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Fire Emblem 17 Playthrough… Engage!

I genuinely almost forgot I was doing this

In this edition, we square off with Elusia’s tiniest princess, Hortensia!

This is a ridiculous suspension of disbelief complaint, but with the amount of characters who just have these big, over the top designs, I find it hard to believe that so many of these characters would be floored by seeing someone with heterochromia. Admittedly, it also hits pretty hard here to me coming from Hortensia, because she has one of the designs that I find the gaudiest. Seriously! Look at that collar! That hair, those ruffles, the striped pattern! It’s not entirely uncute, but boy, is it just a lot to look at.

You see, I want to dispute that, but Goldmary and Rosado do have some of my favourite designs in the game, lol

Oh no, whoever you brought, leave them at home with a bag of chips, I don’t want that

Awww no, not Lucina :(

Oh god they’re going to hammer in that she’s a sad lost little girl aren’t they? Please Intelligent Systems I already feel bad having this child with me, don’t make it worse!

Yep, we’re definitely siblings. Although that begs the question of why we were separated. It probably has something to do with the red hair dream Pepper had, I’ll bet.

#koto plays engage #fire emblem engage spoilers

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Finally... I finished it...

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY AQUA 🥹🩵

This outfit comes from an illustration Kozaki did for Fates first anniversary, fun fact this is by now I notice her crown have the shape of Corrin's dragon form horns, I find this cute 🩵

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セリカ

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my full piece for the @holoframeworks lucina zine 🦋 be sure to keep an eye out for leftover sales!

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sommie :)

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Who's that girl in your new pfp? I'm not sure who she is but I bet she is lovely :)

She’s very lovely! Almost sounds like she should have someone’s blog be their namesake or something :)

#unsuspecting-person asks

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The official Fates Week prompts are here

Day 1 - Food Day 2 - My Castle Day 3 - Route Day 4 - Deeprealm Life Day 5 - Death Day 6 - Post Game Day 7 - Free Day

Fates Week will be taking place June 23 - 29. Use the tag #fatesweek2024 or you can @ the blog to make sure your work is shared here! You do not have to follow these prompts if you don't want to, they are just suggestions. Late entries are also welcome! If you have any questions, please send in an ask.

#I’ve gotta get to work right away!!

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Wacky Inflatable Flailing Arm Tube Lyn

#the horror on her face

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Elusia - Ivy and Hortensia

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I drew this a while back for a Secret Santa exchange

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Celica

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One thing I found I do really like about Engage compared to Three Houses...feels like Engage really lets you sink your teeth into the meat of the game much faster than Three Houses does. Though maybe it's just a difference of pacing?

Oh, hard agreement on preferring that on my part. I have a great memory for stories, down to being able to remember dialogue lines and being able to quote them with ease… so the fact that Three Houses made you do the same long story pieces over and over and over again made it a little maddening to me lol

Definitely prefer Engage’s approach, although I can see how it would be harder to do on Three Houses just because of the different branching paths. In that case, I guess we could say maybe the Fates approach is preferable? A few chapters are the same across all paths, but you have the option to skip right to your choice if you’ve already played the game before? Still could be a bit troublesome with the Crimson Flower/Silver Snow distinction, but surely there’s gotta be another way other than having to play each one every time.

#wiifan2009 asks

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Little Princess

Happy Birthday Lucina!

A lovely art commission i got from @ArayaEjiri on twitter

Today, A little bundle of joy is born to the ylissian royal family,

May the family's joy permeate the hall of the castle.🥰

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Lucina's Day

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🔥for Fates? (Hard mode: nothing involving all the bad faith criticism)

🔥 The Xander and Camilla relationship is probably the most interesting relationship between any of the Nohrian royal siblings, but because it interferes with the notion that the Nohrian royal family is always super close-knit and found family-vibed, it goes underexplored.

I mean, in fairness, I get it — lots of FE fans all have their different family situations. There isn’t anything wrong with indulging in the fluffy, soft parts of a family dynamic, particularly if you don’t have a family that does what a family is supposed to do. However, I do think that when you’re looking at the family members as characters, it’s good to acknowledge all parts of their dynamics, because that’s what makes them versatile and fun and honestly, more human. Xander and Camilla’s relationship has a lot of intrigue beyond being just the stand-in parents, and I think that can get overlooked sometimes. Even if their pasts are acknowledged, their connections to each other beyond those roles goes unthought of.

In my opinion, it’s honestly really crucial to their relationship that Camilla thinks Xander isn’t that invested. Not because he actually doesn’t care, but because it speaks to Camilla’s perception of the entire family dynamic, as well as their childhood. I mean, think about it: all of these kids were set against each other in the Concubine Wars. Camilla is implied to have been one of the more brutal ones, because her mother was a fucking bitch especially concerned with being queen, and she would only dole out affection to Camilla if she were to kill her way to the top. We know that Camilla is not a truly vicious, nasty person — but what would Xander be to her, at that time? He’s the firstborn child, the one who holds the position that all of the other children want. He would be a point of envy for his effortlessness at being the “ideal”, but at the same time, he would have to be ruthless enough on his own as well to survive having a target on his back. Did that never build any sort of resentment in Camilla or the other children like her, who couldn’t get a sliver of love from their mothers? Is that what influences their relationship to this day? Xander is distant, yes, but how far does this measure of not caring go? In the core story, we see much of Xander proving himself to be caring. So what about her relationship to Xander speaks of this?

It’s also worth considering that one thing that gets erased from the English version a lot is that Xander and Camilla aren’t just loving older siblings with vaguely more-adult-than-you roles — they’re parentified. The concubines were awful mothers, Katerina died young, Arete died young and distant from them, and Garon’s been forcibly overtaken by a dragon god. This last little remaining sliver of siblings has no one else, and with how young and/or naïve Corrin, Elise, and Leo all come out to be, it’s natural that they would want to pick up on what they didn’t have in hopes that their siblings would come out better for it on the other side. But again, that influences Xander and Camilla’s relationship because they’re not just brother and sister, they’re actively parenting the other kids together. It’s extraordinarily unfair, and while Camilla is doing it out of a desire for no one to feel alone as she did, she might not understand that Xander, too, is hiding a lot of himself and understands the depths of her and everyone else’s pain. She thinks he’s being distant for the kingdom, something she doesn’t care about because she doesn’t want to rule, because that’s the greatest middle finger she can give to her mother — to not care. She might even think of him as being somewhat like Garon, loving them but not really knowing them, and being okay with that despite how damaging it is. There is no doubt in my mind that Xander and Camilla love each other, but I think what’s interesting is that this support shows they may not get each other entirely yet. There’s a lot from their respective childhoods that could still be kicking around, even with that love, and I feel like it could be so interesting to dismantle.

Is it all rosy and joyful like these poor people deserve? No, but it’s worthy of confronting for their power as characters and for the sake of their healing.

#unsuspecting-person asks #I just think… these two genuinely do care for each other but there HAS to be some scars of that childhood there #Even with their agreed choice to make things better for their sibbies

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Hey, guess what? I made a collection on AO3 for Rhea positive fics! Feel free to contribute with your or someone else's fics if you want ^_^ (and if you can't, you can always add a bookmark to it!)

#what a good idea! #especially considering any time I see anyone share one it’s almost always passed around eagerly :)