#feh book 4

[xander-wolk]

Girlfriends ☀️💖

Here’s my piece for @fesapphiczine !

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[rainbowdonkee]

Title screen art for FEH Book 1-8

Which one is your favorite?

[nm-mattuz]

All I'm saying is, FEH book 4 would have gone differently with me.

Me: My dream. My reality. *Goes Super Saiyan*

[artidoesthings]

I’m feh book 4’s number 1 defender. (Minus That One Scene but Whatever)

[nikuknight]

​This was one of my favorite plot points in all of FEH! Imo they definitely stayed switched, but the whole point was that they didn't even know who was who anymore because it didn't matter. They had both been both people. To me, this doesn't mean that the royal family lost their princess—they gained one in Peony.

please tell me I'm not the only person who remembers that book four plot point in Feh of Shareena and Peony having switched lives with each other so much THEY FORGOT who was originally who. Like, sure, they say it doesn't matter, and to them it doesn't, they're so happy go lucky they just wouldn't care. But....there is a very real chance that the Shareena we know, isn't the original Shareena. There's a very big chance the original Shareena is now Peony and....we'll just never know, because they'll never expand on that plot point.

I mean, think about what this would mean for their siblings. Imagine being Alfonse or Triandra, learning, somehow, that your sibling one day stopped being your original sibling and you just....never noticed. Can you imagine what that'd do to someone's head? And what about Queen henriette? What if she found out. Because that'd not only mean that she recently lost her husband, but that, at some point while she was raising her children, her daughter was swapped out for a doppelganger and she never was able to tell the difference.

That plot point is going to haunt me and I don't see it discussed enough.

huh

[hulloitsdani]

Rough warm up sketches ft Kiran and Grima because I think their dynamic would be neat :)

Transcript under the cut:

KIRAN: 'Think your face spooked 'em!

GRIMA: Idiotic.

KIRAN: Or mine did! That's also possible. I've been told I look really off putting when I don't emote.

GRIMA: really.

KIRAN: Really! Look.

GRIMA: Hm.

GRIMA: Fun. Never do that again.

KIRAN: Right!? I zoned out in a meeting and Anna thought I was pissed.

[moe-broey]

Okay, I was almost tempted to make a poll, but. As fun as it is as an idea (yay! Group participation!), I think I already made my choice and didn't wanna disappoint anyone if I didn't pick the winning option LMFAO

So, instead, I just wanna walk you through my thought process! Book 3 is approaching, for my quotes blogs specifically I mean. This means I have to set up the evil-alfonse-quotes -- I mean, Lif quotes blog. For the Bit.

For Alfonse and Sharena, I picked out some FEH comic illusts that I think represent them well. Both of them being silly and sweet w Kiran on the header, and the icons! I wanted to capture them each, on a few dif fronts.

Like! Those are my friends! I know them! Alfonse, with an award winning sincere smile, but also! Putting on a good face. Best foot forward. He has an appearance to keep. He's also very charming! As for Sharena! OH THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD SHARENAS TO PICK FROM. You can take that same angle -- award winning smile, best foot forward, to the MAX with her. But!!! Out of all of the choices I could go with... this icon feels like something she would pick herself. It's silly, it's playful, it's cute! Even the more chibi style suits her perfectly, esp in contrast to Alfonse's look.

Okay! So, back to Lif. I already have the idea of making what I lovingly call the Askr Extended Family Photo Comic the header. Where Lif is spotted shuffling behind Gustav, in the background. It is just. EXTREMELY funny, to me. He's a fucking cryptid, to me. Rare Lif Sighting. And APPARENTLY. YEAH. RARE LIF SIGHTING FOR FUCKING REAL. As far as I know, dude has only shown up in THREE Day in the Life comics, including that one. Damn. Okay!

I did not know how dire the situation was, going into this. So I'm scouring the website and also looking through an archive. I have the header, but I need an icon! I come out with a grand total of... three. Options.

I gravitate towards this option first. Rare Lif, so early on it's not on the site (I could be wrong, but also I did flip through all the way back til I couldn't anymore! Cuts off on a Ranulf and Lethe centric comic). Okay, so, what's the deal here? Should be simple? Easy, done? Well... while it's a very nice illustration of him. He looks cool, brooding, threatening. It's a little... stiff. Like, I might as well pull from his in-game art! Which is ALSO really good, but, not what I'm aiming for. It's hard to explain, but art created for specific purposes has different vibes. You know. In-game art is meant to showcase The Art, and the best features of the character. Comic illustrations can get sillier! Or can focus on more personality based things. And capturing the personality, is what I'm going for! Also... because it's a rare Lif, and bc of the way this illust is drawn... it's not immediately clear this is a FEH comic panel. It might not even be clear that it's official artwork. As an artist myself, I'd prefer to stick to clearly official work for this! I don't want any confusion or concerns about uncredited art!

NEXT. I literally only have one other comic to pull from, now. And... Okay, hear me out. I love silly-ifying this man. I love goofing on this absolute DRAMA queen of a man. I love poking fun at him at every opportunity. There is a Reason why I named the blog something stupid instead of being straightforward. HOWEVER. While this is a fun, silly moment..... it just doesn't capture him in his entirety, you know? In fact, I'd argue this is a rare moment where he's directly contradicting his dark, brooding and tortured persona he's so carefully crafted (and well, the natural bits of it too. That came with The Trauma). To me, esp in the full context of him and Thrasir saying "Our work here is Done" Tuxedo Mask style, dumping the rest of the workload (of which, to be fair, was not in their jurisdiction) onto ANNA. You know, Commander Anna? The woman, while not the exact one, but the woman he used to work so closely with? His boss, his co-worker, his friend? Oh he is ABSOLUTELY doing that on purpose to fuck with her. This is a Lif zoomies moment to me. This is a Lif DEEPLY INGRAINED NEED to be A Jackass moment. To me. The type of jackassery that comes with being an older brother. Old habits die hard.

All of that said... it's a very good moment. It's also a very cute illustration. But it's too cute. Too playful. Too silly. It's a real and true moment from him that just doesn't fit the same way anymore. And definitely doesn't capture him in his entirety. This is my opinion, my verdict, with great regret and sorrow. Next!

Out of the illusts from this comic, really only two are usable as an icon. This is the other one. And..... HEAR ME OUT. It goes back to my thoughts of picking that specific illust for the header. Catching a Glimpse of the local cryptid haunting the place. The Ghoul Himself, lurking and shambling about. AND GOING BACK to my thoughts on why I picked those specific Alfonse and Sharena icons!!!!! To capture their personalities, and the faces they put forward to the world! How they see themselves, or want to be seen! Oh, Lif does NOT want to be Seen. This is one of two candid shots you were able to snap of him while all other attempts he's like Big Foot. Some blurry, glowy spectre who is going to get SO FUCKING MAD AT YOU when he catches you trying to catch Him. And!!! And!!!!! POKING FUN AT HIM. The comedy of seeing This Fucking Guy in broad daylight is unparalleled. He looks SO out of place, on a nice, clear, sunny day. Not so scary now, running errands for Commander Anna, ARE you, buddy? Huh?? Huh??? Oh god wait don't reach for your cursed sword I'M SORRY I'M SORRRYYYYY --

It's funny! Ironic! That the third one was a "I'll do it if I Have To", in my mind. I didn't want to use it. I did, very much, want to pick something Cooler. But no... that's not the Route....... do not be swayed by his objectively very cool appearance and his dangerous demeanor. Rule number one to being a Lif enjoyer is you HAVE to make fun of him. Rule number two, is that you have to make fun of him in a Lif-honoring way. You cannot solely focus on what makes him cool, what makes him tragic, and what makes him endearing, those rare moments of softness. No. You need to Hone In. LOCK IN. On what would make him want to punt you across the battlefield, full fucking force.

That's just how I feel, though! Thank you for joining me on this little journey! ☺️☺️☺️😌💖💝💗💘💞💝💞💘💖💞💖💓💞💓💖💞💓💖💗💗💝💘💘💞💕💕💕

[lustrous-dreams-art]

Summer Freyja 🦋 🐐

[dirtyoldmanhole]

i finally got around to playing feh's latest chapter..........................

(revelation/gunter spoilers)

this is literally 'what if possessed!gunter had the idea corrin could ressurect his kids + a chapter or two to coldly & desperately try to force corrin/(you) to bring them back' as-a-gacha-oc.

i get a lot of mileage out of possessed!gunter maybe a little too much but this is a perfect, devastatingly heart-eviscerating angle. ooughhh.

[anpiels]

[aestheticitii]

so i know we already have the whole "older brother of a woman linked to us via dreams also dreaming of us" shtick covered by hríd, but we also have freyr apparently and it's been living in my head rent-free forever

this is his level 40 confession:

Long, long ago...I dreamt of a summer day spent beneath the sun's rays...And you were standing beside me in that dream, [Summoner]... There is no mistake. That was a true dream... It was a promise made by the future. How will the dream continue from here, I wonder... Of course, knowing would detract from the mystique. Dreams form our desires and shape the future...but for now, let us simply drift off into the summer sun.

how long ago was long, long ago...because for me, my mind immediately jumped to tiny freyr—with short hair and only a single braid instead of two and his eyes closed all the time still, but his face still manages to reveal his emotions when he does not give it permission to, particularly when his sister is involved—waking up as a voice inside his older self's brain, able to see and feel everything he does but unable to exert any influence, because he has always had some influence over dreams and that extends to visions of the future.

and there's this pretty mortal in a sundress who sits next to him as he's simply laying down, and when she says his name, his older self opens his eyes, only to be rewarded with salt water sprinkled at his face and a beautiful smile that makes his heart pound.

but he's so young and she's a mortal, and the only thing young freyr concedes that day is that it's nice to see freyja having fun with a friend.

the visions, bits and pieces out of context that show a wonderful future, don't stop after that day, as if to taunt him for when he disregarde, the clear signs that he grows to love her, because he does and how is it hard to when she cares for freyja so deeply that his sister is willing to trouble herself for the mortal's sake?

those in the palace begin whispering after the fifth time he bumps into the wall with a soft smile on his face.

he sees her past and sees her variable future—some things are fixed, but others are not. he sees her in a wedding gown, as a happy bride and a sad bride, he sees her with children, and he sees her grow old, whether alone or with her variable husbands; most of them are kings, but only three are of Midgard, and of those, one is only a grand duke, beloved brother to the empress.

(never with him)

he sees her in a beautiful deep red dress, on a balcony with only the company of fireworks; he hears the way his heart pounds, and remembers what he once thought; and though there is no recognition in her eyes, she welcomes him to her side all the same

but what should be the start of a two-sided relationship, an acknowledgement of him from her, becomes a time he hopes will never exist

because it isn't until much later that he learns what his sister attempts to do, how she traps the mortal in a neverending dream—about his death and the last thing he sees. to see her smile at him one last time...that much, at least, is granted to him.

but ironically, his desperate attempts to convince freyja to avoid such a path, to leave the beautiful mortal alone, are what drive her into consolidating her plans—and she never realizes, not until they both are willed into existence in Askr, that it wasn't simply a matter of loving mortals; that it was a matter of loving one mortal and wanting her to be happy to a self-sacrificial point.

because his death and freyja's, they are fated, they are fixed, and the prospect of them surviving even once means that they will have changed the future in all timelines. because they, like those of ymir, or hel, or vanir and asgard, exist outside of time—singular entities watching over all worlds—but are still beholden to it.

and then he is summoned, to her, and she smiles the way she did the first time. and freyr, he makes himself a promise. to be helpful in whatever way he can—to be the shoulder she can lean on when she's tired, the ears that listen to her sorrows.

and when summer brings along with it a warmth in the breeze, she takes him—and his sister, and his fairies, and her fairies, and all her other heroes—to a familiar scenery.

a familiar scene, salt water on his face, the beginning of his downfall.

the beginning of his love.

as a hero, his powers are restricted. he has no clue what goes on in the minds of his other selves summoned to other askrs, as he would've if he'd been alive. whether they're as lucky as he is, if they also "get the girl"

when night falls, he confesses his dream to her, his eyes still closed. she's quiet for a while, before she asks him about his words, about whether the dream formed his desires.

and when a quiet yes slips from his lips, and he tells her about wanting to be at her side, her smaller hand lightly grasps his own and feels something soft on his cheek, near his lips

"mine too. my desires...as well, since that dream. when you first approached me."

(telling freyja results in a tantrum from her and an attempted deescalation that his beloved takes far too much glee in.

by week 3, his sister pouts when he expresses his affection for his lover and mixes salt in her coffee, but there remains no malice in her actions.)

[childofaura]

Have you seen the new Resplendent Hero? It’s Ursula! She’s dressed in Dökkálfheimr attire and guess what? Her artist is Saori Toyota!!

Man, I DO like the artwork and the design, and I’m glad Ursula was the one who got the Resplendent… but I’m just SO tired of the Alfar Resplendents at this point. And kind of tired of the Muspell ones too.

I’ll still do my best to review it though, it’s good art. Resplendent Ursula:

So first off, this is a gorgeous design. There’s a lot of different colors going on (purple, green, yellow, maroon… I think?) but they all blend together beautifully. I love Ursula’s hair clip too, it’s a very nice touch. My only minor gripe is the long belts that seem to be unchanged, could have made them vines, but that doesn’t bug me too much. This Dökkálfheimr is the equivalent of Eirika’s Ljosalfheimr outfit, in that it’s a perfect blend.

Everyone’s already heard me gushing over Saori Toyota’s art, so I’ll just recap: amazing designs, gorgeous color work, yadda yadda yadda.

Well, I’ve already made my Alfar burnout known. So I’ll be honest, I feel like Hel would have been a cooler pick for Ursula. Though really, I think we need to pick some Nidavellir candidates next: Cain and Abel, Stahl, Cormag, Jagen, Kliff, Silas, Seth… just a couple off the top of my head.

Overall, despite the burnout, I’ll give Ursula a 10/10… though if the next Resplendent Hero is an Alfar or Muspell, I’m NOT reviewing them until we get something new again.

[rainbowdonkee]

Full art for Freyr - Dream King

Artist: yoshiku

[lost-but-with-coffee]

The free book 8 FEH character

[eladrin-disaster]

Embla: *silently glaring at the summoner*

Atemis: *is 110% prepared to start shit*

Atemis: Bitch.

Embla: I can, and will end you where you stand.

Atemis: No you won't.

Embla: Because I'm a bitch..?

Atemis: Because you're a bitch yeah.

Embla: How'd you even get here, this is Ásgarðr!?

Atemis: I'm the summoner.

Embla: That isn't an explanation at all..!!

Atemis: *incredibly amused* Yeah it is.

Embla: *annoyed* Did you just come here to call me a bitch!?

Atemis: *deadpan* No I came to deliver some dire information for the Æsir..

Embla: Oh, and that information would be?

Atemis: That you're a bitch.

Embla: *snarls* If you utter one more sentence, I will give you to Elm and he will submit you to a thousand tortuous hells each one worse than the last! Until your tiny feeble little mind breaks from the pain!!!

Atemis: Please, I've listened to Thórr try to tell a joke, nothing hurts me anymore.

Embla: *doesn't know how to react* I-...

Atemis: *without missing a beat* Oh and just in case you forgot you're a bitch.

Embla: *utterly defeated* Just get the fuck out...

Atemis: Bitch! I'll leave when I want to!

Embla: *pissed* ....!!!

Atemis: ... *clicks tongue* all right now I'm gonna head out, you still a bitch though!

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

I'd prefer the next FE game with the Heroes OCs over a Genealogy remake (I'm sorry, the characters grew on me)

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