#dithorba

[dithorba]

A Lewyn/Dithorba commission for their 9th anniversary (which just happens to be Valentine's Day). To think these two have occupied a little over a third of my entire life in head rent space! Thank you to @charmwitch for taking my request, I'm so happy with how this piece came out.

[fefuckability]

ROUND 1: Fun fact, one quarter of these matches include an Od baby

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[eat-a-dicker]

my favorite iteration of the women pegasus knights squad are the 4 heavenly knights from fe4 because they allowed dithorba and pamela to be complicated pawns of a political scheme even bigger than them. dithorba gets done in by her hubris but pamela is legitimately angry at the silessian throne because lewyn abandoned all of them at a critical hour, out of all the characters in the silessian conflict i think pamelas motivations are the most empathetic

interestingly enough you'll only get her motivations dialogue if lewyn is the one to engage her in combat.

[asphodelis]

In the end, we didn't get a FE4 remake. But we can kiss Yzma now in a Disney otome potion game I guess?

so true!! (the heel turn from metroid prime (right? i forgot) to disney cash grab was crazy i was flabbergasted

[fayesemblemring]

Alear 1 for the ask meme?

Why do you like or dislike this character?

Ooh, where do I begin? I adore them and I love all the tiny details they put int them. Their character arc feels so satisfying and I absolutely live for their dynamic with Veyle, I love how everything about them feels like it gets a satisfying payoff (even the hair for crying out loud), and overall, they just feel so... genuine. Especially in their interactions with other people.

[iturbide]

12 & 13?

12. Any books that disappointed you?

Unfortunately I had a string of them of the four debuts I read over the summer, it was a 50-50 split of delightful and deplorable. While Voyage of the Damned and So Let Them Burn were both absolute delights, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods and The Poisons We Drink were incredibly frustrating reads -- interestingly in very similar ways, despite being written by very different authors. Both of them sounded really interesting, too, which makes it even more disappointing that they felt so poorly written and edited.

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

Foxglove King and Hemlock Queen by Hannah Whitten, hands down the worst books I read this year. Foxglove King I technically read last year, but it incensed me so much with how promising it seemed and how it proceeded to squander its whole premise that I had to subject it to two of my best friends (misery loves company and all). And then as payback I was forced to read the sequel, which was somehow even worse than the first one which is so frustrating because these books sound like they should be fucking catnip to me. Reading them makes me want to scream. yes I am going to subject at least one of those same friends to the torment of that one, too

📕 End-of-Year Book Asks 📕

[edelgards]

Mr. Strong. My beloved. I knew you for... like maybe an hour and thirty. But yeah, I agree. He seems like a genuinely nice guy who seems like a great father.

Daemon is funny but utterly stinky man why Rhaenyra?

"an hour and thirty" LMAO he was really gone too soon </3

honestly, i don't know if i can blame rhaenyra for that since we watched him groom her (yikes) and also she is desperately attracted to the freedom he has (that she wants for herself </3)

[randomnameless]

This piece of media has serious themes!

*me being a Bleach fan for 12 years and only within the last 3 have people realized that Bleach is the story that mostly closely integrates its themes into its power system. So I've been dealing with "Bleach bad" by man-children who finally "get it" with the hindsight of a new anime.* 😔

Hi!

TBF, from the "big 3" I think Bleach is the one who aged the best, new season or not, even if I ultimately think the weekly release rythm from the jump hurt it more than it helped, especially because it was seen as "competing" with Naruto and OP who were/are, I'd say, not on the same sector even if, at the end of the day, they're all shonens.

[card-queen]

2 & 13 for the meme?

Thank you so much for the ask!

2. what is your feel-good movie?

It is... Girls und Panzer the Movie. I love the series but nothing, and I mean nothing, can quite match the positive feel-good energy of the movie. It's got so many moments that I go back to, introduced a lot of fun new characters and that end battle, when everyone is working together... ugh, I wanna watch it again already. ; v ;

13. what is your comfort food?

Eggs. Any egg dish really, but scrambled is best!

[simikae]

Might I ask what the Corpul phenomenon is?

THE BRIEF EXPLANATION: we gassed up coirpre so much during cyl7 + looked at his wiki page for so long that we tricked ourselves into believing he’s a major character

THE LONG EXPLANATION:

at the beginning of january 2022 i finally picked up fe4 again after a few months of not playing. my Return to jugdral was marked by being incredibly baffled by coirpre and also hannibal’s fucked up recruitment:

anyway. due to being on the wikipedia too long trying to make sense of them we accidentally got really attached to coirpre as a character and for what he brings to the story. especially with his lene support and that whole deal… and the altena + hannibal support? also fire as hell if you haven’t read that one. some may call it copium or sunk cost fallacy after spending so long trying to evade hannibal and trying to get either of them to not die but i know it for what it is: #LOVE.

this all comes to a head when we check his cyl placements and we are like Fuckkkk. he is never getting into feh. he’s literally in the lowest percentile. his best year was in cyl3 where he got 43 votes. it’s over. BUT then we all collectively decided to coirpaganda for cyl7, which ALSO just so happened to be the ONE YEAR they did that dumbass rising heroes thing where they were like ‘👉 hey look at these guys who ranked up way higher than last year’.

^so like i don’t wanna say we did this but also objectively i think we did. we were forreal trendsetters. and see the fight is not truly over until he’s added into feh but i trust that it will happen this year. intsys will fall to the phenomenon as well it’s only a matter of time and also bribing my mutuals.

[mariyekos]

5 Tifa Lockhart

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

Okay so I am someone who mostly listens to instrumental music, which means I don't really connect lyrics to characters. So unfortunately for this one I have the very boring answer of...Tifa's Theme. I should say that I'm also someone who has listened to the FFVII soundtrack frequently for a decade now, which means seeing Tifa really does just make Tifa's theme pop into my head. Really. I have silent background music going on in my head probably 80% of the time I'm not listening to actual music.

This is one of my favorite covers of it, to go at least a little bit off the beaten track. Tifa's such a...warm character to me. Comforting. Little bit of sadness mixed into it all because of everything that's happened in her past, but she tries to be a home for others anyway and I love that.

[dithorba]

I don't expect anything but I'm always here voting for my homegirl.

[fefuckability]

Genealogy Qualifier 6

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[saiyan-of-fairy-tail]

Yamato: Umm…thank you. *whispers to the reader reading this post* I don't know this woman.

[bi-naesala]

Not sure if we share it but shooting Pelleas/Elincia with these prompts. Otherwise, a Tellius pairing of your choice. Who is always cold? Who is “more loved” by the in-laws? Who’s more likely to laugh at their own jokes?

(Send me OTP asks)

Never really thought about this ship, but I'm on board now.

Who is always cold?

I think Elincia. Pelleas is from Daein, so I think he'd be used to cold temperatures.

They'd go to Daein and it would be Pelleas wearing his normal clothes, and Elincia wearing layers and layers of fur.

Who is “more loved” by the in-laws?

Pelleas, no question. Sure he might be awkward at first, but he's still a very sweet boy, and it is said that he becomes better at talking with people in his ending, so he'd make a good impression.

Not only that, but I doubt Almedha would like anyone who would end up with her son - because fuck you intsys they can still be family even though they're not actually related - though I think she'd have at least some begrudging respect for Elincia.

Who’s more likely to laugh at their own jokes?

Maybe Pelleas, but it would be more like a panicked laugh if he notices that his joke he was already nervous about making didn't land.

Thanks for asking!

[fayesemblemring]

What paired endings did you end up with?

Byleth & Shamir, Dimitri & Dedue, Felix & Ingrid, Annette & Mercedes and Seteth & Flayn!