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rath-omeow · 2 years ago

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Okay so I had this ask that I've lost now since I had to clean out my askbox a bit recently but it was asking about which FE3H guys might have a breeding kink, and I could use a little headcanon break, so let's chat! Basically this is just gonna be rapid fire "does he have breeding kink yes/no/kinda" and some additional related thoughts. Also to be clear, I'm trying to differentiate between this and a pregnancy kink, but we will stray close to that territory at times.

The Seteth section of this turned into like a twenty minute long debate with my husband even though we agreed on like everyone else lmao

FE3H Dudes w/ Breeding kink

NSFW Headcanons - 18+

Lorenz - Oh absolutely, he's practically been raised for a breeding kink. He'd never dare to express it with openly crude language, but there's nothing he desires more than to fill you and know that you're carrying not just his child, but his heir. He almost takes it as such a given that he'll be flustered and uncomfortably aroused if you tease him a bit about it.

Claude - Mostly only into it if it's something that gets you going- in general, he's always more invested in a kink or mood if he knows it's something that will help him get under your skin. Loves to see you cutely moaning and pleading for him to cum deep inside of you.

Raphael - He may not totally get the 'logic' or reasoning behind it, but boy does he love to see you dazed and dripping with his cum. For him, it's less the animalistic thrill of "claiming," and more the intimacy of filling you with him- plus, hey, he's always been a family man, so he'd be thrilled to see you carry his child.

Ignatz - An interesting case, as I do see Ignatz as very kinky, but deeply repressed. I don't see anything in a breeding kink specifically that would call to him, but with encouragement, he's willing to dabble in just about anything if it's with you.

Hubert - Not so much- he's far too cogniscient of exactly what 'breeding' you entails, and his relationship with the idea of fatherhood... needs some work. He'd much rather dominate you by making you obedient by his words and punishments.

Ferdinand - It's definitely there deep down, in a similar way to Lorenz- crest-bearing nobility are raised to anticipate passing their blessed genetics to an heir, afterall. Unlike Lorenz however, Ferdie can be encouraged to get quite filthy about it with patience and time.

Linhardt - Absolutely, I mean, it's practically canon tbh. But it's of course in that very curious and clinical way of his- he doesn't see himself as conquering you, but rather, that you're indulging his burning need to investigate how it would feel, how things would go. He'd learn your fertility cycle and tease you subtly about when he knows you'd be more "susceptible."

Caspar - Definitely, and it's in the "warrior king" kind of way; he wants you to bear plenty of strong, capable children for him, and he admires your strength all the more for being willing and able to do so. Seeing his cum dripping from you can easily rile him enough to go for another round.

Seteth - He's a tough one, since on the one hand, both the burden and joys of fatherhood already rest incredibly heavily on him, and he's way too potently aware of the gravity of someone like him reproducing. On the other hand, "repressed beast Nabatean needs to perpetuate his own kind" makes horny brain go brrrrr. Ultimately, I think he'll get there, but that he needs a lot of security and trust with you before the idea of claiming you in such a serious way begins to creep into his thoughts.

Jeritza - absolutely not, he's one hundred percent certain that he will never sire any children, and even the thought takes him completely out of the mood. If anything, he vastly prefers to see his cum dripping along your inner thighs, across your stomach or chest, etc. Claiming you has its appeal, but he has no interest in breeding.

Rodrigue - Similar to Seteth, he's got some baggage about it, but by all accounts, he does seem to adore being a father (despite, you know, circumstances). If anything, there is something erotically thrilling that at his age, someone as breathtaking as you longs to be filled by him and carry his child, even in just the abstract sense.

Dedue - Definitely, but he's very soft and nurturing and protective about it. He'll whisper to you that he longs to see you round with his child, that he'll care for you no matter what, that he needs to see you dripping with him. Though frankly, you begging him to fill you gets him going way more than anything he himself could say about it.

Felix - It's there, but it is buried deep, deep down. You'll only find out if you're the one to bring it up first, gasping out that you want him to breed you and make you his- and he just snaps. It's definitely about the possessive "claiming" aspect of the kink to him.

Dimitri - He's another who's basically been raised for this, especially in the rigidly traditional ways of the Kingdom. Seeing you ready and willing to bear his heirs for him absolutely gets his blood boiling- though exactly how he expresses it (rough and feral vs. intense but tender) is going to depend on what kind of head space he's in.

Ashe - Not really, though that's not to say he wouldn't love to have children with you someday. He just doesn't see that particular aspect as arousing, but more romantic. Though, granted, when Ashe is feeling romantically, emotionally in-tune with you, it does spurr on his libido.

Sylvain - I mean, the guy has breeding trauma, so I'm gonna say it's a hard no on the breeding kink front. The only context I could really see him indulging this in would be if you wanted him to degrade you, and he could go on about how you're such a needy little slut for wanting so badly for him to use you like that.

#i need repressed beast nabatean 😳

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rath-omeow · 2 years ago

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I'm really surprised yall liked that costume breakdown so much! Glad it wasn't a waste of time lol By popular demand, I'm back with more unnecessary analysis, this time of the lettuce fam (and the church as a whole).

I bring you:

Fashion in Fódlan part ii: a very long, still not comprehensive, but this time solicited analysis

FYI this post is way more detailed and is significantly more focused on the relationship between the Adrestian Empire and the Church of Seiros, especially relating to politics and power, rather than the clothes.

The Curch of Seiros: tradition!

The reason I didn't originally include these babies is simply that the pool seems at first to be very small. Besides, Flayn is in an academy uniform, and Sothis is a god, so there's really only two outfits and it's kinda hard to get a real feel for it overall.

Fortunately, I Am Very Smart (jk) and was able to gather a sizable amount of material by broadening my horizons a little

Statues from left to right: Macuil, Cichol, Indech, Cethleann

Trends:

The very first thing you will notice is that, unsurprisingly, there are a lot of similarities with the generic clergy outfits, and the Saints are just in regular class uniforms rather than unique clothes. You can actually see a sort of evolution from Sothis's dress (the og) to the generic female bishop and priest, and a sort of similar silhouette between the male monk and Seteth:

Also, Rhea, dead Sitri, and the mural version of Sothis are all wearing the same white dress but with decreasing amounts of embellishments :) dragon ladies :)

Flayn's version of the academy uniform actually keeps a couple of these influences, as well, primarily the center-front embellishments and the dropped shoulder bows.

Enlightened!Byleth, on the other hand, is a bizarre hodgepodge of stuff that doesn't immediately seem related to anything else.

The Saints being depicted in generic clothing makes sense, because the statues were probably erected after they had all "died." It is odd that Cichol, despite being a wyvern lord in game canon and a formidable warrior in CoS canon (whoa, so meta), is shown in the male bishop uniform in his statue. I think it's because they needed to differentiate between Cichol and Emperor Wilhelm.

The statue in the imperial palace of Wilhelm Paul Hresvelg, the first emperor, is in full armor, but the statue of Cichol is not - the years Cichol lived in Enbarr may have overlapped with Wilhelm's rule, so Cichol, despite being as much (or more) of a warrior as Wilhelm, held a more spiritually significant position. His association with Cethleann likely reinforced that, thus leading to the badass warrior-priest depiction.

*pointing at myself in the mirror* don't draw warrior-priest seteth on a wyvern don't draw warrior-priest seteth on a wyvern don't dr

"But pg," you say, "of course they all look like the monks and priests, they're literally the church. What does this have to do with the empire?"

Analysis:

The church and the empire grew hand-in-hand for a very, very long time, and that shows in lots of ways, including the prevelance of magic in the empire. I actually believe that the way the clergy dresses now is actually somewhat similar to how a lot of people used to dress, or at least influenced it. (Note that TWSITD, a group that has been around for longer than the empire and is separate from the church entirely, still wears their variations of clergy clothes, and Arval/Epimenides even have a similar silhouette to Sothis. That suggests that the styles are indeed very old.)

Now that more than 1000 years have passed, the Empire has continued to develop new styles and fashions, while the church, being a church, has maintained their ceremonial outfits. That being said, some similarities remain. I want to take a look at two of them:

Most units have outfits that draw from their canon classes, so that's not unusual, and all the magic classes are clearly influenced by the church, but what we should consider here is why the fashion aesthetics lean toward the faith classes when these two characters in particular are clearly specialized in reason and dislike the church.

Dorothea's dress is elegant and fashionable and also happens to bear a shocking resemblance to a generic priest outfit (outlined in red the points of interest on Dorothea). The sleeves are also similar to the mage outfit, of course, but it's the cut of the skirt, the thing at her neck, and the waistband that make it a priest.

For Lord Arundel, I'm mostly saying the general *shape* of the thing is similar, but there's also the deep round collar and the strong vertical lines, but only on one side instead of both.

As a side note, I'll argue that the military jackets we discussed in the last post are actually related to the church too, since the Officer's Academy (which is of course founded and run by the church) uses the same button styles, and we don't see it in the other two nations. (If this all seems like a stretch, that's because it is <3 a thousand years have passed, okay, things have changed.)

Besides just the practice of magic in general and some of the styles, the ceremonial importance of wearing some kind of uniform to show your role also remained, imo. We have two clear styles of uniform in the Imperial nobility - robes and jackets (it's unclear exactly what determines who wears which - I would think it's based on military roles vs political roles, which would explain the strike force being in jackets, but Jeritza is heavily involved in the military and he wears the robes. Possibly the exception that proves the rule?) - which are of course related to the two styles we see the most of at Garreg Mach, those being the clergy's robes and the officer's academy students. They may have evolved pretty substantially by this point, but I'm inclined to say the robes worn in the empire are related to the clergy robes, especially if they're meant to be associated with the people in more politically-oriented positions rather than soldiers.

We see the importance of these uniforms in the fact that they actually supersede armor/class uniforms. Hubert (canon class dark bishop), Ferdinand (canon class paladin), and Lord Arundel (canon class dark knight), all wear outfits that aren't actually related to their canon classes at all, and they still keep those outfits when in combat as enemies.

One more similarity I'd be remiss not to point out:

Love to be a bisexual God-King and wear a big tall collar and shoulder embellishment and gold stuff around my neck and a gold crown with a little dangly pearl thing on my forehead~

More analysis:

So, we've established that there's a connection between the clothes worn by empire nobility and church leadership, as well as the nature of those clothes. Cool. Now let's talk $$.

I'm not going to consider Sothis's outfit here, because she's a god and I don't think she's going popping into shops to buy ribbons. Likewise, I think Byleth's enlightened one outfit is more of a divine creation than an actual outfit that cost money.

Rhea's costume however, which as we discussed earlier takes inspiration from Sothis's, definitely did cost money, and a lot of it.

On the inner layer, we don't have a ton of excess stuff going on, as far as the cut of the clothing goes - the white dress is very simple, pretty fitted, not extravagant in any way, but we do have those extra gold details and the headdress, which is honestly a work of art.

What I want to pay attention to is the cloak in particular. That fabric with the beautiful, intricate repeating design of the Crest of Seiros is almost certainly a white and gold brocade (not only is that what it looks like, but it's also a typical fabric for liturgical vestments).

Brocade is a very expensive type of fabric that's woven to look like it's been heavily embroidered, example above (fabric plus a painting of somewhere wearing it). High quality, 100% silk brocade, especially hand woven and using precious metals like gold, costs literally hundreds of USD per yard, and a cloak of that size would be multiple yards (4? 5 maybe? idk I can't actually sew). That's a lot of money.

You'll notice that Seteth has a similar pattern on the inside of his cape, but I highly doubt it's a brocade. It could be damask (similar to brocade but cheaper and easier to take care of - example shown below), but I think it's just a patterned silk.

I think his main garment - cape included - is meant to be a play on a cassock, so it's probably a lightweight, soft wool with the decorative facing only on the cape part, possibly not lined at all in the rest of it. The details around his cuffs and shoulders and the back of the cape are probably embroidery or applique, I'm guessing the same as the academy uniforms, whatever those are.

It's definitely nicer than what most of the students or everyday people wear, but not nearly as extravagant as the jackets in the Empire. You'll also notice that Flayn's officer's academy uniform is a little fancier than the regular students, but not enough to be worth investigation.

The blue is probably a pretty expensive dye color, and you'll note that Rhea has it too. (The black of the academy uniforms would be similar in cost...)

(Speaking of blue dye, I did more research while writing this post and it turns out that the dull blues most of the folks in the kingdom have are actually some of the cheapest and easiest colors to get and maintain! Woad my beloved... Indigo is still extremely expensive, though.)

So anyway, as we can see, the issue of excess is really just Rhea. Being the Archbishop, it's understandable in the exact same way that Edelgard's outfit is - they're both trying to show their legitimacy as a sovereign, in part through their clothes.

However, I do want to point out something extremely important: Rhea didn't drop a shit ton of money on a fancy cloak any time in the last few centuries. When you observe her headdress during a tea party, she has this to say: "This crown is rather elaborate, but it has been passed down through generations of archbishops." So it was almost certainly created hundreds of years ago, likely during the early and much more prosperous years of the empire before the kingdom was a twinkle in Loog's eye. I think the cloak is probably the same way, created around the same time as the crown.

So, is she wasting a lot of money to make herself look powerful? Probably not. Is it still a little out of touch to be dressed so extravagantly? Yeah, on a social level. On a political level, she's reinforcing the idea that she's in control, especially while groups like the Western Church are acting up.

Because that's what this is all about: Control.

Conclusion

The church still has a significant impact on the culture of the empire, but it's more than just an old and famous church building still standing in the heart of Enbarr or the gown of an opera diva. It's explicit.

As our very last exhibit, I present a crown.

The crown Edelgard is given at her coronation is not the same crown she wears during the war, and - though we can only see the tip of the little spire in the front - it bears a striking resemblance to the crown worn by Sothis/enlightened!Byleth. (Using the Sothis regalia to show it bc it's a better image lol.)

I believe this crown may have been crafted at the same time as the Archbishop's, though you'll notice it's quite a bit smaller.

That's because the church and the empire didn't just grow up together - the church was the empire. Seiros named the capital, chose and crowned the first empire, and gifted him her own blood to give him power. The Adrestian Empire exists because Seiros wanted it to, but the church was the higher authority.

The Archbishop traditionally witnesses the coronation of each new emperor not as a show of friendship or an alliance or whatever; it's to remind everyone that originally, the Emperor served at the grace of the Archbishop, not by virtue of their own authority.

Edelgard has a new crown crafted for herself when she declares war on the church, because she can't have anyone questioning her authority, especially not the church. That means all remaining influence the church has over the Empire and Fodlan as a whole simply must be destroyed. Unfortunately, it runs far too deep. What's she going to do, make Dorothea wear a different dress?

-fin- (lol)

working on a much more lighthearted part iii, which will literally just be ranking the outfits on how expensive I think they are lol no promises on that one though

#Yeaah more breakdown #Thank you op #I do agree rhea outfit is very expensive but it's necessary as arcbishop whose consider as one of the big political figure in fodlan #fe3h analysis

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