#berkut

[flightless-birb]

Marianne's backstory

[kastillia]

[angdrelve]

Berkut and his bad taste in company

[usafphantom2]

#Sukhoi SU-47 Berkut

@Fiona75975939 via X

[lustrous-dreams-art]

Art Scuffle attacks

[frickingnerd]

rivals to lovers with berkut

pairing: berkut x gn!reader

tags: rigelian!reader, strong knight!reader, enemies to lovers

rigel is a country that prides itself with its strength and power, with the nobles in rigel truly reflecting that attitude!

berkut is no different, always eager to show off his power and strength, absolutely hating it when anyone manages to outshine him!

that's probably why he hates you so much! you come from a family of high ranking knights, all known for their incredible strength – and you're just as powerful as the rest of your family!

berkut once foolishly fought you in a mock battle, assuming he'd easily win, only to have his pride destroyed by his loss against you!

and ever since, he has wanted nothing more than to humiliate you in the same way and beat you in anything he can!

that was the start of the rivalry between the two of you! and while berkut might've started it, you never backed down from a challenge!

whenever there was a chance to duel or show off your strength, berkut and you would jump to it! always leaving everything else behind, just to measure your strength with one another

you two became almost obsessed with one another, always paying attention to each other, to find out your weaknesses!

but with how much time you spent together, you began to notice the good parts about each other as well! and they became more and more attractive with each passing day…

yet both of you were prideful! neither berkut nor you wanted to admit your feelings for each other, viewing it as just another competition!

whoever would confess first would lose! and neither of you were willing to be a loser…

[valentinemesis]

please give me the life of my dreams

[elvenknightart]

[naoreco]

decided at the start of a month i would make a whole pmv. somehow it didn't take me six months this time. enjoy :)

youtube link

[red-cavalier]

Jedah is a frog man. Rudolf...really let this guy torment his nephew.

[midnight--capricorn]

I gave up with the background on this one

I think I could have done a bit better with rinea, but with Berkut... it's Berkut I tend to draw this asshole not very well but I think I absolutely killed it this time (the opposite of Fernand: I like Berkut but I don't draw him well half the time, meanwhile Fernand I don't like but I draw him so stylishly...)

[fefuckability]

ROUND 1: How crispy do you want your wife to be?

Feel free to rb/comment with your reasons!

[angdrelve]

OUTTA MY WAY ELFBOY IM BOUTTA UNLEASH MY POWERS AS A BHAALSPAWN

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MY SOUL HAS BEEN STOLEN

[rosecelebi]

Posting my favorite FEH Meet the Heroes art every day

Berkut and Rinea in their dancer alts

[spectrumbotworks]

Leon Strohl da Haliaetus looks like a fusion between Berkut and Yu Narukami.

[rexcaliburechoes]

i'm having so many feelings about alm + berkut // literally no one asked

i'm having to many feelings about alm and berkut. they are my sons, baby boy baby, sweet children of mine. i want to wrap them up in blankets and give them hot chocolate and a place to scream their troubles and be heard.

thoughts under the cut because this got long.

one of the things that stick out to me the most about alm is how responsibility is thrust upon the poor kid. he knows he's getting into a war, he knows what a war with rigel will bring. he knows how the people suffer, and how something must be done, and the only way to do that is by a war. in order for any change to happen, sometimes force is the only path. he needs to throw off the yoke of the old gods and let the people live by their own hands, he needs to stop the suffering, and if it is war that will do that, then so be it.

alm has responsibility thrust upon him, when all he's really stated before is how he wants to help the people, and that's practically it. he doesn't necessarily want to wage war. i've read a really good fic outlining to celica (through lukas) how, "if there were another peaceful solution, alm's sword would be first on the pile", and i genuinely think this is true. the boy has been only taught the practical skills (combat, strategy, weather and terrain, etc) and not the finer points of leading. he acknowledges how much he has to learn when he prepares to right back against rigel, sure, and he does learn to lead, but as the quote in hamilton goes, "dying is easy, young man, but leading is harder."

when clive comes to him and just makes him leader, he practically says "hey wait are you sure this is a good idea??" and even later, everyone assumes he's gonna be king at the end of the war

and it hurts, because if you think about it, he's never been taught how to handle the court, how to handle nobility, any of this high aristocracy bullshit. and celica's right. he has no idea how the hell any of this works. he says he's not a farmboy, but he is. he's a country bumpkin from the southern most tip of zofia, hailing from a truly backwater village.

and sure, he has celica to rely on, and clive to rely on, and mycen to rely on. he's forgiven celica already since their fight, and loves her. but she's right. and clive just thrust the title of "leader of the deliverance" and later "king of valentia" onto him. and mycen, mycen isn't truly his grandfather, and all the man does is chide alm for every single decision he makes since leaving the village.

and it's not fair!! it's wholly unfair and sad and painful to think of how alm must step up to the mantle that was pushed upon him. mycen was right. "once you march on Rigel, you place yourself in the hands of destiny. You won’t be able to stop the events that unfold. No one will wish you well. Many will even try to stop you; unexpected tragedy is sure to follow. That is the price of what you are about to undertake." and he's right, and alm said he was ready for it, but even so!!

"and what of my peace?!" he screams to the uncaring world. "what of my personhood?!"

and the world keeps turning on its axis, cold and unchanging as the rigel winter.

"this is not the time for mourning or self-pity, boy." the world tells him. "you cannot be a person, for you are the leader, and leaders must make sacrifices."

and this theme, this arc of alm's fits incredibly well with berkut's. it fits so well and i'm so incredibly sad.

because berkut... berkut was a gentle child. according to the valentia accordion, he was so timid that even riding a horse could make him cry. berkut, being the nephew to the emperor, being in line to the throne only because his father's brother is the emperor, who has no children... he has never was supposed to become emperor in the first place, either. his worldview is deeply shaped by rigel's culture, by how "a prince of rigel cannot possibly be weak". i've discussed this before, about how berkut is an unfortunate product of his upbringing.

but it hurts. it hurts how, no matter what he does, he can't ever be recognised for his accomplishments, that he fails so horribly to a farmboy- a zofian country bumpkin, a weak soldier compared to him- that the only person he has to look up to (much like alm, as mycen keeps ripping him apart, and clive only wants him to lead and also tells him off throughout the story, and celica, who's an entire ocean mass away) finds him a disgrace and leaves him out to dry, because he's simply not good enough, not even when he's been forced to walk this path.

"uncle!!" he screams to the retreating figure of the red-clad emperor. "please tell me i am good enough for you!! please tell me my own pain wasn't for nothing!"

and the silence is deafening, just like crackle of flames that drown out even the cries of the one thing he truly cared for most.