Dragonbums said:
PLEASE NOTE: I have not played Revelations so please don't spoil me on that front.
Honestly, I would of stayed with Nohr.
No matter how much bloodties you have with another family, the family that raised you is the only one you know and trust. I honestly don't think whatever scheme King Garon did while you were in Hoshido would change that.
Quite frankly it's surreal (and almost world breaking to me) how someone who was basically stuck in isolation their entire life still has intense empathy and kindness for other people. What's more, why did King Garon think that doing that, with literally zero influence on Corrin until they got older was even remotely a good idea.
People who go to the lengths to do that would usually follow up with a good ol' dose of propoganda, lies, and morality influencing to become as heartless and/or blinded as the rest of the Nohrian family. I would even wager that 80% of the problems King Garon would have with Corrin wouldn't exist.
But ranting aside, Nohr. From a logical standpoint nobody can really just abandon the family that raised them all their life. Especially if the siblings took great pains to love and cherish you as their own.
If this was to work better Corrin should of been swapped with Azura. That women actually has a reason to not really give a fuck about Hoshido, despite how kind they were.
I think you're getting real isolation confused with what was done to Corrin, you're talking about the effects of total isolation or orchestrated indoctrination, neither of which happened to Corrin. As his support conversations show, he was raised by a caring Butler and maid, his siblings, and people like Silas that snuck him out of the fortress to play when he was little. He had a normal childhood in a fortress that looks like its about the size of a small village, and he says he never actually saw Garon that much.
As for Garon, the Doylist explanation is that if Garon did what you are talking about, then their wouldn't be a game as the protagonist would be too brainwashed or broken to make a choice. The Watsonian explanation is that Garon doesn't actually give that much of a shit about Corrin, at best he's a pawn, and at worst he's just a delivery vehicle for a suicide weapon to provoke war between Hoshido and Nohr, refer to my earlier spoiler for why he doesn't give enough of a shit to bother doing anything but making sure Corrin was competent enough to deliver said exploding sword.
As for the last paragraph, I think you are projecting, I have seen and even helped minors become emancipated and totally abandon their birth family for a hell of a lot less than what Garon did to Corrin, even nicer relatives will generally get abandoned if they are enabling the behavior of the abuser. People regularly abandon the family that raised them all their life, even without abuse, just the clash of opposite personalities has caused children to grow up and move away, cutting all contact with the family that raised them. Especially in Corrin's case where he was raised by genuinely good people in his butler, maid, and the staff of the castle he was in, he wasn't even raised around Garon, the king just popped by every once in a while. In a more realistic scenario he would likely have an even higher chance of just cutting and running as the people that raised him were the staff of the Northern Fortress, at best Garon is a distant absentee father.
