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felikatze · 1 month ago

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Okay, this just may be me not having gotten all of either of their supports, but where in Engage does it say that Céline is the preferred heir over Alfred? Is that just extrapolation from Alfred having some sort of chronic/terminal illness and him only living a long life in his paired ending with Alear?

Yes-ish, no-ish? Saying "preferred heir" was probably a bit hyperbolic of me, but it's blatantly obvious that Celine was raised to be the heir under the expectation that Alfred would kick the bucket before he had any of his own.

From Etie's B supporr:

Etie: Do you remember our first teatimes together? Céline: Not especially well. We’ve been having them for so long, after all. Céline: At the time, my brother’s health was still very tenuous. Every day was nerve-wracking. Etie: But all that stress toughened you up. Céline: I knew I had to be able to support my brother… in case of the worst. Céline: But just as I was getting stronger, my brother’s health vastly improved, thanks to his training.

yknow "in case of the worst."

Céline: I suspected as much.

Céline: Likewise, I honed my swordsmanship and magical prowess to support my sickly brother.

Céline: But wouldn’t you know it! Just when I thought I’d strengthened myself enough…

Céline: my brother seemed to make a full recovery.

Fogado: Haha, and you didn’t know whether to cheer or break down sobbing.

Or here, in her Fogado A support. Yeah, she always talks about wanting to support the king, but here, it almost seems like her training was wasted by Alfred surviving. Both times, she contrasts the end of her training with Alfred's recovery, which doesn't sound that much like "supporting" to me.

Don't get me wrong, she is 100% glad and happy that Alfred lives, and she continues to be terrified for him, as one of the only people who knows that he's still sick.

From her Alfred A Support

Céline: I’ve always yearned for happiness and saw only misery. Like the day I fled from the castle. Céline: If Firene had fallen or Mother died or you were lost to us…I wondered, “How would I respond?” Céline: And now this? If things get worse, and you have to leave… What will I… How can I… Céline: … Alfred: Hey… I’m not gonna die, OK? I’ll be fine if I stick with my training.

Or the most blatant example of this is her C Support with Alcryst (or rather, most blatant example I could dig up by skimming supports.)

Alcryst: Ah. Did you have a bad dream?

Céline: …

Céline: I dreamt my brother died.

Alcryst: Oh…

Céline: This is a recurring dream, mind you. One that I have had many times since childhood.

Céline: My brother used to be chronically ill, you see.

Céline: But even now, I can’t shake the feeling that he might be taken from me at any moment.

Alcryst: Oh, Princess Céline…

Céline: Alfred has recovered since then, make no mistake. He is the picture of robust health now.

Alcryst: That he is. He always seems so brave on the battlefield. It’s amazing.

And from her Alfred support chain, we know that whenever she tells someone that Alfred is in perfect health, she's lying. She knows he's not. But she keeps it secret for Alfred because he doesn't want to worry anyone, and I think, Celine also wants to convince herself that Alfred's going to stay.

She is still perfectly prepared for the case that he'll die. Even if, emotionally, she abhors it. She can't bear it. Nonetheless, she constantly thinks about it.

Her Alcryst A support plays more on this. If you haven't read her Alfred support chain, it's pretty cute! Alcryst and Celine promise to protect both their elder siblings together. But if you consider that Celine knows about Alfred's condition, it becomes... playing pretend. She knows this joke alliance will not hold, but it's simply nice to think it will.

Alcryst: You know…I don’t think either of us will ever rule our countries. Céline: I beg your pardon? Alcryst: Ah, that came out wrong. I meant that, should the worst happen, we’d do our duties, but… Alcryst: The worst isn’t going to happen. We’ll fight to protect them─our brothers, our future kings. Alcryst: Fear may persist in our dreams, but we won’t let it affect our realities. Alcryst: In fact, I’ll go a step further…and do my best to protect Prince Alfred as well!

[...]

Alcryst: I believe we just formed an alliance that would worry most of our friends and allies. Céline: Yet I think that because of it, my nightmares will plague me less frequently. Alcryst: I think that might be true for me as well. Alcryst: We may never bear our own crowns, but we can certainly bear each other’s burdens. Céline: Yes. Even after the war ends, may we always act in harmony for the sake of our nations.

rhe entire support chain is sooo good i highly recommend it

anyway yeah that's the tldr on Celine!

If you want to see a deep dive into Celine, because I think she's a fascinating character, I highly recommend this video!!

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It's really good. It also touches on Celine's stance on happiness, and what hidden sides the Xenologue brings out of her.

TLDR: Celine is constantly stressed as fuck about both her duties as a princess and her brother's physical state. She's trained since she was young and mentions this only in relation to Alfred's recovery... So putting two and two together, she could stop (or rather, put on hold) her training because Alfred got better, implying that Celine was "preparing for the worst."

#Feli gets asked #fire emblem engage

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sommerregenjuniluft · 5 months ago

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ok i'm back!! lune. lune oh my god your JP vision is everything to me, i can see him so clearly and i LOVE the fleamont/treasure/estate situation

i have additional questions: does he also have a fun name for the estate the way john b calls his house the chateau? who's who in the friend group bc me personally i can absolutely see sirius as jj and remus as pope and lily could be kinda like kiera (mainly in that like,, fiery and independent vibe she has) and i feel like for peter you'd have to kinda play around with some characters but i can totally see them as the pogues.....

and then regulus as sarah.... yeah..... please elaborate on the fucked up mentor/mentee relationship with riddle also please and thank you

miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllllllll<3333 that makes me so happy to hear T^T

hhmmmm i havent thought about it, maybe we can come up with something! i love having little easter eggs that relate to something in canon. idk if hogwarts would be too on the nose HAHSAHA but i mean. it is an old, big house that kinda looks like a castle...... sjfds idk i'd love to brainstorm with u. and yes mil you read my mind. that's what i thought too regarding the friendship roles/gang composition. though i think it's fun to mix the backgrounds/family situations/relations to the treasure around a bit. i'd want lily to be the book smart one, the one with the scholarship opportunity and also i think i'd want her to be the one related to denmark tanny (or whatever the name will be in the au). but i want her to have had the kook year that kiara had, lily alone in the nest of the snakes. and possible give her something close to jj's family situation. or like, an apathetic parent perhaps. remus can have the poor but loving family that pope has, with lyall and hope<3 i dunno what else he has going on besides that for now, possible something disability wise? terminal illness.....the gears r turning. sirius is a mix and match again. in this au both sirius and regulus are orphans, lets say their parents died when they were pretty small, then it was their grandparents and at last alphard but it didnt take long then for regulus to get swooped up by tom (i'll get to that in a minute.) so sirius is living with alphard and he kind of has the relationship with him that kie has with her parents, sorta abusing his position in a relatively wealthy home and using up all of his resources for his family, his friends (here his inner jj swings with as well, he's so boundlessly loyal). now coming to reg. riddle is a big shot kook obviously, filthy rich but from rags to riches type beat like ward. and his thing is that every like 5 to 10 years he adopts kids and like sponsors them sort of? like a sick twisted version of carlyall from twilight. i'd imagine maybe he started out with an ophaned niece and nephew or maybe or distant cousins and then just. kept going because he craved the company and liked playing the role. sometimes it's more but mostly he adopts two at a time, a boy and a girl. cue, barty and regulus as rafe and sarah versions. now what i'm about to say next is a bit fucked up so feel free to dip jdhgks. when they're 14/15 barty and and reg have this weird little pseudo incest thing going on where they're dating sort of. or not directly in a romantic and sexual sense but it's wildly different from regular platonic and familial. and it's all a bit bananas since they have the same father figure yknow. so they live with riddle, they have dorms at his estate. but evan is also sort of in the picture. (kind of filling the spot where the topper character leaves a whole). and evan is,, idk probably in love with both of them. which is, again, twisted and weird and bananas. since theyre. adoptive siblings on paper. skjgjsd anywho! i'm still not sure what to do about wheaze and rose. i considered bellatrix and delphini (that affair child bella had with tom) but i could never make her barty's adoptive mom. she'd just encourage his psycho ass and then the plot would crumble in over my head. at this point i also wanna take whoever is reading this by the cheeks, look u deep in the eyes and remind you of the little rafe x kie (bartylily) crumbs we'd get when exploring the s3 plotline :3 oh! oh!! also dorcas as cleo. hot sexy badass, french/jamaican accent having goddess of a young women that lily pathetically immediately falls for. it's just a big ol' OH moment where lily is like. yo i'm into girls?!?!!!!! i've pondered for a long minute what to do with the pope x kie romance plotline and i think i'd wanna make it a mutual comphet thing. remus is pissed at sirius for rejecting him after they have an almost kiss after dancing around each other for so long and then lily is there so he takes the out.

((lmao tumblr told me i need a paragraph here, i really been yapping too much already))

and sirius can't say shit because he's the one that bailed on remus, so remus lets him suffer (and also punishes himself for advancing on him in the first place). and for lily it's just that it takes her a minute to understand that the reason she can't choose between her boys is not that she's an indecisive slut but that she really does love her boys all the same amount, just not in a romantic way. cue dorcas strutting in with her knife wielding skill and her criminally sexy little belly button piercing and her braids and. yeah,,,,.

i'm also thinking latino james possibly, lily being mixed ghanaian (1) (2) (3), cambodian black siblings, and remus can be the token causasian lmao. barty as well and evan will always be some kind of blasian to me.

okay before i come to an end i wanna talk about trans fem reg for a second though. i've been browsing the net and reading about mtf transitioning a bit to portay regulus accurately and give a good enough representation. in my mind regulus, in this au, noticed that she's different pretty early on. and what with having sirius and it being a very modern, 21 century au, her transition began rather early. medically it's typically recommended to start with testo-blockers around 15 and added estrogen at 16. and that's exactly what regulus does. like always, when taking hormones there's gonna be some side effects, unfortunately. thrombosis risk increases, your libido decreases and you're probably gonna be tired and exhausted a lot and also more emotional and sensitive, have a shorter fuse. regulus does a lot of biking and swimming in her free time against the thrombosis, preferably in their long pool at the riddle estate but when she's feeling good enough about her body she does like to take out the boat with barty and evan and beat them in a swimming race. she's nap queen, she's sleeping everywhere, all the time and when her and james start getting together he calls her sleepyhead all the time and in the most affectionate tone and it sorta just keeps being the main pet name he has for her. also the low libido/possible body dismorphia go very hand in hand with the sarah arc where she's unsure about having sex for the first time. all in all regulus is pretty snappy and thin skinned, emotinal. but it makes her passionate and compassionate especially, which james loves and adores. all of it. yknow how in s2 sarah and john b stay at that hotel and jb steals the phone. i want james to overhear a pair of older-ish women complain about menopause and their pills and then break into their room when they're away for dinner and steal regulus some estrogen pills. it's probably not the right dosage and reg can't take them but!!!!!!!!!!!! it's the thought that counts and to regulus that counts A LOT.

#holy fuck my brain feels empty now that i've word vomited all over here #this still needs a name too #obx au #mil tag #trans fem regulus #mtf regulus black

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