#fe3h house lords

[fodlaneverafter]

FEA character mini-analyses: the house lords, rhea, and byleth

Here is part 3 of explaining why I cast characters the way I did in FEA (my ongoing 3H/EAH crossover fic)! Part 1, about the Black Eagles, is linked here, Part 2 on the Blue Lions is here, and Part 3 on the Golden Deer is here.

Now without further ado... let us begin!

Edelgard as Raven Queen: the biggest hurdle for writing El as Raven was--and honestly still is--the huge personality difference. While El is kind, she's not exactly... as nice? I also imagine her inner monologue to be a lot less insecure than Raven's, so I had to take some liberties on that front. Other than that, though, I can't think of any reason why Edelgard wouldn't be the leader of the Rebels--she's here to contest the system and make a real change. To echo her twin Crests, I tweaked Raven's destiny-bound magic so that El just has weaker magic than she should, and thus relies on spellcraft.

Dimitri as Apple White: I don't think Dimitri would actually be as in love with his story as Apple apparently is, but they share their obsession with duty and what I would call an intense fear of the unknown. Dimitri disagrees with El for exactly the same reasons as Apple disagrees with Raven--because of the disastrous consequences of division and unrest. Apple isn't hiding any demons in her head, though, so again we have some liberties at play. I thought having super-strength (echoing the Blaiddyd Crest) would be an interesting secret for Dimi to keep.

Claude as Madeline Hatter: Claude is the son of Alice here, but Alistair from the original show never did anything interesting and no one else deserves Maddie's iconic role. I couldn't make the Wonderland situation perfectly parallel to Almyrah, but I do want a spotlight on Claude's identity being split between Fódlan and Wonderland. Even though there are other Wonderlandians, he's the only one who is from both worlds--who has to be both logical and mad, but is never quite enough of each. Just, you know, the typical TCK experience. Oh, and talking to the Narrators is of huge importance too!

Yuri as Ramona Badwolf: I took some biiig liberties with this one. Yuri is not related to Bernadetta, but he has the Badwolf name because Mr. Badwolf needed to hide his marriage to Red while still preserving the story's future somehow. I never liked the idea of him having another child, so I thought it'd be cool to mess up some succession laws and have Yuri--the only house lord in the game who didn't come from a wealthy background--"fight" for his destiny by beating all the other Wolfs to it.

Rhea as Milton Grimm: well this is a no-brainer! I'm still smoothing out the wrinkles in how her backstory has to do with Sothis, but just like Milton, Rhea's fear of losing control causes her to rewrite history to fit her narrative. This is gonna be key in FEA.

Byleth as... like... Just Byleth: so... yeah, Byleth doesn't get an important role in this AU, mostly because I couldn't think of a good reason they'd be involved. Honestly it would be hard for me to write them in an interesting way so I'm fine with that.

other characters: Seteth mostly suffers at the hands of chaos and Flayn enjoys it. Jeralt is mentioned exclusively by Leonie. Sothis does not appear as a living character but uh... let's not spoil that. Rodrigue appears as often as I can allow because he's King Charming (!!), who teaches a class at EAH. For the most part, I don't include the 3H students' original parents. Dimitri's father is still named Lambert but his mother is the EAH version of Snow White; likewise for Edelgard. As for the Ashen Wolves--Constance is the daughter of the Marsh King (look it up; I think you'll agree with me!), I made Hapi the daughter of the Sea Witch just because, and Balthus... there's no good reason for him to be around, I'm afraid :(

And that, my folksies, is that!

[dvrtrblhr]

study of waldmuller's portrait of louise mayer, but featuring edelgard. it might look like i deviated a lot from the original, but actually the whole skin is pretty much based on it.

i wish i had more time to refine this... but i have so much to do today (and i got distracted by dmcl what's new)

[rorah]

To celebrate the Anniversary, I redrew the first thing I did for this game and gave it cohesion

... And played with it. Here are all the individual pieces 💙💛❤️💚

[enlightningbugs]

This was from Cyril Week 2020. Three years... at last... fruition...

The theme for this day was "growth." Tall Cyril agenda.

[lilac-knight]

all the holo prints currently available in my shop ~

[cosmosnout]

Fuck it we ball, golden route were they all team up and rule over Fódlan together. Canon won’t let them be happy and alive together so I have to do it (+ soldier,poet,king reference since it’s literally them)

[squeaky-potat]

Lights of Fódlan

[eightkaramis]

Aaaaaand I finished :'3

Da timelapse

[azelfandquilava]

”Local Church Man handed keys to an entire County”

Behold! A lore-accurate 3H edit of the real Volkhard Arundel and Ionius IX. Given that House Arundel wasn’t actually a thing until Anselma and Ionius married I’ve had this silly mental image of Volkhard suddenly being made a Lord and not knowing what to do.

(Ionius edit by shadowshrike2 on Twitter)

[maslosstuff]

Happy anniversary to them! I enjoyed playing this game so much and replaying it I fell in love with them and I was never the same afterwards. They stole me and my sister’s heart

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

in general I think Byleth is the troll of the FE lord friend group. they're the most entertaining person to watch play Among Us (they eventually stopped constantly killing Ephraim because that was getting boring). now they're doing shit like standing between two bodies without reporting, randomly voting ppl in meetings for no reason, calling their friends on the phone for "tech support", venting in front of large groups of people, unmuting in the middle of the round to goad someone into killing them, etc. they're banned from Ultimate Chicken Horse for making the game straight up unplayable. their Mario Maker levels are infamous for softlocking ppl. Duck Duck Goose is the funniest shit ever when they get Party/Pelican. they are the silliest little guy

-- 👻 horror anon

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[digitalcyborgquestblog]

[19-bellwether]

Several years late but half the reason Edelgard generated so much discourse is because there's two versions of her everyone tried to characterize as one. Initially Edelgard didn't have a route; you could not ally with her for the second half of the game and were forced to join the church. So you could only fight her as an antagonist, a war-mongering conqueror who betrays allies and shows no remorse. A clear villain.

Then they added a route for her after the other three were written. It's rushed and short, but most notably, they make her sympathetic. She has noble intentions and strong critiques of the status quo, and the evil influence of TWSITD is much more pronounced. Now she's an anti-hero. Perhaps the writers didn't want a true villain route available to the player. But the villain version of Edelgard still exists in other routes.

So the fandom discoursed endlessly, trying to reconcile what's little more than a rush-job to add nuance to the antagonist. It's understated how much the first route you play influences your view of her (and Dimitri's route being the most popular + the most villainous version of Edelgard doesn't help). In-universe you can argue that Byleth's presence kept Edelgard's morality intact, and there's nothing wrong with doing textual analysis to reconcile the two versions. But they're ultimately different characterizations that exist for wholly different purposes.

[amebelladonna]

Y'know tossing aside how they share a VA, it's kinda a shame Dorothea and Shamir don't have any Supports because I would LOVE to see Shamir be annoyed by Dorothea smooth talking the entire monastery (and even trying it on her), but gradually they come to realize how differently similar they are in the matter of being someone who does not believe in the Goddess repaying the devout people that took them in at their lowest (Dorothea with Manuela and the Mittelfrank Opera, Shamir with Rhea and the Church of Seiros)

[elftism]

there were lots of memorable things happening in the fe3h fandom in the few years after it came out, but that whole confederate AU sylvix thing might be one of the most wtf moments

edit: adding on that I remember felix being the confederate soldier and also a vampire or immortal or something

[coffeebeanz05]

i’m back in my fe3h phase