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Po: We’re back… sorry for the wait but the unawesome suffering through just reading the secondhand account took us out of commission for a while

No worries, but the next part is going to be rough.

Viper: On the pitiful state of women in power, Fire Emblem may have had questionable moments with their women, especially Echoes and the captured women syndrome, but at least they still earned respect from their allies and several became proficient queens in the end. Melomarc is sorely due for an Iron Widow level of razing and hostile takeover by a true girlboss like Wu Zetian.

Good point there, and - yeah, I wish I thought of that for the spork.

Crane: And then the slave crest part, good grief, the writer may as well tattoo “I’M AN ABUSER” on their forehead because in what reasonable, progressive universe is that ok? They need to watch our sibling film Prince of Egypt to truly understand suffering in slavery.

Tigress: The strange part is that a YouTube commentator made an excellent, logical point of why she still needs one. Because demihumans are considered lower-class in this setting, Raphtalia would still be mistreated or trafficked because of who she is. However, because of the laws of slavery, if she had the slave brand, harming her would be considered damage of property and/or theft. The Bible has some laws about how slaves are to be treated in a similar tangent. But no, they had to put an unhealthy, unequal love symbology to it. Make a friendship bracelet if you actually wanted something meaningful.

Indeed. Here, it's just...part of the fantasy.

Mantis: Man, if only I could exist in the timeline Square Enix sued the crap out of Shield Hero for the Chocobo knockoff instead of going after all the Live A Live let’s plays of the Middle Ages and Final Chapter.

Quite...

Po: You know, people give Nowi’s design from Fire Emblem Awakening flack for being one of the sexualized childlike characters that is justified by being thousands of years old, but at least she actually is mentally that old and it’s shown that she acts childish as a coping mechanism of how lonely she is and how she’ll outlive most of her friends. Everyone who complains about that thousand year old little girl has clearly never seen this. Can we be the inter-dimensional CPS and take her out of here?

That'd work!