#Kilvas

[asktellius]

PRESERVE THEIR INNOCENCE!!!

[motionpicturedemise]

trick or treat!

treat! you get red four-leaf clover pikmin :)

[queenlua]

for the past ~4 things i've written, whenever i need to make up a name for a location/character/whatever

instead of doing the thing i OUGHT to do (think hard about phonemes, vibes, etc, and actually construct something plausible that fits the setting, etc)

i just keep taking the names of random locations from the last vacation i went on & fudging a couple syllables around & calling it done

sooooo, if anyone winds up reading this story & has also been to Vail lately, i'm so cooked lmao

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

we all clear on that point now? yeah? yeah??? good.

[energeticpoltergeist]

we got the first Nealuchi, thank you so much :>

Nealuchi for @energeticpoltergeist as part of the fire emblem secret santa run by @feshippingpolls

This was super fun!

[fairytail-whathesays]

Any headcanons for Tibarn/Naesala? Something about them is so fighting to touch each other so it doesn't look gay when we're breathing hard in each others' faces on top of each other.

Honestly you kinda clocked it

Did you know that absolutely nothing comes up on the gif search when looking up Naesala's and Tibarn's names? In light of that, I'll just use whatever gif I find that feels like it works.

Yeah sure, that'll work.

Tibarn is absolutely covered in scars from numerous battles, but what people don't tell you is that Naesala gave him half of them. Naesala has never won a fight with Tibarn--but he's never been easy prey, either.

Fucking with Tibarn's head is exactly the kind of nonsense Naesala would get off on, like, he doesn't necessarily enjoy being a bastard...but by god, if it doesn't tickle him a little to see Tibarn pissed off and flexing his fingers, always testing his patience.

Naesala has always slightly resented that he has to be the king of Kilvas. Yes, he does love his country, but as he makes clear, he's not all that interested in fighting or strength, despite being a fearsome warrior himself. He would much prefer the role of diplomat--it would free up his time a lot and put his conniving skills to much better use.

Tibarn has managed to hide his attraction to Naesala behind a mostly-genuine layer of impatience and righteous anger for a long time, so Reyson's cheating ability to read hearts means he's basically the only one who knows. He judges Tibarn ceaselessly for it.

If you've seen Tibarn's convo with Nailah, you'll know Tibarn loves a good fight a little too much now and again. And Naesala has the kind of silver tongue that makes him very dangerous in this regard. Even if Tibarn knew how to quit Naesala, he probably wouldn't. On some level, he has as much fun with Naesala's interpersonal fuckery as Naesala does.

Naesala's caring style is "I know someone who knows someone who has an antidote for your poisoning." and then going to get it, but then making Tibarn say something demeaning and ridiculous before he'll let him have any. He imperils them both this way but it's funny as shit.

Honestly? Naesala can be a little bit of a uhh, jealous bitch. I mean he makes it look smooth and he's entertaining with it but oh, let him catch Tibarn having been eyeing someone with any seriousness. Those sly comments he's always making get a little prickly for the next few weeks.

It's an "i licked it so it's mine" kind of thing, except it's "I put those scars on your body, no one else gets to claim them". Tibarn may not be his, but he was his before he was anyone else's.

Naesala and Tibarn will both marry other people, if only because both as kings are expected to produce heirs and that's basically it, but they're never going to quite be able to let go of the other. They will be exchanging glances across the room no matter where their royal duties take them.

Tibarn once called Naesala his wife to try and take the piss out of him. Naesala just responded that Tibarn is the one with the tits and the kids, so sources tell a different story, eh? And that's their whole style of banter for 300 years.

Look, if you haven't heard Naesala speaking the heron language, you should know that nobody, not even the Hawk King, is immune to having it spoken in their ear. Crazy stuff. Sly manipulative bastard.

[siryamsalot]

I put up some of the little tellius fics that have been sitting in my files for forever, in an exercise to learn how to call shit finished

The Power Of Words

(746 words) by siryamsalot

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Soen no Kiseki/Akatsuki no Megami | Fire Emblem Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Reyson & Tibarn (Fire Emblem)

Characters: Reyson (Fire Emblem), Tibarn (Fire Emblem)

Additional Tags: Suicidal Thoughts, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, reyson's canonical suicidal ideation

Summary:

Tibarn makes a promise to his new ward.

Birds Of A Feather

(1169 words) by siryamsalot

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Soen no Kiseki/Akatsuki no Megami | Fire Emblem Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Ike (Fire Emblem)

Additional Tags: Character Study, Canon Compliant, Ike's class consciousness, unnamed kilvas pirates

Summary:

Ike has a class solidarity moment with the pirates of Kilvas in chapter 13

(girl)friendship

(734 words) by siryamsalot

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Soen no Kiseki/Akatsuki no Megami | Fire Emblem Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Gatrie & Stella | Astrid

Characters: Gatrie (Fire Emblem), Stella | Astrid

Additional Tags: quoiromantic Gatrie, Quoiromantic Character

Summary: Astrid and Gatrie talk about their relationship.

[gloamvonhrym]

oh I never posted all my silly phoenicis worldbuilding (birdbuilding) that I did while in fanfic writing hell

here’s a huge mostly-boring set of notes expanding and/or playing havoc with canon. I’m putting it here for future reference. maybe to link to it for funsies if I ever post this hell fic

phoenicis is a small insular nation with little social hierarchy, living on inhospitable mountains inaccessible to anyone except other birds. phoenicis has therefore evolved on a somewhat separate cultural track from everybody else in tellius. in this essay I will

economy/practical shit

implicitly in canon hawks are intensely community-oriented. again, they’re a small nation without much hierarchy, and with some preference for chaos. they all “just do what needs to be done”, paraphrasing ulki. they’re not the Strong Guys for the heck of it: they work together to protect & care for their own, and harbor a strong sense of collective duty and trust.

so they’re commies

with serenes out of the picture they’re the biggest commies in tellius

they don’t have currency, that’s some human shit. to each according to their need etc

(exactly how small and close-knit is. phoenicis? small enough that kilvas, a similarly small nation with even fewer resources, could kill everyone on the home front in basically a day when it was left undefended. so. take that for what it is)

infrastructure

minor architecture tangent: we don’t see much of phoenicis & kilvas except for the exteriors of their respective castles, which is kinda boring. obviously not everyone lives in the castles. but phoenicis DOES have some other visible infrastructure, namely the funky detail of these open doorways built into both the castle itself and the surrounding cliffs:

(I don’t know if there’s any kind of proper name for these, because obviously irl we don’t need them and they’re not a thing. I’ve been calling them sky doors, and I might have nabbed that from rebecca roanhorse’s “between earth and sky”, although idk if she in turn nabbed it from anyone else)

anyway there appears to be no actual barrier on these, at least not externally. what did I say. commies. who’s gonna rob and kill you in your own home, in your little nation-commune, where nobody except other birds can get to you, and everyone trusts everyone else to do their duty and provide for each other. (the answer is that other birds will betray you, eventually. sad!)

anyway it’s boring to stick around the castle 100% of the time. I imagine that this architectural idea continues down into the valleys, where maybe artisans can make stuff and services can be provided and bargain economy shit can happen

hawks have seemingly only been pirates for the last 20 years or so, and they do piracy for the sake of vengeance rather than need, and they can’t do that much of it because there aren’t a ton of them; and unlike kilvas, they abstain from trade with the whole rest of the continent, and are isolationist by choice. so they must be self-sufficient in basically every way. someone’s got to be making fabric, making clothes, making shoes, forging metals, creating pottery, creating music and art, administering medicine, providing education, etc, somewhere.

healthcare

tangent about medicine: phoenicis is probably the only nation in the continent that has historically had no contact with healing magic at all. the herons had innate healing magic, and everyone else either has human mages or contact with human mages. but phoenicis is on its own. their medical science is therefore more advanced by irl standards, because it has to be. they know more shit about practical mundane antitoxins, antibiotics, wound dressing, surgeries, anesthetics, and complications. it’s less pleasant than magical means, but it works.

(canonically, healing magic works on wounds and not so much things like regular illnesses, so everyone’s still got some mundane medical care; but when that’s ALL you’ve got, I think it follows that you necessarily come to understand the pure mundane science better than most other people. I bet phoenicis has bred its share of real scientists. if anyone in tellius is going to invent electricity,) (also: they might value physical strength very much, but because they’re commies, I figure they take care of their sick/disabled/injured pretty well, and most of them are at terms with the fact that not everyone can be the Strongest Guys. reyson’s complex about being too weak to live is likely more due to survivor’s guilt, helplessness to protect others/wreak revenge personally, and a post-traumatic focus on violence as a primary determinant of outcomes, rather than any actual pervasive cultural messaging that he’s useless.)

age

hawks live to some, what, 300+ years? janaff says a 24 year old should barely be speaking, but I feel like his ass was just being dramatic, similar to the way we needle real-life 18 year old adult humans about being tiny babies. there’s no reason why any creature should take 20+ years to be at least functional, that would be a huge evolutionary disadvantage. I posit that hawk adolescence is considered to last roughly age 20 to 70 (with heron adolescence lasting somewhat longer, given their longer lifespan; maybe to 80-85, such that reyson has somewhat recently hit true adulthood by the time PoR rolls around).

teenagers are stupid. hawk teenagers are REALLY stupid. chaos predilection + hormones. many of them will gleefully pick a fight over any dumb thing and be horny about it. strong with the vigor of youth, but exceptionally poor sense of their own limitations

by age 100+, their temperament evens out; but any contender for the king’s power is probably going to come from the young crowd at any given time. speaking of which,

government

there isn’t much of one. phoenicis is not big. everyone knows everyone and they’re very efficient commies so everything gets done that needs to get done. tibarn has 2 dumbass advisors. who needs a secretary of state.

the title of king goes to “the strongest” (I assume the intent is that this is determined by combat, against self-selected challengers who get to take over if they win, wakanda style). although canonically, his power is that he gets to call some shots but doesn’t really get any special privileges or reverence beyond that, which is nice because it means that if the king became super unpopular, the rest of phoenicis could probably depose him without much trouble if they wanted to. no divine rights here.

(worth noting: I think tibarn’s characterization is super different between fe9 and fe10, with RD tibarn being a lot sassier and more informal. FEH skewed towards the RD vibe, and I think they were right for that. given the hawks’ uniquely relaxed philosophy towards royalty, their insular culture, and the likelihood that they all knew tibarn by name before he ever had a title, it wouldn’t make sense for them to do a lot of formalized bowing and scraping. RD tibarn would never have unironically addressed caineghis as “o majestic king of lions” or whatever he said)

(by contrast, apparently, in japanese, reyson consistently addresses tibarn formally (and also naesala, up until naesala betrays him). I don’t speak japanese and can’t really count this as an aspect of my experience of these characters, but I wonder if the other birds also address each other in this way, or if it’s a trait peculiar to reyson.)

family

families are not nuclear. hawks raise their kids pretty communally, foremost in unstructured “flocks” (households or clusters of households). actual bio parents may or may not be closely involved

parenting is kind of hands-off overall. the concept of adult supervision falls away pretty fast. “let your kid do the stupid dangerous thing so that he learns what’s stupid and dangerous” ass culture; learning by experience is optimal, and if you’re not adequately responsible then others are less likely to be sympathetic and/or have your back in turn. hawk kids tend to gain squads quickly, and they often hang together for life ride or die

if a young hawk is neglected or entirely rejected by their home flocks - rare, but not impossible - likely someone else will pick up the slack, if not adults then some loyal friends

relevant headcanons: tibarn, ulki, and janaff have been sticking together since an early age. ulki in particular had some problems - his original family did not appreciate that he kept overhearing things he shouldn’t, and he was way too autistic to know what was meant to not be repeated, so after not too long he became a bit of a lone wolf. tibarn and janaff already knew each other - janaff’s exceptional sight didn’t cause him any similar problems; and were initially concerned with ulki’s misfit status, but his ability was a valuable bonus. they all adopted each other.

food

the main thing hawks don’t do is cook. because they mostly eat raw meat, fish, and bugs, which is very sexy of them. I imagine every household has certain members designated to hunt regularly on its behalf. add that one to the chore chart

(maybe someone starts experimenting more with cooking when herons are there, and further when phoenicis is open to international relations. for fun and community!)

gender

ok the shit I made up, let’s go off the rails

hawks are queer-normative. in that they don’t give a shit about the anatomy or superficial presentation of who sleeps with whom. most of them are equal-opportunity in that regard

they are, however, by human standards, masc-centric to a sort of absurd degree. they’re not dumb senseless brutes (see again, commies, intense intra-community trust); they’re also probably not the most emotionally available fellas

(“but wouldn’t this level of intra-community trust result in greater emotional availability, not less?” look I’m not saying they’re scared of it. but why would you cry out your feelings with some other guy when you could be killing animals or committing piracy about it.)

gender presentation: I said equal-opportunity in terms of sexuality. might be because it’s a little difficult to tell. the games appear to have no female hawk characters but in MY headcanons their presentation is just masc-centric across the board, and maybe they skew a little less sexually dimorphic in general, so you wouldn’t know anyway

most hawks are he/hims. that’s just a quirk. like discworld dwarves but with less to say about it. just a nation of butches, for fun

bad gender parity in the tellius games? how do you know janaff isn’t a he/him lesbian

hawk dress is largely unisex, earth-toned, and utilitarian. not necessarily fully unadorned - tibarn has an earring & a few other things, including a necklace (feathers; battle trophies?) - but he’s still pretty rugged. nobody is flashy.

nothing AGAINST conventionally feminine presentation per se. hawks would chafe against overly rigid norms. but the way medieval-fantasy femininity looks, they’d probably think it’s a little odd in a practical sense. but who knows. maybe leanne starts something with those she/her pronouns and flowy dresses yk.

(tangent on clothing: phoenicis isn’t really friendly for something like cotton crops, but they can have wool, because goats & sheep can live on mountains. I’m also happy to make up that there’s some kind of hardy tellius breed of mulberry-adjacent tree, which can grow at least somewhere in phoenicis, resulting in the availability of silk and maybe barkcloth. or something. idk I’m not that kind of historian.)

sexuality

hawks primarily value strength, physical + emotional. we knew this. again, doesn’t make for the greatest emotional intelligence. overt softness is not the thing. tibarn kind of sucks at the direct empathy that reyson claims all living beings share, for instance. 2 hawks in a fight would rather tussle it out than waste time talking.

this carries over. in a partner, again, attraction tends to disregard sexed anatomy, but the most valuable thing is being well-matched physically. being creatures of chaos, they trust their impulses, they like a challenge, they don’t mind a fight, and they probably don’t super want to be with someone they have to worry about hurting

(hence that kind of hot chemistry between tibarn & nailah. also janaff hits on lucia at first glance bc she’s a knight obviously she’s got some beef babeyy)

pursuant: by and large, hawks really don’t find herons very attractive. that delicate graceful peaceful affect is kind of a mystifying ideal to them. it’s like art - nice to look at, ig, but what would you actually do with it. people significantly weaker than you are for you to protect, not sleep with. tibarn is a notable exception because he is down bad for reyson

and reyson is like an alien, and tibarn is maybe a bit of a freak for being into someone so fragile. you are the very strongest guy, tf you want with a boy who breaks if you look at him wrong. what do you get out of that sir. he has complexes about this :) but I’m not going to elaborate on that because that’s what hell fic is for

“herons in phoenicis: conceptualizing the vulnerable body in hawk-normative society”, the title of my tellius gender studies thesis at the university of crimea or whatever

speaking of reyson. what does this mean for him. I need to talk about it because I’m obsessed with him. the commie stuff isn’t that much of a culture shock at least

but have some added fuckery: sole survivor, adapting to another culture, learning another language; lone chaos-sensitive empath in a sea of macho chaos-oriented dudes who aren’t very attuned to that kind of thing; also extremely physically distinctive in a way that is kind of weird at best

how do you even maintain a sense of personal identity when the baseline relevant factor is “you’re incomprehensibly different from everyone around you in every way possible”? I think reyson experiences some Gender about this. the most masculine heron is still a lily reed compared to even a fairly femme hawk

reyson’s gender, per the rest of the continent: male. reyson’s gender among hawks: heron

I imagine leanne is somewhat shielded from this once she comes round - she’s able to lean on reyson and naesala, and I figure she does, pretty heavily, considering she picks up maybe a few words of the modern tongue over the course of 3 years. she’s deliberately feminine, and also has already chosen her own terrible boyfriend [affectionate]. she’s not without her own traumas, but she’s more supported, and maybe is even in a place to kind of enjoy the confusion & attention she garners from being the sole girly-girl. I feel like she would.

and her terrible boyfriend [affectionate] is a raven, not a hawk. and by contrast, ravens are VERY attracted to herons. because herons are pretty. and ravens like shiny pretty things.

misc

I’m not quite committed enough to make constructed-culture art, but in my mind hawk visual & aural culture resembles late antique/early modern celtic styles in a few ways. insular culture yk. some book of kells bullshit.

(kinda weird, upon reflection, that phoenicis isn’t full of ancient tongue speakers, considering serenes was allegedly one of the few nations they were ever friendly with. and yet even tibarn understands very little ancient. at the very least, being the most isolated nation, it would make sense for the hawks to have their own modern dialect. but they don’t, that would have been hard for an FE game to pull off, and I’m not enough of a linguist to try. so it is what it is! maybe, even though they don’t fraternize with other nations, they’ve always kept pretty close tabs on them just in case, the necessity of spying facilitated the shift to modern. whereas serenes never did that. anyway sometimes the hawks sound a little irish in my head.)

they are also superstitious. all those lonely windswept coastal peaks, there’s a lot of howling winds, spooky nooks, weird environmental physics interacting with weather phenomena. you end up with stories about folk monsters. hawks know shit about ghosts, fairies, sirens, and banshees, and how to placate them if you piss them off. also the herons sometimes scare people to death because they wear nothing but white and drift around like specters.

I also have a lot of headcanons about herons. but they’re more feelingsy. so I’ll leave that go. I might add to this as I remember more stuff

[corvuschriisti]

The happy space that is between them thrums with life, and Naesala feels light on his feet. It started out as a curiosity, something to look at from the outside in. A beorc festival that made Naesala other. Except, he's not -- not really. Through Kurth's eyes he sees bright colors painted with history and culture. It is a kaleidoscope that warps what is in front of him into something more relatable.

Kurth is a dragon of Goldoa: a laguz. Perhaps if he can find his way in between the merriment and the celebrations, Naesala can too. And he will.

He lets himself be tugged. He lets himself feel happy. He lets himself laugh.

Maybe in another world, he could belong to this one. He might have grown up with wide eyes, without the loss of those he loved and those he ached for. He could have been free, could never have felt the Begnion nobles pressing their will down on all of Kilvas. In another world, he could have had his family.

But he figures, this isn't a terrible way to start. It's not a terrible way to heal.

end!

𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘰𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.

[RECOVERY] - exploring the festival, Kurth & Naesala

[calamitaswrath]

Cal Lucia plays Fire Emblem Path of Radiance: Chapter 12

Phoenicis and Kilvas, nation of the bird people. Now those I've definitely heard about, seeing as I got a friend who's Normal™ about them

Dragon nation of Goldoa. . . why is the dragon in the artwork that accompanies that explanation so ripped?

Considering that this boat journey is said to take weeks and weeks, I feel like this might also be the place to set some oneshot fics.

Ike and Mist have a little conversation about race and racism. I like how Mist admits to having been afraid of The Other™ at first, it adds to her character

Mist, Nasir has pointy ears. Do you really think he's human?

So what kind of Laguz is he, anyway? Can't be a bird, because I know that those got wings, even in their humanoid form. He probably isn't a beast/cat, because then he'd have different ears. Dragon, then?

Come to think of it, he has a marking on his forehead, just like Soren. . .

Right then, let's go over the base conversations.

Ilyana: ohh, some neat little backstory about how she came to travel with the merchants! These base conversations are nice for that. Even if you don't get a unit's supports because they're not deployed, they at least can see a bit of their character outside of that this way.

Zihark: that guy's just teasing his backstory. Based on his overall vibe, I don't think that that's going to be relevant for the main story, so I wonder where it will be explored, whether in base conversations or in his supports. Or Radiant Dawn.

And the last one. . . Sothe! Oh, I definitely already know this character! He's the character that Micaiah starts out with in Radiant Dawn. And since he's currently looking for someone. . . is he already looking for her?

Pirate attack! Can't have a ship map without pirates. Or. . . well, shouldn't, seeing as there are some without them in other games

And here are the birds. Since I have a friend who's obsessed with them I've def heard of them before, but I guess it's another matter whether those particular ones are there

Ah, same rules apply as with other flying units. Figures. I wonder though if it's gonna be the same for untransformed ones?

10 units only, hmm. . . three less than the previous chapter. Now I'll really need to pick and chose who to bring

Jill is here! And judging by the fact that she's an ally unit, I think this is where she's gonna join? . . .I mean, I say that, but since I looked at the strategy for this chapter beforehand, I already know that she does

MIST LEVELLED UP AND GAINED NO STATS?!?!

Ah, Jill is of the self-recruiting variety. And she has a last name? That's unusual, pre-3H

Oh, that was a good recruitment exchange. "I'm gonna join you! Let's kill those half-humans!" "Uh, no? How about you tone down the racism?" "Shut up, I'm gonna join you"

The boss mentions a King Naesala. . . yeah, that is a name I have heard before. Seems popular in the fandom, as far as I can tell.

Well that was a pretty short chapter. Huh. Fair enough though, can't have every chapter be as wild as the previous two. And makes for a welcome change of pace

More trouble brewing, and all just because Ike needed to leave the ship.

Uhhh, dragons! And generic ones, too. That's def uncommon in FE games

Kurthnaga. . . I heard the name before. And surely, the fact that he looks so similar to Soren doesn't mean anything.

Gareth! Now that is. . . a very red character.

Do you think that whoever drew the illustrations for the dragons in this game. You know. Really likes dragons?

For such a short encounter, this whole sequence really reads like it does a lot of setup for stuff that's supposed to come later

Ike muses about Beorc and Laguz, and realizes the inherent moral complexity of the world and people

Nasir and Soren both just so happen to not be comfortable near dragons (or rather Nasir is, and Soren just skedaddled). I wonder why.

Elincia, you must realize that you're getting nowhere with Ike. And I mean, I get the yearning on a general basis, I really do. So I'm probably not the most qualified to call you out. But still!

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

the next time Henry gets an alt in Heroes there should be a Forging Bonds of him just terrorizing the local(?) bird tribe heroes, ESPECIALLY the ones from Kilvas instill the fear of god into those guys that not even the goddess of dawn could do herself

.

[asktellius]

"Join me."

This is the most recent "ask" - so it's more polished than the rest of them, which were exhumed from the ancient pyramids. ;)

Nahil is my sister's hawk laguz OC. You can find more about her on ArtFight.net (https://artfight.net/character/2819040.nahil)

[fake-fire-emblem-takes]

look i know the fandom loves the tellius quadrilogy but at some point you guys have to admit the plot twist that ike and naesala were brothers the entire time came out of nowhere and not only went against what we knew about beorc and laguz lore but ruined how heavily they were advertising the game as being the first fire emblem with a non-royal lead by making ike the co-ruler of kilvas not even halfway through the first game also they didn't even bother to try and explain how mist fit into that debacle she just didn't have any screentime post-reveal and it was never brought up what she thought about it in the sequels before they killed her like what the fuck guys

cranky because you were an Ikesala truther before running into the twist are you

[queenlua]

When Tibarn calls for the bird tribes to unite as one nation in Serenes, Reyson is skeptical, and Naesala refuses outright. But when rising ocean levels threaten to devour the islands of both Phoenicis and Kilvas, none of them have much of a choice in the matter.

This fic is now finished at ~138k words!

If any of these pithy/snarky summaries sound good to you...

"the bird tribes should've had a Hague, probably"

"Naesala has a bad time & then Reyson has a bad time & then they make each other worse <3"

"Leanne gets a fucking gun knife"

...there's a decent chance you'll enjoy this story; take a peek :)

(Also: peep the latest chapters for some beautiful new @gloamvonhrym art <3333 THANK YOU FOR ALL THE BIRDPEOPLE VISUAL SPLENDOR)

[emblemxeno]

FE fans’ discussions of racism and discriminatory depictions in its casts are always a swing-and-a-miss.

You have people on Twitter saying that the Ravens are an anti-Semitic stereotype that’s on the same level of discriminatory as Danved/Devdan-the actual borderline minstrel show caricature-all because... Raven enemies have coins in their inventory in FE9 and Nealuchi has a more prominent nose. And yes, that’s all. And I’d agree if Kilvas was depicted differently (instead of as a country taken advantage of by oppressive beorc), and the Ravens in general had anti-Semitic design elements instead of one old man having a big nose. But as it is? Don’t get me wrong, the Tellius games’ allegories to racism ebb and flow from serviceable to batshit and gross, and it undercuts itself sometimes because of how it depicts other characters not meant to be the focus. No denying there. But it’s not “Scary black man has scary black face and is called ugly by slave trader and don’t talk good” level.

And I just find it funny that the Ravens are seen as FE’s main anti-Semitic punching bag on Twitter Discourse Land rn, meanwhile, people still short circuit whenever you so much as dare bring up how Edelgard’s treatment of the Nabateans and how her Adrestian Empire in general have some disgusting real life undertones.

Again, swing-and-a-miss.

[corvuschriisti]

✦ 𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘: 𝐍𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐀.

—𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞.

Initial Class: Raven King Birthday: November 20th Basic Info: The King of Kilvas and inheritor of a blood pact with Begnion. Sly and cunning, many think he only cares for himself. When he opens up it is obvious he cares very much for his fellow laguz, especially the herons of Serenes. He considers Nealuchi to be his father and closest confidante.

—𝐂 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤.

Likes: food, shiny things, older people. Dislikes: feeling trapped, being rejected, laguz intolerance.

—𝐁 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤.

Hobbies: hair dressing, jewelry making & collecting. Talents: lying, acrobatics, animal handling. Background: Forced into the position of king by nature of his strength and cunning, Naesala did not hold any disdain for the rulers before him. He needed to learn how to keep secrets and play both sides quickly, lest his people suffer.

—𝐀 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤.

Height: 6'3 / 190.5 cm Ring Size: 9 Personality: Not easy to read. Friendly, but with a smile that does not reach his eyes. Closed off and self deprecating, but filled with love for those that he cares for. Willing to do whatever it takes no matter the consequences. The ally most likely to steal your jacket buttons.

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