#i got so insane about alfonse i blacked out and wrote this up. instead.

[moe-broey]

I am for real This Fucking Close. To making that stupid ass blog that's just lines of Alfonse dialogue. Every line I can fucking pull.

(I'm just gonna spitball the easiest way possible SO SORRY)

THE SNAGS:

FIRST! My initial thought was to very aptly start at The Beginning. However, as you might have seen, this did not work out for me (old phone too old, I was unable to redownload FEH onto a different device and replay the intro scene you can't access later on, even through event recaps). I think my next option would have to be outsourcing this somehow, which. Any which way I'd go about that would NOT be convenient and therefore not a good starting point LMFAO

NEXT COURSE OF ACTION: I could feasibly start with Book 1 and go from there. I could also start with castle dialogue too, actually.

SNAG: Okay well that gets messy doesn't it? Base Alfonse, simple enough. Am I including all his alts in this? Surely, I'd have to. Then what? Level up dialogue? 40 convos? Maybe you Could feasibly have a method for this, actually....

SNAG: Am I including voice lines as dialogue? Surely..? Surely. I feel like I have to.

TRAGIC: DRAGALIA LOST. WAAAAUGHHHHHGHHHHHHHHHHH SO MUCH WAS FUCKING LOOOOOSSSSSTTTTTT.... I THINK THE DRAGALIA CHARAS HAD VOICE LINES TOO.......... menu dialogue too....... I've failed my mission before it even began.

ANOTHER FAILURE: Because I started FEH a couple years in, there are Tempest Trials and Forging Bonds I simply missed. If you haven't played them yourself at any point, you can't access them through event recap. I think one of them was this one:

This isn't my screenshot. I stole this from someone. I can't remember who, I'm so sorry, it was probably years ago. But this definitely seems like a TT I missed!!!! It's definitely not from the bunny paralogue!!!!! SAD!!!!!

GOING BACK. So say I start from Book 1. Okay. Easy enough.

SIKE! SNAG: I am a huge fucking baby who cannot bring himself to progress past the point I have in Book 6 (Chapter 6) because I refuse to let go of Bruno. He made ONE appearance and I got so scared for him I couldn't bear to go on. I could just FEEL it coming. And when it finally happened, when they FINALLY, after All These Fucking Years, finally Did it. The character who was surrounded by death flags from the very start. After one MILLION years of dragging it out and having him just kinda wander aimlessly for a bit. When they finally killed him. I don't know when it happens and I don't wanna find out. It was the cruelest most senseless death buildup I've ever fucking witnessed. For. So. Many. Years. Living in fear for Bruno. Waiting for the inevitable. And it just Wouldn't Come. Until Book FUCKING 6.

Listen. Listen to me. I am already insane about grief and loss. I cannot fucking bear it. Sometimes I wonder if I can if I knew the exact chapter he dies but mostly, I can't do it. I refuse to let go of him. He's still here. He's wearing a Santa suit in my barracks. Sometimes he's even wearing a bunny suit. Still no fucking base form but He's FINE. Moving ON.

QUESTION: Do I include Lif?

ANSWER: NO????? I DON'T THINK???? Oh my god no I'm having Stupid ideas now that I'm Thinking About It though. An Evil version of the Alfonse quotes blog that's just Lif quotes. That would quite literally double the workload. But also the idea of including Lif dialogue on the blog itself but like in a different text color. It would be SO funny but GOD. NO. THAT'S GONNA GET SO MESSY SO FAST. ESP IF WE'RE INCLUDING ALL ALTS. GAH. NO. NO I REALLY DON'T THINK I SHOULD.......... the Alfonse quotes blog idea is STUPID ENOUGH AS IS.

QUESTION: Promotional material?????? I'm just remembering sometimes there's like. Vids and shit. Though most times like the chibi ones don't have dialogue. There WAS that Brave Alfonse Thing I don't even know what it was but I've seen screenshots of it. Very unprofessional of me I know, to not cover all my bases, but like. I don't even have an excuse I was just mad at the existence of Gustav. And I don't often keep track of material outside of the game itself, actually. Aside from Meet the Heroes (which would technically fall under Sharena dialogue) and A Day In the Life of Heroes.

ANSWER: ??????????? That would be. So Much. I feel like. Maybe I should just stick to what's in-game. MAYBE making an exception for Day In the Life, but. No, I'd... surely have to stick with what's in-game...? It would get So Complicated.

THOUGHT: The context of Alfonse existing in an ongoing game. There's no fixed amount of Alfonse dialogue, and there won't be until end of service. Which. Feels a certain type of way, for me... like I HAVE to preserve what's here. Even if I am just doing something silly. But also Ongoing.... the Task ever-growing....... I don't know. It does feel uniquely daunting. But the Bit.... THE BIT....... is SO TANTALIZING.

Okay to summarize:

REALLY STUPID IDEA. Would be convoluted, but maybe manageable in some areas if I'm being honest. I'd just have to develop a Method for it. HOWEVER. With some things, I've lost before I've even begun. I'm also thinking back to like, instances where a new mode is introduced -- I'm pretty sure there was in-game dialogue of the characters discussing Heroes Journey, for example. I don't know if you can access that again...? So that could be lost for me, too.

IT'S LIKE........ a little discouraging when I think about details like that.

But IF. I were to just think about how funny it would be...... the FEH dialogue boxes/pacing would be SO funny for it........ as just a random one to three line tumblr post passing by....... I don't know what it is but the concept is just SO funny to me. Also I just replayed Book 3's Truth of a Name and became so utterly smitten by Alfonse again I need to eat every single word he says. This guy is fucking AWESOME. He's sooooooooo fucking cool.......

WILL BE ACCEPTING. ANY THOUGHTS/FEEDBACK. Pretty please.... 🥲