland.
She never questions her ideals and completely believes her war is just.
Many think she is bringing freedom, but in reality she is going to handpick nobility herself, likely leading to a system just as bad as the crest system she hates. But hey atleast you are not put in power for a crest symbol you are born with, but instead because you are friends with El and her elected officials.
She also hates the crest system for her being tortured and given cancer with an implementation of another crest, the only issue is that the people who did that to her are the people she works with at the beginning of the game, not the church she wants to tear down.
Her fans defend every action when she is rightfully called out because she is just so UWU adorable, short lesbian gf. Did you see that she made a picture for Byleth, omg, such wife material. I think you get my point.
