It's amazing how quickly Bernie and Marianne got over the hurdle of "can these two shy girls even start a conversation" and hit it off, and they were really lifting each other up by their A-rank. ♥ Marianne finally has another female friend! And to think I'd never shipped Bernie with a girl before, either, though I don't know how much of that was me thinking of her as the token straight girl of the Eagles and how much of it was just down to all her old supports with girls coming across as squarely platonic. ^^;
Petra understanding Coco and relating to her was just the start of how much I loved that A-rank. It's almost certainly one of my favourite new ships from this game by this point; I even feel like it's giving my beloved Petra/Dorothea some competition!
I've always liked Petra a lot, but Hopes does such a good job of rounding out her character. Sharing her opinion on chivalry with Hubert, having such a great knack for picking up languages that Linny thinks she'd do well as a scholar... those and the Coco support really show what an intelligent person she is. Her new supports with Caspar are excellent as well; he very understandably doesn't want her or Leopold to kill each other, but at the same time, Petra is allowed to be angry and I loved how he offers to let her vent at him if she ever needs that outlet.
The Ashe/Yuri supports were a lot more serious than I expected them to be, though that might just be because I feel like supports in this game skew more towards the cuter side of things on the whole. That's certainly not a complaint either way; I loved their conversations and the supports successfully sold me on the ship after I'd mostly just thought they were a particularly sad missed opportunity in Houses.
Yeah, I can't say I don't see the Serge/Gilbert parallels in their dynamic. At least Ashe and Yuri don't really have an Auguste figure; Thales is the closest thing to one I can think of in this setting, but even he isn't a rapist or anything. (He clearly disregards bodily autonomy in other ways, though... poor Edelgard.)
tw: discussion of sexual abuse
Petra understanding Coco and relating to her was just the start of how much I loved that A-rank. It's almost certainly one of my favourite new ships from this game by this point; I even feel like it's giving my beloved Petra/Dorothea some competition!
I've always liked Petra a lot, but Hopes does such a good job of rounding out her character. Sharing her opinion on chivalry with Hubert, having such a great knack for picking up languages that Linny thinks she'd do well as a scholar... those and the Coco support really show what an intelligent person she is. Her new supports with Caspar are excellent as well; he very understandably doesn't want her or Leopold to kill each other, but at the same time, Petra is allowed to be angry and I loved how he offers to let her vent at him if she ever needs that outlet.
The Ashe/Yuri supports were a lot more serious than I expected them to be, though that might just be because I feel like supports in this game skew more towards the cuter side of things on the whole. That's certainly not a complaint either way; I loved their conversations and the supports successfully sold me on the ship after I'd mostly just thought they were a particularly sad missed opportunity in Houses.
Yeah, I can't say I don't see the Serge/Gilbert parallels in their dynamic. At least Ashe and Yuri don't really have an Auguste figure; Thales is the closest thing to one I can think of in this setting, but even he isn't a rapist or anything. (He clearly disregards bodily autonomy in other ways, though... poor Edelgard.)