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I wouldn\'t go as far as to use terms like OOC in reference to a branching narrative, and this is coming from someone whose overall impression of Crimson Flower was \
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I wouldn\\\'t go as far as to use terms like OOC in reference to a branching narrative, and this is coming from someone whose overall impression of Crimson Flower was \\\"weird AU fanfiction\\\" (interesting premise, wasted potential, which I HATE in works of this level). In the end, if you think about it, it\\\'s really more of a GameplayAndStorySegregation issue that the devs TRIED to avoid, but in ways that didn\\\'t always turn out to be believable, and even then it\\\'s very much a YMMV thing. The idea of the entire class just going with whatever choice Byleth makes was bound to be awkward in the first place.
While routes being alternate timelines is about as canon as it can get without it being acknowledged outright (given Sothis\\\'s powers), the very fact that both El and Dimitri admit on their respective routes that their fate would\\\'ve been very different without Byleth, to me, indicates that they\\\'re meant to be very much the same characters with the same flaws, and they\\\'re aware that they would\\\'ve succumbed to these flaws under different circumstances. Dimitri isn\\\'t even that much better on Azure Moon until the rain scene, especially given the heavy implications that he was about to go and get himself killed anyway. Apply the same to Felix, and one interpretation of his character is that he NEEDS to be around Dimitri and witness his downfall in order to not become a \\\"boar\\\" himself.
...Anyway, since we\\\'ve established that the entry isn\\\'t even about players hating Felix, is it safe to remove it? Or edit it down, at least? Because, unless there exists a massive camp of \\\"Dimitri Did Nothing Wrong\\\" fans who missed the whole point of Azure Moon, I don\\\'t see why anyone would disagree with Felix apart maybe from the \\\"I see what you mean but you could\\\'ve phrased it in a less hostile way\\\" angle.
While routes being alternate timelines is about as canon as it can get without it being acknowledged outright (given Sothis\\\'s powers), the very fact that both El and Dimitri admit on their respective routes that their fate would\\\'ve been very different without Byleth, to me, indicates that they\\\'re meant to be very much the same characters with the same flaws, and they\\\'re aware that they would\\\'ve succumbed to these flaws under different circumstances. Dimitri isn\\\'t even that much better on Azure Moon until the rain scene, especially given the heavy implications that he was about to go and get himself killed anyway. Apply the same to Felix, and one interpretation of his character is that he NEEDS to be around Dimitri and witness his downfall in order to not become a \\\"boar\\\" himself.
...Anyway, since we\\\'ve established that the entry isn\\\'t even about players hating Felix, is it safe to remove it? Or edit it down, at least? Because, unless there exists a massive camp of \\\"Dimitri Did Nothing Wrong\\\" fans who missed the whole point of Azure Moon, I don\\\'t see why anyone would disagree with Felix apart maybe from the \\\"I see what you mean but you could\\\'ve phrased it in a less hostile way\\\" angle.
