#dragon Corrin

[xander-wolk]

Got blessed with TWO (2) Corrin comms this month 🤲🏻💖

For @/littlestleaf ✨ thank you!

[snowwydaydreamr]

Born in a wet cardboard box all alone.

[cynical-gamer-media]

If I may ask, any thoughts on Corrin being a dragon? I always wished it had gotten more focus, to be honest. I think it's fair to assume that one does not simply suddenly gain the ability to turn into a dragon and not be weirded out on some level.

I'll start with the form/look:

I LOVE Corrin's Dragon form!

It may be one of my all-time favourite dragon designs. It's just such a unique design; sort of like a Kingdom Heart 2 Nobody-esque take on it. I love the use of colours. I love how it walks on its knuckles. I also love how, regardless of Corrin's gender, the dragon looks exactly the same (no weird dragon boobs or lashes).

Now as for story: yeah it is disappointing how no one reacts or makes a deal out of it.

In Conquest none of the Nohr siblings, or Silas (Chapter 7), react to it. Heck you'd think Garon would make a deal out of it! I just started Birthright and same thing: no one bats an eye. One could argue that the whole Queen dying, Hoshido's defences being breeched, and injured civilians took precedence, but even then it feels odd that no one makes a deal out of it.

Dragon Corrin just kinda exists. In other FE games Manaketes/being able to turn into dragons has story significance, but not in Conquest or Birthright. It should be a big deal because all the royals have dragon blood and their god(s) are literal dragons (Dusk and Dawn Dragon).

Love the look and mannerisms, but damn it really just exists without relevance.

[eway]

Thank you to @omori-sv-au ! For this! I commissioned it!

And now is as good a time as any to reveal that...

A friend and I are rewriting Fire Emblem Fates! I will be doing Conquest. I'm trying to keep as much as possible the same, but I've already drastically changed a chapter and added 3 chapters. And made Good Dad Garon. And moral grey Nohr and Hoshido. And Conquest is gonna focus more on Corrin's draconic side than on Yato, hence the partial transformation. Super hyped to show it off!

[dummy-dot-exe]

Happy New Year by Aiwa@ai_wa_

[ridhistory21]

love the genre "my pretty pookie queen rejecting n humbling down bad villian making them cry, pathetic begging for her while he asks her to join him n corrupt her like himself ! "

[fiery-emblems]

"I wonder if Ike would like this snack?"

[trunswicked]

Commission for a dear friend - Dragon gals and their partners on a lovely picnic! ❤️❤️

[avocados-of-law]

Some Fire Emblem Dragons for the Year of the Dragon

[blaiddydsaurus]

[asphodelis]

2024 is the year of the dragon 💥💥💥

[faefellangel]

ok we're so cooking here. celebrating adamant

[kradeelav]

if you had told me i would be drawing some freaky dragon/grandpa titjob relations pre-fates i probably would not have believed ya.

but here we are.

>> FULL NSFW PIC <<

(see also: 20 seconds before this cumshot.)

[cynical-gamer-media]

Fire Emblem: Fates, Corrin & Nohrian siblings, one-shot.

A gift for @rubytactician!

Corrin is yet to demonstrate and tell the rest of her Nohrian siblings (save Elise) that she can transform into a dragon. Inviting her siblings to the Northern Fortress she shall tell and show them, no matter how daunting it may seem.

[wardensantoineandevka]

forming a thought here about the guys that the guys of the Veilguard bring with them. don't try to convince me Spite is a trustworthy fellow, it's in the name.

you can also swap out "trustworthy" with "guy other people can actually see and hear"

[emblemxeno]

Chapter 13 of Fates Revelation is a writing highlight for me.

Corrin: What's going on? They're both blaming each other for this carnage.

Azura: Of course. Kingdoms at war will always twist things to benefit themselves.

Ryoma and Xander-representative of Hoshido and Nohr as a whole-uphold the conflict and status quo of the world they live in. Even if it makes no sense, they accept that they're enemies and an enemy must have done something awful to harm the peace.

Even parts of their battle quotes and end of chapter dialogue emphasize this.

Ryoma: It doesn't matter, Kagero. Anyone who doesn't side with Hoshido is the enemy. What will you be?

Xander: Trust her? Don't be a fool. I won't listen to any more of your lies. You've chosen your side—opposite me. Prepare yourself, Camilla.

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Xander: This isn't over! We'll fight to the very last man!

Ryoma: You won't see Hoshido waver! We'll fight until there's no one left!

Xander: Whoever retreats now admits defeat! Nohr will never lose to Hoshido.

Ryoma: This war will continue until we take our last breath!

They are unable to see any part of a conflict as something with them or against them. Nuance and rationality don't sit well in minds stubbornly steeped in years of animosity. War, hatred, and reinforcing the way things are is something both of them are willing to do, because they see no other path or choice for themselves.

Corrin and Azura meanwhile, actively disrupt their world views.

Corrin: ...You may be my brothers, but I won't go easy on you if you try to stop me! Come, everyone! ... Ryoma! Xander! Please, you both have to listen to me! We've defeated the real enemy—you don't need to fight each other now!

Azura: Ryoma, Xander... It wasn't Nohr or Hoshido who destroyed this town. It was done by the invisible forces that we just defeated. Now that they are gone, I will not allow any more senseless violence. I will sing my song as many times as necessary to restore peace. Do you still insist on fighting?

And it's not empty words or cries that fall on deaf ears. Corrin is strong. Her will is iron-clad, and she will ensure her vision of peace is made a reality, no matter who she makes an enemy of. Azura is strong as well. What she lacks in directing a path on her own, she makes up for with raw resilience and no qualms about using her song-something that risks her life-to end things on her terms.

They force their stubborn older brothers to look at things in a different perspective; to stop trying to hack and slash their lives away and consider a bigger threat to what and who they care about.

While they aren't swayed immediately, they're undoubtedly shaken. After that, it takes personal introspection and uncomfortable truths for each of them to swallow their pride and admit their ways are wrong, and to follow Corrin to end a senseless war.

And I love this exchange at the end as well:

Scarlet: Ryoma's talked my ears off about what happened to you as a kid. You sound like an idealistic brat to me. You want to bring peace to the world? Ha!

Corrin: There's nothing idealistic about ending this horrible war.

REJECT ���🏽THE 👏🏽 STATUS 👏🏽 QUO 👏🏽!

Accusing others of being naive or idealistic for things like this, in my opinion, shows cowardice, or even ignorance; a life that's been beaten down by other upholders of a terrible state of the world until they agree.

Why is it naive to trust people? Why is it idealistic to want something like endless warring to stop?

We're fed a lie as children: "Life's unfair, you can't do anything about it." Says who!? Why accept that life is cruel and unyielding, when there's so much capacity for good in the world? Is life actually unchangeably unfair in its nature, or is it simply malefactors taking advantage of innocent people in order to rise up to slake their own greed?

Once terrible people get in power, they beat down any forms of resistance and feed this very same lie to them. Worse still, they can even convince the masses to discriminate, fight, and kill each other all so they can swoop in during the aftermath and reap the benefits. And people, at their lowest point, take solace in any explanation-no matter how untrue and no matter who it's coming from-in order to have some semblance of control or direction. That forms their new view of the world.

It takes people who haven't been exposed or raised to believe such nonsense (Corrin) and people who are wise enough to recognize the true problems of the world (Azura), to push against this normalized destruction between two innocent groups of people and direct their ire towards the actual oppressor (Anankos).

It's succint, but scathing. The word choice-in both JP and localization-is too deliberate to consider it a coincidence, I genuinely think it's a good criticism of how our modern world works as well. From a philisophical standpoint it is basic, but Fates as a whole also tackles issues of ignorance/discrimination, xenophobia, the boundaries and meanings of family, who defines justice, the belief of many versus the will of the few, embracing consequences instead of running away, and exploring the concept of leadership in general.

For a game this big, IMO, it meets the mark more often than not when considering the points it wants its audience to hear.