Holding fem Byleth very dearly right now
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Do you think she always got called doll-like as a child? Do you think when her body changed beyond her control the comment appeared more often? Do you think sometimes people stare and take a breath when she actually moves? Do you think in houses she doesn't go in the worship building because the coloured glass makes her look ethereal? That she no longer feels real? That the world around her feels so real, yet she doesn't? That she's always been isolated from the world, but now there is no way to bridge the gap because people did things to her body that she never even knew and in some routes never will know? You think she stays awake at night thinking about how nobody even tried to tell her? That even after the death of her father, her one protector, the people who did this to her still never told her and tried to use her. That because of politics and religion and her flesh, because her very heart, she will never truly get to close the social gap between her and the world.
Do you think she's finally happy in the end of houses Crimson Flower? That she finally feels like a real person? That she is free from the church? That when she looked in a mirror she cried to see her eyes and hair colour? That her body is under her control again?