#Fernando paladins

[n0cturnal-g0d]

How am I JUST FINDING OUT that both Saati and Fernando are canonly gay?! Like I absolutely love that, I just had never heard that until just now?!

[dr-wormman]

Hey guys I love this guy so much I'm posting a long ass paragraph about him in a second so look out for that if you want to

[funkii4-blog]

Look at these edits that the official instagram posted today!! <3

[where-is-my-sanity-daaaave]

I really need to finish making F1 Drivers into D&D Characters before one of them gets yeeted from the grid.

[nyxitycatboy]

atlas 🤝 nyx the "excessively overextend into the enemy becuase you can use your ability to negate the last few seconds of damage" technique

[omaaoc]

I think its funny that the Paladins wiki only has Fernando and Saati listed as lgbtq+ characters despite the fact that Saati absolutely has fucked at least Skye and Kinessa (possibly Lian too). I guess they just just did it heterosexually

[evyeluvz]

14-Days In Love Letters 'Till Valentine's Day: Feb-14, 2024

Photo by Fernando Cortu00e9s on Pexels.com To my paladin I would never have been able to write this publicly without believing in myself and taking the leap of faith. Being an online writer requires a lot of dedication, creativity, and determination to reach success and make your name known. A writer, in general, needs to have a tendency toward extreme sensitivity, openness to the…

[rosenongrata]

why does HSR Argenti give me Fernando from Paladins vibes

[banukai]

Oh they put Fernando Paladins into Overwatch

[zathong]

Paladins Tier List 2023 – Season 6

Hey, I’m Zathong and this guide is about Paladins tier list 2023. I will help you choose the best champions in the current meta.

Paladins pro tier list

Tier S:

Khan, Drogoz, Kasumi, Androxus, Barik, Azaan, Caspian.

Tier A:

Inara, Vora, VII, Lillith, Koga, Vatu, Fernando.

Tier B:

Lian, Viktor, Mal’damba, Corvus, Rei, Makoa, Bomb King, Cassie, Imani, Seris, Ying, Saati, Betty la Bomba.

Tier C:

Sha Lin, Strix, Willo, Furia, Zhin, Raum, Yagorath, Atlas, Ash, Io, Terminus, Torvald, Kinessa, Grover, Jenos, Pip, Evie, Lex, Talus.

Tier D:

Tyra, Vivian, Grohk, Maeve, Dredge, Ruckus, Buck.

Source: https://zathong.com/paladins-tier-list/

[matmatto1]

KOLEKTIVNI,, SELEKTIVNI, TEMACKI, LIKOVNI PROJEKT MEMORIJA

Gradska galerija Fonticus Grožnjan / Grisignana predstavlja: srijeda / mercoledì, 28. XII. 2022. u 18.00 h >>MEMORIJA / MEMORIA selektirani, međunarodni, kolektivni, tematski, likovni projekt / progetto figurativo, internazionale, selettivo, colletivo, tematico >autori / autorice: Lea Bernetič Zelenko, Elvis Berton, Matjaž Borovničar, Darko Brajković Njapo, Ivna Bruck, Luciano Bunić, Dean Buzleta, Samir Cerić Kovačević, Barbara Cetina, Collaborative Art Project (Iran), Andrea Čović, Fabio Damuggia, Bruna Dobrilović, Slađan Dragojević, Petar Dugandžić, Fernando Marcus, Lana Flanjak, Fabio Gasparini, Željka Gradski, Boris Grozdanič Gorjan, Daša Grozdanič Gorjan, Igor Gustini, Judita Horvatinović, Slavica Isovska, Pamela Ivanković, Marino Jugovac, Amina Konate Visintin, Silvana Konjevoda, Vianney Lefebvre, Miranda Legović, Lovorka Lukani, Milan Marin, Sandra Masato, Moreno Matković, Mersiha Merdžanović, Vanja Mervič, Josip Mijić, Vesna Paladin, Renata Papišta, Renata Pentek, Dijana Rajković, Branka Riđički, Luisa Ritoša, Shabnam, Shahpari, Jur Samec, Goranka Supin, Vesna Špoljar, Iva Štefanac, Luiza Štokovac, Zlata Tomljenović, Asja Vasiljev, Marija Vasiljev, Alan Vlahov, Roberta Weissman Nagy, Matilda Zanini, Marko Zelenko, Martin Zelenko (10-tak država...) >autor projekta / autore del progetto: Eugen Borkovsky otvorenje izložbe: srijeda / mercoledì, 28. XII. 2022. u 18.00 h Gradska galerija Fonticus / Galleria Civica Fonticus

[dr-wormman]

Hello and welcome to my very cool Fernando essay. Rant. Thing. Might make sense and might not. I don't know

For those unaware (I can't imagine anyone who follows me for my Paladins art doesn't, but if you don't I still love you dearly), the Fernando that we know and love isn't actually *Fernando*-- he's a guy pretending to be his late mentor (AKA the REAL Fernando. Fernando no.1). This means that anything that Fernando no.2 says or does may or may not be indicative of how he actually feels or thinks, which makes it kind of difficult to get a feel for how he actually is under the armor. but I think I might Get It.

I don't know if I'm going to phrase this how I am thinking it but I will try: Fernando reminds me a bit of Don Quixote… Unlike Don Quixote, Fernando is quite literally a knight who does real knight things, but he’s similar in the way he acts like how he Thinks a knight acts. To the point where it's so exaggerated and comical that it feels like a caricature. He is genuinely courageous and confident (how much of that confidence is genuine I don't know) but that confidence is (translated?) into narcissism and that courage into recklessness. He's definitely reckless, but I think most of that narcissism is an act– a way for him to not only convince others, but also himself that he IS Fernando and he's proud of it. He's likely self-aware that he acts like a jackass (or maybe he isn't and he has more in common with Don Quixote than I think) but he can't really tone it down at this point because he's established That That Is How Fernando Acts. Speaking of jackassery… His flirting with women.

I think two things are happening here; 1) he's leaning way too far into the ‘chivalrous lady’s man knight’ persona he thinks All Knights Have, and 2) he's trying REALLY hard to make sure no one finds out he's gay. (and also the devs did not plan to make him gay. Lol). Based on one of the lines from… I think Cassie? He's been persistent in his flirting with her even though she's said that she doesn't like it…So not cool… I think he does this partly because he IS kind of a jackass at heart but also because he's thinking “if I show that I'm REALLY into women then no one will suspect that I'm Not”. May also be because he thinks all knights do this. Quick detour for a second; I'm pretty sure he's basing what he knows about knights on what he's seen from his mentor, so he's actually doing a pretty good job impersonating him, but he also doesn't realize that he's not obligated to act this way. People can change, even your dead mentor that you're impersonating. He doesn't know this, because he might actually be as silly as he acts (I haven't decided yet). Anyway, back to The Closet of His Own Making… I don't think homophobia exists in the Paladins universe (there are magic crystals and rabbit people and the giant worm who wants to eat the universe. Gay people are the least of their concern) so there wouldn't be any backlash if he were to come out (or even engage in homosexual activity on the DL). So he's not concerned with it having any repercussions on his career as a knight, or public opinion, or whatever, just with it potentially giving away that he isn't who he says he is (which I guess would end up impacting those things anyway. Huh). A lot of people point to Fernando flirting with women as ‘evidence’ of him being straight (I mean, you can HC whatever you want, I don't care, but if the devs say it's canon, it's canon, no matter how… Not Thought Out it Was) but I'm actually really happy about those lines because I feel it adds to the Fucked-upness of his character.

I wrote something a little while ago that I'm basically going to summarize now; I feel like… Fernando is VERY insecure. That's probably obvious, Considering, you know, He's impersonating another dude. It's like he has imposter syndrome… but he kind of IS an imposter– he would be, 100%, if it weren't for the fact that he has actually done things, and accomplished things, he's not just taking credit for things he hasn't done while he sits back and does nothing – all of Fernando no.1’s accomplishments prior to his death do not belong to Fernando no.2, but everything after that Does, and I would say that Fernando no.2 has accomplished more than Fernando no.1 if you look at where he’s at now. He's constantly worried about slipping up, saying more than he should, saying the Wrong thing, etc. He’s like “I could expose myself as a fraud at any moment” but he's NOT a fraud at this point. Would there still be disastrous consequences if he revealed himself? Yeah, probably. It's weird, because he's not Fernando but he also IS… He's fought in battles and won, just not as himself. Do you get what I'm saying. He's done the thing he says he does, just not ALL the things. Fernando doesn't realize this, of course, because he's just as silly as he acts (I've decided) and so his internal monologue is a nonstop stream of “I'll never be him, I'll never be as great as him, my life is a lie, I'm not actually as brave/confident/handsome/chivalrous as he was, Etc.”

This has got to be stressful as hell, so why does he keep doing it? I don't know. Lol. But I have a theory (this entire thing has been a theory. Headcanon. Whatever). Fernando genuinely enjoys the attention, the fame, and the money that he gets as Fernando, that's obvious, because why else would he put himself through all this? We know he doesn't come from a noble or rich family (and also received no formal training!!), so I'm thinking he wouldn't have gotten all this popularity if he had just been himself, and he knew this. I'm torn between the idea that he always wanted to fight and be a knight, or him just wanting notoriety and so he decided knighthood would do that for him (horrible sentence structure, couldn't figure out how to write it). It could also be a situation similar to Kinessa’s and why she left the military– because while she Does like sniping, she wasn't getting the money and fame she wanted while she was working for the Magistrate. If Fernando genuinely wanted to fight, he could have enlisted in the Magistrate’s army (or joined the resistance. maybe? Unsure of how old he was when the crystal war shit all started or if he would actually agree with them) or if he was just obsessed with the idea of being a knight, he could do that. The issue for him would be that he doesn't get any fame doing that as Himself. He is a nobody, and while a nobody could become a somebody, it's difficult, and I imagine it would be especially difficult in this sort of pseudo-medieval setting we’ve got going on where 5/10 people are either skilled warriors, literal gods/demons, magical, or have some sort of high status (leader of a kingdom, military, criminal organization, Whatever). Fernando is obviously skilled at combat so I don't think the knight thing was just for funsies. Uhhhhh I had something else to say but I forgot. Will add it here if I remember. It's like “I have to keep doing this because without it I am Nothing.”

Anyhow, I think while we’re probably never going to see this happen officially, Fernando is going to have a breakdown where he sort of implodes from all of the stress that comes with Pretending to be Another Dude for YEARS. Maybe he's just like “shit I can't do this no more” or… Considering he's with the New Magistrate (Aico) now, and working alongside Rei, Khan, and Lian (at least… We see him next to those three in one of the cinematics so I'm assuming that's the case), maybe someone decides to do some digging. A background check. That would be interesting I think.

[sgnarl]

i was recently going through some old files, trying to clear out space on my computer when i cam across all these old fan skins i had designed for pcotr. i guess i never realized how much i actually liked a lot of these lol

all art is from around 2019

[goathog666]

If you be one of those players kindly take a note and make a difference by not being another statistic

[vlad-wakinyan]

Fernando ~ Shore Patrol ~ Paladins

[rebeleon]

my mains + the skins I use most!!

--a thank you to Paladins for existing cause I wouldn’t have met my spouse without it :’^)