#fe3h whump

[whumperofworlds]

The fandom will never know what hit 'em.

[whumporpass]

Welcome back friend!!!

How about... Edelgard from Fire Emblem Three Houses?

[zevfern]

My contribution to Whumptober: a songfic based on a Blood Brothers song, featuring Lorenz/Mercedes. Listen to the song below!

[zarvasace]

I have been tagged by @batrogers!!

1. How many works on AO3? 241

2. Total AO3 word count? 1.25mil. Almost to my 3rd AO3 anniversary :D (that's around 1,170 words every day for three years, not counting nonpublished words! Proud of that rate, even if it's slowing.)

3. Top 5 fics by kudos:

Status? about Four. I think this one hits the sweet spot for a lot of people: not too long, a bit angsty, but sweet.

so i admit that the mud didn't do much for me, about Hyrule. Actually the first fic I ever posted on this account, it's silly and I'm surprised to see it so high

incandescently happy, a post-LU happy ending. Posted little chapters every day for like a month which kept it in people's feeds so I think that's why it's so high

what is a stump supposed to do, a random Hyrule & Four one, honestly baffled why it's up here

Rise and Shine and Fall, my successful (by that I mean actually wrote and posted every day on schedule) Whumptober 2022 extravaganza compilation. I posted it all in one work, so it's higher than most other whump fics of mine, but there's a lot in it!

4. What fandoms do you write for? Zelda. In the past I wrote a tiny bit of Danny Phantom and a fair amount of FE3H!

5. Do you respond to comments? Always!! I admit to being SO VERY BEHIND right now, a couple months' worth. I'm trying to keep up on new ones, but I've had some beautiful wonderful readers going through my catalog and I can't always keep up!! XD

6. Fic with the angstiest ending: I don't write a lot of negative endings, so I think this badge goes to Counterbalance, my LU Darks AU. I'm actually fully in love with this fic, it's probably the best mix of silly and angsty I've ever written. It's full of what are essentially OCs but they're all my babies and I love them.

7. Fic with the happiest ending: incandescently happy, post-LU. The whole fic is essentially a fix-it ending, though LU doesn't have an ending yet. XD

8. Do you get hate? A couple silly comments trying to tell me I'm doing things wrong, but not really no! Oh, also can't forget the ask I got that was "Remember that Jesus is your first reader." I think that was meant to be passive aggressive but there's a chance it was meant like, genuinely? Not sure.

9. Do you write smut? Nah. And I don't plan to. Not my thing! Closest I get are vampire bites XD

10. Do you write crossovers? I swear I've done more but the only ones on my AO3 are a Vidow fic done in an original world (Nothing New Under the Sun (crystals, dumplings, jewelry)), and Blood-Sucker's Guide to High School, a Vidow retelling of a very fun vampire novel.

11. Ever had a fic stolen? Nope, but I did have one of my Vidow fake fic book covers stolen for someone's fake fiverr listing. Got it taken down with a DMCA but I was like, why

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Not to my knowledge.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic? Oh plenty. @enrolio and I spent most of 2020-21 lockdowns and beyond cowriting, mostly original stories (1.7mil) but a lot of fic, too (nothing published, but almost 400k worth.) We're currently in the process of working on a big epic original fantasy series, though that's a long-term project. @batrogers and I have done a few alt-POV-type projects too, which have been super duper fun!! Hope to do more.

In that vein too, I feel like the Bad End Links kind of qualify here—so much of the characters and their stories were brainstormed collaboratively and so many friends have contributed details and fics and art, it feels like a fun group project! I've really enjoyed working on it. :D (the encouragement and hype for it also helps a lot!! I'm really hoping to finish this big project out!)

14. All-time favorite ship? Ahhhh a harder question than you'd think, tbh, even if you're limiting it to fic. I've written the most for Vidow, and they're definitely up there (same with Fourdow though I've done less with them.) I do have to admit that Linhardt/Byleth might take the cake, though. They were the first ship I was ever actually obsessed with, and the first romantic pairing I wrote in fic.

I just really adore Linny in general, and I love how the pairing continues and closes off some of the themes in the Crimson Flower route of FE3H. That's the only route where Byleth doesn't become archbishop-slash-dictator, and I think choosing to live life in a small cottage, not particularly contributing too much to the government, builds nicely upon the themes of becoming human and choosing your own destiny, themes that are really missing from the other routes.

15. WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will? My old AO3 account (a couple FE3H fics and not much else) has a series where I wrote the beginning of a fic and then had several different endings planned, each a different ship with Linhardt, but I only ever wrote one. I'd love to read the rest but I have too many other fics calling my name!

16. Writing strengths? Um... Volume and speed? Also AUs. I think I can call myself good at fitting characters into new settings. Also fight scenes are fun and I think I do them well.

17. Writing weaknesses? I feel somewhat weak in the plotting and style realms.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue? You can't count on a reader to know not-tagged languages, so that has to be accounted for in the text.

19. First fandom you wrote for? Danny Phantom, in high school or maybe just after. That's late for a lot of fic writers but... there are reasons for that, and a different discussion!!

20. Favorite fic you've ever written? This is an extremely rude question, because I love so many for different reasons. I write things I want to read!! Counterbalance (for the tone) and Blood-Sucker's Guide (for the finished novel plot) are up there but I linked them above, so I'll take the chance to call out a different few—Marvelous Misadventures is way up there, a Wind-focused modern with magic AU. I promise I'm still working on that last chapter (and the epilogue), I just gotta throw everything else aside one month and buckle down. Maybe June, I don't have any fic events planned and 06/23 was the last update. I think some earlier chapters need a refresh as well, once I have the ending written.

I'll also toss White Walls (medwhump, "non consensual body modification: the fic") into this category for how long it is and how proud I am to have finished even a collection this long, and a long walk, a Linked Nexus fic where I did so much math and had so much fun with it. :D

Tagging: @silvrash-797 @toyouhellohowareyou @nopenototdaysatan @skyward-floored :)

[dandelion-wings]

For the ask meme, Jean and Venti? :>

Thank you for the ask! :>

JEAN

How I feel about this character

This should be no surprise to anyone, but I adore her. #1 absolute favorite Genshin character, bar none. She's already an archetype I love (honorable lady knight torn between duty/family and her own desires, bonus points for blondness; see also, FE3H Ingrid), enough so that the friend who got me into Genshin lured me in with her ("read the manga at least until you get to Jean, and if you like her, you have to start playing"), and a lot of her individual characteristics are also deeply endearing to me. I am not rational about Jean. She is my beloved precious blorbo who can do no wrong and I will write out her flaws and make her perfect if I want to, and I will write her outmatching and one-upping the male characters who are supposed to be just as or more cool, and I will write her whump and fluff and hurt/comfort where everyone goes "oh we have been unfair to Jean, let us rush to care about her," and I feel no shame on any of these points. I am holding her up and showing her to everyone like a beloved pet.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Okay, so, the thing about me is that I usually make my favorite character a fandom bicycle because I just like seeing how I think they'd interact with other characters I like? I have at least idle shipping thoughts about Jean and... so much of the rest of Genshin. But my primary ships for her are most of the other Knights of Favonius, particularly any combo, OTP or OT3 or OT4, of Lisa, Kaeya, and Eula, with some particularly energetic mental dabbling (less likely to make it on the page) in Jean/Ningguang, Jean/Rosaria, Jean/Diluc, and Jean/Sara. Those are probably the ones outside the OT4 and its permutations that I'm most likely to actively play with without some outside trigger or inspiration!

My non-romantic OTP for this character

See above, just without the kissing. That said, I think everyone knows it's Jean and Kaeya. XD And beyond that the platonic relationships within the OT4!

My unpopular opinion about this character

I... am not sure I have one? The people I choose to follow have Good Opinions, and I do not follow people with Bad Opinions so I don't know how popular they are (also I don't go into her main tag because main character tags get SO spammed with 'this character appeared once briefly in the background of this comic' sorts of tags. I follow individual artists and the rarepair tags). I like to think she could take Diluc, I guess? Who often gets presented in fanon and a little bit in canon as the Ultimate Mondstadt badass.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

More cool action scenes! And also FIXING HER RELATIONSHIP WITH BARBARA.

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VENTI

How I feel about this character

I like him! I have somehow ended up following and being followed by many Venti fans who love him much more intensely, and he's one of those characters I already like enough that I can be enjoyably swept up in that love, such that for the duration of the post I'm reading or the discussion we're having, I love him just as much. Then it goes back to 'sure, he's cool and I enjoy seeing him'. :> Which I definitely do.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Venti isn't a fandom bicycle for me just because he's not in my top faves, but he definitely would have the potential if he was. >> That said, Dvalin, Zhongli, and Xiao are the only people I regularly seek out pairing content with him for; I enjoy incidentally seeing him with pretty much any of the world's other immortal/long-lived-non-human characters and all the now-dead past character's he's been with, and he's fun with a lot of the Mondstadt characters as well. Honorable mention to Jean/Venti for occupying the same mental space as Venti himself: a pairing I'm not personally invested in but, while I'm talking to @esmeraldablazingsky and/or reading their stuff, am temporarily 110% high-enthusiasm about.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Broadly speaking, his various friends over the centuries and, currently, especially Dvalin, but I will admit that my Thing for Jean means that I am most fascinated with his relationship with her (the only person in canon who knows him in both his forms and is still respectful! XD) and, by extension, Gunnhildrs of the past.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I again don't know enough about general fandom opinion to have one. XD;; Most of my opinions about Venti are accumulated from the people I follow who love him, and I haven't seen any general popular ones among them that I disagree strongly with!

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I put "Venti takes the Traveler to Celestia, or at least gives them a very strong hint and boost" in a lot of my speculative endgame scenarios because I feel like there are hints in canon that it COULD be what happens, and I really really hope that it WILL be. It feels like how the narrative around him should pay off, to me.

[felldimitri]

hi, welcome to my little corner of the internet. i'm mitya. she/her. +21 years old adult writer & amateur photographer. intersex transfemneu demigirl & sapphic + demiromantic. i've decided to start over on tumblr and hopefully i'll post my writing here. i'm very shy and anxious. i have different mental illnesses and use writing to vent. nsft warning all throughout my blog, so minors block me or you will be blocked too.

dimitri icon made by allenzwalker writing blog - dollboydimitri ao3 account - vashnui bluesky - vashnui

about:

i love writing about my fire emblem ships as well as my fe3h oc philip. i'm not a good artist, but occasionally you may see art posted here. i love angst, whump, tragedy and generally topics underneath the dead dove umbrella. some of my aesthetics are meatcore, zombiecore and angelcore, specifically catholic aesthetics. please block me if images of meat or catholicism trigger you. (i am an agnostic cra survivor.)

some of my favourite ships are dimimari, dimilix, m!dimileth, glennvain and diminand. you may see oc ships here too. i mainly ship my oc philip with felix, but sometimes you may see him written with other characters too. i am a yumejoshi, and i yume dimitri, glenn, sylvain and marianne. i don't mind sharing as long as you don't treat what i do as a threat. fiction =/= reality.

outside of fire emblem, i love photography, gardening, flowers and forensic science, as well as meatcore and limited space aesthetics. some of my other fandoms are hypnosis mic, bravely default, trigun (98 & stampede), octopath traveler and daiya no ace.

byi:

i write whenever i feel like it, and i write for myself. reblogs are appreciated, but please don't criticise or bash what i write. i am non-native and have multiple mental illnesses, so i tend to project heavily onto my characters. i write most of my favourite characters as trans and/or intersex.

sometimes i may delete posts randomly out of anxiety. most of my works are named after songs. i do not condone my works being used for AI stuff. block me if you use AI to "write" (you're lazy and boring).

dni:

i hate dnis, but i have boundaries before you decide to follow me. i do not condone harassment, abuse or doxing over fiction. regardless, keep me out of "proship" discourse. minors/under 18, do not interact. you will be blocked.

i have been diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses, including did, autism and hpd. do not interact if you are involved heavily in discourse. i literally have no energy to deal with arguing online. do not interact if you don't "share" f/os, or take sharing seriously. i yume for comfort reasons and i'm not here for contests.

antisemites, pro-russia, pro-trump dni.

tagging:

﹙🦁﹚mitya speaks - my posts, generally i share thoughts and whatnot. ﹙📖﹚shadow library - for my writing, ocs and prompts. ﹙📌﹚update - for account updates. ﹙📸﹚snapshot - my photography. ﹙🎨﹚mitya's work - my drawings, very rarely used. ﹙💭﹚yume mumbling - yumejoshi or oc x cc thoughts. ﹙💖﹚reblog - for all of my reblogs. ﹙❓﹚asks - asks that i (never) receive. ﹙💡﹚miscellany - for other topics that may not fit.

[meggydolaon]

hey mesa!! looking very intently at your wip titled "rockrose and thistle". i am an amazing devil fan first and a human being second. anything you wanna share from that?

also love to see that the cursed bird au has a working title now. got anything else new from that au?

Hi Rainey!! :D

So Rockrose and Thistle is a Berniegard fic from fe3h and I know you don't go here so I will Provide Context

The Rockrose and the Thistle in question:

Edelgard (red lady) and Bernadetta (purple girl). So just from the colors they're already pretty rockrose and thistle coded but the themes/lyrics of the song is important too!!

Fe3h is a game revolving around a war and it has multiple (4) routes depending on which faction the player sides with. This fic takes place where Edelgard loses ;( whump whump 🎺

As the spearhead of the war, Edie's got a lot of weight on her shoulders. Meanwhile Bernie, the local shut in, has been largely avoiding direct involvement. But as the tides take a turn for the worst, Bernie musters the resolve to stand by her emperor 😤

I really want to lean heavily on the parts in the song where it goes from "I know the kindest thing is to leave you alone" to "I know the kindest thing is to never leave you alone" ;w;

Cursed Bird AU is a pile of paper clippings and conspiracy yarn rn but I'm having fun with it XD the title "Making Noise" is inspired by Hozier's To Noise Making (Sing) as well as a double entendre referring to being vocal, disruptive, or popular. So basically perfect for Grace >;3c

To the uninformed, Cursed Bird AU is my Stray Gods wip where the Idols steadily regain power after the events of the game. Following the ending where Grace punched Athena, the goddess curses her to become a bird monster that can't speak, and therefore can't sing >:0 !!

A resurgence for Idols and insurgence from Athena means higher stakes god conflict!! This also means an expanded cast and one of the developments I like so far is the new Artemis. Name pending but she's blind!! Which I think will make her interactions with Medusa interesting, and also Laelaps will be more than happy to be a guide dog uwu 🦮

The real question is: do you trust her with a bow 🤨

Ask game in question btw

[unrivalling]

For the writing meme: 3, 9, 37

Sorry it took me so long to respond to this!

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

This is such a good question. The most obvious one that leaps out to me is that I can't resist an atmospheric nature description, and I like talking about the animals that would realistically be in the environment around characters. My friends have routinely pointed out that I like describing the bird calls happening in the bg to accentuate silences between characters. It's very easily memeified, but I like doing it. I notice animals around me wherever I go, so it helps ground me in a scene. I think another characteristic is maybe...I like writing emotions that are really grounded in the body. Anger you feel in your chest. Fear you feel in an aching, icy inability to breathe. It's tricky because I think it can get repetitive easily, and sometimes it feels difficult to come up with a new way of saying "holy fuck he's afraid and his body is reacting", but I like it.

9. How do you find new fic to read?

I pick my favorite character or ship and search for tags of things I like: major character injury, whump, hurt/comfort, trauma recovery, major character death, and so on. If I find one of those that gives me The Good Hurt Feelings, then I might seek out something nice to take the sting out.

Other than that, I generally mostly end up reading within my creative communities. Ship discords I join, works posted by friends, and so on.

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

Ahaha. You're the second one to ask me this. I try not to get too caught up on numbers, because sometimes fics that I thought had weak launches have ended up having people approach me in discords and say they loved it. Plus, I realize I've been writing in a kind of "I'm a shark and if I stop swimming I'll die" Stephen King approach to writing, so as soon as I publish something, I'm usually pushing on to the next thing (note: I don't recommend this). I think I'll bring out Feather & Bone from when I was writing mostly FE3H. To be clear I think it got a lovely response, but I developed a lot as a writer while working on this fic and it was written off of a prompt from and with input by some very good friends, so I'm really fond of it. I'm definitely a stronger writer now than I was when I wrote it, but I consider this fic a big part of why I'm a stronger writer now.

[varley-of-torment]

The ride back to the Monastery was tense, lacking the chatter of victory. The Blue Lions had defeated another crew of bandits, but one key member was leaving much worse for wear.

Mercedes had been stabbed with a poison dagger.

It is here. My ultimate merceleth fic.

Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Trauma Recovery, Friends to Lovers, Character Study

This fic is already done! it is about 21k words, and I will be posting each chapter individually until it is done, maybe every two or three days. 

(CW: The first chapter has some light body horror)

[onyxedskies]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Ashe Duran | Ashe Ubert/Felix Hugo Fraldarius, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Ashe Duran | Ashe Ubert, Felix Hugo Fraldarius, Yuris Leclair | Yuri Leclerc, Minor Characters Additional Tags: Torture, Kidnapping, Drugs, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Ashe Duran | Ashe Ubert Needs a Hug, Felix Hugo Fraldarius Needs A Hug, Post-Canon, Post-Azure Moon | Blue Lions Route (Fire Emblem: Three Houses), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Anxiety Attacks, Trauma, Healing, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt, Whump, Heavy Angst Summary:

He can’t block the memories out anymore. It never really worked, for Ashe, but it’s all worse now. Vivid. Too dark. Too real. Vivid. He replays things, wondering if he can pick out where it all went wrong. He always has, but this is different. He can’t push them away and focus on something else anymore. He knew Felix was having the opposite problem, could tell by the way his eyes were always clouded, by the way he repeated things over and over.

[whumperofworlds]

Looking at you, FE3H.

[sushimango]

Whumptober 2021 - Day 21

That's where the bloods supposed to be

bleeding through the bandages / blood-matted hair

Of course it's Dimitri. Who else could it be,covered in wounds and blood.

[oriato]

After Duscur

[spookyboywhump]

Important images to explain why I’ve disappeared

[merryfortune]

no. 1 whumptober for rhealeth? either gender

No. 1 Let’s hang out sometime

Waking Up Restrained | Shackled | Hanging

Tags: off-screen canon-typical violence, captives, minor or implied Stockholm Syndrom

   Byleth was groggy as she roused. She remembered... The last thing she remembered... It was all in such a daze but she grappled with her consciousness, easing in and out, she felt sharp spikes of pain in her abdonmen. She tried to hang herself forward, put her head between her knees, if she vomited, she vomited. Not because she was naeusous, but because she thought there may have been blood in her mouth. It was difficult to tell, but there was a distant taste of metal in her mouth. Trying to get herself up, she wanted anything to clear the head, she was that desperate, but it wasn’t just the sheets she was under that rustled, oh no.

   As Byleth lurched forward, she heard the tell-tale dainty clinks of interlocked chains, beautiful and spry. She murmured to herself and then the door opened. She blinked vaguely a couple of times and she saw Rhea. In the doorway. Two of her and then three of her and then just one. There was drool on Byleth’s lips as she tried to speak but didn’t muster much.

   Rhea strode closer, hand in her own hand, and pity on her face. She sat on Byleth’s bedside and Byleth noticed something. Rhea’s gown and the sheets... They were about the same colours. An off-white, something of a cream, dusted gold and the like. Did that mean...? Was she... Was she in Rhea’s personal quarters? 

   Her head throbbed and she cringed.

   Rhea tutted to herself, “Oh, you poor darling, your like a broken bird, but no matter, you’ll come soon.”

   “Huh? What happened?” Byleth murmured.

   “Violence. So much senseless violence. And for what? To defy my power? Ridiculous, poor little Edelgard, she will come back to the flock eventually, if only in body.” Rhea commented.

   “I still - I still don’t... my head... It really hurts...” Byleth muttered.

   Rhea reached out to Byleth, she caressed Byleth’s face, stroking her cheek with a backwards touch of her thumb. Byleth wasn’t exactly pretty porcelain. Not like she had been as a baby, oh no, too much time had parted and Rhea couldn’t keep her darling safe when she was stolen but no matter. Jeralt was dead. No one could take Byleth from her now, she was all hers to love and adore and cherish.

   “You don’t worry a hair on your head,” Rhea urged her, “heal, take care of yourself and I will take care of the rest.”

   “I mean, um, yes, I guess...” Byleth murmured.

   “Get some more sleep, dear, you are still talking in your nightmares.” Rhea spoke soothingly.

   Byleth nodded. Rhea seemed to be a good woman, even if she was godly in how she struck against those who would dispute her, like Lord Lonato or more pressingly... like Edelgard. 

   Rhea’s hand left Byleth’s face and Byleth moved again. She heard the sound of her restraints spooling and cooling in their delicate silver links. On her wrists, on her ankles. Yet, she didn’t feel captive. Just tired. Byleth yawned. Yes, she would get some more rest, just like Rhea plead of her.

[kingjinxii]

being an angst writer like