#Nabarl

[drawingbun]

July 8th is Nabarl (Navarre) Day

[prnsn001]

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (OVA, 1996)

[spiritgriffon]

Rare Navarres from 100% official, Nintendo-licensed books... and merch!

Part 5 of 5 - Merch and Misc.

So, that bottom one. That is the Holy Grail of Navarre merch.

The text is from the official FE3 guidebook. It says there is an entry to a sweepstakes to win a Fire Emblem themed telephone card in the back of the book. It was held in July 1994, and there were 20 winners... in other words, only 20 of these cards existed.

And that little image? That's the only place the artwork was printed. EVER. It's in none of the artbooks. It was never used in ads. There were no scans online.

Until I got my hands on one last year~ >:3c

[dirtyoldmanhole]

today in "krad continues to be very normal about gunter fire emblem" i hyper-analyze 3H's teatime preferences to divine up gunter's favorite teas and a few other fun facts ~ :D

so, context:

in Three Houses (FE16), there's a teatime minigame where your avatar drinks tea with selected characters, and try to guess their favorites / favorite conversational topics / etc for bonding points. FE's pretty big on character archetypes across the games (nabarls, jeigans, etc); while it's never a 1:1 as the series does like to subvert the stories and character arcs in some fun ways, you can generally trace a pretty direct line across them a la 'wow innes and shinon sure share more than a few surface-level similarities' and 'man OG!Jeigan, Gunter, and Marcus are cut out of the same cloth at least appearance wise huh'.

tl;dr -- it's easier than you'd think to pick a few 3H characters that echo gunter's archetype/arcs.

since i've played through 3H a few times, the three characters i figured gunter would share at least a higher-than-background-average similarity in archetypes + taste were:

Hubert - loyal advisor that does the dirty work behind the scenes in black to a charismatic royal. definitely holds a not-entirely platonic flame for said princess who had a Fucked Up past. has a tendency to be the disciplinarian for the others. (also both characters are hellaciously kinky bastards but that's just me)

Jeritza - strict instructor turned surprise(!) villain yandere paladin with a more complex backstory than you'd think. even has the black armor in his alter ego, and dislikes talking to others / prefers being alone. (seriously does that sound familiar or what.)

Hanneman - older (ie, definitely over his sixties versus all of the other babies in age) classic jeigan archetype and another instructor, kind but keeps to himself as well.

I could see people debating Hanneman vs Gilbert on technicalities but whatever, this is my post, I'm sticking to this list. :P

so, next step! looking at serenesforest.net's teatime preferences chart, we find out the favorite teas of the previous characters are (common teas in bold) ...

Hubert - Dagda Fruit Blend, Cinnamon Blend

Jeritza - Albinean Berry Blend, Southern Fruit Blend, Honeyed-Fruit Blend, Sweet-Apple Blend

Hanneman - Bergamot, Sweet-Apple Blend, Honeyed-Fruit Blend, Cinnamon Blend

... and surprisingly, there was a very high level of crossover! :o holy shit i was kind of not expecting that lmao. I checked a few of the other characters just to make sure it wasn't the same 5 teas over and over again, and no, these were pretty rare. that to me, reinforces that hunch that says looking into these patterns was worth it.

therefore, it is in my very humble opinion that (in 3H's style), Gunter's favorite teas would be generally the fruitier-sweet flavored ones, plus cinnamon.

subjectively?

fucking hell i love this so much. omg.

it makes so much sense in hindsight; i mentioned before how FE has a lot of fun playing with the archetypes/subversions, and there's something kind of hilariously adorable about the old strict "traditional" masculine dude fucking loving his fruity teas :D;;

gunter's already (ime) an interesting case of wildly subverting his archetype expectations so this is just yet another fun super-stealth easter egg nod.

to that note---you know what that reminds me of? this meme (below) of the bodyguard and the chick swapping drinks so he can have the fruity one and she can have the beer. :D

...

absolutely hilarious fun bonus fact in hindsight:

i almost had this as a scene in the gunter x fcorrin slowburn fic a while back, (yes, seriously, even before this post) but it ultimately got cut out for being ever so slightly gimmicky/meme-y in tone versus the rest of the fic which is played more seriously.

... this would make for an A+ drawing shitpost or a standalone fic tho. :D

no i'm not secretly smug af my instincts were on fireeeee why r u asking lolololol

/fin!

[kanthia]

intsys got me paired with the nabarl in the canon ending but I get a better speed bonus and a REALLY funny b-support if you pair me with the est instead

what if we stood next to each other for 50 turns in tower of valni 1 to unlock our c support

[rina7anir-blog]

I'm questioning myself if it's really fine that I keep training Rickard in Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon on 1★-difficulty while tossing away units to unlock paralogues. 😂

But it still is doable? I'm at chapter 13...

Rickard is already able to use a silver sword and I use him to weaken enemies like archers or to get rid of other thieves. His speed and attack make him a good substitute for Nabarl. Though of course he's not promotable and can't change classes either.

But I like to make such fun challenges for myself. 😆

Also I'm thinking about sacrificing Ceada for the alternate ending... I don't know if I can do that. This will hurt...

[toniinfante]

Navarre sketch, from Fire Emblem!

Video processes, tutorials and more on my PATREON & GUMROAD!

[statisky]

Remember Nabarl? I found out how to recruit him just later-

[erikensa]

not a mage but i like navarre enough

[templarsecretweapon]

They're here

[marcell-arts]

“Since when does a swordsman of your calibre fall in with thieves and cutthroats?”

[drawingbun]

Bunny Navarre

I might attempt to make stickers out of this,

[prnsn001]

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (OVA, 1996)

[spiritgriffon]

Rare Navarres from 100% official, Nintendo-licensed books

(Part 1 of 5 - The Funny Ones)

[phantombeaver]

NABARL CAME HOME! Units used; Kagero, Jaffar, Ninian and Priscilla

[caemidraws]

Nabarl - Fire Emblem

[I’m sorry but he was too pretty in the app]