WHAT HAPPENED TO DIMITRI?! Fire Emblem Three Houses Character Analysis

Alright, so I'm gonna take a crack at some Three Houses coverage. This first video is going to star none other than Dimitri himself! The trailer really showed a very drastic change in his character and this is really interesting so I dug a bit into it and tried to analyze a few reasons for why this could have happened.

Let me know what reason you think drove Dimitri to become like this down in the comments, and whether or not you enjoy me covering Three Houses in this style!

I've got a couple more videos lined up that I want to do so stay tuned for those!

#FireEmblem #ThreeHouses #E3

[mikastella]

Post timeskip Dimitri looks like he’s exhausted and just wants to rest but he can’t because he won’t stop at anything until he has his revenge. Which I admire.

[argosleuf]

E3 2018 :
Everyone: “Her name is _EDGELORD!?_ Best Lord Ever?”

E3 2019:
Dmitri: *THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE EDGELORD! KILL THEM ALL!*

[hkkobayashi]

He kind of went from
"Hello sir, very nice to meet you!"
To
*"Your daughter calls me Daddy too"*

[NewNub]

Meanwhile, Claude just grew out his sideburns

[noe]

People with Edelgard: Evil! Hitler! Tyrant!
People with Dimitri: Oh my god what happened to you my child

[brendalee]

D&D alignment predictions
Byleth: True Neutral
Edelgard: Lawful Evil
Dimitri: Chaotic Good
Claude: Neutral Good

[LillyTensei]

Just throwing this out here, but i think Edelgard is what happened to Dimitri. She obviously hates the church and their crests, Dimitri being from a "holy kingdom" would make them enemies. In Heroes, Dimitri talks about how he lost his family and remembers each and every person he has seen die. He also says that "morals are never worth taking a life" or something to that effect. In the Blue Lions trailer, Dimitri claims he walks the "true path of Justice." Edelgard claims she has no choice but to destroy people who believe in justice that isnt explicitly what she herself declares. Edelgard becomes an emperor, of the single largest territory in Fodlan, and then a war mysteriously starts. Idk but to me, it seems like whem Edelgard became emperor, she attacked the church or Holy Kingdom in her quest to destroy the Crests, and probably killed enough people that Dimitri finally broke. After all it's a long way to fall from "No moral is worth taking a life, and i remember every single person i see die." To "Kill every last one of them!"

[vcwxelz]

"villainous" hahah ohhh this was before the game came out. but it's all ptsd and having a war thrown at him. edelgard a

[RichardHannay]

I thought the complete opposite... that Demitri would be going against the church. Because it looks like Edelgard is doing the church’s work.

[tash]

I'm not too sure about Dimitri becoming "evil" his line in the trailer was "We must put a stop to the cycle of the strong trampling the weak." which, imo is not a very villainous/bad guy thing to say. There seems to be corruption in the church and maybe he discovers it which leads to him rebelling against the church? Also the Adrestian empire seems to be aiding the church which would explain tensions rising high enough to cause a war. I doubt his story is as simple as the standard "fallen hero" trope

[extrastorage]

When I saw future Dimitri I didn’t even know that was him until a week later

[polarkyukon]

What happened to my boy!?! I'm still gonna marry him!

[MrRenard]

I suppose it's possible Dimitri could become a kind of villain, but I really doubt it, especially given that he'll have his own story where Byleth supports him. At worst, I expect him to be mostly an anti-hero. Something to keep in mind is that there's a non-zero possibility that the cutscenes and voice lines we've seen and heard are cherry-picked from different story paths, and won't be the same for all three of the available routes.


Note also that during the trailer, we can hear Dimitri decidedly taking a stand to *stop* "this cycle of the strong oppressing the weak." In the Treehouse gameplay that was shown today, we learned that the crests we've been hearing about since the first trailer tie directly in to a person's power, and their ability to wield certain weapons, and that some people resent that. In other words, having more crests and more status is literally equal to having more power. We know Edelgard seems to think "the crests are to blame, " so it makes perfect sense that Dimitri will feel the same.

[RuneQueen]

See now i gotta side with Dimitri to chill dude out damnit...

[Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

Can't believe everyone though Dimitri was going to become evil when Edelgard was standing there all along.

I guess it comes down to appearance. Dimitri (after he mellowed out) wasn't actually as scary as he looked whereas Edelgard always had this disciplined and regal air about her. She always presented herself with dignity even when doing evil things. It's funny because a lot of the traits ascribed to Dimitri here were actually traits of Edelgard.

[xecillmaze]

What I love about three houses is the fact that it seems everyone does something 'evil' that I wouldn't really use morals to judge the characters anymore. Its war, freaky stuff happens for victory.

[darvit]

This trailer changed almost every theory about the game!

[bruhmandude]

Well this video didn't age well😂 although he was a bit crazy so yeh

[atticusv]

The way his bio says "a faint shadow can be felt behind his cheeriness" makes me believe that he might have has a very rough past, but he keeps all of his pent up emotions behind happiness so that he can become a good leader. I'm guessing that there must be an event before the time skip that makes him snap, causing him to turn berserk and go crazy, something like a betrayal, or what I'm assuming; an assassination and massacre that he was a part of in some way.

[lberman]

hmmmm he may have been held hostage & tortured or something, I don't think dimitri would blindly follow the church