**In the afterlife** Leonie: Sir...I couldn't make your son leave the dark side... Jeralt: What dark side?! You tried to kill my son, you fucking bagel!
Leonie: wait, you weren't with the Empire? Byleth: I'm part of the Blue Lions, idiot! Leonie: ......oh......uh......could've said something BEFORE you stabbed me! Byleth: You were trying to kill me!
Katie Jones I love how she grows post timeskip. She's actually one of the few students who really questions the purpose of war and who seems deeply affected by it.
@@jesusislordandlovesyou3853 Because her father is neutral to the conflict so it would make no sense that she joined the war. Some rumors say that she died while trying to challenge the beast of her paralogue on her own.
I never saw that quote on Blue Lions thanks to Mercedes' intervention, but in Black Eagles she left me no choice. She ran to my army, and I was nowhere near Claude to force a surrender. I believe I had Lysithea kill her.
Jokes on you, I recruited 90% of Golden Deers in this route. Only Leonie was left and I kept her alive by luring her to Byleth with Nosferatu equipped. She survived 4 turns that Dimitri needed to reach Edelgard.
@@furfousir1420 if they survive the fight, will they appear in the Derdriu chapter? There's an archer backing up Hilda that I thought might have been Ignatz if I didn't kill him.
Lorenz: "Lay me to rest...in a manner that is befitting...of the nobility." Ferdinand: *dying nearby* "The same...only...make my resting place more glorious...with a monument to all my numerous accomplishments...because I....am....Ferdinand Von Aegir."
Isn’t it interesting how when you kill an important character elsewhere, it plays the sad music and whatnot, but in To War At Gronder, it doesn’t? It shows that it’s a ruthless battle and I feel makes the deaths even sadder.
Yep. When I got to A-level support between her and Byleth, my soul was crushed because it basically answered my question as to why I never saw her re-appear in the other routes. It's all but explicitly stated that she takes her own life.
@@boethia7367 It's always possible that she succumbed to the beast within as a result of her tainted bloodline but after her support with Byleth... it's pretty cut and dry what happened.
Ferdinand’s death quote changes if you kill Ladislava before him. It’s something along the lines of a more general ‘keep this place protected’ message.
Didn't care much for Ferdinand, until my recruited Dorothea commented on it after the battle. "We killed Ferdie professor. He used to be our friend. Do you remember those days?"
@@Anonymos185 the delivery of that line is amazing. it's super haunting. I wish there were more lines like that. That's the only one like that I know of.
Claude's reaction to Hilda probably gets me the most. He counted on her abandoning him. She didn't, out of loyalty, and it got her killed. Claude is both wrong, misjudged his friend, and now totally alone.
Right? Such a good moment for her because it shows that she doesn't back out when her friends are in danger (which you might assume from how unreliable she is in most other scenes), and her death is one of the only times Claude drops his facade of flippancy and really lets his grief show.
@@hooray4paradiddlesit hits harder when you realize Hilda during academy phase said she doesn't want to die for protecting her friends but then in AM and CF, she literally did the opposite and protect Claude even if it means her death. Especially in CF tho where you have to kill her but then you had the choice to spare Claude, which made it even worse that you spare Claude but killed all of his friends, he's left alone again just like he did during his childhood
Agreed. Lysithea alone is one of the larger factors that makes ch17 difficult to keep everyone alive. Personally, Blue Lions route was my first route what I played while not knowing how to recruit anyone.
That moment when you choose the Blue Lions as your first route, but don't even bother recruiting ANYONE... and after the timeskip... you're hit by the harsh reality... 💔💔💔💔💔
Oh, you think that's something huh? Try Black Eagles route while not recruiting anyone else, THAT@S what you call racking up a (potential) body count! Hell, it's easier to list who never runs the risk of being killed in that route, all 3 of them.
@@jpmagnus6909 I played the Black Eagles route after the Blue Lions' (Shocking, I know), and I became determined to recruit as many students as I can. But I did watch a video about the death of the people you don't or CAN'T recruit. The most heart-wrenching thing about that? When you attack them as Byleth, most of them show utter hatred towards you...
@@Hanin_Isa especially the Blue Lions. The scary one is Rhea though, from how she starts talking to Byleth calmly one moment to full on scenery chewing the next.
@@Hanin_Isa for me, one of the biggest emotional sucker punch interactions is Byleth talking to Mercedes before fighting her. Seriously, Mercedes is one of those characters you would always feel bad about killing, thank God Marianne never shows us post time skip if you don't recruit her.... then again, the theories about why she doesn't show up...
Honestly, every death except Hubert broke my heart. In my blue lions play through I recruited Linhardt and Dorothea and avoided Caspar and Petra like the plague on the maps so as not to kill them.
@@abigailsolomon4148 petra actually wiped me out. I lost all my Divine Pulses on her, because I was out of gambits and in Hard Mode, she has 120 avoid, it's crazy. even hubert breaks my heart. and obviously edelgard if I feel that way towards hubert. And hanneman and Manuela join Edelgard if you don't recruit them, and that also hurts a lot. what a game.
@@abigailsolomon4148 You say that....but my Dimtiri annihilated her so hard at Gronder I was actually kind of annoyed when she showed up in Enbarr. Her evasion and speed were high, so I used Atrocity for a OHKO. And then Dimitri crit while activated his crest. 507 damage yo. Petra was way out of the way at Enbarr so she was the only Black Eagle to live. I wanted to spare Dorothea as well but I couldn't lure her out of that fire orb...
@@katrinajagelski318 Wait what? Oh shoot...I'm doing an Azure Moon playthrough where I basically don't recruit any of the faculty (Alois, Manuela, Hanneman, Cyril, Shamir & Catherine). It's February and NONE of them have showed up, so I guess this means that I have to face them all based on your comment :(
@@Ninjaananas What's Edelgard excuse for not giving a crap about Bernadetta dying at Gronder, tho? At least Dimitri's "excuse" is that he's not mentally sane/dealing with PTSD. But why does Edelgard not care about sacrificing Bernadetta?
@L.N. 1. Edelgard did not sacrifice Bernadetta. Bernadetta was never meant to die there. She even has a fire trap layed out to potentially stop people from attacking her while she can safely attack them back. Mind that Bernadetta's tile is the only one not on fire. 2. Edelgard does care a lot about Bernadetta. When you kill her, you can see how Edelgard is visibly saddened. This is much more of a reaction you got from either Claude not Dimitri at Gronder.
You must recruit every possible student to: KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM! Anyone else as you heart is content! Posdate. I hope eldegard is murdered by a critic of dimitri or byleth
my first time playing Azure Moon, i didn't want to force the Black Eagles to choose between me and their nation. i haven't gotten to the war during any of my second playthroughs yet, but i think this time i'm going to recruit people who's ideals don't align with Edelgard....and maybe Petra, too....
No one seems to be saying it so I will-Petra’s voice actress is CRUSHING this. She sounds genuinely heartbroken. The way she begs for Edelgard’s forgiveness as she dies kills me (but maybe bc I know Petra is best girl)
Strike The Furry makes me cry all the time as far as unrecruited students deaths go my list is this Lysithea’s Death (Azure Moon) Mercedes’s Death (Crimson Flower), Flayn’s Death (Crimson Flower), Hilda’s Death (Azure Moon And Crimson Flower) Ashe’s Death (Crimson Flower) I would say Verdant Wind but I Spared him, Petra’s Death(Azure Moon), Annette’s Death (Crimson Flower) Bernadetta’s Death (Azure Moon And Verdant Wind if not recruited but only a monster would do that), Ingrid’s Death (Crimson Flower), Felix’s Death (Crimson Flower) if you can’t tell killing unrecruited students hurts me the most in Crimson Flower And Azure Moon for the most part obviously it would probably hurt to see Claude Die in Azure Moon since Gd was the first house I chose and I’m almost done with my Verdant Wind Playthrough as i’m typing this reply.
The Golden Deer ones hit really hard... especially because they're literally all pointless. Claude attacking the Kingdom Forces, especially Byleth, is ridiculous.
Honestly, that's probably what made me dislike Claude when I first played AM. He leads his army against the kingdom ... why? Why doesn't Claude focus solely on Edelgard alone? It's almost like Claude got his own allies/friends killed foolishly for no reason.
@@l.n.3372 Exactly. After playing Verdant Wind I think they could have written it as Claude getting his hands tied by Count Gloucester and told to kill Dimitri after what you did at the Great Bridge. At best, you caused a serious diplomatic incident attacking it. At worst? *You killed his son.*
@@Videokirby Ironically, AM Claude doesn't care much that Lorenz might have died at the great bridge chapter. He never even reacts to it at all in Gronder. My first route was AM and Claude left a really poor taste in my mouth. I played VW second, and I honestly liked Claude even less afterwards. Everything about him just hit the wrong notes with me. Spoilers below, just as a warning. For example, in chapter 13, the reunion, Dimitri's entire schtick is that he's so radically different now. He's like a different person who is fully ingrained with murder and violence. When he says "shall we go rat hunting?" it's supposed to show how far he's gone from the Dimitri we once knew. But Claude in VW reunion literally says they should go kill some bandits to, essentially, warm up their reflexes/muscles after eating lunch. WTF?! Is Claude a sociopath! Why is this acceptable from Claude to view humans - even bandits - as just warm up practice? That's so cruel and disregards human life if they're nothing but practice. Another example of double standards. When Dimitri chooses to prioritize the war/killing Edelgard, it's him being selfish since he's not saving Fhirdiad instead. But when Claude and Seteth decide to prioritize killing Edelgard to end the war sooner, without ever saving Fhirdiad, they're viewed as doing the right thing and are never doubted. Why is this acceptable double standards? I understand that Dimitri's (great) character arc involves him learning to stop prioritizing the dead over the living, and it's a good arc. But Claude and Seteth literally do the same thing: they both ignore Fhirdiad, only care about killing Edelgard to end the war, and they don't get called out for being selfish or for not caring about the kingdom. Also, Dimitri saves Claude and Derdriu in AM but Claude in VW can't be bothered to care about Dimitri or Fhirdiad. Yet, nobody acts like that's inhumane: it's simply fine for Claude.
When playing blue lions/golden deer you only have to recruit Ferdinand(and maybe Dorothea). I was able to go through a game without killing a single student other than Edelgard and Hubert.
Gotta love how Claude's reactions to his teammates' deaths are both "I miscalculated?! How!" and "actually heartbroken" Also, fanfic where Claude actually adopts Raphael's sister after this? Pretty please?
Out of the three, Claude shows both compassion after the death of his own house and students from other houses. In the map where you fight Edelgard, he's like: "We got the key to enter in the Throne room..." with a sad face after Petra's corpse disappears. Same for Dorothea. Edelgard, meanwhile, is like: "Kill every last one of them Blue Lions."
Lindharts yell before he does and his end quote fucking destroyed me. The same goes for Caspar and Dorothea. For gods sake they were all so precious and I A ranked them quick af.
When I played Azure Moon Caspar kept pursuing me. He eventually engaged my Byleth and said “did you have to kill a lot of your friends to get here?” I did kill some students at Gronder and oh boy did he put a hole in my heart
It's the way that map is set up, I'm actually in the middle of it right now - she's helping defend the harbor where Claude is located, but they're surrounded by the Imperial Army and Byleth, the Blue Lions, and the Kingdom Army are on the opposite side of the map.
I didn't recruit ANYONE on my first runthrough, which happened to be BL. This was basically my run in a nutshell, though I didn't kill anybody who wasn't an objective boss (I only killed those who the game explicitly forced me to kill). A nice extra challenge.
When I played through this route, I totally bypassed all the Golden Deer and just went straight towards Edelgard as fast as I could - some of them engaged my units but they weren't killed. This is my first time hearing Claude's lines watching his friends die... and his response to Lysithea breaks my heart. On this path, my fight wasn't with the Golden Deer so I just wanted them to survive.
Made glad i was able to recruit some of the black eagles.... *(ain't killing petra or dorey)* .... sadly I couldn't save Ferdinand....... Poor one out for the boy.....
@@UltimaXVI true. To an extent she does but dorothea is mostly dead inside for the entire war anyway *(at least that's a fair guess to make given she seems very upset about the war regardless of the side)*
Bernie & Petra are always my top priority with Ferdinand as well. I always try to spare everyone I can so I'll give everyone this tip: Use gambits since if they hit they are disabled for 1 turn so you should get enough distance away from them. I saved a few students with this
I never played a fire emblem game until three houses. I didn’t expect much from this game but in the end it really broke my heart having to kill the students I grew to love in the game.
On my BL run, I am so glad that I was able to recruit all of the kids from the Black Eagles because oh my God, my heart broke hearing Caspar and Dorothea...
This is why when I get to my blue lions and golden deer playthroughs they will be on new game plus so I can quickly recruit my 3 black eagle girls seeing them die is not an option
I picked Golden Deer as my first House, and I love all those dorks so much. I don’t know if I can bring myself to play the other routes without hurting any of them. 🥺
As someone who played the Blue Lions route, I was like "But I don't wanna kill you *cries and screams into the Joy-Cons.*" (I wasn't able to recruit nobody pf the other houses, but I recruited everyone from the monastery else)
As sad as it is, I wish more students were route locked and not recruitable. It makes the routes feel way too samey if you can just recruit 90% of them onto every route. The harshness of war also loses a lot of meaning when you've recruited 90% of the cast onto a single route, too.
A lot aren’t sensical either; Leonie and Ashe for example have good reason to not at all join the empire for their own reasons, and a majority of students have no excuse beyond “muh Professor”. It’s pretty stupid ngl
@@aquano1972 You'll hear no complaints from me. I don't think the game ever did a good job establishing why the Black Eagles even support Edelgard in CF itself. They all just feel like they go along with it but never actually express why they're fighting Edelgard's war.
Whenever I play a route, I usually either don't recruit at all or only recruit 2 students because recruiting everyone is simply the easy way out and I want to play what the devs intended
@@PeruvianPotato I usually just use the students of the intended house unless I'm doing a challenge run. And since challenge runs are meant to be difficult or meme, it makes sense to recruit in this case. For example, I did a magic only run of CF once. Using Petra or Caspar on this challenge would have been painful, so I benched them and allowed myself to recruit any magically inclined students to replace them on the team.
6:15 Dorothea: Dies Me: Oh no! Sweet Dorothea! Don't die! Don't let me alone! Do not leave this world! This is why I decided to recruit Dorothea and the other students, so I cannot kill them, because their deaths are so sad, especially the theme played called "The Dream is Over"...
@@somethingsomething7993 *mockingly* A commoner shouldn't berate a noble. I am neither commoner nor noble. I am a normal girl. I am actually Lara in real life,
"Make sure my funeral is fancy enough", really Lorenz? I love you but for someone who wants to go down in history so badly you really could've done better
Only time I rolled my eyes when Lorenz talked was when he mentioned that Claude asked Dimitri for help because he was there. I was like: "Lorenz, no...You're better than this..."
Ironically due to Dimitri and Claude's carelessness I killed way more Golden Deer students during Azure Moon than I did on Crimson Flower, where literally everyone from the house except Hilda survived. I didn't even recruit anyone on Crimson Fower except Manuela and Shamir.
I did the black eagle to Silver Snow route on my first playthough so I only came across Lorenzo at first. Then on my Golden Deer playthough, I recruited everyone but Ingrid and Ashe, though I was successful at getting them before the time skip. Now on my blue Lion playthough I've recruited everyone before the time skip and I plan to do the same for Crimson Flower route.
I'm the type to ignore all the students I didn't recruit because it hurts me to hurt them. I cried for a good hour or so when I accidentally faced and killed Ingrid in Crimson Flower in my first play through of that route.
I am glad that in my first playthrough I recruited all but 2 students(Ferdinand and Caspar) and in my 2nd I did recruit them all. I may do some no recruit runs to up the difficulty in future playthroughs tho.
Leonie “I did what I could captain Jeralt”
Jeralt : trying to kill my child?
She meets Jeralt in the afterlife and he's like "Why the fuck did you try to kill my son?!"
l3lueSky bro I know Byleth is like stay away from my father creep
and almost fcking succeded HOLY shit that was scary in the battle of gronder
**In the afterlife**
Leonie: Sir...I couldn't make your son leave the dark side...
Jeralt: What dark side?! You tried to kill my son, you fucking bagel!
Leonie: wait, you weren't with the Empire?
Byleth: I'm part of the Blue Lions, idiot!
Leonie: ......oh......uh......could've said something BEFORE you stabbed me!
Byleth: You were trying to kill me!
"I am helping Claude build the future of Fodlan"
"HERE IS SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN"
byleth be like "NANI" when he heard that
Dicks
That line was just too good
It's weird because Claude's motivations are actually the purest of the 3 Lords.
@@thefakejoey8549 yup
Dorothea’s death quote kills me she’s just so damn depressed post time skip no matter what route you take.
With how much she despise the war, I'm surprised she even participate in it.
Katie Jones I love how she grows post timeskip. She's actually one of the few students who really questions the purpose of war and who seems deeply affected by it.
Aye I absolutely love it too. I love how empathetic and kind she is and that despite her sadness and self hatred she still manages to keep going.
@@Jardrin It's mostly because she believes in her friends. She fights because she doesn't want anybody else to die.
Only thorns left on this rose.
byleth: im gonna kill alll the enemy students
marrianne: already beat you to it
latiosfreak ;(
I just now got this and now im big depressed......
Wait what happens to Marianne ?
Why does everyone thinks she commited suicide? Yeah she prayed to die but perhaps she just got killed or something.
@@jesusislordandlovesyou3853 Because her father is neutral to the conflict so it would make no sense that she joined the war. Some rumors say that she died while trying to challenge the beast of her paralogue on her own.
Damn Hilda’s quote and how Claude responded really hit, realising he’d lost everyone 😭
I never saw that quote on Blue Lions thanks to Mercedes' intervention, but in Black Eagles she left me no choice. She ran to my army, and I was nowhere near Claude to force a surrender. I believe I had Lysithea kill her.
Hilda straight up ran up and attacked Byleth, causing her own death. Meanwhile, Byleth got a crit. I was trying to avoid her, too...
@Bird Brain Note that was before Cindered Shadows came out. My female Crimson Flower route I spared Hilda... But not Claude... Whoops...
Man Lindhardt’s death quote was unexpectedly sad
Sully5246 he already knew he would die the same goes with dorothea
THAT DEATH QUOTE HIT WAY TOO HARD FOR ME I LOVE SLEEPING IN THE AFTERNOON
Do you know how mad I was when after killing most of the Golden Deers, that we ended up helping Claude out later on?
Those deaths were in vain!
you can spare all of them if you avoid them attacking them, ignats and lysithia are a pain too stop them from suicideing
Jokes on you, I recruited 90% of Golden Deers in this route. Only Leonie was left and I kept her alive by luring her to Byleth with Nosferatu equipped. She survived 4 turns that Dimitri needed to reach Edelgard.
The problem with that map is that Claude decides to attack you even when your focusing on Edelgard. So blame him.
@@furfousir1420 if they survive the fight, will they appear in the Derdriu chapter? There's an archer backing up Hilda that I thought might have been Ignatz if I didn't kill him.
I know. Such horrendous writing
Claude got so depressed when everyone died. It made me so sad! Also, Raphael killed me!
Lorenz: "Lay me to rest...in a manner that is befitting...of the nobility."
Ferdinand: *dying nearby* "The same...only...make my resting place more glorious...with a monument to all my numerous accomplishments...because I....am....Ferdinand Von Aegir."
Byleth: *has to fight old students*
“HeRe Is SoMeThInG tO bElIeVe iN”
Isn’t it interesting how when you kill an important character elsewhere, it plays the sad music and whatnot, but in To War At Gronder, it doesn’t? It shows that it’s a ruthless battle and I feel makes the deaths even sadder.
@@noahavshalom2780what a trooper, bro had a last man stand Lol
Dorothea: at least kill me quickly
Byleth: gravely wounds her before blowing her back 5 feet
She jinxed it. Just about everyone else was hit w/ a critical
She almost killed him back, which was impressive
Also titled “angry saiyan man kills a bunch of high school graduates”
Overkillis using the god damn sword of the creator to make sure theirs nothing left of them.
Marianna’s like, can’t kill me if I killed myself during the timeskip.
Yep. When I got to A-level support between her and Byleth, my soul was crushed because it basically answered my question as to why I never saw her re-appear in the other routes. It's all but explicitly stated that she takes her own life.
@@AJR-zg2py OH wow. That Chews me up. Glad I recruited and married her now.
@@boethia7367 It's always possible that she succumbed to the beast within as a result of her tainted bloodline but after her support with Byleth... it's pretty cut and dry what happened.
It’s cool to see that Sublime Heaven has a different animation for Cavalry at least.
For Wyvern too. It's so cool to see Byleth spin the sword like he was Indiana Jones.
See it at 2:21. And Lysithea was nuked.
@@5577Step I mean lysithea would have nuked byleth if she survived, wth is that damage
Ferdinand’s death quote changes if you kill Ladislava before him. It’s something along the lines of a more general ‘keep this place protected’ message.
wrong, it goes by the line of: "I am Ferdinand von Aegir."
Lol u right
Yeah, and he mentions how he died protecting Edelgard too.
I got this line on my first playthrough
Ladislava kinda just detached Herself from her allies and flew right up to Byleth. How funny-
Bernie, Lysithea, Ralph,Hilda, and Dorothea just killed me. They put such emotion on this game
Didn't care much for Ferdinand, until my recruited Dorothea commented on it after the battle.
"We killed Ferdie professor. He used to be our friend. Do you remember those days?"
Kinda funny that she says that because I’m her C support with Ferdinand, she says she hates him.
@@Anonymos185 the delivery of that line is amazing. it's super haunting.
I wish there were more lines like that. That's the only one like that I know of.
Lindhardt tho
Dorothea's death scream is so heartbreaking that I decided to recruit her before the Time Skip
Claude's reaction to Hilda probably gets me the most. He counted on her abandoning him. She didn't, out of loyalty, and it got her killed. Claude is both wrong, misjudged his friend, and now totally alone.
Right? Such a good moment for her because it shows that she doesn't back out when her friends are in danger (which you might assume from how unreliable she is in most other scenes), and her death is one of the only times Claude drops his facade of flippancy and really lets his grief show.
@@hooray4paradiddlesit hits harder when you realize Hilda during academy phase said she doesn't want to die for protecting her friends but then in AM and CF, she literally did the opposite and protect Claude even if it means her death. Especially in CF tho where you have to kill her but then you had the choice to spare Claude, which made it even worse that you spare Claude but killed all of his friends, he's left alone again just like he did during his childhood
Dorothea: survives a hit and hits hard on Byleth. Byleth: ALLOW ME TO DEMONSTRATE
MY GOLDEN DEER FAMILY DESERVED BETTER THAN THIS. THEY'RE ALL TOO GOOD.
James C.
Except Lorenz
Awwwww, thanks !
Golden Deer is the best house, change my mind
Galaxydoesartz Golden Deer is best house you can _NOT_ change your mind
@@Darksaviour Especially Lorenz
Lysithea power is unreal, she could have killed you if she had the first hit lol
Dark spikes is a hell of a drug.
My Ashe can relate...
Agreed. Lysithea alone is one of the larger factors that makes ch17 difficult to keep everyone alive.
Personally, Blue Lions route was my first route what I played while not knowing how to recruit anyone.
Yeah, Lythesia was the first and only time I ever died with Byleth on my first playthrough.
@@willez99 Lysithea can't make Ch17 difficult if you recruit her
/insert that one temple tapping meme here
That moment when you choose the Blue Lions as your first route, but don't even bother recruiting ANYONE... and after the timeskip... you're hit by the harsh reality... 💔💔💔💔💔
Oh, you think that's something huh? Try Black Eagles route while not recruiting anyone else, THAT@S what you call racking up a (potential) body count! Hell, it's easier to list who never runs the risk of being killed in that route, all 3 of them.
@@jpmagnus6909 I played the Black Eagles route after the Blue Lions' (Shocking, I know), and I became determined to recruit as many students as I can. But I did watch a video about the death of the people you don't or CAN'T recruit. The most heart-wrenching thing about that? When you attack them as Byleth, most of them show utter hatred towards you...
@@Hanin_Isa especially the Blue Lions.
The scary one is Rhea though, from how she starts talking to Byleth calmly one moment to full on scenery chewing the next.
@@jpmagnus6909 No kidding 😰 the moment you decide to side by Edelgard, she immediately turns into a dragon and tries to kill you O_O
@@Hanin_Isa for me, one of the biggest emotional sucker punch interactions is Byleth talking to Mercedes before fighting her. Seriously, Mercedes is one of those characters you would always feel bad about killing, thank God Marianne never shows us post time skip if you don't recruit her.... then again, the theories about why she doesn't show up...
Raphael: take care of the Alliance
Claude after battle of Derdriu: let’s split up gang!
*_yOU GET AWAY FROM THE GOLDEN DEER RIGHT NOW_*
Honestly, every death except Hubert broke my heart. In my blue lions play through I recruited Linhardt and Dorothea and avoided Caspar and Petra like the plague on the maps so as not to kill them.
Petra is also just a really hard enemy to beat if you don't recruit her, mainly due to her high evasion rate and her personal ability
@@abigailsolomon4148 petra actually wiped me out. I lost all my Divine Pulses on her, because I was out of gambits and in Hard Mode, she has 120 avoid, it's crazy.
even hubert breaks my heart. and obviously edelgard if I feel that way towards hubert. And hanneman and Manuela join Edelgard if you don't recruit them, and that also hurts a lot.
what a game.
@@abigailsolomon4148 You say that....but my Dimtiri annihilated her so hard at Gronder I was actually kind of annoyed when she showed up in Enbarr. Her evasion and speed were high, so I used Atrocity for a OHKO. And then Dimitri crit while activated his crest. 507 damage yo. Petra was way out of the way at Enbarr so she was the only Black Eagle to live. I wanted to spare Dorothea as well but I couldn't lure her out of that fire orb...
I did the same thing with the BE route via the matchup of GD.
@@katrinajagelski318 Wait what? Oh shoot...I'm doing an Azure Moon playthrough where I basically don't recruit any of the faculty (Alois, Manuela, Hanneman, Cyril, Shamir & Catherine). It's February and NONE of them have showed up, so I guess this means that I have to face them all based on your comment :(
Claude: NO MY FRIENDS! HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?!
Dimitri:HOW DARE YOU!? ILL KILL YOU
Edelguard: welp ain't that a shame
Dimitri hardly cares when you kill his allies at Gronder.
Marth: replaceable find another.
@@Ninjaananas Not true :o
@@Ninjaananas
What's Edelgard excuse for not giving a crap about Bernadetta dying at Gronder, tho? At least Dimitri's "excuse" is that he's not mentally sane/dealing with PTSD. But why does Edelgard not care about sacrificing Bernadetta?
@L.N.
1. Edelgard did not sacrifice Bernadetta. Bernadetta was never meant to die there. She even has a fire trap layed out to potentially stop people from attacking her while she can safely attack them back. Mind that Bernadetta's tile is the only one not on fire.
2. Edelgard does care a lot about Bernadetta. When you kill her, you can see how Edelgard is visibly saddened. This is much more of a reaction you got from either Claude not Dimitri at Gronder.
And that's why, on the Blue Lions route, I've decided to....
RECRUIT EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!
...Except Hubert cause he's Edelgard's attack dog.
You must recruit every possible student to:
KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!
Anyone else as you heart is content!
Posdate. I hope eldegard is murdered by a critic of dimitri or byleth
ME TOO! mainly it was just to see everyone's support conversations though
you actually can't recruit hubert, just like dedue ( and hilda, if you're playing crimson flower ). but how dare you insult my vampire boy!
Same, will recruit *every last one of them* in all of the Routes
my first time playing Azure Moon, i didn't want to force the Black Eagles to choose between me and their nation. i haven't gotten to the war during any of my second playthroughs yet, but i think this time i'm going to recruit people who's ideals don't align with Edelgard....and maybe Petra, too....
No one seems to be saying it so I will-Petra’s voice actress is CRUSHING this. She sounds genuinely heartbroken. The way she begs for Edelgard’s forgiveness as she dies kills me (but maybe bc I know Petra is best girl)
She's the actress for Aqua in konosuba and yea she good
In my playthrough Lysithea got killed by the fire of a Demonic Beast, so Claude's words of her "burning brightly" were oddly literal...
Lysithea's death quote is heartbreaking
Strike The Furry makes me cry all the time as far as unrecruited students deaths go my list is this Lysithea’s Death (Azure Moon) Mercedes’s Death (Crimson Flower), Flayn’s Death (Crimson Flower), Hilda’s Death (Azure Moon And Crimson Flower) Ashe’s Death (Crimson Flower) I would say Verdant Wind but I Spared him, Petra’s Death(Azure Moon), Annette’s Death (Crimson Flower) Bernadetta’s Death (Azure Moon And Verdant Wind if not recruited but only a monster would do that), Ingrid’s Death (Crimson Flower), Felix’s Death (Crimson Flower) if you can’t tell killing unrecruited students hurts me the most in Crimson Flower And Azure Moon for the most part obviously it would probably hurt to see Claude Die in Azure Moon since Gd was the first house I chose and I’m almost done with my Verdant Wind Playthrough as i’m typing this reply.
Seeing claude sad face just breaks my heart
The Golden Deer ones hit really hard... especially because they're literally all pointless. Claude attacking the Kingdom Forces, especially Byleth, is ridiculous.
Honestly, that's probably what made me dislike Claude when I first played AM. He leads his army against the kingdom ... why? Why doesn't Claude focus solely on Edelgard alone? It's almost like Claude got his own allies/friends killed foolishly for no reason.
@@l.n.3372 Exactly. After playing Verdant Wind I think they could have written it as Claude getting his hands tied by Count Gloucester and told to kill Dimitri after what you did at the Great Bridge.
At best, you caused a serious diplomatic incident attacking it.
At worst? *You killed his son.*
@@Videokirby
Ironically, AM Claude doesn't care much that Lorenz might have died at the great bridge chapter. He never even reacts to it at all in Gronder.
My first route was AM and Claude left a really poor taste in my mouth. I played VW second, and I honestly liked Claude even less afterwards. Everything about him just hit the wrong notes with me. Spoilers below, just as a warning.
For example, in chapter 13, the reunion, Dimitri's entire schtick is that he's so radically different now. He's like a different person who is fully ingrained with murder and violence. When he says "shall we go rat hunting?" it's supposed to show how far he's gone from the Dimitri we once knew. But Claude in VW reunion literally says they should go kill some bandits to, essentially, warm up their reflexes/muscles after eating lunch. WTF?! Is Claude a sociopath! Why is this acceptable from Claude to view humans - even bandits - as just warm up practice? That's so cruel and disregards human life if they're nothing but practice.
Another example of double standards. When Dimitri chooses to prioritize the war/killing Edelgard, it's him being selfish since he's not saving Fhirdiad instead. But when Claude and Seteth decide to prioritize killing Edelgard to end the war sooner, without ever saving Fhirdiad, they're viewed as doing the right thing and are never doubted. Why is this acceptable double standards? I understand that Dimitri's (great) character arc involves him learning to stop prioritizing the dead over the living, and it's a good arc. But Claude and Seteth literally do the same thing: they both ignore Fhirdiad, only care about killing Edelgard to end the war, and they don't get called out for being selfish or for not caring about the kingdom. Also, Dimitri saves Claude and Derdriu in AM but Claude in VW can't be bothered to care about Dimitri or Fhirdiad. Yet, nobody acts like that's inhumane: it's simply fine for Claude.
@@l.n.3372Claude is a child who only learns his actions have consequences in routes other than Verdant Wind.
Claud was a paranoid mess since he kept bamboozling everyone in the academy phase he thinks that everyone is out to get him
This video is exactly why I recruited as many students as I could. I am too weak to see them die like this.
First playthrough, I had no idea it'd be this painful
I wish i knew this before my first playthrough bc i haven't even bothered recruiting someone
Unknowingly recruited 95 percent of the students while not even realizing shit lioe this would happen
I am so glad
5:02 lol Linhardt's face is halfway buried through the pavement
Plot twist: Lindhart is actually an Ostrich.
@@GenshinLover283 You are talking about my husband
the pavement is just a pillow to let him rest
I guess I’m recruiting everyone. Because this video just made me sadder as I saw everyone die.
When playing blue lions/golden deer you only have to recruit Ferdinand(and maybe Dorothea). I was able to go through a game without killing a single student other than Edelgard and Hubert.
SAME! every playthrough the students are getting recruited.
yeah well, you still gotta kill the house leaders so good luck on that
@@bartoszmanikowski7480 You mean Petra. Dorothea is easy to avoid.
@@kellyjohana516 No. I recruited Dorothea on my every playthrough. I wasn't just sure about her, becuase she was my unit on "no killing" playthrough.
At least you got a brave bow from bernadetta.
ironic, oof
The hardest choices require the strongest wills
Edelgard really burned Bernie's corpse
@@androxity8615 I didn't even realize that-
Gotta love how Claude's reactions to his teammates' deaths are both "I miscalculated?! How!" and "actually heartbroken"
Also, fanfic where Claude actually adopts Raphael's sister after this? Pretty please?
Out of the three, Claude shows both compassion after the death of his own house and students from other houses. In the map where you fight Edelgard, he's like: "We got the key to enter in the Throne room..." with a sad face after Petra's corpse disappears. Same for Dorothea.
Edelgard, meanwhile, is like: "Kill every last one of them Blue Lions."
All of this are freackin sad, but watching Dorothea and Caspar dying just kills my heart.
It's even sadder when you realize that in certain routes some student's deaths instantly become unavoidable
Lindharts yell before he does and his end quote fucking destroyed me. The same goes for Caspar and Dorothea. For gods sake they were all so precious and I A ranked them quick af.
Byleth: I must set a good example to my students
Also Byleth: HeRe iS soMeThInG tO bEliEvE iN *just slaughters his kids*
When I played Azure Moon Caspar kept pursuing me. He eventually engaged my Byleth and said “did you have to kill a lot of your friends to get here?” I did kill some students at Gronder and oh boy did he put a hole in my heart
*crying* Please, not Ignatz! And Raphael! And Lysithea... and Hilda... and Claude! Not my people!
How about me?
@@Arkensius1157 ESPECIALLY not you! ;-;
Why am I a bee please tell me Dorothea
Seeing my Golden Deer killed is just heartbreaking 😢
worldsboss Same 😭 Especially Lysithea’s Death in Azure Moon cuz Lysithea is my daughter.
That's the reason I will recruit everyone.
An imperial soldier killed hilda 😂
That level of disrespect is maximum
XD
It's the way that map is set up, I'm actually in the middle of it right now - she's helping defend the harbor where Claude is located, but they're surrounded by the Imperial Army and Byleth, the Blue Lions, and the Kingdom Army are on the opposite side of the map.
I didn't recruit ANYONE on my first runthrough, which happened to be BL. This was basically my run in a nutshell, though I didn't kill anybody who wasn't an objective boss (I only killed those who the game explicitly forced me to kill). A nice extra challenge.
Same 😭
The beginning and thumbnail hurts me
I can tell.
When I played through this route, I totally bypassed all the Golden Deer and just went straight towards Edelgard as fast as I could - some of them engaged my units but they weren't killed. This is my first time hearing Claude's lines watching his friends die... and his response to Lysithea breaks my heart. On this path, my fight wasn't with the Golden Deer so I just wanted them to survive.
I cried at Bernadetta’s death. She’s too cute. That’s why I always recruit her no matter what.
Made glad i was able to recruit some of the black eagles.... *(ain't killing petra or dorey)* .... sadly I couldn't save Ferdinand.......
Poor one out for the boy.....
Dorothea: "And Ferdie was there. We killed Ferdie, Professor, he used to be our friend. Do you remember those days?"
@@zip9916 can still hear those words clearly
@rar991 Considering how the game puts a lot into their supports, you would think Dorothea would just completely shutdown after that battle
@@UltimaXVI true. To an extent she does but dorothea is mostly dead inside for the entire war anyway *(at least that's a fair guess to make given she seems very upset about the war regardless of the side)*
@@zip9916 I made her kill him in that battle. Her attack quote is along the lines of "You used to oppose her at every turn. Now look at you."
If you used Dimitri to kill everyone, then it takes the Kill Every Last One Of Them meme to a whole new level
Wow that Dorothea scream can rival the Wilhelm scream.
What about Constance
linhardt went to sleep for the last time
Bernadetta.....
I can't let this happen, I must recruit her
edit: she has been recruited btw
That's why I never let it happen. She's always a top recruiting priority whenever I start a new playthrough.
Bernie & Petra are always my top priority with Ferdinand as well. I always try to spare everyone I can so I'll give everyone this tip: Use gambits since if they hit they are disabled for 1 turn so you should get enough distance away from them. I saved a few students with this
Yeah I'm farming affinity with her for this reason
0:51 This line hurts more after Ferd’s VA passing away.
Oh, interesting! On Verdant Wind, Petra ends up in the palace instead of the streets!
“I’m sorry... I wasn’t able to save you.”
CLAUDE LOOK AT YOUR STATS B
Thanks for the video, since I'll never see those lines on my playthroughs.
0:51
I would say that I'm here after hearing the sad news of Ferdinand's voice actor
R.I.P Billy Kametz
I never got to see most of these since i just use the warp staff to skip over them xd, poor ferdinad and lorenz though.. have to kill them :/
Lorenz can be recruited. Or if you're me, you can recruit him twice. 800 renown down the drain.
@@bearfaery737 I'm pretty sure you have to recruit him in order to be able to recruit him back.
Lorenz: "Lay me to rest...in a manner that is befitting...of the nobility...."
Me: *Chucks his body in a mass grave with an unmarked tombstone.*
Why would you do my boy dirty like that? 🥺
I never played a fire emblem game until three houses. I didn’t expect much from this game but in the end it really broke my heart having to kill the students I grew to love in the game.
Makes me glad I recruited everybody on my first run. Of course, Hilda refused to join my house until THE LAST DAY.
0:52
Ferdinand was my number one unit in my black eagles run
That hit me hard
3:58 ...my heart...it's broken
the way their screams echoed when they die made me so sad :((
...and this, friends, is why you recruit everyone...
...to save yourself emotional pain. ;-;
Every single one of these broke my heart since I love the characters too much to see them die
Those screams kill me every time I hear them...
1:38 poor Raphael he knows that he's already lost
SoC Crit on Wyvern is *crazy*
Damn, Byleth be popping off with these crits
this is exactly why I work so hard to recruit all of the other students from the other houses or try and do their paralogues when they come up
On my BL run, I am so glad that I was able to recruit all of the kids from the Black Eagles because oh my God, my heart broke hearing Caspar and Dorothea...
Me: tries not to cry
Me: cries a lot
I love how Bernie was the only one who didn’t get hit with crit from byleth (from the ones that were attacked by byleth)
This is why when I get to my blue lions and golden deer playthroughs they will be on new game plus so I can quickly recruit my 3 black eagle girls seeing them die is not an option
What about our king Ferdinand von Aegir?
And the chad Lynhardt?
Damn that crit animation with the sword of the creator on wyvern lord is really dope
"Here is something to believe in!"
The horse does 360 jump.
I picked Golden Deer as my first House, and I love all those dorks so much. I don’t know if I can bring myself to play the other routes without hurting any of them. 🥺
As someone who played the Blue Lions route, I was like "But I don't wanna kill you *cries and screams into the Joy-Cons.*"
(I wasn't able to recruit nobody pf the other houses, but I recruited everyone from the monastery else)
I'm so grateful I recruited each and everyone without fail in NG+
As sad as it is, I wish more students were route locked and not recruitable. It makes the routes feel way too samey if you can just recruit 90% of them onto every route. The harshness of war also loses a lot of meaning when you've recruited 90% of the cast onto a single route, too.
A lot aren’t sensical either; Leonie and Ashe for example have good reason to not at all join the empire for their own reasons, and a majority of students have no excuse beyond “muh Professor”. It’s pretty stupid ngl
@@aquano1972
You'll hear no complaints from me. I don't think the game ever did a good job establishing why the Black Eagles even support Edelgard in CF itself. They all just feel like they go along with it but never actually express why they're fighting Edelgard's war.
Whenever I play a route, I usually either don't recruit at all or only recruit 2 students because recruiting everyone is simply the easy way out and I want to play what the devs intended
@@PeruvianPotato
I usually just use the students of the intended house unless I'm doing a challenge run. And since challenge runs are meant to be difficult or meme, it makes sense to recruit in this case.
For example, I did a magic only run of CF once. Using Petra or Caspar on this challenge would have been painful, so I benched them and allowed myself to recruit any magically inclined students to replace them on the team.
I only recruit if it would make sense like Sylvain to BE since he hates crests so much.
6:15
Dorothea: Dies
Me: Oh no! Sweet Dorothea! Don't die! Don't let me alone! Do not leave this world!
This is why I decided to recruit Dorothea and the other students, so I cannot kill them, because their deaths are so sad, especially the theme played called "The Dream is Over"...
Stop calling me a bee
@@somethingsomething7993 No!
@@Arkensius1157 I am the most diligent worker so it makes sense but a commoner shouldn’t berate a noble
@@somethingsomething7993 *mockingly* A commoner shouldn't berate a noble.
I am neither commoner nor noble. I am a normal girl. I am actually Lara in real life,
Dude, if you kill Raphael, Claude doesn't take care of Maya :c
"Make sure my funeral is fancy enough", really Lorenz? I love you but for someone who wants to go down in history so badly you really could've done better
Only time I rolled my eyes when Lorenz talked was when he mentioned that Claude asked Dimitri for help because he was there. I was like: "Lorenz, no...You're better than this..."
What do I do if I legit cried at the Golden Deer's deaths and Claude's reaction to everyone dying
Homururu 🌙 Don’t worry your not alone I burst out crying when I saw Lysithea’s Death gets me every time cuz that’s basically killing my Daughter.
Luckily the only ones I didn't get in Azure moon were Lorenz and Caspar, it would've killed me having to kill Petra or Dorothea
Unlucky that you did not get Caspar since you need him and Mercedes to unlock a paralog and get an extra scene with death knight
@@SilentXTMR thanks for the tip
Students: *melancholy or hardened resolution at facing their childhood teacher in battle*
Byleth: ALLOW ME TO DEMONSTRATE
HERE IS SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN
My first playthrough in a nutshell and yes almost all of these made me cry and I feel even worse after learning more about them
Ironically due to Dimitri and Claude's carelessness I killed way more Golden Deer students during Azure Moon than I did on Crimson Flower, where literally everyone from the house except Hilda survived.
I didn't even recruit anyone on Crimson Fower except Manuela and Shamir.
I think it's to contrast how much of a bloodthirsty monster Dimitri is.
I did the black eagle to Silver Snow route on my first playthough so I only came across Lorenzo at first. Then on my Golden Deer playthough, I recruited everyone but Ingrid and Ashe, though I was successful at getting them before the time skip. Now on my blue Lion playthough I've recruited everyone before the time skip and I plan to do the same for Crimson Flower route.
I'm the type to ignore all the students I didn't recruit because it hurts me to hurt them.
I cried for a good hour or so when I accidentally faced and killed Ingrid in Crimson Flower in my first play through of that route.
I feel so bad for Claude :(
I'm so happy i was able to recruit most of them in my first blue lion run, because some of these "I don't wanna fight you" quotes just hit hard.
i will always recruit my dear bernadetta i’ll never have it in me to ever kill her.
Wow I didnt know the sword of the creator has different animations when using other classes
I am glad that in my first playthrough I recruited all but 2 students(Ferdinand and Caspar) and in my 2nd I did recruit them all. I may do some no recruit runs to up the difficulty in future playthroughs tho.
I'll sacrifice the interesting battles to save everyone I can, by recruiting them.