valbar crushing on a dense reader
pairing: valbar x gn!reader
tags: fluff, oblivious reader
valbar is a very friendly guy, someone who gets along with pretty much everyone around him
but because he's so kind to everyone, it's hard to know when he's just being nice and when he's being flirty
he isn't the type for pick up lines or anything of the sorts and instead tries to be direct with you
yet when he asks you out for a drink and you suggest that he brings kamui and leon along, he can't help but awkwardly laugh
the next time he asks you out, you once again suggest the same thing. and then the time after that you ask for leon and kamui to come along too
valbar can't help but think that asking you out won't be enough to get you to realize he likes you
so he tries to confess to you directly, telling you he loves you!
at first, he's happy when you confess that you love him too, but when you add "you're my best friend after all!" he can't help but once again laugh awkwardly
it seems that whatever he tells you, he just can't get you to understand his feelings, but maybe he'll figure out a way eventually…
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10) A character you find underrated?
I really like Valbar!
He's a really wholesome man despite his initial motivation being revenge, is absolutely busted if you reclass him, is definitely the second dad of Celica's Pligrimage along with Saber and the implication he might have been the third lord alongside Alm and Celica in some early draft of Gaiden makes me really curious about what his role would have been👀
17) How did you get into Fire Emblem?
Ok, this is a long story.
While the first time I saw an FE character was Marth and Ike in SSBB, I didn't pay much attention to them.
My first actual experience with Fire Emblem was watching this italian Let's Play of Path of Radiance by Letal, back when I was in middle school, and boy I had a blast.
I became obsessed with the game, the story, the world of Tellius, the charcters (especially because the let's play gave characters funny comments while they were in battle and other small funny edits, like Makalov having this theme from Punch-Out Wii whenever he entered a fight because he gave him a Russian accent)
Needless to say, I wanted more.
So eventually I got a totally legit copy of Radiant Dawn and played it on my definitely not modified Wii, and while it took a long time to finish I was even more hooked.
Some really fond memories I have are losing my shit over how much the battle animations had improved, internally screaming when the Greil Mercenaries showed up and getting torn apart in the latter half of Part 3!
Don't remember much of what happened after, but eventually I wound up on the Fire Emblem subreddit, some time after Fates was released.
I wouldn't play the 3DS games until last year, but I still lurked on the place, looked at the fanart and listened at what people had to say.
...which most of the time in hindsight was constant nitpicking, arguing over which era of FE is the best, and of course, the "Fates bad" circlejerk that never really stopped but was at its peak in this era.
(And while I kinda passively joined the circlejerk at the time, at the same time the game and the world couldn't stop grabbing my curiosity and I'd constantly read and see more about it)
I did play FE8 and FE7(i think?) during this period though. Didn't hook me as much as the Tellius games did, though. In general, my interest in the series was fading a bit.
But then, Heroes came out and I started playing it, and that rekindled my love for the series, not to mention introduce me to a lot of characters I had no idea they existed!
(and yes, I was on the FEH subreddit too, but 99% lurking)
It sparked my curiosity enough to even get me to play FE4, especially since it was one of the games most praised by the community!
Oh, and then a certain game came out on the 3DS.
I actually wound up playing it some months after it released because my friend let me borrow her 3DS, and it became my biggest FE obsession surpassing even Tellius!
The game's title, of course, was Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, and it's still my favorite FE game and one of my favorite games in general.
Eventually I'd quit Heroes forever, at first because I needed the time to prepare for my high school finals and that game was really starting to take too much of it and then permanently when I realized just how little fun the game was getting for me.
Likewise, I ended up quitting the FE subreddits too.
At first it was just because Three Houses was coming out and I didn't want to get spoiled, but then eventually that too became a permanent leave, mostly because as I said before, the main FE subreddit was getting a bit too obnoxious for my taste and I hadn't played FEH in a long time.
Heck, eventually I wound up deleting my Reddit account outright because I realized I was going there just to deliberately get angry to avoid getting bored.
And then... there are the last few years.
While I already was on Tumblr for a few years on my main blog (again, passively), was following a few FE blogs and even contributed to one of them by writing some supports... one day, I had the idea for this blog. And eventually, I decided to go for it and it became a thing.
Originally it was just meant to be a place where I discussed FE and posted my theories, analysis and writings, but then it turned into.. whatever this is😅 Don't regret a thing, though. This is the best place I made for myself as an online community in general, let alone FE!
It's like my own well-decorated corner of a wall!
In this past year, now that I had a 3DS I totally didn't modify as well, I finally played Awakening and Fates for myself!
...And Shadow Dragon too, I guess.
I still have a lot of games left I want to play (and that's just from the mainline series, don't even get me started on the Kaga emblemlikes, hacks or other fangames), so this story is far from over!
21) Any rarepairs/crack ships you have?
The main two involve Faye, and are Faye/Celica and Faye/Rinea!
I love both pairings a very normal amount *lying*
Even wrote a fic for the latter!
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