#Dimiclaudeblaigan

[randomnameless]

Church BaD.

Of course they’re BaD, why didn’t they intervene in Galatea beforehand, to teach them how to farm poor agricultural lands?

What’s that? The Count didn’t invite them before? Faerghus BaD? Well, if Rhea made flyers and distributed them around Fodlan as she ought to, telling people her church can help them with various issues, like growing crops, this situation would never have arisen.

Tl;dr : Faerghus BaD, Church BaD

[umbralstars]

29 and 38 for the ask game!

Thank you for the ask! And I apologize that it is late!

38: Who's your favorite tea time companion?

[Looks at my 100+ pictures of Claude] I don't have a definitive favorite aknskssn Okay but seriously I used the tea time specifically for Claude Far too much during my first play through and I made sure to host one for him on his birthday during my current AM run. I have his prompts pretty much memorized

29: What character should've gotten more development?

People are gonna think I'm insane but tbh I wanted more development out of Felix. (My criticisms below the cut)

I understand he already gets a lit, but for me it didn't go far enough especially in-terms of making amends for past shit he's done and said. I'm replaying AM rn and a lot of his dialog in supports and elsewhere during White Clouds (I'm thinking Dedue, Dimitri, Ingrid, a lot of people...) goes beyond "edgy teenager" territory for me into "he's a fucking Prick." And not in a fun way either.

I'll admit that I'm not fond of White Clouds Felix 😅 I do think he gets better as AM goes on; however, for half of the story he rubs against a character set of traits/archetype that really squicks me out. I would've liked to see more of an apology in Both words and actions. Especially to Dimitri. It's been awhile since I've played AM (which is why I'm going through it now), so there may be some things I forgot, but I've always felt wanting for more.

[randomnameless]

For some reason though in Hopes, he thinks he understands Faerghus as well as he understands Almyra.

That explains so much lol

We don't hear about "uwu forced marriages uwu" in the Alliance, but there are some books in the shadow Library about someone running away from a marriage (a Daphnel iirc? Claudia?) - and yet, there isn't anything suggesting this marriage was forced/piloted by the Central Church or anything.

Back to Almyra though, we know that like Adrestia, Almyra operates on a consort/harem system - Tiana is the Queen, but Tiana also has to "deal" with the children of her hubby's concubines, who try/tried to ice her son.

Again, pretty sure no Central Church is involved with the system where Papa Claude/Ionius has a myriad of consorts and children as a result.

Or maybe he could have thought his grandparents would never have approved of his mother marrying his father because Church wouldn't have approved it, or maybe Tiana already had a suitor/fiancée back in Leicester?

But

1/ that's just headcanon

2/ there are several good reasons why some people wouldn't be super happy at having the leader of the nation who invades and rampages in your cities every monday as a son-in-law.

You know who should have told him he was full of shit but never does because Naga forbids Claude being challenged in both games? Lorenz.

Lorenz is trying to find a suitable spouse (it's not forced marriage but arranged marriages?) because he thinks of his house's station and future - it's something pretty common for all nobles, and, wait, guess what? The Central Church doesn't have anything to do with Nobles trying to marry other Nobles.

Again, this thing is so ridiculous, coming from Claude, that either, as you said, he thinks he knows Fodlan and Faerghus in particular as well as he knows Almyra (aka a 12 years old orphan knows more about Almyra than him) so it backfires but no one is here to challenge him because Fodlan - or, he is trying to throw pasta at a wall to see if it sticks, and devoted people believe him because they like soggy pasta, idk.

Another reason why the whole "forced marriages" concept (that Rhea haters ate up like pie) is bullshit.

Speaking for Faerghus, since this seems to be an issue players point the finger at Faerghus for, it's just... not true? This NPC does understand there are political implications to his marriage, but he wasn't forced into it and neither was his wife. They married for love.

The only known case of an arranged marriage prospect within Faerghus' known cast is Ingrid, and that's something Ingrid has taken on for herself as well. She knows her lands struggle with crops and that her people go hungry. She's choosing to deal with a non-romantic marriage for her people.

But what about Glenn, you ask? There are two aspects to that:

The marriage was arranged when Ingrid was born, but it's worth noting the marriage was arranged between Gunnar and a childhood friend's son. She wasn't just being married off to just anyone. It was both a childhood friend (who Gunnar clearly had deep trust in)'s son, but also a family member of the royal family's right hand family. But what about the Houses paralogue, you ask? Gunnar wasn't aware of the man's crimes, but as soon as he found out he rejected the proposal. Gunnar cares about his daughter's happiness and wellbeing. The only reason they're searching for a marriage candidate is because Galatea lands desperately need the financial support.

Ingrid is the only case we know of where she's being "married off" (her endings rebuke this entirely anyway because she does end up marrying for love if paired with someone). Nobody else in Faerghus had a marriage forced or politically forced on them (and frankly I still fail to understand how the Church is supposedly at fault for concept of this being the case period anyway). Dimitri, the literal prince and at the time of birth immediate heir to the throne, was never forced to marry. Felix has never been pushed to marry. Sylvain has never been pushed to marry (despite how important it is that they continue that bloodline). Annette, a female, has never been pushed to marry.

In other words, the major political players have never put their kids into arranged marriage with a single exception of necessity for one family (Galatea), and in Rodrigue's case with Glenn, it was done with a childhood friend's lands' welfare in mind. Gunnar could have married Ingrid to anyone at any point, but the most important aspect of it is that when it was arranged without her say so (i.e. at her birth), it was done with the son of a man who Gunnar trusted implicitly.

After Glenn died, Ingrid was plenty old enough to have a say so in who she might be married to. Presumably the issue wasn't pushed on her for a while after Glenn died for emotional reasons, but once they tried again, Ingrid had a say in things. Her father sent her letters specifically for her input. No, she doesn't want to marry for political reasons, but she understands how much her lands need it. Still though, her father won't force her to marry some scumbag. If she tells him she won't marry someone, he accepts that.

In other words, the only argument that can be used for "forced marriages" falls flat on its face. It's not a regular practice in Faerghus. None of the heirs to specific territories are being married against their will. The only instance we know about isn't so extreme that Gunnar is just going for it and picking the best dowry without considering his daughter's happiness and health.

The one time it was decided before she was old enough to give her input, Gunnar didn't need to "consider" marriage prospects and be unsure who to pick, because it was planned between two old friends who trusted each other and presumably felt that their child would be safe with the other family in question.

My biggest problem with people saying this claim is supported is that for the most part, people just take Claude's words in GW at pure face value and assume it's absolute, definite truth when he gives nor has any evidence to back it up (mainly because he blames it on the Church, which still doesn't make sense because such things are out the Church's jurisdiction. No amount of "seeing what the world is like without Rhea" is going to change Faerghus' politics, so even if his claims were true, Claude would have to go talk to every single individual territory within Faerghus to realize the truth if he's that dead set on his view of this, as each territory does its own thing politically).

He brings it up like it's a fact in Faerghus, which as I've said before, he has literally no knowledge whatsoever about Faerghus, and it shows. He doesn't even know extremely basic things, such as the previous king literally dying in the middle of making friends with a foreign land. He knows that Lambert died in Duscur during the Tragedy, and that's... basically the extent of his knowledge and understanding about it. For some reason though in Hopes, he thinks he understands Faerghus as well as he understands Almyra.

It's also annoying because in Fodlan games, a character can just say something - literally anything at all - and it's eaten up immediately and taken at pure face value with no thoughts actually put into questioning its validity. And before anyone says "but Dimitri didn't argue this in Zaharas!" yeah, I'm aware, and I feel that was a huge reason why that chapter, trying to be the "we fight as allies this once" chapter, was a total flop, aside from other things (particularly in the SB/GW department with Dimitri and magically wanting to "talk things over" with someone who had just murdered one of his dearest friends mere hours ago tops in SB, or in GW where politics would demand more from him).

The games have a problem with trying to introduce false concepts through characters who don't know better (i.e. introducing incorrect perspectives that we're meant to understand are just perspectives and not the truth nor fact) but then not refuting those claims, despite the game itself as the story progresses outright denying those things, whether outright or passively (in the latter's case, again, other important political figures having no talks of marriage on the table at all).

In the screenshots, the NPC is aware that politics have to get involved with his marriage, but he wasn't forced to marry and neither was she. Not only does he mention it, but he wants people to know they married for love. He's basically saying he doesn't want people to misinterpret their reasons for marriage (wanting land, wealth, etc).

In Ingrid's case, it was started with that goal in mind, but it started out in safe hands. After that she always had a say in who she might marry, and ultimately didn't marry for political reasons. The one person who was possibly going to marry for political reasons in Faerghus and not out of love ends up not even doing that.

Honestly, in Claude's case, I feel like he was just written with no purpose in mind except to rock the boat unnecessarily, because everything he claims in regard to Faerghus is purely speculation on his part. He knows absolutely nothing about Faerghus (in both games, but his ignorance in Houses isn't malicious, whereas you could argue in Hopes he's attempting to overthrow what he believes are their systems when even if they were, it would still be none of his business) but talks like he's lived there or spoken to its people who make the decisions he claims are happening.

Also, the concept of Dimitri being forced to do this that and the other thing are just... not true? Dimitri is happy to be able to help others and make reforms for his lands. He likes that he's able to have the power to make good change and help people. He knows that you need a certain degree of power to be able to push things in a better direction and to have a voice. By having the most important voice, he can make other voices known that otherwise would not be. When people have no choice but to listen to the king, he can demand that other voices are heard.

Even in his A support with Shez, he believes his happiest moment will be when he dies after dedicating his life to "a peaceful kingdom full of joyous citizens". I get the whole "but he isn't living for himself!" side of things, but this part of this post is specifically about how Dimitri is supposedly "forced" into doing things because he's king; but plain and simple, he wants to be king because by having the highest power in his land, he can make positive change happen

"This bad thing is happening in the Kingdom!" Well now he can change that. He wants to change things in his land for the better, and he understands that his position is a necessity for that. That's why he's so upset when he's "rendered powerless by age" in Houses, i.e. can't ascend the throne yet. He wanted to make change and couldn't. He wanted to do right for the Kingdom, but he couldn't yet.

Basically what I'm saying is that people keep using Claude's Hopes rhetoric as "fact", but literally none of it is. It's all based on the most severe amount of ignorance in both games and him for some reason believing that he knows jack shit about Faerghus. That includes the marriage "issue", which while I'd say it may exist in Adrestia (ex. Bernadetta being planned to marry Ferdinand), does not exist in Faerghus as any sort of "issue".

I don't recall if it's really even present in Leicester? So either... Claude just pulled that argument out of his absolute ass, or he's seeing an issue in Leicester and for some reason assuming his country's politics are every country's politics, which is, again, total ignorance (and he makes no effort to ever found out if any of that is true).

[godmodebeginswithlesbians]

hello what do u mean by diamant's map dialogue implying alfred is beautiful (he is, diamant is correct) i am not sure if i saw this before pls direct me to this line

as i said, its only an implication, but still 👀👀👀

ive prob screenshotted this like 3 seperate times since the game came out but i do enjoy this line so

[cherrypikkins]

@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!

I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.

If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.

Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)

A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.

But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!

By simply adding a few more lines, we can add a pair of eyes and a mouth. Maybe even a little triangle nose! Or half circles for ears. We can now draw a face, which provides a basis for all sorts of expressions.

These simple additions can allow us to explore the wide range of human emotion and individuality.

This may seem like the basics of the basics. But that is what we want! In order to get to the point where we are able to draw complex, elaborate representations of humans and objects, we will need to start with simple shapes like lines and circles and build our understanding from there.

For instance, lets give our stick person some cool new features, such as hands and feet. I chose little squiggly circles to represent hands, and triangles to represent feet.

We can go a step further and modify the body of the stick person to include shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. These parts of the human body are quite complex in real life But here, all we need to do is add a few simple lines and dots to our stick person.

The lines provide some additional structural elements to our stick person's body, which are the shoulders and the hips. The dots indicate the points of articulation - elbows and knees, the places where the arms and legs bend!

Now we can use our stick person to show us an even wider range of human movement, action, and expression.

Our little drawing of a human being is evolving! All it took was adding a few more lines and shapes here and there.

By elongating some of the existing lines and making the head an oval instead of a circle, we can give our stick person proportions that resemble that of a real life human.

By this point, we have managed to add more complexity to our stick person simply by using our ability to draw lines, circles, and other basic shapes!

These basic ideas are the building blocks that will enable us to create more complex shapes.

The next part may be a considerable step up if you are absolutely new to drawing, but I have decided to include it in order to show you how complex objects like the human body can be built from shapes that are a bit more complex than circles and lines.

For example. Two ovals and a rectangle can be combined to create a cylinder.

Six squares can be combined to create a cube, or a box. Here, each square is distorted slightly depending on which way the cube is facing.

Note that the back faces of the cube and the bottom of the cylinder are hidden. These shapes allow us to visualize that which should not normally visible.

A sphere from all perspectives can be represented by a circle. But we can make it more like a sphere by adding lighting and shadow if we so desire.

Cubes, cylinders, and spheres are examples of 'solid shapes' because they consist of 3 dimensions.

Lets see how these solid shapes can be used to compose the human body.

By stacking three cylindrical objects, we can create a torso. Two spheres have been added to form shoulders, while a smaller cylinder forms the neck.

An arm is an alternating sequence of spheres and cylinders connected together. Note that the hand has been simplified for this example.

We can apply these solid shapes to the rest of the body to give us a more recognizable representation of the human form. It doesn't even have to be perfect. And just like that, our stick figure now has a silhouette that is unmistakably a person!

In the above examples, notice that we kept the stick person at the beginning while building up the shapes and solids around it. This is because the stick person serves as a guide for positioning the body and its various parts -> also known as posing.

You can do the same thing to everyday objects! Here, I drew a wine glass by stacking these three dimensional solid shapes.

The cup and its contents are two ovoid shapes that were cut in half. The stem is a very thin cylinder shape. The base is a cylinder with a slightly wider bottom.

Solid shapes help inform us how objects and parts of the human body may appear from different perspectives.

For example, a sphere can be used to demonstrate how the human head appears when looking up or down, turned to the side, or tilted at an angle.

With these examples, I hope I have managed to convinced you that if you can draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can draw a person! You just have to train your eye to recognize the simple shapes within complex objects. Try it with everyday objects as well! Or even your favourite media! A drawing subject can be as simple or as complex as you envision it to be.

Once you have mastered that, there are many aspects of drawing you can explore from here that may require you to seek additional resources or a fellow artist's advice.

Last of all, remember that drawing is an iterative process. Even if you draw something correct the first time, you will need to draw it again and again to get it right all times! And by making small changes like the ones we explored in this tutorial, your drawings will gradually transform!

I hope what I've demonstrated here are enough to provide the basics of how to get started with drawing objects and people, and also to help refresh more experienced artists. :) Hopefully I didn't go too off topic with what was requested, and let me know if there are any more questions I can answer.

Cheers :3

[kalycoris]

Thank you for the bubble tea @dimiclaudeblaigan

you can find me here ; twitter / instagram / commissions / tiktok

[randomnameless]

I’m hopping on this post to mumble about the differences between voice actors :

Eng!Gilbert will avenge his daughter

Jp!Gilbert is more pissed (in his Gilbert way) doubling down on the “unforgivable” part, but he’s also trying to keep his composure because, hey, that’s his beloved daughter you killed and he’s beyond himself (anger and guilt : the traditional Gilbert package (tm) in a way).

bruhhh i swear to god gilbert deserves the best parent award in hopes and i’m not even saying that ironically

he’s so protective and doting and he cares about her so much

[toonster]

Commission for @dimiclaudeblaigan

Thanks so much for commissioning me! I hope you enjoy your little love birds 💜

[pento]

thank you for the surprise blaze :') i'm glad you liked my tutorial and hope others find it useful too. keeping myself anon so i don't self-promote too much. have a nice day! -cherry

thank you for creating your tutorial! in my many years on the internet, it's the first tutorial I've ever seen that made sense: they usually sound like "draw the rest of the fucking owl" to me. XD i'd given up on ever being able to draw people beyond stick figures!

i can appreciate not wanting to self-promote too much, but I think you should absolutely be proud of your work. it's a rare skill to be talented at something, and able to explain it in a way that a novice can understand. personally, i see self promotion as just sharing that knowledge even wider. :)

and for everyone who hasn't seen this post blazed across their dash yet, you should absolutely check it out!

[squeaky-potat]

Thank you @dimiclaudeblaigan for your drawing request of Sylvain and Miklan!

It was fun drawing these brothers I don’t know if I would have ever tackled drawing Miklan on my own. But I’m pretty happy with how he turned out!

I’m still taking FE3H requests! If you’d like so see a character or set of characters in this style, send me an ask! Please indicate pre time-skip, post time-skip or three hopes outfit(s). I want to thank everyone for their requests and patience as I work through as many as I can. ✨

[yeiko-za]

I was recently able to join VGen and have been working on some commissions

And these are some of the ones I have completed

The first belongs to @dimiclaudeblaigan

I really enjoyed working on your commission and thank you for the opportunity.

[randomnameless]

@dimiclaudeblaigan replied to your post “About that Listhea and Edelgard dialogue on crest...”:

Miklan wasn't removed from the family for not having a crest actually. He was disinherited but still part of the family. He was disowned after years and years of trying to kill Sylvain and being a bandit.

​Yep!

I still don't really like how FE16 tried to "uwu" Miklan's story to make Supreme Leader have a point about the crust system - as you said, if possession of a crest, rather lack of, was the only reason why someone would be removed from family, Miklan would have been ousted from the Gautier fam the second Sylvain was born, but it wasn't the case.

Dishinerited yes, but not disowned, and we know several characters (Rufus, Ingrid's bros, Gustave!) who have "crested" siblings, and yet aren't kicked away from their houses or left with a loaf of bread and a glass of water.

But FE16 - at least the spoken lines by the characters, because Hresvelg Grey - completely elude this to harp on the "crust system", and as some people pointed out, between "first son gets the title" and "first child with a crest gets the title" rules, I can't really say which one is worse lol

we know how it happened in jugdral, in a verse where Azmur picks Seliph as the next king of Granvalle because he's Deedee's firstborn son regardless of his minor Naga Blood, without Julia, the world is fucked the second Manfroy reads the "Loptyr" bedtime story to Julius

[sevarix-blogs]

i used to not like yuri (and the other ashen wolves) because i was just kind of bitter about them being dlc + the whole "pay to be gay" thing. i never disliked any of them as characters really, more like instinctive knee jerk reaction i suppose. but following you made me actually look at his character as a character and not just a money grab. kind of dumb reasoning i know but i couldn't help it.

ah i hope this makes sense and doesn't sound mean. in any case i love him now 💜💜💜

(to dimiclaudeblaigan i did see it)

ah i see! yeah it's easy to be bitter about dlcs... but I'm glad you can appreciate him now!

[randomnameless]

This is just so wild and the reason why I crap so much on the Fodlan games in general.

Marianne will not give a flying fuck about attacking the CoS (whose grave sin is to exist or to have survived Supreme Leader's initial onslaught) - and no some "i wonder if we're doing the right thing" doesn't cut it - but then she will uwu and wonder if Ashnard is okay because...

Well, people might be dying right and left, even your own and the ones you swore to protect, but really, did anyone even thought about the agressor's poor feefees?

Why the fuck Marianne spares more thoughts and consideration to Supreme Leader than to her past victims (the people of Faerghus, the Church, even the people of the Alliance) or "her" current ones (the Adrestian randoms being diced by the Imperial army for no plausible reason)???

At this rate I wonder if Rhea (and maybe Catherine and Cyril? Felix too?) aren't the only characters in the "heroic" cast who don't bend backwards to express some sort of sympathy for her in FE16/Nopes.

ah yes, she's concerned about the aggressor and attacker who was invading them six months ago. something is wrong with the empire right now, poor edelgard; whatever could've happened to her? :(

like... what. why do you care about what's going on with her specifically when she's the person who made the decision to invade leicester? does the whole war just mean nothing to marianne? it's just totally fine that all those people died in a war edelgard started? poor edelgard, something happened to her after she started her attack? you're concerned about the leader who gave the order to attack your home?

hopes has stupid lines but this one is top tier of the top tier and just an excuse for more edelgardjerking from the writers.

[mysticdragon3art]

Redraw of my Dimiclaude modern AU crossover fanart.

3/11/2023 version of my previous 3/7/2023 sketch: https://www.tumblr.com/mysticdragon3art/711217080605786112/oh-no-alfred-is-feeding-dimitri-weeds-lol

There were some problems with my original 3/7/2023 sketch that I wanted to fix, and I did fix most of it digitally on Krita. But after a few recent scares with electronic devices breaking, I'd feel much better if I could have finalized versions of my drawings in my analog sketchbook, as much as possible. That way, when drives fail or laptops get damaged, I can just re-scan my sketchbooks, instead of losing a lot of digital work to be re-done.

3/11/2023 pencil trace of 3/7/2023 sketch, onto wax paper, flipped, traced with pencil again, then flipped again, to transfer onto sketchbook page. Inked lines with Stabilo Point 88 pens, Copic Multiliner Black 0.25 & 0.03 pens, Copic Multiliner Wine 0.3 pen, and Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush 054. Colored with Copic markers and ShinHan Art Touch markers. Messed up Law's face and fixed on Krita. After I drew Law with an annoyed expression in my original 3/7/2023 sketch, I wanted to give him a cute expression, but ran out of time. (Fortunately, got funny feedback on that. Thanks, dimiclaudeblaigan!) So this version gives Law the cute expression I wanted. Some grooves in paper from tracing, made it too difficult to draw Claude's top eyelids.

Modern AU where Dimitri is a trans man married to Claude, and their children are Alfred (from Fire Emblem Engage) and Law (from Tales of Arise). Headcanons inspired by https://dmclemblems.tumblr.com/post/695340088928993280/the-happy-dimiclaude-family-expands-with-a-new

[raxistaicho]

How to piss off Dimiclaude stans in one fell swoop:

(This is in response to this post, which I cannot reblog for some reason: https://diaphin93.tumblr.com/post/712914761321414656/vagrantsea-dimiclaudeblaigan-how-to-piss-off)

Also yeah, this is beyond petty, but the bizarre obsession with proving Edelgard likes men too from her criticals (some even go as far as to say she prefers men) is a bit weird.

@diaphin93​

@vagrantsea