I once heard someone say that the angriest people in the world are optimists, as one myself I've always agreed; and I think Dimitri is a really good example of why that is. When you're always thinking about the way the world should be, you're frequently disappointed by all of it's problems, especially since you know it can be better. Furthermore, seeing bad people make life worse for everyone else and getting away with it is especially frustrating because you blame those people directly for the problems in the world you feel could be fixed easily if it weren't for them. In Dimitri's case he's driven to madness by this constant disappointment because no matter what happens the world will never be the way he wishes it could. Even if he avenges his family he'll never have them back, even if he kills Edelgard and wins the war he'll have at the same time killed a childhood friend he used to care about deeply. He's frustrated by the injustices in the world he knows he can never fix, and so his only coping mechanism is to make the people he blames for these injustices suffer as much as possible, as the closest thing to ending those injustices he can do is making the people responsible for them suffer as much as those they've harmed.
100% agree with you on that. Its this contradiction between his soft hearted nature & deep hatred that is really one of my main reasons for loving his character so much.
@@worthywill9294 Even if Byleth's a silent protagonist (which is a bad thing already), he speaks in battle. What I want to say is that Byleth should at least speak when giving a dialogue reply.
i dont think i saw any evidence in the game that suggests psychotherapy existed. At most, only the advice box, maybe some herbs and we then we have mercedes.......the best therapist in the game imo.
Felix: "You act like fighting and killing people is your one and only purpose in life. That is why I think you are a disgusting boar." Also Felix: "Weilding a blade is my one and only purpose in life and I intend to fight and kill with it. If anyone thinks my way of thinking is disgusting then I don't care." Ah, yes, good. How very consistent and fair of you, Felix. (This is a joke btw. I know that the difference is that Dimitri becomes completely psychologically dominated by the misery of loss to the point where he snaps whereas Felix simply tries to lessen the pain by becoming a Political and (somewhat) Existential Nihilist. Still, both of them were determined to forge themselves into cold-hearted weapons as a direct result of the death/s of those close to them. Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I feel like Felix HugeSword FrickMyEnemies is the _last_ person who should get to call out Mr "Kill Every Last One of Them")
@@conspiracypanda1200 Felix also has his boar moments (whereas he kills anyone who will stand in his way) crimson flower Felix says so himself. Especially when you put him up against his childhood friends and his father, he tells them he will kill anyone even if they are friends or family :( He says this, but his portrait looks really sad and conflicted... also despite felix hating dimitri, i really believe he cares the most about dimitri (among the childhood friends). Because he never turned a blind eye or he saw his pain and how it changed him drastically.
@@ShinoaKoucho Yeah CF may have been an unglamorous route cutscene wise (seriously why is there no proper cutscene for the timeskip in CF what is this disrespect) but the lines from the students just before and immediately after the skip...hurt me. Felix acknowledging his own "boar"-like tendancies dug particularly deep, especially since I picked BL in my first playthrough. Still, every time Felix called Dimitri a boar my mind would scream "No, you idiot! You're only giving him a convenient label to hide behind when he innevitably snaps! Hostility and force don't change depressed minds; they can only solidify the feeling of worthlessness and reaffirm twisted self-analyses!" If only medieval fantasy worlds knew anything at all about psychology...
i feared for byleths life too but if there's one thing we can confirm from this compilation, he threatens Byleth and everyone but never actually harms any of you. During the thief/rat hunting, he's eager to kill all and tells you to not let any escape. (..but bruh if you experienced hard or maddening XD sometimes you kinda let them escape) i was surprised he doesn't blame you and get mad at you for it .
@@flavoredchin yeah the music actually really fits there. underlines the feeling of "oh my god this guy's mental state is so f*cked but we can't do anything about it now"
@@kl3321 Seconding. The complete dissonance between dialogue and music made me feel so uncomfortable and uneasy about the upcoming battle, far more than the dialogue would have alone.
fortunately, this is the meanest thing he will ever say to dedue..You can avoid this from happening if you agree with dedue (+support pts too) if you answer "you should rest" I only chose the other option here just to show how much he's becoming irritable with his progressing headaches :(
That's mistranslated. In original JP text he joked "Dedue you're sounding like you're my mum". JP version Dimitri is all about being eerily cheerful in the last 2 months before TS……
The other replies are right. In the original Dimitri said something like "who are you, my mom? lol". And this is just another reason to hate the localisation, along with so many other dialogue that they changed for absolutely no reason, or apparently "pc" reasons. While things often gets lost in translation, there are often better ways to phrase them and they somehow picked the terrible ones (I'm actually tempted to make a blog post just to list all the weird stuff they did lol). the others I let slide but NOT THIS ONE. HOW DARE THEY DO DIMITRI DIRTY LIKE THIS
I know! I may disagree with Dimitri on basically everything, and support Edelgard until the very end, but Chris Hackney’s performance as Dimitri is the best VA work I’ve seen in a video game, aside from David Menkin in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
I respect Dimitri’s voice actor so much for being able to make him sound like an innocent kind hearted prince one moment and an unhinged violent man who needs therapy in the next scene. It’s terrifying :D
Chirs Hackney actually didn't get to read the whole script ahead of time like the other voice actors. He was given it as they went, like Tom Holland (though for a different reason).
@@intensellylit4100 The developers thought it would make Dimitri's surprise more genuine. If you mean Tom Holland, he accidentally spoils a lot (or at least used to).
Ashen wolves: *Living underground completely unaware of this crap* Now makes me think if they stayed when garreg mach fell. Or where they went if they left.
Seriously. Dude's ranting about breaking her neck and hanging her head from the gates of Enbarr and she's acting like he blocked the doorway to the dining hall.
Who knew seeing your family being massacred, being betrayed by your only remaining family, fighting a senseless war, seeing a ton of villagers brutally murdered by zombies, thinking your best friend was executed, and having IMMENSE pressure to succeed on your shoulders would make someone prettyyy fucking messed up..
To me, Mercedes' smile seems... fixed. More a grimace. Like that "this is fine" meme. Dimitri's losing it in center stage, and Mercedes is all, 'This is fine, please let this be fine -- oh goddess this isn't fine.' Which adds another dimension once you finish her paralogue. [Spoilers] Dimitri isn't the only young man with a downward spiral she feels responsible for.
My brother, watching as Dimitri slips into madness: Why is he your favorite? Me, thinking about how I mercilessly pursued Kronya after she killed Jeralt, and how much overkill I did against her and Solon: I just think he's neat.
this is also why I love crimson flower Felix. In this route, He admits that he has become like the boar. He's one of the people (if not the most) who understands Dimitri especially his dark side. He also shows the most emotion in this route :(
I have such a hard time recruiting Felix. It makes sense (and he's an amazing unit), but all his non-AM endings are so miserable, and you can tell how much he regrets his actions.
I still find it funny that Dimitri says something like "I'll tear your limbs of so you will experience intense pain before I finally allow you to die" and the other Blue Lions just stand next to him like "Yup, that's a completely normal thing to say"
Dimitri’s dialogue has that anger that just feels too real to be taken lightly. Legitimately a great descent into madness that should be used as an example for other similar fall from Grace stories
Don't forget Chris Hackney's phenomenal performance. I deadass forgot for a split second on a few occasions that Dimitri was a video game character and not an actual teenager who was actually furious as all hell.
I remember Dedue talking about how the reason Dmitri turned insane is because of how kind-hearted he is, especially to the dead, which really made me like his character overall
In the post-timeskip Dedue says "He has always had too much compassion for the dead and the weak" to be a king, but later he says that "It is also why I choose to follow him".
He does it in his support with Sylvain. "You're out late, Sylvain. Is it safe to assume you've been wildly carousing with women? I'm afraid that behavior simply will not do."
This is personally why Dimitri is my favorite house leader his spiraling decent from a strong optimistic leader to a more fallen hero like structure. It's great how in the game it shows he feels guilty towards those he has killed too since he calls himself a monster it makes me happy Byleth can pull him out of the abyss of his own unresolved truma.
I think it’s important to remember that Dimitri is basically the Hulk. His crest makes him insanely strong, so much so that he breaks things by accident just trying to use them normally. So yeah, dude who can literally rip your head from your shoulders going into the depths of PTSD and insanity is pretty terrifying.
That he so often says he wishes Dedue would talk to him as a friend and equal, yet one of the few times he does so he hits him with a "Who do you think you are?" is...unflattering.
fortunately someone in the comments section pointed out this is a localization/mistranslation problem. Watch the scene again and look at his portrait. It doesnt match his tone of voice. It was meant to be a in a disturbed joking tone its kinda a bit out of character for Dimitri. He never once mistreated dedue so it really doesnt make sense. Dedue dying is even one of the reasons for him going insane.
the localisation is a bit iffy, the og japanese text had him be overly cheery in the two months before the flame emporer reveal. he was actually saying "who are you, my mom?", which is much more light hearted and jokey
God Chris Hackney killed it, he was able to clearly demonstrate the change in Dimitri with his voice, and he has an "insane" voice to rival Robbie Daymond.
very bad ptsd, a dose of psychosis, only really medieval levels of understanding mental health, the world he knows crumbling, the only person who fully understands his pain as well as the last of his family wanting nothing to do with him, and a blood magic canonically capable of giving him superhuman strength? yeah Dimitri was a ticking time bomb. I'm glad in azure moon he begins to recover, but it's sad you don't get that chance on verdant wind
I really am glad there wasn't a $20 "best possible route" DLC for this game like Revelations for Fates. Aside from Claude, you really can only save one of these Lords, and while the Silver Snow/Verdant Wind paths really are better for Fodlan in the long run since you dismantle the dubstep mole people... it always feels like you could have done more. You can save Fodlan, but not Dimitri, who arguably needs salvation more than anyone.
Chris Hackney's performance is off the freaking scales with Dimitri. I remember playing Blue Lions for the first time and actually having to put my switch down because I was getting emotional over seeing Dimitri go from this earnest and hardworking young man to someone who is literally unhinged. Chris Hackney portrays that slow descent to madness so convincingly.
i noticed her/his dialogue choices reflect their personality. There are 2 sides to byleth: the cold responses (ashen demon) & the kinder ones (academy byleth)
Something I dont see anyone talking about in the cutscene though that's amazing is the piano, it's very sporratic and uneven, very well audibly representing Dimitri's rapid mental descent upon seeing the Flame Emperor Unmasked, you can feel that feeling of shock and anger and crazed laughter through the music alone, it's incredible
As a schizophrenic myself I can say that his behavior was pretty spot on for a nice person who is schizophrenic. Growing up I tried to be a nice guy, whilst carrying all problems I had by myself. Eventually it seemed like it was one thing after another. Nothing in my life was going right. I felt like I was losing control of my life. I became irritable and delusional. I started threatening people similar to the way Dimitri did (actually got sent to the school counselor for threatening to tie someone to a ceiling fan by their veins). Until I eventually went completely insane and began hallucinating and could not think straight at all. I became very self-destructive and developed a crazy laugh that sometimes would happen uncontrollably when I was doing something immoral. Eventually, my best friend managed to get through to me and I became a better person. The road was long and hard to try to right the wrongs that I did and it took me a long time to forgive myself. Part of the reason I loved Blue Lions so much was because of how much I could relate to Dimitri. I have a feeling a lot of people who have suffered with mental-illness can relate to him to. Mental-illness can cause people to go into a downward spiral where they are not even themselves anymore and it is hard to get out of that hole.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who relates to Dimitri. The way he processes his grief harkens back to how I processed my own when I was younger. His portrayal of survivor’s guilt is damn near perfect in accuracy.
true! many people often miss that part!! (i put in another compilation because i found its funny) its funny to me because at first, Byleth is the one who wants to charge in. his support ups but he stops you. then they mention duscur, this time its him who wants to go out there lol
That cutscene where Dimitri goes feral and destroys those soldiers - *one of my favorites.* Dimi slays and I always thought it incredible - in a *this man's powerful* kinda way. But *this* reminded me of the conversation he had with Edelgard after and his reaction to entering the Battle of Garreg Mach, and I subsequently remembered *just how terrifying he can be.* Not the guy you want to fight. *At all.* *_Ever._*
Everybody in the comment section acting like Dimitri is a villain but I still think he is the most good of the house leaders, he's just the only one that goes actually insane for a period of time. Despite talking a lot about killing people, Dimitri in the end really had a vision of a world rid of the the rampant murder and injustice that it faced, where the weak and vulnerable were protected. I can see an argument for someone saying Claude is more good, but really Claude's vision is just to change the fabric of society and get people to understand each other, where as Dimitri is a bit more concerned with actually confronting evil forces in the world. (Not to say that Claude isn't interested in that, but Dimitri is also interested in making a more understanding and fair society, particularly for the people of Duscur.) Anyways, glad I played the Blue Lions first. Their campaign is awesome and the stakes in it crank the plot up to 11.
Chris Hackney is just too underated. He did such an amazing job! And it's not even the best of his work here! With timeskip Dimitri, he really gave his all.
Dimitri and Claude shows really well the duality of men, one is just chill and wants to end racism, and the other evolves into a cold blooded psycho to kill hot hitler
they're both amazing characters ❤ Claude is the most chill of the three and the most reasonable. Dimitri, his extreme sense of justice becomes too warped that he kills in cold blood....but at least, in the end he changes his mind and becomes compassionate again (but only in azure moon ☹️)
@DarkEternal6 He wanted to kill Edelgard because she started the war. You can't claim that Claude and Dimitri would have started a bloody war for any reason. And the idea that the sword of the creator would be used for a war when he is literally the smallest territory is dumb. There are hundreds of reasons to use the sword other than an all out war. Don't project Edelgard's ambitions onto them.
Because of byleth's impression at the prologue and the trailers, i thought he was gonna be a villain but he ended up as the tragic hero in his route and my favorite lord. Not your typical prince charming >,< also, can i please get a link or copy of your dimitri & byleth icon???? ;D
@@varinstar7 Edelgard wasn't a villain though This game is about a battle of grays There is no hero, there is no villain, only a war fueled by hatred Which is why this is the best fire emblem game
@@Hajilex ...She starts a continental war that tears it apart killing many in the process, how heroic. She has a point, but she's still a puppet for the evil mole people due to being told a falsified history by them. Apart of what she's doing can be considered heroic, but ultimately she's only one because the victor ends up writing history. Otherwise, she needs to be offed for the greater good TWSITD is a bunch of psychotic mole people that have been the root of a lot of problems both in the past and present. They've orchestrated many rhings manipulating them for their own gain while destroying the surface world, and they got nukes. Similar to Edelgard, Nemesis is used by them to kill their opposers which are dragons akin to gods. They're both responsible for the genocide of two races. They're absolutely villains. The church, one of the lesser evils, falsified history and forcing only that for centuries. They've deliberately stopped technological advancement, enfoece a class system that results in Edelgard's war among other issues, and is very zealous in exterminating those that oppose their beliefs. All of this is led by a person with severe mommy issues. It's quite telling when even if they still remain it is noted how they undergo several changes. Two of these are gray, but all of them are still evil in some way. There is definitely a villain.
As a half-French half-Asian, I always have a preference for the Japanese voice, but Dimitri's English voice actor ... Incredible ! We feel so much the madness side of Dimitri which resurfaces.
I really like 5:20 . I remember when I first heard this I was just like wait what? Chris hackney is just too good. (Sorry if I worded this a little weirdly. I Haven't talked to people in a long time)
me too! i honestly never choose this response most of the time because one thing i noticed about dimitri is that he responds well/better (support pts up) if you go with the kinder responses. Like choosing "are you ok?" instead of "what's wrong with you?" but at this point in the story, he's too far gone for that. But he still responds better if you say "we're in this together"
The first time I actually got scared of Dimitri was when there was a dialogue choice that didn’t seem to be very important but he absolutely snapped is is like HAVE YOU GONE MAD??? When you say innocent people die in wars all the time or something like that and the delivery in that line just had me like 👁👄👁 I was not ready for lil baby Dimitri to come for me like that
The way the BL house was presented as the dullest-looking one and then proceeds to pull the rug from under you with the best story out of the four routes is amazing
3:25 I never noticed it before but look at his facial expression as he takes down each soldier, he just has the same smile on his face the entire time, it's scary.
This is why you shouldn’t take your kids to work when you’re the king, and you’re on a diplomatic mission to another country. Especially when you’re outspoken.
I love how dimitri's post timeskip growl slips out every so often when he gets pissed. And as the pretimeskip keeps going you hear it more and more each chapter. Great bit of Subtle story telling and Chris should get an award for his performance here.
I couldn't help but laugh at his slow decline into madness while playing this 😂😂😂 First: because he's the last character that i expected to see go apeshit. And second: because every time he went on his psychotic rants, the only one on the blue lions that actually looked concerned was Dedue, while the rest just stood there in the background with an empty smile as if nothing was happening! 🤣🤣🤣
yeah i uploaded it separately (its actually from Faerghast's documentary) that part is very easy to miss :( I only ever encountered it in maddening) couldnt save every last one of them :( that was amazing voice acting tho!!
I once heard someone say that the angriest people in the world are optimists, as one myself I've always agreed; and I think Dimitri is a really good example of why that is.
When you're always thinking about the way the world should be, you're frequently disappointed by all of it's problems, especially since you know it can be better. Furthermore, seeing bad people make life worse for everyone else and getting away with it is especially frustrating because you blame those people directly for the problems in the world you feel could be fixed easily if it weren't for them.
In Dimitri's case he's driven to madness by this constant disappointment because no matter what happens the world will never be the way he wishes it could. Even if he avenges his family he'll never have them back, even if he kills Edelgard and wins the war he'll have at the same time killed a childhood friend he used to care about deeply. He's frustrated by the injustices in the world he knows he can never fix, and so his only coping mechanism is to make the people he blames for these injustices suffer as much as possible, as the closest thing to ending those injustices he can do is making the people responsible for them suffer as much as those they've harmed.
100% agree with you on that. Its this contradiction between his soft hearted nature & deep hatred that is really one of my main reasons for loving his character so much.
Yikes. Hate to see what I personally become in a real life timeskip then.
@@NalonB We're in the part that gets skipped right now, lol.
i like how ur name is guy of minimal importance but then they pin your comment here because it has an important message
Wow this is an incredibly based take
Dimitri: I will kill anyone should you ask it of me
Byleth: DID YOU LOSE THIS
i was looking for rhea's calming herbs
Oh yes, thank you for finding it Professor.
Was it dimitri's sanity?
@@mochiboni2560
Yandere
He needs his weeds
Dimitri: Makes a small grunt, making it evident that something is wrong
The Dialogue Options: *What is wrong with you*
ikr that response is so insensitive 😆
I _think_ that was meant as a "What's wrong?" kind of question, but yeah, it certainly gives off a completely different impression :P
That's another reason Byleth should be fully voiced, at least when giving these responses
@@brauliozt8754 sadly, ppl cried for a silent protagonist.....
@@worthywill9294 Even if Byleth's a silent protagonist (which is a bad thing already), he speaks in battle. What I want to say is that Byleth should at least speak when giving a dialogue reply.
Its because everyone keeps making him the dancer class
"curse you professor"
"you have damned us all"
Dancer Dimitri? People really do that?
It's funny, but damn bro that's the best unit in the game you're making dancer
@@Longboardguyy exactly best unit in the game and a dancer. What else do you need
@@joeyle9015 This man understands enemy phase is where the real action happens
progressively watching dedue get more and more concerned in the background
meanwhile anette is just smiling
@@ShinoaKoucho Mercedes too
lol even Felix was smiling.
@@sowianskiwojownik5973 Felix is smiling because Dimitri just keeps proving him right
Everyone else: :,) send help out lord needs therapy stat
Time for three houses Guess Who!
“Are they emotionally stable?”
“Yes”
“It’s Claude”
It's a 50/50 between Claude and Raphael for sure
@@troIIdier The only reason Raphael is mentally stable is because he doesn't even have enough brain cells to know what mental stability is. Lol.
@@majesthijmenii1976 He's just a simple man living a simple life. I envy him, honestly.
Lmao😂😂
Bahahahahaha
The title should be called: red flags that Dimitri need therapy and medication.
i dont think i saw any evidence in the game that suggests psychotherapy existed. At most, only the advice box, maybe some herbs and we then we have mercedes.......the best therapist in the game imo.
Shinoa Koucho well Dimitri show it needed to be invented
@@starmaker75 yeah...
@@starmaker75 💀💀💀
he needed rheas herbs
Alt title: Felix was right all along
iS THiS SoME KInD oF TwISTeD JoKE!!!!!!!!!??????
Felix: "You act like fighting and killing people is your one and only purpose in life. That is why I think you are a disgusting boar."
Also Felix: "Weilding a blade is my one and only purpose in life and I intend to fight and kill with it. If anyone thinks my way of thinking is disgusting then I don't care."
Ah, yes, good. How very consistent and fair of you, Felix.
(This is a joke btw. I know that the difference is that Dimitri becomes completely psychologically dominated by the misery of loss to the point where he snaps whereas Felix simply tries to lessen the pain by becoming a Political and (somewhat) Existential Nihilist. Still, both of them were determined to forge themselves into cold-hearted weapons as a direct result of the death/s of those close to them. Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I feel like Felix HugeSword FrickMyEnemies is the _last_ person who should get to call out Mr "Kill Every Last One of Them")
Aromaseraphy Lavender *boar* *_beast_*
@@conspiracypanda1200 Felix also has his boar moments (whereas he kills anyone who will stand in his way) crimson flower Felix says so himself. Especially when you put him up against his childhood friends and his father, he tells them he will kill anyone even if they are friends or family :(
He says this, but his portrait looks really sad and conflicted...
also despite felix hating dimitri, i really believe he cares the most about dimitri (among the childhood friends). Because he never turned a blind eye or he saw his pain and how it changed him drastically.
@@ShinoaKoucho Yeah CF may have been an unglamorous route cutscene wise (seriously why is there no proper cutscene for the timeskip in CF what is this disrespect) but the lines from the students just before and immediately after the skip...hurt me. Felix acknowledging his own "boar"-like tendancies dug particularly deep, especially since I picked BL in my first playthrough. Still, every time Felix called Dimitri a boar my mind would scream "No, you idiot! You're only giving him a convenient label to hide behind when he innevitably snaps! Hostility and force don't change depressed minds; they can only solidify the feeling of worthlessness and reaffirm twisted self-analyses!"
If only medieval fantasy worlds knew anything at all about psychology...
I love how all the BLs just sit there and smile at Dimitri as he clearly demonstrates that he's unhinged.
Everyone else is smiling 'cause they don't know what to do about this. Felix is smiling because he's thinking, "Heh, yep, I was right."
Be supportive or the crazy king will cut our heads off
@@serronserron1320 Literally what happens to Rufus in Three Hopes, lol.
they’re just like: “hee hee he’s so silly sometimes”
@@_Just_Another_GuyGot stabbed lmao😂
Alt title: Byleth fearing for her life and Dimitri's sanity for 5 minutes
i feared for byleths life too but if there's one thing we can confirm from this compilation, he threatens Byleth and everyone but never actually harms any of you.
During the thief/rat hunting, he's eager to kill all and tells you to not let any escape. (..but bruh if you experienced hard or maddening XD sometimes you kinda let them escape) i was surprised he doesn't blame you and get mad at you for it .
More like: Sasuke's unrelated counterpart going mad with vengance.
Fearing for Dimitri's sanity? You cannot fear something that doesn't exists
Dimitri: ranting about killing stepsister while having a mental downward spiral
*Triumphant Music Playing*
I think that really cements how fucked up his mental state is getting.
@@flavoredchin yeah the music actually really fits there. underlines the feeling of "oh my god this guy's mental state is so f*cked but we can't do anything about it now"
@@kl3321 Seconding. The complete dissonance between dialogue and music made me feel so uncomfortable and uneasy about the upcoming battle, far more than the dialogue would have alone.
I like to imagine every scene where Felix doesn’t appear, he’s just in the background, drinking some tea, knowing what’s about to go down.
Smells like Boar in here
"I called it guys, I told you so! But noooo, 'stop being a Sasuke, Felix!'"
Felix: "But this is none of my business~" (sips especially bitter Almyran Pine Needles tea)
Sylvain and Ingrid: (double facepalm)
Felix while drinking tea: "yep... s**t's gonna go down".
I laughed when felix said to lock the boar up
Damn, he even snaps a bit at Dedue. That's just mean, Dimitri.
fortunately, this is the meanest thing he will ever say to dedue..You can avoid this from happening if you agree with dedue (+support pts too) if you answer "you should rest"
I only chose the other option here just to show how much he's becoming irritable with his progressing headaches :(
@@ShinoaKoucho This is a bad localization, the original dialogue is just him complaining dudue acting like his mother with a joking tone.
@@shirleyg171 woah you're right. I checked out 1:38 his portrait isnt angry
That's mistranslated. In original JP text he joked "Dedue you're sounding like you're my mum". JP version Dimitri is all about being eerily cheerful in the last 2 months before TS……
The other replies are right. In the original Dimitri said something like "who are you, my mom? lol". And this is just another reason to hate the localisation, along with so many other dialogue that they changed for absolutely no reason, or apparently "pc" reasons. While things often gets lost in translation, there are often better ways to phrase them and they somehow picked the terrible ones (I'm actually tempted to make a blog post just to list all the weird stuff they did lol). the others I let slide but NOT THIS ONE. HOW DARE THEY DO DIMITRI DIRTY LIKE THIS
Just found out that failing to save the villagers would trigger a hidden dialogue where Dimitri gets really mad.
"I WILL CUT YOU TO SHREDS"
I feel that voiceline. Not saving a single civilian is unacceptable.
@@theoverpreparerlamenters3r436 Save the hapless villagers? What have they ever done for me?
Talking to who? Byleth?
@@sadrabbit53 to the enemy
@@manuelmateo3392 They get you prizes at the end.
God, Dimitri's voice actor did incredible.
I know right?
I know! I may disagree with Dimitri on basically everything, and support Edelgard until the very end, but Chris Hackney’s performance as Dimitri is the best VA work I’ve seen in a video game, aside from David Menkin in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
@@maxrichards3881 who else does he voice
@@michaeljames6737 Boey from shadows of Valentia
@@michaeljames6737 Simeon from Octopath Traveler
I respect Dimitri’s voice actor so much for being able to make him sound like an innocent kind hearted prince one moment and an unhinged violent man who needs therapy in the next scene. It’s terrifying :D
It's like if you fused Eliwood and Karel in one body.
Chirs Hackney actually didn't get to read the whole script ahead of time like the other voice actors. He was given it as they went, like Tom Holland (though for a different reason).
@@eric_moore-6126 what reason
@@intensellylit4100 The developers thought it would make Dimitri's surprise more genuine.
If you mean Tom Holland, he accidentally spoils a lot (or at least used to).
Dimitri: Is this some kind of twisted joke?!
Edelgard: 👁️👄👁️
Edelgard: ...in a cosmic sort of way, yes.
Claud in the background: **Breakdancing**
Ashen wolves: *Living underground completely unaware of this crap*
Now makes me think if they stayed when garreg mach fell. Or where they went if they left.
Seriously. Dude's ranting about breaking her neck and hanging her head from the gates of Enbarr and she's acting like he blocked the doorway to the dining hall.
@@MsAnimefan95 lmaoooo ikr?
Who knew seeing your family being massacred, being betrayed by your only remaining family, fighting a senseless war, seeing a ton of villagers brutally murdered by zombies, thinking your best friend was executed, and having IMMENSE pressure to succeed on your shoulders would make someone prettyyy fucking messed up..
THANK YOU
you mean by sister in law right?
@@luckexsit1218 Yeah, I meant that
@@luckexsit1218 it’s actually stepsister
Oh guess your right
Anne was the only one whose face legit showed "are...are we SURE we wanna bring him?"
To me, Mercedes' smile seems... fixed. More a grimace. Like that "this is fine" meme.
Dimitri's losing it in center stage, and Mercedes is all, 'This is fine, please let this be fine -- oh goddess this isn't fine.'
Which adds another dimension once you finish her paralogue.
[Spoilers]
Dimitri isn't the only young man with a downward spiral she feels responsible for.
Felix smiling in the background: "See, told you so"
@@zhengwenyu1587 I know right?
Ingrid is like, “bro, chill” and “Dedue, this isn’t working. Use a frying pan”
Imagine if he didn't miss his spear throw
"Thank you for playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses."
*outro plays*
"Reach for my **SPEAR!!!**"
Imagine if Byleth didn't just stand there waiting for Rhea to order them to kill Edelgard.
Lmao!!! good one
@@MsAnimefan95 imagine if Byleth at least used divine pulse to tell Dimitri “AIM SLIGHTLY TO THE RIGHT!”
He missed on purpose. He wanted to kill Edelgard with his bare hands
My brother, watching as Dimitri slips into madness: Why is he your favorite?
Me, thinking about how I mercilessly pursued Kronya after she killed Jeralt, and how much overkill I did against her and Solon: I just think he's neat.
Sameee
My brother asks me the same thing
Yeah
I felt PISSED that Solon denied my revenge.
LITERALLY SAMEEE
This is why I always recruit Felix in every route. The dude is practically the only one who knows what he's talking about.
this is also why I love crimson flower Felix. In this route, He admits that he has become like the boar. He's one of the people (if not the most) who understands Dimitri especially his dark side.
He also shows the most emotion in this route :(
Don't get me started we he engages battle with Dimitri, That conversation was just as unbearable to listen to as Mercedes and Annette.
I have such a hard time recruiting Felix. It makes sense (and he's an amazing unit), but all his non-AM endings are so miserable, and you can tell how much he regrets his actions.
@@toriwork8891 not if you pair him with bernie, the worst thing that happens to him then is involuntary bondage.
@@michaualtington He gets along very well with Annette too ^_^ Happily ever after at the monastery in VW!
I still find it funny that Dimitri says something like "I'll tear your limbs of so you will experience intense pain before I finally allow you to die" and the other Blue Lions just stand next to him like "Yup, that's a completely normal thing to say"
3:48
Dimitri : Ok, Edel... I have a question.
Edelgard : Ok well--
Dimitri : That's crazy bro, but I don't remember asking.
Dimitri’s dialogue has that anger that just feels too real to be taken lightly. Legitimately a great descent into madness that should be used as an example for other similar fall from Grace stories
Don't forget Chris Hackney's phenomenal performance. I deadass forgot for a split second on a few occasions that Dimitri was a video game character and not an actual teenager who was actually furious as all hell.
Wow towards the end he started to really frighten me
My favourite part of all of this is the awkward blinking and staring of the Blue Lions when he goes unhinged lol
They’re all trying to silently signal “send help he needs it” lmao
Help this kid and his homies
1:55
**dimitri talking about how he's gonna destroy everyone**
annette: >:(
I remember Dedue talking about how the reason Dmitri turned insane is because of how kind-hearted he is, especially to the dead, which really made me like his character overall
In the post-timeskip Dedue says "He has always had too much compassion for the dead and the weak" to be a king, but later he says that "It is also why I choose to follow him".
I’ve seen honey badgers with more chill
Claude took all of Dimitri & Edelgard's chill XD
Shinoa Koucho facts
@@ShinoaKoucho and he still had to borrow more, I wonder who else? Probably everyone in twsitd.
Gotta love the completely blank Annette just standing there listening to him rant about killing people
Annette: "Be strong, Annie. Be strong for Mercie!"
You have to feel bad for the guy. He lost his entire family then he found out that his (cousin, sister?) was behind all of the terrorist attacks
Sister-in-law teaming up with the Uncle-in-law(?) who actually caused everything
@@YingofDarkness step sister, and step uncle. In-law would have to have dimitri's non existent brother marry edelgard.
@@raikkel9516 That's it! It is all a bit confusing. Thanks!
She wasn't.
sister in law,and Edelgard wasnt the one who did this
Everybody gangsta until Dimitri crosses his arms.
Also, you need more subs. Here's one for your level up!
Dimitri crossing his arms and saying SILENCE is such a mood 😆 Thank you for the sub 💗
He does it in his support with Sylvain.
"You're out late, Sylvain. Is it safe to assume you've been wildly carousing with women? I'm afraid that behavior simply will not do."
@@Fulgore2005
Dimitri is just salty cuz his bedroom shares a wall with Sylvain at the academy. Dimitri knows what happens in that bedroom.
Reminds me of Anakin Skywalker slowly descending into the Dark side
Dimitri:the Nintendo/fire emblem anakin Skywalker
They made that reference in the Tinder emblem vid
Explains why I like him so much, tbh.
So you think Dimitri killed some Empire Younglings during the timeskip.
Maybe if they were thieves, or as he called them, rats.
This is personally why Dimitri is my favorite house leader his spiraling decent from a strong optimistic leader to a more fallen hero like structure. It's great how in the game it shows he feels guilty towards those he has killed too since he calls himself a monster it makes me happy Byleth can pull him out of the abyss of his own unresolved truma.
Fallen hero Eh? *looks at feh*
I love how Dedue is just looking at him like “bruh calm down”.
I'M ALWAYS IN CONTROL PROFESSOR :)
dedue: you seem...unwell
Dimitri: IM SO HAPPY I CAN HARDLY CONTAIN MYSELF :)
same energy as IM COMPLETELY CALM katara
I think it’s important to remember that Dimitri is basically the Hulk. His crest makes him insanely strong, so much so that he breaks things by accident just trying to use them normally. So yeah, dude who can literally rip your head from your shoulders going into the depths of PTSD and insanity is pretty terrifying.
Chris Hackney's the best. That's all.
That he so often says he wishes Dedue would talk to him as a friend and equal, yet one of the few times he does so he hits him with a "Who do you think you are?" is...unflattering.
fortunately someone in the comments section pointed out this is a localization/mistranslation problem. Watch the scene again and look at his portrait. It doesnt match his tone of voice. It was meant to be a in a disturbed joking tone
its kinda a bit out of character for Dimitri. He never once mistreated dedue so it really doesnt make sense. Dedue dying is even one of the reasons for him going insane.
I think the line is less referring to his position as prince, and more dedue telling him to disobey his family.
yeah I wish they hadn't changed the translation on that one.
@@ShinoaKoucho
And Dedue returning is one of the earliest signs that Dimitri's original self is still in there deep down.
the localisation is a bit iffy, the og japanese text had him be overly cheery in the two months before the flame emporer reveal. he was actually saying "who are you, my mom?", which is much more light hearted and jokey
Dimitri: talking about the voices in his head
All the blue lions staring at him: Damn shauty, you okay?
Woaahh I never saw that last one, but it is so impressive!! Dimitri’s voice actor did a very excellent job like howww
Dimitri becoming Darkmitri
Annette is just happy vibing with her friends 👀 4:34
Felix at 4:20 is nice.
@@hiroshi7025 he’s smiling cause he knew he was right
God Chris Hackney killed it, he was able to clearly demonstrate the change in Dimitri with his voice, and he has an "insane" voice to rival Robbie Daymond.
3:21 ok but imagine if he hadn't missed. It was a stationary target, so there was a pretty decent chance of him just ending the game right there
very bad ptsd, a dose of psychosis, only really medieval levels of understanding mental health, the world he knows crumbling, the only person who fully understands his pain as well as the last of his family wanting nothing to do with him, and a blood magic canonically capable of giving him superhuman strength? yeah Dimitri was a ticking time bomb. I'm glad in azure moon he begins to recover, but it's sad you don't get that chance on verdant wind
I really am glad there wasn't a $20 "best possible route" DLC for this game like Revelations for Fates.
Aside from Claude, you really can only save one of these Lords, and while the Silver Snow/Verdant Wind paths really are better for Fodlan in the long run since you dismantle the dubstep mole people... it always feels like you could have done more.
You can save Fodlan, but not Dimitri, who arguably needs salvation more than anyone.
ok but when he said "i don't recall giving you permission to speak" the massive bde
2:52
Byleth: “Can I get a waffle? Can I please get a waffle?”
2:32 you know shit just got real when they start saying bastard instead of dastard
☠️☠️☠️
😭😭😭😭😭
4:20 Felix's smile here just completes this scene for me, he knew he was right from the start and now it's being proven before our very eyes.
PLSDKFJK i just noticed that 😭😭
Chris Hackney's performance is off the freaking scales with Dimitri. I remember playing Blue Lions for the first time and actually having to put my switch down because I was getting emotional over seeing Dimitri go from this earnest and hardworking young man to someone who is literally unhinged. Chris Hackney portrays that slow descent to madness so convincingly.
I love how one of the response choices is "What is wrong with you?"
i noticed her/his dialogue choices reflect their personality. There are 2 sides to byleth:
the cold responses (ashen demon) & the kinder ones (academy byleth)
This is the type of sweet cute child that behaves good but you shouldnt let any knife on his reach cause he gets stabby.
Byleth "Dimitri, What do you have?"
DImitri "areadbhar!!!!"
Byleth: "NOOOOO!"
He honestly terrifies me but I still love him
Same, and that’s the perfect example for perfect game design…
"I have a headache, but that's just from lack of sleep" Lack of sleep from the voices in your head, Dimitri???
Something I dont see anyone talking about in the cutscene though that's amazing is the piano, it's very sporratic and uneven, very well audibly representing Dimitri's rapid mental descent upon seeing the Flame Emperor Unmasked, you can feel that feeling of shock and anger and crazed laughter through the music alone, it's incredible
As a schizophrenic myself I can say that his behavior was pretty spot on for a nice person who is schizophrenic. Growing up I tried to be a nice guy, whilst carrying all problems I had by myself. Eventually it seemed like it was one thing after another. Nothing in my life was going right. I felt like I was losing control of my life. I became irritable and delusional. I started threatening people similar to the way Dimitri did (actually got sent to the school counselor for threatening to tie someone to a ceiling fan by their veins). Until I eventually went completely insane and began hallucinating and could not think straight at all. I became very self-destructive and developed a crazy laugh that sometimes would happen uncontrollably when I was doing something immoral. Eventually, my best friend managed to get through to me and I became a better person. The road was long and hard to try to right the wrongs that I did and it took me a long time to forgive myself. Part of the reason I loved Blue Lions so much was because of how much I could relate to Dimitri. I have a feeling a lot of people who have suffered with mental-illness can relate to him to. Mental-illness can cause people to go into a downward spiral where they are not even themselves anymore and it is hard to get out of that hole.
I am so happy you are better now.
And I am so happy that friend of yours helped you. Really, your comment almost made me cry.
Thank you for sharing your story! I'm so glad that the Blue Lions route could speak to you on that level.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who relates to Dimitri. The way he processes his grief harkens back to how I processed my own when I was younger. His portrayal of survivor’s guilt is damn near perfect in accuracy.
At the end, it's funny how he keeps getting cut off.
yeah XD i think they did that on purpose haha cut him off because he was getting too intense
@@Harvestmooncow13 lol Yep, he was getting so crazy at the end it even made me feel a little uncomfortable.
4:32 *Dimitri going insane*
Annette: 😊
Ashe: 😊
@@sowianskiwojownik5973 uhhh dimitri, you don't look so well... Here, I learned this technique from Lord Lonato
As soon as he started freaking out in remire, I was just like
*uh oh*
"Security we have an adult male trying to leave the Walmart with 753 unpaid paper plates"
Me: 0:41
*"mY FaThEr"*
My favorite thing is in one of the support cut scenes you can choose revenge or something and Dimitri’s support goes up. Like my guy calm DOWN 😂😂
true! many people often miss that part!! (i put in another compilation because i found its funny) its funny to me because at first, Byleth is the one who wants to charge in. his support ups but he stops you. then they mention duscur, this time its him who wants to go out there lol
"Slowly"
-Dimitri ranting about severing his enemies limbs very early into the game
Man, who coulda seen that coming?
This is what foreshadowing is all about
@@TheJaredPunch The whole point of foreshadowing is to be subtle about it lol
@@ThiefofCrystals well not all of that is created equal. It was just when would Dimitri actually reach the breaking point
Felix I think
That cutscene where Dimitri goes feral and destroys those soldiers - *one of my favorites.* Dimi slays and I always thought it incredible - in a *this man's powerful* kinda way.
But *this* reminded me of the conversation he had with Edelgard after and his reaction to entering the Battle of Garreg Mach, and I subsequently remembered *just how terrifying he can be.*
Not the guy you want to fight. *At all.* *_Ever._*
if you recruited Sylvain in CG,
what you said is almost exactly what he said about Dimitri. He says Dimitri gets really really scary when he's mad.
Game: Happy, uplifting music
Dimitri: *They deserve a gruesome end*
0:58
I swear when the gift menu appeared, I thought you were looking for a chill pill to offer him 😂
lol yeah me too 😂 i can feel her sense of urgency to find something to give him
i was looking for chamomile tea but forgot it cant be given as a gift XD
@@ShinoaKoucho You can give him one of the chesse, since he likes them maybe it calm him xD
This poor sweet boi....
Everybody in the comment section acting like Dimitri is a villain but I still think he is the most good of the house leaders, he's just the only one that goes actually insane for a period of time. Despite talking a lot about killing people, Dimitri in the end really had a vision of a world rid of the the rampant murder and injustice that it faced, where the weak and vulnerable were protected. I can see an argument for someone saying Claude is more good, but really Claude's vision is just to change the fabric of society and get people to understand each other, where as Dimitri is a bit more concerned with actually confronting evil forces in the world. (Not to say that Claude isn't interested in that, but Dimitri is also interested in making a more understanding and fair society, particularly for the people of Duscur.)
Anyways, glad I played the Blue Lions first. Their campaign is awesome and the stakes in it crank the plot up to 11.
I love him 💕
I haven't seen anyone in this comment section claiming that Dimitri is a villain O.O it's one of the most polite comments sections I've ever seen lol
Amen. That man is the Top husbando and leader of all time.
Ironically Dimitri gets the least done in his route
@@cheesecheese6459 not really, it is said he made a new fodland and changed the system.
Chris Hackney is just too underated. He did such an amazing job! And it's not even the best of his work here! With timeskip Dimitri, he really gave his all.
Dimitri and Claude shows really well the duality of men, one is just chill and wants to end racism, and the other evolves into a cold blooded psycho to kill hot hitler
they're both amazing characters ❤ Claude is the most chill of the three and the most reasonable. Dimitri, his extreme sense of justice becomes too warped that he kills in cold blood....but at least, in the end he changes his mind and becomes compassionate again (but only in azure moon ☹️)
Claude wants to defeat the CEO of racism
Augusto Kenji Hirata
I mean you’re not wrong
@DarkEternal6 Except that's wrong. Edelgard is the initiator of the war in every single route.
@DarkEternal6 He wanted to kill Edelgard because she started the war. You can't claim that Claude and Dimitri would have started a bloody war for any reason. And the idea that the sword of the creator would be used for a war when he is literally the smallest territory is dumb. There are hundreds of reasons to use the sword other than an all out war. Don't project Edelgard's ambitions onto them.
Because of byleth's impression at the prologue and the trailers, i thought he was gonna be a villain but he ended up as the tragic hero in his route and my favorite lord. Not your typical prince charming >,<
also, can i please get a link or copy of your dimitri & byleth icon???? ;D
glitterberry.tumblr.com/post/187936783553/dimileth-week-day-3-pastfuture
Edelgard ended up as the real villain, who could have predicted it
@@varinstar7
Unless you're joking, it's kind of obvious.
@@varinstar7 Edelgard wasn't a villain though
This game is about a battle of grays
There is no hero, there is no villain, only a war fueled by hatred
Which is why this is the best fire emblem game
@@Hajilex ...She starts a continental war that tears it apart killing many in the process, how heroic. She has a point, but she's still a puppet for the evil mole people due to being told a falsified history by them. Apart of what she's doing can be considered heroic, but ultimately she's only one because the victor ends up writing history. Otherwise, she needs to be offed for the greater good
TWSITD is a bunch of psychotic mole people that have been the root of a lot of problems both in the past and present. They've orchestrated many rhings manipulating them for their own gain while destroying the surface world, and they got nukes. Similar to Edelgard, Nemesis is used by them to kill their opposers which are dragons akin to gods. They're both responsible for the genocide of two races. They're absolutely villains.
The church, one of the lesser evils, falsified history and forcing only that for centuries. They've deliberately stopped technological advancement, enfoece a class system that results in Edelgard's war among other issues, and is very zealous in exterminating those that oppose their beliefs. All of this is led by a person with severe mommy issues. It's quite telling when even if they still remain it is noted how they undergo several changes.
Two of these are gray, but all of them are still evil in some way. There is definitely a villain.
As a half-French half-Asian, I always have a preference for the Japanese voice, but Dimitri's English voice actor ... Incredible ! We feel so much the madness side of Dimitri which resurfaces.
I really like 5:20 . I remember when I first heard this I was just like wait what? Chris hackney is just too good. (Sorry if I worded this a little weirdly. I Haven't talked to people in a long time)
me too! i honestly never choose this response most of the time because one thing i noticed about dimitri is that he responds well/better (support pts up) if you go with the kinder responses. Like choosing
"are you ok?" instead of
"what's wrong with you?"
but at this point in the story, he's too far gone for that. But he still responds better if you say "we're in this together"
@@ShinoaKoucho Yeah I originally chose those answers, But I went back into the replay menu to hear the other response because I was intrigued.
The first time I actually got scared of Dimitri was when there was a dialogue choice that didn’t seem to be very important but he absolutely snapped is is like HAVE YOU GONE MAD??? When you say innocent people die in wars all the time or something like that and the delivery in that line just had me like 👁👄👁 I was not ready for lil baby Dimitri to come for me like that
When you wake up in the morning and realize you're not dead yet and yesterday was not a nightmare : 2:52
"hey you're finally awake"
Dimitri's VA knocked it out of the park holy
Dimitri: I'll kill for you~
Byleth: Please don't.
chapter 10 for me was pretty much “no I should be saying that to you-*wait no*”
The face edelgard makes while dimitri goes crazy will always be funny to me. She’s just there like🧍🏼♀️
El has no fucking idea how to respond-like I’d be stunned too if someone reacted that way to me, even if it were my own brother.
The poor boi. I S ranked dimitri in both of my BL play throughs and this makes me a little sad
"I'm always in control, Professor", said Dimitri, clearly in control.
"I'm fine!", Dimitri said calmly.
Good ol' Dimitri. What a lovely fellow.
Dimitri: “I’m perfectly fine! Let’s do this!”
2:35
Dimitri’s sanity: *Fuck this shit I’m out~*
3…..2……1……2:49
I want to hug him
I love this man...
I love him too
Dimitri: says the most vengeful vile things a man can ever say
Everyone else: ：）
The way the BL house was presented as the dullest-looking one and then proceeds to pull the rug from under you with the best story out of the four routes is amazing
3:25 I never noticed it before but look at his facial expression as he takes down each soldier, he just has the same smile on his face the entire time, it's scary.
2:40 me when i discovery that my best friend is the impostor in Among Us
Then they deflect your death onto someone else after and get away with it?
Chris Hackney did a REALLY good job of sounding conflicted and angry. Props to him.
He's such a sweet heart. I love him.
Dimitri is everyone in 2020.
This is why you shouldn’t take your kids to work when you’re the king, and you’re on a diplomatic mission to another country. Especially when you’re outspoken.
I love how the rest of the blue lions just watch and smile as Dimitri talks about brutally murdering various people
I love how dimitri's post timeskip growl slips out every so often when he gets pissed. And as the pretimeskip keeps going you hear it more and more each chapter. Great bit of Subtle story telling and Chris should get an award for his performance here.
I couldn't help but laugh at his slow decline into madness while playing this 😂😂😂
First: because he's the last character that i expected to see go apeshit.
And second: because every time he went on his psychotic rants, the only one on the blue lions that actually looked concerned was Dedue, while the rest just stood there in the background with an empty smile as if nothing was happening! 🤣🤣🤣
4:48 gotta love the fact dimitri admitted to seeing and talking to ghosts and Byleth and the BLs are just like “this is fine.”
Honestly I absolutely adore dimitri, I feel so terribly bad for him 👁👄👁 😭
at 3:04 byleths face when she couldnt stop him from going ballistic :'> they r sooo cute together
you forgot the part where dimitri says: "I'll cut you to shreds!" if you fail to save the villagers
yeah i uploaded it separately (its actually from Faerghast's documentary) that part is very easy to miss :( I only ever encountered it in maddening) couldnt save every last one of them :(
that was amazing voice acting tho!!
Can't we get the school nurse to declare Dimitri unfit for duty??