okay, that's cute

Commander: Nobody can't touch her, she's mine

It's a lollipop, she's just licking it that fast/hard.

I mean, she is a lesbian after all, I assume

I'm pretty sure that's how it really happened

it was king crimson of course

I can ship it tbh

Oh yesss

This gains a little new context after reading chapter 172.

aaah Hanayamata! I suddenly miss this show.

Riko is going in for the kill!
She's hungry for a fallen angel hahaha

I mean I still keep rereading it, knowing it'll never update. The definition of insanity.

hey at least their ending is better than felix & sylvains’; what w felix refusing to get over himself & vanishing

i thought this was lysigard from the thumbnail; shame i haven’t seen any art of the 2 of them yet, the pairing has a fairly strong presence in the writing communities

Spoilers ahead for Fire Emblem: Three Houses:

Rhea’s nothing like a Captain Planet villain, IMO. She’s as tragic and sympathetic and complicated as Edelgard if not more so, though you only really find out her backstory at the end of Verdant Wind. I won’t say she doesn’t have some responsibility for the systemic evils of the game, but I don’t think it’s anywhere close to nearly all of it. (I guess some of this depends on how much power one perceives the Church as having, and IMO while it’s considerable it’s nothing close to absolute.) To me, the game makes clear that the main cause of those systemic evils isn’t so much one particular person as it is human greed and lust for power in general, but, if you’re going to pin it on one particular entity, IMO it should be Those Who Slither in the Dark. The actions of Rhea, Dimitri, and Edelgard are all rooted in their own trauma, and for all of them, the source of that trauma is, ultimately, TWSitD.

Anyway... to comment on the picture, I like it and I wish there was more out there for this pairing generally. I suppose the way it’s kind of incestuous from both directions but also technically not puts people off, though.

oh hey, a knight and a unicorn

Eh true that those who slither in the dark are way more obviously evil i'll give you that, but like, I just don't find myself very moved by Rhea's tragic backstory in conjunction to the atrocities and systems of inequity she very much, if not created directly, then at the very least allowed to perpetuate during her reign as superpope. it's what makes her a tragic and interesting villain to me, but not somewhat I really sympathize with or have any desire to side with. This is me personally and the general take I see floating around.

I'll defer to YMMV on this one, if people are into it thats their prerogative, but yknow i'm just speculating why its not the most popular

^ Well Sayaka's girlfriend (Haru) is actually Yuu (look up the cover to the 3rd volume of the light novels), so why not.

i'm a big fan of this artist.
The cigaretts really give this artwork some character~

Even Though I'm Not Popular, I'll Still Be Best Girl And End Up With Kuroki

aww no you can find someone better !

I like this ship personally. and the design of Sayaka's canon girlfriend, Haru, kinda validates my liking for it at least in the looks lmao

Then they have crazy rabbit sex

Eh, as you say it's a YMMV thing, but to me Rhea and Edelgard are on the same level of "villainy", and indeed parallel each other in a lot of ways. Both are tragic characters who are villainous in certain lights and heroic in others. Both had terrible things done to them by TWSitD, both lie about their true goals, both have sympathetic reasons for those goals, and both do some pretty terrible things in service to them. I sympathize more with Rhea ultimately because Edelgard's starting a war of aggression, imperialism, and working with TWSitD (and sharing their agenda when it comes to the "Children of the Goddess") is beyond the pale for me (also there's some disturbing implications to a number of the Crimson Flower endings, which are more pronounced in the original Japanese from what I've heard), but yeah, YMMV.

Basically, though, I think the relative lack of popularity for Byleth/Rhea comes mostly from a combination of a lot of people playing Crimson Flower first and not knowing the other side of the story, that the game makes it a lot more difficult to get to know Rhea as compared to Edelgard, that she's a powerful religious authority figure and that rubs some people the wrong way no matter what, and that the pairing with Byleth is sort of psuedo-incestuous.

Really dissapointed that she can't be s-rank with F!Byleth :(
She is stilla welcome addition to the Black Eagles tho, and I am glad that she has an A-support with Edelgard at least.

this is way more hot than it has any right to be