Resolving the personal gaming crisis

                I forgot something important about Edelgard that I remembered browsing through my gallery of saved fanart.  On the outside, she is an angry, furious, refined young woman, inside, she is a sad, hurting small girl in desperate need of nonjudgmental companionship, which she doesn’t really get from anyone else on her team, the closest are Petra and Dorothea.  That’s why I haven’t wanted to play the other routes, that’s why I wanted to refine my first playthrough in New Game+, that’s why I want to play as her in Three Hopes and that, plus the fact that she’s bisexual, is why she’s so therapeutic.  I don’t have the money to save people from homophobic hate crimes, I can’t save people from abuse, but in this game, I can do something good that releases chains on my heart due to my inabilities that makes me feel better.  I am going to play the game, but it will be some time before I’m ready to play it, I’m exhausted from going through it a second time and my experiences in Metroid Dread and other games right now.  I do know I’ve gone over the line with Tara, I tweet at her way too often and she actually seems to prefer replies to the random stuff she posts, and right now, the front page of Twitter is too full of sniping, grousing and politics (both actual politics and baseball politics) to handle, so I don’t know when or if I’ll be back there.  However, I will post the Persona 4 Arena Ultimax screenshots and Three Hopes screenshots there so I can tag Tara and Laura Bailey, because Rise Kujikawa and Edelgard are major reasons why I like those series.  I also am interested in playing the Demon Slayer game that was announced yesterday (since Abby Trott, who voices Annette in Three Houses, might be in it, if it’s just in Japanese, I’ll likely skip it) and the new Xenoblade makes me really want to play Xenoblade Chronicles 2, not only to learn about Smash fighters Pyra and Mythra, but also “Welsh catgirl” Nia.  When it comes to upcoming, I’m going to add Three Hopes for certain alongside Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and Splatoon 3.