He really wants to be independent (and I want this for him too, UGH!) but his version of that is

taking what he knows, forming his own wild conclusions, and running them by NO ONE before bowling wildly ahead with them

the only thing he doesn't quite buy is that Rhea NEEDS to be MURDERED ASAP

everything else he's like yeah that checks out

AT LEAST THEYRE LIKE... genuinely telling him the truth as they know it fkaskdfjk

OH YEAH they're trying!! And I think its' good that they're being so open with him, a lot of what he's learning WILL make him more willing to work with them

not to make a war but to help consolidate their goals

It's just hard to contrast with a really aggressive empire in AM / VW where they immediately killed Rufus, framed Dimitri, and installed Cornelia in Faerghus

vs Edel and Byleth's "we would have left Faerghus alone completely if you hadn't sided with the church"

but no one has told him those tidbits from AM / VW so he's like WELL I GUESS

yeah if dimitri heard about that and challenged byleth on it she'd just be like "idk man that's not how it happened don't know what to tell you" while just like playing victorian cookie clicker or smth

it's got nothing to do with her

i'm fine treating our forced honesty thread as canon btw! this isn't anything she'd be evasive on if he directly pressed her about it

I will keep as many of them as possible, I'll hoard them like a gremlin

so YES PLEASE - I'm planning to put all of the threads I'm keeping into my (soon to be created) thread tracker so they just track with the rest of the CR

Byleth so utterly dismissive of Edelgard's actions in other timelines vs Dimitri trying to be responsible for EVERYTHING in EVERY TIME LINE

yeah like she has actual thought processes for why she sees it that way but if im being honest it mostly boils down to "you don't have all the facts" "which are?" "i love her"

at the end of the day

JS:LFKHWFLJDSKLEWF

you know byleth, fair

maybe someday dimi and byleth can realize... how much they each care abt edelgard

she's his only family left, he really does care about her at this point

(rufus can go get fucked)

also zero i love your reference to seiros vs nemesis that's good shit

ALSO ZERO AGAIN - I'm not going to have Dima ask about Duscur in /this/ thread because it is a less formal thread, but know he'll be at it soon

he's along for the ride of okay, we have to fight the true enemy of fodlan - twistd. they did duscur? hell yeah murder them all

wait you worked with twistd??? Kill Bill Ironside Siren Sound

LOOK, "WORKED WITH" IS A.... STRONG TERM

"prosecuted the war without their help while they held us all at fantasy gunpoint" is more like it dima

without much of their help in CF, but with a LOT of their help in other routes

but it all depends on what he's told - if he keeps learning only CF lore then maybe he'll buy it. maybe.

duscur related stuff doesn't really beget good decisions

Claude is coming with bread you idiot sandwich

felix should probably tell him more of the am side of things

but then he would have to

talk to him

talk to him

H:FUDSFHWESDF

HOW TERRIBLE FELIX

I don't mind that he hasn't been filled in on everything in full detail - I think its fun to see things naturally develop

let him really steep in that CF reality before telilng him about how he's somehow WORSE in his own timeline LKSDFJ:KLSFHEWF

god

AM / VW dimitri makes CF dimitri look like a respectible fellow just tryina chase some uppity kids off his lawn

HE KINDA.....DOES

he makes peace with how terrible he apparently is in CF and then hears from Sylvain/Felix/Claude about the other routes and is like FUCK GO BACK

wait nah he'll just accept that too

He is a whole different man in AM

GUESS HES THE WORST time to murder abt it

man is generous

For one thing, he bathes

hes three whole different mans in am

you mean CF?

:LKSFJiEWHFfSF true nug

I MEAN IN CF AHAHA

dimitri hitting the eject button an am dimitri like nope, nope, nope

but the eject buttons broken so he just has to deal with it

I don't think we even have anyone from endgame am so like. none of them know how their whole mess ends

CLAUDE KNOWS HOW YOU END IN HIS TIMELINE.......

claude just dumps out a knife drawer and that's his analogy for how dima ends

press f to pay respects

goodnight sweet prince

wraps him in bubble wrap and puts him in the attic

look, they don't KNOW he doesn't ALSO die in his own timeline

With the way he’s going at it, he’s certainly trying to

HAHAHAHA

protect him from himself...

byleth may have just laid the hell into him

it's a fair critique, especially of preskip dima who really does want to let EVERYONE have a voice

some people dont deserve a voice dimi

god here's dimitri like "oh how much of a shitlord am i in your timeline" about future/other routes and meanwhile byleth's just like "shut up shut up shut UP tell me nothing"

yeah they're VERY MUCH opposites in that way

anyway here's dimitri saying stuff he'll regret, more news at 10

in news that happens every day: pampered rich white boy throws his hands up and says "FUCK IT" when called on his priveledge

YOU REGRET IT YET, LINGUINE BOY

HE WILL REGRET HIS OWN WORDS he doesnt like that he's truly more interested in revenge than ruling but... here it is

i cant reply til tomorrow but i feel like he'll have a hard time even engaging in the conversation byleth is trying to have

which bites cos i want them to have it and ONE of them is always like "NOOOO"

anger though, dimitri speaks anger, so this will sure go /somewhere/

im losing my shit over the contrast between byleths current threads with the lords though bc her thread with edelgard rn is like. the softest shit on earth.

a vERY biased parent LMLASDSFSDFSD

Byleth and edelgard's threads are SO different for Dimitri too

Dimitri with Edelgard: oh no let me help you bb, please, do not fear
Dimitri with Byleth: fuck you and also die

byleth's like "i don't hate you" but i think the only time she's ever truly hated someone was seiros so her metric for this might just be broken fjklasjlgjkl

dimas lucky her metric is fucked

NEARLY BROKE THE TRUCE

HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW ABT IT NO ONE TOLD HIM

hubert is filling him in now but THATS not game canon so someone will have to do it again

Oh. Oh no.

"perceived"

tear him apart hubert

get 'im

"forced honesty" is learning how much of an act Hubert puts on

rubs hands together

took me a while, but have fun with that

dimitri: h
byleth and hubert:

HAHCIEICIDID its mutual

man hubert ur on your way to provoking him right out of that truce

lets all be honest if someone breaks it it'll be dima

Hu...bert's on his way to provoking several people out of the truce

There is no off switch for the goading

This is the good behavior

clockworkbrain: fantastic choice of image btw

"this IS the good behavior" lmao i love hubert