#thracia bias

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Of course I spent all my orbs chasing her 5* version and got her demote off the Legendary/Mythic banner the very next morning...

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let’s be honest, it wouldn’t even be good for him. Double Rally and a speed boosting A isn’t something that Travant wants

*sigh* yeah, alas Quan of Leonster isn’t even good for that.

Quan’s most valuable contribution to the world was always his daughter. ...Did I say his? I meant, Travant’s daughter.

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Since Kaga’s HC is that Thracia is Spain, I am legally allowed to associate Spanish Bombs when writing about Thracia. 

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Heirs of Light Forging Bonds:

Alfonse and Ced do a pleasant but predictable thing that basically recaps Ced’s arc from FE4.

Shannan had the chance for some wacked-out bonding with Owain but instead didn’t even raise an eyebrow at ‘Missiletain’ and went off to suck up to Ryoma. :/

Larcei got recruited to the Annoying Sword Girls + Fir club when she should’ve just bonded with Fir, who was Larcei 2.0 to start with. Larcei remains a poorly-written character.

And Altena got an actual developmental arc which built on the base of FE4 canon instead of just recapping it. Ending was predictable but at least Ethlyn was there and all the major players in the LeonsterFam/ThraciaFam drama got mentioned. Yay?

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ROFL. The Jugdral content we both needed and deserved.

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Holy Shit. Project Exile gettin’ promoted on my Google News feed? Whoa.

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Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Fire Emblem Series, Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu | Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Characters: Altena (Fire Emblem), Areone | Arion, Trabant | Travant Additional Tags: Industrial Revolution AU, Pseudo-Victorian AU, Alternate Universe - Industrial Revolution, Family Drama Summary:

It's a new era of steam and steel, in which Altena's father Lord Travant has transformed their territory from a state of rural poverty to a landscape of thriving industry. Altena and her brother Arion seek only to advance the cause of their father and all who depend on him, but in an age where a bucket of Thracian coal might power a mill halfway across the continent, and the metal bands of the railroad connect all of Jugdral in a thickening web, nothing can happen in isolation. And some very old grievances are ripe to be aired, both in Thracia and in the Imperial capital...

[Finally got back to updating this! Arion mulls over his fiancee and Travant confesses some ill news to his son.]

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Is there a ship you used to ship but don’t anymore?

In terms of ‘stuff I used to openly support but now don’t’ as opposed to ‘stuff that intrigued me that I have gone cold on’ then Altena/Arion is the big one. I went from ‘oh how sweet and weird but they’re perfect’ to ‘this is pretty jacked up and not in a reassuring way’

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Fire Emblem Series, Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu | Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Characters: Altena (Fire Emblem), Areone | Arion, Trabant | Travant Additional Tags: Industrial Revolution AU, Pseudo-Victorian AU, Alternate Universe - Industrial Revolution, Family Drama Summary:

It's a new era of steam and steel, in which Altena's father Lord Travant has transformed their territory from a state of rural poverty to a landscape of thriving industry. Altena and her brother Arion seek only to advance the cause of their father and all who depend on him, but in an age where a bucket of Thracian coal might power a mill halfway across the continent, and the metal bands of the railroad connect all of Jugdral in a thickening web, nothing can happen in isolation. And some very old grievances are ripe to be aired, both in Thracia and in the Imperial capital...

[Hints of political intrigue, a technological breakthrough, and Altena has a really cool outfit.]

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Fire Emblem Series, Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu | Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Characters: Altena (Fire Emblem), Areone | Arion, Trabant | Travant Additional Tags: Industrial Revolution AU, Pseudo-Victorian AU, Alternate Universe - Industrial Revolution, Family Drama Summary:

It's a new era of steam and steel, in which Altena's father Lord Travant has transformed their territory from a state of rural poverty to a landscape of thriving industry. Altena and her brother Arion seek only to advance the cause of their father and all who depend on him, but in an age where a bucket of Thracian coal might power a mill halfway across the continent, and the metal bands of the railroad connect all of Jugdral in a thickening web, nothing can happen in isolation. And some very old grievances are ripe to be aired, both in Thracia and in the Imperial capital...

[Y’all voted for Industrial Revolution!Altena, so here’s Chapter 1!]

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So last night as I was melting in the heat, I finally caught up on the translations of the FE5 light novel being done by four-loose-screws.

Highlights:

Ch1, Part 8: Nanna is one hardcore little soldier girl. And she’s like, ten. Also yes, Finn “recognized” Eyvel immediately but nobody paid it any mind because he was kind of semiconscious at the time and Eyvel wanted him to shut up and not die. Headcanon validated I guess.

Ch1, Part 9: Eyvel is kind of embarrassed at her status in the village. She seems pretty... tentative?... in a distinctly gendered way in a lot of the scenes here in a way you wouldn’t expect from how she carries herself in the game. Also, Mareeta is a Sword Girl What Can’t Cook and Nanna is a talented little chef in the making who learns just by watching.

Ch1, Part 10: Tanya defends Dadgar against Orsin’s impression that her dad is a “pervert”... for visiting Eyvel. LOL. Also more headcanon validated in the non-verbal communication between Finn and Leif.

Ch1, Part 11: I swear to god in a modern-ish AU Leif would turn 16, drive to the grocery store once without crashing, and Finn would just give him the keys to a hot rod and a pre-paid cellphone to call for help if he gets arrested while Seliph is painstakingly going through every round of driver training and following all the graduating driving laws and whatever. Also that was some Dumbledore shit Finn pulled in not explaining the full use of the Light Brand. Eyvel is definitely the more cautious “parent” and in this case it’s in keeping with how she reacts to things involving Mareeta.

Ch2, Part 1: Oh okay, Finn at least gives Leif a small lecture on courting death thru being impatient and reckless like Quan I guess. 

Ch2, Part 2: Yeah, Orsin is the kind of dude who slaps a prince on the shoulder. Meanwhile Eyvel seems to be hoping that Finn will reconsider the whole “Let Leif wage an actual war after one (1) training-wheels mission” (Spoiler: NOPE) and is kind of Not Okay with the whole thing.

Ch2, Part 3: In which Leif learns how the Light Brand actually works right in the nick of time, because adults in coming of age stories gotta be like that I guess. Also, tying up your opponents after they’ve been badly beaten and are struggling to breathe is some serious Bad Cop shit, Finn (but not to Dagdar, who is happy to do the honors).

Ch2, Part 4: Eyvel gets shaky when she finds out Mareeta’s been kidnapped. 

“Mareeta is my daughter. Please allow this mother her selfish wish, and let me go with you to save her.”

C’mon, Eyvel. You’re a pre-promoted invincible badass, not a hindrance. Tho I suppose actual human reactions to crises is why Leif needed a mom. OTOH, Finn does talk Leif down from killing their half-asleep and tied-up captive out of revenge even if he does wait until Leif’s sword is halfway out and also from launching the mission to find Nanna in the middle of the night because that’s another Dumbshit Impulsive Leif idea.

Also Eyvel briefly paints a rosy scenario of herself and Finn advising Leif through his battles. Awwww. Sorry, not gonna be the way this plays out. But Leif is sooooooo Not Ready to launch a war and absolutely everyone admits it and they’re doing it anyway.

Ch3: Basically the more characters we add the more it gets like “stuff we see in the game plus fairly simple narration,” but highlights of this include Safy denying she can be Linoan’s friend because of their status differential, Finn saving Tanya from a magic fireball by apparently whacking it like a baseball using his lance as a bat, and an interesting take on Leif & Eyvel being taking hostage that’s honestly a more plausible than the way the game and the 3-volume manga play it. Instead of the entire gang being confronted with Leif’s choice to surrender himself, he’s off with only Eyvel and Dagdar at that moment in the battle.

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Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu | Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Fire Emblem Series Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Altena (Fire Emblem) Additional Tags: Dysfunctional Relationships Summary:

Bereft of her brothers, her heart and mind divided, Queen Altena of the new kingdom of Thracia tries to lead her nation to the future her father dreamed of. Which father? Well, isn't that the conundrum before her?

[A new point of friction with the regime in Behalla gives Altena a literal headache and a new resolve to keep her kingdom secure.}

A/N: So I recently got a review for this. I’d finished this chapter more than a year ago and never posted it because the localized names for Scipio, etc were out and I didn’t feel like cleaning up the earlier chapters. Over the months I’d forgotten this fourth chapter wasn’t up and just assumed it WAS, and only on receiving a review did I look over the three posted chapters and go “Oh, #@$%!!!” So here it is. 

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Would you ever write a fic where Finn ends up dying early in Thracia 776? /which I know sounds sad/awful but curious

I don’t think I’d consider it in the context of an otherwise “normal” Thracia plotline because I don’t see what’s gained by it dramatically or in terms of Leif’s development if it’s simply piling on the hits Leif already takes. Also looking across games that theoretically destroys the foundation of Altena’s recruitment chain so a whole lot of characters just end up worse off, and Thracia’s dark enough, right?

The case of an AU wherein Leif loses Finn but keeps Eyvel for the duration of his personal holy war would be potentially interesting.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu | Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Fire Emblem Series Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Celice | Seliph, Leif Faris Claus, Finn (Fire Emblem), Aoife | Oifey, Levn | Lewyn, Trabant | Travant Summary:

Seliph, under the weight of Thracian dreams he's never dreamt, treads the fine line between justice and contempt.

(Since y’all liked this and I always intended a treatment of this to be part of my body of ‘fic, here ‘tis.)

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title: Tramp the Dirt Down

Y’all saw how dark I went with those Magvel snippets and y’all want to tempt me with something straight outta my Jugdral Playlist? ;P

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How does one dispose of a king? 

Seliph ought to know this by now, having seen the last of Dannan and Bloom, but with both of those he could rightly tell himself they were usurpers with no just claim to the thrones they died defending. This is different. The soil thrown up in hasty clumps by the gravediggers’ spades is Travant’s own birthright.  

Some might think we’re the usurpers, Seliph thinks as he glances over at his cousin, now one step closer to his destiny as Thracia’s king. Despite everything Lewyn’s told him, Seliph can’t quite believe every poor soul in Thracia longs for liberation in the form of conquest. He’s lived in occupied Isaach too long to think that any people are going to welcome without hesitation the new order that comes at the edge of a invader’s blade, or the point of a finely-dressed foreigner’s lance. 

Where is Lewyn, anyway? Seliph expected him to be here to see Travant laid in the earth. Instead, it’s just Cousin Leif, his white armor streaked in red dust and brown blood, and behind him Finn, who’s staring into the open grave with an expression so bleak it disturbs Seliph. Standing on the other side of the pit is Oifey, who just looks profoundly sad. After a few moments, Oifey seems to notice Seliph’s own unease, and he offers up some words of reassurance.

“Travant didn’t even give your aunt and uncle this much.”

Seliph nods, while Leif just makes a small indignant sound of agreement. And that’s it– no more worries that the grave isn’t long enough for Travant’s tall body, so he’s placed in it with his shoulders raised and his head slumped to the side. No worries that the entirely unnecessary bonds at his wrists weren’t cut before his body was lowered. Even so, Seliph flinches at the bone-cracking sound when the lance Travant carried is snapped and both halves dropped onto his stripped body.

It wasn’t Gungnir. If Travant had shown up that day with the sacred Heaven Lance, the battle would’ve gone the other way, and everyone present knows it.  Even as it is, Finn is clearly using his own lance for support, and Seliph has the passing thought that it’s the will to see Travant thrown in this hole that’s been keeping the knight on his feet.

Is this just going to keep on raging until every last one of them is dead? Seliph realize everyone’s waiting on him, on the Scion of Light, to speak or move or in some way preside over this awful scene. Without really thinking it through, he scrapes up a handful of Thracian soil from the piles strewn around his feet. The dust streams through his fingers in a fine rain, down upon the discolored body of a crusader and king.

“Let us be at peace,” he says. 

His voice doesn’t sound very convincing. But he’s the one person who can turn away without asking for anyone’s leave, and so Seliph does, dust stinging at his eyes. After a few steps, Seliph realizes he hears music– a melancholy piping sound that’s blended with the summer wind, underscoring the bleak and unceremonious burial. It’s Lewyn, up on the ramparts, playing his flute. He’s watching Seliph as he plays, and Seliph stops his aimless walk and gazes up at this other former king.

His heart wants to understand something, wants it desperately, but his mind, whirling like the eddies of dust on the Thracian plains, understands nothing right now. It’s all just blood and dust and this music that sounds like heartbreak.

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Back on the topic of how fun it is to kill Reinhardt in again and again like Groundhog Day with a blood feud...

I decided to trick Finn out with a new lance, new specials, ‘n’ shit... but honestly there is something so g-damn sweet about watching Reinhardt sally forth with Dire Thunder in hand only to have Finn survive it via Miracle and then land four Brave Lance hits on Rein’s smirking face to end the trial.

(This also can work in FE5 itself tho there’s like a 10% chance Miracle won’t activate because FE5. Worth keeping in mind if you iced Olwen to get that social-climbing mage knight instead.)