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

^ I'm the only one to not see Yuu in Haru ? Like not at all, she look like more Yuu's sister if anything.

I love this more than i think i would

It's a lot more fun when it's not real.

^ ymmv on that one. I am sure you are not the only one though. Obviusly I have some bias so I may just be seeing what I want to see on Haru's design, but if Haru looks more like Rei, then wouldn't that still leave her looking a bit similar to Yuu?

Is it just me, or is it kinda silly to ask if it's possible for something impossible to do something possible for only possible... .. Ummm... Ow my head hurts now

Oh, Byleth is shorter

I had my monitor at the lowest brightness setting (too bright makes me uncomfortable) so at first I couldn't see the girls clearly

Well other than that,great art!

This is beautiful in every way <3

HILDA! HILDA!
what are we doing this for?

Are they... waltzing? With Morgan le Fay in a dress like that?

...Or they were about to dance, then realized that dress wasn't gonna work. And now they're just standing there awkwardly. Like,
A: "..."
M: "..."
A: "We should have seen this coming, huh?"
M: "Yep."
A: "..."
A: "Everyone is staring at us, huh?"
M: "Yep."
A: "..."
A: "Any idea what we should do now?"
M: "Nope."
A: "..."
M: "..."
A: "Wing it?"
M: "Wing it."

Thank you all for joining me for my pilot episode of "Bad Fanfiction Theater".

Public indecency

Ohhhh

^"After this they had lots of sex breeding."
...That doesn't work as well if the alternate word is synonymous with sex.

There's some great fuel for this in the game. They go on a life changing field trip, just the two of them, and a museum to rob.

@ CallMeDoja, bold of you to assume they're not running towards Kanan hahahaha

Arabian nights style nice.

It's The End Of The World As We Know It

And I Feel Fine

Being Mercedes is suffering.

Miiii is the king of rare ships for OGmas, so I'm not surprised he ships this
What I AM surprised though is that this specific art is from him. Didn't look like the usual art style to me. lol
(I found out shortly before finding out it is here)

Unrelated but I'm surprised no mainstream Yuri manga has ever had science/magic babies as a premise

Arabian nights style nice.

I would link to an appropriate music for that, but since I unfortunately can't find it separately, I'll settle for linking to the part of a video where the music I want to link to plays the video itself ain't bad either, tho only few of y'all, I imagine, would be interested

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so i got the game today. their cute