#Saintly Princess (Headcanon)

[starstaiined]

some miscellaneous tatum headcanons !!

- she was the youngest person in woodsboro high history to make cheer captain. she started varsity freshman year, and was promoted to captain mid sophomore year because a scandal caused the last captain to quit the team. she's incredibly proud of this accomplishment

- tatum is so incredibly passively smart. like, she doesn't even try. she just absorbs information like a goddamn sponge. she's the kid who spends the entire class goofing off, glances at the book a few minutes to study, then scores a mid-90 on the test.

- she has a fair bit of movie trivia. not nearly as much as randy, but they have had playful back and forths throwing out different movies.

- she usually stops by the video store when randy's on shift: she brings him food in exchange for movie recommendations and discounts. (the discounts used to just be freebies, she's the reason he got fired one of the times.)

- tatum has 0 patience and/or tact. she's incredibly blunt and to the point. (despite her reputation, she has a saintly level of patience when it comes to stu. it amazes a lot of people, how much she puts up with stu's eccentric nature. she usually doesn't mind it unless sid gets caught in the crossfire.)

- the only person who can soften those fiery aggressive edges is sidney. tate will always soften when it comes to sid, no questions asked.

- when maureen died and sid went near catatonic from grief, tate was her rock. she handled cooking and cleaning for the prescotts, got an extra bed for sid to stay with them when neil was out of town, handled school things, made sure things ran smoothly. tatum is absolutely terrified of seeing that blank look come back. it's why she gets to aggressive about getting sid out of the station after the first attack: she's seen that look before.

- group chauffer! (when she does not have cheer practice.)

- stu is her little passenger princess. no one trusts him behind the wheel. she'll drive him to do what he wants, pays for his slushie, and lets him have half control of the aux. (when she can't, billy takes him out.)

- even though sidney is perfectly fine walking, tatum insists on driving her to and from places.

- sid and stu take turns giving her piggy back rides through the school after morning practices.

- she has a hard time sitting still. her hands have to be doing something to work through the electric energy she has coursing through her veins at any given moment. this results in a lot of little doodles on everyone's arms.

[princesssarisa]

Fictional Character Ask: Princess Elisa, from Brothers Grimm's Six Swans/Andersen's Wild Swans?

Favorite thing about them: Her sheer perseverance and inner strength as she weaves the magic shirts out of stinging nettles and never speaks even when faced with death by fire.

Least favorite thing about them: That she ends the story still married to the king who sentenced her to burn at the stake. Even though he was reluctant, the fact that he was persuaded to believe she was a witch and condemn her is still troubling. At least in the Grimms’ version, her apparent crime justifies the sentence more: she’s framed for killing and eating her own three children, with all the evidence pointing straight at her. In Andersen’s version, she’s condemned just for behaving strangely and for picking nettles from a ghoul-filled graveyard, without having apparently harmed anyone.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I love my family.

*I like swans.

*I’m good at keeping promises if I think failing to do so would hurt someone.

Three things I don’t have in common with them:

*I have trouble knowing when to stop talking.

*I have low tolerance for physical pain.

*I’ll never be so beautiful that roses will say I’m more beautiful than they are, or so pious that a hymn-book would say I’m more pious than itself.

Favorite line: From the 1940s Let’s Pretend radio version, when the Voice of the Wind tells her the ordeal she’ll have to go through to free her brothers:

“Try me, Voice of the Wind! I shall not fail!”

brOTP: Her brothers.

OTP: Her husband, as long as he apologizes profusely for her near-execution.

nOTP: Any of her brothers.

Random headcanon: When she and her brothers were growing up, her brothers were fairly prone to mischief and fighting with each other, and she felt the need to be the family conscience and peacemaker, so she never let herself misbehave at all. This ties into Andersen’s conceit that the success of evil spells or lack thereof depends on the virtue of the victims. Elisa he describes as too good and innocent for her stepmother’s magic to have any effect on her, so when the stepmother sends magic toads to hop on her and turn her evil and ugly, the toads turn to flowers. Likewise, when the stepmother tries to turn the brothers into ugly birds, their goodness makes them turn into beautiful swans instead. But the fact that the brothers are transformed at all implies that they’re not quite as saintly as their sister.

Unpopular opinion: This is about the story as a whole. Even though Andersen’s version is more famous and richer with literary detail, I prefer the Grimms’ version. For one thing, the father-king is forced to marry the wicked stepmother against his will and tries his best to protect his children from her. Even though he fails, he’s still a much better father than Andersen’s king, who marries the stepmother by choice and then turns against his own sons when he believes her lies about them and lets her send his daughter to live with peasants too. Later, when we reach the part where the heroine’s own husband condemns her to death, at least in the Grimms’ version she’s apparently guilty of a crime that deserves capital punishment, not just of vaguely acting like a witch. Although I give Andersen credit for the creative and daring choice to have an Archbishop be the villain who urges the king to execute her, instead of the Grimms’ stock figure of a jealous mother-in-law.

Song I associate with them: None at the moment.

Favorite picture of them: 

[infriga]

A, S, Z my dude.

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

Most of them are in One Piece haha. My main ones at the moment are SanLu, ZoLu, and KataLu. In SU I wasn't originally all that into Connverse, I didn't mind it I just wasn't too interested, but it really grew on me in later seasons and in SUF, so I'm quite fond of it now.

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

I headcanon that Steven is an animal whisperer, wild animals, domesticated animals, anything. He goes full Disney princess around them. I feel like the scene with the alien animal that got attached to him right away in Why So Blue is convincing evidence for this.

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! (Prompts optional but encouraged.)

I have thoughts about various fandoms but here are some for my main three:

Steven Universe:

I've always enjoyed how SU isn't afraid to show Steven being less traditionally "masculine" while still being a boy. I like to think that any boys or men who have been afraid to enjoy things that would be considered more "feminine" can watch the series and gain more confidence in that part of themselves.

I also really like that they gave him center focus in SUF and deconstructed the idea of him being the benevolent therapeutic do-no-wrong character that only served to prop up and showcase all the other characters, and they did it without making him a bad person or a villain (and no I don't consider kaiju Steven to be a villain. I don't consider a scared kid having a mental breakdown triggered panic attack to be a villain). I like that they sort of forced the audience to look back on things they used to take for granted about him, like how often he was tossed around and subjected to terrifying experiences. I also especially love the deconstruction of cartoon logic and cartoon physics, and the unflinching open acknowledgement of Steven having ptsd. Like the number of people badmouthing him during SUF by saying he was getting egotistical, or that he was just being edgy and hormonal, shrunk drastically after Growing Pains and it was great to see.

One Piece:

I love how hard Oda goes with the found family trope. Like he does have plenty of good biological parents and he does have some biological siblings who genuinely care about each other, but there are so many arcs that incorporate the themes of "you choose your own family" and I love it. Like during Marineford, we'd just found out that Ace wasn't Luffy's biological brother not that long ago. You'd think a big deal would be made by the narrative regarding Ace's parents, but it's not. Sure it's made a big deal by the government, but in terms of the narrative the main importance is given to him being Luffy's brother. Even when Ace tries to disown him to push him away out of fear of him being hurt, Luffy refuses by literally screaming "I'M YOUR LITTLE BROTHER!!"

My dad was adopted, so I love when shows portray adopted families to be equally as valid as bio families.

Gravity Falls:

I love how... Adult Grunkle Stan's story is? Like, there's a difference between mature topics, and adult topics. Plenty of shows made for kids deal with mature topics, like war and racism and all that stuff, and I think that's a good thing for kids to see and learn about in a controlled manner. But Stan's story was something that mostly adults experience. Not specifically homelessness or crime, younger people can experience that, but that long time estrangement of family, working for decades to do something right and still being viewed as a failure, finding a new side to yourself in a younger generation that believes in you and cares about you without the baggage, and inspires you to change. Old grudges and running from past mistakes, built up on a long history of being told you're not good enough. And I love that his story ends with him being a hero, not because he's some saintly person who believes the world deserves to be saved, but because he's just a man who loves his family and would do anything for them. I love that despite having every reason to believe he'd fail, he still kept working for 30 years to save his brother. He proved everyone wrong about who he is, and showed he was a good man who was capable of great things.

[yaz-the-spaz]

Just your own opinion, but how do you think they'll will end both babygates?

i really don’t know nonnie...there’s multiple routes they could go…

[under the cut for those who may not wanna see]

for liam:

there was already the little bit of seeding (though where it actually originated idk but it’s just interesting that it was circulated in general and was seemingly positively accepted as a plausible story by some het stans) that he’s not the biological father but that he’s just such a nice person that he agreed to help care for/raise the kid as his own, so there’s always the option of circulating/publishing that more widely until it becomes a more known and accepted “fact” for the het stans and gp to fall back on

for zayn, as things stand right now they could go either:

-m**carriage

-paternity switcheroo/surprise paternity announcement

-claim zayn’s the father and he’s stuck in this mess indefinitely (until he inevitably pulls a tom cruise and forgets her or the child even exist lol)

in my headcanon, the second one is fueled largely by the fact that the hadids haven’t technically mentioned zayn by name as the father. i’m told that when directly asked on fallon about who the father was, g actually evaded confirming herself that it was zayn and hasn’t confirmed by name anywhere else i don’t think (??) that zayn is actually the father, and so far all she’s really done is post two pictures with him, only one of which was with his “face” showing - that might i add is highly questionable and has been heavily scrutinized and picked apart by anyone who actually knows what zayn looks like lol - so that’s the only real thing that’s even implicated him in all this for the most part which you could argue is not super substantial lol. they’ve never even officially confirmed they were “back together” i don’t think, cause this whole iteration of z*gi attempt #2,859,025 it’s pretty much just been occasional pics of them hugging or walking next to each other and just implied that they’re back together but no official word i don’t think. and right now it’s also mostly just been tabloids carrying the story that zayn’s the father and no actual name confirmation from either the hadid or the malik camp. so combine that with the fact that both zayn and his family have been pretty much radio silent (and quite shady in their obvious ignoring of it all lol) about this alleged coming child and his supposed fatherhood AND with g’s father dismissing the baby chatter as “rumors” and one could hypothetically foresee them going the route of: well yes she is pregnant (but by someone else lol) and the part that was the rumor was that zayn’s the father, the truth is she and zayn have just remained close friends and he’s been very supportive of her during this time and will always love and care for her blah, blah, blah…and queue the announcement of the “actual” father as some bigger brighter star who she’s been “secretly dating” who would probably be much more willing to participate in this nonsense than zayn (or who actually is the father lol?)

but that’s of course all wishful thinking and highly unlikely and right now either the tom cruise route or the m**carriage route unfortunately seems the most likely. especially given that the whole (more obvious) paternity test route hasn’t been embarked on in either of the previous babygates (so basically why should we believe they’d do it now) and also wouldn’t even really make as much sense here narratively cause ofc they always wanna paint g as the sweet saintly princess and having zayn demand a paternity test would just sow a story of mistrust in hollywood’s favorite It Couple and make it look as if he had reason to think g might be sleeping around which they would never go for. they’re not gonna let their most prized cash cow darling little innocent princess have her image tarnished by getting painted as someone who cheats and sleeps around so much she got knocked up by some rando and then used the pregnancy to try to trap zayn. in fact the tabloid stories i’ve seen running are the exact opposite, trying to make it seem like zayn’s the one who trapped HER because apparently all this time he was just sooo lovesick and just pining and waiting and oh so desperately hoping for a reason for them to get back together and stay together and now he “has one” 🤮

anyway to me the other two options depend heavily on if there even actually is a real baby or not. if there is then the tom cruise route is sadly the more likely play, which would mean that zayn is stuck in the same boat as lou and li for quite a while, though expect minimal participation on his part if any (probably while looking absolutely dead inside) and probably also a healthy side of the obligatory unreliable father narrative (or just plain shitty father narrative). on the other hand, if there is no baby (like i suspect for a multitude of reasons) then…obviously m**carriage story is the way to go and it’s awful and i wish it wasn’t even something i had to consider but i also wish none of this was something i even had to consider or think about at all lol so yeah…

alternatively there’s always a possibility that there’s some other route that hasn’t even crossed my mind/isn’t even on my radar that they could go, but…remains to be seen i suppose. anyway short story long (as usual lol), those are my thoughts as it stands right now…

[sad-little-nerd]

Ever After High BadWolf/Hood family headcanons:

- Both Cerise and Ramona wouldn't turn into wolves because they are more human than wolf. However, Ramona, being destined to be the next big bad wolf, is more likely to, at least, change her human appearance to be more beastly. - No matter how much her parents wanted her to socialise more with the other kids, Cerise was always the quiet oddball of her class, sometimes making people believe that something is wrong with her. - Ramona cared about her sister as little kids, but only secretly, where she hid that love with constant teasing in public. As she grew older, she grew a bit like an actual bully to her sister a bit more up until changing her mind to being a better person. - Ramona and Cerise had a wolf pup named Forest as kids. They, technically, didn't keep it, but it was a wild pup that always visited to play with them a lot, specifically Ramona, since Cerise was nicer and less violent. However, Cerise did make a little flower collar for Forest once, which it kept for the rest of it's life. Nowadays, Forest still visits them, but only on occassions to relax or play with them again. - As little kids, Ramona always woke Cerise up by tackling her out of bed until Cerise begged her to stop. It sometimes woke their mother up, depending on if she was asleep or it was loud enough to be heard. - On occassions, when Cerise was having a nightmare, Ramona would lay at the end of her bed to protect her from being too scared in the middle of the night. Sometimes their mother would find it adorable to see Ramona care about her sister enough to protect her from a nightmare. - Mr. BadWolf tries to be good when it comes to having a balanced meal of meat and vegetables to his wife, but, when his kids were little, he always secretly forced Cerise to eat his veggies most of the time, as well as Ramona on occassions as well. - Mrs. Hood is a gardener and her daughters know a lot about gardening and plants, but Cerise likes it a lot more than her sister, who would rather learn how to hunt with her dad instead. - Mrs. Hood is actually, in her full name after marrying Mr. BadWolf, Red Riding Hood-BadWolf. She kept her origional last name to hide suspision of her family. - Cerise works out and excercises on a daily basis, increasing her strength and speed each and everyday with her sister, who can do that a bit better than she can in a non-show-off kind of way. - Cerise has a thing for strong girls who don't listen to the norm of following their storybook destiny, from Darling Charming being a princess and a knight to Raven not wanting to be like her mother, the Evil Queen. - Cerise has, at one time in recent years, had a slight crush on Raven. She, also, noticed that her sister has a liking for Rosabella Beauty, daughter of Belle and the Beast. - Mrs. Hood and Mr. BadWolf know that their daughters like girls and completely accept who they like as long as they don't try to hurt them in any way. Mr. Bad Wolf would most likely try to kill whoever would break either of his daughters hearts if they ever broke up. - The BadWolf half of the family is Native American and the Hood half of the family is caucasian. Ramona and Cerise have more Native American DNA than caucasian, but Cerise still has lighter skin than her sister. - When Cerise was a kid and got mad, she'd either hide herself in a corner or have her mother calm her down. Her sister and father would destroy something instead to let their anger out. - Sometimes Ramona and Cerise would hang out in a treehouse their parents made for them and even spent some nights in it together. Sometimes they'd even spend time on their house's roof without thinking about going back inside, which annoyed their mother. - When Cerise was being bullied as a kid, Ramona would protect her sister from the people bullying her and even, at some times, threatened to fight them for hurting her sister without saying they were related, but rather really close friends. The bully would lose most of the time, but Ramona was always sent to a counsilor for having a physical fight with someone. It made her dad proud, but she always was scolded at by her mother. - Mr. BadWolf's nicknames for his wife is honey-pup and his daughters little puppies no matter how old Ramona and Cerise were. - Cerise and Ramona are one of the tallest girls in Ever After, as well as Ramona being one of the fluffiest fur-wise (being beaten to that rank by Bunnie Blanc and Kitty Cheshire). - Mrs. Hood is considered a very smart business woman, but would rather just be called a normal mother who has a very special gift in making money with her interests and skills. Mrs. Hood makes baskets by hand and sells them to gain money. She's even teaching Cerise how to make her own as well, since it's a tradition in the Hood family to learn the ways of basket-making. She, also, sells crops and plants she grows personally in her garden, only keeping 40% of what's in the garden. She's even a baker that helps out local bakeries or cafe's, which Cerise goes to whenever she wants to. - As much as Ramona doesn't want to admit it, she'll always have a soft side that cares about her family more than anything. She even considers her and her sister as an inseperable pack. - Cerise always looked up to her sister as a little girl and whatever her sister did, she could try to do herself. If she found Ramona tackling something, she'd try to do the same thing, yet was usually unsuccessful and getting herself hurt sometimes. - Ramona would be grounded for quite a bit of time for a lot of reasons: Staying up late on school nights, stealing food from the pantry without permission, accidentally hurting Cerise or somebody else, causing fights at school or home, and much more. Cerise was always a good girl that barely ever got warnings or scoldings from her parents. - Mr. BadWolf forced his daughters to wear a sheep outfit and a wolf outfit as babies on Halloween/Cerise's birthday. Cerise was the sheep in a birthday hat and Ramona was the wolf, and Mrs. Hood found it so adorable that she still has a picture of them in their baby costumes with the words "first birthday/halloween with Cerise". - Ramona was a bit jealous of Cerise being the good girl that everyone liked. Her envy for her sister was due to her carefree and even reckless attitude compared to Cerise's shy and "saintly" attitude as little kids. - Ramona was always a messier eater compared to Cerise. When her mother forced her to eat normally, she'd have a hard time eating with a normal fork, knife, or even a spoon. To be fair, though, Cerise grew up to be a more messy eater, but nothing near as messy as Ramona or even her own father.

[unwaveriinghearts-a]

Current Muselist

Listed with their tags; if you want to block a particular muse of mine, those are the tags to block.

Akaneian muses

Christa- PRINCESS OF LIGHT

Marth/Shiida fan daughter.

Valentian muses

Amaryllis- SAINTLY PRINCESS

Alm/Celica fan daughter.

Randal- CAVALIER OF WINDS

Semi-canon character.

Elibean muses

Aenir- THE FROZEN DRAGON

Headcanon-based canon character.

Eliwood- INHERITOR OF THE BLAZE

Canon character, available in both FE7 and FE6 versions.

Sophia- PROPHET OF THE HIDDEN VILLAGE

Canon character.

Uther- MARKSMAN OF OSITIA

Canon character.

Magvelian muses

Loki- SILVER PRINCE

Seth/Eirika fan son.

Ylissean muses

Laurent- SEEKER OF TRUTH

Canon character. Sired by Frederick.

Inigo- MAGNIFICENT DANCING BLADE

Canon character. Sired by Virion.

Fates muses

Caeldori- THE WINGS THAT CHASE PERFECTION

Canon character. Born of Hinoka.

Selkie- THREAD OF GOLD

Canon character. Born of Sakura.

Laslow- MAGNIFICENT DANCING BLADE

Canon character.

Zenithian muses

Alfonse- PRINCE WITH GOLDEN WINGS

Canon character.

Karin- OTHERWORLDLY GREAT HERO

Summoner OC.

Muses Under Consideration

Brave!Veronica- Heroes semi-canon character.

[kisant]

I’ve been thinking about how in Fates, while the siblings of each side are one of the main reasons to pick a path, the leaders of both factions also play a big part on who to join. And so, Garon’s extreme assholishness and Mikoto’s extreme saintliness do a disservice to the story, because while the siblings of each side have both good and bad character traits, Garon and Mikoto are presented respectively as Obviously Evil and Obviously Good, with the only ambiguousness being Garon’s past as a good father (only present through support conversations and the nohrian siblings’ dialogue at the end of Conquest) and Mikoto not doing anything about Valla (which is justified because of Anankos’ curse) 

So here are some ideas and headcanons on how to balance both sides. Some are more headcanon and some are more AU. 

---- Headcanon ----

- The primary reason for the age old hostility between Nohr and Hoshido is because of resources. Nohr’s climate is very cold (which makes the skimpy outfits make even less sense, many hoshidan units tend to wear clothes that are far more suited to colder climates than most nohrian units do. Let nohrians wear pants and warm coats, especially in the extremely cold Ice Tribe ffs) and the fields barely produce enough food, making it very vulnerable to bad harvest seasons and famine. However Nohr is very rich in minerals, so they ought to have both a lot of iron-making materials and also gold and other expensive minerals.

Hoshido, on the other hand, has a far more forgiving and warm climate and bountiful fields, and thus ought to have an economy based primarily on agriculture. But they don’t have much mineral wealth, and thus lack heavily armored units. 

So Hoshido should have more than enough food to go around and a bigger population, but not many minerals to forge weapons and armor or gold to buy it, while Nohr should have habitual famines and less population, but the nobility should be far richer than Hoshidan nobility and the army should be very well equipped.

So each kingdom has something the other lacks, Hoshido has food and Nohr has minerals and gold. The problem is that since Nohr has a lack of food and abundance of weapons, they have resorted to attacking neighbouring areas in times of famine, while Hoshido has isolationist tendencies and puts barriers to trading with foreigners. Through the centuries, Nohr progressed from raiding other countries in times of famine to conquering and annexing them, while Hoshido, as a response, completely closed its frontiers. 

Honestly, this all is pretty much canon text in the game, only with a “Nohr is evil and aggressive, Hoshido is peaceful and wonderful” filter firmly in place. 

---- AU ideas ----

- So, Corrin’s kidnapping and Sumeragi’s death. This is the one event that should have used Anankos and Valla as a primary explanation, but didn’t. They even put that one chapter in Revelations in which Ryoma’s and Xander’s armies blame each other for the destruction of the neutral city of Cyrkensia when the real culprit was Anankos and his invisible zombie soldiers. It would have been interesting if both Nohr and Hoshido blamed the other country for the attempt at a peace treaty going horribly wrong, and for both countries to have lost something. Hoshido would have lost Sumeragi and Corrin, and if we are going with human Garon who is not a zombie in order to avoid him being his cartoonishly evil canon self, Nohr could have lost a prince/princess or two. 

One thing that is very clear about canon Garon back when he was alive was that he truly valued all his children, and went as far as to make the concubine’s children a legitimate part of the line of succession, and to stop taking concubines when they started killing each other and the children in order to increase their own child’s chances of eventually inheriting the throne. So it would make sense for human Garon to take Corrin and raise them as a nohrian prince/ss as revenge for losing one of his children to the Hoshidan “betrayal” at Cheve. 

- In this kind of AU, what would make sense would be for Corrin to be raised in Krakenburg instead of in the Northern Fortress and for them to have the exact same responsibilities and expectations placed upon them as the rest of the nohrian siblings. So they already should have military experience through working with Xander for a while, and the start of the story being about them being ready to be in command of their own section of the army, instead of being “ready” to join the army at all. That way, it would also make far more sense for Corrin to be the main leader and tactician during the whole game even after the “prove yourself” arc is over and the far more experienced Xander and Leo join up for the invasion of Hoshido. Leo would be on the same level as Corrin and starting to command on his own as well despite being younger because he is a prodigy, while Elise would be the more sheltered and naive one because of her youth, being at most on healer duty at the rear, and definitely not having seen an actual frontline yet. 

This version of Corrin should also be a lot less naive about nohrian culture and way of life due to not being almost completely isolated from it. They’d likely hold a position similar to Azura in canon, especially if they knew the truth about being originally hoshidan the same way Azura knew she was originally “nohrian” and that her heritage was inescapable despite being treated well by the hoshidan siblings. It would be interesting to have a Corrin who genuinely wants to prove themself as a true Nohrian for more than two chapters of the plot instead of feeling super guilty for the first half of  the game and using it as a facade to hide their true agenda (and feeling even more guilty) for the second half like in canon Conquest. 

- Azura’s kidnapping is one of the few shady things Hoshido did in canon, and even that is glorified by Mikoto being her aunt and in the know about Valla, as well as Azura being mistreated by the other concubines and their children. So in this AU, Azura would have been kidnapped first in order to force an exchange and get back Corrin, but Mikoto would have no intention to actualy give her niece back. While an exchange doesn’t happen, what does happen is an increase in the tension between the two countries, as now both of them are trying to extract a prince/ss from the other. Mikoto’s barrier and the faceless attacks are simply parts of the escalation of hostilities until Corrin is actually kidnapped during a mission and dragged behind the barrier. Which would prompy Nohr to launch a full-scale attack to rescue Corrin before the hoshidan queen can use the chance to brainwash them (since the barrier did effect the minds of the people who crossed it). Mikoto’s death happens either like in canon (by a vallite spectral asssassin pretending to be nohrian and targetting both Corrin and Mikoto) or in the chaos of the nohrian attempt to reclaim Corrin, causing the barrier to fall, giving Ryoma a reason to start an al out war with Norh and having Corrin make the choice to support Nohr, Hoshido or neither.  

- Garon would start his slippery slide down into batshit insanity during the events of the game because of Anankos’ mindcontrol, much like Takumi. That way, it would make sense for the nohrian siblings to still be loyal to Garon for most of the story and not wanting to believe that he was both not well in the head and that there was a foreign influence causing his obviously aberrant behaviour instead of being a consequence of the stress of the war and tha he would get better once it was over. It would also make it more tragic for them to have to eventually cut him down if there was no other way to free him from Anankos’ control. 

- Azura should have her own agenda regarding Valla. One of the main issues canon Azura has is that she knows everything but does nothing to fix the root of the issue unless a very specific chain of events occurs. In two of the three paths, Azura uses her power to destroy or free one or two of Anankos’ thralls, sacrificing her own life in the process and without making any effort to even hint towards Valla or there being another enemy manipulating them from the shadows, and that knowledge is lost with her death, giving Anankos a free shot to undo your efforts in Birthright or Conquest a few generations down the line. So this AU’s Azura’s main motivation should be plotting to reveal Anankos’s existence and influence in a way that doesn’t erase her own. And she chooses to follow Corrin regardless of the path they take because she saw in them a way to do so, because while she favours Hoshido her real allegiance is to her mother’s land and her mission is to destroy Anankos and foil his plans.

- Talking about Valla, another of the “shady things Hoshido does” that does happen in canon and most people don’t acknowledge is that the Hoshidan siblings blatantly and shamelessly lie to Corrin about being related by blood when Corrin was Mikoto’s child from an earlier marriage and they are Sumeragi’s ADOPTIVE child. Sure, they were siblings, but they were not blood related, at all. That is something they only admit after choosing Birthright (or Revelations) and doing some support conversations, but their initial pitch to have Corrin choose Hoshido was all OUR BOND IS MORE REAL BECAUSE WE ARE BLOOD RELATED, UNLIKE YOU AND THOSE NOHRIANS, WHO AREN’T YOUR FAMILY AT ALL. And they kept hammering the “we’re your real siblings because we are blood related, how could you betray us for your fake nohrian family?” in Conquest. Like, wow, hypocrisy much?

- Talking about hoshidan shadiness, Yukimura and Reina are characters tha I think were meant to be darker hoshidans but weren’t very well executed in canon. Yukimura is Iago’s hoshidan equivalent and also the most unreasonable hoshidan in Revelations, while Reina is an obvious parallel to Peri, but her bloodlust doesn’t get as much focus because she only gets to support with Corrin. So AU Yukimura could be the puppeteering mastermind he may have been supposed to be, while pacifist Mikoto having a blood knight who delights in seeing the light fade from her enemies’ eyes as one of her retainers could hint at Mikoto not being as pure and honest as her public image makes her look. 

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Daemon, Rohanne, Aegor + singing headcanons?

I actually have a lot of headcanons about the singing voices of the characters from the Blackfyre-era because I thought, “There is so much drama and emotional conflict that FBR could be a damn opera,” and lo and behold, I used my opera knowledge to imagine vocal ranges.

Daemon is a baritenor. In opera, males and females with the higher vocal ranges (tenors and sopranos, respectively) have a “purer” quality and are usually cast in heroic and unproblematic leading roles; whereas singers at  lower vocal ranges (altos and baritones/basses) are cast as villains due to the “deeper, more sinister” quality of their sound (this doesn’t always hold true; for example, in The Magic Flute, the villainess is a soprano and a major hero is a bass because their true natures aren’t revealed until halfway through the opera). I envision Daemon as a baritenor because of its great vocal range, able to hit the high notes of the tenor and the weighty lower octaves of the baritone, but with enough agility to sing complex melodies; the range symbolizes his conflict on whether or not to rebel against Da3ron, his prowess and versatility as a warrior, and his ability to absorb the ideas of multiple different factions (for example, when he and Aegor sing together, he adjusts his range to baritone to match).

Aegor is a straight-up gut-rumbling baritone. Most of his songs are not very complex in terms of melody and are rather slow, but his voice has a sort of authoritative boom that drowns out those weak “saintly” tenor boys out of sheer power. The baritone range symbolizes Aegor’s ruthlessness and raw force, while also having the expressive qualities lacking in a lot of bass roles.

Rohanne is a mezzo-soprano. She isn’t evil, but her deeper range represents her maturity and intelligence (she is a few years older than most of the characters in that generation, and is very capable), perhaps even a bit of sensuality (she did have all those kids) whereas sopranos are typecasted as young and naïve (Princess Daenerys is an obvious soprano in Opera!FBR). Mezzo-sopranos, when not in femme fatale roles like Carmen, can be casted as mother/mentor figures like Azucena, so I think that would be a fitting vocal range for Rohanne.

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can u write a fic where in the midst robb and rhaenys getting married, rhaenys and arthur (her real dad like you headcanon

She can hardly breathe from nervous excitement, but outwardly she looks nearly perfect. It’s mostly thanks to her mother and Ashara, the kohl around her eyes and the stain on her lips, the painstakingly perfect curls they’d somehow wrangled her hair into, the white damask of her gown sewn through with silver thread that had taken the seamstresses months to put together.

“Robb won’t know what to do with himself,” says Ashara conspiratorially.

Rhaenys laughs. “That’s the idea.”

Lace ostensibly prevents her bodice from being indecent, but from as close as Robb would soon be standing, there would be no mistaking the way her breasts strain against the fabric, nor her desire for him. He would enjoy ripping it in two, she knows that much.

The door opens just as Ashara is straightening the clasps on her silk maiden’s cloak, and the both of them smile once they spot Arthur in the mirror. Ashara checks the fit and closures one last time before offering, “I’ll be outside.”

Rhaenys kisses her cheek. “Thank you, auntie.”

“When did you grow into a woman?” Arthur asks once she leaves. “I could swear just yesterday you were a little girl.”

“Oh, not you too,” she groans. “Mother’s been doing enough of that, no matter how many times I tell her I’ll be staying here, not going to Winterfell.”

“You’re her firstborn,” he says. “You hold a special place in her heart, and she doesn’t want to lose you.”

“She won’t.” She sees his fond smile fade to a frown and asks, “What is it?”

“Rhaegar should be here,” he says. “Despite all that happened, he was still your father, he should see you wed.”

Rhaenys looks down at her feet. “He wasn’t, though, was he?” she asks quietly. It’s now or never. “My father, I mean.”

“What?” She can hear the catch in his voice; it’s the final, unnecessary, piece of confirmation she needs.

“I couldn’t figure out how to ask.” Her eyes move to his, searching his face for similarity to her own. Her coloring is her mother’s, but the resemblance is undeniable, now that she’s looking for it. “It’s you.”

“Rhaenys, no,” he objects. “What you are suggesting is preposterous, and treason besides.”

“Or love,” she persists. “I’m not blind, I’ve always seen how you and Mother look at each other, and how you look at me. Uncle Lewyn has known me my whole life, too, yet it’s not the same. And–I don’t know, I feel it.”

He stares at her a moment more, and then sits down heavily on the settee and buries his face in his hands. “How long have you known?”

“Years. But it’s only been recently that I’ve stopped denying it.”

“I never wanted you to find out,” Arthur despairs. “Neither of us did. You deserve better.”

“Better? Better is a man who ran away with a child-woman and started a war? A man who abandoned me and Aegon and Mother for over a year? How is that better?” she asks. “Nothing happened after Mother was married, isn’t that what counts?”

“How–?”

“I’ve done the sums. Mother was married at the new year and I was born at the start of the ninth moon. The records say I was born early, but I wasn’t, was I?”

His shoulders slump in defeat. “No, you weren’t.”

“What does it matter, anyway? I can’t inherit anything, the Targaryen crown will never go through me, and I’m a born princess from Mother’s side. Nothing changes, not really.”

“Everything would change. If anyone found out…”

“They can’t, I know,” she says. “No one would believe Aegon’s legitimate when I’m not, even though that’s the truth.”

“The gods will wreak their own wrath upon me, I have no doubt.”

“What wrath? No harm has come of it.”

“No harm? I broke my vows, Rhaenys. I swore to be chaste and to father no children, I swore it in front of gods and men, and I broke that in the worst of ways.”

“Your brothers in white are so much more saintly? I care for them, but they all stood by during the Mad King’s reign while he burned men alive and raped Grandmother, and Uncle Lewyn has two children on his paramour. If you could do it over, if you knew lying with Mother would result in me, would you choose not to?”

“I don’t know. Mayhaps.”

“And Father?” she asks. “If he could do it over, would he choose to not pursue the prophecy?”

Arthur doesn’t respond, which is response enough.

“I thought as much,” she scoffs. “I would only want him here so I could show him the good we’ve done in spite of his actions. We’ve healed the realm, and ourselves, we did that.”

“Rhaegar loved you,” says Arthur. “If you trust nothing else about him, trust that. His love for you never wavered.”

“I know. But nevertheless, he chose some ancient fairy tale over his family, and I can’t forgive it. I won’t.”

“You’re as obstinate as your mother,” he sighs.

“And you.”

She sees no smile, only shame. “And me.”

“Have I hurt you with this?” she asks, her surety faltering at his relentless guilt. “Should I have not told you I know?”

He takes her hand in his, familiar and yet unexplored. “The fault lies with me. I should have said something long ago.”

“Well, there’s naught to be done about it,” she says. “But now there needn’t be a secret anymore. At least, not privately. We can only move forward.”

“Starting with your marriage,” says Arthur. “You can finally make a man out of that boy.”

Rhaenys grins. “Surely you know that I’ve already–”

“Do not say another word.” At her compliance, he opens the velvet-lined box on her vanity and removes from it her diadem, a simple thing of spun rose gold gifted to her by Grandmother. He places it gently on her head, careful to avoid mussing Ashara’s handiwork, and then steps back to see her in full. “You look beautiful.”

“Will you say it?” she asks. “I need to hear it.”

There is no mistaking what she means. “Rhaenys…”

“Please,” she implores. “Just once.”

She thinks he’ll refuse; she anticipates the disappointment. And then he leans down and whispers in her ear, words only she will ever hear, and she feels the last wall around her heart crumble away.

My daughter.

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[9:18 PM] [redacted]: pls opine about the various religious stances of the RH characters

[9:18 PM] [redacted]: and/or nations

[9:18 PM] [redacted]: on tumblr, if you please 

Didn’t see this on Discord at first, and then it got long, and then sleep happened, and then it got longer. Oops.

Anyway.

The game is surprisingly lean on information about religion for a story heavily featuring a theocracy, but what we know from canon, pretty much in its entirety, is:

Alistel is super-big on ~the Prophet Noah~, they believe he’ll provide them with mystical protection, and an NPC calls him “the only saintly being in this world”

Noah’s teachings have never actually been written down, but he led a rebellion at a young age and started a magitech theocracy in the mountains

Hugo talks about “the mountains where the high gods dwell”

A lot of people from Granorg seem anywhere from confused to dismissive about Alistel’s religiousness and don’t really know who Noah is

Shamans have the power to communicate with and guide dead souls to “the heavens” and Aht tells Stocke “only you can meet God, anyway”

The royal family are descended from the Imperial high priests

The Boundary Tree in Celestia is considered sacred and some Satyros NPCs complain about the fact that Rosch has parked there

A Beast Mark (whatever the hell it is) is a “ritual tool,” the Gutrals have a religious ritual of stringing beast claws onto a necklace, Holff Ruins are considered a holy place, and fetching a Beast Mark out of the ruins is a ritual to prove the tribe can trust you

Past this is where I get into headcanon:

Granorg doesn’t have an official state religion, but bits of the religion of Empire have stuck around in a few institutions, and the royal family has a handful of religious duties of a “go out to this place and do this thing once a year and everyone parties” nature. Some monarchs have taken things like “make an offering of wine and flowers at the family catacombs at midwinter” seriously spiritually, others have just kind of done it because people would get mad if they didn’t. There was a lot of debate when Protea took the throne about whether she was required/allowed to do various rituals because she wasn’t royal blood; she threw a tantrum when she found out and insisted on doing all of them for a while, then settled into a routine of doing only the ones that seem like fun and ignoring anything that sounded boring. When Eruca offered to take over those, Protea threw another tantrum and forbade her from doing it, because she decided it was an attempt to undermine her. (Eruca’s been doing as many as possible on the down-low anyway. The palace staff pretty much all know and collectively look the other way.)

Noah’s sect grew out of what was essentially an Empire cult. It held that the Empire was brought to power by the favor of the gods, and its fall was a punishment for losing respect for them. The usual formulation was that the royal family’s line was spared due to their devotion, and therefore they, and through them the nobility in general, have been blessed to carry on the Empire’s legacy. Some monarchs have encouraged this belief because it served their ego or because it was a useful political tool. Noah, however, said that he’d been contacted by the gods, and they told him that the nobility had failed and grown decadent, oppressive, and complacent, and it was his duty to restore humanity’s divine legacy to the people. His movement attracted a mix of the most disaffected, plus a bunch of scholars and researchers who were angry at the monarchs’ broad research bans on thaumatech and anything that looked like a related scientific or magical field.

Noah’s highest tenant was “all people are equal, unless appointed by the gods,” so Alistel was established with no noble orders and a ban on slavery. Noah himself was the only person universally agreed to fall into category 2, though Viola and Hugo were also often included. (Hugo considered having “Noah” announce Hugo as his divinely-appointed successor, but felt that would be too likely to draw suspicion and make people demand to hear Noah say it himself.) They also consider the pursuit of knowledge, especially the pursuit of lost knowledge from the past, to be a holy duty, which has caused their tech level to skyrocket (even if Fennel’s mad because he’d rather branch out into more interesting thaumachine designs than “humanoid” but nobody wants to let him because the Empire used humanoid ones). Hugo’s rhetoric started from places Noah’s might have, and then bent it in directions Noah never intended it to go, sometimes to the point of outright reversing it. (Hugo’s various “I am a god” rants were basically the ultimate blasphemy in Noah’s worldview.)

Cygnus is a hodge-podge of basically every religion on the continent, since it has such a high refugee population. A lot of people who live in Cygnus for long enough end up with a grab-bag of superstitions, rituals, and beliefs from a dozen different cultures.

The Satyros are the culture with the most widespread knowledge of the actual mechanics of mana and souls, since Granorg’s rulers kept a lot of information about that difficult to access as part of the thaumatech ban. Their religion is somewhat pantheistic; all living things have souls, all souls are a part of God descending to the earth, experiencing a lifetime, and then returning to the heavens, and dead souls trapped on the earth suffer until they’re led back home. As mana is the stuff of life, it and the parts of nature that produce it are sacred.

Gutral religion is very focused on grand gesture rituals where you have to do a difficult task to prove something; lots of tests and ordeals and coming-of-age ceremonies and “make this thing to mark your change from one state to another” and different rules for what you’re allowed to do before and after.

As for some of the characters:

A whole lot of Stocke’s experience of religion in Alistel has consisted of him trying as hard as possible to not look like he's really uncomfortable and doesn’t want to be here. On a completely non-spiritual level, he respects Noah’s leadership ability and many of his principles, but he’s just not a religious person. As this is not a good way to make friends in the Alistel armed forces, especially when you have an accent, he mostly tries to be as quiet about this as possible and pretend he knows the prayers and songs everyone else grew up with. Rosch has a pretty good idea, but was surprised to discover while maudlin-philosophical-crisis-of-faith drunk that Stocke is absolutely sure of the existence of souls that persist after death, is kind of confused by the idea that anyone could not think that, and does his BSOD blank-out thing when asked why he’s so convinced of this.

Rosch grew up in Alistel, but he was never Kiel-level devout, and his interactions with the reality of military life and Alistel’s internal politics have also taken the edge off a lot of the “WE ARE THE BEST AT EVERYTHING” that a lot of Alistellians end up with, as well as dampening enthusiasm for “NOAH WILL PROTECT US.” Not that he disbelieves, but he feels divine protection probably has an easier time if you help it along by not being an idiot, and he’s been through enough to recognize Hugo as a manipulative demagogue and suspect there was probably some spin-doctoring going on. The fact that Hugo had been making it up whole cloth was still a shock, though.

Sonja’s family has been researchers for a couple of generations, and while she can say all the words, she mostly got the “SCIENCE IS AWESOME” side of things from her parents and a lot less of the “oh and also divine mandate, blessings of the gods, holy legacy, I guess.” She and Stocke have exchanged more than one exhausted look behind the backs of people who won’t shut up about “PRAISE NOAH.”

Eruca I mentioned above: she’s latched on a little to her family’s spiritual traditions both as a form of connection to everything about her family that’s she’s lost and as a part and reminder of her duty as a princess.

Aht’s young enough to not entirely understand Satyros theology, but she can parrot the basic tenants if asked. Even though she’s a shaman, she hasn’t been pushed into any sort of major spiritual study, both so she has time to just be a kid and because there isn’t currently another shaman who has time to mentor her.

Raynie's your classic Cygnus kid- she’s got a lot of superstitions that she doesn’t really know the original justification for or meaning behind, but a lot of people around her followed them when she was a kid and they still make her feel better.

Marco is from way out in the countryside, in an area that technically changes hands regularly but has enough fertile farmland that nobody actually wants to march an army through it and ruin the entire reason they’re trying to capture it, so mostly all that changed for them when it changed hands was which direction the merchants they sold food to in the next town over drove their carts. His town had its own set of traditions, but they were heavily agriculture-based and he didn’t particularly like his town, so he doesn’t observe those, and his reaction to most new beliefs so far has been “academic interest.”

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