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courtney is making me think about putting sylvain gautier in a farmsim and it makes me happy, is the thing
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and also I'm thinking about a game mechanic for him/legally distinct him
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which is, so there's a friendship/approval/etc system, right
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when you talk to Legally Distinct Sylvain, at least at first he flirts with/hits on you in a pretty...overt and unsuave way
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as he does
Magical☆Gurll
man someday i'll run that farmsim jamjar
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and you have dialogue options for how to respond to the That
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so you can make sylvain gautier farmsim real
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he would be so happy doing things other than Kill and Reproduce
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and if you flirt back/take him up on it, he doesn't seem put off
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but you lose friendship/approval
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every time
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especially in sylvain's case if you're female
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but doesn't have to be
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reflecting how in fehthreh I read his supports as: he relaxes around women who are clear about not wanting to fuck him
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[sylvain gautier murder board goes here]
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anyway yeah he will flirt back but secretly he does not want you to and doesn't feel comfortable/safe around you if you do
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I think it would be fun to use a common game mechanic to indicate that there's something going on under the surface!
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nodding.......... i like this
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YEAH it's a pretty solid read to interpret a lot of his flirting as "yeah this is how I'm supposed to interact but it makes me very uncomfortable for reasons I don't understand and can't articulate. Don't encourage me"
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it's so hard to tell what he DOES understand
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He's wearing like three masks at a time
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my read is that he feels like he's on the defensive and comes out swinging for...reasons? to feel like he has some control?
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he's way smarter both Int and Wis-wise than he wants anyone to know
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see: Annette (what do you MEAN the math wasn't hard?!) and Dedue (oh yeah I thought everyone know Duscur was framed and it was just another thing we don't talk about)
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but I don't know...how well he understands that this is not normal
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especially since for the people around him, it kind of is
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the whole Crest Babies pressure
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YEAH like he's smart but I'd be hard pressed to imagine him articulating his gendered/sexed trauma as trauma
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Seeing as that's just How It Is
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I do think that shit has happened to him that is Worse than other people have had it, by any reasonable metrics, but it also
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looks the same on the surface, so how is he to know?
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clearly there are no written legal principles to guide him
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and it's soemthing we have trouble talking about in OUR culture, where we don't ahve baby pressure and openly acknowledge it as wrong
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YEAH I mean. You know all about the capacity of people to go "yeah what I went through is normal, everyone deals with this all the time" when their experiences are Not Universal. If Sylvain talked about his shit I imagine most of his peers would be horrified, however
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yes
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except Mercedes and Dorothea
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who are consciously going "same trauma!" with him by the end
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our culture DOES have baby pressure, but between hereditary aristocracy and there actually being genetic magic powers...
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and the church
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also we have a strong monogamy pressure that... i'm not sure some of the crest families are participating in, especially for the male crest bearers
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fuck lots of women! whichever you get pregnant first is your wife
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we have monogamy pressure because what's being passed down is property and political power, things that don't work well when divided
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crests, however...
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I'm quite sure that any woman who showed up and presented a Crested baby to the right noble house would get folded in as a cadet branch, no other requirements
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that's probably the only thing keeping the nobility from terminal inbreeding
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if the Crest is right, nothing else matters
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and Sylvain knows that all too well
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that's what made him the heir instead of his older brother