#sylvain is we we we

[maiamars]

french!sylvain : who knows what would happen to faerghus if WE lost you.

french!felix: i won't say YOU'd (sylvain) be fine without me

[cupofcolors]

mf sylvain

[icarus-mp3]

[randomnameless]

Why do the FEH devs insist on ignoring Nabatean lore so much?

I recently had a surprisingly cordial discussion on redshit with someone about the "nabateans = colonisers" take, and one of the main points raised was that the game was purposedly foggy around Nabateans/Sothis/their story because it would obviously favor a certain narrative (and thus make another narrative look, uh, not that marketable anymore).

To be honest, we still ended up with a product that had a lead go "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and yet that lead is still marketable enough to have raunchy cipher cards and 5 FEH alts, so I actually wonder if, while pissing on that lore had that purpose, it was ultimately pointless since Supreme Leader can still sell goodies despite her incarnation in FE16.

And not only Supreme Leader - but the entirety of WC where we basically have 70% of the cast crying/complaining about their "mixed blood" or lack of and basically adding their 10 cents to the "this race and its blood is the reason why the world sucks".

I mean, can you imagine Sylvain selling any goodies and alts if Flayn replied to his "wah wah people only are kind to me and want to fuck me because I have Nabatean blood :(" by some uncharacteristic "good for you, I have to hide my ears, had to dye my hair, have to lie about my family because if the truth is found out about my identity, I will be hunted and vivisected like an animal and harvested for parts by people who call my kin abominations - just like what happens in the game where the same people who call my kin "abominations" ally with a classmate who calls me a creature and pretends I am incapable of human feelings based on my race".

FE Fodlan's main selling point is its cast of students, for various reasons, but even if I tried to kid myself, Nopes and FEH made it clears : students are the main selling point.

If you spare more time and attention to the Nabatean plot/lore, the students either grow from "likeable" to "despicable" or worse, you won't gaf about them because yeah sure, Hilda might be upset because people expect things from her due to her crust, but it would feel like a "peanut" compared to Seteth's irrational (granted, it's not so irrational since GW exists) fear that Flayn's newest friends would dissect her if they learnt she was a Nabatean, and being conflicted by finally letting her have human friends and form bonds she crave, or protect her due to the trauma from the genocide of their species.

Don't get me wrong, I love peanuts, I mean, not everyone can have a tragik of loaded backstory!

And yet, given how this verse's DNA is "can you fight against the red emperor who uwus about you", they had to add copious amounts of Earl Grey to their games so there's no clear-cut factions :

The "Your alien blood and its influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command" vs "I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

is turned to :

"Your alien blood Crests and its your church's influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command"

"I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

Sprinkle with the cast's hammering here and there that the "reforms" might be needed - but never develop on what they are - and add a few baseless and groundless takes as a toping (basically everything Claude says about tolerance and the general "isolationism/foreign policy" stuff) and you get FE Fodlan where the Red Emperor's war isn't seen as the catastrophe it is in the other entries from the series!

Now, for FEH...

FWIW, the F!F!Billy's trailer had them try to explain that Sothis was a bit pissed about her slaughtered/massacred children when Nopes never gave any reason about why she was pissed - maybe on Billy's behalf bcs Jerry's dead, but come on, she would indeed deserve the medal of the worst parent in the franchise if that was the case, since Billy can murder her daughter without Sothis taking over ! - but given that they cannot write/go against the source game those characters are from.

They tried a bit, with B!Supreme Leader and Hegemongard's FB, but then it stopped (because she had no "new unit" released since then lol) and I can understand why : Hegemongard came out before the Supreme Emblem, and Hegemongard hates dragons who are seen/perceived as gods by some of their human followers. Come FE17, and now Supreme Emblem accepts Alear because they are "one of the good ones". We can come up with HCs and details and talk about what are emblems or if Hegemongard's views were only hers at the end of AM all day long... But imo, Doylist wise, it still feels it's a retcon because the devs from the main games tried to scrap and remove the most "controversial" traits she had.

For the other characters... Well, you see what Marianne is in FEH (but even in her base games), she's one of the few characters who reacts - in a way - to the partial history about relics and demonic beasts and all... only to give sad uwus to Maurice.

FE16 (and Nopes) refused to have any "student" character react to the Nabatean lore/reveal, about what are relics and all. There are no lines, Claude shared some knowledge in the explore section of VW's last chapter, but we don't have anyone muse or think or even talk about what are relics, what are crests, and what kind of fuckery their ancestors or the ancient humans of Fodlan did.

With that in mind, FEH can't do much : either they write Marianne in a retcon-y way like what happened for Hegemongard (and they're not afraid to piss on characterisation, look at Lyon!), or they flanderise her "character" and develop her around 3 lines she had in the game in her paralogue, and continue to give sad uwus about Momo when he was at best a guy who slaughtered and murdered so much that he abused the Nabatean turned into a relic to the point where he turned in a demonic beast even if he had a matching crest, or at worst, had been part of Nemesis's piñata party in Zanado and was something of a genocider.

Tldr :

Why FE Fodlan never gaf about Nabateans : earl grey + the marketable cast has to stay marketable and you can't sell peanuts at the same price you'd sell swordfish

Why FEH dgaf about Nabatean lore : they can't afford to retcon characters + they have to sell peanut alts with the same seasoning they had in their base game.

For what it's worth though, I think FEH is more daring than the base game(s) given how they gave more lines and screentime to Rhea - through her different alts - than GW. And they even designed her Halloween!alt's lines to piss on some of Claude's assertions, while the various FB involving members of the church also - indirectly - reply to some accusations thrown their way in FE16 when, FE16, never gave them an opportunity or lines to explain that those takes were full of dung.

*"but random, maybe she doesn't know that the crests she often decries is "dragon blood"!"

It's highly debatable, especially given what she and Hubert throw to Billy in CF - but even if she doesn't, Doylist wise we still have a character who, knowingly or not, says "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and who is never called out on her prejudice. That's more of an issue regarding the general writing though, she has to be a red emperor and took pages from Ashnard's book, and yet, the player must still feel bad and want to romance her, so her mindest/goal cannot be looked at too closely, because, I guess, even the devs thought it would be difficult to romance her (thus sell goodies!) if more light was shed on the "blood from this race corrupts our people" schtick -> which in turn would also make characters whose backstory and gimmick rely on "crying about crests" be way less likeable, thus marketable and able to sell goodies.

[stupitunclehal]

heavy sigh. parts 1 and 2. checked my phone so we're hopefully free from the penis curse at last.

[psapraca]

Preview of my piece for Reunion at Dawn to celebrate the fifth anniversary of FE3H with a White Clouds piece☁️

You can grab a copy until August 26th at: reunionatdawn.bigcartel.com

Proceeds go to ANERA who provide humanitarian assistance to refugees and communities in Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan

[texts-from-3h]

[ronsenburg]

and my second and final sylvix week fic: reincarnation is a bitch and this starbucks bathroom is so liminal.

thanks @your-local-granny for the beta/cheerleading ❤️

[lyn1catz]

girlvain propaganda

[radiant-crimson]

Sylvain, showing off his scars: So, this mark here is from the time Felix bit me so hard it made me bleed. And this one is from when I woke him up from a nap and he scratched my face. He missed the eye by a few millimetres, I got lucky!

The girl he's trying to impress: Wow, your cat seems like a handful...

Sylvain, confused: A cat?

[dono-cho]

teaser idea based on game concept (trans teun again)

[frankenbuggee]

I did promise more of my old Sylvith art from my previous account 💙🧡 I’ve never spammed the world with so much Fanart/ ocxcanon art!

Also Ingrid’s va liked the art of Sylvain with the babies on insta and I died inside knowing she could see the simping💀

[lovely-english-rose]

did yall know edelgard was getting a scale figure too???? or was i just supposed to be shocked when i checked my email just now

[thegreeninyoureyes]

ah, yes, the so called sylvain-coping-mechanism where you belittle yourself in front of others and have to act like the dictionary definition of an idiot so no one expects anything good from you! caused and probably also followed by:

fear of disappointing others and not being able to live up to their expectations

self-loathing and self-worth issues

get your sylvain-coping-mechanism today! or not

[randomnameless]

@fantasyinvader I found this line in Nopes about Miklan in the explore section, I'll continue browsing the datamine website to see the crest system mention but-

The part I've overlined means that Sylvain doesn't know Gilbert/Gustave is crestless in the Kingdom ? Or ignores Ingrid's bros or considers they can't rise up in the world ?

Hell, are we supposed he doesn't believe that crestless Ashe can become a splendid knight too ? (on top of being a former criminal too, but not the kind of criminal who pillaged/killed/"seduced" around ?) What about Dedue ?

Tbh, this line here sounds like Lorenz's writing in VW, perfectly nonsensical given the character involved and their background, but said character had to take an idiot plot ball for the team : in this instance, the idea that crests are so important that lacking one means being unable to have a fruitful/satisfying life.

[numelfanclub]

so about that romantic ahh death pact wtf was that about like r y'all in love or what

also felix looks like he's staring directly at sylvain's cleavage i didn't do that on purpose i swear to the lord