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One thing I will never forgive the Fe3h Fandom for is not acknowledging how genuinely vile Sylvain is in both his character and writing.
As some one who’s dealt with abuse, I find it really insulting to see it used as literally nothing more than a prop to give a character-
As some one who’s dealt with abuse, I find it really insulting to see it used as literally nothing more than a prop to give a character-
a “sympathetic” reason to enjoy emotionally hurting women. I don’t think people really don’t bring that up when talking about his character, he doesn’t cheat on women for fun, he cheats on them to humiliate and punish them for being “shallow”. This is made worse by the fact that
he’s the one who starts the relationships and no , the women showing interest first is not a justification for what he does. He pretty much never gets out of this mindset either and at no point apologizes or feels regret for how he acts
If memory serves me right the only ending that has him make any real change is his ending with Ingrid. His Mercedes support even his him say that he still hates women, she’s just a special one who gets him and his ending with Dorothea has him pester her into marrying him.
I find the Mercedes one particularly awful as she’s been through some stuff herself and this could have been a support about mutual healing or her pointing out that what happened doesn’t justify the way he treats him women but all the support is is just her-
going on about how sad and tragic he is. While not directly related to hating women, his Byleth support shows him wanting to make/see them suffer as he had for their crest. Which is honestly a really creepy thing to have a character to say to a player self insert.
As I said in the beginning, this comes off as the writers using abuse as a prop and excuse to have a male character hold really ugly opinions about women and to have “justification” in acting on them. I really wish that there were more people who spoke on this and that people
would listen instead of trying to shut them up, sometimes even blatantly lying about his actions and development. Honestly, I kind of wish that people had tried to hold IS and Nintendo accountable for how abuse was handled here as I find it a really disrespectful way to use it.
I know this whole thread is pretty much whacking a hornet’s nest with a bat but I really do feel insulted as a person by his writing and also quite concerned by it. Fiction affects reality and the way I see some people talk about him makes me scared for them. His writing falls
Into the you can fix a dude kind of thing which is not something that works in real life and can lead to you getting hurt. So to present this as romantic and appealing is very concerning.
I’m not writing this to say you can’t like him but please acknowledge that there
I’m not writing this to say you can’t like him but please acknowledge that there
are problems in how abuse was used in his writing and that his personality can come off as really gross some people
Sorry this is a bit long, I just really needed to get this off my chest. I hope I got my point across and please tell if any of this comes off as weird.
Sorry this is a bit long, I just really needed to get this off my chest. I hope I got my point across and please tell if any of this comes off as weird.
Also I don’t want to see any replies or QRTs saying him being “hot” justifies his actions because first of all it, no it doesn’t and secondly he isn’t.
