#occasionallydiverting

[trek-tracks]

James “Hubris” Kirk

[wyrmmaster]

can't wait for Ishgard Housing (Savage)

There will be SWATting over this, mark my words

Straight up riots in the streets

[scarlet-riot]

happy birthday! only now realizing that you're, like, two and a half weeks older than I am XD

SDJFKDK yeah i remember for the longest time i assumed you were older than i was? and here we are BOTH surprised :O thank you!!

[setethsbigbaratitties]

hey i gotta question for you about your FE OC's tiddy magic. also a question about that staple stuck in your forehead but that one can wait

YEAH SO. my fe oc is kind of a wild gal. her backstory is that she’s a princess who really isn’t interested in being involved in politics and ESPECIALLY isn’t interested in a political marriage. she’s also an archer (insert reference to disney-pixar’s brave here). so partly to make herself seem less attractive to potential suitors and partly in reference to the rumor that amazon women would remove a breast to make them better archers, she had her twin brother use dark magic to remove her tiddies. it’s actually a really difficult and specialized skill but what else are siblings for am i right

[cerastes]

For real.

I was dreading the seemingly inevitable moment in which Minerva would warm up to Claude, I really, really was, and then, she lets loose one of the best, realest speeches I’ve seen in any game.

The “I’ve always hated you” speech felt so refreshing and real. Some people just won’t ever see eye to eye, and that’s just life, baby, it takes more than fire-forged bonds for some people, it takes something that just simply doesn’t exist. They’ll work together, they’ll get results, but that’s one thing, and this? This is a whole ‘nother story.

[frostiifae]

occasionallydiverting replied to your post “Conversation about Edelgard makes me really nervous and I think I’ve...”

I think the character I’d compare Rhea to most would be Lady Eboshi. They’re both charismatic and want what’s best for their people—and will go to great lengths to further that goal—but are unwilling or unable to confront the cost it will have/has had.

Fantastic comparison (further aided by my recent re-viewing of Mononoke)! Lady Eboshi’s charisma is so intense that it’s easy to side with her for most of the movie, too, and I can understand how Rhea would have the same effect on people, despite the extremely sinister framing and dubious acts of censorship that happen literally in front of you during White Clouds. 

In Mononoke, the tables are kind of turned, in that the ‘rebellion’ figure - the gods of the forest - are clearly losing and have kind of made peace with that loss. It’s also aided somewhat by the fact that Eboshi is an aggressor, while Rhea isn’t, and I can’t help but wonder if that’s where people get lost - people who see war as something that is Obviously Bad and you should Never Do, and unable to really grasp why any good person would actively start one. 

...You know, it’s also kind of interesting how Mononoke manages to sanitize Eboshi’s punishment. Even in the climax of the movie, when the damage being caused by human expansion is now really obvious to the viewer, Eboshi won’t give up on her hunt for the Forest Spirit. The only thing that finally gets her to stop and confront what she’s done is RETALIATION. The Forest Spirit DESTROYED IRONTOWN. But because it does that in a very magical way and nobody died and the framing was “oh wow how pretty! huh i guess we lose”, it’s easy to gloss over the fact that this was AN ACT OF VIOLENCE. 

But ultimately, that’s what it takes for her and her followers to really accept that what they did was wrong, and “revolution” didn’t have to mean going to Forest Spirit Jail or anything like that; it was just the recognition that they needed to start over, and more than that, to do better than before. 

Edelgard’s situation is far more grim. Rhea already has political control over Fodlan; the violence against her victims is more subtle, less overt, and it’s easy to see Edelgard as an instigator. But with those details aside, I feel like it’s almost exactly the same story, except Edelgard doesn’t owe Rhea a second chance, and probably doubts that Rhea would accept one if it was offered (even though she does, in verdant wind [even though that conversation felt REALLY weird and stilted and forced tbh]). 

[amber-gimlet]

she puts up with a lot, she deserves them.

[scarletlotus182]

occasionallydiverting replied to your post: Oh my GOD, Dimitri is frustrating. Dimitri talks...

it’s doubly frustrating because one of Dimitri stans’ favorite memes is Edelgard saying the church is bad but having no justification for it… like, Dima, where is YOUR justification for anything? did you take five gap years as a serial killer because Fhirdiad U gives credit for it?

On the side of discourse, playing this route is absolutely infuriating lmao

In the time it takes Dimitri to stop being a dickhead, Crimson Flower ends.

People love to go on about Dimitri’s character arc but he doesn’t really have an arc, stuff just happens and he coin flips between personalities. 

They LOVE to call Edelgard a war criminal but the dude who breaks Dimitri out of his break down says, in his dying breath, “Sins and punishments don’t exist on the battlefield”. 

So much of the stuff this game tries to pull off is so unearned it’s not even funny.

[vilkalizer]

i know but I WANT THEM NOW

[phenixfarts]

Cherche and Cordelia in R2, perhaps? ^_^

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[mercinarily]

I'd like to request Lyon, if you don't mind ^_^

absolutely! he says hi

[wyrmmaster]

occasionallydiverting replied to your post: Speaking of Three Houses, I am predictably kin...

Edelgard would chuck herself into a fire to preserve that smile, so you’re in good company

You are entirely correct.

[the-sun-princess]

@occasionallydiverting replied to your post “How about Dorothea in B1 and/or Petra in A2!”

Alois must be proud ;D

Alois is Extremely Proud someone appreciates and is spreading the Bad Puns

[setethsbigbaratitties]

I'm gonna jump on the "controversial female protagonist" train and say Micaiah and/or Edelgard for the character thing!

quite frankly i don’t think i’d have much of interest to say about micaiah BUT hell yeah edelgard time

favorite thing about them: i think she’s one of the most complex and interesting characters in 3h! we don’t always get female characters who are allowed to be protagonists but also to do some really messy stuff at the same time, and edelgard is captivating both as a protagonist and antagonist 

least favorite thing about them: i get why she had to do it but like....those who slither in the dark? you’re really gonna hang with them? girl you can do so much better

favorite line: “regrettable...but there was no other way.” it’s her first kill quote, and i think it’s a really good foreshadowing of how she acts later on

brOTP: her and hubert, hell yeah

OTP: ...tbh this is also edelgard/hubert

nOTP: hmm...i wouldn’t say there are any ships i really DISLIKE for her, though edelgard/ferdinand isn’t my favorite

random headcanon: she snores. really loud. it’s embarrassing and god help her if ferdinand finds out

unpopular opinion: tbh i don’t like the way a lot of people treat her as a de facto villain but gush over characters like dimitri at the same time...like aight cool

song i associate with them: i think johnny cash’s version of hurt is a good song for her esp post-war when she’s looking back on everything she’s had to do

thanks for sending in an ask!!!

[arthoure]

at some point I'm gonna have to pick up my unfinished NaNo but for now I'm content to keep at the whole fanfic thing...

Van you can’t come into my box and tease me with vagueries like this. but yes, please do keep at the fanfic thing

[frostiifae]

re-read your excellent FEH series recently. also read a bunch of Fate fics. now neck deep in thoughts about a FEH Fate AU where the FEH ocs are the masters and the Servants are various heroes. pls advise -.-

Have you been reading the Eirika/Medb thing by chance? Maybe not your speed? 

Anyway I’ve thought about this kinda thing before and part of what I struggle with is how difficult it’d be to place axe units. Are they just all berserkers? 

Would it just be a F/SN style grail war with just 7 participants? Or maybe even mapping character archetypes between F/SN and FEH? Could be interesting. You’d have the Askr trio, the Muspell sisters, and the Nifl sisters to work with -- could be interesting to use Laegjarn or Fjorm as a Sakura expy (Surtr the Dead Apostle lol) and/or Ylgr as Illya. Or, hell, Veronica as Illya. That’s more like it. Yeah - Alfonse as Shirou, Laegjarn as Rin, Fjorm as Sakura, Veronica as Illya. OOF. We’re on to something here.

Being more serious, I feel like it’s kinda thematically tough because Fate deals almost exclusively in moral ambiguity and the dark aspects of human nature, and Fire Emblem characters - especially in FEH - just aren’t really designed that way. FE is too friendly, too centered around diplomacy and teamwork and simple sincere friendship. Sometimes mangling the characters and putting them into a completely different tonal setting is part of the fun of an AU, but this one’s just kinda hard for me to visualize, you know?