@ChristiJunior I replayed edelgards route this year and also had a totally different read on her character from previous playthroughs. Before I thought she was evil with an evil ideology, but this time it really struck me that she has no ideology at all. it’s most obvious with the character endings where she goes from “I’m gonna end the evil nobility system” to “actually all my friends can keep their noble titles and rule their domains as landed nobility” but also from jeritzas supports (these were of course added later) where you learn that she helped him set up his murder estate where he regularly brings in peasants to torture and kill to satisfy his desires. That and willingly being the muscle in the underground shapeshifting satanic jews plan to cull humanity isn’t really aligned with her alleged humanist ideology. No, what she actually is is someone who is totally incapable of seeing outside of herself, completely focused on avenging personal wrongs done to her but who sincerely believes this indicates higher moral thinking and not rank self gratification. In other words: she’s a woman, and the entire story is her having one long woman moment. A great lesson in why you don’t want a woman in charge of a superpower. Crimson flower is the medieval fantasy equivalent of a Hillary Clinton presidency.