#‣ ship: edelgard/dimitri (fe).

[ghostmoodboards]

Shipboard for Dimitri and Edelgard (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) red/blue/purple/healing themes

For an anon~ Hope you enjoy!! ^^

We're closed for now, thank you~!

[geddy-leesbian]

I will not publicly go on a rant about a FE3H character that every side of the fandom would crucify me for I will not go on a rant about a FE3H character that every side of the fandom would me for I will not

[feshippingpolls]

EdelDimiClaude.

FE: Should they kiss?

Edelgard x Dimitri x Claude

[gascon-en-exil]

Considering the undeniable fact that Edelgard was written for men and not them, what do you think that says about her lesbian fans? Are they following the wrong character? Or better question, does she truly have a significant sapphic fandom to begin with?

This is a difficult question for me to answer directly, because I'm not a lesbian. I've gotten a variety of comments from queer women addressing issues related to this on my relevant videos, with the range of responses being overall mixed. Even those who can enjoy Edelgard as a bi option (and/or her other F/F prospects) are usually still aware of IS's blatant misogyny in the way they handle their female characters, and acknowledge that these conversations are useful to have.

I think Monica's writing in Hopes sums up very well just how little the writers of these games are thinking about lesbians when they craft these characters and situations. Monica's attraction to Edelgard is treated as one long joke at her own expense, one that Edelgard appears to humor at best but never really understands. It's especially galling because this is the same game that takes a remarkably sober approach to Shamir's attraction to women, both in general and to Catherine specifically. There's also the matter of the M/M subtext, which as ever exists in a blind spot of straight male writers. With Dimidue alone, we have a situation where men are saying stuff like "You are irreplaceable, cherished" and "I cannot know happiness without you by my side" and holding hands and each other's gazes for something like fifteen seconds in an animated cutscene...and still expect us to believe that that's only platonic devotion. (As far as lord + retainer ships go, hold up Monigard and Dimidue side-by-side, and it's very obvious that IS is laughing at the former and isn't aware that the latter could even have romantic dimensions.)

The majority of IS's sapphic material exists in a different, though comparable blind spot: that lesbians exist as profitable titillation for straight men, and are always subject to the male gaze and the potential interposition of a male proxy for the audience (the Avatar, usually) because women's attraction toward one another isn't something to be taken seriously. Out of the various examples of F/F subtext and text in the entirety of FE, I feel like I could claim Heather from Radiant Dawn as maybe the only instance where the writers were thinking of actual queer women - and even then Heather is still mostly mild comic relief.

(As far as "following the wrong character" goes re: the fandom faction wars, there's always been the consistent irony that Rhea is subject to much of the same open objectification, ex. her summer duo alt with F!Byleth, and even gets to be a same-sex S rank as well. Humorously, this parallel or its implications is pretty much never brought up whenever Rhea's getting roasted as the Worst Ever.)

It's difficult to tell exactly how much of Edelgard's fanbase is sapphic. Of course Tumblr and AO3 skew queer as a rule, but those are just two sites; there's also Twitter and Reddit and SF and GameFAQs and 4chan and art sites like Pixiv and DeviantArt. We also know for a fact that at least two of the most prominent and combative elements in the pro-Edelgard side of the fandom are straight/bi men producing F/F Edeleth fanwork...which I remark on only as a counter to the frequent accusation that Dimitri fans are all horny fujoshi. How that does or doesn't play into what you're asking is hard to say - although one of them tends to get rather pissed when anyone brings something like that up and may still be stalking my blog.

It'll be interesting to see what troll anons I get now.

[reunionatdawn]

My Analysis of the Best Paired Endings in 3H (Part 2: Dimitri/Byleth)

Despite the popularity of some of Dimitri's M/M ships, he seemed to be a typical heterosexual man to me. However, his straightness was actually part of what made his character so interesting, ironically. He spent his youth absorbed in masculine activities like hunting, training, and practicing with the sword.

He was willing to TRY and take Sylvain's advice to pick up girls. But he was very inexperienced with women. Chivalry definitely promotes homoromantic social bonding among men. And perhaps because of that very male-dominated culture he grew up in, he deeply yearned for a relationship with a woman.

The tagline for the game was, "Sweet memories twisted by time's cruel hand". Dimitri's feelings for his stepsister may have been only puppy love, but it was his first time emotionally connecting with a girl. It was one of his sweetest memories. That was why Edelgard's betrayal hurt him so deeply. The emotional core of AM is Byleth taking the spot in Dimitri's heart that Edelgard once held.

The developers did not want to write an entirely different script just to accommodate male Byleth. So, they just took out the Goddess Tower scene, S-Support, and paired ending. The loss of which are a huge detriment to the integrity of the story. Dimileth is just as "canon" as its counterpart Edeleth. I don't even think AM's story or Dimitri's redemption make sense unless there was a romantic connection between those two. Dimitri's Goddess Tower event even foreshadows that specific scene, proving that the moment Byleth reached out her hand was written with romantic undertones.

Byleth being female is an integral part of the story of AM. If Byleth represented the divine masculine in CF, then it follows that she represented the divine feminine in AM. She was a vessel for the soul of the goddess, but more importantly she was a human who could directly intervene in the world and support people with her own flesh and blood.

Dimileth is often criticized for being a simple "fixing the bad boy" straight girl fantasy. But it's less cliche than people give it credit for. Byleth and Dimitri are an interesting blend of masculine and feminine qualities. Byleth is a silent protagonist, but I could tell that Dimitri enjoyed her dry sarcastic sense of humor. She was not a typical healer or pegasus knight like most FE love interests, but a deadly mercenary. She was meant to be similar to Glenn, which is why Felix sees her as his rival.

She serves the role of being Dimitri's sword and shield and stood at his side and protected him during the final battle, filling the knightly role Glenn would have if he had survived (and the role Felix serves in Hopes). She was the Seiros to his Wilhelm. Dimitri is one of the very few male characters that Byleth will give her mother's ring to when she proposes. Yes, it is a woman's ring that Dimitri wears. In fact, Dimitri's whole character arc is about rediscovering and embracing the softer feminine qualities he had as a young boy.

The Professor taught Dimitri how to live. In AG, Dimitri told Shez that from the moment he was born, he never felt like his life belonged to himself. He overworked himself because it was the only way he knew how to live. After Duscur he lost everyone, including his best friend, and his life belonged to their ghosts. The only time he could imagine being happy was upon his death, having devoted his life to forming a peaceful kingdom full of joyful citizens. He yearned for someone to stand by his side and give him a reason to live for himself.

I've seen many people online criticize Dimileth because they say Dimitri already had plenty of people that he was close to in his life and his non-Byleth relationships should have played the biggest role in his redemption. But I disagree. The story made it quite clear that Dimitri's support system was totally inadequate for his emotional needs and could not have pulled him from the abyss.

He was not actually all that close to his childhood friends, even before the Tragedy of Duscur, and he did not confide in them about what he was feeling. He said Rodrigue was the only person outside the castle he was close to. Rodrigue obviously cared for him, but he had not seen Dimitri in two years prior to the academy. Dimitri and Dedue shared a very powerful bond. Losing Dedue was the cause of Dimitri’s initial descent into savagery. But Dedue still insisted on being his vassal instead of his friend and equal.

Felix was obligated to fill the role due to his bloodline, but he did not WANT to be the person Dimitri unburdened his heart to. He was constantly irritable and losing his patience in Azure Gleam. Glenn was one of the ghosts who shadowed Dimitri's every move. And Felix said that since Glenn's death, "his memory has followed me around like a shadow." He hated acting as his brother's replacement. In their AG A-Support, it seemed like he was pretending to like the idea of being the right-hand man because of how dependent Dimitri was on him. We see a direct parallel of that scene in AM where Dimitri is hallucinating in the chapel. While Felix certainly felt compassion for him, he was very eager to foist the role of confidant onto Byleth.

Without anyone to lean on, Dimitri acts pretty monstrous. For five years, he tortured and killed people brutally, as if they were not even human. He threatened to kill Randolph's friends and remove his eyeballs before killing him and we can probably assume that he actually did that sort of thing to his other victims. I related so well with Felix because I felt the exact same mix of disgust and pity towards him.

I didn't ship Dimileth because I self-inserted onto Byleth and I wanted to marry him. I just wanted Byleth to accept him. And I don't find it difficult to believe that she would. Because before she was the stand-in for the goddess, she was the Ashen Demon who cut people down with no emotion. She only began to smile when she started teaching his class. He offered his shoulder to lean on when she lost Jeralt, something the other two house leaders didn't do.

The main ideological conflict between Edelgard and Dimitri was how much they are willing to compromise and accept the unacceptable. Dimitri seemed to understand that Edelgard had legitimate issues with the Church of Seiros as well as the existing world order. But he thought that total destruction of that system would require too much sacrifice. It was an interesting moral quandary.

And honestly, there was no easy answer. In an ideal world, there would be no false religion and no such thing as nobility, period. Even most of the nobles in the cast would have been happier to just be regular people. AM certainly doesn't end in a utopia or anything (although it's less status quo than AG). It was about the characters compromising and making concessions with an inherently unjust system because perhaps taking innocent human life is wrong even if it's for a just cause.

The Crest of Blaiddyd is associated with Strength. The Strength Tarot card is the Major Arcana of inner strength. It represents mastering raw emotions in order to bring calm to yourself or a situation. Dimitri was born on the winter solstice making him a Sagittarius, which is a masculine fire sign symbolized by a centaur. The horse portion of the Sagittarius symbol is unruly, relentless, beastly, and strong. The human portion is wisdom-seeking and rational. Dimitri's character arc was about overcoming his anger and hatred and becoming the wise "Savior King" who could reach out his hand to his mortal enemy.

Byleth & Dimitri The marriage of the newly appointed Archbishop, Byleth, and Dimitri, who officially ascended to the throne of the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, further delighted the people amidst the celebrations of the end of the war. Continuously seeking a better future for Fódlan, they pursued their ideals, gradually reforming the traditional political systems and the structure of the Church. They upheld their roles as leaders of the Church and the state, engaging in intense debates at times. However, when they went on long rides or hunting trips alone together, they wore not the faces of the Archbishop and the King, but those of an ordinary, loving couple.

JRPGs are known for "killing god". AM ends not with you destroying the church but becoming its leader. The people of Fódlan paid lip service to the goddess, but they actually revered Nemesis and the 10 Elites. So much so that Rhea had no choice but to refer to them as heroes and Crests as gifts from the goddess. Fódlan is a patriarchal land. Faerghus especially so.

With Fódlan unified under Faerghus, Byleth acts as the divine feminine force who will change that society from the inside out, just as she did her husband. Is rulership by a benevolent monarch and a matriarchal pope a good enough ending? Well, that's for the player to decide. But I found it to be the best ending, both for Fódlan and for Dimitri and Byleth themselves.

[bisexualdimitri]

favorite fe polyships?

going to put this under the cut because i am insane about polyships so i have SO many!! also they are almost all sapphic

shadow dragon/new mystery of the emblem

elice/nyna/athena, sometimes i add sheena to this as well!

wolf/sedgar/syvland/roshea, like be honest okay? there was something gay happening between them.

cecil/f!kris/katarina, i also like cecil/norne and katarina/norne so imagine norne is there as well

m!kris/roderick/luke, i like luke with either kris actually but roderick is a gay boy to me

nyna/midia/sheena

echoes

faye/clair/rinea

forsyth/python/lukas, they're actually lesbians in my beautiful mind palace

valbar/leon/kamui, that leon/kamui support chain was gay okay?

celica/est/mae, we must free est from that wretched grown ass man

sonya/mathilda/palla

luthier/tatiana/zeke, HEAR ME OUT.

celica/alm/faye, once again they are lesbians!

genealogy of the holy war/thracia 776

silvia/brigid/tailtiu

ayra/brigid/lachesis

seliph/larcei/lene, yeah so they're lesbians also

mareeta/lara/tina

altena/olwen/tanya

misha/cain/selphina, this one is a very self indulgent one. and they are lesbians, of course

binding blade

roy/cath/sue, this is a sapphic ship to me

lilina/gwendolyn/thany

cecilia/igrene/echidna

lilina/clarine/fir/larum

clarine/dorothy/sophia

klein/elffin/perceval/dieck

blazing blade

eliwood/lyn/hector, this one is also sapphic to me

ninian/florina/lyn

eliwood/hector/rath, once again this one is sapphic

priscilla/erk/rebecca, peak bi4bi4bi

pent/louise/karla, something very lesbian happening here. this is mostly because i like pent/louise (lesbian) and louise/karla

kent/sain/matthew

the sacred stones

eirika/tana/l'arachel

ephraim/seth/kyle

eirika/innes/lyon

path of radiance/radiant dawn

i haven't played much of either of these games so these are mostly ones i've gotten attached to bc of feh

elincia/mia/lucia

nephenee/astrid/marcia

awakening

chrom/robin/cordelia

robin/gaius/frederick

olivia/cherche/panne

lissa/maribelle/ricken

tiki/say'ri/anna

lon'qu/kellam/cordelia

lucina/inigo/noire

nah/morgan/cynthia

severa/noire/kjelle

lucina/yarne/laurent

laurent/gerome/owain

gerome/lucina/brady

gerome/severa/lucina

fates

camilla/selena/beruka

leo/laslow/odin

arthur/benny/corrin

keaton/kaden/corrin

saizo/tsubaki/corrin, i like many polyships with corrin can you tell

ryoma/setsuna/hinata, they're lesbians

hana/sakura/elise

takumi/hinata/oboro, lesbians also

azura/kaze/keaton

camilla/rinkah/hinoka

corrin/kagero/saizo, dykery happening

mozu/sakura/hayato

caeldori/selkie/ophelia

soleil/velouria/sophie

rhajat/forrest/ophelia

siegbert/ophelia/velouria, lesbianism

asugi/nina/mitama, they're gay boys

three houses/three hopes

f!byleth/shamir/catherine

dimitri/marianne/felix

claude/dedue/leonie, bisexuals :)

sylvain/yuri/claude

hilda/marianne/ignatz, they are sapphic

lorenz/raphael/leonie

lysithea/petra/cyril, very bisexual!

marianne/ingrid/edelgard

edelgard/annette/dorothea

ingrid/annette/hilda

ingrid/hilda/edelgard

yuri/hapi/constance

ferdinand/edelgard/dorothea

dorothea/edelgard/bernadetta

hilda/marianne/edelgard, i read a fic for these three and it hurt my feelings so bad

ferdinand/linhardt/caspar, ferdinand and caspar are sapphic and linhardt is their mlm boyfriend

sylvain/hapi/mercedes

leonie/hilda/marianne

bernadetta/linhardt/ferdinand

berandetta/felix/dimitri

dorothea/felix/dimitri

ashe/petra/lysithea, this is sapphic

claude/marianne/dedue

claude/felix/linhardt, i need you to hear me out on this one okay?

manuela/rhea/catherine, HEAR ME OUT

seteth/manuela/rodrigue, again. hear me out.

byleth/shez/shamir

f!shez/sylvain/mercedes, i'm not big on m!shez/mercedes which seems odd since i like f!shez/mercedes but i just. don't enjoy it.

f!shez/yuri/claude, i like m!shez/yuri but idk i'm not a fan of m!shez/claude

shez/marianne/leonie, either shez is fine for this one :)

f!shez/hilda/leonie, hilda is a lesbian to me so i only like this one with f!shez

shez/monica/edelgard, either shez is fine for this but i lean towards m!shez with the black eagles tbh

f!shez/hubert/hapi

i have way more that i can't think of right now. i'm a big fan of polyships and autistic about fe3h sorry

engage

céline/etie/chloé

yunaka/amber/alfred

jade/amber/diamant

lapis/citrinne/alear, both alear's are girls to me so this is sapphic always

timerra/merrin/panette, like come on now

alcryst/lapis/céline

kagetsu/zelkov/ivy

chloé/etie/lapis

alear/framme/céline

clanne/etie/alear

fogado/etie/alear

timerra/goldmary/ivy

pandreo/seadall/kagetsu

diamant/kagetsu/ivy

heroes

ash/nótt/heiðrún/letizia, this is because they are my wives to be honest

sharena/reginn/peony

embla/freyja/nifl

henriette/anna/nerþuz, wives also!

[wolfraven80]

I love the immortality angst but yeah, at the end of the day, my bias for CF wins out for several reasons, one of which is Byleth having a normal human lifespan. It’s funny to conceptualize the route split for Black Eagles as like:

Rhea: psst, don’t you want everlasting life and unlimited power? Take my hand and become the divine, eternal ruler you were meant to be

Edelgard: or you could be my trophy wife and we can grow old together and die within a couple decades after relinquishing power

I know Byleth does do stuff post-CF but there’s such a stark difference between their position outside of CF vs in CF that it’s funny to think of her as more of a spouse than anything else.

Oh man that is such a good description of the routes 🤣 But even though the second one is way more mundane than becoming the immortal ruler of Fódlan, it's so iddy for me. I love the idea of Byleth being Edelgard's right hand. I love the idea of her seeing Edelgard's cause as a good one and wanting to serve in whatever capacity she needs to in order to make the world a better place--even if it means she's not the one in charge. I love the loyalty and devotion and the humility of eschewing power in service of something/someone else. In past FE games my favourite characters were often the knights who served one of the lords so I guess CF Byleth plays out more like that to me. It's funny because when I first played 3H and they said Faerghus was the land loyal knights I thought I'd like that route. But when I finally played it, I was appalled by the blind loyalty of the Blue Lions. They follow Dimitri in AM not because they believe that marching on Enbarr completely outnumbered is the right thing to do, but because he's king and they feel duty-bound. And in VW where Dimitri never recovers his senses they die for it at the battle of Gronder; if you haven't recruited them in that route it's a bloodbath. So I guess all that to say that I love Byleth/Edelgard as a sort of knight-liege ship, but one that isn't based on duty or blind loyalty. CF Byleth is also a confidante to Edelgard who makes her a better person and ruler, and Byleth makes a very specific choice to follow her. The choice (at the Holy Tomb) is such a crucial part of dynamic, and something I really appreciated in the game, that following Edelgard is not an accidental choice. These are all parts of the ship that I really love and that are a central part of how I write Byleth.

[honeydots]

What about Awakening pairings? And feel free to add other Fire Emblem Pairings you like from other games.

for awakening.... i have less defined ones haha. my big faves are chrom/robin (OR chrom/robin/olivia) and lucina/severa. tho i also like multishipping olivia with the entire 1st gen cast LOL. but to name a few i like more than others: frederick/sumia, gerome/laurent, say'ri/tiki, and donnel/nowi!! but overall im pretty much open to most ships in awakening haha im easily swayed

im very slow at playing games so thus far the only other fe games I've played are 3h and feh. despite how i post abt other ones i will get there!!! just!!! slowly!!!! hahaha

for 3h i like edelgard/fbyleth, claude/(dimitri, lorenz, hilda), mbyleth/(lindhardt, yuri), hilda/marianne, dorothea/ingrid, and ummm sylvain/felix lol. none of these are hard and fast tho im extremely bendable when it comes to 3h ships

and finally in feh i like fjorm/(eir, laegjarn), ive been warming up to alfonse/bruno, sharena can have as many gfs as she wants, and alfonse/kiran!! tho again. nothing rly set in stone here

long answer but there you have it!!!

[overtsexting]

if you could make any common fire emblem ship incestuous which would you pick? Personally I think Roy/Lilina would perfect if they were siblings

hmmmmmmmm idk too much about roy/lilina but that sounds good 🤔 i’ve also always thought marth and caeda actively look like siblings. i think for a while i genuinely was convinced she was his sister until i realised they were a couple

celica and alm iirc could be interpreted as pseudoincest, but from what i remember reading that’s a little more implied in gaiden than SoV i’ve played neither. celica and alm as more unambiguous siblings would be quite good tho

dimitri and edelgard is obviously already also pseudoincest, but they were only step siblings for like a minute, edelgard didn’t know, and dimitri didn’t learn until much later. but actual step sibling dimitri/edelgard would be quite fun

i’m trying to recall other canon fe ships and all of them either wouldn’t make sense (like sigurd/deirdre) or already kind of are incest lol (like nanna/leif)

[problematic-fodlan]

FE has been cribbing from dating sims since at least Awakening, but if any route of Three Houses is written like one it's obviously CF since it requires you to see some of the lord's supports and explicitly romantic moments between the MC and the lord are written into the main story. Which CF can do because Edelgard is bi for Byleth where Dimitri and Claude aren't. (Rhea is also bi for Byleth, but she's in less than two chapters total of SS so it's a lot less noticeable.)

Sylvix, Dimilix, Dimidue, Netteflix etc all contribute nothing to the dating sim aesthetic since they don't involve the MC which is highly unusual for the genre. How spread out the popularity of the Lions ships is really says a lot about how *not* like a dating sim AM is, and how big of a gap there is between fans of F!Dimileth and fans of those other ships says how unsatisfying AM's MC romance is for many people. Anyone claiming that AM is more like a dating sim is either trolling or has never played a real dating sim before.

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[bigklingy]

Well I guess this could be sorta fun. Also, spoilers here. 1. It was a Fire Emblem game. 2. No, and all of them but the original FE1 and FE2. 3. Chris Hackney got robbed HARD of Best Performance at the 2019 Game Awards. 4. Azure Moon. 5. Verdant Wind. 6. Azure Moon. 7. I made a tier list on my tumblr a while back but I'm too lazy to search for it. 8. Kronya should've been a recurring villain, instead of dying half a chapter after killing Byleth's dad. Imagine if the BLACK KNIGHT went out like that?? 9. Ahem, "Dimitri's motivation is maxed out." A.k.a "Dimitri goes bananas." 10. Swordmaster for being better than its intended promotion somehow. 11. I forget, which kinda says something. 12. Sofibeth Arts did fanart of a memetic NPC from my first playthrough, Blilda! https://sofibeth-arts.tumblr.com/post/188826204925/thank-to-bigklingy-we-have-discovered-three 13. I don't read 3H fics. Too much discourse. 14. I have a silly Dimitri x Edelgard parody fic. 15. Have a hypothetical P5 crossover in my head. 16. Grappler Hanneman, Seteth, Flayn, Cyril, Alois, Catherine, Shamir, Manuela, Normal Hanneman, Rhea, Gilbert. 17. Ferdinand, Hubert, Edelgard, Linhardt, Petra, Caspar, Dorothea, Bernadetta. 18. Dimitri favourite, Dedue least, everyone else tied. BL are all so good it's hard to choose. 19. Hilda, Lysithea, Marianne, Lorenz, Ignaz, Claude, Raphael... lol I forgot Leonie entirely. (Sorry Leonie fans) 20. Manuela. 21. Sylvain, maybe? 22. Rhea. She doesn't strike me as someone interested in romance at all. 23. Well, Blilda (Green unit in AM Chapter 19 replacing Hilda if she's recruited) is a Female War Master... 24. Yuri I guess? 25. I don't feel Byleth's sexuality is conventional, but I don't have a specific label for it. 26. Dimitri, obvious pick is obvious. 27. Off the top of my head, Ignatz? 28. Bernadetta. While I don't agree with Edelgard ideologically, that's different from disliking the character. Bernadetta, I feel the game ends up fetishizing her abusive past to a disturbing degree. I'm aware this is a hot take. 29. Jeralt, Kronya, Claude, Rhea. 30. ANNA. A character with absolutely zero supports in a modern FE game should not exist. Worse, they're DLC. Skipping all design questions, would require me to look through tons of art and I don't have a good sense of design aesthetics anyway. 37. I seem to remember someone had funny dining dialogue but I forget who. 38. Felix liking cats made me lol. 39. Hilda I guess. 40. Dorothea always offers to join without me even trying. I'm not sure why. 41. Claude ships Edelgard/Dimitri and distributes his fanart and fanfiction during the war as propaganda. 42. Azure Moon has the best writing for Edelgard. 43. Sylvain/Mercedes. 44. Edelgard/Dimitri is HILARIOUS and my coping mechanism when discourse bothers me. 45. Sylvain/Mercedes. 46. Unsure. 47. Hilda. It's really the ONLY one I've done, but it was fine. 48. Hilda/Marianne, I'M SORRY. I just don't see it. 49. Dorothea/Hanneman. WHY is this romantic and explicitly mentions them having children, when his endings with all other students are platonic?? 50. FEMALE BYLETH/MERCEDES, easily. Compared to the other female bi options, I feel this is rarely talked about.

50 Questions of FE3H

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What drew you to / made you pick up and play FE3H?

Was FE3H your first Fire Emblem game?  If not, which other games did you play?

Who is your favorite FE3H voice actor?

Which route did you play through first in FE3H?

Which route did you play through last?

Which route is your favorite?

Which side quest / paralogue was your favorite?

What storyline threads should have had more development / been further explored?

What is your favorite scene in the game (can be in the main story or a support convo)?

What’s your favorite combat class?

What’s your go-to weapon or spell in combat?

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Rank the Church of Seiros characters from your favorite to least favorite.

Rank the Black Eagles from your favorite to least favorite.

Rank the Blue Lions from your favorite to least favorite.

Rank the Golden Deer from your favorite to least favorite.

What character do you headcanon as bi?

What character do you headcanon as poly?

What character do you headcanon as ace or aro?

What character do you headcanon as trans?

What character do you headcanon as genderfluid?

What character do you headcanon as another sexual orientation or gender identify not listed above?

Who is your overall favorite character?

Which character do you feel “meh” about?

What character do you not like at all / hate?

What character should have gotten more development?

What characters should have more support options and who should have been their support options?

What is your favorite pre-timeskip character design or outfit?

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Which characters would you like to see switch pre-timeskip designs (for fun)?

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Who are your favorite dining partners?

Who is your favorite teatime companion?

Who is your favorite / most used combat unit?

What character do you always recruit, no matter which route you are playing and why?

What is a favorite character headcanon (can be one you came up with or one you liked / adopted from someone else)?

Do you have / are you willing to share a possibly controversial opinion or headcanon you have about a character?

Who is your favorite in-game ship (meaning they have supports and a confirmed romantic ending card)?

Who is your favorite headcanon ship (meaning they either have supports but not necessarily a romantic ending or they may have no supports at all)?

Who is your FE3H OTP?

Who is your FE3H poly ship?

Who is your favorite Byleth ship?

What is a popular ship that you don’t care for / don’t like?

What is a general (not necessarily popular) ship that you don’t care for / don’t like?

Which ship do you wish was more popular / had more content available?

[fe3h-incorrectquotes]

Claude: I need some house leader drama, stat!

Dimitri: I don’t think we’re that dramatic, Claude...

Claude: I’ve been gone for a week. Edelgard got a girlfriend and she killed someone.

[deyinger-draws-sometimes]

oof. this was one heck of a project. 

thanks to @madzelqreeates for the colors!

[feshippingpolls]

Could you do Edelgard/Dimitri, please?

FE: Should they kiss?

Edelgard x Dimitri

[gascon-en-exil]

2, 3, 8, 25 for Hubert?

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

That he's a murderer, and a patricide at that.

In past FEs and especially in Genealogy, voluntary kinslaying is presented as pretty much the worst crime you can commit, and a shorthand indicating that a character is an irredeemable monster who needs to die (ex. Chagall, Andrey). There are multiple conversations to that effect in FE4, and it crops up in a few other games as well; it's why the big Gaiden/Echoes twist is meant to hit as hard as it does, or why Ashnard has zero redeeming qualities when his backstory essentially amounts to "removing" his entire family.

And meanwhile Hubert's over here casually killing his father offscreen in two separate continuities for no greater reason than political expedience, and sometimes even getting away with it. Koei-Tecmo doesn't appear to place the same moral weight on kinslaying, since Dimitri, Claude, and...Ferdinand all perform such an act onscreen in Hopes (hmm, I wonder if the reason Edelgard is the only house leader excluded here has anything to do with the topic of my latest video...?), but I don't think that detracts from Hubert committing Obvious Villain Act #1 and giving not one single solitary fuck about it.

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

Mostly his Lysithea supports in Hopes, which try to spin him as loving his mother and younger sister in spite of the aforementioned gleeful kinslaying. You can't tell me he wouldn't murder his other relatives if he believed they somehow posed a threat to Edelgard's reign. Like a few of his other Hopes supports, it's a conspicuously cutesy spin on a character who otherwise escapes the generally ridiculous ways that the writing of both games attempts to make Edelgard and Jeritza sympathetic. (She draws pictures of her teacher! He likes kittens and ice cream!)

8. What’s something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

Related to the above, any attempt at softening Hubert. He's a calculating, ruthless murderer who would do literally anything if he thought it would further Edelgard's rule even if it's behind her back or she expressly forbids it, because he - in that standard incel vein - thinks he knows what a woman wants better than she does. That characterization has the potential for so much black comedy, especially when thrown up against the guileless and indefatigable Ferdinand.

Why anyone would want to throw that away and replace it with an angsty emo who's not really a bad guy once you get to know him is beyond me. If you want an angsty guy with a massive guilt complex, Dimitri's right there and even gayer.

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

When we first got his character intro in spring 2019: "He looks like Iago. He's going to push Edelgard into evil, or betray her halfway through the story...but still be playable, probably?"

Now, he's every bit as ugly and evil as I expected, and then some. Carries the constantly-faltering tone of Crimson Flower on his bony shoulders, a badass dark mage and a playable patricide, and to top it all off he's bisexual in a way that none of the bi-for-Byleth options can even touch, and unlike Dimitri fandom at large has turned Ferdibert into his most popular ship. One of the mostly unexpectedly good characters to have come out of FE16, considering that at the end of the day he still pretty much is "but what if we made Iago playable?"

[huberts-private-counsel-archive]

what if glenn survived the tragedy and was taken by twitd as a test subject or to turn into a backup death knight - and that's how he and hubert meet

...WELL. NEVER DID I THINK THIS IS HOW GLENN WOULD BE TAGGED ON THIS BLOG JDGDHDGD (also w ow  this has been sitting in here for a while sjkghdf)

But! Glenn as either a test subject or a Death Knight back up huh? I can’t imagine he and Hubert would get the chance to interact too much, at least not at the beginning. 

I can imagine though, as time goes by, and Hubert learns about Glenn, the boy that had been kidnapped on his deathbed by TWSITD for their twisted experiments...he’d start feeling more unsettled. He would try to brush off these feelings of discomfort, as he logically has no reason to care about him whatsoever.

(But then Hubert thinks of Lady Edelgard. Of how she and her siblings used to run freely through the halls, smiling and laughing all the while as they played and talked in the carefree way only children could. Of how once, the smiles Lady Edelgard gave were not burdened by the years she would never gain back. Of how Lady Edelgard’s hair was once brown, of how he used to brush and tie it with ribbons, to his lady’s delight.

Of how, her hair now white and smiles all but genuine, sometimes Hubert can hear her crying out for her lost siblings in her sleep.)

And one day, Glenn Fraldarius looks up to find a boy, who couldn’t have been much older than his little brother was, opening the door to his cell and urging him to follow. 

Bonding might be...a little awkward at first. Glenn might not be willing to trust Hubert, even if Hubert had freed him and was helping him to hide from TWSITD, and Hubert might be berating himself for freeing Glenn when he had no reason to. But a tentative bond might begin to emerge when Edelgard gets involved, having learned of what Hubert did.

(And Glenn feels a pang in his heart, seeing this little girl with the same white hair as his and the same exhaustion and pain in her eyes.)

Hubert and Glenn might bond over their roles (or former role, in Glenn’s case) of looking after their lieges. Hubert would probably admire Glenn for being so willing to put his life down for Dimitri...to which Glenn might shut down right then and there. Giving up your life for your liege is not respectable, it’s not admirable, he still had people he wanted to go home to that he would never see again because he had done that. 

Maybe Glenn could be the beginning to Hubert actually having a sense of self-preservation? Maybe, maybe not. But it is a possibility.