Felix's paralogue is a ride
The change of Rodrigue's tone when Felix starts lashing out and then the way Felix goes for his dad's throat anyway is. A lot.
I can't stop thinking about how during the fight, Rodrigue has something to say to Felix (ofc) and Dimitri (makes sense) and even Byleth (sure), but nothing to say to Ingrid. Ingrid is right there. You know, the one who was nearly his daughter in law.
Sylvain okay whatever. He wasn't hit by the tragedy of Duscur in the same way as the rest of the Faerghus four. But Ingrid was. She's right THERE.
I honestly couldn't believe it I just made Ingrid chase Rodrigue across the map in a disbelieving fury
Did Felix's family not reach out to Ingrid after the tragedy? Did they leave her to mourn Glenn's death alone?? Did they all try to break into silos of isolated mourning. What is WRONG with Faerghus my god

This honestly makes me so angry, community during grieving is everything
Imagining Rodrigue, a second father to Dimitri, reaching out and pulling him in so he wasn't alone and then just fucking leaving Ingrid out there to deal with her own father who was concerned for her, of course he was, but also necessarily concerned for the loss of prospects.
Like would Ingrid's family try to support her? Oh obviously. But they would never be able to *get it*. How much faster did she have to appear calm and centered and put together than she was ready to, to save face for her family?
How much are external pressures of the knight's role and chivalry and duty the only things keeping this brave girl glued together? Because they're the reason she got back up, it's obvious.
It never occurred to me that Rodrigue would deny this basic and obvious kindness. No wonder Felix and Ingrid's relationship is in some ways so complicated
I mean maybe I get more data later but Ingrid deserved better than this
I guess I should also be clear that I don't hate Rodrigue? I assume he was blinded by the wallop of his own grief. It's pretty obvious that he loved King Lambert a fucking lot. That, plus his own son, plus loss of his sense of place in the world, would make anyone buckle.
But I'm just imagining Ingrid a teenager alone crying over a man she loved in the stormy, straightforward way that you love someone when you're that age, crying over a loss of future, crying over the sudden unmooring of her family's fortune, Ingrid at sea, and I'm fucking upset
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