#fire emblem Gullveig

[the-blue-sandglass]

Some icons from the summer banner this year! ^^ Like/reblog if used!

[reegahearth]

Praying that Gullveig gets a summer alt where her snakes have little sunglasses.

[fe-smashorpass]

[oh-cool-a-burning-sword]

So right now there's a split of theories between Gullveig being the child of Seidr and the summoner, or Gullveig being Heidr from the future.

And while the Gullveig being Seidr and the summoner's kid would be funny seeing as she won CYL by being a pretty lady, I think it's more likely that Gullveig and Heidr are the same person.

Mainly since, that's actually what happens in Norse Myth.

But it's not Heidr who becomes Gullveig. In fact, it's the exact opposite.

Gullveig's story, from what I could tell, goes like this: She was impaled and burned to death three times (in the hall of Odin). Each time she died, she was reborn. And on her third rebirth, she practiced Seidr, a form of magic, and renamed herself Heidr.

Now, the Feh characters based of Norse Myths don't 100% match up to the original, but they do take a lot of inspiration. (such as, for example, Fafnir turning into a dragon. It may have been because of a crown and not a ring like in the myths, and caused by Eitri in an attempt to bring back the old Monarchy, but it still happened)

So I think that it's more likely than not that Gullveig isn't the potential child of Seidr and the summoner (who, if the writers decide to go through with, may either appear at the end of the book, or in Seidr's tt+ if she gets one), is either Heidr's past or future depending on how accurate to the myth they want to be. I could be wrong tho.

[bananabraiined]

A timeless battle....a cycle unending.....

[codes-of-fun]

Official artwork for Gullveig: Golden Seer

[yakusoma]

[FR] Si vous voulez le bingo:

[EN] If you want the bingo:

[evostrashbin]

a complete collection of all of the (mostly) FEH inspired headshot & bust doodles I've drawn so far!

[fulgurbugs]

CYL7

[lynarc]

[valiant-sun]

gullveig, golden seer

[the-blue-sandglass]

A mixed icon set from FEH Books 6-7!

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[reegahearth]

Listen I understand that the snakes are a curse that ruined Gullveig's entire life but they are pretty cute aren't they?

Look at that guy. Not a single thought happening in that head.

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Okay I want to write an essay here about Gullveig and Book 7 and themes of agency and how Gullveig's mega-waifu design is actually integral to this.

The way Gullveig is designed, she rarely if ever smiles. Even when you Summon her. She's a dutiful servant. She has no agency. This is the future Njordr envisioned for her: an agentless, demure woman who does as she's told. She's gorgeous--breasting boobily and everything.

Kvasir already thinks she has little agency--that her fate is decided. She is lonely, and cares for the protag like, you know, a nurse almost. She falls for them. But ultimately, she knows her life is a cycle and it cannot be broken. She will be hunted down and killed and become Seidr. It doesn't matter what she wants--which is to live--she has no agency in this. It's Fate.

And Seidr... Dutifully does what Njordr tells her to, not knowing that even the ritual she does to "create a child" is a step in an elaborate plan to fully break down any sense of agency she has. The Golden Seer's Curse will ultimately rob her of it entirely and he'll have his weapon to take out his bitterness on the mortals because he's pissy he's not in his prime anymore. Seidr doesn't realize he dreams of being a mother will be dashed because the ritual is one to mark the player character for literal disassembly and soul fodder for a fake goddess to bear the curse in the interim. Because we could dismantle Njordr's plans by encouraging Seidr's agency.

It is only through empowering Seidr do we finally end the time loops for good. It is only by boosting her does SHE get to decide. Gullveig isn't gone--because she doesn't think it's fair that Gullveig should die. Instead, Seidr becomes a character who exists outside of time as all three at once through her own will. It is actually REALLY important to stress that she doesn't kill Gullveig, she absorbs her and they become one singular entity out of time. All three now exist at once--the ending is actually pretty explicit about this! Seidr refuses to let any part of her life be robbed from her by Njordr, and we gave her the power to make that decision but it was still ultimately HER DECISION TO MAKE.

Gullveig wouldn't be as powerful as a story of feminine agency if she DIDN'T end up a mega-waifu by the end. Because the entire point is she's a woman robbed of agency and turned into a thing. A living weapon, sure, but given the metaphors going on in regards to agency here, if she wasn't hot it'd fall a little flat because she's been molded into what a man thinks she should be. Her one act of agency AS Gullveig is killing Njordr because she can make it fall within the lines of the curse.

And I will stand here and say a lot of people were so busy being mad at Gullveig's design and the "make a baby with me" bits they missed the underlying in-your-face metaphor for the topic of women's agency. Of course Seidr wants to make a baby--that's What Women Do. It's also one of the biggest NEGATIVE acts in the entire book because it deconstructs the player character to use their soul as fodder to become a sacrificial lamb for the Golden Seer's Curse.

Anyway that's my essay. Enjoy.

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[oh-cool-a-burning-sword]

I may be asking this because there's 3/4 characters I want to pull but I only have about 120 orbs. In my defense there was a fallen Banner tailored specifically for me, and then I tried to pull the Sothis Byleth Halloween duo... keyword on tried (I have so many Khadein Byleths... I swear I'm cursed on halloween characters) my orbs didn't stand a chance this year.

[bananabraiined]

To a golden summer.