#i'm working on some fe engage stories rn

[fe-fictions]

So I actually have a teeny tiny project that I’ve been mulling for like two years

I have like seventeen more Frederick stories that I’ve come up with, which includes finally introducing their third child LOL (technically the third baby of all Robin’s and her husbands, but of course for me primarily that’s Freddybear)

I’ve mentioned it before, but I don’t think I’ve ever drawn or written a story abt her,,,

But her name is Reflet, and she’s adorable, and she’s a total daddy’s girl. Her future self is like, around 12 or 13, and she’s just a spindly little stick of a baby,,

She’s very closed off and shy, and really only engages with her dad because he raised her. She was born shortly before Grima took over Robin, so she doesn’t know her mama.

But she does look EXACTLY like Robin does!! Silver hair, dark eyes, the whole nine yards... 

She wants to be the same class as her daddy- as Fred’s kid, she has strong magic affinity but hates it because she’d rather be a knight than a mage. She also calls her father “Daddy” unlike Morgan and Marc, who call him “Father/Dad” and “Papa”, respectively.

She’s much much closer to her dad than the other two, and when she comes from the future, she’s solely interested in spending time with him than anybody else; is indifferent and bordering on cold towards her mom and siblings. 

HOWEVER, she is conflicted about being around him, because she knows that he’s not her daddy...and she wants to go back to him. The reason she was sent from the future is pretty tragic ;; ^ ;; It hurts because like Gerome, she knows that he’s not her actual dad, and part of her doesn’t want to get too close to him. But at the same time, he looks like her dad, and smells like him, and talks like him, and smiles like he does, and braids her hair like him,,,

And of course I’ve also thought a lot about baby Reflet from present time and she is just the cutest little baby girl ;;; A ;;;

IDK i just felt like i needed to type all of this out because it’s been a while since I’ve written regularly and I just have so many ideas and so little time,,,,

Thank you for letting me ramble,, if you guys are interested in baby number 3, i will definitely draw her up so you have a visual!!!!

[rexcaliburechoes]

diamant, the horrors chamber, and why he’s just so fun to mess with // the diamant-sertation series

i’d talked a little about this before on twitter about diamant angst and if i’m doing alright (i’m fine just biochemistry major go brrrr) and i just remembered this:

and i wanted to think about this for a little bit. i’m going to try and not retread old ground, but that’s kind of impossible if i want to break him in a realistic way.

but i was mostly thinking about how easy it is to destabilise him. i might be woobifying him too much, but i swear, i’ve been through this rigamarole before with a variety of characters. i’ve hurt characters over and over and over again, testing their limits, watching them bend and potentially break, and diamant has keeled over the fastest. it’s kind of funny in a bit of a twisted way.

but i mean it: why does he bend to easily compared to others?

i think it’s because he Refuses to experience The Horrors, and so when something encroaches on that tenuously stretched self control, he simply cannot deal with anything new, so he shuts down. you’d think he’d have a fight response to new stressors (he is of brodia; if you can’t fight, then what kind of brodian are you?) but i think he’s gone past that point. he’s dealing with enough already as it is, just One More Thing just will set him off. he’s tired, overwhelmed, and bottles everything up because He Should Be Able To Deal With It.

there’s definitely an allegory of being undiagnosed neurodivergent in here somewhere but we don’t have time to unpack all that.

but since diamant is so easily burnt out (which, haha, funny fire trauma go brr), he’s just an easy target to picking at all of his weaknesses and flaws. diamonds have very predictable cutting planes, and if manage to hit one just right, the entire crystal will shatter.