#no peace only problems for dimitri

[koroart]

Koko please tell me that in the Lambert lives au he does in fact, try to help play matchmaker for Dimitri and Claude to Dimitri's eternal embarrassment and suffering! I need this!

Oh absolutely!! What kinda dad would he be if he didn't??

I'm just imagining Dimitri talking to Lambert while they're having tea together, and somehow Claude comes up, and Dimitri ends up kinda gushing about him and then stops halfway through and looks at his dad -- and Lambert has the biggest shit eating grin on his face and Dimitri is just as flushed as a tomato 🍅

" F-Father it's-- it's not like that! I just simply admire him!"

"Oh, I'm sure you do little cub~"

[i-cant-sing]

Pinterest is my fav app, so heres a few pics that reminded me of my ocs:

Dr Eros and reader, and he's such a gentle bf who wants to help u with everything and anything, no matter how tired he is.

Theodore pulling reader on his lap (after quickly closing the tab that had surveillance cam footage of her room/apartment) and now chilling playing silly little games🥰

Magnus and reader he worships (what u thought was a romantic gesture was actually just Magnus putting an ankle monitor on you because he can't risk u running away and his cult chasing you and hurting you again.)

Dimitri catching reader escaping once again, and sure he laughed at first, because you're just absolutely adorable all out of breath, but then he saw you had hurt your feet from running barefoot and now he's not chuckling anymore because how dare you hurt yourself??? Don't you know that you don't even belong to yourself? Stop. Moving.

Halim and reader sitting in his big haveli (where all of his family loves together), and now Halim is finally at peace because he's finally married you (after you literally ran away and his family had to chase you for a whole year and drag you back to him because no one makes the youngest Shah- the baby of the family sad).

It's giving Lucifer taking care of reader in hell after she unalived herself because one of his demons tortured her and she's too naive and thinks that only Lucifer could lover her "tainted and impure" self.

Mehmet and reader walking home as she tells him about how all her problems just mysteriously resolved on their own (Mehmet literally spent the past 2 days making sure all your problems were personally taken care of, including the creep from the bus stand who used to stare at you too much- well, now he's blind. God works in mysterious ways)

[rorah]

The mentally stable Dimitri Fire emblem 3 hopes.

It surprises me that there's still ppl claiming so, but then I remember we're talking about 3h interpretations and I have to make peace with it.

But that doesn't stop me from venting a little bit in this little space I have lol. Actually, it dries me and makes me feel bad to bring this up because I will have to talk bad about Dedue, and I don't want to talk Bad about Dedue. He's a genuinely good boy. But "Human" nonetheless, which means Flaws. I like Felix too but he's become some sort of a clown that doesn't make me feel too bad. I like Felix tho, In a different way.

Mostly talking about these two because the take that "Dimitri has better support system" baffles me because, technically, these two are his support system in HopesVerse. The persons who Dimitri relays on and seek solace/advice/support. The rest doesn't really tackle any of his personal struggles (aside from the Mage!Mitri frustrated dream, but that's out of the bad equation in our 'mentally unwell' set of pixels, and Shez only has a glimpse). Contrary, to Houses verse where the whole blue lions cast knew about his shit, didn't know what to do, but didn't leave either.

I tackled this topic with other person on Twitter who was (or still is) on board with this take and the phrase they used was They contained him better, which of course I agree and remarked that was exactly the problem. Contain him is gonna be contra productive. I used a water dam analogy, where the structure of such dam is damaged, and the pressure of water keeps accumulating. Causing a foreseeable damage for the dam itself and the surroundings. You don't need to be a genius to understand it, you need experience or knowledge for mental ill topics tho.

I really don't want to extend so much on here because it's mostly just, rant format more than a proper analysis so I just want to point out these two things in their support conversations.

First, Dedue. Encourage him to keep on the vengeful path. Which we know was the final goal of Azure Moon and if you payed attention to 3 houses message. The whole Vengeful argument was something Bad, to keep it simple. Despite Dimitri actively looking for answers/guidance for something that, in a rational state he can see clearly like vengeance will consume his life (also Shez and Felix called out this behavior). Dedue answer only encourage him to keep on that path, because he would do that 💔. Presenting 2 oposite views is a great formula for confusion and disorientation. Now, Dedue's role is primary SUPPORT, not guidance nor orientation. He will support his shit no matter what, and we are quite aware of that if played Houses.

Second, Felix. Felix is a special case. He is smart but also an idiot lacks A LOT of soft skills to actually be of help. He's the only one who knows in this verse about Dimitri having a mental issue. In their A support to say the least, so they don't close or solve anything. What makes it more worrisome is the fact that Felix conceals the issue as a secret.

"So try to keep that whole "removing their heads" thing in check, yeah? We can just call it our little secret."

this extract here makes me feel so unwell 😭help

The whole burden falls over him and his lack of skills and wisdom on the matter will be too much for him later on. He at least, will be able to recognize that the problem is beyond of his capabilities and will look for help. Felix himself has his own issues and journey where he needs to learn. He's forced to get pass beyond some of his angry teen behavior but hasn't completely get over it.

There is a lot more to tackle, but that requires more work and time. What are the topics some of you think is important to cover around understanding the Hopes verse resolution? Dimitri's route? something? Do you think the route without Byleth is better? With that being said, I would like to delve deeper into character analysis, and the role each played for the Lords too. That also requires to talk about the Byleth and needs a whole analysis on their own, which requires time (which i don't have much lol) To end this vent, I would like to encourage people to do a little research for the terminology they're using like "Support System". Who makes it up and how it operates successfully. The fact that ppl saying "he has better support system" only because he didn't go feral on the run alone is not entirely valid. A reminder that people can feel alone with or without people around them. And containing the issue within doesn't solve any problem. At best, it's presented later. At worse, it gets worse.

[isan0rt]

Azure Moon "community healing" themes thoughts brought on by thinking about Gustave Dominic and his decision to fuck off and abandon his family and his duty to join the Church -

Everyone seems to generally agree this was a bad choice for him that solved nothing. His inability to square Faerghus's hypocrisy in responding to Lambert's murder with genocide does not justify abandoning his responsibilities and it does nothing to improve the conditions that caused his loss of faith. Choosing to leave removes vital support and protection from Dimitri, leaves Annette fatherless, and does nothing to help the people of Duscur. Dimitri and Annette are frustrated and angry, Dedue is disgusted with him, and the fandom generally agrees Gustave sucks for this.

But narratively this makes a wider point; which is that leaving Faerghus in disgust does nothing to solve the problems in Faerghus, and only makes things worse. The narrative itself is making the point that this is a negative thing for the Faerghus characters to do, via Gustave as the example.

Gustave couldn't take the grief and guilt caused by his failure to stop the Tragedy of Duscur and it helped no one to leave. He could have stayed and dealt with his guilt and advocated for Duscur, and protected and helped Dimitri, but he didn't and it made things worse for everyone.

And the same is true if the playable characters leave Faerghus in disgust to join the other nations' armies.

Felix, Sylvain, Ingrid, any of them leaving Faerghus to change sides will not bring them peace. It won't correct the material conditions that led to their individual traumas. It won't heal the wounds the Tragedy created in all of them. It will just remove their ability as the next generation of Faerghus's leaders to ever resolve those problems, the same way running away does nothing to solve the problems Gustave is running from. Gustave is an object lesson in the fact that to improve Faerghus, the people of Faerghus need to do the work even if it's hard and sucks.

Nobody in canon gives Gustave a pass for "leaving was the best thing for me personally." It doesn't make Gustave feel better either. It just makes things worse for everyone, including him. He represents something for the themes of the route, and that is that leaving is the easy way out, but only by coming together and doing the hard work of healing the fractured bonds can real improvement in Faerghus be made.

[superdaisypowerhour]

I spend a lot of time thinking about the fact that between claude edelgard and dimitri, and rhea, edelgard is the only one who goes into the events of three houses with any sort of retirement plan. Dimitri can never retire because as terrible and emmiserating an experience as being king is for him, as happy as he would be doing literally anything else, at the end of the day he and his friends are all trapped in the thing they fought to preserve. Even if he wanted to abdicate he couldnt, everything would fall spart and he would have no peace. Claude has a similar problem in that he is the lynchpin holding everything he does together, but the world he wants to make doesnt tie him there the same way dimitri’s does. It stands to reason that with the church more or less gone and the both almyra and fodlan under his control, the situation would stabilize enough for him not to have to hold it together, but its claude. He is going to keep his hands on the thing that is his new open world for as long as he can because he wont trust anyone else to do so. Rheas continued and adamant refusal to give up power is a significant factor of damn near everything that happens in the game. The nobility and he crest system are the direct result of her actions to maintain power, as is their perpetuation. And then there’s edelgard, 10th of 11 children, born first in line for absolutely fuckall, and as far as im aware, the only one to retire when she wins (i would not define rhea’s whole situation at the end of claude or dimitri’s routes a win for her and frankly i dont think she would either). I just think its interesting that shes the only one to abdicate without being forced to. Frankly, i just think its nice she doesnt have to or want to rule forever. That she chooses to live in the world she made.

[howi99]

SOTBL: A new world, the same problems.

Dimitri: *looking at a landline* And you say you can communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world, by just using this little device?

Verdant: Well, i wouldn't say anyone.... Or anywhere, but you can communicate from household to household.

Dimitri: *now looking at what he now knows is a radio* And this thing can play any music?

Verdant: Again, not every music. The radio station chose what they will play in advance during the day. Some take requests from the audience.

Dimitri: *now looking at the TV* And these box! You can have so much information about the temperature, what is happening in the world and-

Tv: Breaking News, a peaceful manifestation has turned into a bloodbath after an Atlesian soldier shot a young faunus boy. More info will come shortly.

Verdant: tch, damn Atlesian, it's the only kingdom that still uses slavery. They call it indentured servitude, but it's just a fancier world.

Dimitri: ... *Sigh* Everywhere i go, it's all the same. Just like Duscur.

Verdant: *scratching his neck* Well, the kingdom of Vale and the numerous city states of Vacuo, have been a lot more accommodating to the faunus, since we helped them during the great war. Mistral is a lot more neutral since they are allied to Atlas.

Dimitri: But aren't we in Mistral?

Verdant: Only by name. Like i said, we are technically a colony of Mistral, but in practice, we might as well be called the fifth "kingdom". Well, i say kingdom but except Atlas who still got a king and Vacuo who's technically a bunch of dukedom, the term is slowly losing its meaning.

Dimitri: What about Vale and Mistral?

Verdant: Vale has become a de facto democracy. There are still lords in the south, but they are appointed by the people instead of by inheritance. Mistral... *Shrug* it's a mess. With all the corruption going on in the capital, Menagerie is technically the safest place to be for now.

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If it wasn't obvious, i'm changing the canon of the story a lot. Though, it's not really like it will change much to the present.

[edns]

15 Lines Of Dialogue

Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture their character/personality/vibe. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you’re free to include those as well.

I was tagged two times in this thing already but I kept putting it off. Time to do it! Thank you @recurringwriter and @cherrypikkins for tagging me ^_^ These are pulled from various extremely disorganized scrivener files, some of the fics are posted, some are not. I will do my best to reference those that are posted, so you can read them!

“Say what you will, but I think I’m making the right choice. No matter what, I will choose to follow you, Your Highness. Every time.” - Cold Proximity

“I have been chasing a dead man for so long, now… I cannot tell who is dead and who is alive anymore." - Cold Proximity

“A monster…” As Cyrus sighed, a cloud of fog left his mouth, and he shivered a little. “Perhaps you are. Perhaps we both are. I see no problem in that; we live in a monstrous world, Dimitri.” - Cold Proximity (Sorry, this one has a Lot of good lines. I think you should just go and read it)

“Goddess… Do not let him die… Not again…” - Unposted WIP

“The only thing I cannot forgive you for is… trusting anyone but me.” - Aeternalis

“I’m not leaving scum like you alive. Not after what your kind has done to me. To Dimitri.” Cyrus’s eyes were burning with rage, even though his voice was quiet and eerily calm. “You’ve served your purpose here. Begone. May your soul never know peace.” - Aeternalis (You also should read it if you are into more messed up fics teehee)

“Remember… I love you no matter what, Dima." - Aeternalis

“I count myself as a Fraldarius. Even if Felix doesn’t, Father does.” Cyan looked away, staring off into the window. “Or even if other nobles don’t…” - His Path (Note: Cyan is Cyrus's name pre timeskip)

“He keeps saying these strange things about you,” Cyan said with a serious note in his voice. “Sometimes I wonder what he truly means.” - His Path (Note: This is in reference to Felix saying his usual things about Dimitri)

And that's all I've got for now! I have a lot of writing just. Laying around, unposted, but most of it is just not good.

I don't tag anyone right now, but if anyone wants to steal this from me, you are more than welcome to <3 Thank you for tagging me!

[dpsisquared]

Hey, ya know all of those arranged marriages dimileth au? And ‘ya know how I would fix Post Azure Gleam Ending? I would make it even worse.

With now Edelgard completely screwed up by the story and EVEN if she ever recovers her true self she will never be able to rule since she is a political hostage of the Kingdom, now we have a new problem in which the Empire has a huge political vacuum and making it a direct vassal state of the Kingdom is impossible because it will just cause trouble with the Alliance.

So now, in order to close the vacuum, avoid a new war and reinforce the crest system, Rhea pulls a conference for a calling of “lost members” of house Hresvelg.

In reality, there’s two candidates, the only two people alive who have a crest of Seiros:

Rhea herself (who declined due wanting to become a moderator between the three powers) or…

Jeralt Eisner (an already an extremely respected and admired paladin in all of Fodlan and ALREADY has an heir).

Ghee… I wonder who would be the new emperor.

Rhea “revealing” (wink wink) to the masses Jeralt was the little brother of Ioniouis IX all along who was too noble to join the Empire ambitions™ and jointed the church / the kingdom with her help when he was a teen.

Rhea forcing his hand and dragging him into the throne being like “why are you even mad, it will be just a blink for you and you guys can just fake your death and disappear at the end like I did… also the alternative is a brand-new war.”

Jeralt being insanely pissed off but complying in the end because she just put a huge target on his and his kid’s backs.

And all imperial nobles whole heartedly supporting Jeralt (or at least pretending to) because that would mean their crest system and status would stay unchanged.

Rhea and Rodrigue proposing a new arranged marriage between king Dimitri and future emperor Byleth to protect future peace.

Thank you for coming to my anon ted talk!

Wow 😅 Not sure who I feel more sorry for in this scenario, Jeralt, or Fodlan in general lol

[butwhatifidothis]

Also, a conquering force thats fully refusing to compromise versus people defending themselves and have showed to be open to peaceful communications and compromises is. lol. not a conflict of ideals. Ooooh if only they TALKED this all could have been - well yes except there is only one specific party here that is refusing to talk and I dont think everyone else should be blamed for her being a pig-head, actually.

Especially when Dimitri, once his mind settles, straight up says that it was her methods he had his primary issue with, not her ideals

Note that he asks her what her ideals even are here, at the end of the war itself, meaning that they obviously weren't any motivating factor for him to fight her before because he didn't even know what they were. He just wants to know why she did this shit - that he didn't exactly take to her "I had to kill people, or they would have died!" mentality afterwards has shit all to do with everything before that moment.

And especially especially when Claude even straight up says in the beginning of VW that he agrees with her, but that it was literally specifically her bloody methods that made him stand against her

Ideals are, at the beginning, what Claude and Edelgard literally have no conflict about. And he makes the revelation that Rhea was a positive influence after defeating Edelgard, so his change in opinion about her didn't have anything to do with his beef with Edelgard either. His problem with Edelgard, like Dimitri, was her proclivity to murder innocents. Which, uh, yeah, kind of a bit of a deal-breaker there.

And then you have Edelgard, who explicitly and directly states that she wants to destroy the Church, Kingdom, and Alliance to force Fodlan back under complete Imperial control.

THERE AIN'T SHIT ABOUT IDEALS. BECAUSE EDELGARD DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT IDEALS. THAT IS NOT WHY SHE STARTS HER WAR AND SHE MAKES HERSELF SO, SO CLEAR ABOUT IT.

Like, to be clear, I can't stand the game either whenever it does to some degree try to sprinkle that shit in here to make Edelgard easier to take in, but holy shit do Dimitri and Claude make it hilariously obvious that Edelgard's ideals are not the damn issue here. The fandom clinging on to this idea just to make some limp-wristed "they were all bad in some way!!!!!" point is annoying

[widevibratobitch]

Hi! It's me, the rant anon again. I wanted to ask about two things:

1. What was the drama with opera bracket? I've only heard legends but nothing certain.

2. Who is your favourite living opera singer? And what do you think of Diana Damrau, Rolando Villazon and Dimitri Chrostovsky?

Sorry if I'm bothering you with questions. Love, S

hiiiiii anon dear <3

1. WELL. long story short: basically it was just an innocent poll contest that got a little heated and split operablr in two. some people "took it too seriously", some not seriously enough perhaps, which resulted in a wild vagueposting storm from both sides, some blocks, some frankly hilarious memes, and finally ended with a beautiful callout post (happy anniversary btw, it was exactly one year ago <3) and the most mediocre opera of all time ultimately winning.

2. now that is a complicated question since there are opera singers nowadays whom i have a lot of very indulgent fondness for even though i personally think they don't sing that well at all (some of them genuinely sing Very Badly lol). there are also some that actually sing quite well but i just cannot fucking stand them alas.

from the ones who are alive and still active, I'd say Saioa Hernandez is worth checking out, god knows she has her issues, she's been becoming more and more wobbly these last few years and just lacks the idk. grace? in her singing but damn is she loud + i don't know of any other soprano (OR mezzo for that matter) who uses her chest voice this freely and audaciously in the very old school fashion that's been steadily disappearing since about mid 20th century to the point where it's near nonexistent nowadays (and I'm a bit of a chest voice fanatic fyi). to me she's akin to Alessandro Moreschi aka the last and only castrato we actually have a (wax cylinder actually, ha!) recording of - basically, you can tell the technique and execution is not quite it, but with their singing we at least get the idea of what it Could have sounded like.

Damrau - absolute fucking wreck of a singer, im sorry but she's a disaster. i get physically tired just listening to her. totally inaudible live too. i do enjoy her totally over the top acting sometimes tho lol

Villazon is I'd say somewhat self explanatory. He completely ruined whatever voice he had and is now singing as a baritone if i recall correctly? Good technique doesn't do that to a singer. Don't hate him tho, he seems like a very sillygoofy dude and i remember him being somewhat entertaining.

Hvorostovsky, ah yes, certified operablr sexyman. He started out really, really good and kept like that for a while, went downhill from there but I do acknowledge his severe health problems. I get where people obsessed with him are coming from and I have a lot of respect for him. he just never quite did it for me, we never really vibed, sorry. Definitely a solid artist tho.

so. definitely not bothering me! quite the opposite actually! i love talking into the void about things im passionate about and sorry if i sound like a pretentious big-headed cunt, that's probably because i am just that, peace and love <3 totally seriously tho, thank you for asking!

[gay-kurapika]

This is a very "me" problem, being such a big fan of fire emblem three houses, but I almost can't stand the reddit for this game anymore because everyone says "crimson flower was my least favorite route" like....come on dude. Edelgard is literally the only leader who can say "after being tortured by both the church and the people the church has been hunting, I conclude that both shouldn't exist and we should create something new." Claude comes close to that, but still allows the church to continue. Like I honestly do not care that Rhea saw her entire family murdered and turned into weapons because she literally murders other people on like whim. She doesn't care about humans at all. She cares about her little god descended siblings and that is it. She only wanted Byleth around because she believed that by using Byleth's body (and killing them in the process) that she could resurect her mother. She's as much as a monster as Nemesis was for killing her family in the first place. Edelgard might use violence to reach her goal, but she literally does it to end centuries of violence that happened before, and reform society to something that doesn't classify nobles or people with crests as better than people who were born to common families and work harder and are smarter. Like she's the only actual revolutionary. Dimitri is a fucking suck up and his only virtue is revenge and depression at his parents being killed. Claude has very good ideas about open borders and peace, but he ultimately will not stop the church's oppression, he'll just leave Byleth in charge because they are more compassionate than Rhea. Like Edelgard is the only true revolutionary. Plus if you join her, you actually see her real personality, which is not nearly as cold and calculating as people say it is. She's motivated by caring deeply about other people, and being selfless in the process.

[raxistaicho]

Fantasy Invader gets a disciple!

Recently @diaphin93​ went into it with @xenofan19​ in this post. I had a few points to add, though I refrained from just reblogging it because the post is already hella long.

Lonato was a minior lord who had mabey a couple hundred people who he multiplied into getting killed for his “revange” hardly a popular uprising but yay lie if you want.

He still quite clearly had the ardent support of his people on his march. I believe “multiplied” is meant to be “manipulated”, but there’s no evidence of this in the game.

Further down, Xeno says:

We actually see that he used and his people in his goal and gained surport from the westen church whitch was working with the Agarthans and Edelgard. Hell its impilled that Edelgard set this whole thing up just to have a look at Serios tomb showing how little she values the lifes of the common people.

The Western Church were working with the Agarthans? Where’s the evidence of that?

And yes, Edelgard did all that to get into the tomb of Seiros - to prove it’s empty. Edelgard knows Seiros is actually alive because she’s Rhea (she says that Thales that the bones not being there are “news”, suggesting that she allowed him to believe the plan was just to grab more Nabatean bones). The Sword of the Creator being there was what surprised her.

That said, we don’t know whether involving Lonato specifically was Edelgard’s intent. The WC Bishop takes credit for involving him in Ashe and Catherine’s paralogue,

In any case, the last point has been addressed many many times; Edelgard is killing a few now to spare another millennia of suffering in the future. The bandage has to be ripped off.

Edelgard ending shows that Hubert hunts down and get rid of uprisings and rebellions showing off Edelgard oppressive nature.

Wow, Elincia’s a fuckin’ tyrant then, isn’t she? Part 2 of Radiant Dawn is all about her getting rid of an uprising and a rebellion that unfortunately had support from the common people.

But seriously, suppressing rebellions before they can start is tyrannical? C’mon, snap out of it. Also,

Damn boy, VW Byleth’s such an oppressor.

Now I’m sure the defense here is going to be that Edelgard was suppressing civilian revolts against her while Byleth is stopping uprisings from Imperial nobility or the remnants of the military, but there’s no evidence for either. The Hubert ending that Edelgard’s detractors like to get upset about states,

In reality, their nights were filled with fierce combat against rebels, assassins, and those who slither in the dark.

Which is pretty vague, and really just seems to be a catch-all for various people who would want to break the post-war peace.

One member of the church thinks Dedue might be responsible not because of his race but because he is from a nation that was believed to have killed King Lambert. This in no way shows the church is xenophobic, just that one guy doesn’t trust Dudue because of past events. 

It’s not just one guy, and it’s not even just Duscur.

From chapter 4:

Also from chapter 4:

From Chapter 6:

Claude makes claims about the church that are never actually proven in game and he even says in VW that the teachings of the church are not xenophobic. Claude and Dimitri surport in Hopes makes no sense and is even disproved by the games own lore as well 90% of Claude claims come out of nowhere and have zero evidence. 

Yeah but here’s the thing, in VW it’s Lorenz, who knows Fodlan and the church better than Claude, who says it. Now yes, Claude disagrees with him, but the circumstances in VW are night and day from GW. In VW, Claude is rather brazenly looking to use the church’s influence and the Knights of Seiros, through Byleth, for his benefit. It’s natural then that he would be interested in brushing aside the worst of the church’s excesses: not only does he want them on his side, he has the perfect person to take over and fix the church’s problems.

Dimitri and Claude surport is poorly written in a secret chapter that ignores the canon all of the routes so sorry if I don’t take it with any facts definitely when Claude says nonsense that he never mentions before or after the event. 

Honestly this just reads to me like you don’t like what Hopes had to say about the church so you’re refusing to listen to it...

Edelgard  is willing working with that force and has shown a clear preference for the nobility system you claim she is trying to take down so much that Hopes shows she gives them special treatment and works ageist the common people.

Oh christ, don’t listen to Fantasy Invader. I mean it. Other sources of anti-Edelgard takes will say correct things on occasion, but he specifically doesn’t ever seem to have a clue what he’s talking about.

I’ve gone over his source on the point you’re making, he completely misinterpreted the line and forgot which character even said the offending sentence in question.

More here.

Like Edelgard own ending shows that she doesn’t make the changes you speak off 

What?

As the new Adrestian emperor, Edelgard dedicated her life to reshaping the delicate political structure of Fódlan. With tireless work and great sacrifice, she reformed the class system to ensure a free and independent society for all. In her later years, she entrusted her life's work to a worthy successor before finally vanishing from the public eye. 

It’s rather broadly spoken, yes, but it says she did the reforms.

Duscur was a flause flags operation carried out by Edelgard own allies and only the westen lords with most of the Kingdom not being involved.

It doesn’t matter that only a few of the Kingdom Lords were involved; they still conspired in regicide. The important point here is that since they did with it Lambert, they’d do it again with Dimitri if necessary.

Edelgard also never tried to help the people of Duscur and has zero plans or goals to help them simple because they are not form Fodlan so don’t matter to her.

Like Edelgard comes off worse in that situation then either the Kingdom or Church as unlike them she never even tries to help the people of Duscur.

How would she help the people of Duscur? She’s an Adrestian princess/emperor. It was the Faerghans who committed a genocide. To help the people of Duscur she’d have to take over the country first. You know, that thing you get mad at her about.

Or what, do you think she’d have any success by going, “actually, I know the people of Duscur didn’t kill King Lambert, and I know this because the actual perpetrator told me! N-no, I can’t actually support this claim...”

People didn’t listen to Dimitri when he said the people of Duscur were innocent, and he was there at the time. Who on earth is going to listen to the princess of another country who was on the other side of the continent at the time?

Lastly, on the point about her having no plans to help them, just because nothing is said of the people of Duscur in CF or SB doesn’t mean Edelgard has no plans for them. They, too, are part of the oppressed peoples she hopes to uplift. Only AM and AG focus on Duscur, because it’s intrinsically tied to Dimitri’s character plot. Much like how the Faerghan and Leicesterian routes don’t really have much to say about Brigid.

And lastly, yes, the Tragedy of Duscur was the assassination attempt planned by the Agarthans and instigated with the support of the Western lords. But the tragedy of Duscur was when the people of Faerghus went full Faerghan Revenge mode and launched a genocide of the people of Duscur. The Agarthans didn’t mind-control the people of Faerghus to do that, they did it on their own.

And yet neither Dimitri’s fans nor AM or AG seem interested in addressing the point. Dimitri only ever seeks to punish the nobles who were behind the Tragedy, but there’s never any word of any actual repentance from the Faerghan troops who did the tragedy. It’s bizarre how it seems like the two events cannot be decoupled in the minds of the writers or Edelgard’s detractors, as though the Faerghans going full Revenge Brain Mode and genociding an entire people because they think they killed their king was just the inevitable outcome of Lambert being assassinated. It was like mud slides just naturally following a fierce rainstorm due to the physics involved, rather than the result of Faerghus’s culture of honoring and avenging the dead over the living.

But then again AM, AG, and most of all Edelgard’s detractors, are not interested in criticizing the flaws of Faerghus’s culture.

Lol you do know it could be argued that Edelgard starts a war of faith in Hopes as she wants her new state church to become the main one whitch would grant her more religious power in Fodlan whitch is actually brought up in AG. 

Oh yeah, you’re definitely listening too much to Fantasy Invader...

Hey, did you know Fantasy Invader thinks this banner:

Is symbolic for this banner:

Despite them clearly looking completely different?

Anyways, yeah, the only thing we hear about the Southern Church in AG is that Gilbert and Gautier just vaguely don’t like the sounds of what they’re preaching, and seriously fuck both those men. If they think it’s bad, it can only be good. Their stopped clock had its minute hand ripped off.

She is even more obsessed over Byleth then Rhea but never actually opens up to them and right up to the end of the game lies to control Byleth. You can try and lie and claim how Dimitri and Rhea would be worse but the game shows how Edelgard is far more toxic partner. 

Yeah, get back to me when Edelgard steals an unconscious Byleth away into her room for an indeterminate period of time to give them a lap pillow treatment and then comes just shy of sexually assaulting them...

Edelgard doesn’t tell Byleth what to think or what to believe. In fact she frequently just asks questions of Byleth throughout White Clouds to try to get them to consider the world and their place in it more clearly.

Dimitri spent 5 years defending his people from being slaughtered by Edelgard as she was wiping out entire villages simple because they refuse to bow to her 

Gonna need evidence of that, chief.

[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.

[theink-stainedfolk]

And They Were Roommates

A vampire hunter, forming a peace treaty with a vampire? That is something unheard of. You see this trope is a lot of fantasy tv shows. But it seems that this trope has come to life.

"Pass me your chips." Said Darin Maignes.

"No. They are mine." Said Lyren Chauveron. 

Darin sighed and turned to look at Lyren, whose gaze was fixed on the TV. "You don't want me to kill my hunger with your blood now, or do you?"

Lyren turned to look at Darin. "You can't Maignes, we have signed a peace treaty. If you break it, you will have to pay the rent for the whole year." Darin's lips twitched into a smile that was threatening.  But Lyren was right. 

You see, Darin Maignes is a vampire. Like any other vampire, he sucks. Maignes family is large and successful with whatever club business they have. But Darin, he likes being independent so he moved to Wesving City in dreams of being a designer. Shearsley Apartments were the type of apartments that were costly, but not overly luxurious. Many celebrities lived there. Unfortunately for him, his family stopped sending him funds. (Though his mother usually secretly did send some money.) But that didn't stop him from renting the apartment. The only flat he got was already rented but the person was willing to share and divide the rent. This was the golden opportunity. 

"I am a peace lover." Said Dimitry Bizeveron, the landlord's son. "I love ducks."

"You mean Doves?" Darin corrected him. 

"No. I mean ducks." He said playing with his long locks. "Doves are overrated. Ducks are much better, they are emotionally supportive." A duck appeared out of nowhere and snuggled up to his leg just as he said that. "See?" He said picking up the duck. "He sensed that I craved his snuggles. Meet Downey. He is the best boi." He said tickling the duck. "So anyways. I don't like violence and if you have a problem with your roommate,  i suggest you solve it out outside or maybe you can just get the fuck out. If i hear any complaints, i will personally kick you and your roommate out and i will also make sure you don't get to stay anywhere in this city or maybe just make you incapable of moving all together. "

He didn't sound like someone who loves peace right now. Darin hates people like him. Why does he have to be so intimidating?

So this takes us to the present. Darin Maignes, the vampire, was officially a roommate with a vampire hunter, Lyren Chauveron. Their first meeting wasn't good. They got a yellow card from Dimitry. Now they have to be extra careful.

"Chauveron, the treaty also included that whatever present in the house is as much equally yours as it is mine. Sharing is caring. You don't want to break the rules and meet that half-blooded beast do you?"

Lyren gulped and slowly passed the packet to Darin who smirked in victory.

Dimitry Bizeveron was a half-blood vampire. You might think being a half blood makes powers less. But that was not true. Oriana Bizeveron, Dimitry's mother was one of the most strongest vampire, included with the Maignes. She almost killed Darin's uncle in a fight. Incredible lady known for her punch so strong you can meet jesus. But she was also rebellious. She abolished the unsaid rule of vampires only marrying vampires. She fell in love with a vet, who was a human. There is no doubt that Dimitry is strong, the problem is that no one actually knows what he is capable of doing. 

"Shut up and eat." Lyren said through his gritted teeth.

Lyren Chauveron is from a hunter family. His elder brother, Lyndon Chauveron is known for being the best hunter in the country. He grew up being expected to be as good as him when instead, the youngest sibling Lydia is stronger than him. Lydia once threw Lyren when he teased her about her crush. Lyren knew she was strong, Lyndon knew she was strong, she knew she was strong, but their parents refused to know she was strong. So she went and rebelled and became the youngest chief commander of hunters, aka, the one who trains and goes on missions with the amature hunters on their mission. She was now banned from home.(she said she was glad and built her own home.)

Lyren Chauveron didn't want to be a hunter and his brother's shadow. He didn't know that he was rooming in with a vampire. There is an opportunity right there in front of him, he hates he is binded by contract. He hates the fact that he has to prove his worth by taking someone's life. He hates everything. 

"You aren't even watching this movie." Darin said. "Stop glaring holes into the screen." 

"You can stuff your mouth with those chips instead of pointing out what I am doing." Lyren took a big bite of the burger he bought along with the chips out of anger.

"I'd rather watch Twilight." Darin mumbled. 

"Why do you look for different ways to admire yourself?" Lyren cringed.

"I mean, it's a good comedy movie. And self love isn't a disease." Darin stated as if it was obvious. Lyren, for a moment, couldn't believe what he heard.

"....Yeah,sure… Go ahead." 

"....Nevermind." What could change his stubborn mind? Thought Lyren.

"Why?" He asked.

"Just." 

"Just what?"

"You won't laugh." He said.

"What? What has it got to do with me?" Lyren asked, confused. 

"What is fun about watching a comedy movie when only I am the one laughing?" He pouted. Lyren noticed, he pouted.

"Okay." He said.

"What?"

"I have my favorite comedy movie, I'll laugh no matter how much time I watch it." He lied. "Let's watch that."

Lyren didn't expect to actually laugh. He didn't expect to laugh because of Darin. Darin's face when he laughed was funny and his laughter was contagious. So much so he had to pause to go to the bathroom. These were the times where both of them thought maybe rooming with each other wasn't that bad.

[isan0rt]

See, here's the thing about Dedue and the non-Dimitri members of the Faerghus Four. They're not his friends. Ashe and Mercedes are his friends, Annette is debatable, but Ingrid, Felix, and Sylvain he is not even looking to be friends with.

They're his in-laws. In-laws that, at least in the Academy phase, he doesn't even particularly like.

Like, if not for Dimitri, he would absolutely not talk to those people. He's making nice with them because they're the closest thing Dimitri has to family that's not actively trying to murder either of them, and they're important to Faerghus so Dimitri has to have a relationship with them no matter what, and it's important to Dimitri that they and Dedue at least kind of get along with each other as much as possible.

But Dedue isn't trying to be friends with them! Dedue is like, I'll go to the family holiday party because it's important to you but if Felix starts talking shit or Ingrid says something racist then I'm not going to be the one to deal with that. They're your relatives and I'll be nice but that's your problem. He's not looking to be close with them, he just wants to have a halfway decent relationship with them for Dimitri's sake and like no more than that.

And they improve a lot in their supports, especially after the time skip, especially in Three Hopes, but like. The relationship there is still fundamentally in-laws. It's just a graduation from "shitty in-laws I'm putting up with" to "in-laws I've come around on and can have a decent-to-good time with." Depending on what supports you get they can even graduate to "in-laws I actively like and admire." But like. He's still hanging out with them because they hang out with Dimitri. He's not hanging out with them for their own sakes.

Dimitri has one important familial relationship with them and another vitally, crucially important relationship with Dedue. Both are fascinating to explore and I love to explore them. But they're completely different relationships.

Like they're not all a big five-person friend group, Dimitri is in the position of having to like. Try and keep the peace between his extended family in all but name who he still loves, and the person who has been the most important person to him for his entire teens so far. Even if Dimitri were tired of his friends' shit personally he can't just stop talking to them, they're the future leaders of their houses, the only houses that are all in behind House Blaiddyd and not fomenting assassinations. He HAS to maintain a good relationship with them for Faerghus.

Dedue gets this. He'll play nice with them. He knows Dimitri also needs them on his side if he's ever going to restore Duscur, but he doesn't have to like them. He'll save their asses on the battlefield for Dimitri but he's going to go hang out with Mercedes and Ashe after.

[randomkposts]

I'm aware Fareghus is a far from perfect nation. It is a nation born from the descendants of Andrestia, who rebelled to form a kingdom of their own. Its people still have colonialism and imperial culture at their roots. It has a lot of issues to work out. 

And I believe that the next generation, the ones who are coming into the lead of their people, are going to be the ones to break the cycle. Not all of it, not right away, but they are going to be future leaders, and are aware of aspects of their system that are hurting their citizens, and want to change things. I don't think you can like the characters of Faerghus sincerely without recognizing the problems of Fearghus as a nation.  Dimitri wants to end the racism against the Duscur, Felix loathes the culture that promotes venuration of death, and a bunch of them definitely have problems with how views about crests have impacted their lives. 

And they don't want to burn down the whole system. They want to change it from within, from what they can do as lords of their people. And defecting breaks the trust of the people in them, hurting the causes they desire to change within their home. 

Edelgard wants to change the system too. She wants to burn away the old, and set up a new one. And while I agree that fire needs to be set for the sake of progress, that destruction is a bringer of change, it should not be what you bet it all on. Everything set on fire, offers no means of escape, and you need people to keep things running. I know she needs to move fast, because she has a time limit, but all that fast moving does not ensure a stable structure being set for the future she is trying to build, she doesn't have a system set in place to keep the future she is building up to, to continue to get there after her death. The cost is already a lot of lives lost to the war. The commoners who lost resources and people to it , the soldiers who fought in it, the leaders who died defending what they felt was theirs, the land that is scarred by it. Who is going to be there to keep the people from reverting to how things used to be after her death? 

She has no heir/sucessor, adopted or otherwise. 

She is descended from an Empire of conquests, and it is still active as seen with Brigid, and Dagda. And she solved the problems that came the same way? Is she going to have the diplomacy to ensure lasting peace for future problems? Particularly as she was kept isolated by the tunnel snakes who have racist (speciest?) Views, and only in a route where Byleth helps her, can she break away from them. And that help comes at the cost of Byleth alienating their own support base, the church.

But back to Diplomacy, after conquering the continent, and Killing the tunnel snakes, she probably has to deal with Almyra, particularly if she killed Claude. Regardless of how much the people of Almyra like or dislike Claude, she still (unknowingly, as he has trust issues for good reason), killed a royal of another country. And Almyra does not have a good relationship with the Leicester already, the now Empresses of the continent killing a royal of your country seems a good reason to invade. Especially since the continent is still pretty rocky after all of the invasions she did, hey allies, let's go hit them while they are down. 

The earlier invasions from Almyra in imp year 961 was barely defeated after all, and threat of further invasions was what prompted co-operation. But I don't expect fantastic cooperation from a nation that has recently been conquered. Tropes, resource management, and morale are not going to be at their best or most cohesive under the circumstances. 

So she could potentially be fighting a two pronged war, if they decide not to wait for her to finish dealing with the snakes. 

And even if Claude lives, he's not exactly in a good position to prevent a war, should they decide to go for it. And going to war in a recently conquered, unstable continent, are pretty good odds to expand Almyra, at the least, if not necessarily total victory over Fodlan.

I don't think Edelgard, as Empress can have lasting peace under the circumstances. Change certainly, but not peace in her lifetime or the aftermath. And I do think, that if her chapters had been given the full length and attention the others had, it could have been a fascinating avenue to explore this kind of conflict. 

*Hopes Edelgard may be different, but I can not accurately say until I experience it, either through luck of finding it used at good price (increase in digital gaming makes that a taller order then it used to be), or watch a playthrough. Currently watching Majin Tensei 2 movie, and thinking I might want to watch a lets play of SMT 4 instead of game movie, so might be a bit.