#and phil + foolish being secretly a demigod and theyre still shapeshifters except Though dragons are sick theyre just. animals

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I "briefly" explained the fire emblem au, between it's original concept and recent developments.

So. It's very loosely based of of 3H (also known as FE16 actually, it's the 16th installment of the game and the lore doesn't really carry over. I mean it does if you squint really hard but it doesnt) except my memory of 3H fades by the day. A new sequel Literally just came out but uhhhhhh. But I will explain this as if nobody actually knows what I'm talking about. It gets a bit long.

The very very basic plot of 3H is that there is a boarding school split into the titular Three Houses, pretty much based on nationality and heritage. There is, basically, the red house, the yellow house, and the blue house. Five years after the first half of the game, the children have left school and are now fighting wars with eachother. Oh also the school is run by the church, and just called The Monastery. Also, the main character is a mercenary turned teacher who becomes besties with one of the house leaders (... or the school staff, i guess, there is a fourth route) and then that's the house that you follow for the remainder of the game. There is also magic politics.

But. In my au specifically :]. Wilbur is a prince who has been. acquired. at a young age and raised like a normal guy (by Phil). As he's coming of age he's sent to Politics Boarding School to learn how to rule a country one day. He brings Tommy with him. This goes exactly how one would expect. They are very loosely the yellow house, along with the rest of Basically Lmanburg.

Tubbo is a prince by virtue of being the son of the acting king, but not the True Bloodline or whatever, and is very glad that Wilbur showed up and put a larger buffer between him and the throne. He is also a tactician, as the game is like a battle strategy game, which is a Very Important role.

In the Lmanburg house is also Niki, Jack, Schlatt, Fundy, and Quackity. Niki is a commoner, she is still very much the Average Citizen (however, she leaves and joins the church for protection at one point as the political environment at home gets Bad.) I have no idea what Jack's deal is yet actually. Fundy is a prince who has a small territory inside Lmanburg to his name, and is glad that Wilbur is back. They are Cousins, which will be a very catchall relationship modifier as this moves forward. But they were very close before. Y'know. Wilbur got Anastasia'd, Basically. Disney's Tangled'd? I don't know. Common trope. Moving on.

Schlatt is also a prince with a small claim to territory, however he's older than Fundy and Tubbo was sort of coerced into cedeing the throne to him when it was time. So he is Not Pleased that Wilbur showed up. Quackity is also a commoner but has fought very hard for his position here, and tends to cozy up to Schlatt for Security.

And that's the Lmanburg house BUT THATS NOT ALL. There is More. There are three of them, as the title implies. It's loosely Greater SMP / DSMP and The Badlands / Eggpire. It doesn't fit to neatly box them in, especially with even numbers, buuut ehhh. The important points to note is that Dream is the head of what is loosely the blue house, and BBH is the red house. And then there's the Church, which is actually where my interest lies. It's less faction-oriented and more just who I thought would fit but.

The head of the church is Foolish. There are knights that protect the students and sometimes instruct classes, who I can remember off the top of my head as including Eret for the DSMP, Puffy for the Eggpire, and Techno for Lmanburg. (Now one would say this doesn't make sense surely Eret should be with Lmanburg but uhhh. Uhhhhhhhhhh. idk. The whole. king. bit)

But all of this main character material is Boring my little guys are the syndicate. We know this.

Phil is a cleric. He is also an Actual Historical Saint in the church, but he cannot tell people that so Yup he's just a magic priest. He meets Technoblade as a child, and they just sort of keep running into eachother until they're besties. He has an obligation to be an apolitical figure, due to the neutrality of the church and he doesn't want to be Starting Wars, but he's advised by Kristin (one of the gods) that there will be tragedy at Lmanburg Royalty Palace Idk and Phil rescues the child from an assassination attempt, and raises him in secret to ensure he doesn't become a political pawn for someone with worse intentions.

Technoblade is A Little Guy. He keeps running into Phil as he's sort of growing up, and finding his role in the world. He does not like institutions after being born a poor farmer and having to deal with authoritarian abuse in the distant land of Hypixel (of which he tries to work to liberate from Said authoritarian abuse). He is a bit of a fool, trying to find a purpose between almost getting killed for sport, meddling in political activities that he doesn't necessarily understand yet, and getting a Reputation for himself. Him and Phil stick together eventually and Phil sort of helps guide him. It's a Techno origin story. This makes him sound like a bad guy but he's Not he's just small and has become a folk hero and has to deal with how exactly he Can impact a world that sucks, a lot. He develops about it.

I forgot to add that when Wilbur is old enough, Phil convinces Technoblade to teach the school kids how to fight.

And Ranboo. Well. It requires a 3H Canon Explanation again there is a magic war crime group and they do unethical magic expirements on children. There is like a whole magic hierarchy but it's like. It's weird. Some kids are born with Magic Superpowers called Crests and they're gifts from the gods/descendants of the However Many I Forget Saints (Phil, in this au) and it's like status but. But there's the magic war crime group. They're analogous to the egg, here, due to both the abuse towards and facilitating of by the leader of the red house. (BBH is both a victim and a perpetrator of the egg Etc. because. cult. moments)

That's what Ranboo is up to. He only really comes in during act 2, because he is very much not royalty and worked in Tubbo's castle while he was away and is assigned a position of power at some point. (bc the original lmanburg falls apart as it did in canon). At some point he is kidnapped and he suffers Magical Brain Damage impacting his memory, as well as giving him The Ranboo Look (canonically these expirements give white hair and red eyes So). When he shows up he does however sort of jump ship and align with what is Even Looser the church which sort of becomes an independent identity of the syndicate, as it's sort of run by Phil due to Foolish going into hiding.

... along with Ranboo, there is a sideplot in which Butler is also involved. He is worse for wear than Ranboo. These expirements are not designed to be survived. There is another layer of the crest thing in which the gods were murdered and dismembered and their body parts were used as tools. Basically they're looking for the heart of a god to use as an alternate life force because Boy is he not doing good. And this was when I started woobifying Butler and Billiam. As I Should. (They meet Technoblade along the way. Technoblade the anti-establishment man is like Yeah Sure but then Phil is like Uhhh maybe you should not obtain the heart of a god actually and Techno is like. Well. Look at this situation I am now in.)