#folklore of 0

[flipperdipper10]

It all loops back to 3 houses baby

my wonderful brain gave me the thought process of "what if the factions in magia record arc 2 that poke doesn't shut up about were actually the houses in 3 houses" and now we're humoring that thought process one at a time

Also major 3H and Magia Record arc 2 spoilers

anyway

Starting with Tokime Clan cause they're the easiest. Blue Lions. Tokime's ideals with defending the land of the rising sun fits perfectly with the knightly ideals the Blue Lions represents. They're more traditional, a model standard of an older age, and both are deeply connected to a religious standard or figure (the Tokime Clan with their temples and connection to Bhuddism and Blue Lions with their connection to the Church of Serios.)

Helping their case is also their leader has A Moment where they lose their way and need their friends to bring them back and remind them of what they fought for. In 3H it was Dimitri getting consumed with his vengeance on Edelgard. In Magia Record it was Shizuka getting caught up in the natural goodness of people and needing to protect them by enforcing her morals upon them.

Eventually both routes culminate in attempting to make peace between both sides with the only difference being that in 3H that peace does not come to pass (Edelgard, while agreeing to meet with Dimitri, will not back down for the sake of her ideals) while in Record it does (between the factions, at least. We're ignoring Mikoto.)

Next is Promised Blood, who after a while I'm classifying them as Black Eagles. They're the revolutionaries, the ones who see the problem before them (the problem being the actions of the Wings of the Magius and how the consequences of their actions affected the other towns thus causing the Bloody Tragedy) and deciding "we're going to fix this, no matter what it takes." Not unlike Edelgard who saw the issues of the Crest System (the consequences that it caused as a result of someone's (the church's) actions) and deciding she was going to take the path to fix this, no matter what it took. Both routes are also identified with the color red, Promised Blood's special event being called Crimson Resolve to help with a visual comparison.

Much like the Tokime, there's some comparisons to be made between Yuna and Edelgard. Both experienced a large amount of death at a young age, Edelgard experiencing it at the hands of Those Who Slither In The Dark and their twisted experiments and Yuna experiencing it in the Bloody Tragedy and the war between the factions in Futatsugi City.

Much like in 3H, Promised Blood are the aggressors of the war, the ones who initiate it. They make the first moves and are incredibly difficult to talk down. Between the two, Promised Blood was only capable of being talked down through Iroha's pure heartedness. Fodlan doesn't have an Iroha.

That leaves Neo Magius as Golden Deer, which initially I had these pegged as Black Eagles I think Deer fits them WAYYY more. Neo Magius comes off, much like the Golden Deer, as a joke at first. The Deer have the most silly and rambunctious house out of the 3 pickable ones in 3H. Likewise, Neo Magius initially comes off as a pushover. The weakest faction with Shigure and Hagumu in charge. But let them settle for a while, let them build up their skills, and you have a dangerous faction if you leave them unattended. In 3H this is seen with Golden Deer being far more radical than the Black Eagles (in 3 Hopes Claude fully intends to kill Rhea. Edelgard just wanted to remove her from power, not intending to kill her unless it came to that.) and accomplishing more and growing as a military force as their drive is established.

They start with a messy Alliance and go on to defeat the Empire and conquer the church with Byleth taking charge. Meanwhile, Neo Magius fell into obscurity in the early chapters, but once Himena came to be in charge she led the Neo Magius to become incredibly fearsome, her first appearance she had Miyuri cut someone's hand off. They were the final faction to fall and were the closest to succeeding with their plan before Himena was ultimately talked down by the other Neo Magius members.

Claude and Himena are both jokesters on the surface, quick to make a quip and never revealing their full hand unless it's absolutely necessary. They both specialize in long range (Claude and his bow and Himena with her ribbons and aquatic attacks). They're both tacticians, preferring to think off the field but still being able to hold their own on it. Not only that, but both aren't afraid to play dirty, in fact that's their preferred method if it comes down to fighting. They both love a well placed scheme.

That being said the two would absolutely despise each other if they ever met in real life. Both would try and pick the other for answers they won't give, and Claude would hate the idea of any kind of supremacy.

Lastly that leaves us with Folklore of Zero as the Ashen Wolves. The elusive faction that nobody realizes is there until it's too late. Folklore has members in all factions, much like how the wolves have members from all over Fodlan, and were formerly members in each house (Balthus was a Deer, Yuri was a Lion, and while Constance never enrolled in the academy, due to her former status as an Empire noble, it's safe to assume she'd be an Eagle.). Each member also has one member who isn't apart of any previous faction, Rabi for Record and Hapi for Houses.

Both factions are watchers, preferring to not take a stand in the major combat that's occurring around them. It's simply not their problem, they have their own things to deal with (Wolves with the thieves in Abyss and Folklore with the persecution of Magical Girls in Yukuni city, along with the threat of Doomsday they're prophesizing about.) That isn't to say they won't step up, each of the spies in Record are more than capable of acting in accordance with the factions they're spying for, along with fighting in general if it comes down to it. In 3 Hopes (not Houses) we see each of the factions in that game recruiting various members of the Wolves and having them fight the players chosen faction. It's opposite recruitment to how Folklore did it, but the end result is the same.

That being said, I can't find many similarities between Rabi and Yuri. Rabi is quieter, more resigned to her fate of witchification while Yuri will actively take a stand against anything that gets in the way of his own justice. Rabi has a far more grand end goal than Yuri, with Rabi's clock ticking down until she erases Magical Girls meanwhile Yuri is perfectly content to work with his gang of thieves instead of some grand path and goal like the other house leaders in 3 Houses.

Sorry for the long post I don't normally do these but the idea was really interesting to me and I wanted to write it down somewhere so I'm throwing it on Tumblr. Play Fire Emblem 3 Houses. Watch a translation of Magia Record because the game got discontinued in EN. Please I need more people to scream about this with.

[automatic-purification-system]

Magitober Day X - Folklore of 0

“I have no hope... Even so, I want to believe.”

[caterpillareyelashes]

we always walked a very thin line… you didn’t even hear me out

you never gave a warning sign.

(i gave so many signs.)

all this time, i never learned to read your mind

(never learned to read my mind.)

cause you never gave a warning sign

(i gave SO many signs.)

[chernabogs]

Ik I should wait until a BV event and ik chapter 7 and 8 might give us more lore but what if I just wrote short folktale stories based in Briar Valley

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

the lore for kitsune!geto is insaneeee (/pos!)

[i wanted to say more but i’m respectfully staring at the last post and my mind is just . blown by the information lololol!!! but i’m happy you’re having fun at writing it ari :33!!…….. he’s a silly and twisted fox but he sounds so intriguing already hhhh]-🐟

THANK YOUUUU MY LITTLE FISHNON 🥺🥺🥺 i’m sosoosooooo happy you like it!!!!! this fic is making me so insane already but i’m having a lot of fun :333 and i’m super excited to hear your thoughts!!! he really is sooo twisted and so silly those words describe him perfectly…….

[starsaroundmyscars]

For science, in the tags, tell me how many skips each Taylor albums has for you

[balteus]

christian esotericism is so cool too bad it's heresy 😔

[huccimermaidshirts]

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[sketching-shark]

In Canon (JTTW) Wukong shows any romantic/sexual interest towards anyone?

Not Even Slightly fasfgrewdf. Going by Wu Cheng'en's version it's Zhu Bajie who's the romantic/libertine of the pilgrim group, while if memory serves correctly the main emotion Sun Wukong shows towards romance and sex is irritation. The Monkey King does have real affection for his monkey family and later on for Tang Sanzang, but it's the affection of an asexual communal grandpa lol.

That said, this characterization in Xiyouji is a big change from the monkey's presentation in the earlier play Zaju Xiyou Ji. Here, the simian in question, Sun Xingzhe, not only had a wife that he kidnapped in traditional Chinese monkey monster fashion, but apparently spends most of his time telling crude jokes, ogling other women, and acting as a rowdy clown.

I've now seen a number of pretty valid points about how it definitely pays to look outside of Wu Cheng'en's version of the westward journey to see what other people have made of it throughout its history, and I'd definitely agree that seeing what else could be considered part of JTTW "canon" in terms of the wild variety of ways people have told and retold this story is a really fascinating thing!

That said, I do think that coming at it from a western perspective one miiiiiight want to be a little more cautious of how one approaches the question of a Sun Wukong romance/sexual interest, given the long history in this part of the world of not only viewing and presenting monkeys as hyper-sexual beings/ man's poor imitation, but also using that perception to bolster a lot of horrible stereotypes against certain groups of humans, including against Chinese people. As is--and while in China itself Sun Wukong has been presented as everything from a devoted and helpful deity to a lecherous and destructive warlord--at this point there definitely does seem to be something of a preference in western depictions to emphasize the destructive and "stupid monkey" potentials of Sun Wukong's character rather than for example his love of family or his intelligence.

[placeinthisworld]

@taylorswift I need to speak with you regarding these missing songs on the eras movie, immediately.

[aidenelsa]

fearless tv is just perfection. the fault songs?? amazing! the production? beautiful! her voice? phenomenal! fearless tv set the bar so high for the other rerecordings and i fear none of them have come close. the best rerecording so far.

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

depends. is muscle memory for stuff like how to throw a punch/driving/how to function as 6'1" of muscle included?

if so

I'm going to personally re-alive Dean Winchester, solve the entire finale and get everyone back in six months, tops

....things may go epically to shit over that time as well but everyone would be alive

you are personally and directly hit by a bus¹ and isekai-ed, via resurrection, into the body of the main character your most recent WIP

reblog and tell me: on a scale of 1–10, how screwed are you right now?

¹ this is, transparently, a plot device, so if you are about to tell me "joke's on you, I never leave my fifteenth floor apartment!" then you may rest assured it will have tremendous comedic value when the bus is launched into the sky and crashes through your apartment wall to flatten you anyway

[neptunemagia]

You what

[poguesmaybank]

My top two albums have no songs in my top ten songs.

[bookloversofbath]

English Fairy Tales :: Flora Annie Steel