#custom byleth

[kiochisato]

𐙚　ⵧ　F!Byleth Layouts　☆ ⵧ　self indulgent ! ♡　rb & cr to use　...⠀click me !

[jordieeeee]

uhm. I don't think he would. He might be the bored-est employee ever while wishing for a fight to break out so he can take it down. But who knows I'd love to see it

[chickalitta-dolls]

🎄Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 🎄

Academy Dimitri is here to bring you some holiday cheer!

[stormiebreaks]

Somehow, I’ve still not figured out how to properly shoot these guys… but these shelf shots actually did work out nicely.

I made my wife the War Phase figures (Dimitri for Christmas, Byleth for Valentine’s Day), then decided I need a set for myself, so followed up with the Academy Phase Dimileth figures.

Just have to keep working at it until I’ve managed some shots to really be proud of.

[nebbybrush]

IM ON MY BYLETH PLUSH ARC SHE IS SO CUTE OMFG

I LOVE CUSTOM PLUSHIES ON ETSY LOOK AT HER SHES SO SILLY !!!!!!! (HER STANCE TOO LOOK AT HER THE ULTIMATE SILLY!!!!)

[thirstarchon]

5/2/2020

i love seeing villagers wear my designs

[letsriddlemethislucifer]

-- So I lied to u

I added both + Jeritza.

[iunctura-arch]

"I didn't know having pink hair was a crime." At least she didn't fully look like a March. Just maybe... like her older sister or something, maybe.

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

FE3H does character build customization well, but at the same time FUCK genderlocked classes.

Pegasus Knights are whatever for me. You could easlijust say that men can ride them but have a weird societal stigma or something. Plus,there is a precedent for that in the series.

But why are Heroes locked? Women could be Heroes in the previous and next game, os there's no point.

Why are Gremories locked? If you don't want them to have dresses, just call them something else and give them a different outfit.

Why are dark magic classes blocked for women? On that note, why is it that women get forced to suffer the pains of TWISTD's...twistedness, giving them dark magic, but they aren't allowed to gain any of the skills for it? Why do men get to just use it for free?

And the most egregious of all to me: WHY WOULD YOU MAKE IT SO NO BRAWLINT CLASSES CAN BE USED BY WOMEN?

Rhea specializes in brawling. So does Catherine. So does Female Byleth. It's so fuckin dumb that they can't do anything with that boon because they won't gain the benefits of class skills.

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[wayfinder-wolf]

Yall know those memes where a bunch of fictional characters gather around a TV to hear bad news? Well, I thought I'd give making one of those a go, and here it is!

Each character was submitted by a friend. Characters featured include (left to right):

Bojack Horseman from Bojack Horseman, Elmo from Sesame Street, Megaman.EXE from the Battle Network games, Byleth from Fire Emblem, a custom Chao from Sonic Adventure, Robo-Ky from Guilty Gear, Wolffe from Star Wars, Ralsei from Deltarune, the Red Among Us Guy, Neco-Arc from the Tsukihime series, Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil, Ventus from Kingdom Hearts, Lefty from FNAF, and Phoenix Wright from the Ace Attorney games.

[calamitaswrath]

Honestly though one aspect of Xenoblade X not being as much in the eyes of Xenoblade fans/Nintendo that I actually enjoy is that it means that Cross is actually allowed to stay the player avatar.

Like, Fire Emblem got really popular after Awakening, which further leaned into the whole player avatar thing that FE12 already introduced, and then followed up on that with Robin and Corrin. But because Fire Emblem really went in on spin-offs once it got popular, the player avatars started appearing in stuff like Smash, Warriors and Heroes, which meant that they just had to pick one appearance for them. Which, y'know, is fair enough. But it also means that all the customization options they had in Awakening and Fates are just completely swept under the rug, to the point that Byleth, Shez and Alear don't even have any customization anymore.

What I'm getting at here with regards to Xenoblade X is that I'm just glad that default male and female Cross haven't really solidified themselves as proper character into the fanbase, because.

Look at these. They just look so boring. Sure, male Cross has a sorta interesting colour scheme, but he's just so generic. And female Cross looks like she's meant to be around the same age as Lin, which I'd really rather not have be the case. X has so much customization for your player avatar, and I'm just really glad that that still exists in the minds of X fans.

[kiochisato]

𐙚　ⵧ　Edeleth Icons　☆ ⵧ　rq by @demeurel ! no kin / me 4 edelgard unless u're whisper ! ♡　rb & cr to use　...⠀click me !

[luthwhore]

edeleth, featuring @antikytheranea’s custom byleth design, commissioned from nekokagegirl on twitter!

[chickalitta-dolls]

Custom post-timeskip Dimitri doll (Dollmitri): Great Lord outfit.

[stormiebreaks]

Awakened Byleth, built for @allowmetodemonstrate Valentine’s Day 2023 present to match her Savior King Dimitri from Christmas 2021. If you’ve never played Fire Emblem: Three Houses you’re missing out on an incredible game. I honestly can’t rave enough about FE3H. Hell, if I had an entire year off from work, I would make the academy versions and then time skip versions of every character, that’s how much this game means to Sai and I.

[fantasyinvader]

Part of the discourse, I believe, is rooted in Byleth being Schrodinger's Player Character. Who is Byleth supposed to be: their own character or an avatar for the player? Byleth's a silent protagonist, much a Link, and while we can't customize their appearance we can change their name and birthday. However, that birthdate is fake and Jeralt's journal gives Byleth's actual birthday separate from what the player gives them (unless the player puts in that date themselves). Likewise, it's also implied that whatever name we give Byleth isn't the name they were given at birth, Rhea's the only one who could actually give them their birth name.

In a way, the identity we assign Byleth is just whatever false identity Jeralt gives them.

The game makes Silver Snow the natural progression of Byleth's story, that Byleth would reject working with Edelgard and her allies at the end of White Clouds. The decisions that unlock Flower instead are framed as “changing the story” within the game itself. As the story is meant to progress, Byleth wouldn't abandon their teaching duties to go to Enbarr at Edelgard's request. Hell, Byleth gains a paralogue by have a support level with Rhea and loses it if they turn on her. Regardless of class taught Byleth being a teacher is shown to be good for them, allowing them to actually experience emotions, and at the end of every White Clouds Byleth's would turn their sword against Edelgard unless the player has them act out of character and do things that change the story. They go from a mercenary who cuts people down without feeling a thing, with Hopes making it clear they don't enjoy such a life, to someone who wishes they could peacefully solve things unless they side with Edelgard and abandon Byleth's character.

Rhea though Byleth was an empty vessel for Sothis, only to learn they were their own person. Yet players treat Byleth as an extension of themselves, their own empty vessel to shape Fodlan as they see fit while complaining you can't “betray” Dimitri like you can Edelgard (never mind the devs said she betrays you) or that Claude doesn't go after the Church. People talk about how your choices matter in Fodlan, but the first choice you get is simply which class to teach which includes two routes without any real variation to them, and the third class has it so that the player can either stick to the script or join the villains. What kind of sense does that really make if that first decision will lock me into supporting the Church over Edelgard before I get to know anyone or anything about the setting?

Instead, our choices only seem to matter when we go against the story and side with the people we were supposed to fight and in the process kill/exile the heroes. Despite the clues that indicate how out of character it is for Byleth to join Edelgard, how they regress as a person, this is held up as a good thing because it seemingly validates not Byleth's choice but that of the player's. They see Byleth not as a character, but as an extension of themselves and therefore want Byleth to fight the Church despite all of what Edelgard and TWSITD did during White Clouds because the player believes they are the bad guys. The devs even said that Flower was thematically tied to having different beliefs... in a world built to support Silver Snow's story. Even when Edelgard is shown to withhold information or spread lies to her allies, people still choose to believe her and think that's okay because this path was their decision.

From a Buddhist perspective, their “self” has ended up leading them astray, yet they believe their “self” should be celebrated because they misunderstood the setting and acted based not on what the story was telling them but what they believed instead. Going even further, this way of thinking is pretty apt for the Asura path. It's the path of the Agarthans.