#why do you have call him hubert lmao

[targentis]

- What's your favorite character arc?

- What's your favorite details you noticed about the game?

- What's your favorite character design?

- Do you have any hcs/things you'd like about less popular characters ( the church staff, students like Raphael or Caspar, random npc )

- Idk if you particularly care about shipping, but do you have any rarepair? ( Ok, tbh that one is because of your Rodrigue fic because it was delightful. And because I saw you liked Ferdinand/Dimitri- )

- Do you have any hcs around the characters family? ( This one might also be because of your Rodrigue fic- )

- ALSO is there any platonic dynamic, especially less popular, that you care about?

- Group dynamic too! I'm pretty sure your favorite is the blue lions, but is there anything particular you enjoy/notice about the houses? ( including the Church staff! And it can consider recruits too, as well as either pre or post time-skip )

- This one is a bit cheessy but is there any song you associate with three houses in some way?

( Sorry I know it looks a bit like an interview, feel free to only answer the question you want! And I might not like/reblog your answer bc I'm shy but I'll garantee you that I will have read it! Thanks you if you decided to answer :) )

wowa sure i’ll answer all these why not HDSNDJSN

gotta say dimitri has my favorite character arc 💪💪💥💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥👆👆👆 they literally gave him a trauma recovery arc and it wasn’t even bad. we love the psychotic rep in this game 💪💪💪💪 the healing 💥💥💥💥💥💥 the sexy also 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

THE FACT THAT YOU CAN JUST. WALK AROUND ON BATTLE MAPS TO EXPLORE THEM. I’M STILL NOT OVER THIS, THEY DIDN’T HAVE TO DO ALL THAT, AND YET…

oogh. this is a Hard One. all the character design in this game slaps so hard. i’ll probably have to say post timeskip Edelgard takes the cake for me though because like…that headdress…the gravitas of the whole getup…never seen anything like it before

I LOVE CORNELIA 💥💥💥💥💥💥 i know i already talked about my trans headcanon for her but like genuinely…..she is so fascinating to me…what is trans Agarthan culture like…one must wonder…

LMAO the Rodrigue fic was a commission but i am a Rodriguela supporter forever 🫡🫡🫡 other than that yeah i like Diminand (but i’m a Cymitri truther and Yes this counts as a rarepair to me), Ashelix, whatever Ferdinand and Felix is called but Specifically as exes…i think that’s it off the top of my head. i also ship Cornelia with Valter from Sacred Stones but that’s a whole nother can of worms

OUUUU tbh i think All of my family hcs came out in that one Felix fic that everyone sleeps on HDBSBDJS i just i just i love thinking about Glenn……..and what would happen if Felix just went to therapy ONCE……… Rodrigue is a good father idc what anyone says

yes i think we were robbed of Claude and Hubert supports and i’ll die on this hill. they would have been such incredible worsties. i also really like Lorenz and Ferdinand as the most insufferable friends on the planet. and Annette and Dimitri have such cute supports that i never hear anyone talk about…faerghus four my ass, Annette is Dimitri’s REAL sibling figure ‼️ speaking of the faerghus four i hate that dynamic. Dedue and Dimitri have thee most beautiful friendship and ppl want me to believe he has a comparable relationship with the snotty rich kids he grew up with? get real. that being said Felix and Sylvain have that Exact lasting childhood bond that everyone seems to want Dimitri to have with the rest of them so. i like those two as besties i have a lot of feelings about that.

its so interesting that the Blue Lions come off as my favorite group dynamic because like…i gotta say they’re probably my least favorite as a group AKDKSNSKSA i LOVE the Black Eagles for this. (i am totally neutral on the Golden Deer. i have like zero opinions on them and i am sorry 😔) specifically though i think what gets me about the Black Eagles is that they have this…communal vibe, i guess? it makes it easy to imagine them all like hanging out with each other even though they all have such STRONG personalities. the Blue Lions…i just get the sense that they’re not all very compatible with each other if that makes sense??? it feels like i’m at an awkward family dinner every time i see them all together. it could just be that i like almost all the BE whereas there are quite a few BL i strongly dislike HHDBWNDN because recruiting my faves makes this less unbearable. also i fucking love the church staff…i especially love how supportive all the professors are of each other, and how Byleth really feels like they have a community around them while working at Garreg Mach… Gatekeeper i love you………

yes i do actually and it’s PVP by Amaranthe. i don’t actually know WHY that song makes me think of this game, the lyrics aren’t really applicable, but i have such a vivid animatic in my head every time i hear it so there you have it.

[itsmeridadunbroch]

Task Eleven → Intro & Connections

merida dunbroch

Character Information*

The Basics*

FULL NAME: merida dunbroch

NICKNAME: mer, red

GENDER: female

PRONOUNS: she/her

AGE: twenty-nine

OCCUPATION: manager at the redwood hollows parks and recs department

FACECLAIM: riley keough

ORIENTATION: straight

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single

PETS: a horse called angus and a dog named mordu

The Personality*

+ Adventurous, Determined, Independent 

-  Rebellious, Stubborn, No-Nonsense

after arriving in redwood hollow, merida found a role in the parks and recs department. she’s spent her time restoring the town’s parks and other areas that needed a new lease of life and it brought her more happiness  than home ever could. merida is adventurous and determined to be her own person which can lead to her being stubborn at times in the face of  authority and can have her rebellious streak rear its head. like a true scotswoman she doesn’t take any crap from anyone.

merida is a child of the wild, she always has been. she thrives outdoors and has always been someone that bends the rules. fun is a big part of her personality and if she’s not having it then buckle up. freedom is another. merida really exercises her freedom and hates being put into a box or being bossed around and told what to do.

Additional Notes*

has a strained relationship with her mother, she hasn’t spoken to her in years

strong scottish accent present in her voice – may be hard for people to understand at times, especially when she’s angry.

has triplet younger brothers – harris, hubert & hamish

doesn’t speak bear

Wanted Connections*

friends

ex’s

neighbours

work colleagues

lover/crush

besties

hiking buddies

buds from scotland

people she met while travelling

rich people - her family are rich af and merida has likely met them at past events

Wanted Plots / Plot Ideas*

merida and ____ are friends. neither of them have had much luck with relationships so they decide to platonically begin to hookup. it’s fun to explore and get experience with each other without all the expectations and pressure. however, they both start to develop feelings over time, and both assume it’s unrequited.

here one day, gone the next - a previous international relationship where merida was travelling and lived for some time she met _____. the relationship was all consuming and full of sparks, but eventually merida had to go back to scotland a few months later. ______ wanted to try long distance but merida had called things off and was gone the next day. now she’s settled in redwood hollow and look who else is in town, it’s only _____. ((a plot about differences, a whirlwind past relationship, angst of leaving, unresolved feelings and being forced to revisit, relive and resolve said past relationship)) 

we’re the Old Married Couple™ but lmao no we would never date each other. right? right?????!!!?

before sunrise - strangers meet, they have a connection, but it has an expiration date

“i found your box of letters underneath my bed last night and because i’m a nosy motherfucker i decided to read them and it turns out they were all addressed to me and the last one was dated the day you moved out and i’m not quite sure why i thought this would be a good idea but here i am, standing on your doorstep, wondering why the fuck we’re not together anymore”

an arranged marriage between the dunbrochs & ______ family. but like merida’s clearly being stubborn and rebellious and fucking up because she’s upset with her parents still trying to control her life and it’s just two polar opposites but it could be super cute sometimes when she gets super drunk and he picks her up and hold her hair back when he throws up and stays up to give her a glass of water and make sure she sleeps well even though he has a huge meeting in the morning that he should be resting for, and she makes him lil packed lunches for work and has him dancing in the living room to de-stress and holds court at his works parties winning over his boss to give him that promotion but also the angst and the fights and the ‘i didnt ask for this’ and making each other jealous and sexual tension.

Taken Connections*

tbh all merida’s taken connections have now left the rp so she’s wide open for her to get on the map

Other*

One character from the open tag you would like to see taken / added to the Most Wanted page -  from the most wanted page - the lost boys & from the open tag to be added to the most wanted page - sebastian clarke

One Character you want to see a bio for in relation to this specific character - more brave characters #scotlandrepresentation 

[beaskaa]

A totally dumb idea but what if Dream's just like the others. He's a spirit trapped by the mask too. So when Tommy like, beats the boss the guy's just this dude named like Hubert or something.

Like the original mask maker was doomed to be one with his creations and then this random asshole finds it and goes "holy shit I can make money with this".

I meannnnnn... You're not too far from what I have in mind lmao

[butwhatifidothis]

In Cap's fic, the word "love" appears about twice as often as "Bernadetta", "Linhardt", or "Caspar". He really doesn't care about the Black Eagles other than Edelgard and Hubert.

I'll do ya one better nonnie - compare that to the recruits, with particular attention given to Ingrid.

Combined, Caspar, Linhardt, and Bernadetta's total mentions of their names adds up to 793

Ingrid's total mentions, by herself, is 1,540

Three base BE students have a combined mention count that is literally barely over half of one recruit. And they barely beat out Sylvain's (746), Lysithea's (683) and Marianne's (620). Who all themselves at best barely reach half of Ingrid's mentions, with Sylvain likely only coming as close to half as he does simply because he's Ingrid's """""love interest""""" (cuz damn if he doesn't do ANYTHING in this fic except play meat shield lmao).

Hell, adding in Petra onto that first number, while raising it a good bit (up 532 mentions), that's still less than Ingrid's (1,540 vs 1,256).

And it's, like, it's one thing for someone like Woobiegard or Ficleth to have waaay more mentions than the rest - they're supposed to be the main characters of the story. But when half of your base roster can have a combined mention count that comes up to less than that of a singular recruited character's? When 3 base characters' combined counts can barely match that of all of the other recruits? Then at that point it... really, really doesn't feel like those characters are that important to the story, and that they're only there because the game has them be there.

Like, if you completely cut out Caspar and Linhardt from the story, you lose literally nothing. Like, genuinely. They only exist to Pair the Spares that are Kronya and Lysithea... who are shown having more "chemistry" (or whatever counts as that with this fic lmao) with each other than their boyfriends anyway. They contribute nothing to anything and are completely useless - they don't grow as characters, they don't aid in other characters' growth, they never progress the story, they add nothing to the theme or narrative, and they don't even show up enough to make up for all of that by at least being endearing. They are useless, in every way.

It's hard to remember that Linhardt fuckin' exists at all. Whohardt became a name for the notes for a reason - he rarely has speaking lines. 

If Caspar does anything, it's fuck up the themes of the fic - Woobiegard's meritocracy is good, but also Caspar is being given a position he is woefully unqualified for and didn't even ask for AND HADN'T EVEN KNOWN E X I S T E D all because a group of his friends came together and decided for him that he's best for the job. Choices??? Rising by one's own merits??? Why do that when your friends can make the choice for you to take up a position you are DAMN NEAR GUARANTEED TO BE SHIT AT?

Bernadetta, even when going by what the fic says, only ever did two things:

stand to the side and watch as Woobiegard tried to murder her friends, and she only did this because she saw Sylvain do it first and just followed his lead (or, as the fic likes to call it, "being brave")

pull Woobiegard, Ficleth, and Alois out of a fire... off screen. And while defying reality.

And once she does the latter thing she gets yeeted back into the void. 

And similar can be said for Petra, whose only purpose is to be ogled at for her strength and grace and beauty before she threatens her people with death for daring to fight for their freedom. 

And y'know, that kind of thing makes it really hard to believe that they're, like. As important as the fic wants us to think they are. Like, unironically, it'd be far more interesting if these characters were to die during one of Ficleth's many conveniently inconvenient times where she can't Divine Pulse it away - y'know, add some tension, let the reader at least possibly believe that these characters are actually risking their lives for something they believe in? But since CF has to be the bestest route ever in ever, that can't happen; they have to be happy and in love and totally living their best life, even as they do literally nothing. But once you notice how a character Cap'n actually cares for is written by him (see: Ingrid), you notice that these character, like... really are just decoration and nothing else.

And look at the tags for the fic:

Claude and Dimitri are listed as specifically important characters over Caspar, Bernadetta, Linhardt, and Petra - and Kronya too actually lmao. They’re just miscellaneous Black Eagle Students, as opposed to Hubert, Dorothea, and Ferdinand who get to actually be tagged (despite Ferdinand similarly being kinda useless). So much for being important to Woobiegard, I guess

[theeeveetamer]

Scarlet Blaze Liveblog, Chapter 5

It got rid of my extra spaces when I hit post :( Why do we live? Just to suffer?

SPEAKING OF SUFFERING! Holy shit the new Tumblr beta editor REALLY fucking hates formatting. Wouldn’t let me make any of these sections into bullet points. I have been fighting with this thing for weeks now (it also really hates letting me remove large sections of text as well). Had to turn it off to get any semblance of formatting so I hope it looks alright when I hit post

Explore dialogue

Now we have an NPC saying that there SHOULDN’T be fog this time of year. Make up your mind, game.

Linhardt: Aw my lazy days are over :(

Shez: You know some of us never had lazy days

Linhardt: Yeah but weren’t you just doing that because you wanted to?

Uh, no it’s called Shez is a commoner and had to literally become a mercenary to SURVIVE. They mention that numerous times. In another support they talk about how they were happy to eat rats if it meant their belly got filled. jfc, Lin, the privilege just oozing from you…

There’s a random mage lady who asks you if anyone on the opposing side uses dark magic. Agarthan lady, perhaps?

Ferdie stands like someone wearing one of those babydoll skirts from Style Savvy and I love him

Interesting that they explicitly state that Hrym was wiped out for resisting Ionus’s power centralization here. IIRC that was a lot less explicit in 3H

We also have explicit trade with Dagda, Albinea, Brigid and others. So I guess that’s another point against “Rhea doesn’t let Fodlan have contact with outside nations”

Why does Randolph look like he has a tiny blanket on his shoulder lmao

Wait why was Constance hostile to living in the Empire again?

Oof. Between Dimitri and Edelgard, Dimitri definitely got the superior Hapi nickname

Random Tidbits

Lmao. Hubert being like “I don’t even have to try not to kill you” during training and Ferdie being like “uh. Thanks. I think.”

I really wish the game would tell me when a character maxes out support points even if the letter is locked. It’s really annoying building support and then just realizing it’s not going up anymore after you’ve wasted so many training points and whatnot

I’ve decided that I’ve stopped caring if units like the food I’m cooking. Y’all will eat it and y’all will like it. I’m done coddling your asses.

I don’t care if you’re bad at the tasks either. Caspar, Linhardt, I’m sure you’ll do fine at running this street stall.

HUBERT WANTS TO GO ON AN EXPEDITION!!! OH BOY!!!

Hol up lemme drop everything

I hope he takes me somewhere nice to kill me

Good thing I unlocked all these new excursion spots. Gonna drive me crazy tho since I’m pretty sure there’s different dialogue in each one

“The shorter a leash, the better”. Kinky

Let’s go on a nice waterfront murder date

“Once, two souls took a boat out on the water… Only one returned. A fine story, yes?” oh my god he’s actually going to kill me

I have a feeling he wanted me to propose a competition… No wonder Ferdie is his type

“Ask thoughts on their employer” that’s a new one, I don’t remember that question ever popping up before

Unfortunately I don’t get to stare at his face. I was really looking forward to more murder dialogue.

Support Conversations

Shez/Caspar C - Caspar has daddy issues lmao of course he does they all do.

Sorry, having daddy issues won’t save your appeal from that hairstyle

I was about to comment on Caspar being like “I’ve got to build my way up from the bottom” but then he actually addressed what I was going to say by acknowledging that he at least has his name to lean on. So good for you Caspar, I see you retain some semblance of self awareness in this game so far.

Shez/Linhardt C - Shez: Just so we’re clear, whatever Hubert said you were gonna do to me, I’m not into it.

Shez is not kinky confirmed :(

How is Linhardt NOT interested in Shez’s power. She literally fucking shapeshifts and he’s just like “eh, whatever it’s just a sword.”

Like. What. C’mon dude.

Shez/Monica C - Ok Monica I hate you

MANUELA/JERITZA B LET’S GO - GIRL STOP BEING SO THIRSTY

Oh my god do not make Jeritza smile

Manuela: Don’t you want to talk to people?

Jeritza: No.

Stop making Jeritza relatable to me

Lmao Manuela realizing she’s still single because everyone views her as a teacher

Come to me Manuela! I have a teacher kink! We can do both!

Caspar/Dorothea C - Caspar: I’m reading

Dorothea: You can read???

This support is weird. Caspar is like “I wanna study” and Dorothea is like “You need to study!!!! Here let me lecture you on how you need to study!!!!!!!!!!” Caspar: “WOW I NEED TO STUDY!!!!”

Like he was already doing it Dorothea, geez.

Shez/Manuela C - Lmao we stan a messy queen

Y’know Manuela we can smash. I’ll never leave you

Shez/Hubert B - Uh wow weirdly abrupt start. Am I supposed to take this as happening directly after the last one??? They’re standing in the same place and Shez starts like Hubert just said something

Like. Really weird way to do this

“Sever ties” so that’s what the kids are calling it these days

Shez: You have emotions

Hubert: *confused Hubert noises*

Lmao he just had to insult my intelligence there at the end. Never change, Hubert

I know this is a lot of supports but since I’m playing on NG+ I have like 8 activity and 8 training points so it’s stupid easy to get supports. I didn’t even talk about all of them. I imagine future posts will have less as I start hitting time gated supports

Side Battle/Story Content

I’ve been putting this off by playing free mode battles with the renown unlockable characters lol.

Omg Maximum ambulation. Ferdie runs so fast. He’s got the zoomies!!!

Oh no Hubert wants to kill talk to me

Hubert: It’s cute how u thought I would let you live, tho

HI DADDY RODRIGUE

Man first Seteth now Rodrigue? This route really hates DILFs I guess

I mean I’m not surprised. Look at Count Bergliez

RIP Gustave is here too. Guess they’re making him fight in this route

Main Battle/Story Content

Everyone: *whispering*

Ferdie: WHY ARE WE WHISPERING!!!!!!!???? :D

Ferdie you lovable himbo

Ok do we really need three rounds of “why is everyone so quiet” so everyone can get their dialogue about being quiet in?

I wonder if this conversation changes with permadeath. It’s kind of written like it

Maybe I should do an “everyone dies” run in the future just to see how the story changes lol

INGRID!!!!!! MY DARLING!!!!!

Lmao I don’t even like Ingrid that much but I already miss my Lions :(

Oh I guess Jeralt is in the Kingdom now

I mean they’re trying to do the whole “oooooh mystery who could it beeeeeeeee” thing but I know Ling Tong when I hear him

Oh looks like Ashe is a traitor. Can’t say I’m surprised

Honestly fuck Lonato. If you have a problem with sexy dragon lady you have a problem with me

I haven’t talked about this but honestly the colors are fucking me. It’s a good thing Warriors games don’t have friendly fire because I keep running right past all the soldiers in blue to try and kill all the soldiers in red, because like. Fire Emblem do be like that normally

I keep finding big purple circles on the ground. What is that. What does it do. Who is doing that

I actually feel like a bad person for recruiting Ashe here. I mean Lonato is literally willing to kill the poor kid

Edelgard: Family should not fight family

Also Edelgard: Unless it’s Dimitri fuck that guy lmao

Also Also Edelgard: Also Rhea, since she probably banged my great great great great grandaddy a thousand years ago (and maybe is my great great great great grandmommy). Fuck her too

“I could not bear to lose another son” Ok then maybe don’t try killing him, Lonato???? What the fuck?

If saving you weren’t a requirement you would be so dead right now, Lonato

Byleth was kind of a pushover on NG+ lmao

… I’m sorry does Monica have jiggle physics

Ok her boobs don’t have jiggle physics, but her bow does. Which makes it look like she has boob jiggle physics. Why.

JFC Bergliez is so ugly

JUDITH MY BELOVED

She was surprisingly absent from AG I’m glad I get to see more of her

I’m sorry, Bergliez got all the way to Deirdriu????? When???????? When did we do that?????

Damn we killing daddy Gloucester, aren’t we? This is dead Fire Emblem dad dialogue

Oh even this guy gets a first name. Not the moms tho. Fuck the moms I guess :/

I’m surprised Fleche got a name and wasn’t just “Randolph’s sister” for the entirety of 3H

Kinda awkward to hear Petra complimenting the dude that murdered her dad

“The head of House Ordelia is one of the Five Great Lords” am I misremembering? I thought Lysithea’s family gave up their seat at the roundtable to Marriane’s uncle because they knew their house was in decline thanks to Lysithea’s condition

I went looking through her supports to see if I was right and apparently Lysithea/Hilda support confirms homeopathy of all things exists in 3H. No wonder these people still die of the plague.

Ok I couldn’t find anything and I don’t care enough to keep looking, but I got my eye on you, continuity guy

“Consider why we chose not to dismantle House Aegir” goddamn Hubert is just going straight for Ferdie’s throat

Ferdie: Haha I’m in danger

Also RIP Ferdie basically blatantly admitting that he’s only still around because he’s willing to “toe the line” regardless of how he feels about anything. Why am I supposed to be rooting for the Empire again?

I don’t get why people are like “We went to school with these people for 30 seconds maybe they’ll listen to reason” like? Why would they, exactly?

Like it was stupid in 3H but at least they had a whole year in 3H. In this game they were all literally at the academy for like a month

Recruiting Ashe also feels weirdly OOC for him after he spent the entirety of AG’s prologue and parts of part 1 talking about how Lonato would want him to do what he thinks is right and how he believes Lonato has gone off the rails, and while it hurts him, he believes it’s right to stop Lonato. Here he’s just like “Ok fine I don’t want to kill him I guess I’ll join you. Fuck my dreams of being a knight.”

I guess they had to make someone from the BL recruitable and everyone else makes even less sense than Ashe. I mean can you imagine if they let you recruit Ingrid here? Lmao

Anyways wrapping up

Spoilers for recruitables in this route here here.

Can I just say, the spread of recruitable characters, from a gameplay perspective, is kind of weird?

On SB, of the characters you get automatically, half of them are mages (5 of your starting 11 are mages).

Not including the wolves or other characters, you get Ashe, Ignatz, Lorenz, Raphael, Lysithea, Marianne, Mercedes, and Leonie (under special circumstances) in addition to the SB characters. But like. That means on SB you get two axes (Caspar, Edelgard), two swordies (Shez, Petra), three mounted lances (Ferdie, Jeritza, Lorenz), one brawler (Raphael), four archers (Bernie, Ashe, Ignatz, Leonie), and eight magic units (Hubert, Dorothea, Linhardt, Monica, Manuela, Lysithea, Marianne, Mercedes). If you include the wolves you get ten. Ten magic users. What do I need ten of these guys for? What is this game’s obsession with mages (the Lions also had way too many, though it wasn’t this egregious and at least Annette can be a serviceable axe unit once she gets Crusher)?

Made even worse because there’s only two magic master classes, and only one magic master class per gender which means you’re going to be ending up with two dark bishops and eight gremories. You can’t equip tomes as a dark knight or holy knight either, you have to use the lance, which is not optimal for many of these mage units. No idea why they decided to take out Valkyrie and Dark Flier if they were going to create so many damn mages. Basically every other weapon type (aside from archers and brawlers) gets at least two different options for master classes, and there aren’t nearly as many archers and brawlers as there are mages.

I guess I’ll use Constance and Hapi more on GD, since at least they only come with Marianne and Lysithea to start

[faroreswinds]

Scarlet Blaze - Side Chapters

These are the extra chapters that occur if you recruit Byleth. Here are my notes on the chapters

Byleth just…. runs away from being attacked by Arval. 

Arval wants Sothis dead, baby.

All that suspicion on Shez being a Slither pays off on Hubert’s part. 

Solon calls Edelgard a traitor, and that they made Edelgard (we already knew this, of course)

Claude and Dimitri appear on the field, since Claude is chasing Dimitri still

Arval sacrifices Solon to enter the Shadow Realm

“Hey, stop running, and I’ll stop chasing”. CLAUDE PLEASE

“I wouldn’t be here if Claude would leave me alone” “As if, you put yourself here “CLAUDE PLEASE

Yup, the slithers consider themselvesa different race to human

Evil Arval Slither made Arval to implant his soul/mind into a new body across the ages. 

Evil Arval wanted to save his people. 

All the lords and Shez have ended up on the Shadow Realm. 

Edelgard did NOT pronounce Arval the same way Shez did, lmao

Dimitri is having a hard time speaking with Edelgard, since with all the deaths that happened. Edelgard is like “nah, not me”. 

Edelgard is basically, “why are we even talking. Less talking, more escaping.”

Now they are talking about her mother. And we get no answers about what happened to Patricia. 

Dimitri helps Edelgard up after she falls. Brah. 

“Oh, I think I remember being helped up once” 

“Oh? Me too, I have a similar memory”.

“Oh, that’s just common place for you, Dimitri, don’t imply we share a memory”. 

BRO

Now Edelgard and Claude talk

Claude throwing some shade. 

Claude wants the Kingdom to stick around, even though he suggests going after Dimitri with her together. He doesn’t even want Foldan united. 

Edelgard wants the Kingdom gone, since it’s too tied to the Central Church.

Claude is shocked Edelgard doesn’t want Rhea dead.

I’m shocked too. She’s so inconsistent. 

“I have ambitions, Edelgard. Real ones”. Damn bro

This conversation sucks. 

I hate them. 

“I vote we kill this thing and see what happens”. Claude, this is going to be a pattern with you, isn’t it? 

Epimenides. 

My headcanon is that he was some office worker who got big angy at the goddess and figured out how to use dark magic to dab on dragons. 

Phantoms of the vassals are summoned to the battle

Dimitri says it can’t be Dedue because Dedue wouldn’t have said what he said, he would understand Dimitri’s mind.

Edelgard is more concerned that the real Hubert wouldn’t raise a weapon against her

Dimitri hits like a truck, holy shit he took out the enemies the fastest. 

Dimitri literally thanks his enemy for allow him to kill his own self, lmao

Bye bye Epimendes

And Arval.

I’m surprised, but I actually do kinda feel for him.

And by the power of bullshit, we somehow get free of the shadow realm.

“We worked together. Whelp, time to go back to killing each other”. 

Wait, Edelgard said “it would be foolish to let either of you leave alive”. But, um... Edelgard, Claude is your ally right now, no?

Dimitri is really off here. Literally, Edelgard is responsible for the deaths of Rodrigue, Gustave, Ingrid, and Sylvain, and he’s all like “I hope we can talk again”. This doesn’t feel like it was written for this route. 

Well, I learned basically almost nothing about Shez’s past, the “cycle of the world”, and more about the Slithers. This was a massive, massive waste of time. 

Just fun to play all the lords at once, really. 

[travelling-on-the-octopath]

S Plays 'Golden Wildfire' - Part 3

I . . . NEVER POSTED THIS?????????????????? LMAO??????????

Chapter 6 - The Leader's Stratagem

Story Content

Gloucester (and presumably Ordelia) are back in the Alliance.

i don't understand the "but we were friends at the academy!!" angle. babes you were there for two weeks.

Huh. Edelgard calling Claude clever. Okay. It's nice, but just . . . not what you'd expect based on Houses lol

....OH NO. MERCENARY BANDS HIRED TO HELP FERDINAND. OH NO.

Hubert thinks Ferdinand's an incompetent fuck and while that's arguably in character I feel a visceral need to defend my dude.

ohoho? I think Lorenz smells Claude's Federation scheme in the air and Claude's not fuckin happy about it flkgjdlfgj

their c-support is so unhinged kgjsflgk. Claude: You know, I always feel like my plots are like walking a tightrope. Everything is a risk. Lorenz: YOU'RE SPEAKING ??? OF YOUR FEARS??????? WHAT? UNHEARD OF. PREPOSTEROUS.

Leonie ALSO seems to think Jeralt's mercs are gonna be there. We'll have to see.

???????????? Linhardt's saying that he thinks Edelgard send Ferdinand to Derdriu as a favour to a friend?????? Odd. But everyone is dunking on Ferdinand and I don't know why.

Holst offering to be Shez's surrogate brother lfjldfgkjg i already adore him.

The people of Derdriu aren't pleased at all with the presence of the Empire (artisan in the camp). Let's see how they react when Claude allies with Her Majesty.

Claude is. Not having a good time at all. All the planning seems to be? Really wearing him down? Which would have been neat if it didn't end up eroding his morals.

It's strange. He's talking about straight-up collapse when this situation isn't that much more stressful than Houses? In fact, in Houses, Dimitri was nowhere to be found; there was the Dukedom and what remained of the Faerghan loyalists. Claude would have been utterly fucked if the rest of Faerghus fell, but he wasn't harried over it? I know they're trying to prep Hopes!Claude for the decision he makes but uh. Well. Hard to do it this way when you have a whole game's worth of contradictions lol.

I fucking hate that Claude is going on and on about wanting peace like he's not about to go around causing problems on purposes and without reason. (claude/raphael c support)

(Claude/Holst C support) Claude: "Call it a gut feeling, but I suspect [Almyra's] next attack will be a battle that changes Fódlan forever."

Uh-oh.

The Empire is officially out of Alliance territory.

Claude doing what I love and being all "Fuck them, they attacked us first, staying on the defensive is just going to put us in danger." Go king.

"What's more, if we can claim House Bergliez's farmland for ourselves, ten the Alliance would be sitting pretty for a century to come."

See, this is the sort of thing I like in Claude. A whole "well the Empire has done us in now, so all we can hope to do is make the most of it." Whether there's personal problems for people in Claude claiming Adrestian territory is another matter, but . . . well. Edelgard did start the war as the emperor; kind of on their/her head.

Half of the Deer are none too pleased about marching on Adrestia when so many of their troops are wounded; the other half want to be done with the war and take Bergliez out of the picture to do so, Holst most of all. I guess this is where that cool cutscene is gonna come into play?

Allusion to frustration with the fact that this is a decision that has to be made by the Roundtable.

Erwin (Count Gloucester) left Lorenz out of his plans to make sure they didn't both take the heat if Claude's plan failed. Yay!

Erwin believes Claude is dangerous. If this were Three Houses, I would be booing him. But because this is Three Hopes, I have to admit he's, ah, kinda right.

Erwin back to winning points. "An Alliance leader who dismisses any amount of suffering is unfit to bear the title." and then he loses them. "I am convinced Claude will never understand that."

What a guy. I love him and his almost-there notions.

Erwin decides he's too . . . whatever to deal with Claude, and that Lorenz would make a better Count Gloucester to compliment his style of leadership. He decides it's time for Lorenz to make decisions as he sees fit, and hands the title and house to him. It's honestly sweet :')

HEH HEH, got Thyrsus

Gameplay

There's a new facility to learn tactics. You will never be Garreg Mach!!!!

Main Battle

The battle description very explicitly states surrender, rather than total destruction, of the Imperial forces in Riegan as the end goal.

Ferdinand, Ladislava, and Holst meet for a parlay.

Ferdinand declines surrender despite his forces being fucked on all sides. According to Holst, he "didn't even consider the possibility." If anyone has this interaction from Scarlet Blaze's perspective, I'd love to hear it. Well, regardless, apparently his troops seem ready for a "fight to the death."

Edelgard apparently made Ladislava promise to keep Ferdinand alive, which is . . notably tenderhearted. Hm.

RIP to Ladislava

Side Battles

Quash bandits,

Misc.

I have decided to flirt with Claude. Might as well. he's pretty to look at.

CLAUDE? He goes "The five lords are eccentric, but they're good at what they do just the same" and then saying you respect them isn't even a neutral answer, it's the WRONG answer. WHAT DID I DO!

"Once I accomplish all my goals in Fodlan, I'll . . . Actually, I'm not sure what I'll do after."

Keeping an eye on THAT sentiment.

Sorry but it's fucking hilarious that I'm over here with my neon purple hair and cute bun trying to aggravate Holst into fighting me by suggesting I might fuck his sister.

Huh. Strange Claude line in an excursion: "You ever get this sudden urge to drop everything and go somewhere far away when the work starts piling up?"

Hilda's voice in Japanese . . . I am not immune to cute girls.

ONTO THE NEXT

[blookmallow]

hi i binged through all of salad fingers for the first time in like 8 years and im fixating again here are. My Theories. pls talk to me if anyone else has Thoughts or wants to discuss things. this is really long i am sorry :’ ) 

also shout out to the salad fingers wiki for helping me keep track of details and also for this 

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thought: salad fingers is not violent on purpose he did not mean to kill that kid 

this is less a theory and more “if you slander my boy with accusations i will Get you” but listen. i see people going “but he mURDERED A CHILD!!” because of the oven incident but listen. listen to me. he didnt mean to and cannot be held to the same standard of morality and understanding consequences as a. person who isn’t..... in whatever situation and mental state he has going on

- yes, the kid getting trapped in the oven was his fault. but it was not intentional or malicious and i sincerely doubt he understands what happened or why. 

he was asking for help reaching the fish (there’s no reason to believe he wasn’t just genuinely asking for help. he tears up in gratitude. theres no evidence of him Tricking People Maliciously in any other context i do not believe he would do that) and was distracted by the rusty nail, causing him to let go of the door. it wasn’t “he cares more about rust than about a child’s life” or something, i dont think he can actually hold “hey look at that i gotta check that out” and “i need to hold the door open so the child doesn’t get hurt” in his head at the same time, rust is his favorite stim/an impulse thing that takes over everything else and his perception of reality and the things going on around him changes very quickly and easily. more on that later. but the important point here is it wasn’t a malicious plot, or a neglectful careless action, he literally did not realize letting go of the door would cause harm 

he stabbed himself accidentally with the nail and passed out for a while (the fact that he immediately bled that much is concerning too, he probably has hemophilia which is. a medical condition outside of his control, as well) and after all that he had completely forgotten about the child altogether (and says “i must have dozed off” so he doesn’t even understand he passed out. and might not remember the nail thing in the first place) 

we don’t see what happened after this, we don’t know how he responds when he investigates the fish and inevitably finds an unexpected charred corpse in there, but i guarantee he won’t remember why its in there or understand that its a corpse. we dont see it again so its. entirely possible he didnt recognize it as a person and either just disposed of it or, uh, ate it. but if he did, it wasn’t with the knowledge and comprehension of it being A Corpse or the memory of how it got there 

theory: on salad fingers and memory / comprehension of death and consequences 

more on that subject

- we see him frequently doing things and then immediately forgetting he did it or forgetting what was happening. he accidentally squishes the bug (which also was not malicious or intentional, he intended to pet it but just. went too hard) and has no understanding either that its dead, or that he killed it. she has gone flat and gooey for some unknown reason. that’s strange. she needs to go have a wash, that’s no way to be. 

he eats the jeremy fisher puppet at one point and then immediately goes “where have you gotten to??” 

he even briefly forgets hubert cumberdale’s name and immediately comes up with another one without realizing it, and then later goes back to hubert cumberdale again with no mention of barbara logan-price 

he refers to the same little yellow guy as “young child” and also Auntie Bainbridge later on. he keeps up the fantasy of... whatever the fuck yvonne was being his child for a pretty long time but then when he arrives at “auntie bainbridge” ‘s house he suddenly forgets why he’s there, and even apparently forgets what yvonne is and uses  ‘her’ as a window rag instead and never mentions it again (I also don’t think she was in the sandwich at the end either. it’s hard to see but the sandwich contents are vaguely brown and theres a visible lump in the black goo behind him. i like the idea that the lil yellow guy made the sandwich for him) 

salad fingers is constantly subconsciously adjusting his reality to fit Whatever Makes The Most Sense At The Time and does not consistently remember things (sometimes even major things. he remembers his puppets the most consistently and still even forgets hubert’s name) or have a concept of cause and effect 

i think he possibly has some sense of recognition, “I’ve seen this person before,” but doesn’t always remember Why he knows them, and his mind just automatically fills in the blank with whatever makes sense to him. he doesn’t remember who the yellow guy is, but knows he knows them Somehow, so, ah, of course, it must be auntie bainbridge out for her sunday stroll :) and he knows he’s there for a reason, but not what that reason was, so he decides it must be time to clean the windows 

- milford cubicle was already dead when salad fingers opens the door, but he has no idea that hes dead. this isn’t even a cause for concern. my, he must be tired, that’s all. he kept milford there until he rotted away, too, so there was never a point where he realized anything was wrong (until he became skeleton. more on That later too) 

- he finds a corpse buried in the yard and rather than confronting the confusing and alarming reality of that situation, why it must be kenneth, back from the great war! at no point does he understand kenneth is definitely dead

theory: kenneth vs glass brother

i think he really did have a brother named kenneth who probably died in the war. could be some subconscious connection between “recognizing” a corpse as his brother, but i dont think he realizes any of that. i think the glass family is probably a trauma based hallucination, but a... well, reflection. pun not exactly intended lmao. on how his real family was and how they treated him

i dont think glass brother is the same brother as kenneth, since salad fingers interacts with them completely differently 

kenneth is a corpse that salad fingers projects a personality on and speaks for, while glass brother seems independent and malicious toward him. i think he had a good relationship with kenneth (so, when salad fingers imagines that he’s here, it’s cause for celebration and he’s projecting onto something inert and “safe”) and also had another brother (who was probably his twin) who bullied him and acted violently, so when that trauma resurfaces, he hallucinates a vicious Other that he cannot control or speak for.

it also tracks that the abusive brother was his twin - he sees himself reflected in the mirror, and something in his own face reminds him of that lost brother until it “becomes” him

he refers to kenneth as his younger brother, and sees him as a being that does not look like him, while glass brother is literally his reflection, so it would make sense if he had one identical twin and one younger brother 

ive seen theories that he had a real sister named bordois too, but i think him calling the bug “little sister” was just. a term of endearment or one of his little odd language quirks, he seemed to be talking to it more like a pet than like a sibling 

theory: regarding mable

- ok people are saying salad fingers killed mable at the picnic but i Really Don’t Think He Did

we never see him acting out violently when he gets scared. he tends to try to escape situations that stress him out, he shrinks, he cries, he goes into his cupboard (which is. incredibly upsetting given the fact he was almost definitely abused by his family) 

he takes on a kind of Authoritative Tone often, he gets sort of ruffled up and disdainful toward things, but that’s not what he does when he’s scared

when he’s actually distressed (rather than irritated) he tends to break down and retreat. this includes when other independent beings act in ways that unsettle and upset him 

so i dont know where the “he freaked out and killed her” idea is coming from. he suddenly goes from outside at the picnic to having a breakdown in his house so. he most likely just ran 

i think the Only time we see him act out violently is when he decides he has to punish marjory for not getting a haircut like he asked - he tears her hair out, but for me that scene was particularly concerning because it was so unlike him. that was an anger response, not a fear response, though, and he tends to be harsher toward things that he’s actually controlling (I don’t think we ever see him decide to Discipline something that was independent from him other than the horses, and he didnt hurt them) 

ordinarily when something irritates him he just goes “hmph! so distasteful. how rude. i shan’t have this behavior, you know” but doesn’t really actually do anything about it, and moves on

anyway we never see mable again so i think either he freaked out and ran away and she just didn’t come back, or he scared her and she ran away, or both 

there’s a dress visible briefly when salad fingers is making his Flesh Boy which could be mable’s (he did comment he liked it) but it’s not 100% clear, and that doesn’t necessarily mean he KILLED her for it. she could have changed into something else and left it somewhere and he found it. she could have died under unrelated circumstances, and salad fingers found her - he doesn’t comprehend death, so. probably he decided they’ve made amends now and she’s given him her dress as a token of friendship, or something 

i dont think it really looks that significantly like hers but the fact that it stands out so distinctly from the rest of the Pile could mean something 

but i just feel like if he had killed her we would’ve seen her corpse again, he doesn’t have a concept of murder, or death at all, or consequences, and his memory doesn’t hold out that consistently, so if he killed her, he probably would have calmed down later and then forgotten what he did and came up with a new way to explain the corpse in front of him - oh, how rude of me, mable’s here dozing right off and i havent even offered her a blanket. let’s get you to bed

like, he probably would have dragged her home with him, with the intention of being a good friend/host to his guest, not understanding what happened. he kept milford cubicle around a really long time  

it wouldn’t be like him to have any concept of hiding the evidence

speaking of milford 

theory: regarding milford cubicle 

salad fingers keeps milford’s corpse around until it starts rotting, and then after a very confusing series of events, the corpse is suddenly a skeleton, which surprisingly alarms salad fingers considerably, and then he goes out to find a whole bunch of himselves eating various bits of gore. they give him a present, which is a hat very clearly made of milford’s skin 

my conclusion: salad fingers, in some kind of dissociative fugue state, skinned and ate the remains of milford cubicle himself and turned the remaining skin into a hat. he also saves some of it to make hubert cumberdale (the real boy) later as well, probably forgetting where it came from. he does not realize he’s done this or remember doing it, so his scrambled mind tries to make sense of it with other selves eating unknown flesh, and a lovely hat appearing (which he doesn’t seem to notice is made of flesh) 

you can also see milford’s original name tag in the drawer later on when he’s building the flesh boy, so. he kept that after the mysterious disappearance of milford’s flesh, apparently. more evidence that that skin is probably also his

some other scattered thoughts regarding the most recent string of episodes and salad fingers’ mental state: 

ive been trying to figure out what the fuckhell happened with the yvonne incident and everything that happened in the birthday episode

im really concerned for salad fingers’ health and mental state, as it seems to be deteriorating 

some yvonne theories ive seen:

1. he ate the burned corpse of the kid who died in the oven, and it made him very sick, which ultimately resulted in a charred mass he couldn’t digest - he steadily gets worse, until his body finally ejects it (yvonne’s “birth”) and after that his health starts to recover again. since the oven incident happens really early on, all the times he mentions his stomach being upset after that until he becomes deathly ill would make sense, so i think this is plausible 

2. the hair he found in the cupboard was actually a parasitic worm that grew in his stomach after he ate it and became yvonne. i think this is Possible, it is a really strangely wormy looking hair, but it doesn’t move and he mentions stomach pains before this, so it seems less likely to me 

3. i also saw the concept that salad fingers is a trans man who suffered a miscarriage at some point in his past and yvonne represents that, and i can definitely see where the idea is coming from but i do think something really physically happened to him in the present time, i dont think it was all a trauma-based hallucination, since the yellow guy reacts to the black ooze and something was definitely making him severely ill 

so. i Don’t Know what the fuck that was about but i think the burnt corpse theory makes the most sense 

on that note: there’s a lot of cannibalism imagery in salad fingers 

we have no IDEA where he’s getting food from. im pretty sure its been confirmed that he is Not a zombie, we see him bleed, pass out, sleep, etc so it seems like he must be a living person who has ordinary needs. but we see him eat... his own puppets. hairs. sand. the soup glass mother instructed him to make, which made him very sick. he has a working oven but doesn’t seem to have consistent access to water. he had a fish somehow but who knows where it came from. it’s very likely he doesn’t get food often and some of his hallucinations and mood swings could be caused by starvation (and when he does eat, it’s things that are outright inedible or probably not good for him) 

the burned corpse disappears and is never mentioned again (though salad fingers is very sick afterward). milford’s flesh disappears and salad fingers violently hallucinates multiple selves gorging themselves on unknown flesh

and what concerns me the most about that is that he loses a lot of time in that episode 

he passes out in the woods and when he wakes up, it looks like a shit ton of time has passed

we don’t know how much is reality and how much is his warped perception, but it looks like a tree has grown and his physical condition has deteriorated 

he looks really, really unhealthy and haggard for the rest of the episode 

i think he had a huge dissociative episode and lost possibly weeks of time, probably due to starvation, and he ate milford cubicle and very possibly other people as well 

so my question is. how often does this happen to him

and what happens to him during that state? does he become violent and dangerous without being aware of it when he returns to himself again? or has he just been ravenously scavenging corpses when he gets desperate enough? 

its possible dr papanak is another personality he has, one that’s “buried out in the woods” that he becomes when he’s in a really, really bad mental and physical state 

he looks much better in the next episode (though that’s also when he has his outburst with marjory. could be that he’s still staving off the violent urges/hasn’t fully come back to himself after the last incident) and I’m really hoping the fact that he was able to finally stand up to his family (at least in some sense) and smash the mirrors could mean he’s making steps toward recovery after whatever the hell all that was 

there’s not really much space to do anything with his life or get much help given the circumstances but watching him slowly losing himself even more is Awful :( 

i hope we get more episodes im so desperate for more information now 

lastly, some random observations 

i tried to read this newspaper and it looks like it’s actually written in french, which is interesting given that salad fingers seems to be british (but fond of france, and seems to speak french or at least knows one phrase) 

i wonder where he got this, or whether it ever meant something significant to him

theres a lot of evidence that he can’t read (takes no notice of the “harry” nametag and immediately names him something else, “reads” a letter that is actually a newspaper clipping in another language he’s holding upside down, “writes” a letter that is just scribbles) so i dont think he learned his one french phrase from this or anything but, still. vaguely interesting. maybe he has been to france before and brought this back with him for some reason. maybe he’s actually in post apocalyptic france and was just originally from england. We Don’t Know 

theres a weird little face in the. heater? whatever that is in the background for a second and i dont like it  

salad fingers leaves horace in charge, but then sees him (as a live horse) in the woods, but then comes back to find him both still on the shelf (as a toy) and in the room (as a live horse, now with his, uh, surgery scars) but doesn’t seem to notice this and doesn’t comment on it 

i dont know what the hell that means other than possibly his reality is even less consistent and logical than usual/a reflection on his mental state deteriorating 

[pens-swords-stuff]

UNDINE!!! ’TIS I, KEWPIE, AND I HAVE THE SPOONS!!!

“I adore you and talking to you is the highlight of my life” THIS THE NICEST THING ANYONE HAS EVER SAID TO ME I AM BLUSHING AND SCREAMING INTO MY PILLOW OH MY GOODNESS!!!! “but I always get so excited when you visit that I have the energy and willpower to answer ASAP so I can make sure that you see it” undine I cannot handle this you are too cute and are making me swoon AH!!!

THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING ME TO MANGA TORO. I’ve been looking for raw manga sites and this is a wonderful resource you’ve introduced me to. Thank you so much!! And gosh I feel you on trying to watch Japanese television; it is WORK. I have a VPN so I tried to watch Japanese Netflix, but the selection doesn’t interest me that much, as I'm not into ドラマ that much. Plus, my VPN is so slow ugh. That Chinese tv box sounds interesting though!! But yeah, it’s a hard life for diaspora folk…😭😭😭

Also omg you mentioned クレヨンしんちゃん and now I’m wondering: what were YOUR Japanese childhood shows? As a kid I watched a lot of アンパンマン、プリキュア、ドラえもん、and うる星やつら (but kid me hated it cause ラム was so violent LMAO) and some キューティーハニー. Since this was the early 2000s, my source of Japanese TV, whether it was anime or variety, were the VHS tapes and CDs my aunt in Japan would send to us until Crunchyroll and illegal streaming sites came around. I also remember the era of variety shows I watched, where there were comedians like ハードゲイ、小島よしおのオッパピー時代、鳥居みゆき、lmao. What a throw back.

I AM LAUGHING SO HARD AT HOW HARD YOUR PARENTS’ RULE BACKFIRED HAHAHASADGJHJGSJH. Like, OF COURSE you would play video games all winter!! THAT’S THE ONLY TIME THEY WOULD LET YOU!!! I would definitely do the same. And oh gosh this reminds me, when I was like twelve, I desperately wanted to play ときメモGS3 on the DS cause I couldn’t find the ROM. But being twelve, I had no idea how to broach “hey so uh I want you to buy me a game about,,,,,,seducing cute anime boys even though I’m still, well, a child, but I’m going through puberty SOOOO…..” to my mother LMAO. I was so desperate that I did bring it up though. It basically went like this: “Hey mum, do you know what…乙女ゲームare?” “??? No. Why?” “Noit’snothingnevermindbye.” Oh how my otome loving heart suffered as a child..but now that I am an adult I CAN PURCHASE ANY OTOME GAME THAT I WANT!! (Rip my wallet). Also I never checked out a voltage game, but since you recommend it, perhaps it is time to give it a try!! Looking forward to it :))

Re: language options for games. Yep I still have not touched that game I thought I could play in Japanese, for I am PETTY. It’s so annoying. It’s a global world—they need to make it available in other languages. And you bring up an excellent point about translating romantic Japanese dialogue in English. I mean 「男ですから。」 is a classic love interest thing to say in Japanese, but in English….yeah it does NOT work well.

I haven’t played fe3h in Japanese either! I was planning to do so on my second run, but I got so burned out playing the four routes back to back, so that never happened. The academy section is just burnout central, really. And my first house was Blue Lions and to this day it’s still my favourite route! I just got so attached to them😭😭😭. BUT YES HUBERT IS AN ICON. Did you SEE his new look in the three hopes trailer??? Reactions were mixed BUT NOT FOR ME CAUSE I LOVE HIS MCR LOOK HE IS THRIVING AND DOING WELL. Oh, and you should DEFINITELY play Golden Deer. It’s a very different route but one I enjoyed immensely. I had so many: “OHHHH!” moments because so much was cleared up. And hey, since Three Hopes is coming out (still dunno how I feel about that title lmao) it’d be good timing to go back! And yeah there’s no way your BF will be anti-Claude by the end of his route, I am calling it, your boyfriend will SWOON for him. No one can resist Claude. And that’s THAT.

I hope you have a good week Undine! It’s so lovely to have these exchanges with you; it’s almost like I have a penpal<3

またね～！

Hey kewpie anon, I hope you're doing well! Thanks for stopping by~

My mom and I were actually talking about how to spell kewpie today, and I immediately thought of you.

1) I'm glad that Manga Toro works for you! Like I said, my mom and I are suffering since the Japanese side of the site hasn't been updating for our favorite mangas but hopefully that's not the case for you!!! I fully anticipate it to go down someday, so I'll keep you updated on what we find.

2) I think that every Japanese kid grows up watching アンパンマン and ドラえもん even if they don't grow up in Japan. It's just such a constant in Japanese culture. The real cultural divide isn't which era you're born in, but which ドラえもん voice actor is the true ドラえもん.（the correct answer is 大山のぶ代さん). I definitely loved those two shows! I think I watched うる星やつら but I also get that mixed up with らんま1/2, which I remember more of.

I was part of the generation before プリキュア; I grew out of magical girl animes right before they started to become a thing. Sailor Moon was my favorite show back in the day! I also remember watching おジャ魔女ドレミ sometimes, though I only remember bits and pieces. I also watched a lot of the typical kids shows like お母さんと一緒 and ��ないいないばあっ！because my dad would keep the Japanese channel on all the time on TV, and those would be airing a lot. I also remember learning a lot from 日本語で遊ぼう, which is how I can recite a lot of Japanese stories and poems from memory to this day.

I also used to follow 名探偵コナン really closely with the manga and the anime. Now I'm just waiting for it to end so I can see what happens, it's been dragging on for so long! (and the English translation is one of my biggest translation pet peeves!! And I have a few but it was the original one. Why would you rename the main characters to crappy English names?? 工藤新一 is Jimmy Kudo and 毛利蘭 is Rachel Moore?? Ugh I hate it so much).

I definitely remember 小島よしお and 鳥居みゆき! I also remember that era of variety shows really fondly because that's when I first started to get into it. I don't know if you ever saw this but I loved ヘキサゴン２！クイズパレード and IQさぷり. That was my main intro into variety shows, and to this day I'm a massive fan of quiz shows! (Not the direction that they're going in these days unfortunately but GOD IQサプリwas SO good and everything I ever wanted). Primarily, I remember the 芸人that were on ヘキサゴン for that particular era of TV.

3) I'm am SO SO sorry that you had to go through with that awkward desperation of asking omg that's so funny and i get it. For me, I only started playing otome games for real when I got an iPod Touch (remember when they were a thing?). I usually only played the free ones, but the voltage ones I secretly bought for myself using Japanese iTunes gift cards since they only had a paid option.

But yes we can totally buy our own now and I'm super tempted to actually check out ときメモ since I never played it!

5) I'M SO EXCITED FOR FIRE EMBLEMS WARRIORS: THREE HOPES!!! It's a day one purchase for me, I'm so ready. It seems like not everyone is super hyped for it, but I've played both of the Hyrule Warriors games, and absolutely loved it. I never had an emo phase so I skipped right over MCR but I am here for Hubert in any type of look and I was super excited to see him.

Just knowing the direction that Hyrule Warriors: The Age of Calamity went (if you don't know, it went full fix-it fanfiction plot in the wildest ways), and knowing how the plot of the original Hyrule Warriors and Dragon Quest Heros went, my theory about the plot of FE Warriors is that it's going to be an AU sort of setting where Edelgard, Dimitri and Claude finally all work together instead of killing each other against a common enemy. (Which I WISH was Rhea but realistically it's probably Those Who Slither in the Dark). Which I think works and makes sense because that was the tragedy of the original game; they were all working towards the same thing. The only difference was whether they had Byleth on their side.

There seriously needs to be a way to streamline the Academy part of the game oh my god. I am so sick and tired of it. It desn't help that it's literally the exact same for every single route. The only real differences that I've noticed was the slightest bit of variation in Claude's dialogue in the Golden Deer route and even that was few and far in between. And you never make it out of Garreg Mach?? Who thought THAT was a good idea omg, I need to explore new places because I know the Monestarry like it's the back of my hand. Or at least give me like redecorating options as they rebuild because it get so stale. Even just the empty depressing room that you go into in the Crimson Flower route was exciting because it was different.

I'm definitely wanting to play it again!! Maybe after playing Triangle Strategy when it comes out will reignite the desire for tactics games. We'll see, I'm dying to play through the Golden Deer route with no spoilers. I just wish it was easier.

Do you have any other games/shows/manga/anime that you really like? Maybe we have more in common! I play a fair amount of video games both western and Japanese, and have slowly been making my way back into watching anime these past few years. Mangas though, besides Spy X Family it's so hard trying to find one to actually get into since I can't 立ち読み at 古本屋さん 😭

I'm pretty sure we count as modern internet day pen pals at this point! See ya later!

[lee-scribbles-and-doodles]

Episode 6 reaction

Let's fucking goooooo!

The episode screencap is Sam with stars in the background. He should make it his social media icon... y'know, if he trusted technology enough to know what a social media is

Sam staring out at the city like a pi and ruining Max's commercial 🤣

Sam's fucking reach in order to realize Hugh Bliss is the Big Bad is sending me

Sam and Max driving through a rainbow vortex is very mlm of them. Great way to start pride month

Love that there's just a visitor's center on the moon.

The moleman just straight up admitting Hugh Bliss is trying to enslave the earth.

His master plan is literally just... on the wall

Huh, the moleman's suit in the previous episode was a mech suit. I guess that's why he looks so whimpy now

AGENT SUPERBALL!

I believe in your door guarding abilities Superball 🥺

Oh cool a unicorn

"Rub it sir." "Rub it Sam!" "Harder. Harder."

"Oh boy, a pet unicorn! I shall call him, Horny." "You do that."

"I am one with the door."

Back to Earth, and to Bosco's

"Hey Bosco... Oh dear god!"

He's pretending to be his own mom now

Interesting how Max nearly gets violent when Bosco compares him to his father 👀

Bosco admitting he keeps making crazy prices because the boys keep buying is some king shit.

Usually these items do something in Bosco's so I'm just going to click the Unicorn on everything.

"I know one way to get Horny red."

The microwave helped us get to level red. I guess that makes sense???

"Hey Jimmy, wanna touch my unicorn?" "Beat it!" "No, just touch it." "Scram!"

Too, the office?

The donut mold left

Hubert the plant is gone too :(

Max prefers his tiny desk to the oval office desk ♡

Poor Leonard

Max fed him the deed to the usa

To Sybil's!

According the posters, Sybil lost her cat :(

Asdfgff she's Canadian now?!

"Is Sybil hearing the voices again?"

Sorry, she's the QUEEN of Camada.

Max forgot he's president 🤣

Max also apparently eats shoes???

And Sam apparently works with Canada's tourist brigade or some shiz

To the moon, Alice.

Superball is pretty

Game froze :(

Ok it's working again

And it froze again :(

I just wanna play before work ya'll

Ok it's working!

Max is so happy to be near Hugh Bliss

Love how Hugh just casually admits his plans for taking over the world

Mr Spatula is on the moon???

Bathe in yellow

Aw, Abe is in love with Sybil.

Aw, we get to help them get together ❤

Ew he threw up his talisman

Tic Tac... DOOM

C.O.P.S. won't sing for Sam :(

It took me way too long to figure out the stupid lunar lander puzzel

Oh, I have to let c.o.p.s. win.

Fuck it I'm riding the rollercoaster

Aw, they're having fun

Ok let's go get Hugh Bliss

Wait, what's he doing

What?

What!?

Interesting that one of Max's vices seems... unhappy with himself

"Max, I'll get your vices back or kill us both trying!" "I love you too."

Omg the look of shock on Red Max's face before he disappears 🥺

Lmao Max immediately trying to shoot Sam when he gets his red back.

Back to Earth!

Ok I've tried to use gastrokinesis on everyone except Jimmy and Leonard

No dice on Jimmy :(

Ew, he puked up the deed to the united states

Can I... Can I sell it? Sybil's loaded now isn't she?

Asdfghh it worked!? OK, well now I have enough money for Bosco (almost forgot about that actually).

Oh no, she's been hypnotized. No wonder Abe is so uncomfortable. I guess that means Bliss's beam thing actually worked.

Green Max's eating noises are gross. Let's get the earth quake machine.

He... ate us!? Ew, he puked us up!?

OH, that's how I get Jimmy off the parking meter. ...That actually makes a lot of sense.

Ok, on the moon, let's use the earth quake machine

...It makes earthquakes by making the satellite crash. Don't know what I expected. At least we got Max's tale back.

I'm assuming I have to use the magic hat on Green Max due to process of elimination.

"That's my boy!" 🥺💜💜💜🥺

The second Hugh Bliss threatened Max, Sam began unloading led at him. Good husband.

He's alien bacteria? Y'know what, sure.

Oh my God it took me way too long to figure out how to kill Hugh bliss

No, don't drink him! Why is there so much vore in this episode!?

Max looks so happy when Sam gives him the boxing glove 😭😭😭

I can’t believe it's over.

Oh I like these ending credits and song ♡♡♡

Oh to be Max, punching out the entire world one by one.

Sam is just super chill with the whole situation.

[emblemxeno]

I'm sorry for coming in and going all "yOuR HeAdCaNoNs aRe wRoNg!!!", I don't want to come off like that, but I feel like going Edelgard=racist is a bit of an oversimplification. She absolutely hates the dragons of Fodlan, but it's because they all:

1. Pretend do be humans to manipulate humanity (for safety reasons actually, but she doesn't believe that). Well, all dragons that she knows of (laughs in GD and the two secret saints).

2. Destroyed her empire millenias ago (not really true) and are now trying to stop her from rebuilding it (this is true, but what did she expect? For everyone to just surrender to her greatness?)

3. Obey Rhea, who performed human experiments (Sitri and Byleth). How horrible! She is just as bad as her captors (tbh I don't blame her for this particular point, since it's not based on assumptions, it's the truth and it's shady AF).

4. Rewrote history to make themselves look good. In reality Nemesis was the hero (LMAO, but tbf it's not like she ever met Nemesis to see how wrong she is. It would be interesting to have her interact with him in Feh. And Sothis).

So as you can see she has her reasons to think they are evil (she's wrong on all of them except one and a half, but you know... it's kind of the point. If she was right about everyrhing she would have been the just heroine of the story, not the gray anti-villain).

Which is why I don't believe she would openly antagonize the dragons of other worlds, if they are different from the dragons of Fodlan. Like, dragons who don't hide who they are at all like Nowi, Fae, Xane and Tiki? She would be fine with them. Dragons who live on their own and don't interfere with humanity like the Goldoans? Awesome! She would openly praise Dheginsea and his politics (if she doesn't learn the true reason. She would call him a coward if she found out he just blindly obey a goddess).

The dragons who actually did manipulate the humans (Duma, Grima, Mila. Naga is a maybe) she would hate and berate. The dragons who kept their powers hidden like Ninian, Nils and Corrin (Corrin: I didn't keep them a secret. I didn't know I had them. Edelgard: Sure, pal. You really believe we humans are all stupid and naive, don't you?) she would keep an eye on and expect them to reveal their true evil plans sooner or later.

So in conclusion I want to tell that I think that while Edelgard sure has her faults (she is stubborn, manipulative, hypocritical and with a dangerous "ends justifies the means" actitude) being racist isn't one of them.

She wouldn't hate a dragon and call them evil just for being who they are. She would have a problem with them only if they were dragons and also DARED to oppose her in any way, but tbf it's the same for humans, agarthans, laguz, etc. Can't be racist if you kill every last one of them.

Well starting off, I’d like to say that the posts about Edelgard hating dragons were made in a half-joking sense, like I don’t seriously believe that she would antagonize absolutely every dragon she’d meet, she’s not that evil.

But IMO there’s more to Edelgard’s antagonism than just what the Nabateans did.

For starters, most of what people claim Edelgard hates the Nabateans for only applies to Rhea. Rhea’s the only one who rewrote history, censored/banned items until the current time, etc. Seteth and Flayn went into isolation right after the war of Heroes, the former only coming to the monastery 20 years before the game begins, and the latter arriving only a few months before Byleth. And yet Edelgard still antagonizes them because she’s convinced they’re just like Rhea. It’s also reflected in gameplay where you’re not allowed to bring her or Hubert to Indech’s paralogue because Linhardt says they would make things troublesome.

That and also the fact that Heroes had her Legendary form have an extra effect against both beasts and dragons... yeah, I think there’s a bit more to it than just not liking what the Nabateans did to Fodlan.

[fellhellion]

rant thats gonna go all over the place but since it touches briefly on why i dont feel personally vibe w dimtri/dedue and edelgard/hubert PLUS something an anon said to me months ago that ive been mulling on its going under the cut. but overall its more just me talking aloud about the weird relationship people have media having problematic aspects. 

the thing is this website has an incredibly. strange and complicated relationship with the idea of something being problematic. i remember feeling utterly bemused when some anoned me a message thanking me for not calling dimitri/dedue problematic in my post saying why i personally just didnt vibe with the pairing. 

and the thing is. i KNOW the language bro. i can spin you a post that gives a reading of that relationship that makes an argument for problematic aspects in that kind of romantic relationship or even just in the writing choices that were made. i can talk about how i feel extremely uncomfortable with a romantic relationship between those two characters or edelgard/hubert because the devotion these men have to their respective lieges IS examined as something that damages the overall quality of their emotional health because being devoted to a person to that extent DOES THAT TO YOU. and i dont personally feel comfortable with that. 

i can write make an argument for that being a problematic aspect to the pairings but you know what? even if i totally felt that way about them or that that idea was completely true, EVEN IF WE COULD SUPPORT THAT READING THROUGH EVERY LINE IN THE SCRIPT, that tells me nothing about the actual people that enjoy those ships????? 

it’s tells me as much about those people as their favourite idk fruit. 

because i KNOW what that anon was actually saying was “oh thank god you didnt call me a Bad Person for enjoying that ship”

for one, i think people need to make their peace with the fact that literally any piece of media will have problematic aspects to it and can STILL have enjoyable aspects to it or even - yes i know lmao - arististic value. and oftentimes not everyone is even going to agree on how much of either fkshfkjd

jane eyre is one of my favourite books and it’s RIDDEN with underlying racist ideas. or to bring the convo back to the topic we’re familair with: for example, the way sylvains is written has him be misogynystic to women when, by the logic of what the writing is trying to convey (a charater that lashes out against and knowingly hurts people due to deep trust issues)  the guy should be equally distrusting of men, if for different reasons. and yknow what? i didnt even realise this until i saw someone else point it out! i completely didnt even realise that problematic aspect to his writing and yet what does that tell YOU about ME as a person? what can u say with certainty about me, user clouiis on tumblr dot com, when i still honestly enjoy him as a character even WITH that misogynystic writing. 

i KNOW my reaction to those ships is just personal (and not even consistent with how ive felt about darker themes in different media) because hey guess what! i love nbc hannibal and that show has a FAR more mutually destructive and harmful relationship being explored and explicitly talked about in both the characters povs as romantic. so i know myself, i KNOW how i feel about edelgard/hubert and dimitri/dedue is just a personal vibe and even now im not sure why it bothers me so much when something worse doesnt. and yknow what? sometimes it IS just a purely personal reaction, or belies deeper internalised thoughts. idk! i havent unravelled it all yet!

minor detour but even on TOP of my personal interpretation of the pairings, it’s just one reading. it’s the perspective of ONE person and you make effective arguments against my own example! hell ill do it myself! for dimitri/dedue specifically, their supports explicitly tackle and address the power imbalance between them and it’s made very clear by their A support that these characters mutually long for that power imbalance to be dismantled and WONT advance their complicated relationship further UNTIL they can do that. i can make that argument and yet emotionally still feel uncomfortable w it! thats just how it be sometimes!

both that argument and my original one can be supported by the text. thats often just how literary analysis GOES. and youll find there’s weaknesses in BOTH stances i made, perspectives i havent accounted for or even thought of! 

this is a whole rant that went nowhere but i hope some of my general vibe is coming across somewhat fkjdshfkjd

[cursedfodlantexts]

I think culturally the Kingdom is homophobic even outside of Ingrid being well Ingrid if you look at all the queer characters from the kingdom either explicit or implied all of them are referred to as not fitting into the society, on the explicit side you have Mercedes who was born in the empire and only adopted by a kingdom merchant when she was older, and you have Yuri who turns his back on the kingdom to live underground on the implicit side you have Catherine who says she no longer fits (1)

this really isnt a conversation meant for the inbox, but okay anon, I’ll bite. dont know what inspired you to send this to me (at least, right now and not like. when i talked about homophobic ingrid way back when) but I’ll bite. 

Hope ya like reading! :)

the FIRST thing i want to tackle before i respond to this as a whole:

“ingrid says he caused a scandal at ten by hitting on a man.” 

this.. caught me by surprise. why hadn’t i heard about this before? like i heard about dorothea and edelgard’s romantic undertones in the japanese version, i heard about ferdinand and hubert’s ending being romantic in the japanese version, but i didnt hear about canonical bi sylvain? so i asked some friends for the source and maybe you should do a little research on things yourself before you trust second hand information like this, especially if its coming from Ingrid of all characters. 

In the english version, she says he hit on a scarecrow. the direct translation she says he hit on a man in a dress. now let’s take a second here to discuss how this does not make sylvain “q*eer”... 

going off how common this trope is (at least in western media), when a guy is caught hitting on a “cross dresser” its because he only saw them from behind. no “feminine” features to be seen other than a dress and long hair. this is not a man hitting on another man, this is a man hitting on someone he mistook as a woman. and, for all we know, the “man” ingrid mentions wasn’t a cross dresser but actually a trans woman. this entire thing is one giant transphobic joke! transphobic ingrid for the win!!!!

SOURCE 

and now onto how i feel about the other lions being “implied” gay or bi or trans. 

disclaimer: everyones allowed their headcanons, but going so far as to say intelligent systems intentionally put the implication in is a big stretch and thats what im talking about specifically when i discuss them being “explicitly or implied” lgbt 

look at all the q*eer characters from the kingdom either explicit or implied

well first you didnt mention annette or ashe 🤔 they dont fit in as much as the others do but okay. hapi is from faerghus too but we’re not gonna discuss what happened to her either? and im not even gonna say a WORD about the “explicitly q*eer” part because i dont count mercedes being a bi option as an explicit bisexual character to begin with. I’ll talk more about her in a minute. 

ive talked about ingrid being canonically homophobic before. I’ll link that here so i can make this post slightly shorter. 

Felix being out of place, in general, is derived from Glenn’s death. He, understandably, despises his father for how he treated the death of a beloved son and brother. He despises that Glenn’s death forced him into a role he did not want. He doesn’t want to be like Glenn, so he does things his own way, and his way is being incredibly blunt with people and being a rude little bitch just in general. as for his behavior around sylvain, he just hates how noisy and nosy he is and that he doesnt work as diligently as himself. thats not because sylvain is bi.

Dimitri and Dedue.. where do i even begin with your supposed gay implications? You’re right, it has a lot to do with xenophobia and racism. in fact, thats literally all it is! the people of Faerghus talk shit about Dimitri because he thinks the people of Duscur were innocent, because he doesn’t resent them for the death of the king and his father. the people of Faerghus hate that a Duscurian is within 5 feet of their crown prince at all times. because what if hes secretly evil? what if he kills our prince when we’re not looking? is our prince crazy for letting his father’s murderer so close to him? as for Dimitri’s behavior around sylvain, he has concerns that his playboy lifestyle will cause issues for the Gautier name. literally what else would happen when your a noble openly playing with half the hearts of an entire nation. 

also.. dimitri/dedue? really? their relationship is solely one large White Savior Trope. that shit ain’t healthy. Dedue feels obliged to serve Dimitri because he’s kept him safe from the kingdom’s hateful gaze. Dimitri may want Dedue to stop being so formal, but Dedue is fucking afraid to do anything else because if he acts too out of line with the crown prince, the people of Faerghus will call for his head (even more). 

Mercedes has a lot going on that makes her out of place. firstly, she was born in adrestia. When her father died, her mother remarried to Barron Bartels and had Emil, which was now bad news for the two because Bartels wanted a child with a crest. so now with Emil in the picture, these two were expendable. it can be assumed their life was a living hell because what else would it be for women in medieval times. after she and her mother left Bartels behind, presumably to hide from him, she was a noble raised as a commoner in Faerghus. her adoptive father wanted nothing but the best for her, so she enrolled in teh magic academy and then garreg mach. With the free DLC that adds Jeritza, we learn that Bartels wanted another child with a crest and decided that Mercedes would be the mother. he had deliberately sought her out and found the church she was hiding at (though, jeritza does kill him before he can even reach her). 

as for Yuri, i don’t know enough about the Ashen Wolves to go into detail about this but im pretty sure his being out of place comes from the fact hes a criminal? also isn’t his mother listed a prostitute in the game? i’m pretty sure thats what makes him out of place, just sayin’.  

All in all it just suggests that the Kingdom is not down with the lgbt

first, thanks for the extremely hilarious round about way of saying homophobic lmao

second, I just spent like an hour debunking that blue lions is implied as q*eer, but with how racist and xenophobic Faerghus is, I would not be surprised if they were homophobic too! but I guess we’ll never know because we have no explicitly gay characters in Three Houses. None of the characters talk about how they feel disconnected from family or society because of sexuality, only because of the statuses they were born with. a bi option means shit in the face of representation when none of them talk about being bisexual.

[butwhatifidothis]

Isn't the exact contrary of what you said? Thales and company want to kill every Nabetaens (I hate their names), but Edelgard primary objective is to destroy curch and crest system. In CF you can even let Flyan and Seteth go..!

Edelgard think the system is rotten, and it's the exact system which gave power at the crest, which caused her and Lysithea experiments.

Infact when Edelgard spoke with Claude they say how their ideals are similar, but both of them believe in them too strongly and are not willing to leave the country to one or other. (Except Claude can count a next working collaboration as Almyria heir with Edelgard, so implementing his ideas. While Hubert leave all the instruction to Claude).

...No? Edelgard literally does want to kill all of the Nabateans. She says this repeatedly - one could even say she says it ad nauseum. She says Rhea is the leader of the monsters that have controlled Fodlan. She denies the possibility of Rhea - and Nabateans - having humanity, saying they can only "masquerade at will." She says she seeks to obliterate Rhea and the other Children of the Goddess (this is more explicitly said in the JPN version) - and she wanted to do this so much she was willing to kill Byleth she they tried to stop her from doing so. She calls Rhea a vile creature in direct relation to her being The Immaculate One, a dragon. The death of the Children of the Goddess is seen as a good thing to Edelgard; she sees it as freeing humanity from them. She doesn't think they should have any power over the people, specifically because they are Children of the Goddess. It is very much not just Thales and co. that want to kill the Nabateans. And it's not even just Edelgard that wants to either - her undyingly loyal lackey wants it too.

Her primary objective - the most important one - is imperialism. Let's be clear, that's the first thing she says (relating to her war) that she tells you she wants to do upon reuniting with her. She literally says that "complete Imperial control over Fodlan" is something she wants. Not just the Church, but the Kingdom and Alliance as well - Edelgard wants them destroyed entirely. But as can be seen from above, killing the Nabateans is very much something she also prioritizes as important. She mentions those two things more post ts than anything about Crests and systems.

And like omg... she cannot spare Seteth and Flayn. I'm sorry but I've seen that said so many time and it is literally not true at all. Byleth spares them, Edelgard does not - and no, "She let Byleth spare them" doesn't fly at all, because she can spare humans just fine. Claude and Lysithea are 100% able to be spared by Edelgard directly - it's literally only the Children of the Goddess that Edelgard will not spare. She will always kill them (without Byleth initiating first), because she wants them dead.

She might like Crests either, she might want to get rid of them, but frankly, she just doesn't care about that as much as she does wanting to conquer Fodlan and wanting to kill the rest of the Children of the Goddess.

And ahh yeah, Claude believes in his ideal of "not killing people to get what he wants" and Edelgard believes in her ideal of "killing people to get what she wants." That would, in fact, get in the way of them being willing to leave the country to one another (except that's not even why Edelgard's doesn't want to leave it to Claude, if we go by what she says she does so because he "doesn't know as much as she does about Fodlan" and that him living makes it to where she can't see her righteous world come to life - and remember in CF, that world is of Fodlan being under complete Imperial control) lmao

[vixenofthemist]

I JUST WOKE UP FROM A NAP AND CHARACTER PROFILES ARE OUT AHHHH

Im gonna mostly talk about the Golden Deer bc I've been waiting for forever for SOMETHING about them and now I have it I'm gonna run.

But some of my thoughts on the other houses:

Black Eagles: Nothing really caught my attention other then they have the most people without crests, and Dorothea hates herself :<

Blue Lions: Well... that certainly confirms the theory that the Childhood Friends don't accept Dedue very well aosjsj Sylvain is the only one who doesn't seem to have a problem with Dimitri no wonder he's so willing to work on his womanizing he's the only friend who isn't judging him (bc Ingrid HAS to not like that Dimitri has Dedue as a retainer and even if it didn't sour their relationship completely it had to have put some strain on it. No wonder she and Felix are seen together so often aksjsj). ALSO ANNETTES A SWEET ANGEL.

OK Now Onto the Golden Deer akjsjs (I'm on mobile or else I'd put a read more sorry akdjsj)

FIRST OF ALL- THIS???

DOESN'T SHE MENTION AN OLDER BROTHER IN THE ADVICE BOX??? I could be remembering it wrong but I SWEAR she was like "i have to write my brother but I dont know what to write him about so tell me". Someone please explain is my memory bad or is Hilda submitting false facts to the ask box for fun?

Hilda is definitely that girl who said "um excuse me we're having a conversation. Rude." To a teacher when they tried to stop her talking in class aksjaj

I love how persuasion is right in the middle of her otherwise totally normal likes lol i can just hear her listing off her likes and just saying that aloud so casually and the person she's talking to is just like "excuse me- wait what was that one in the middle??" "Fashion :>"

RAPHAEL HAS A BABY SISTER!!!!!!!!!!! I REPEAT RAPHAEL HAS A BABY SISTER AHHHHHHHH HE MUST BE SUCH A GOOD BIG BRO!! PLEASE LET NOTHING HAPPEN TO HER IF SOMEONE EVEN LOOKS AT HER FUNNY I WILL DELETE THEM

ASSJSHAJS Lorenz likes Monitering Claude LMAO, its his #1 hobby. Also we finally have a reason to have a rivalry with Black Eagles- Lorenz hates coffee but Hubert loves it. (Also he hates vulgarity lmao bet there was at least 1 time where Leonie and Claude just swore constantly around him for an entire day alsjsj)

Also what is a worthy women and how much do you wanna bet he's been slapped in the face for phrasing it like that bc he absolutely has to have been socked at least once.

Ignatz hates lightning and there better be some good found family fics of the Golden Deer helping him distract himself during storms!!

(Also he seems to really like the church so wonder how that goes with Claude aksjs)

Lysithea still adorable, loves sweets and cute things and hates bitter food aksjjss also hates anything physcially laborious what a gigantic mood

Ashe also hates ghost and as someone who thinks they'd be adorable together I love the idea that they're the couple that go see a disney movie while the others go watch horror (but they still get scared by the wind that night and call Mercedes to come take care of the ghost aksjjs).

Leonie's is exactly how I thought it'd be aksjsj don't have a lot to say except she's the big sister of the group and has for sure punched Lorenz in the face

Marianne and Claude are at the bottom bc they're my favorites and I have a lot to say about them akshshs

Ladakdjsj why does "long rides" make me think of a dating profile?? "Hi my name is Claude Von Riegan, I love long rides on the beach and tactically scheming as the sunsets. Pick me and I'll let you grasp any part of me you want."

Anyway SO pumped to finally have stuff coming out about Claude aksjsjs after what feels like years of just getting scraps we're finally getting some gosh dang FOOD and we DESERVE IT

His dislikes are interesting, like its so clear he doesn't trust the gods at ALL kasjjs and he clearly has a reason for that which I'm sure will come out in the main plot since its all about the church who are just a bunch of people blindly following Seiros akdjs

(Also who's gonna tell him he's in a fire emblem game and is just as subject to the rng gods as the rest of us? Leaving things to chance is the underlying tagline of the combat system cause sure you have a 95% to hit but there's still a chance you won't 🙃)

Love that he likes poetry, he is the guy who can rehearse shakespear by heart but mostly just spouts the existential stuff but will whip out a real romantic verse when the moments right (unlike Lorenz who only remembers the romantic stuff). Definitely is the guy who writes haiku jokes using haiku's and it drives everyone else crazy. Also I hc that he means long rides on his wyvern and not a horse bc ever since I saw that he can become a wyvern rider I can't not think of him as one akssj (I'm calling the wyvern Goldy the Golden Good Boy of the Von Riegans, Goldy for short, becauze it makes me laugh akdjsj.)

Also wtf does planning feasts mean??? What does planning a feast entail?? Is this just a medieval way to say he likes to party??

MARIANNE'S #1 DISLIKE IS HERSELF NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WHO DID THIS TO HER WHERE ARE THEY AND HOW PREPARED ARE THEY FOR THESE HANDS???

PLEASE LET ME BE ABLE TO GIVE HER A HUG INTSYS!!!

Ok calming down I am SO fascinated by Marianne, cause she clearly has so much story to her and I for one can't wait to find it all out. Cause she's so different from the other nobles, all of them are quite confident and loud (in personality and color) but shes the exact opposite, and we don't even know what her crest is so we can't figure out who her birth family are and what happened to them that made her get fostered by the Edmunds. And the Edmunds themselves are just another hole because how do they treat her? I cant imagine its good? But perhaps it is and whatever happened to her birth family is why she's so depressed and lacks self confidence? Akjdkss Ok I'm just rambling now I'll stop but long story short I'm hyped to play Golden Deer and see what her relationship is with the rest of the house xD (especially Claude bc they have such different viewpoints on the gods and the church so their supports are gonna be interesting aksjjs)

[crackimagines]

Reunion (FE: Three Houses Short Fic)

Edelgard misses someone dear to her, only to be surprised.

(Alternate Take on the Reunion scene, cause I’m a sucker for extra fluff)

Black Eagles, Post-Time Skip

“PROFESSOR BYLETH!” Edelgard shouted out as the Monastery was collapsing.

He had bought his class enough time to escape it while enemy forces were concentrating on him and retreating.

Edelgard wanted to rush back in and save her beloved Professor, but Hubert had to physically hold her back, Dorothea and Ferdinand coming to help.

“Lady Edelgard, you will die if you enter!”

“And he’s going to die if we don’t-!”

Before she could finish, the building fell completely, with Imperial forces beginning to move into the area.

Edelgard’s knees felt weak, a million thoughts running through her head, wanting to at least call out for him, but she couldn’t do it.

She didn’t want to say what anyone was thinking. Instead, she said something to comfort herself for now.

“...The Professor is alive. There’s no way something as simple as a building collapsing would kill him.”

Everyone was silent for a moment, until they all began to chime in.

(Ferdinand) “For once, I agree. We gotta have hope he’ll come back.”

(Caspar) “Yeah, I think so too!”

(Bernadetta) “...R-Right!”

(Dorothea) “I hope he’ll be alright...”

(Petra) “I have wishful thinking, he’ll be all-okay.”

(Linhardt) “I wonder if we will be without him...”

(Hubert) “Come my lady, we...must see to fortifying this position in case of enemy reinforcements.”

Edelgard nodded, and everyone began to move up as a bodyguard detail fell in behind her.

She looked up at the building again, her hope perilously close to fading...

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Edelgard’s eyes opened wide, noticing her breathing was very heavy.

Slowly she got up and held her head, the headache she had was hurting, and her chest was feeling very tight.

“...That dream again.”

It was more of a nightmare, really. A memory she couldn’t escape from.

The room was filled with a somber light, and she decided to dress herself and go on a walk.

Five long years had passed, and not a single sign of their professor had presented itself. Although her hope was fading more with each day, she never wanted to believe he had truly died. There wasn’t any evidence in the Monastery after all. Maybe that’s why she had everyone from the class stationed here. Just in case if he did come back and went to the Monastery, they’d be the first thing he’d saw.

She felt like crying, but no tears came out. Those tears fell out long ago, before all the bloodshed occurred in the name of Independence for humanity. All the former friends she had to kill.

As she put on her armor, she left her room, and strolled down the familiar halls by herself.

Outside the gate...

Two guards were chatting about their patrols and other miscellaneous topics. Hearing the sound of footsteps, they stopped and held their spears at attention, but not drawing it out yet.

“Halt, civilian.” One of the knights said.

“This is a restricted area. You do...not...-”

Both the knights raised their visors on the helmets, and looked at the man before them.

“...By the goddess...”

“Is it...really you?”

The man pulled out a sword they had never seen before, but neither of them drew their weapon out in response. Instead they slid their visor back down and stepped aside.

“Lady Edelgard is making her rounds near the Cathedral. T-Try not to scare her too much, sir.”

“And sir? Welcome back.”

“Thanks.” The man said. He walked up the stairs, causing quite a stir amidst the troopers garrisoned there, not believing their own eyes.

Edelgard stopped in an empty room for a small break, still struggling to get her mind off the nightmare. Everytime she had it, it would stick around for quite a while much to her despair.

Another dark thought came up, realizing what the date was.

“...Today was supposed to be the Millennium festival...”

Five years ago, the class had promised to meet up no matter what happened as a sign of nothing could truly separate them.

It was thanks to this war that had not come to pass.

As she sighed, she heard someone’s footsteps coming up. It wasn’t heavy enough to be one of the knights, nor was it light enough to be anyone from the class. She slowly reached for her axe’s hilt, but didn’t turn around, seeing the shadow of someone approaching from behind.

“Identify yourself, or I will-”

"Sorry to have kept you waiting, Edelgard.”

That voice...

Her heart stopped and she held her breath as she slowly turned around, eyes becoming wide as soon as she heard that man’s voice.

“...P-...Professor...?”

Once she laid her eyes on him, it was her green haired professor in his signature black uniform, albeit was quite dirty.

"It can’t be...! No, this is a dream, or a trick! There’s no way!”

She wanted to believe it was him, but after all that happened, the way he disappeared without a trace? This was clearly an illusion, she thought.

It’s when he smiled, seeing that familiar warmth that had finally broken that line of thought.

“...Today’s the day when all of the Black Eagles were supposed to meet up, right?”

She gasped, not even bothering to hide her shock.

“Heh I...guess I managed to keep my promise.”

“W-Wha...What happened?! We searched high and low for you, but you disappeared without a trace! My teacher, what have you been doing all this time?! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!?”

Byleth had his signature blank stare for a moment until he started rubbing the back of his head nervously.

“I uh...I think I was dead.”

It wasn’t really clear if that was a joke or not, regardless Edelgard began shouting.

“Joking, at a time like this?! YOU’VE BEEN GONE FOR FIVE YEARS, DAMN IT! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW GUILTY I FELT?! YOU TRYING TO THROW YOUR LIFE AWAY GETTING US OUT OF THE BUILDING?! DO YOU KNOW HOW BROKEN OUR HEARTS WERE?! HOW BROKEN MINE WAS?!”

Byleth looked down, not able to meet her eyes. 

Edelgard felt her eyes water, slightly surprised that they were even able to form after all she had endured.

Her voice began shaking, as she became quieter and quieter.

“I...Told myself so many times that I knew you were alive but..but...!”

“Edelgard I’m...I’m so sorry I left you and the class alone for so long.”

She slowly looked up, to see Byleth with a sad smile now. He was speaking as quietly as her, putting a hand on her shoulder.

“I promise, I’m not going anywhere this time. I’ll be right here.”

“Byleth...!”

Without warning, Edelgard grabbed Byleth, and held onto him tightly, afraid that if she even let up a little, he’d disappear again.

Now, the tears began to fall.

“I’m...I’m so happy you’re safe...!”

“Edelgard...”

“Five years, Byleth...Five long years you’ve been gone...It’s been hard without you but everyone’s still here. I made sure none of us died so we can all see you again...!”

He heard slight hiccups as she held him tighter, and in response Byleth hugged her back, gently patting her back.

“...W-We’re...still here...!”

“It’s okay, Edelgard...let it all out, I won’t leave you alone again...”

Five years worth of pain and suffering were let out with those tears she pent up inside her.

Five years of waiting and hope had finally paid off.

Five years later, the person so dear to her, despite all the odds, had finally come back.

Edelgard slowly dropped to her knees as she continued to cry, at this point she didn’t really care if anyone besides Byleth saw her, but fortunately it was only him here.

Byleth knelt down as well, making sure Edelgard wasn’t going to hurt herself by dropping.

The two held each other, the sounds of Edelgard sobbing her pain away were the only thing that filled the halls for quite a long time.

Author’s note:

God I wanted to use this song SO BAD, but I feel like that’d kill the mood considering the whole genre shift, lmao.

I wish this scene wasn’t quite rushed and had time for something like this considering all that happened, but man was it sweet.