#fe3h whump

[comfort-questing]

"headache/migraine"

All through class that day, Dimitri had been looking forward to getting outdoors and away from books, and from the dense smells that suddenly seemed so much stronger as the pressure behind his right eye built to its usual aching crescendo. At first he squinted, and then leaned his head on his hand, directing his good eye towards the page and trying his best to answer his share of the logistical discussion problems they were supposed to be studying.

"...oh, no, wait, I forgot about the feed the horses would need. What's the rate of feed per horse per day..." Sylvain shredded his bright hair with distracted fingers. "Dimitri?"

For someone who spoke so particularly of training to be a mounted knight, that question should not be such a puzzle, Dimitri thought dimly through the throbbing in his head. The migraines weren't new, and always seemed to follow his more sleepless nights, when the ghosts teased him in and out of any remnants of rest he could grasp. Sylvain was wearing cologne again and the heavy tinge of floral scent almost sickened him, faint as he knew it was.

He made some vague answer, as he'd done all morning, and tried to blink his eyes clear unsuccessfully.

"Are you all right, Dimitri?"

"Yes. Yes, of course." They had enough to worry about, these classmates and future subjects of his, without knowing about yet another of his endless skein of weaknesses.

Somehow he did make it through class, the moments blurring together, the rest of the Blue Lions' voices blending into a universal too loud, too much beneath the high wooden ceiling. He scrounged up some words to allay Dedue's concern as they passed each other in the hallway, although the other boy's steps seemed to lag at parting. Still, it was undeniable that the stables and the training grounds were in opposite directions.

The sunlight struck him like a blow as Dimitri left the shadow of the classroom building, and he clenched his teeth. This was going to be a very long day.

-

Dimitri didn't know, at first, whose hand it was that gently tapped his shoulder as he curled up in the corner of the tack stall, struggling to get his throbbing head and queasy stomach to cooperate enough to let him stand up again. He startled sluggishly, the whispers echoing between his ears dimming, and blinked upwards to see scruffy hair and a small swinging braid silhouetted against the daylight outside.

"Hullo, Your Princeliness. You don't look so well."

"I'm - resting. Just a slight headache."

The side of Claude's mouth twitched, as he quirked the corresponding eyelid above in a most remarkable wordless display of dubiousness. Dimitri gritted his teeth as another spike of pain drove through the bone above his own eye.

"Do you really think this is the best place to rest, then? Wouldn't you rather go somewhere else?"

That would require standing up, and staggering somewhere back through the sunlight, and letting people see him like this. Dimitri started to shake his head, but grimaced instead, wincing at the movement. "I'll - be fine soon."

He thought - hoped - Claude would go away; the last thing he needed right now was a witness. Outside the shade of the stalls the buzz of voices and the clatter of horseshoes on cobblestones echoed dimly.

But Claude didn't. Claude came closer, cautiously but surely, the minute sounds of his breathing and the brush of his clothing loud in the stillness. He reached out, Dimitri stiffening up under his touch, and slipped an arm under Dimitri's shoulders.

"I've got medicine in my room, if you don't want to bother Marianne," he said, his voice a low murmur, the smell of sweat and wyvern breath strong on him. "Though I don't think magic does much for mine when I get them, so... C'mon. Close your eyes and let me know when you're ready to stand up."

Dimitri had never dreamed of bothering any of the Faith mages with a problem like this. He wanted to protest, but the slight motion of opening his mouth jolted the pain into fresh throbbing, and he swallowed hard. His eyes had slid shut almost without his intention, distant sunlight bright as he turned his face.

He was so, so tired all of a sudden.

Be strong, whispered someone, the choked rasp of a corpse long dead by smoke and flame. Stand up, boy.

"I'm... ready."

-

Thinking back on it, he probably should have refused any of Claude's dubious original concoctions, but by the time the other boy got him back to the officers' academy dorms he didn't have the composure to protest. Claude helped him sit back against the wall, in the shadow of the building that was delight enough, and returned some moments later.

The sickly-sweet taste of the potion guided to his lips made him gag at first, but the fuzzy tingling that followed as he breathed deep dulled the pain and nausea a few notches in a sudden mercy he could have wept for. The arm behind his shoulders didn't leave, even as he leaned his head back against the wall, waiting for the relief to spread.

No words. Just Claude's hand firm at his shoulder, a comforting pressure that reminded him obscurely of old days, and fingers now ash and dust.

And when he finally let himself go into the drowsy heaviness beneath, he woke with a scarf folded under his head, and Dedue sitting next to him with a worried scowl.

"Your Highness? Sylvain told me you had vanished from the stables..."

"It's - it's all right, Dedue." Dimitri rolled over and got up on his elbows, some lingering dizziness catching him, but the weight and pain stretched out and lightened in his temples. "I had some help to feel better."

And he thought he'd imagined the fleeting smile on Dedue's face, as they both saw the bundle of gold cloth he'd napped on; but perhaps not, at that.

[whumperofworlds]

Looking at you, FE3H.

[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!

[elluia]

Whumptober 2022 prompts... finished!

With 14 days to spare before the one-year anniversary of the last prompt tackled, my Fódlan's Woes series is now finished! 🥳

The last chapter posted completes last year's prompt 31 "A light at the end of the tunnel".

📖 Read chapter 5 of Final Farewell, "A humble prayer" to find out the conclusion of Mercedes's journey from Adrestia to Faerghus!

Since this is Ashe's birthday, you'll even get a cameo related to him... ;)

~~~

And now for a small recap of this series (entirely canon-compliant!):

💀 God Slayer (1.985 words)

Sothis was murdered in her sleep, or so they believe. (Whumptober 2022, Prompt No.6: Proof of life)

🩸 His Sweat and Blood (15.731 words)

From war orphan to prisoner of war, Cyril is just trying to survive. (Whumptober 2022, Prompt No.11: sloppy bandages + self-done first aid)

🙏 Final Farewell (17.930 words)

On the roads, a young Mercedes learns the price of freedom. (Whumptober 2022, Prompt No.31: A light at the end of the tunnel)

Big clap to me, I did finish this series 😭😭😭

[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.

[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.

[zarvasace]

Zarvasace’s LU Stuff

Shatterproof

aka Mina’s disability AU. An AU where each Link has a different physical disability, ranging from Legend’s RRMS to Twilight’s transverse deficiency to Sky’s Deafness

First appearance: 10-17-2022

Tag: #disability au (for older posts), #shatterproof

(there is too much to link it all so just a few things)

Series on AO3

Summary post

Original art and introductions for: Twilight, Hyrule, Time, Wind, Wild, Warriors, Sky, Legend, Four

Silly jokes one and two

Four’s chair reference

Crayon doodles

Dazzling Diamond Danger outfit doodle, Four and Shadow doodle, hyrule doodle, legend doodle

bonds physical booklet

Four and Shadow from "Mirror, Mirror, Listen to My Wish", anime-style

Shadow art

Marvelous Misadventures

In a world where "Hero" is a legal distinction given to extraordinary people who have done extraordinary things—a symbol on a driver's license, permission to carry a sword—the goddesses ask much. Magic is rare, magical beings even more so. Is it so strange that those most capable are those who have achieved?

Link Waker can See things: the ghosts on the docks, the feathered wings on a strange man's back. He leaves his home in the Archipelago to go gather the eight blessed others as required by the prophecy the goddesses seem fit to shove at him. It's not as simple a task as it seems.

First appearance: (not on tumblr) 5-17-2022

Tag: #marvelous misadventures

Fic on AO3

Group art

"cover" art

Random art of Wind

1931 Vampire AU

In a post-WWI world, Wind is a centuries-old vampire working with a small team. Little does he know that literally everyone else is magical too.

First appearance: 2-12-2023

Tag: #1931 vampire au

Series on AO3

Summary post

Relationship map

Art of Wind being extra

Art of Wind and Warriors

Doodles of Wind

Art of Sky and Four

Art of Time

Pathfinder Chain

Fake silent movie title cards

Art of Wind and Tetra in 1700s clothes

Character summaries and art as if the Links were present in Pathfinder’s world, Golarian.

First appearance: 4-24-2023

Tag: #pathfinder chain

Masterpost

Linked Nexus (LU Space Crew AU)

Most who work the celestial highways long to find a place that they can call home. Most drift between crews and jobs, whether within the Kingdom or without. Some, however, live for the stars and find home is a cramped ship with engines rumbling the ground beneath their feet, and a crew that’s almost family.

First appearance: 3-1-2024

Tag: #linked nexus (Old tag: #lu space crew au)

First post, summary

Lineup Art

Fic series on AO3

Gift fic!!! Twilight whump

Legend transforming into a bunny animation

Legend looking around mini-animation

Twilight art

Hyrule and Wild art

Sky and Sun video calling art

Deity infodump

Half Fours

Literally just, what if Four was merged into two people instead of one or four?

First appearance: 1-10-2023

Tag: #half fours

Mini comic

First doodles and names: one, two, three, four

Shadow’s relationship with each combination

Red + Vio = magenta

Full drawings for: Magma, Storm, Dust, Haze, Spark, and Mire

Spark doodle, Dust doodle, Spark and Mire together

Magma drawing remastered

Storm and Magma in the forge

Dust and Haze fighting a monster

Darkverse AU

Each hero has a dark reflection. This is about them.

First appearance: 4-21-2024

Tag: #lu z darks au

Masterpost

Mini-comic introducing Depth

Posts with art and information about: Depth, Agony and Lost, Shackle and Nothing, Dire and Madness, Prince and Mirage

First lineup art

Upgraded lineup art (same as above but more detail and a higher resolution)

References for artfight (mostly same as above)

Warriors and Prince, anime style

FIC FIC FIC

Misc. Fourdow Art

Four and Shadow take a selfie with Wild's slate

sleepy

follow-up selfie art, done a year later

Other Significant LU Art

(fics can be found on my AO3, Zarvasace)

tattoo doodles

Fancy Warriors I spent hours on

LU/FE3H crossover art

What I thought the LU boys looked like when I read a bunch of fic but hadn't seen official designs yet

LU group & AU prompt generator

Cute Four doodle (pfp at one point)

LU panel redraw that I'm proud of

Imprisoning War trio for @/skyloftian-nutcase's AU, not technically LU but it will go here.

All the LU boys as mermaids for Mermay 2024

[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

[comfort-questing]

14. "just hold on"

inspired by Cosumosu's glorious FE3H art from day 8 that I simply can't stop staring at. @cosumosu thanks as always for sharing.

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maybe he should have studied more Faith magic in the old days, when everything had made more sense. maybe... maybe there were other things he could have done to prevent this, or maybe nothing, nothing at all.

Sylvain took another deep breath in, the salt air of Derdriu Harbor mixed with smoke now; his dizziness abated for a moment, but the sharp pain in his side made him cough and gag again. the blood and acid taste in his mouth was almost familiar by now.

never mind. nothing to do about that now. he wasn't dying.

but Claude was.

his leader, his commander, his friend.

Sylvain had dragged him out of the way as the battle went on, to this corner of the docks between crates and old salt-stained stone wall. Claude's head lolled to the side, eyes closed, unflinching as Sylvain scrabbled back the ragged remains of his jacket to look closer at the wound. the sword in Professor's hands had slashed open his chest, from shoulder halfway to his hip, leaving splintered bone visible and bright blood spurting out with each effortful breath.

Sylvain hissed a breath in between his teeth, throat tightening with despair.

here in the momentary solace, the noise of battle dulling to a distant roar as his own consciousness became more and more slippery, he did what he hadn't done for years and tried to remember. remember Professor, and Manuela, and weekend lectures on healing, when he'd sat between Felix and Lorenz in the back row and tried not to fall asleep in the sunlight falling through the windows...

come on, Sylvain, think. what a fool he was, unable to help or save anyone, when he was the only one here, perhaps the only one left at all who would try to save Derdriu's fallen general now.

the fumbling half-recalled spell, incantation as shaky as the spell diagram he'd scrawled, did something anyway; about as much, or as little, as either of the healing potions he trickled between Claude's bloodied half-parted lips. enough to pin back together the shattered collarbone on Claude's left shoulder, and seal the dozen smaller gashes from the shards of his broken Relic bow; enough to make it so that each breath he fought for gained him at least as much air as blood, anyway. but the edges of the wound still gaped open and the color was still drained from beneath the tan of Claude's skin, his breaths rattling through punctured, collapsing lungs.

too late, too late. Sylvain blinked back tears, furiously, hopelessly. the Empire's trumpets were blowing, somewhere beyond their hiding place; someone would find them, soon, and he tried to tell himself it would be one of the others. but he had seen Hilda go down at the narrow bridge, screaming in laughter or tears or both as her axe shattered in a burst of light. and all the others had been holding the line further up, and met the enemy first.

maybe they were the last two Alliance commanders left, and it was only a matter of time until all was over. but it wasn't over yet. he leaned forward, clutching at his side, feeling blood welling hot between his fingers.

"Claude," he said, hoarsely, "listen to me, Claude..."

he wanted to tell himself that Claude's eyelids had flickered, under the mess of his bloodstained dark hair. he didn't know. at least he could hear his breaths still, slow and ragged, fading like the waves as the tide went out to sea.

"Claude... hold on. don't die."

alive was a start. they could work with alive. everything else would come later.

"...just... hold on. please."

[whumperofworlds]

*Watches a scene that has whumpy potential*

So how do I make this worse.

[damoselcastel]

I posted 818 times in 2022

That's 62 more posts than 2021!

110 posts created (13%)

708 posts reblogged (87%)

Longest Tag: 79 characters

#even though he's awful in b rank this is the drama i wanna explore between them

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Hey guys, I’m making a Let’s Play for Triangle Strategy! It’s mostly just my own silly commentary and reactions to a blind playthrough, but if you’re interested I’ll have daily updates so please check out my (very new) Youtube channel.

Episode 1 - the very, very start

8 notes - Posted March 3, 2022

#4

I haven’t really said much on the upcoming FE title, other than Colgate Pepsi Lord being uggo, and that’s mostly because of my... unresolved problems with Fire Emblem Heroes. Or rather, that entire “hero summoning” as a concept.

I suppose sometimes in a game, it’s a fun concept to have like... a cameo summon. Twilight Princess’ Wolf Link in Breath of the Wild is a fun easter egg, and as optional dlc, probably non-canonical as far as story goes. It’s something that doesn’t bother me, maybe because I’m having fun with the game enough to shrug weirdness, like wearing Majora’s Mask as a mask, off.

But a game like FEH, where it’s built AROUND the concept of FE series cameos... I really can’t excuse it’s pathetic excuse for stories, while I stare at the pile of familiar characters I care WAY MORE ABOUT than the OCs constantly whumped in plot for little effect. I honestly dislike most FEH OCs, because there’s a lot about both their context and execution that bothers me... and the direction the games writing has good (book 2 was the worst nosedive, but the entire structure is mmwheeh)

So, my thoughts in rant form (brought on by FEH’s book 7 trailer):

I don’t feel attached to Zenith, because I feel like the character could care less about it or its problems with the way the traipse off ALL THE TIME. It’s likely I’ll be just as cranky about a group of silver spoon kiddos summoning great heroes to serve their beck and whim... with at most a “you mean so much to me Marth-sama uwu” being stated. Engage’s tone looks all light and fluffy, and maaaaaaaaan, it’ll all bounce off my salty self. I just hope I’m not bored by it, like I was in the end with Awakening.

10 notes - Posted December 4, 2022

#3

Much belated happy @nagamas, hardkourparcore!

Apologies for this pinch hit being so very late, but hope this “Secrets” CasLin is too your liking (I tried to channel both their respective energies)

12 notes - Posted March 20, 2022

#2

Red Courage - a FE3H Claude/Edelgard fanfic    Game: Fire Emblem Fates    Rating: Teen    Character(s): Claude von Reigan, Edelgard von Hersvelg, Dimitri (background)    Tag(s): no TWSitD AU, politics, marriage, patriarchy    Warning(s): force feeding, involuntary physical restraint, implied age gap/child bride    Word Count: 4,252 Summary: Claude learned of love from his mother, although it doesn't move him until he meets Edelgard. She changes everything. (Claude/Edelgard, no TWSitD AU)

Sorry for being a day late, but merry @nagamas to S3rain on twitter. I chose your Claude/Edelgard prompt and put my own little AU twist on it. Hope you enjoy!

13 notes - Posted January 24, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Dame’s thoughts on FE3H Rufus

FE16, aka FE Three Houses, spoilers below

So... over the years since FE3H came out, I’d developed certain headcanons for some off-screen NPCs. Y’know the ones, mentioned by characters, but didn’t get a name let alone a model/portrait. The most conspicuous one might’ve been Dimitri’s Uncle- Regent Rufus.

In the main game he gets mentioned only a handful of times: by Dimitri for existing, by Felix to be criticized for not handling the rampant Bandit situation post-Tragedy, by the plot for kicking off Azure Moon’s civil war events within Faerghus.

So I’d started thinking “what type of prince is this man?” and went with the idea of ‘party prince’: the sort of secondary heir who grew up with few responsibilities and instead just lives the high life on the country’s dime. I figured, this could be a big reason why as a Regent, Rufus would be inept, cause he plain ignored duties thus has no experience ruling. Along this line of thought, I figured even if Rufus wasn’t actively malicious that he did neglect his freshly orphaned nephew (as its canon post Tragedy both Dimitri and Dedue felt isolated within Fhirdiad’s castle).

So I guess, I built up this picture of an uncle who mostly wanted to have a good time and wasn’t very good at the serious stuff in life, one that Dimitri could have a shallow relationship with that was neutral-borderline-negative. Dimitri himself never seems to express anger towards Rufus, and counts him as family in all ending routes with the possibility of counting on his uncle to keep the Blaiddyd line alive in Crimson Flower. I LIVED FOR the drama of Dimitri being falsely set up for the crime of uncle-murder, and all the gross feelings that must’ve accompanied that.

It was kinda fun speculating on a complicated family relationship that was dysfunctional without being outright villainous-- But now I play through FE Warriors 3H, and seems all my headcanons are to be smashed to pieces, lol. More thoughts to come about that on a later reblog.

19 notes - Posted June 9, 2022

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[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.

[elluia]

✨ Chapter 2 of “Final Farewell”, a story focusing on Mercedes’ past in House Bartels and her escape, is up! (... 5 months late :D)

This chapter covers the (obviously awful) daily life in House Bartels, from Mercedes’s PoV and her mom’s.

I hope you enjoy it, and please read the tags to prepare for the hard topics discussed 🤗