#Past Alear

[gzeidraws]

Red Alear sketch comm for Raikkun!

[azurem00n]

like looking in a mirror

[doodlesandbooks]

I found this drawing I did a while ago.

Chapter 24 had me feeling feelings...

[twilitponpon]

“I’m still with you no matter what happens, dear sister.”

[maple-rose]

Alear, past and future

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

the best plottwist in engage is that the Redlear Trailer Insane Smirk™ was actually because they're happy they killed their shit dad and now get to hang out with their cool new mom

like alear had all the socialization of a feral cat prior to this they just don't know how to smile like a normal person

SOME of this still lingers because one of alear's enemy defeated lines is a silly little cartoon villain laugh. i'm obsessed. the divine one has the mannerisms of a power rangers antagonist because they only hung out with sentai villains during formative years.

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[grimcrumbz]

“I follow orders. I don’t think. I am like the Corrupted. They are awful.”

[creativesplat]

A little ramble to continue my rambles about fe3h and fe engage: Byleth and Past Alear on emotion!

Past Alear viewed emotion as weakness, as defective, but they couldn’t get rid of it, no matter how hard they tried. Laura Stahl’s performance with this was particularly good here. Just the raw emotion hiding behind every word f!Alear says in the English VA of this scene was so powerful. 

“I am thinking a thought that doesn’t belong. I guess I am what I am… a defect. Defect. Defect-“ and on it goes. 

This is when Alear is at their most emotionless (m!alear more so than f!alear at least in the English voice acting) and yet they can’t get rid of emotion. It literally bursts out of Stahl’s performance, but M!alear has hints of it too. 

Byleth, on the other hand, seems to view emotion as a strength, its a sign of their growth the more they feel emotion, but pre-timeskip they struggled so much to emote that the house leaders show surprise when they smile, and their father sees them cry only once. 

“To think the first time I saw you cry… your tears would be for me”

something something the person who wanted to feel emotion struggled so hard to do so something something the person who knew emotion was dangerous couldn't help but feel anyway.

I love these games...

part one, two, three

[mirensiart]

i will be your sword and shield, divine one. and a flower, what brings more comfort than that?

[yanderefairyangel]

I find it very funny that some people try to point at the "I wanted to be a good dragon" as being bad dialogue and proof Engage is badly written when it does the exact opposite.

I know you are tired of hearing it but allow me to repeat it. Just once more. Past Alear is someone who use hiragana, an alphabet use mainly by kids in anime and in jpn media.

That is what makes their dialogue in chapter 24 so unsettling. This shows that Past Alear has the emotional maturity of a child. This is a childish dialogue devoided of emotions, where the characteristic of the hiragana lacking the polysemy of kanji is making this dialogue feels even colder, even more robotic, mecanic, empty, devoided of emotions. Hiragana is used to show how broken past Alear is as a child whose innocence was completely destroyed.

However, in this cutscene of chapter 22, the use of hiragana is no longer to convey this feeling. This time, it's to convey a warm feeling, letting Alear's childish personality of that time shines as them showing their innocent side, their weaker and true side to Lumera. it's them dropping the facade, and finally revealing what they were concealing when we meet them in chapter 24 : an innocent, kind child. You don't even need to turn off Alear's voice and hear how the performance changed to realize that because you can see this from the models. How Past Alear's blank and emotionelss gaze in chapter 24 contrast to the one bright and tender gaze they gave to Lumera in chapter 22. The sentence they speak is no longer intended to be read as emtioneless because of this, because now the property of the hiragana as conveying the childish innocent feeling, like it does with Veyle, is the one aspect exploited in this scene. It's to show Alear's innocence and child like nature, their warmth. This immediately makes their "tadashii ryuu ni naremasen" all the more tragic. They speak this time with the tone matching the undertones of the hiragana, unlike how in the past they used that "childish" dialect with the tone of a robot. In fact, the change of tone in the voice shows the shift in tone despite how Past Alear still uses the same alphabet. All in context.

The same way Past Alear's politness express through the same conjuction and expression as current Alear but have a different nature because of the context, the same way Alear's incantations read as prayers/wish rather then commands/orders because of the context, the use of hiragana's meaning changes because of the context. This is no longer to express a broken child speaking, but to show Past Alear's innocence and to emphazize their love for Lumera by showing how they reveal themselves to her only.

[chaosisdying]

was thinking about engage

[twilitponpon]

“Your blue hair and blue eyes are beautiful. The one with my face had that too.”

[deadmurderedvictorianboy]

I don't know how this site works but here's some gay people because I couldn't stop thinking about Alcryst's post battle Chapter 24 quote so here

[terminallyspookystudenteagle]

Made this in like 5 minutes or so, please enjoy anyways.

[doodlesandbooks]

Is there a reason you prefer f!Alear to m!alear?if there was an au with both of them how would you do it?

what do you like about both m! And f! Alear respectively?

I think I prefer f!Alear because, despite being in my 20s, I have never liked a female protagonist before. I have autism so I always identified with male characters more (which is apparently standard) and grew up thinking that women were kind of lame as a result. I've been working on my black and white thinking and on emotional disregulation, and a friend asked me to try being the female protagonist.

I think playing the game through as her has healed my inner child, since little me thought being a girl was less interesting and a bit lame, so this has really helped me feel much happier being a woman.

I like both of their designs, and I really like how they feel like unique and distinct characters. I like that he talks more slowly, it makes him feel like he's a bit more thoughtful about his decisions and a bit more decisive. I really like that the creators let him be a bit wet and awkward, and that both Alear's are so soft and gentle. I like the way her voice deepens when she's angry, how it sounds like her in the past. I don't know really what I like best about them, I just love the characters.

For an AU I'd love one where either xenoalear, who in my mind is the male counterpart, was like a lil ghost twin that haunted Alear and they could do cute things together, or maybe one where Xenoalear is like a weird zombie friend on the Somniel, who you can have supports with and recruit. I think he'd be such a cute dead boy hanging out with all his friends.

I also like the idea of a past Alear meets Xenolear and they heal together and do fluffy things.

Thank you for the ask!

[fayessketchbook]