@whoelsewillihaveicecreamwith (hops over to a post for further discussion because i have many word)

the setting/character potential of fates is so good and then the game went and fucking butchered it all im so smad 😭 

anyways 90% of rewrite rn is crying over Corrin because you ever realize the white bread levels of bland self insert protagonist is only Like That because the devs didn't want to commit to having any too specific character traits or any actual noticeable character arc so they could remain a Self Insert and not step on anyone’s HC toes and yet are not ACTUALLY a self insert because we only make one (1) choice for corrin and they otherwise remain a central character that doesn’t have a character arc or sense of branching paths beyond which flavor of game you wanna pick which is fine for a background character but for the role corrin plays is absolutely abysmal

and then realize she has all the building blocks to be basically disney’s take on rapunzel but in a fantasy war setting with dragon powers. You know. Things I think about.

that other 10% is sifting through the script for lore like a raccoon in a rotting trash can and trying to figure out some sort of unifying arc/theme and more compelling plot happenings than “we went here and exposited” so that all this character work can actually go somewhere