#hershel Is reckless at times and he Is kinda stupid. but what started that whole stupid quest was 'buhh i cant be a good dad. Unless...' | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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it really truly and honestly sucks that hershel is a bad dad in canon. and you have to wonder how much of that is characterization vs the writing team being like "well this is a normal way to treat girls right?" (flora) or "uhh we need a story for our new game. how can we make our new character's story depend directly on someone else's" (kat) and its honestly sometimes really hard to tell which is which

#i believe that being a good dad is one of the core tenents of gentlemanry #and if not that. then at least the 'be kind to others' rule is applicable #hershel Is reckless at times and he Is kinda stupid. but what started that whole stupid quest was 'buhh i cant be a good dad. Unless...'#and its like? hes adopted. Hes literally adopted and he loves his parents and refuses to acknowledge bronev as his father because he Isnt.#why would he follow in the very footsteps that leon and desmond made when he saw how much damage they caused #its just. shitty writing. its level 5 being too scared to let kat have her own story and being to scared #too*#to let hershel grow as a person #but. we cant forget flora. im sure he spent lots of time with her off-screen but what we Do see is flora just begging to be included #begging to be a part of the adventure and to have fun. and its so heartbreaking #I believe hershel is a good man. I believe that level5 wanted him to be some legendary action hero in the anime and that they shook things #up to make it happen #but i also believe that flora deserved better. that hershel can easily get lost in an investigation and that more often than not the people #around him have gotten put in danger because of it #its just. a really complicated mess.#i guess its just. at least we have that 'hed taken a break from adventuring' line from when kat was 10.#at least we can hope he did his best for al and flora and kat #sighs. its character assassination and its character misinterpretation and its bad writing and its an excuse but its also. the mistakes of #the past but now even bigger. its original trilogy hershel wanting to serve the greater good and forgetting his family in the process #its ungentlemanly. and thats one of the worst things a true gentleman can be now isnt it

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