Regarding the Tangled Family Tree entries, does anyone else think they could stand for some serious reworking? The game itself as far as I know never regards those the dragons gave blood to as their family, let alone people who stole dragon blood. Flayn in particular is explicit that she has no children. Seteth does call the people Rhea gave her blood and crest stone fragments to her "family" but he does so in a manner that suggests they are pseudo-family, something Rhea tried to make to soothe her loneliness, and he uses "family" for lack of a better term. Rhea states Sitri looked to her "as if" she were her mother, but Rhea herself evidently did not see it that way.
One also has to keep in mind that we don't actually know how closely related Seteth and Flayn are to Rhea, since the game never specifies that Seteth is Rhea's sibling and indeed there is a fair amount of evidence he is from a later generation born to other Nabatea.
Edited by Perentie Hide / Show RepliesCoincidentally, I had the same idea. In fact, I removed those examples altogether.
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Part Four of my series of big giant Three Houses edits.
Spoiler handling: It is exactly backwards to openly discuss Crimson Flower while spoilering the very existence of Silver Snow. Furthermore, Silver Snow is the default Black Eagles route, whereas Crimson Flower is the bonus route that requires unlocking; heck, as the Screw Destiny example points out, Edelgard herself says CF is a path you aren't meant to take. To this end, I have de-spoiler-tagged all references to Silver Snow, and reordered examples to SS, AM, VW, CF. I also changed all references to the "Church route", because there is no Church route.
In a few cases, I rewrote spoiler-ridden examples to be spoiler-free by referring to Edelgard as the Flame Emperor.
I have removed all quotation marks around "those who slither in the dark", because that is a description, not a name.
I have also replaced all instances of "Nabateans" with "Children of the Goddess", because the Children of the Goddess are consistently referred to as Children of the Goddess, but are never once called Nabateans.
Examples I removed and reasons:
This just feels like an aversion.
This is just story, not gameplay.
Um... what does this have to do with the trope?
These are either all gameplay or all story, not both.
The first one is just not true. The blood stuff makes for a symbolic family, not an actual family; Rhea is no more related to Byleth than Frankenstein is to his ghoul.
The others aren't tangled at all. Characters share distant ancestors, imagine that.
From Unreliable Expositor:
Maybe it's just me, but the whole thing about human vs dragon supremacy was framed as Edelgard's biased inference, not as truth.
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