#church route

[itsmoonpeaches]

Title: Silver Scales

Chapter 1 of 2: Promise

Written for A Vow Remembered: FE3H 5th Anniversary Celebration

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Rating: M

Word count: 2,256

Summary: Byleth chooses the Church. Everything is the same except Jeralt survives, and five years later, Byleth pays the price.

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“So, what will you do now?”

The water rippled where her father’s fishing line tugged. The ripples were concentric circles on a once calm surface. The soft pink rays of sunset pricked the water like needles through an unfinished tapestry.

Byleth set her rod down, content with the catch she had gathered. It was a modest one consisting of two herrings and a white trout. Not that she expected anything quite so exceptional with the earthworms they had brought as bait. Though this time of day was an ideal time to fish in the summer, the pond at the monastery had not been a popular spot for anyone but them.

She tilted her head toward Jeralt, eyeing the way he skillfully reeled in his prize. “What am I supposed to do?” she asked.

Her father hummed. He caught a bullhead, quite the delicious catch that the chef would enjoy putting into his version of fish and bean soup. The fish flopped into their shared basket and its whiskers twitched as it heaved for oxygen. He slid the lid shut.

“You heard Seteth and Flayn,” he reminded. “Rule Fódlan or maybe even become Archbishop.” He paused, and Byleth was met with the full force of the brown of his eyes. “Are either of those things what you want?”

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[ernestoednrec]

[spiritofthebackroads]

route 66, oklahoma

cr:christopher crawford

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[zhoras-bitch]

I'm glad I decided to do a Vesper route in the end. She's not my usual type of LI, but she is an incredibly interesting character, and having her be the one Nova falls for of all people is just too ironic to pass up. Enemies to lovers, 'what does she know' mind games, 'what if she is using me' anxiety, reverse corruption arc, it's all so juicy...

[deegrees-of-dol]

some casual outfits from the farm route

[deathbirby]

What sucks about the fandom is that everybody usually defaults to make post-Crimson Flower fanfictions 'and they all lived happily ever after :)' which... sucks because CF is the most flawed ending out of all of the routes (Duscur is still believed to have killed the King, TWSITD are lurking around as seen in Edel's mural, sovereign nations were forcibly assimilated against their will into Adrestia, etc). All of these issues are ignored to default to a happy ending which is such a let down since all of these issues are SO interesting and genuinely could make really engaging post-CF fanfiction delving into them. That's not even going into how Edel's meritocracy is deeply flawed on further thought as it assumes equal opportunity (despite the nobility and the inter-generational wealth of said nobles), and an equal society where everyone is seen and treated as equals (the people of Duscur who are seen as traitors, Almyrans such as Cyril who were enslaved and forced to work, Nabataens and Edel's blatant racism towards them, etc). Let me make this clear; a meritocracy is better than feudalism or a monarchy outright. The issue isn't inherently with meritocracies, nor is it to dissuade changing the current system of Fodlan. The problems I have with Edel's meritocracy is the total lack of foresight and the refusal to engage with Edel's actions that brought in the system. Meritocracies can work but considering the broader context and political landscape of Fodlan: Edel's meritocracy was a system founded after violently conquering two sovereign nations against the leaders and the civilians wills. Many of these civilians do harbour resentment towards the government (as seen in Hubert/Shamir's ending where they act as secret cops 🤢), how Edelgard only really gives resources to people she knows aka nepotism (especially to Caspar and Bernie who are woefully not well suited for the roles the get). There's also the ugly turd by removing the corrupt nobles who kept her in check, there are no safeguards against Edelgard or future successors abusing their power (which Edel's use of her power is pretty questionable seen in Hubert/Dorothea gathering intelligence for the empire and Hubert/Shamir with being cops). ======== (1/2)

2/2 ==== I wanna bring up how Petra was treated; poor girl was kidnapped from her home, tossed into a hostile foreign land where she didn't speak the language and received no support at all from her peers. Going so far as Hubert calling her an animal (we love microaggresions if not outright aggresions to poc). Edelgard assumes her and Petra to be equals, that Petra is completely fine but Edel is oblivious or callous towards the gross power imbalance between the two. Petra is constantly trying to appease society by learning the local tongue, constantly trying to appease Edelgard and prove her own independence to ensure Brigid doesn't appear weak. Edel does show concern, I'll give her that, but she really doesn't do anything to truly help Petra. Iirc, Petra had to learn the entire language by herself without ANY help from anyone, not even Edel nor Hubert stepped in (tho Hubert can gawk at Petra like shes an animal). How is it unfair to assume that if Edel can't even address blatant inequality and oppression towards Petra, something that was in her face, how can she ensure that her meritocracy won't perpetuate further inequality and oppression on a wider scale? I really wish the fandom weren't so scared nor so adverse to exploring these issues in a post-CF fan fiction and really take a deep dive into Edelgard's rule outside of 'Fodlan was super corrupt, Rhea is the absolute fucking worst and Dimitri was just a Rhea Stan, Claude was aaaaalmost cool but he didn't want to work with Edelgard which sucks because they would SO be besties (even tho Claude experienced violent racism and would not tolerate Edel's pasty ass spewing vitriol how Nabataens are inhuman beasts) but its soooooo sad he didn't see Edelgard's goals, BTW CRESTS ARE THE FUCKING WORST :3'. Like, the only thing I have ever read to addressing the flaws Edelgard's rule was To Those Who Are Never Going Home by MadameHyde (but stiiiill doesn't hit the spot for me since its more focused on Garreg Mach than the wider society of Fodlan on itself). I believe in women's wrongs and Edelgard did SO MUCH shit wrong, let👏Edelgard👏be👏pointed👏out👏in👏the👏wrong👏. It sucks that nobody wants to engage or even play with that side of Edelgard, so I'm now stuck developing my own post-CF fanfiction/AU exploring an Adrestian-Garreg Mach and the world of Fodlan moulded by Edelgard's rule lmfao. I really want to explore a politically unstable and balkanized Fodlan, and it's so sad that nobody else sees the vision 😔 Thanks for reading my entire infodump about Edelgard and sitting through this entire essay lmfao. — 🍑 Anon

Oh dear goddess have mercy on me

CF's ending makes no sense when you realize that TWSITD can just nuke Fhirdiad right then and there and win. Thales can also just... brainwash Edelgard and turn her into a puppet according to hopes. It's the least logical ending.

Edelgard's system ultimately would only benefit the strong. The 'weak' (sick, elderly, poor, disabled, etc.) just have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps according to our emperor, but we all know how well that will work.

And yep, the nepotism runs strong with her. Caspar and Bernadetta are NOT fit to rule. We know from one of the endings that Caspar acts recklessly and dangerous on military campaigns but people just ignore it. That is a very bad look for Edelgard who just tolerates it.

Petra's whole situation deserves her own post tbh. She's a political hostage who gets treated like dirt. Edelgard couldn't even help her learn the language despite the fact that she has all of the resources to do so.

let👏Edelgard👏be👏pointed👏out👏in👏the👏wrong👏

write this on my gravestone lol

[powerlinevalleyy]

took this on a walk yesterday

(edited with snapseed)

[ramyeonguksu]

Put in the tags whether your FE3H OC would thrive outside of their "main" route or not!

[drainbangle]

healer swap NPC doodles

[salty-an-disco]

wanna talk about the songs I associate with each route, so gonna go ahead and do it–

The Damsel: Tear in My Heart by Twenty One Pilots

The Spectre: Momento Mori by Fish in a Birdcage

The Adversary: Alright Alright (Here’s My Fist Where’s the Fight?) by Sahara Hotnights

The Tower: Take Me to Church by Hozier

The Stranger: The Stand by Mother Mother

The Prisoner: Lovely by Billie Eillish and Khalid

The Beast: Laplace’s Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!) by Will Wood

The Witch: Black Sheep by Metric

The Nightmare: Demon Kitty Rag by Katzenjammer

The Razor: When Everything Went Wrong by Fantastic Negrito

And just for funsies, the songs I associate with the looping going on in the construct in general: A Good Song Never Dies by Saint Motel, Bottom is a Rock and Normalize by Mother Mother, and Villain by Stella Jang

[saturns-rings-robins-wings]

A funeral of flowers (thunder)

[ernestoednrec]

[fe3h-polls]

As an aside, I love seeing you guys argue/discuss/explain your thoughts on these polls. it’s always a good time and I appreciate your respectfulness towards each other. The polls have generally been silly and lighthearted, but would you all enjoy more serious polls & discussion? lemme know!

[kaythefloppa]

I was today years old when I found out that Zazu was supposed to have eight babies in The Lion King 2.

Concept artwork of them done by Ritsko Notani and approved by animator Wendell Washer, (both of whom have worked on various other Disney direct-to-video sequels and spin-offs) was sold on Ebay just this weekend (godspeed to whoever is living in LA at the moment).

In early drafts of the sequel dating back to 1996, Zazu was intended to be accompanied by a female hornbill known as Binti, who would have been his mate by the end of the film. Together, they would have had eight hornbill chicks. The executives and writers deemed Binti and Zazu's storyline to be unnecessary and she was cut from the movie. When Binti was phased out, Zazu no longer had any narrative reason to have children, and thus they were cut. Zazu's role in Simba's Pride was diminished greatly as a result of this.

If the link doesn't work, here are some photos ripped directly from the site.

[crescentfool]

fe3h doodls from the year....! mostly sylvain bc i love him a totally normal amount...