#feh modern au

[hulloitsdani]

And they were roommates!

Funny little modern au doodles for the soul. Individuals below:

[hulloitsdani]

In this episode of throwing hands with the modern AU designs, I join you in hell by also trying to figure out what to do with Alfonse post argyle sweater vest.

To be honest, it took some work on the other characters to fully grasp what to do with Alfonse? I came to the conclusion that in lieu of having a natural sense of style, Alfonse’s state of dress would be heavily influenced by those around him. For example, I gave him this red sweater, right? It has no correlation to anything about any of his outfits in game. Truly, it’s just a random pop of red that he has for some reason. And that reason is Sharena. I don’t think I have her full design nailed, however I have decided that her visual gimmick is leaving bits and pieces of herself on the outfits of the people she cares about. She knows how to knit, sow, and is just generally crafty, so puts these skills to use by making things for others. And what are they going to do? Tell her no? Of course not! Anna has a friendship bracelet beside her watch now and Bruno has his nails painted. So, the sweater is not simply a random pop of red, it’s a massive visual signifier of his bond with Sharena and is the only article of clothing he has any actual attachment to. Because, you know, she MADE IT for him. That red sweater is staying on his person no matter how he changes, and he’s going to get better at applying it.

So, what if we expand that idea out a bit more? Make the changes to his outfit reflect the changes to his person by showing the fingerprints of other’s influences? The one with the largest domino effect would be the summoner. Kiran throws a band t-shirt at him to borrow ONCE and it was all downhill from there. Straight up a cannon event. They just needed to make a quick grocery run, but Kiran inadvertently introduced Alfonse to MCR and changed his brain chemistry forever. From there, it’s a slow inevitable cascade into a darker edgier wardrobe, which Kiran fully enables because of course they do. Have you SEEN the argyle sweater vest? They’re roommates, they have to LIVE with that. Plus, do you want to get piercings, tattoos, and concert tickets? Kiran is the person you call, because they’re guaranteed to know a guy who can help with that.

But other influences can’t be understated either. For example, I think Bruno is the reason why Alfonse had his ears pierced prior to meeting Kiran. Bruno wears/wore pretty distinct jewelry. Nothing too out there, but definitely part of his look. And Alfonse, clearly really looking up to Bruno at the time for multiple reasons, took notes. Got his own pierced alongside his sister. But he hadn’t quite made them his own yet. Until he finds an aesthetic he really clicks with, they’re just basic studs.

Anna is a little bit different. For you see, she’s got this really nice watch. It cost her a pretty penny, it’s a matching set she’s got with her dad, and she lovesssss this thing. Would absolutely kill a man over it. In their time working for Anna, the siblings have seen the very cool watch in action and have been sold on its utility. Particularly Alfonse! Anna takes mental note of that. So, cut to months later. It’s the gift giving season and as a reward for the good work he’s done throughout the year, Anna gets him his own watch. Suited more to his tastes of course, and with enough wiggle room to still work if those tastes change. Alfonse is going to need to emotionally recover from that one because this of the nicest gifts he’s ever gotten???? Not in strictly monetary value, but in sentiment. Anna went out of her way to get him something both helpful for what he’s trying to achieve and in visual accordance with the person he’s becoming, because he’s doing good and she’s proud of him. Like damn! That’s really nice! Unexpectedly very blatant validation from someone he looks up to and respects deeply was not on his bingo card. But he’ll be damned if he doesn’t make immediate use out of this watch.

This wonderful little visual journey could then proceed to have the funniest little knock on effect on Veronica. Because she sees the hot topic goth aesthetic he’s playing with and NEEDS those vibes for herself. This is unironically the coolest shit she’s ever seen and it’s unfortunately from the most annoying bastard she’s ever met. Screw this, she’s robbing him of his gender! Shes going to do it BETTER and COOLER!!! Now if only Bruno would let her pierce her cartilage.

All this to say, I do ultimately cave and allow Alfonse to be a goth bitch. Gets to be Lif coded since Lif wouldn’t really exist in this AU. But it has to be earned and a reflection of his character growth. And with that idea in mind, he doesn’t exactly STAY extremely goth either. Goth phase was a reaction to the style he had before by swinging the pendulum in the polar opposite direction. It should read as a bit… adolescent? Not in any derogatory sense; he simply hasn’t had a chance to explore himself in this capacity before and thus fully commits to it. As his tastes mature and he gets a better sense of what he likes, he eventually finds a more mellow happy medium that works for him. Keeps the black, but maybe incorporates turtle necks? Reintroduces some formal elements without compromising his newfound comfort or darker color palette. He FINALLY finds a brand of work casual slay that works for him!!! I am so proud.

Now, tangentially related but I really want to mention it, Alfonse sparks an equal and opposite outfit change in Kiran. They don’t have the same issues as him per se. Kiran has a sense of style and easily uses it as a form of expression. Instead, the problem arises from the thirty layers of clothing between Kiran and the rest of the world. They’re HIDING. They’re hiding under a hat, under a hoodie, under a larger puffy overcoat with ANOTHER HOOD, and god knows what else. They got so many layers of subterfuge to hide the flesh and bone underneath that I’m worried they’re going to get heatstroke. Alfonse, meanwhile, begins the process of inadvertently yet successfully pulling that off. By the end, we’ve made it to the center of the matryoshka doll. Got some androgyny serving cunt up in here. Or maybe just a normal guy in a t-shirt. Perhaps a bit of both. Haven’t drawn it yet, but either way I’m very happy for them.

Anyway, modern AU is fun (when it’s not hitting me with psychic damage). I have been able to organize my thoughts cleanly here, but oh boy was it Not and haunting me there for a minute.

Ehhh fuck it I'll post this one too -- I wanted to color it first, but. I'm actually split on redoing Alfonse's outfit completely, or at least making adjustments.

Like, in my head, I think I was doing two separate things between the Askr siblings and it just doesn't feel cohesive to me now.

What, you ask? Well, the first thought behind this, was this is a visit. So, Sharena is straight up wearing Moe's old clothes it never could seem to let go of. I think I got mixed up around Alfonse, though. Literally half and half. He's wearing some of Moe's clothes (esp the flannel, green, band merch), but the idea here is they did have to go out and get stuff that actually fits right.

Which... works. It does work. But I think in the back of my head I was also wanting to design an outfit that's more AU coded. Going from argyle sweater vest ass to mmmmaybe trying to develop his own sense of style. Which kind of directly clashes w the idea that he's wearing some of Moe's clothes. But also. So. SO BADLY. ESP IN THIS CONTEXT. I would LOVE for Moe to have direct influence in the process of that. Another detail you don't even get to see here is Alfonse is wearing a studded belt. Courtesy of Moe.

Lack of direction too many ideas at once. Maybe if it's an AU, the dress could have been a hand-me-down? If you like it, and it fits. You can have it. If you want... (Moe completely dodging just how deeply meaningful this gesture is when doing this). But also, could go REALLY crazy if Moe (previous life) had fashion taste that was close enough to Sharena's that, like. At different points of time, each ended up picking out the same dress. It's such a funny line to balance, actually. Because despite all the parallels I may draw between them, Moe was NEVER what Peony was, to Sharena. Not even close.

Idk idk there's a possibility that I'll get too frustrated w all the details not matching up here that I scrap it completely. Just know that the dress Sharena is wearing is pink and white. Very Princess Peach core. The style of it, though... it's pretty close to something else... a certain Something Else... just enough to scare ya. Which is ALSO WHY this might work better as a visit and unique psychological damage for Alfonse but I DIGRESS. WHAT YHE FUCK EVER. TOO MUCH GOING ON HERE JUST THROW IT ALL OUT‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[xander-wolk]

Drew some cuties to celebrate 4k followers on Twitter✨

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

in a modern au nyx would make a mincraft mod to make askr and only askr milkable

HELP

[amaru-sage]

drawing Líf with a mask without vents??? is the equivalent of an anime girl without her hair vents

HE’S GOING TO OVERHEAT AND DIE

[little-devil-art]

[Café Sesam] 👑⚔️☕️

(‼️OC x Canon‼️)

A continuation of my Modern AU where Xander is a Barista. While I don’t know what to make of Alice, I thought maybe she could be a journalist who researches about the past (And finds out that Xander is a descendant of the late King of Nohr) or an Art Historian, who analyzes the old Nohrian/Hoshidan Paintings!

Sesam is my headcanon Name for Xander’s Cabbit. There’s no meaning behind it, the name seemed cute and it’s been kept since 2017.

[thesummonerandthehelgeneral]

Modern Day AU Incorrect Quote

Sharena: Alfonse told me Santa wasn't real. Well joke's on him, because I'm at the mall right now and guess who's here?

[crystalline-loptous]

Modern Morgius Au for pride!

[creativesplat]

I and @doodlesandbooks are both cooking up a Fire Emblem modern au! look out for that! We'll be making a tag for it : Flora Mill Street, after the street that Alear lives on in the modern au!

More art of it is coming (mainly from @doodlesandbooks at the moment)

[larachelledrawsfe]

Prompts: Pet animals, Modern AU

Awakening sketch set (aka Laurent is finally in FEH!! This requires celebration!!)

For the FE Artscuffle - Sumia Event

Sumia is for @junowritesstuff

Modern Sumia & Cynthia is for @anne-wolfe

Laurent with a hamster is for @cerimarii

Modern Laurent & tiny friends is for @lovehollyberry

[justrudyart]

if intelligent systems contacted me and told me they'd put a corrin/silas valentines alt in feh but only if i killed someone, there would be blood on my hands (this is a modern au in this drawing btw)

[alexissara]

How I'd Make FEH's Seasonal Banners Not Suck

Gacha is evil, it's bad, you shouldn't play it but as a girl with a big of a gambling addiction but see's no value in PNGs it's an outlet for me so I enjoy a few Gacha games for their fix, one of which being FEH. Seasonal banners are the worst banners of every month because their not sparkable without paying the monthly fee they want players to pay. Still imagining a better world where they had non premium spark I want to go over each months theme and if I'd keep it the same or if I'd replace the theme and with what.

January - New Years It's a solid banner theme of holiday banners it's one of two I'd keep. Most people use a calendar that means January is the start of a new year so a banner themed around celebrating it makes sense.

January 2 - Dessert

While the Dessert theme does have an eventual expiration date Fire Emblem does have a nice breath of Dessert cultures throughout the series that I do think is interesting to get a bit more insight into. Eventually this will have to pivot to some other type of cultural background but I do think there is smooth ways to transition into cultures although perhaps they will intersect with the Culture/Tribal banners that happen later in the year. If they really ran out of special cultures I do think they could pivot this to even go modern and explore real world cultures that inspired the characters for more modern designs which could be a fun and exciting ways to engage players.

February - Vday While I enjoy the dead dads theme of The Day Of Devotion banner being little families connecting I do think with FEHs dual heroes that we could do an actually romantic set of banners where it has ships on dates in cute outfits with an all dual hero banner. I think this theme could or could not be game locked but I think the most fun thing is to have a thematic tie between the ships and have it not be game locked so instead be like tragic love, Eternal Love, Childhood Friends To Lovers Rivals To Lovers kinda deals where it explores a different set of dynamics and how they manifested in the series. I'd start with a Childhood Friends To Lovers theme with Alm and Celica, Florina and Lyn, Dimitri and Dedude something like that to have a nice well flavored banner.

March - Replace Easter with Beast AU

This is probably my biggest want for Fire Emblem Heroes, the Easter Theme is not good. What could be amazing though and fix one of FEHs biggest problems is a banner that makes units into Beast Units. FEH has to make a good chunk of it's OCs beasts just so it can put a new stream of beast units into the game and has to use fairly niche characters to fill seasonal rosters all to stay canon complient but I say fuck canon, it's fun to do an AU and it would let popular characters be reimagined. In particular they could easily debut this to a best selling banner of Three Houses AUs. Flying Beast Black Eagle Edelgard, Cavalier Beast Golden Deer Claude, Armor Beast Blue Lion Dimitri, and Infantry Beast Ashen Wolf Yuri. Bam, perfect, that's a top selling banner. You pair Yuri with M Byleth since he is the Ashen demon or Naliah for a canon wolf unit. You make the tempest trail unit Fbyleth as either like a literal Ashen Demon or a dragon.

April - Replace Kids with Futures

It will never set well with me on every single level the kids banner theme. I hate having the kids end up being stronger then the other versions of the character. I hate having kid designs in general cuz it feels weird to use babies to fight in these wars. It's a weird theme that should go. So instead I propose a much better theme of Futures where we see the characters older from their end cards in the game. This is a massive staple of Fire Emblem having characters have some nice little future and why can't we see this. The age range can vary seeing fresh faced adults of the younger characters like a Donel or a Amelia or like proper older versions of some of the more standard ages Fire Emblem lords as they enter their MILF/DILF eras. People would love to see a proper older version of characters they love, especially it could be cute for older titles where you maybe it could be like aged by the amount of years of the game and kinda a growing up with the character kinda deal. Or it could just be a thirsty Mommy Sorry kinda vibe, either way works for me.

May - Replace Brides With cooking banner

Getting ready for the summer rather then a creepy bridal theme we could have a cook out, since Fates cooking has been a staple of Fire Emblem. I think themes like Tea Time could also move to this slot but each year could have a different kind of cooking vibe from like a summer cook out to a master chief vibe to like a cozy married life cooking banner with each capturing a new vibe while not being just the same boring white dress on woman theme.

June - Keep Summer 1

It's fine, I don't care for the fan service but people enjoy it, keep one month of summer banners, it clearly makes money, someone gets excited about it, a lot of people do but it could also be they bring out a lot of fan favorite units and strong pairings.

July - Replace Summer 2

I will give FEH one month of swim suits but one month is all I will give. Swim suits are not inspired, they aren't particularly interesting and we don't need two months of it. The theme that could replace it I think is space for something really fun like a cosplay theme with other Nintendo characters or a modern fashion theme that could be summery but not like just a swim suit. Something out there and exciting and can be a real talking point of the year. Personally I am found of the cosplay/crossover slot existing here.

August - Make Explicitly A Rare Class Theme

This slot might seem random but to me the clear pattern is it's about highlighting a rare class in the series be in rare as if you get 1 per game or rare as in was only in a few games. We have plenty of Fates Birthrights classes but even outside of that we have classes like Summoner that have only ever appeared once or Bandit that have only been playable once that could be a ton of fun to see characters dressed up as and could lead to really fun designs.

September - Keep Culture

The culture/tribal banners that show up in September are fantastic, actually using the lore of Fire Emblem. We have tons of cultures to go through that have shown up in the Fire Emblem series with countries like Sacae, Almyra, Brigid, all briming with a ton of fun potential to bring into banners and have popular characters be there to carry the flag for their country while other characters dive deep into the cultures.

October - Keep Halloween

Halloween is fun, it's fun, it never is samey because Halloween is what you make it, they could mix it up and have FE characters cosplaying Nintendo characters even if they start deciding they wanted to move off spooky stuff but honestly the spooky stuff is all cheesy fun and the banners are not creepy at all so I think they are just good fun.

November - Widen Ninja to be other Japanese inspired classes

I love Ninja Banners, who doesn't they just have good units from popular games and good designs but I do think expanding Ninja to include Samurai and other Hosido classes could widen the general appeal of the units and help them not stagnate but also I like Ninjas so like I feel like it should expand but not as strongly as the others I wanted to change.

December - Replace Xmas With Snowy Cultures

I am Christmas's greatest hater so of course I want this to change but I also think it's just so boring as a theme everyone wearing the same kind of outfit and colors every single year it just isn't fun and I would much rather see an expansion to the worlds cultures like with other cultural banners and a shift to Snowy cultures like Flora's home culture and Florinas.

[poulpemou]

creating a modern au for my kiralfonse series so that there's at least one world in which they can be together without worrying about royal duties, marriage alliances, and askr bloodlines 😔

feh just keeps breaking my heart

[illym]

Platonic Intimacy and Modern AU - @fe-aspec-week

Edelgard and spring Lissa somehow paired themselves off in my FEH game, so I've had a soft spot for them since. I imagine that after the initial confusion of trying to figure out their relationship, they settled on 'undefined but special'. Edelgard does horribly in the chilly spring weather while Lissa powers through on sheer 'it's finally light out after 5pm' energy. [ probably should have colored Edelgard's clothing the aroace flag, but ah well. ]

[skelezomperman]

What are the other longest Jugdral fics besides yours then?

Glad you asked! Not counting Memoirs of the Holy War twice (that one got rebooted), there are 8 Jugdral-centered fics on AO3 that are longer than 100k words and 16 fics that are longer than 60k words (i.e., unambiguously novel length). I'm excluding fics that are crossovers with FEH or whatever. The content of these are fairly varied.

Memoirs of the Holy War is the only "straight novelization" of both generations FE4 that is among these. That fic got rebooted and it also has two spinoffs in Memoirs of the Crusaders which follows the legendary heroes at Dahna (Heim, Baldr, etc) and Memoirs of the Lost which is a collection of vignettes by that author. Crusaders Reborn is also a "straight novelization" but it focuses solely on the second generation.

Then we have a couple novels which focus primarily on a couple characters. Her Shadowy Protector has the broadest focus but it's still focused primarily on Julia x Scathach. My own A Tale of Star-Crossed Knights focuses on Finn x Erinys while A Fairy Tale come to Life (still in progress) focuses on Finn x Tailtiu. Children's Crusade focuses on Tine I think. And then there's The Life and Times of the Lance of Legend which focuses on Finn x Silvia (the complete version of this one is on FF.net, not AO3).

Then we have the AUs. Twofold Light is set in an AU where Leif is separated from Finn in Tarrah/Tahra and goes feral. Balsam and Ash is set in an AU where Sigurd survives Belhalla through divine intervention. Children of the Wind is an AU where Forseti is evil focused on Ced and Arthur. Never Be Enough is a Julia and Julius role swap. Knight Errant is Eldigan x Grahnye set in a Regency AU (i.e., early 1800s Britain). Mission Impassable is Ares x Lene set in a modern AU. Beneath a New Light is Ares x Lene focused too in an AU where all of the Gen 2 kids get to go to an academy in Belhalla.

Fire Emblem: Revival 800 doesn't neatly fit into any of the above categories. It's in progress still and focuses on a third generation.

I think that's all of the English-language Jugdral fanfics that are indisputably novel length. I haven't read all of them but I think all of them have work put into them. If there's one which I'd personally recommend first, I really liked Her Shadowy Protector. It flows very well and I think the author's novelization was believable.

[rigil-kentauris]

thinking about the forbidden FEH man, are we? (´• ω •`)

*sighs* YES, THERES MORE THAN ONE CLOWN ON THE DASH TODAY

its HIS FAULT ^^^^^^^^^^ i wake up every day and look at my zsumzsum its a CONSTANT reminder of the BETTER PAST i once beheld... i cant bring my self to get rid of him because he took me forever to make. i really ought to, but cest la vie.

also i heard that laegjarn the undead is now canonically runnig things in muspell which, i am vulnerable to thinking about my modern AU, and you cant just tell me laegjarns not just back but BACK and that laevateinn has a chance to be a proper child again and NOT make me go hmm... you could make a narrative out of that. the younger generation (laevateinn, ylgr) getting back the siblings theyve lost to war, getting to step back from the resposibility for a nation (not a queen, not the only niflian princess carrying the legacy of her two dead older sisters and mother). the younger generations PERHAPS getting to bond and become friends and share their experiences as the heal from the shared trauma.

in fact its almost like. theres another child, who is a younger sister. with a dead sibling. and responsibility for a nation. and a crippling sense of isolationary lonliness who.

this could also apply to.

ANYWAY THEY HAD SOME AUDACITY. to make a whole book worth of narrative that said. no matter how hopeless it seems, you still have hope. your friends can help you. you may want to die, but death is not the answer. if that god troubles you we'll kill that god. and then. make death the answer and kill the HIM instead. i was hopelessly biased but i still think that was a shit thing to do to your narrative. especially when the meta of that narrative is Let's Collect Friends And Become Stronger

what a waste of a quote, too. i know i just said it but WHAT A MOMENT. ''you cant fight the gods'' ''NOT TRUE i can and will find and kill if that god is bothering you king'' and then you dont even give your MC a win? what a MISS. what a miss.

not a single person in the story for whom i think that story beat worked and i will never understand it.

but at least it freed me from feh. largely anyway. sometimes i see a post like ''what if my love for you changed the narrative'' and i think. sigh. we could have had anything but what we got. anything at all