Edelgard is so meta she's in both the best and the worst character list, lol.
ShamirI can't choose between Ingrid, Annette, or Mercedes. They are all incredibly awesome in their own way.
Help.
Leonie is secretly the best character. She's frugal as fuck, has great work ethic and just gets shit done. That woman ticks all my boxes.
Edelgard is so meta she's in both the best and the worst character list, lol.
Leonie is secretly the best character. She's frugal as fuck, has great work ethic and just gets shit done. That woman ticks all my boxes.
MY BROTHER/SISTER!Leonie is secretly the best character. She's frugal as fuck, has great work ethic and just gets shit done. That woman ticks all my boxes.
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w/ bonus Gatekeeper meme
Poll seems a little lopsided since Black Eagles is the most popular house.
But her natural habitat is the trash.
You better confess how many times auto-correct tried to suggest you the word 'imperial'.
She ticks all the right boxes, but when she's talking to the avatar, all she sees in Jeralt, and that's all she'll ever talk about, even going as far as speaking to you as if you're not Jeralt's child and cares about him. She'll never see the avatar as their own person. She would be absolutely perfect otherwise.Leonie is secretly the best character. She's frugal as fuck, has great work ethic and just gets shit done. That woman ticks all my boxes.
Polls at Korea's biggest Nintendo community
Best Class(Route)
1. Blue lions (33.9%)
2. Black Eagles (Empire) (31.6%)
3. Golden Deer (30.9%)
4. Church (3.5%)
Best Male Character
1. Dimitri (26.9%)
2. Claude (20.9%)
3. Ferdinand (9.6%)
Best Female Charcater
1. Lysithea (23.5%)
2. Edelgard (17%)
3. Bernadetta (11%)
Worst Character
1. Edelgard (30.2%)
2. Ignatz (16.4%)
3. Cyril (8.7%)
I don't remember the poster saying it was littered with derogatory language, tho it happennedAccording to r/fireemblem some of the commentary on why people disliked characters was littered with derogatory language and a bit of homophobia so I'm very much side-eying this poll.
I don't remember the poster saying it was littered with derogatory language, tho it happenned
But the major reason why Edelgard was most hated was because people were disappointed with her route and the fact she is authoritarian and Korea has quite a history with authoritarian regimes
Any popularity poll is going to have those voters that vote against characters for gross reasons. This poll isn't any different in that regard and shouldn't be discounted because of it. Especially when people have also provided plenty of reasoning that isn't gross.I didn't say anything about being bothered by Edelgard's results :P She's a divisive character, I'm sure she'd rank highly in worst character polls across the world LOL
This is more about me not being a fan of the poll in general since there was some gross behavior around it.
Dedue also reminds me to Okyasu's brother from JoJo part 4.I would have said Bernie but a french youtuber / streamer i like pleaded the case of Dedue brilliantly with a very simple argument :
Edelgard had a hand in Jeralt's dead so fuck her. I had trouble believing that Byleth would ever choose to save her after the crap she pulled. She even brought a sadist shitlord to murder the students. No wonder she is hated.
Lots of people have lots of reasons but I can't help feeling like a not-insignificant portion of the backlash toward Edelgard owes to her being a woman
Not to say that everyone who dislikes her is a misogynist, but I do think that if she were a man then she wouldn't be nearly as "divisive" as she is now—Walhart manages to have enduring popularity at least partially because he looks like Raoh, in spite of being both a worse-written character and a "worse person" (insofar as that label can be applied to fictional characters) than Edelgard
It's true that the backlash against her doesn't change the fact that she's probably the most popular character from the game, but I don't think that actually counters anything that I saidI don't think this is true at all. I do think there's some pushback against her due to the results of her fans ... being a little too enthusiastic in her devotion, however she is clearly the most important character in this game and the plot focuses on 100% her actions.
And I don't think your Walhart comparison works at all, Walhart is not nearly as important to Awakening as Edelgard to this game, and he's probably has 1/10,000 the popularity that she has.
Lots of people have lots of reasons but I can't help feeling like a not-insignificant portion of the backlash toward Edelgard owes to her being a woman
Not to say that everyone who dislikes her is a misogynist, but I do think that if she were a man then she wouldn't be nearly as "divisive" as she is now—Walhart manages to have enduring popularity at least partially because he looks like Raoh, in spite of being both a worse-written character and a "worse person" (insofar as that label can be applied to fictional characters) than Edelgard
Hm, you might be right. I do remember he did well in popularity polls back in the dya, and people still like their Raoh memesI'm genuinely confused as to where Walhart is considered someone with enduring popularity.
Lots of people have lots of reasons but I can't help feeling like a not-insignificant portion of the backlash toward Edelgard owes to her being a woman
Hm, you might be right. I do remember he did well in popularity polls back in the dya, and people still like their Raoh memes
But is that the only element of my post you take issue with, or is this a lead-in to say that you feel the general thrust of it is invalid?
Edelgard is:Lots of people have lots of reasons but I can't help feeling like a not-insignificant portion of the backlash toward Edelgard owes to her being a woman
Not to say that everyone who dislikes her is a misogynist, but I do think that if she were a man then she wouldn't be nearly as "divisive" as she is now—Walhart manages to have enduring popularity at least partially because he looks like Raoh, in spite of being both a worse-written character and a "worse person" (insofar as that label can be applied to fictional characters) than Edelgard
I'll agree there's definitely a sports fan factor to it, too, but I would be very hesitant to discount the way her gender informs people's reactions to her, and it's rare in the extreme that those (often unconscious) biases skew positive.Honestly, I think it's somewhat of the opposite situation. I think more people were more readily willing to get behind her considering she's a woman, and one of the first truly prominent female FE lords that wasn't a "choose your gender" avatar. (Sorry micaiah and erika).
But it's really hard to say, and I'd rather not stir shit in one way or another. I definitely don't put it past some assholes to hate her *because* she's a woman, like you see with Captain Marvel and the like, but I think Edelgard is a controversial character no matter how you slice it. I think what causes the divide is that you have the option of playing GD and (even more so) BL, both of which paint her in a far less flattering light. Add in the fact that she's easily the most most chosen route in the game, and you get some "sports" mentality where people who chose the two lesser picked houses are gonna have some silly fan resentment.
i find it funny that Hilda is the only classmate to question the overly amount of time Edelgard spents with Kronya. She knows what's up, and is the reason why you can't recruit her in the BE route.Edelgard had a hand in Jeralt's dead so fuck her. I had trouble believing that Byleth would ever choose to save her after the crap she pulled. She even brought a sadist shitlord to murder the students. No wonder she is hated.
Not really? Depends on your tastes
Jeralt also spends the entire time leading up to that telling you not to trust Rhea and the church and surprise, he was right.Edelgard had a hand in Jeralt's dead so fuck her. I had trouble believing that Byleth would ever choose to save her after the crap she pulled. She even brought a sadist shitlord to murder the students. No wonder she is hated.
didn't played Blue Lions yet i'm only on BE route ^^ so i wonder why he's not in the poll
Jeralt also spends the entire time leading up to that telling you not to trust Rhea and the church and surprise, he was right.
She isnt hated because of that, she is hated because how she does thatEdelgard is loved and hated because she's willing to do the work to shake up the status quo. Figures like that are rarely ever universally praised off the bat.
As I saidShe isnt hated because of that, she is hated because how she does that