An Immaculate Analysis of Rhea: Fire Emblem 

Rhea: sees her entire race and family murdered. Players: why is Rhea so evil?

i so badly wish rhea was the lord of silver snow because it would’ve made her nuances so much more clear to people, many of which just see her as a one-note villain. while i think rhea is “worse” than edelgard in terms of the effect of her actions, she’s an incredibly compelling character in her own right and her depth isn’t explored nearly enough

I think the reason why Rhea is hated on is less because of her Character (she is pretty sympathetic and actually a good person, except in the end of CF), but more with the myth that the Pope or rather the Church was this all powerful institution that controlled the Kings and everything within Europe, which has been passed on by many enlightenment scholars and Protestants, who often slandered and exaggerated the evils of the Catholic Church, which is why we have mostly this overtly negative view on it(the Church is still corrupt, but not to the level people think it is). However in reality, Popes were nothing more than rulers of their own Papal state and have less authority over the Continent than the Kings of Europe, who often than not deposed Popes they didn't like and created many Antipopes( why didn't 3H Made Byleth in Edelgard's Evil route him an Anti-archbischop as new Class) to replace them with their own Popes and even Bischops, because the Kings have more influence on the laws than some guy in Italy. This would lead to the Popes being more of an ruler of their own Theocracy than shadow rulers of the Continent, which many people think it was, as the people were more loyal to their local Bischops and priest than the Pope, who lives far off land and might be the reason why the Western Church in the game was able to make Lords turn against Rhea. So in short it's more a stereotype that caused Rhea to be hated and less the things she does, heck how can people call her creepy for building a Mausoleum for Sitri, that goes too far for me. Back to the game, Rhea is actually very well written and a very good person, who wants to help the disenfranchised and protect the Innocent people, hence why she takes them within Garreg March and even allowed Outsiders to her Monastery to study and work in there. However her problem is the fact, that despite her best efforts, she is flawed and her attempts to quell Human Cruelty with Religion fails, because the power they received from Nemesis and the lie she created, not to rule Humanity, but to ensure peace as the devs revealed, allowed to use it inappropriately and this caused many problems within the Continent along with the Agarthan scemes that caused the mess in the first place. This is even seen in the where the Goddess left the world in disgust as she saw how Humans abused her powers, which is a very indirect way of Rhea to say that she doesn't approve of the way Humans have abused Crests and even if she stood up against it, the Nobility would Ignore her as they did, when the Church was kicked out and when they refused to believe that Nemesis was evil, as the devs revealed to us in their interview. While I do see the parellels with Edelgard and I do think that Edelgard would make the same mistakes Rhea made, Edelgard had fewer justifications for her actions, because Rhea never did anything to her nor is she the root for all of Fódlan's bloody history. Also I do believe Dimitri and Claude represent also many aspects of her Character, because like Dimitri, she also is haunted by the loss of her Kinsmen and devoted her life to save them and for their loss, which Dimitri later rejected, as he begins to learn to life for himself rather than for the Death. Claude also is in many ways like her, both want peace between all nations and give the people without status a place in society and seek to break the boundaries between the people, hence why she built the officers Academy in the first place. But where they diverge is that Claude believes the people should know the truth and that the people should break boundaries and not create them, like the abyss. Ultimately he would even begin to question,if the Church really is against the Outside world, when he sarcastically remarks to Lorenz, if this is truly against the Seiros teachings. Rhea is more a victim of Humanity than anything and that's what most of her dialogue and the game shows us

Wrt the technological bans - Manuela performs an autopsy on Jeralt and there is an anatomical model in Manuela's quarters. The Garrec Mach library is fairly indifferent to people borrowing books to the point where Hilda can sit on them for weeks as well as getting coffee rings on them. Edelgard is able to distribute her manifesto, indicating a printing press of some type. Oil barrels are used in battalion attacks. While it's true these were restricted at some point, they have progressed since those edicts were placed. Technology did indeed march on. Funnily enough, the most banned thing seems to be... saucy sexy smutty books of Seiros and Wilheim. Seteth does not like pornography of his sister one bit!!

Rhea and Edelgard are both at fault but at least Rhea has moments in most of the routes to reflect on her mistakes.

I realized just how easily Rhea could have became like other beings who wanted to rule over humans out of disgust and pity for them due to trauma or a belief of superiority.

Love the F.B.I moment in your intro.

Just realized this videos barely got any comments, views and ratings. Must be because it's not demonizing Rhea as Satan Spawn and praising our glorious messiah Edelgard. The transparency in this fandom really is suckish.

I love character analysis vids like these. Just makes me appreciate three houses even more.

I love fire emblem character analysis like this. Keep it up.

I don’t usually comment on videos, but these are great analyses of the Three Houses characters. Keep up the great work!

Hey, just came across this and overall, it's a pretty entertaining analysis, good job! Not many of those regarding Rhea tbh... However, I think I disagree with you on two things. First is the whole Rhea getting mad at Byleth's betrayal cause it's like her mother betrayed her. I don't really think that's the case. I mean, maybe it could be, but I imagine that if Rhea's line of thought was that her mother was betraying her, she would've instead been devastated and broken down crying, rather than just getting excessively angry. I think it's more that the whole thing just gave her a severe PTSD sort of attack. We know that it was Nemesis and his gang (all humans) who made her family's corpses into weapons. Here we had another bunch of humans attempting to steal the hearts of her brethren for their own gain, that must've been reactivating her trauma by a lot. Byleth betraying her was the stroke that broke the camel's back because they're literally siding with the person who just tried to ransack her brethren's tomb, and like it was shown in the video, she has some deep seated trauma with humanity betraying her, which is precisely what Byleth siding with Edelgard triggered in her and is in turn what caused her to get so angry at them (especially if we go by the narrative that they reached A-support before the Holy Tomb, which would imply that their bond was starting to be a pretty deep one and Byleth was starting to become a close friend to her). The other thing I don't agree with is the whole "weird incestous implications of marrying your dragon grandmother" because the game never actually said that, and I don't think that's the way it's meant to be seen. Not once did it frame Rhea as Byleth's "grandma", and neither did it ever say that they're related to one another. Yes, she created Sitri, but artificial/magical creation is not the same as conceiving, plus if it was truly "incest" then the game would've at least addressed it in the support, these are not the kind of things that IS just brushes off (and if it truly had been incest on *that* level, then I believe it wouldn't have even been an option in the first place. I mean, say what you will about Fates, but none of the Nohrian and Hoshidan siblings has S-supports with their respective half-siblings). Now, I don't want you to take this as me saying that your analysis is bad or poorly constructed, just saying that I didn't agree with some of your sentiments, but that's still just my personal opinion that I'm trying to express. Again, your analysis was good and I thank you for making it.

I really enjoyed your video and I think it was a great analysis, however I feel like some of the information in abyss’s library is outdated. One example is that although the library in abyss claims that autopsies are banned in Fódlan Manuela actually performs an autopsy on Jeralt’s body after his death and compares his wounds to her own from that time she was attacked by the death knight and discovers the knife used in their attacks was unique. She also has a Mannequin in her office that that shows a very detailed anatomy particularly their is a knife sticking out of the head. Another thing that is said to be banned are scopes but hanneman has a microscope in his office and actually describes using it to investigate your blood when looking into your crest. On the topic of of scopes astrology also exists in universe and the fact that the moon revolves around earth and earth revolves around the sun seems to be common knowledge implying that some people are studying space. Now this does not prove that telescopes exist but keep in mind that historically humans use to think the earth was flat before telescope and an Annette supports show she understands trigonometry when she calculates the curvature of the world to pull off an aerial magic attack the likes of which requires a vast knowledge of air resistance, where you standing while the earth is moving around the sun, gravity, and time. The printing press is also said to be banned and while newspapers aren’t a thing in Fódlan in a Hilda/Seteth support it implied that there is method of making books extremely quickly and passing and getting them out to the public. This further back up by the fact that in another Hilda support where she loses a ton of books and only gets a minor scolding for it which if books where really rare then she probably would have had to pay at least a small fortune for them. Lastly the oil there’s no implication that oil is something that is used in Fódlan but for some reason gunpowder seems to be okay because we see gun powder in battalions as well canons which are also describe to exist on Fódlan’s naval force. On that note I honestly could just be reading to much into this and or the developers could have added this information without realizing that they had supports/background information that contradicted it.

I also chose Flayn as my waifu and all I have to say is...yeah, that intro felt appropriate.

Why is he so underrated I like this

Dang! this channel is so underrated. Great Vid!

I WAS NOT EXPECTING THE MANGS JUMPSCARE! XD

I've been watching ur fire emblem discussion videos. I like them. Looking forward to the next one Great content

good stuff

Bro after Edelgard she is the most important character why is she not playable

That bit with Mangs aged well. Can't stand the guy at all.

is this a hit piece against mangs? i'm not entirely sure...

After all this time, I’ve always viewed Rhea in a negative light and I just can’t sympathize with her because of the way she does things. This is my personal opinion ofc, but I see her as sort of an egomaniac that loses it when she’s challenged/“victim”-villain. Inserting her long dead mom into Byleth never sat well with me and then seeing the way her system hurt some of my favorite characters made me sympathize more for the other Lords’ ideals than hers. But this is because I don’t have the full context on the Agarthans-why did they do the stuff that they did at the start of the game? I’ve sided with Claude twice in a row because I’m avoiding her like there’s no tomorrow. But after this (unbiased) analysis, I might give her another shot next time I start a new game. The fact that we can agree, disagree, and still have discussions up to this day really speaks of how well the game was written. Truly, there is no winning side here.

There’s just one moment in the story that (I think) exists in all the routes that truly bothers me with her character and I think gives a really good reason why Byleth shouldn’t follow her anymore after that point. The moment when he/she becomes one with Sothis, and is told to sit on the throne inside the holy tomb. My first playthrough I didn’t think anything of it, but my second time if you pay attention to her words, she was hoping you became Sothis. She ultimately never saw you as an actual person, but just a vessel to hold Sothis. In my opinion that’s really gross lol And yeah, the crimson flower route shows this more, but with evidence that it’s in every route, makes you question if she honestly ever cared for you as an actual person.