#ask marianne

[blitzy-blitzwing]

Neat trick.

[silent-shanin]

It all started with a scratch

[payasita]

can we hear more about carlos if you'd be so generous (genuine)

OH GLADLY. so ive mentioned hes the protag of a thing im making, so i wanted the broad strokes of his premise to be simple: he's a reaper! made to go up and bring souls to wherever the hell they go after death, ect ect. he was pretty good at it!

but the setting im writing here is a pretty standard "death but its a bureaucracy" type thing. something something small business growth, higher demand, things get streamlined, job title changes, ect

so he was Less Good at the desk job angle. but he worked at it! once again, he's one of the best!

is it what he was originally created to do? no. is it what he thought he'd be doing for eternity when he decided he found the most personal fulfillment in being good at what he does? not really. is it so drastically different that it's actually atrophying some facets of his personality a little? maybe. is he happy?

the important thing is, he's good at it!

[whaliiwatching]

her throne is his lap

[risingsunfish]

Happy birthday, Claude and Pasha— now it's time to answer some questions! This one came from /u/HB_DS2013 on Reddit, getting straight to today's hard-hitting Pasha issues— and, perhaps unintentionally, prompting a sequel to Pasha’s post-April Fool’s blues here on Tumblr.

Stay tuned for more responses! (Still taking questions BTW!)

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[randomnameless]

Why do the FEH devs insist on ignoring Nabatean lore so much?

I recently had a surprisingly cordial discussion on redshit with someone about the "nabateans = colonisers" take, and one of the main points raised was that the game was purposedly foggy around Nabateans/Sothis/their story because it would obviously favor a certain narrative (and thus make another narrative look, uh, not that marketable anymore).

To be honest, we still ended up with a product that had a lead go "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and yet that lead is still marketable enough to have raunchy cipher cards and 5 FEH alts, so I actually wonder if, while pissing on that lore had that purpose, it was ultimately pointless since Supreme Leader can still sell goodies despite her incarnation in FE16.

And not only Supreme Leader - but the entirety of WC where we basically have 70% of the cast crying/complaining about their "mixed blood" or lack of and basically adding their 10 cents to the "this race and its blood is the reason why the world sucks".

I mean, can you imagine Sylvain selling any goodies and alts if Flayn replied to his "wah wah people only are kind to me and want to fuck me because I have Nabatean blood :(" by some uncharacteristic "good for you, I have to hide my ears, had to dye my hair, have to lie about my family because if the truth is found out about my identity, I will be hunted and vivisected like an animal and harvested for parts by people who call my kin abominations - just like what happens in the game where the same people who call my kin "abominations" ally with a classmate who calls me a creature and pretends I am incapable of human feelings based on my race".

FE Fodlan's main selling point is its cast of students, for various reasons, but even if I tried to kid myself, Nopes and FEH made it clears : students are the main selling point.

If you spare more time and attention to the Nabatean plot/lore, the students either grow from "likeable" to "despicable" or worse, you won't gaf about them because yeah sure, Hilda might be upset because people expect things from her due to her crust, but it would feel like a "peanut" compared to Seteth's irrational (granted, it's not so irrational since GW exists) fear that Flayn's newest friends would dissect her if they learnt she was a Nabatean, and being conflicted by finally letting her have human friends and form bonds she crave, or protect her due to the trauma from the genocide of their species.

Don't get me wrong, I love peanuts, I mean, not everyone can have a tragik of loaded backstory!

And yet, given how this verse's DNA is "can you fight against the red emperor who uwus about you", they had to add copious amounts of Earl Grey to their games so there's no clear-cut factions :

The "Your alien blood and its influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command" vs "I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

is turned to :

"Your alien blood Crests and its your church's influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command"

"I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

Sprinkle with the cast's hammering here and there that the "reforms" might be needed - but never develop on what they are - and add a few baseless and groundless takes as a toping (basically everything Claude says about tolerance and the general "isolationism/foreign policy" stuff) and you get FE Fodlan where the Red Emperor's war isn't seen as the catastrophe it is in the other entries from the series!

Now, for FEH...

FWIW, the F!F!Billy's trailer had them try to explain that Sothis was a bit pissed about her slaughtered/massacred children when Nopes never gave any reason about why she was pissed - maybe on Billy's behalf bcs Jerry's dead, but come on, she would indeed deserve the medal of the worst parent in the franchise if that was the case, since Billy can murder her daughter without Sothis taking over ! - but given that they cannot write/go against the source game those characters are from.

They tried a bit, with B!Supreme Leader and Hegemongard's FB, but then it stopped (because she had no "new unit" released since then lol) and I can understand why : Hegemongard came out before the Supreme Emblem, and Hegemongard hates dragons who are seen/perceived as gods by some of their human followers. Come FE17, and now Supreme Emblem accepts Alear because they are "one of the good ones". We can come up with HCs and details and talk about what are emblems or if Hegemongard's views were only hers at the end of AM all day long... But imo, Doylist wise, it still feels it's a retcon because the devs from the main games tried to scrap and remove the most "controversial" traits she had.

For the other characters... Well, you see what Marianne is in FEH (but even in her base games), she's one of the few characters who reacts - in a way - to the partial history about relics and demonic beasts and all... only to give sad uwus to Maurice.

FE16 (and Nopes) refused to have any "student" character react to the Nabatean lore/reveal, about what are relics and all. There are no lines, Claude shared some knowledge in the explore section of VW's last chapter, but we don't have anyone muse or think or even talk about what are relics, what are crests, and what kind of fuckery their ancestors or the ancient humans of Fodlan did.

With that in mind, FEH can't do much : either they write Marianne in a retcon-y way like what happened for Hegemongard (and they're not afraid to piss on characterisation, look at Lyon!), or they flanderise her "character" and develop her around 3 lines she had in the game in her paralogue, and continue to give sad uwus about Momo when he was at best a guy who slaughtered and murdered so much that he abused the Nabatean turned into a relic to the point where he turned in a demonic beast even if he had a matching crest, or at worst, had been part of Nemesis's piñata party in Zanado and was something of a genocider.

Tldr :

Why FE Fodlan never gaf about Nabateans : earl grey + the marketable cast has to stay marketable and you can't sell peanuts at the same price you'd sell swordfish

Why FEH dgaf about Nabatean lore : they can't afford to retcon characters + they have to sell peanut alts with the same seasoning they had in their base game.

For what it's worth though, I think FEH is more daring than the base game(s) given how they gave more lines and screentime to Rhea - through her different alts - than GW. And they even designed her Halloween!alt's lines to piss on some of Claude's assertions, while the various FB involving members of the church also - indirectly - reply to some accusations thrown their way in FE16 when, FE16, never gave them an opportunity or lines to explain that those takes were full of dung.

*"but random, maybe she doesn't know that the crests she often decries is "dragon blood"!"

It's highly debatable, especially given what she and Hubert throw to Billy in CF - but even if she doesn't, Doylist wise we still have a character who, knowingly or not, says "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and who is never called out on her prejudice. That's more of an issue regarding the general writing though, she has to be a red emperor and took pages from Ashnard's book, and yet, the player must still feel bad and want to romance her, so her mindest/goal cannot be looked at too closely, because, I guess, even the devs thought it would be difficult to romance her (thus sell goodies!) if more light was shed on the "blood from this race corrupts our people" schtick -> which in turn would also make characters whose backstory and gimmick rely on "crying about crests" be way less likeable, thus marketable and able to sell goodies.

[tea-cat-arts]

Welcome to my Pokémon AU (courtesy of my general insanity + feedback from the fe3h discord server I'm in) featuring the Golden Deer

[kogglyuffs]

ghostly rumors

[ahappydnp]

I’m not the anon asking about the Florida trip but now I’d like to know more about the one where Dan went too

a ton of cute photos and tweets and also dan got detained by tsa and sent to the bahamas

[mermaidhugs]

B2 bernadetta/marianne?

my brother INSISTED i upload the sketch as well

the yuri

[xjulixred45x]

Is Dead Plate considered by the kids as a Doomed Yaoi?

Not really lol(for me), but i understand why people think like that.

Dead Plate plays a lot with Rody and Vince's polar perspective on Love. Rody having a devoted and sacrificial love for Manon, while Vince only knows SELFISH love, he doesn't really know what it means to put affection on something(not even the bistro), he said it himself , he is a professional, he has no room for that. Everything Vince produces in the game feels empty and self-absorbed, showing this.

so when Rody comes into his life, a person who not only loves someone strongly, but does something he clearly doesn't like FOR THAT PERSON, Vince becomes obsessed with reaching that level of selfless love with his meals, which is why he wants to use Manon to cook for Rody and thus "cook with love" because he adores her so much...

but nothing changes, not only does Rody not try Vince's food, but he continues to feel that the food is EMPTY and UNLOVED, UNPLEASANT, DISGUSTING.

Vince, in his desire to want to replicate the "love" that he really cannot express/have, did not change anything because HE IS selfish and self-centered. He can't change it.

Vince is obsessed with Rody because of HIS SACRIFICED CONCEPT OF LOVE, not because he has a romantic interest in him.

(Even if the creators make AU's and drawings where they hint that Vince could have a deeper interest in Rody, it seems more than obvious to me that these are just NOT APPLICABLE TO THE GAME or simply a What If if the story had been different. even in those same drawings Rody shows no interest in Vince and only tolerates him for being his boss).

Honestly, I like the Rody x Vince ship because of the dynamic and the fanarts, but honestly the interactions they have in the game seem purely platonic to me/boss to employee/murderer and possible victim/detective.

In conclusion, no. but it is up to each person to do what they want with their Toxic homosexuals.

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(español)

No realmente, lol. Pero entiendo porque la gente piensa así.

Dead Plate juega bastante con la perspectiva polar de Rody y Vince sobre el Amor. Rody teniendo un amor devoto y sacrificado por Manon, mientras que Vince solo conoce el amor EGOISTA, el no sabe realmente que es ponerle afecto a algo, el mismo lo dijo, es un profesional, no tiene espacio para eso. todo lo que Vince produce en el juego se siente vacio y auto absorto, mostrando esto.

por lo que cuando Rody llega a su vida, una persona que no solo ama fuertemente a alguien, sino que hace algo que claramente no le gusta POR ESA PERSONA, Vince se obsesiona con llegar a ese nivel de amor desinteresado con sus comidas, por eso quiere usar a Manon para cocinar para Rody y asi "cocinar con amor" porque el la adora tanto...

pero nada cambia, no solo Rody no prueba la comida de Vince, sino que se sigue sintiendo que la comida es VACIA y SIN AMOR, DESAGRADABLE.

Vince en su afán de querer replicar el "amor" que realmente no puede expresar, no cambio nada porque EL ES egoista y auto centrista. no lo puede cambiar.

Vince esta obsesionado con Rody por SU CONCEPTO SACRIFICADO DEL AMOR, no por tener interes romantico en el.

(incluso si los creadores hacen AU's y dibujos donde tiran guiños que Vince podría tener un interes mas profundo en Rody, me parece mas que obvio que estos son justamente NO APLICABLES AL JUEGO o simplemente un What If si la historia hubiese sido diferente. incluso en esos mismos dibujos Rody no muestra ningun interes en Vince y solo lo tolera por ser su jefe).

sinceramente a mi me gusta el ship de Rody x Vince únicamente por la dinámica fanon y los fanarts, pero sinceramente las interacciones que tienen en el juego me parecen puramente platonicas/jefe a empleado/ asesino y posible victima/detective.

en conclusión, no. pero esta en cada quien hacer lo que quiera con sus homosexuales Toxicos.

[lovely-english-rose]

Marihilda F for the ask thing?

them 💗 (ask meme here)

[silent-shanin]

if ur looking for ideas... vampire!marianne who's very shy about her fangs + hilda who thinks they make her look adorable?

MariHilda vampire AU with Hilda's new lifegoal being bitten by Marianne

[blitzy-blitzwing]

Lady M would probably faint if Blitz kissed her 😂

Oh, she definitely would. 😎

[ahhhh-118]

What would Marianne do for 10 dollars?

Yay!! Thank you for the ask!!

In the 1920s $10 is about $150 according to Google, so she would jump off the Mississippi Bridge into to the river.

In today’s times, if you make a weird drink mix she’d drink it for $10.

But if the mix is downright horrendous, she’ll put you in a headlock or one of those twisty wrestler moves until you cough up an extra $5, $10, or $20 (or all three). 😭😭

[merrycrisis-if]

I wonder, if MC told Qiu "ask me to say", does Qiu dream of that moment? Do they remember it on important dates such as MC's birthday, anniversaries (because I can deffo see Qiu having the day they met, the day they became a couple, etc marked in a calendar or memorized in their heart)... the day MC left?

How much do they wish to turn back in time to that exact moment and tell them "please, don't leave"?

Hahaha I am sure that moment haunts Qiu.

Like you said, it probably floats up unbidden whenever Qiu thinks a little too hard about MC, whether it be something that reminds them of MC, or a special date.

P.S. It was also inspired by the vibes of this scene in Portrait of a Lady on Fire between Héloïse and Marianne.

Explanation of the context of the plot below—italicized part from Google, the rest is added by me (obviously spoilers for the movie, so avoid it if you want to watch it unspoiled. But watch it!! It's so good. That movie changed my life.)

Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly.

And basically they fall in love, and eventually the time comes when the painting is done, and Marianne must leave, and Héloïse must get married. The scene is of Marianne being sad about it, and Héloïse asks, "do you want me to resist the marriage", and Marianne says yes. Héloïse asks, "are you asking me to?" and after a long pause, Marianne says no.

I LOVE THAT. Oh god, that scene destroyed me.

I feel like the scene is similar to what I wanted to achieve with MC's "ask me to stay" and Qiu's "I can't".