#lord saphir

[koijikido]

V O G U E 📸 pt. 3

[misskazehana]

Just did these over the snow day and had a lot of fun!

I water colored my ocs and used sharpie pens to draw them (not in that order lol)

Igneous , Saphir and Violette were done first. Then, I did hector and Matilda- followed by Milo, Vanessa, Emma and Rosilyn. Pearl ended up being the last of these.

The scanner did a nice job mostly in picking up the colors as I scanned them into my laptop.

loved how everyone one came out color wise!

Hope you have an amazing day!

Art and characters done by me, misskazehana

[mischiefmanagers]

Rhysand Fic Rec Library 🦇💜

"Rhysand is the most handsome High Lord. Rhysand is the most delightful High Lord. Rhysand is the most cunning High Lord."

here's a list of one hundred Rhysand x Reader and Rhysand x OC fics to celebrate the most handsome High Lord ✨

🌼 personal favorite 🥀 angst 💞 fluff 🔥 smut

by @sarawritestories

The Most Beautiful High Lady 🥀💞

You Looked Like You Could Use a Partner 💞

by @lalacliffthorne

starshine (series) 🥀💞

by @marvelsmylife

Not As It Seems 🥀💞

Protecting his high lady 🥀💞

I think I wanna marry you 💞

by @swansworth

The Handsome Stranger 🥀💞

My High Lady 🔥

by @writingsbychlo

how we survive 🥀 platonic Rhysand x Reader but it's AMAZING

Home To Us 💞🌼

How to Save a Life 💞

by @azrielsdove

The High Lords 🥀🔥

Til Death Do Us Part 🥀🔥

Money, Power, Glory 🥀

Beautiful Girl 🥀💞

by @historiaxvanserra

What Our Souls Are Made Of 🥀💞

by @honeybeefae

Pretty Little Tears 🔥

by @wishfulwithwine

The Great War 🥀

by @leafsandstarlight

Against Your Brother's Wishes 🥀💞

Easy Like Sunday Morning 💞🔥

Welcome Distraction 🔥

Little Reminders 💞

by @cherhys

Anything, Always 🥀💞

Colliding Visions 💞

by @k-daydreams

Touch in the Dark 🥀

by @azsazz

Dioxazine 💞

Lavender Haze

Hung Up 🔥

by @jeannineee

Pining 🥀

Daddy Kink 🔥

by @ughthatimagineblog

love and loathing 💞🔥

forever and a day 💞

by @fieldofdaisiies

I Never Mean to Hurt You 🥀

by @daydreaming-nerd

The Bonds That Break Us 💞🥀🔥

by @hellcat8908

Returning Home 🥀💞

by @thehighladywrites

This Isn't Goodbye, This Is Simply See You Later 💞🥀🔥

Just One More, I Know You Can Do It 💞🔥

by @lure-of-writing

Where my soul can rest 🥀

by @saphirered

The Ice Queen and the High Lord 🔥

May We Meet Again

by @bookish-whore

'Til Death 💞

Never Made A Difference 🥀

by @tadpolesonalgae

mine 🔥

Knocked up 🔥

by @itsphoenix0724

Promises 🥀

by @fanttasttica

I hate you more.. 🥀

Shy priestess 💞

Finding you 🔥

Your love healed me 🥀💞

Just love me 🥀

One plus one makes three 💞

by @illyrian-dreamer

Dance with the devil

Make a bargain with me 💞🥀

by @azrielbrainrot

My Body Keeps Saying it's Yours 🔥

by @b00kdiary

Dreamer

by @solbaby7

Lose Control 💞

Put On A Show 🔥

Testing the Waters 💞🔥🌼

by @luxsky

Kicking out 💞

by @themusingsofacurlyhairednerd

Warm Me Up 💞🔥

Datura

by @starstruckunknown-princess

Black Rose 🥀

by @acourtofwhatthefuck

Needs Must 🔥

With Me, Always 🥀💞

Shrinking Violet 🔥

Forget Me Not 💞

by @lanitalay

At sea 💞🥀

by @redheadspark

Truth 💞🥀

Carry 💞🥀

My Pleasure 💞

Title 💞

by @azrielslightintheshadows

Game night disaster 🥀

Between you and danger 🥀

by @danikamariewrites

Take Them All Down 🥀🌼

Only For You 💞

Pointless Meetings 💞

Pranks 💞

by @bloodycassian

winter court runaway

by @thevanserrras

The Stolen Night 🥀💞

by @thelov3lybookworm

Winter Without You 🥀

Love Needs No Voice

by @prythianpages

Wanna Be Yours 💞

by @milswrites

Out of the Mountain 🥀

by @readychilledwine

Requiem for a Dream (series) 🥀💞

Broken 🥀

Flight Patterns 🥀💞🌼

Subtle 💞

Scream 🔥

Plot Measure 🥀

Drumming Song 🔥

Family Matters 🔥

Pieces of You 🥀🌼

by @clairebear08

Questioning Motives 🔥

by @serpentandlily

Falling Apart for You 🥀

by @shadowdaddies

Heavy is the Head 🥀💞🔥

Crawl to Me 🥀🔥

by @throneofsapphics

if you insist 💞

surprise reunions 🔥

by @azriels-shadowsinger

Reunited 💞🥀

by batboylover

secretly mated 🥀💞

[crescent-blades]

[I'M SO SORRY THIS TOOK FAR TO LONG AND I'M SORRY IF NOW THIS IS COMING AT A BAD TIME- 😭 Also I'm sorry if I took to much control of Kokushibo.]

In the deepest part of a forest, moonlight hardly shining through the trees you stood. For an unknown reason, unless you knew yourself you stood in its small opening with little trees to get in the way. The moonlight shone nicely down on the ground, the levees caught in the mess glowing brightly. The forest was covered in these trees, all the same kind yet shaped differently like any other forest. Grass covered the ground and some flowers poked out, useless flowers as Muzan would say. The night was always cold, but the forest could keep some heat though, did it really matter?

That should hardly be a concern when someone is hiding behind a tree near you.

.

.

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🌸💜 Kanao Tsuyuri had been sent on a mission alone, demons still needed to be killed and since she had completed the Hashira training it was safe for her to continue missions. So there she was, sent onto a mission into the forest that a demon seemed to be spotted at. She kept a sharp eye out for anything and noticed a tall demon far beyond inside the forest. The trees covered her way from seeing them closely so she quietly jogged forward, hiding as much as she could from their sight. 

Thinking she was doing well, she carefully unsheathed her blade and continued forward. Changing her direction every now and then. Kanao now was a few trees away, staying hidden behind one, finding a time when Kokushibo was distracted enough to hit him. What she doesn’t know is his rank and why he’s carrying an old sword, that doesn’t seem to spark a question inside her. What matters is cutting the demon’s neck, that’s what a demon slayer is supposed to do… 🌸💜

As the demon stood amidst a forest, the trees stood tall above him, their gnarled branches stretching high up into the starry night, casting intricate shadows that lay across the forest floor. The wind rustled through the air, causing his long, spiky hair to sway, while the symphony of crickets filled the air, emanating from the small bushes and delicate bluish flowers that rested quietly below. 

"—Useless flowers.." A voice echoed in his mind, a tone laced with irritation—his lord's voice—a reminder of their long, fruitless quest. 

"It has been nearly a millennium. At this pace, humanity may go extinct before we ever obtain that flower."  

Day after day, they would search for the elusive flora, or at the very least, the location of the Ubuyashiki mansion. The demon recalls that this mission had once been a privilege reserved solely for him and his master. However, after numerous unsuccessful attempts, they found themselves enlisting the help of lower-ranked demons.

The reason his lord refrained from involving humans in this endeavour remained unclear to him, and despite his deep respect for the man, he often viewed him as somewhat... 'foolish'. This was no longer a time for chasing after the 'blue spider lily'; those days of whimsical pursuits had long since passed—this was the time of war.     

Taking a deep breath in, the upper one found himself in solitude, standing amidst the foliage, kneeling down as he tenderly held the saphire flowers between his fingers.   

"Almost perfect.. until fate's hand intervened.."

 A flower similar in appearance, similar in structure, yet it had little to no value that the other—useless in comparison as it served no other purpose than to please the eye—ornamental, just like the rest. How.. familiar lamentable.

He concentrated solely on his breathing, attuning himself to the flow of blood in his veins and the gentle caress of the breeze against his skin. Yet, amidst the calmness, he felt a presence. Something was approaching, drawing closer and closer with each heartbeat. A presence that seemed formidable, stronger than the rest—a demon hunter. 

How convenient.. 

"Seizing your essence for another design.."   

Hiding behind the foliage as she remained concealed, a shadow among the leaves, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. A demon slayer—her heart pulsed with a fierce resolve, one with determination and courage.. and yet—deep down it also carried a sense of sorrow. He could sense the burden of her anguish—a life marred by violence and bloodshed—a life filled with the pain of lost loved ones and the remnants of past suffering. They all carried the same story— 

—Ornamental, just like the rest. 

"What does it feel like.."  

Just like any other demon slayer, marked by a young age—a mere child—her aura radiated the strength of a seasoned warrior. So much potential. As the man lay kneeled on the ground in the distance, seemingly frozen in place as he merely stayed there—still as the tranquil sea, when the whispering tide retreats just before the tempest's fury.  

Until—    

"..To be scorned upon by the gods..?"  

A voice, low and quiet emerged right behind you.  

//ooc: pff no problem, I dont mind! You can take as long as you'd like, no pressure. And nah, you’re good. Though.. I just hope I didn’t ramble on too much, heh.

[phantom0131]

Helion×Reader fanfic rec:

A Court of Hope and Second chances by @bubbles-for-all-of-us

Just the way you are by @bubbles-for-all-of-us

Talk by @daylight-imagines

The flu by @danikamariewrites

Short reader headcanons by @danikamariewrites

Fate's Sweet Curse by @leafsandstarlight

Before it's Too Late by @leafsandstarlight

Isn't She Lovely by @leafsandstarlight

A Fated War by @honeybeefae

A High Lord's Scholar by @leafsandstarlight

Warm Love by @leafsandstarlight

At the End of the Day by @danikamariewrites

The Moon Only Glows When Kissed by The Sun by @b0xerdancer-writes

The light during nighttime by @lidiasloca

Surprise! by @florence-end

Love is Terrifying by @saphirered

Poor little High Lord by @florence-end

Close Call by @danikamariewrites

My Mate by @clairebear08

Serendipity by @isa-beenme

Tears by @danikamariewrites

[slytherincursebreaker]

Ewan Mitchell problems and Parenting AUs

yes I have a problem....

Osferth

Lord of the rings

Lament for Boromir

Fever

You're my daughter

Coming home

New father

Throwing toys

Pretty little thing

modern Osferth

Detective AU

No monsters

Skydancer incident (soon)

I love you 3000

My brave girl

Shopping for baby things

Tom Bennett

The mummy

Got you another canary

Little Sailor mouth 1 2 3 4

Gran

Little Sailor

Waking up

Aemond Targaryen

Hades and persephone

Jealous

Bonding

"Strong" Girl

Star wars

The Saphire eye

The New Realm's delight

Kepas Nameday gift

Gib

Hostage

Vhagar

Sneaking 1 2

Queen love and beauty

Winter rose

Winterfell

Modern Aemond

Demon Aemond

Detention

Birthday

Tickle fight

Twins

First trip gone wrong 1

Dracula

Bastard (Hogwarts legacy AU)

Nanny for hire

Parts 1 2 3

Feeding

Hickeys

Bad kitty

Haircut

Parenting 101 Targaryen men edition

Modern Hightower siblings

Park incident 1 2

Babysitting gone wrong 1 2 3 4 5

Billy Washington

Reconcile

Ducky

Duck daddy

Sleeping with the baby

Meeting the ex

Billy Taylor

Kingsman (soon)

Crawl

William

Don't Steal

Feeding the baby

Carjacking

Stormy the Dark mistress of all

Ettore

On purpose

Freaky dream

Jack

Better father

Genyen/Shawn

Girls scout cookies

Abraham

Pony ride

Arm wrestle

Teething

Michael Gavey

Dada

Picture taking

Cruchie

Reading

Crane machine

NFI little boys

Asking a sum

Lonely hearts

Poacher/hunter

Little red ridding hood

Martın

Tom and Billy

Doppelganger daddy

Aemond and Osferth

Missing cat coming soon

the skydancer strikes back

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Last kingdom

Modern

Mini series

Aemond Targaryen Masterlist

Tom Bennett Masterlist

Osferth Masterlist

Billy Washington

Michael Gavey

Billy Taylor

William

Ettore

Jack

Geyen/Shawn

[theeeveetamer]

I have a pretty good inkling who your number ones are so can I ask for you for your top few fire emblem characters?

Always! I'm just gonna list off a few I really like and if you want more details on any of them I can go into it! Awakening was my first game and I've spent the majority of my time with the post-Awakening titles so that's gonna be the bulk of the list

For Awakening I initially liked Chrom, Robin, Henry, Lon'qu, Inigo, Noire, and Severa, and Lucina a lot. Cherche has also grown on me a lot over the years and not just because she's hot and can crush me like a bug and she was vital to my 2017 FEH team I swear

For Fates I like all of the Royal siblings, but Takumi, Leo, and Sakura are probably my top three. If I had to order them it'd probably be Takumi > Leo > Sakura > Xander = Camilla > Hinoka = Elise > Ryoma. Other than them Orochi, Rinkah, Charlotte (CQ wife), Reina (BR wife), Azura, and Nyx are all characters I enjoy. Honorable mentions to the four royal second gen kids as well as Selkie and Velouria!

SoV I don't hold a lot of strong opinions on since I only played it once back in 2017, but I remember really liking Kliff

For 3H all of the Blue Lions are my darlings, but I also like Dorothea, Petra, Manuela, Seteth, Rhea, Shamir and Catherine. Honorable mention to Cyril. I wrote him off initially but he's genuinely hilarious and savage when the writers let him talk about stuff other than Rhea

For Engage I honestly don't think there's a member of the cast I don't like, but Alfred, Celine, Alcryst, and Ivy (wife) are probably my top four. I really like all of the royals though, and additional shout outs to Rosado, Saphir, Merrin, and Chloe

Of the pre-Awakening characters I'd say Tibarn, the Heron sibs, Naesala, and Nailah are the stand outs from PoR/RD. Ike and Elincia are up there too as far as FE lords go. I recently beat Sacred Stones and there it's probably the twins, Innes, Tana, Seth, Cormag, with a little Ross just because mine ended up being a monster

I'm withholding adding characters from Binding Blade, Blazing Blade, Shadow Dragon, Genealogy, or Thracia to the list just becaues I haven't played those ones all the way through yet. Though I do have a soft spot for Caeda entirely because of FEH

I don't know if I'd be able to put them into a coherent top five all together, I'd probably have to go by game tbh, but this post is already pretty long so I'll refrain for now lol

[wtffanfiction-de]

Fandom: Harry Potter

„Getestete Person: Alecxander Salazar Diamond Saphir Calcifer Arsiel Slytherin-Gryffindor-VanDé-Cryle-Aderoys-Satan-Taifun

Eltern: Daimos Godric Salazar Enfer Auriel Slytherin-Gryffindor-VanDé-Satan-Aderoys & Aidan Cedric Mikael Saphirus Tellanio Cryle-Taifun-Satan-Aderoys

Wesen: Dämon (Fürst), Dunkelelb (Prinz), Lichtelb (Prinz), geborener Vampir (Lord & Squart)

Seelenpartner: Lucifer Ganciel Calligus Terra Aderoys-Satan“

[aurheatum]

toa anniversary mun day

under cut

Name: 

Nel, i mean it’s Sarah technically, but once you start getting multiple notes in the mail with Nel on them I think it counts. Nelfes works too. I respond to most anything tbh

Pronouns:

she/her or they/them

Birthday (no year):

Dec 6th Saint Nicholas Day : )

Where are you from? What is your time zone?

Chicago. CST [GMT-5].

Roleplay experience:

Over ten years, started on Neopets and other forums. Moved to Gaia Online and then Tumblr indie space some time in 2011.

Got any pets?

Baby boy

Favorite time of year:

Springtime or Autumn

Some interests and things you like:

I’ve always been super into mythology, all of them. I used to think that Carl Jung was onto something with the collective unconscious but then Anthropology and the reality of multilineal evolution ruined that for me (college will teach you things); but that’s alright because humans their ability to create and interpret their surroundings with equal parts love and fear is still pretty cool.

Some funfacts & trivia about you:

-Agnostic but i work in an occult library (it’s pretty quiet; the new age bookshop across the street has all the events)

-One time on Gaia Online I was kicked out of an Okami RP bc I didn’t make my posts aesthetic enough, and I thought it was just the most heart wrenching thing -I’m not sure what people stand to gain back in Ye Old Runescape luring new players out into the wild and PKing them but I was gullible enough to follow some other players at like 7 yrs old and this would have happened to me if i wasnt SUPER good at clicking my mouse and running out of there. Surviving such a harrowing experience made me think i was truly invincible.

-I was supposed to write my final paper for my Japanese Buddhism class on… surprise, Japanese Buddhism but I really wanted to talk about Kenji Miyazawa’s writings instead so I spun it through a lens of his Nichiren conversion and its impact on his poetry. My prof saw right through me but I still got an A.

What non-Fire Emblem games do you play?

Tales of RPG series raised me as a person so u know. I like Persona 1-2 era SMT though I’ve played Nocturne and IV as well. What else? Okami, LOZ: Twilight Princess, farm sims and visual novels. Genshin, on and off.

Favorite Pokemon type & Pokemon:

Psychic; wooper family (clogsire im so glad u joined us)

How did you get into Fire Emblem?

My neighbor would bring over Path of Radiance so I could play it on my gamecube with my own save back in the day

What Fire Emblem games have you played?

Tellius duology. Sacred Stones, FE 13-16; currently doing Blazing Blade. Archanea one day.

First Fire Emblem game:

POR

Favorite Fire Emblem game:

Tie between 3 Houses and Radiant Dawn

Any Fire Emblem crushes? 😳 

It’s rhea okay. I wont lie and i wont pretend it isnt evidence of my spectacular taste either

If you’ve played the following games, who was your first S support? Who would you S support nowadays? - Awakening: Tiki (first S support was olivia bc i wanted a pink haired kid)  - Fates: honestly i’d have to revisit, i know i first married niles as m!corrin - Three Houses: I married each lord on their route tho it’s much funnier if you dont i think (First route was Crimson Flower but I saved at the split so I could marry Rhea first lmao) - Engage: Saphir 🥰

Favorite Fire Emblem class:

War Cleric or Qi Adept

If you were a Fire Emblem character, what would be your class?

I’d be the mage you have to drag around and treat with baby gloves only to learn like a single good spell I think

If you were a Three Houses character, what would be your affiliation?

Leicester Alliance tbh

If you were an Engage character, which Emblem would you Engage with?

Based purely on mechanics bc i love them all prob Soren dlc, Sigurd, Celica, and Lyn.

How did you find TOA?

End of 2020/beginning of 2021 I was really trying to get back into rp but couldn’t get into the various systems on discord. One community that I was trying was affiliates with The Officer’s Academy and an active tumblr community rly caught my interest. The rest is history!

Current TOA muses:

Rhea 3H, Micaiah Radiant Dawn, and miss Hortensia engage

Who was your first TOA muse? If you don’t have them anymore, could you see yourself picking them up again?

This blog right here! I put her down for a bit and probably will again but. It’s not like she ever leaves, instead of brain there is Rhea u see (i bear this burden so u do not have to)

Have you had any other TOA muses?

I played Sephiran for a hot sec and Ingrid for around a yearish iirc. Both very fun

Do you think you have a type of character you gravitate towards?

Not really? I need to be able to connect with them on some level obviously, and I tend to prefer characters who have like a clear childhood or background for why they are That Way. Micaiah was actually p difficult for this reason but being able to really shape her based on what little we know also made me ever more fond. ♥️ I love to stare at pegasusknight and serenesforest supports pages late at night tehe

What do you believe you enjoy writing the most?

I don’t particularly plan ahead but I really love when threads reflect past character development whether in a thread with the same muse or different. TOA extended universe… I’d like to do that more I think but first I have to actually make a support page huh? Since Rhea’s back she’s made more bonds though and that makes me happy.

Favorite TOA-related memory: Definitely Unlocked 2021! It was my first event after really starting to warm to the TOA community and i was an awe of the scope of the events. The mods thought this far ahead?! We can do this?! Every event since has just been even more fun but the surprise and intrigue i felt then really stayed with him

*How do you pronounce TOA?

Toe-uh. Like Dee-En-Dee. you know.

Got any delusions that didn’t see the light of day that you’d like to share? 😉 

I think I mentioned I muse Hubert before, and also that I can't really seeing myself maintaining a blog for him? So other than that, no. I do think Nimh could be quite a bit of fun though *laughs*

[koijikido]

Lord Saphir •

Wasn't able to show his outfits Pre-DT, so have a snippet! He's always dressed elegantly, even when in casual clothes. It's just the thing he likes!😌

[alexissara]

Fire Emblem Engage: One Year Later An Anniversary Of Mid

Fire Emblem Engage is now a year old and as a massive Fire Emblem fan I want to talk about it. Engage is a game I don't like and I am nothing if not a hater so I want to talk about it more about a year out since I think being a hater that goes beyond a boring critique of hair or anime bad is more valuable.

First let's talk about where I place it in the overall series.

I am going to dive into things in a lot of detail down below. Obviously everything is subjective, blah, blah, your reading my opinions, I don't really care about being "objective" so take what you want out of this. The TLDR though is that Engage is a game that fails in every single way, there is not one thing that it is particular amazing at but it is not the worst at any particular thing either. It's a text book mid game but in some ways I like it less then things I think are worse because the squandering of some decent concepts.

Designs

Mika is an extremally talented artist with a wonderful sense of design but even she questioned why they were hiring her to do a Fire Emblem game. While I like some of the designs of the characters as general characters designs but their almost all bad character designs for story telling, for explaining a deeper sense of character, for fitting into a war setting, for fitting a diverse range of ages or bodies, etc. I don't mind Alear's hair, I think red and blue hair makes sense, that's the enemy phase and ally phase colors, it's not terrible but the outfit is a bit too white. The designs in general are simply great designs for a silly little person but not great for the wider depth of characters not creating characters you could see doing a war. If the tone was different I could see these working but it need to lean far more into comedy or cheese then it does. I really don't have a lot to say here but it kinda just had to be the first thing to address. I like them more than the average person but I still don't love them. Like Etie is supposed to like be buff and stuff but she is a twig. Saphir is supposed to be pretty old but she looks fairly young. Mika's style simply doesn't blend well with Fire Emblem despite me loving Mika's work prior to this.

Story

This is the most often critiqued part of the Fire Emblem Engage experience that even people who love it typically concede and for good reason. The story of this game is a fairly simple and basic story structure. Hero awakes and must do their fate, mother dies, protag cries, they go on a journey to collect the plot items, they collect plot items but OH NO THE ENEMY HAS PUT A WRENCH IN IT! Then they build themselves back up, collect the items and murder the big bad. Along the way you get some angsty zombie stuff but it's cheap emotions, kids complicated relationships to their parents, a theme which you'd think maybe is one of the grander themes but really isn't touched on with Sombron and Alear/Vayel despite Sombron being the main baddy.

Alear has a minor story arc, Alear is scared but then Alear isn't scared only Alear basically always stepped up so the gameplay and the story don't intgrate well here, if Alear even had one map of running away when she shoulda fought and that is why they lost emblem rings or something it would have more solidly locked in "oh Alears character flaw is that she runs away but now she knows to stay and fight" or it could have been a contrast and been like "it's a good thing that Alear knows when to run" and separate Alear from other lords in the series.

The games plot is deeply uncurious aiming for the most simple solutions down to the point where Vayel doesn't have an evil second personality [which I mean is ableist but they still make you think that] it's actually mind control evil second personality. It turns out Vayle and Alear is just goddy good Fell Dragons and all the other ones were totally naturally evil and okay to kill I guess. Vayel could have had an edge to her, there could have been redemption for the "evil" part of Vayel that would be a far more complicated set of emotions and more interesting then no one needs to forgive her because actually every bad thing she did to everyone was evil mind control and every good thing is the real her.

Then there is the DLCs plot which almost makes Engages main plot look good taking you to an everyone is dead AU where everyone is fucked up cuz their zombies I guess or they just are like this in this world but also it only is interested in exploring the lords and the "good" versions of the bad quad with an addition of two new characters. Theirs an obvious twist villain but they try and just red herring you to think it's the girl twin instead of the boy twin who is more clearly evil by showing Nel do some things that seem evil out of context. It's fairly boring, it doesn't engage what it wants to hard enough, it presents it in some fucking awful map designs and it's place in the plot being able to show up before you met the vast majority of the characters actual selves means it's possible you come in with both an army that isn't fun to do the maps with and without a good set of emblem rings but you also have no idea why it should be shocking to see a character like this. It mostly makes me wish that they had instead of making this all DLC worked some of the complicated relationships between characters into the actual plot of the game and had some more fell dragons that were a bit more complicated but redeemable potential party members.

Thematically and politically I am at a loss at what it wants to say, it doesn't even seem to want to say like war is bad or something basic like that. The only recurring theme is like parent dies and that's sad and that is like true for most people and their parents but it's not a particularly well done version of that theme. It's not really about the bounds of friendship and love because like idk there is so few scenes where people overcome things with the power of friendship of love. Like there is some tension between evil coded country and the others but like those are resolved by the future queen having a divine dragon kink and will be good because she worships the good god.

Characters

Fire Emblems cast is kind of like the cast of a Disegea game, which I typically enjoy only not over the top enough nor in a game with a tone consistently silly enough to justify the wild over the top energy of the characters. Characters all have bits and this is true of many fire emblem games but it is more rare for basically every single character to have a bit that is pretty definitive to them rather than a character trait. They are designed and written like a vtuber in a lot of ways, their meant to be cute, for you to find your fav and for you to hyper focus on that one. Only unlike a Vtuber you can't hop on and invested dozens of hours a week watching Yunaka shout Zappy as she murders someone in a video game and banters with chat.

There is a layer of depth to the characters that explain why a character is like this TM but these things typically come at the end of an A rank support which leaves you to assume "This girl sure does talk a lot about tea" if your not rushing to A with someone or if you RNG into one where ya she's mostly just talking about Tea. Again there are characters that are like this in other Fire Emblem games but few characters get the cool join situations, the cool moments in the story to really make you invest that deeply into them since the game is really focused on these lords and doesn't have a lot of interesting recruiting given every character is a lord or a servant of a lord. Not to mention that depth is usually not that deep like it's more like finding a foot bath in what you found thought was just someone spilling water rather then going into a hot tub of complex lore, character drama, and passion.

I did enjoy the characters for my time with them like a light hearted kids animated show where I go "aww these guys are fun" but like one of those I don't really think about the characters after. I enjoy when I see art of Yuanaka or the Racket of Solm fan art, I go "Oh I like those girls, their neat" but I never feel like "OMG Yes, let's fucking go!!!!!" like I do for many other characters in many other pieces of art.

Then in terms of the villains Sombron is paper then with a random new motive at the very end that is utterly uninteresting. The four hounds are fun enough characters since their allowed to be a little complicated but their also as an enemy on a map over staying their welcome for the amount of times you put swords into their bodies lealthy. The four hounds then feel under cut by the "good" versions of them that exist in the DLC which are basically what if they were boring, they are the good versions. Evil Vayel as mentioned earlier is boring because she's just mind control evil and not a real person. There is very few enemy of the map type enemies to think about and the ones that do exist are paper thin, your not going to get a stand off with a commander that you feel complicated feels about having to kill here.

Then we got to get into the endings, the lack of paired supports give everyone a static boring ending unless Alear wanted to give them a special friendship bracelet which totally doesn't mean romance HAHAHA alear doesn't want to date children or married men HAHAHA pay no attention to the man behind the mirror. It strips agency from the player, the translation no romos several romances with Alear that should be totally fine anyway, their just extremely poor at creating a sense of what you did to the world after you saved it because the world was perfect basically except Sombron was a dick. The characters don't feel like they grew in their little ending bits for the most part it's kidna like they went on to do what you'd expct them to do.

Then there is the emblem rings which are given fairly shallow interactions that range to them being pretty out of character to them saying a one line joke to them saying "remember that thing from my game." The shallow level of interaction with the rings is really unfortunate but also fortunate because it meant they didn't write a ton of these characters. They still feel like they should have beena bigger deal and been a bit more involved in the plot as well as having some deeper relationships with characters.

Also you get two fucking dragons on your team both of whom can't turn into dragons, there are these hot older women who are capable in battle but can't get recruited for the cause because I guess their not young and fuckable, there is so little interest in the world of this game outside of lords and their servants [which is a flaw in a lot of modern FE], why the literal child soldiers like Anna, there is a lot of frustrating character choices that could have been done better.

Presentation

I think the graphics are good, I think they look pretty, I like bright colors in my eyeballs and it works for me. I think graphically it's a clear step up from houses, the places look very beautiful. They make a fairly uninspired choice of diving the game into 5 themed regions with a kinda similar design principle across the maps Flower, Mountainy, Evily snow, Sand, really evil. This does take away from a kinda unquie feeling to each place you go but they don't look bad.

Music wise, the opening theme is dumb, I like it but it's corny and clearly gonna be divisive but it suits the game that it is for. As music in the game goes though it's fine, it's a fine soundtrack of fine songs that are fine. Only a few songs are really bangers though and a lot of the music doesn't stand out to me a year later I can basically just think the opening theme and the engaging an emblem remix. I am actively trying to recall another song as I write this and I end up just getting the Three Houses Monastery music in my head instead.

The animations I will simply give full marks too, the animations after many years after the GBA finally don't look bad. Crits look cool, the engage attacks look cool, there is some coolness to be had there where the more real and grounded animations since Gamecube were never my favorite. Great job engage, I hope the series keeps it up.

Gameplay

People talk about Fire Emblem Engage's gameplay being the best in the series but it really isn't and it's not like stunning SRPG design in general. Perhaps if your looking for a challenge the maddening experience is some sort of revolution but the average player of any video game will be playing on the "normal" mode which is by default the intended mode. The game features mechanics that one might think is for grinding but utterly fail at that, the loading screens between managing things make the act of building characters tedious and annoying, the mini game gameplay that optimize maps is awful, the way you can spend resources for cosmetics that you can't use in battle is awful, the lack of little touches to the smithing system like being able to alter or name your weapons is bad. These are all gameplay, these aren't the maps but there part of playing the game and while you can in future runs maybe ignore most of these things you will likely experience some of these and some things were stream lined with patches but these patches will go away and eventually getting supports between characters will go back to being fairly annoying.

Then we can talk about the beloved maps and engaging. The gameplay using the skill system is utterly flawed with the SP being so poorly distributed makes building characters utterly prone to accidently wasting SP and not being able to get a build on that character that will feel good for the rest of the run. This effects gameplay in maps as does the fact you only have two slots for said skills making for fairly small amounts of build possibilities for the wide swath of options you get especially if you get the DLC. The map design doesn't present the fun diverse set of objectives an SRPG is capable of with most maps being kill the boss or kill all the things. They do present different little map gimmicks and they do make some of the maps good but the maps fail in the biggest way that a map can in an SRPG which is to be narratively uninteresting.

I could make a whole article about the sin to the world that is Xenologue 5 which is a top contender for worst map in all of Fire Emblem. In general the Xenolouge maps really are a perfect exercise and exposing the magic of the pretty lights of Engage and going "Oh this game is awful".

It's boring to fight the same 4 dudes. Your so rarely put up against someone new and neat and the characters you are fighting don't grow much until their about to actually die. The repeating four hounds fights creates a dissonance where your people permanently die if they lose in battle but you can't get the kill on these people your doing 1000 flashy attacks on. If you can enjoy a map in isolation perhaps these maps are good, great even but it doesn't fix the issues.

The Bonus Content TM

I talked about the stuff in gameplay but I want to reiterate that the bonus parts of the game are in fact a part of the gameplay.

First off we got costumes which are utterly frustrating even outside of being locked to the hub world. The clothes are gender locked where boys where boy clothes and girls where girl clothes expect Rosado who is a special femboy and in no way a dirty tranny we make fem boys not dirty transgenders in Fire Emblem [this is sarcasm, I am trans] who gets to wear girl clothes. Never mind Jade wearing more masculine clothes in her casual outfits if she had to chose between a butler or a maid outfit clearly she'd pick to be a kawaii maid. The only kind of gender deviation being allowed in the random costumes even for Alear being the femboy fetishist at IS's pet project is pretty pathetic. Also pathetic is the gender lock applying to the amiibo lord costumes which in addition are also even more limited only being wearable by lord characters and only lords of the right gender even if Lucina clothes are mens wear their only for women and very special bloodline women. Then all of this taking resources simply damages the game further.

The mini games include a Rhythm game with no Rhythm as if Fire Emblem has no amazing songs to be playing a work out mini game to. We have a flight sim on rails shooter thing but no enemies or added depth. A fishing game that is a fishing mini game. These are boring to passable but they all give you benefits from doing them so if you wanted to truly optimize you'd need to do them between every map.

Then there is the "interactive" bonus elements talking to people at Somnel and post map, inviting people to dinner, sending people to do an activity together. I've avoided comparing this game to Three Houses until this point but I have to here, Three Houses and Engage started development at roughly the same time so Engage had many more years in development but each and every one of these things are far less in depth then in Houses. There is no voice acting for these sections, unlike houses where every map you have new voiced interactions with every character some of which are dynamically tied to choices you made you get mostly rotating lines with a few people interjecting a text box of almost nothing of value. There is no special bonus conversations for sending people to work together who might have something to say to each other. The meals and creepy bed time interactions are voiced but the interaction between characters is very limited and the lines are pretty repetitive only working with an RNG system of if the food is shit or not which is only annoying. The bedtime interactions of someone waking you up are totally RNG based meaning a character you hate might come wake you up and you have to here about the Alpaca hero and they change when you raise up supports with them meaning each special voiced interaction with sleeping requires you to go out of your way to do something of no value to hope you RNG into the character you like saying a few words less you accidently support them and miss a piece of dialogue. It feels cheap, it feels bargain basement, it feels undercooked.

The grinding here kinda feels like it wishes it was Scared Stones but the pay off for climbing the grind in this game isn't exclusive post game characters, exciting special weapons but some orbs for an optional upgrade system randomly given to you so maybe you can upgrade the weapon you want but maybe not. The bound rings gacha is not an indepth system that is fun to play with. It's just another place where things feel super under cooked despite the long development cycle on this game.

Final Thoughts

Talking about the game I actually feel a lot more negative on it then when I put together the little list at the top or when I wrote an Anniversary of mid, I kinda just feel like actually it's just bad but like it's probably mid and not bad and I am just impassioned writing all my complaints. This is a game that had a ton of potential but I feel squandered it at every opportunity.

I wish I liked Engage, I Wish I liked Fates, but if this is the direction that IS is taking their games when their the primary devs of Fire Emblem I am just not gonna buy IS developed Fire Emblem games because ultimately I got way more physic damage playing these games then I got joy. Fire Emblem is my favorite game series, the one I would say I am actually part of the fandom of and I want to love every new entry, to be hype, to fall in love, to gamble on my phone for little jpegs but I'm just not here with this.

I think Engage presented cool new ideas like the Break System which I think is great and should return but in general I fear this direction. I'd love to see something akin to Engage skills with some flashy over powered stuff. I like how these these interact with the core mechanics and I think their fun additions to the formula.

I just hope this one year anniversary set of thoughts is enough to free me of my Engage demons and I can just never think about it again and go onto playing fan games, rom hacks and replaying older games I enjoy along with new Indie SRPGs leaving this behind to simply exist for the people who love it.

If you enjoyed this look back at Fire Emblem Engage and you want to help me play more Fire Emblem or other SRPGs then Patreon and Ko-fi are a great way to support me so I can afford to talk about queer art and stuff.

[arkus-rhapsode]

Bracelet of the Three Houses Bonds

So when FE Engage introduced the Three House Lords Emblem, I was a little disappointed that we didn’t get Alear/Veyle style bond convos where all three lords talk to the character in different ranks. Instead we’d have a single house lord bond with a character. Well now with the DLC we have all characters so we can see just who bonds with who and take a count. 

Bonds with Edelgard

Mauvier 

Rosado 

Celine 

Panette 

Bunet 

Zelkov 

Jade 

Yunaka 

Alcryst 

Vander 

Louis

Madeline

Rafal

Bonds with Dimitri

Seadall 

Merrin 

Pandreo 

Ivy 

Kagetsu 

Diamant 

Anna 

Lapis 

Clanne 

Boucheron 

Chloe

Zelestia

Nel

Bonds with Claude

Saphir 

Lindon 

Goldmary 

Alfred 

Citrinne 

Timerra 

Fogado 

Amber 

Framme 

Jean 

Etie 

Hortensia

Gregory

Credit to InSys, pre DLC, I was bugged that Claude had one more bond that the other lords because I'm a sucker for symmetry. But looks like they had it planned out and now everyone has an equal 13 bonds.

[ghostmistdraws]

Six Fanarts Challenge!!

[A second one may be coming as well ;)]

Winter Hayle (The Lunar Chronicles) Suggested by: @astrozei

Eda Clawthorne (The Owl House) Suggested by: @roboboners

Bilbo Baggins (Lord of the Rings) Suggested by: @limpnoodles

Jemma Simmons (agents of SHIELD) Suggested by: @thatwasntsupposedtohappen

Leopold Fitz (agents of SHIELD) Suggested by: @eddieshellscape

Frankie Stein (Monster High) Suggested by: @armed-saphire

[meebochii]

FE Engage Masterpost

I’ve realized that I have way too many posts about Engage so I thought it might be better to have it all in one place so it’s easier to find :)

If a link doesn’t work or leads somewhere else; please tell me!

latest update: june 16

Logbook

Vander

Clanne

Framme

Alfred

Céline

Boucheron

Etie

Chloé

Louis

Jean

Diamant

Alcryst

Amber

Jade

Citrinne

Lapis

Yunaka

Saphir

Ivy

Hortensia

Kagetsu

Zelkov

Rosado

Goldmary

Anna

Lindon

Timerra

Fogado

Panette

Merrin

Pandreo

Bunet

Seadall

Veyle

Mauvier

Sommie

↬ DLC

Nel

Rafal

Zelestia

Gregory

Madeline

S Support

Royals

Stewards of the Dragon

Firene Retainer

Brodian Retainer

Elusian Retainer

Solm Retainer

The Four Winds

Fell Dragons

Credits

The Divine Dragon Monarch

The Crown Prince

The Brodian King

The Elusian Queen

The Crown Princess

Princess Céline

Prince Alcryst

Princess Hortensia

Prince Fogado

Lady Veyle

The Street Performer

The Reunion

The Thirteen Emblems

↬ DLC

Savior from Another World

Fogado Alter

Alfred Alter vs Rafal

Diamant Alter vs Nel

Ivy Alter vs Timerra Alter

Vander vs Rafal

Alear vs Fell Dragon Rafal

The Four Winds

Rafal and Nel

Seven Bracelets

Art Tag

A Hero Rises [Part 1]

A Hero Rises [Part 2]

A Hero Rises [Part 3]

Countdown Art: Older Royals

Countdown Art: Younger Royals

Countdown Art: The Twins

DLC Emblems

Manga: Alear and Marth

Manga: Diamant, Ivy, Alfred & Timerra

Nel and Nil

All Engage Forms

Alear (male)

Vander

Clanne

Framme

Alfred

Céline

Boucheron

Etie

Chloé

Louis

Jean

Diamant

Alcryst

Amber

Jade

Citrinne

Lapis

Yunaka

Saphir

Ivy

Hortensia

Kagetsu

Zelkov

Rosado

Goldmary

Anna

Lindon

Timerra

Fogado

Panette

Merrin

Pandreo

Bunet

Seadall

Veyle

Mauvier

↬ DLC

Nel

Rafal

Zelestia

Gregory

Madeline

Gif Sets

↬ Pre-Release

Alear & Marth Fusion

Male & Female Alear waking up

Diamant - Crown Prince of Brodia

Dark Emblems

“Everyone you care about…”

Emblems and Rings

Byleth in Engage

“Emblem… ENGAGE!”

Male & Female Alear

DLC Wave 1 - Three Houses Lords

DLC Wave 1 - Young Tiki

Kagetsu

Kagetsu in battle

Alear × Three Houses Lords

“Why are… you here alone?”

Diamant (+ Roy)

↬ After Release

Male & Female Alear Engaging with Marth

Crown Prince Diamant of Brodia

Male & Female Alear with Lumera

A 1000 years ago

The Thirteenth Emblem

Crown Prince Alfred of Firene

Crown Princess Ivy of Elusia

Crown Princess Timerra of Solm

Alear and Diamant

Chrom and Robin, Emblem of Bonds

Veronica, Emblem of Heroes

A Good Dragon

Chrom and Robin’s Engage Attack

Veronica’s Engage Attack

Zelestia, Gregory and Madeline

Nil

Other Stuff

Meebochii plays Engage

DLC Wave 4

FE17 Ask Game

“Emblem Engage!” Fell Xenologue Lyrics

Character Tierlist

↬ Playlists

Character Playlist

Dialear Playlist

Rafalear Playlist

[ofradiances]

Emblem Ike Dialogue Analysis.

Been working on this slowly over time. Going through his bond conversations with different characters and comparing against my headcanon. Apart from them having him talk way too much about eating meat dishes there's nothing that really stands out to me as against my own headcanons.

Other than that, my favorite parts are counting how many times he mentions people from his games and in what context!

Of course the most common mention is his father, who comes up 6 times. He is mentioned in Alcryst's bond convo, where he sympathizes with Alcryst feeling inadequate next to Diamant and compares it to his own feeling of chasing after his father's reputation. He also mentions him in his Diamant bond conversation by mentioning his father trained him. Diamant then goes on to express his own insecurities about living up to his own father, Ike is the perfect sounding board for that.

Other than those mentions, Greil is mentioned with Kagetsu, Seadall, Saphir, and Madeline.

Shinon comes up twice. Once is a casual mention in Kagetsu's bond chain, the other is Ike making a direct comparison between Shinon and Rafal due to the chip on Rafal's shoulder.

Mist is mentioned only once but it is a cute moment where Ike compares Jean to her and says that he admires healers.

Other than that, Soren, Titania, and Makalov get very brief mentions (the former two for their combat skills and the third when Jade prompts him for a strange character for inspiration for her book).

Beneath the cut are some of the miscellaneous topics he discusses and how they relate to my hcs:

First of all the recurring mention of him eating meat got very old very fast. That is part of what made me drag my feets somewhat on writing this out. I don't know why they decided that was his sole character trait. I think he only mentions it a few times in PoR and RD and even then it is definitely only when food is already brought up.

I digress. Timerra and Merrin bring it up a lot on their own so it makes sense Ike gets involved when they do.

His bond conversation with Seadall is really interesting to me not only because they bond over those who taught them all they know and have since passed on but because Seadall's dancing gets one of the rarest Ike compliments of all: he calls the way Seadall moves beautiful and clearly admires him a lot. This is interesting because Ike is so rarely shown taking an interest in the arts. I like the idea that if he had the space to slow down a little bit he would be appreciative of performance and music and I like that this helps me fully form that.

With many characters he discusses training and the desire to get better. A few times he explicitly mentions that he trains alone and has a hard time training with others but often expresses a willingness to do so anyway.

He and Céline have very similar philosophies.

With Rosado and Panette he discusses having no manners or etiquette. I like that this never changes. A few people who are respectful of Emblems at large (Clanne and Framme, Pandreo, Alcryst) call him "Lord Ike" and he doesn't correct them. Most just call him Ike.

This one just made me laugh. Goldmary never change.

[airlock]

CYL8 Nerding - Internal Bottom 10

y'know, last year, the least voted character in CYL had just 2 votes to his name, so I thought this might be the first year we ever see a character get 0 votes!

this did not happen -- our least voted character this year has 1 vote. fucking incredible. anyway, shall we go all-in on this year's biggest losers?

AKANEIA #1: Dice, also Roberto (3 votes) #3: Reiden (6 votes) #4: we all still think of Luke as a small fry (11 votes) #5: Frost (13 votes) #6: Malledus (16 votes) #7: Boah (17 votes) #8: Roderick, also Belf, also Ymir (18 votes)

VALENTIA #1: Tatarrah, also Garth (3 votes) #3: Dolth (4 votes) #4: Barth, also Jerome (6 votes) #6: Grieth (7 votes) #7: Halcyon (11 votes) #8: Slayde, also Blake (15 votes) #10: Marla (16 votes)

JUGDRAL #1: Danann (3 votes) #2: Scipio (4 votes) #3: Hilda, also Halvan (8 votes) #5: Sandima, also Alva, also Perne (10 votes) #8: Munnir (11 votes) #9: Tristan, also Deimne, also Safy (12 votes)

ELIBE #1: Lundgren (6 votes) #2: Zelot, also FE7!Murdock (8 votes) #4: FE6!Merlinus (10 votes) #5: Desmond, also FE6!Murdock (11 votes) #6: Hellene (14 votes) #7: Barthe (18 votes) #8: Saul (19 votes) #9: Fargus, also Durban (20 votes)

MAGVEL #1: Riev (8 votes) #2: Hayden (11 votes) #3: Rennac, also Vigarde (13 votes) #5: Dozla (26 votes) #6: Fado (28 votes) #7: Caellach (33 votes) #8: Orson (41 votes) #9: Natasha (42 votes) #10: Tethys (43 votes)

TELLIUS #1: Muston (1 vote) #2: Bertram (3 votes) #3: Daniel and Jorge twinning it the FUCK up (4 votes) #5: Hetzel (6 votes) #6: Kasatai (8 votes) #7: Bastian (10 votes) (I'M ONE OF THEM. YOU ABSOLUTE DASTARDS--) #8: Ludveck (12 votes) #9: Izuka (13 votes) #10: Numida (14 votes)

YLISSE #1: Cervantes (14 mustache hairs) #2: Validar (16 votes) #3: Phila (17 votes) #4: Kjelle (24 votes) #5: Flavia and Basilio sitting under a tree, F-I-G-H-T-I-N-G (25 votes) #7: Mustafa, also Excellus (31 votes) #9: Brady (33 votes) #10: Yen'fay (37 votes)

TMS#FE #1: Teru & Garrick (8 votes) #2: Kuen & Excellus (11 votes) #3: Chikaomi & Lon'qu (12 votes) #4: Chouten & Pheros (13 votes) #5: Nobu & Gangrel (19 votes)

HOSHIDO/NOHR #1: Tarba (7 votes) #2: Zhara, also Lloyd (8 votes) #4: Fuga (9 votes) #5: Llewelyn (11 votes) #6: Funke (12 votes) #7: Senno (15 votes) #8: Hans (17 votes) #9: Daichi (24 votes) #10: Arete, also Kumagera (30 votes)

FÓDLAN #1: Tomas, also Gwendal (4 votes) #3: Lonato (5 votes) #4: Pallardó (6 votes) #5: Aelfric (8 votes) #6: Ludwig aka Duke Aegir (9 votes) #7: Solon (11 votes) #8: Kostas (12 votes) #9: Volkhard aka Lord Arundel (13 votes) #10: Grégoire aka Count Varley (16 votes)

ELYOS #1: Hyacinth (38 votes) #2: Seforia (68 votes) (god dammit I knew I should have voted for her--) #3: Saphir (74 votes) (I DID VOTE FOR HER THOUGH YOU ABSOLUTE--) #4: Lindon (97 votes) #5: Morion (142 votes) #6: Bunet, also Zephia (158 votes) #8: Marni (187 votes) #9: not Marni (201 votes) (ie Madeline btw) #10: Vander (215 votes)

ZENITH #1: Ganglöt (50 votes) #2: Hel (69 votes) (nice) #3: Ótr (77 votes) #4: Nótt (88 votes) #5: Freyr (91 votes) #6: Ylgr (94 votes) #7: Múspell (116 votes) #8: Reginn (121 votes) #9: Letizia (122 votes) #10: Gustav (148 votes)