Really? I must have misunderstood the story then. I beat Hoshido’s story and watched ShadyPenguinn play through Nohr’s and for some reason I always assumed that Hoshido were his blood relatives. It’s been a while since I’ve played though. I thought you start the game with Hoshido and then get captured by Nohr early on. I must have missed the part where it said Hoshido adopted Corrin. Either way, it’s still kind of weird to have kids with your adopted siblings that you spent your whole life with.
No. It's more that almost all the important details are just door-notes. For example, the reason Nohr is trying to conquer Hoshido is because they are almost out of resources and they desperately need more. This is only mentioned
once and it's in Birthright when they've finally reached Nohr, where Silas mentions it to Ryoma when Ryoma asked about Nohr's state. It's
never mentioned anywhere else nor in Conquest or Revelations. You would think it would be an important detail for Conquest, but no, you have to make Garon as murderous and evil as possible due to possession that is only mentioned half-way and then near the ending.
In the case for the Hoshido siblings, you never learn you were brought into the Hoshido family alongside Mikoto until the sibling who S-rank confesses to you learns from a "letter from Corrin's mother Mikoto" that you are unrelated. It's very stupid and heck, it was even spoiled ahead of time with Hinoka's C or B-Support, where Corrin and Hinoka are discussing about Hinoka and Mikoto's relationship and Corrin outright mentions, "even though she wasn't your birth mother". Which you'd think that would confirm that Mikoto and Corrin aren't related to the Hoshido siblings, but they still do that "letter" confession if you S-rank Hinoka.
Like I said, alot of Fates' important details, aside from the ones that the story calls for, are practically like door-notes. They would give very good story reasoning if mentioned early on, but they just aren't until they are just dropped. They never get mentioned until they just are. They wanted to make all the siblings, adopted or step-family, supportable and leave none out, but at the same time, rather than imply that Corrin is joining Hoshido to join his mother's family, they made the choice between "blood siblings" and "family you were raised with". Which means they have to ******** why you can S-Support with your Hoshido siblings, which even then, practically ruins the whole "your blood family" or "your adopted family"
If they wanted to allow Corrin to S-rank their Hoshido siblings, what they really should've done is one, make it "join your mother's family" or "your adopted family", then two, make them un-supportable for S-rank until half-way through the story, Ryoma is forced to reveal the truth about their blood relation due to that rogue Hoshido faction that was also mentioned in Supports, but never used in the story, trying to convince Corrin to join them over their mother's family.
Like........there's so much to unpack on why Fates' story is just such a frickin' mess and trust me, the siblings being S-Supportable is probably one of the softest issues compared to many of the much more boneheaded issues.
