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Cyril & Khalid Post VW brother bonding hurt/comfort hours

Happy birthday!!!!

Cyril wakes up, which is the second surprising thing that's happened to him today. The first surprising thing is that today arrived for him at all. Or that he arrived at today. Or– whatever. This kind of philosophical-whatever isn't as important as the fact that he is, in fact, alive, despite his spinning head.

He can work with that.

He sits up, chest, back, arms– yeah, his whole body aching. After the arrow he had taken from atop his wyvern (is she okay?), he doesn't remember much. Falling from way high up does that to a guy. Don't these asshole bandits know the war is years over?

He's not sure how exactly he's going to catch up on all the work he missed being in bed for so long. Guess he'll just have to power through it.

He manages to get one leg over the bed when the door slams open.

"Nope! Not happening."

Khalid, precariously carrying a tray, swings around and slams the door with his toe, rattling teapot and cups. Cyril twitches to help, but his muscles have other plans. Hissing with a pained groan, he flops back in bed. It’s now he realizes how plush it is, and how, despite the plain walls of the medical hall, he is wrapped in delicate, luxurious blankets and robes over his bandages.

“You dragged me all the way back to the palace?” Cyril mumbles.

“Wouldn’t’ve had to if someone had retreated when I ordered.” Khalid grins, chipper as he pours two cups of tea, adding a bundle of something to the one he passes Cyril. Cyril raises a brow, props himself up, and takes the tea, giving it a sniff. He takes a sip. Only his training with Shamir those years ago keep him from coughing the foul sludge onto the bed. He’d hate to have to clean it later.

“What is this? Mud?”

“Rude! It’s your very favorite with a little extra twist to help you heal faster. I know it’s going to be impossible to make you stay in bed long enough to actually heal, so I thought I’d speed things along. You’re welcome.”

Cyril glares as he takes another sludgy sip. Khalid sits in the chair beside the bed, crossing his legs as he happily sips his unpoisoned tea.

Cyril’s nose wrinkles, lips pursing as the aftertaste wipes away any memory of all the delicious foods he’s had since joining Khalid in the palace. He’ll have to ask Khalid to request his favorites as soon as he can eat solid food. Knowing this guy, though, he’ll make the whole damn meal into a feast. Again.

“It tastes like shit.”

“Shit tea for my favorite little shit.”

“Should a king really talk like that?” Cyril jokes, but Khalid has always switched between his roles like gloves. He talks however best fits his role, in that moment. His role as king, his role as ambassador, his role as a friend, a companion.

With Cyril? A younger brother.

Khalid grins. His chipper, all-is-well mask is very good today, but Cyril notes the wrinkles at his eyes, the slight darkness under the eyes that Khalid couldn’t cover with his fancy creams. Just from here, Cyril counts three scratches and two bruises. Khalid has been fussing with his lips again, and now they’re dry and torn.

“I can talk how I like. Perks of being king and all, ” Khalid answers. “And you’ll listen to me, right?”

Ah. Yep, here it comes.

“Khalid–”

“I told you to run, Cyril.”

Just like that, the atmosphere plunges from warm summer day to oncoming storm. Cyril downs the rest of his tea, holding his steel glare against Khalid’s sharpening diamond grin. Of course, he falters, looking at his hands into the dregs of tea-sludge in the empty cup.

“I know. I’m sorry. I thought I could handle it.”

“But you couldn’t.” The words are sharper than Khalid seems to intend. He clears his throat, standing as he takes his and Cyril’s cups and returns them to the tray. “I saw you go down, Cyril. I watched you crash to the ground with my own eyes.”

“Well, for all you saw it, I felt it. I’m still feeling it now.” Cyril half-assedly tries to quip. Khalid sets him with a firm glare before his expression softens. He pours another cup of tea, not adding his medicines again, and hands it to Cyril. Cyril sips on it, his sense of taste slowly returning. “I’m sorry.”

Khalid takes a deep breath. “Look, just… don’t do that, alright? Don’t put yourself into unnecessary danger. I know, I know, they were just bandits, but even the greatest tacticians of our generation can get caught off guard sometimes.” Despite the quip, his voice shakes, as do his hands when he pours himself more tea.

“This wasn’t your fault. I made my own decision. A bad one, sure,” Cyril says, “but it was my own.”

Khalid heaves a sigh as heavy as the responsibilities on his shoulders. If Cyril had died, Khalid would’ve had one less person to help him carry those burdens. And Cyril, not to brag, is pretty damn good at helping Khalid where he can. And he has to admit, he does like being alive quite a bit. There’s so many beautiful sights for him to see and so many wonderful foods for him to eat here, and though his Almyran language skills aren’t the best right now, they’re slowly coming back as he rips through story after story. It’d be a shame to let this life go to waste, he thinks. Plus he still has to sweep the main hall, scrub the kitchen, feed the wyverns–

“I know, but…I know, Cyril.” Khalid puts his teacup on the tray again and shifts to sit on the bed beside Cyril. “Here, let me check your bandages.”

And of course Khalid isn’t the best medic, but Cyril lets him look. Lets him see that Cyril is healing and will be okay. Khalid wraps him back up, but hesitates to move away. Instead, he bumps his head against Cyril’s, taking a deep breath and closing his eyes. Cyril follows suit.

“I’m still here,” Cyril whispers. “I’m here.”

Just as quickly as he sat down, Khalid gets up, gathering the things he brought with him.

“Get some sleep. I’ll see you again soon.”

Yeah, he will, Cyril thinks as he lies back into the bed. For as long as Cyril can manage, he’ll be staying right here.

(couldn’t figure out how to smoothly add it in but yes wyvern is okay)

🥺💚🏹💛🐉 OUGH!!!!! What an amazing and thoughtful birthday gift! Thank you.....

I'm so fond of the forehead touch and Cyril sipping his sludge...

#fire emblem three houses #fire emblem #cyril fe3h #claude von riegan #khalid von riegan #do not tag as ship #fe3h fanfic #long post #i love that Khalid was bringing tea before knowing whether Cyril was up or not...#i adore how you captured their personalities in dialogue and in cyril's thoughts...#this was so heartfelt and detailed and considerate. thank you so much!!!

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I definitely agree that the sway of Byleth as a lot of weight for SS! But I don't think it's the only important factor? Because to me if it was the case, Claude and Dimitri would have their own SS: the fact that it's specific to Edelgard do seems means something about the Eagles loyalty toward her.

Edelgard don't feel betrayed in Silver Snow nor did she trusted the other Eagles? Can you give specific dialog? To me Silver Snow, at least regarding Byleth and other student is kinda just what she expected to happen?

I do think the Hubert point has to be nuanced: Hubert is only one person in Edelgard huge lack of positive relationship, and more widely Edelgard truly awful situation. Edelgard is constantly watched by her abuser, she has to constantly worry that people she met could very much be TWSITD agent, ... Yes, she has someone to rely on but comparatively she has countless ennemies on her track ( unlike Claude who has mostly potential enemy, or indirect ennemies that have in no way the same weight as TWSITD or Aegir for example ). So yeah, while Claude and Edelgard trust issue are different in certain ways, I don't think Claude trust issue can be a point as to why found family is a fundamental trope of VW and not of CF?

For the inherent respect as a leader I'm sorry to have missed what you meant! But while you're right that Claude as the thoughest situation, the other lord don't take the respect as granted? The role of Emperor is now a puppet leader and the Prime Minister is supposed to hold the true power, Edelgard certainly does have to work for the respect and the amount of power she has in CF: she has to rely on TWSITD and make alliance with Caspar and Linhardt father for example. Even Dimitri who clearly has the best position of the three when it comes to natural respect has the whole Rufus affair!

For Ferdinand a the reason behind him being rival who don't litteraly seek to take her power, it's because he already has power over her so I don't think it's necessarily a strong point? Because of the insurrection, she's the puppet leader, he's the one with the actual power. And Edelgard noble connection are small and actually very unimpactful. Especially compared to Dimitri who has his actual group of childhood friend and adoptive fathers

How is Edelgard not inherently untrusting compared to Claude and Hubert? I mean, they made a choice to give one lord the line about being so untrusful they can't even trust themselves, they made SB about the hardship of trusting unlike GW where Claude surprisingly trust Shez to some extent quickly? I genuinely don't see how she has less trust issue, or at least less deep, and to me it kinda wouldn't make sense with her backstory ( especially on the Hubert comparison )?

I'm sorry for all the misunderstanding too, I hope I'm not too rude- And really if my ask bother you or take too much time to respond I really won't mind if you don't respond ^^" Thanks you for taking your time in any case

First of all anon, let's clear something up! I ADORE your asks! You're not rude at all, I really, genuinely enjoy disagreeing with you, if that makes sense? You're clearly super passionate about Three Houses and talking about this game with someone who is super passionate is really fun for me! And don't worry about how long it takes me to respond to you lol--which is very ironic considering this response took nearly twenty days when I normally reply within eight hours (finals hit hard D:) --because I love doing it! You're genuinely a bright spot in my day!

Now, to the rest of your ask!

So for me, the reason why Claude and Dimitri don't have a "Silver Snow", as you put it, is because thematically they don't really "need" one. The type of conflict dealt with by Claude and Dimitri both personally and politically doesn't require an additional route to explore, and also, Silver Snow is much more the Church route then it is the oppositional-Edelgard route. I think Silver Snow branches from Edelgard's route because that's the most interesting place to put it. As personally as Dimitri's route gets with Edelgard, he isn't her true opposition; Rhea is.

And thus for me, the Silver Snow route says much more about Rhea, Edelgard, Seteth, and Byleth, then it does the Eagles. I definitely think it says something about the Eagles-- that they don't appreciate Edelgard's methodology and could be convinced to opposed her (and have mixed feelings about them) puts them in a very similar boat to Claude, who is most frequently compared with Edelgard. However, when removed from the context of SS/CF (and thus, recruitment ignored, away from Byleth's influence), all of them do show up at Edelgard's side, and are willing to die for her. I think, similarly to the other routes, their relationships are different and more strained, but ultimately without the influence of Byleth they are loyal to Edelgard (and the Empire) in a way that can't be ignored.

"Edelgard don't feel betrayed in Silver Snow nor did she trusted the other Eagles? Can you give specific dialog? To me Silver Snow, at least regarding Byleth and other student is kinda just what she expected to happen?"

No, you're absolutely correct here, I definitely misspoke. If I were to try and correct what I said...I don't think Edelgard felt betrayed by the other Eagles, but perhaps, disappointed? It's a conclusion I come to from seeing her in CF more than anything else, frankly, because (and I'll elaborate on this a few paragraphs down), I see Edelgard as a very desperate person. She is desperate to trust even as she views everyone with suspicion, two traits that seem more diametrically opposed then they really are.

Go back into trust issues (and the leadership points), I think there is no "better" or "worse" when comparing Edelgard and Claude's trust issues, just "different." Edelgard's trust issues cause her to put on a front of suspicion, but it's not a strong one. This is the result of two things: her trauma, and Hubert. Edelgard has a peer she can trust anything and everything with (and this is a good thing for her), and that includes vetting people. Even with the Professor, Edelgard grows fond of her quickly, and begins to trust her (implied by game mechanics to really, really start at C+ but also scene in other routes the fondness really does carry), but Hubert holds off on Byleth until she makes that critical choice to go against the church. This to me symbolizes a sort of "safety" net that Edelgard has with Hubert? Further on her relationship with Byleth, Edelgard's trauma does result in her putting on a front of suspicion (which makes it no less apart of her, but rather something she deliberately does to protect herself), but I think Edelgard is just desperate for someone to reach out to her.

I haven't talked about this before, but I think one of the things that highlights the differences between Edelgard and Claude and also their trust level, is the concept of "adults." This affects Dimitri as well, but as a "rule" in three houses if something majorly affects two house leaders it affects the third in less dramatic/major ways. That is to say, that while Edelgard has never had an adult/authority figure she could rely on, Claude has. And while Claude has never had the ability to rely on a peer, she has. Edelgard removes the old guard almost completely when she rises to power, only compromising, as you said, with Lindhardt and Caspar's parents. She replaces everyone she can't rely one with people she can rely on, because she's learned the hard way through what happened to her and her family. Claude, on the other hand, had his parents. They raised him to be self sufficient and to survive in a world that hated him. Later, Claude had his grandfather, and now has Judith and Nader (who trained him in childhood). He had no peers and no friends until he arrives at the Academy. As a result, Claude simply...lives with the discomfort. He deals with the reverse of what Edelgard went through; instead of living with people who have harmed you, he experienced harm from other people and now is forced to be around people who think the same way and thus could harm him in the future. Whereas Edelgard clears out the rot and only compromises where she has to, Claude is a being of compromise. It's not just that he distrusts others, it's that others fundamentally distrust him.

Edelgard's place as the next Emperor is never in doubt. It just isn't. What really shows this off to me, is the silver snow cutscene in which the flame emperor is blatantly backtalking to the Agarthans! Talking about how she doesn't approve of what they've doing and how they're going to pay--to me it was really effective at showing off how well they were at manipulating her because there is a reason Edelgard goes after the Church first and not the people responsible for her own personal tragedy. It's never in doubt in the Crimson Flower route that Edelgard will be Emperor. She never doubts it. To better compare her and Dimitri to Claude--he's basically a bastard to the Alliance. Sure, Edelgard is at risk of being undermined and turned into a puppet leader, but the fact that she will be that leader is objectively not up for debate. Edelgard is not afraid of the people in the Empire (non-Agarthan) who caused the coup, and she's relatively easily able to steamroll over them. Edelgard has stability in her place in the world--her place has been custom made, after all, as the only survivor of her siblings. In a way, it's also what makes her such a tragic figure--she has a lot less agency in her route then it feels because she's trying to make the best out of a bad situation.

Claude, on the other hand, is implied to be in a very precarious position. He can't pull off the stuff Edelgard does because Edelgard is an absolute monarch in a similar way to Dimitri. She is the Emperor and Dimitri is the King. Claude is the head of the von Reigan house, but the constant pressure and presence of Lorenz combined with Holtz's looming (if pleasant) figure in the background shows to the player that Claude is objectively replaceable. It's why his ultimate strategy during the time skip is to stall, to take advantage of the lack of unification in the Alliance (the lack of unification under him), in order to keep the Empire's eyes off of his people for the longest period possible.

So I think their trust issues are fundamentally different despite how similar Claude and Edelgard are!

Before I go to that, though, I'd like to address Ferdinand. That man has absolutely no power over Edelgard lol. Their support chain honestly makes me feel a little bad for him? The other two rivals--Lorenz and Felix--get deeper, more meaningful resolutions with their Lords but to me, personally, it feels like Ferdinand just accepts that Edelgard is better than him and becomes humble in a way that feels almost self-depreciating (esp. in their line progression if you have them pull weeds together the whole run, like me and my friend lol). Ferdinand has no idea about the coup, and he's a rather oblivious character--he believes it's his job to keep Edelgard in check, and he is only allowed to be Prime Minister because when she ousted his father, she chose to keep him there. Edelgard has so much power over Ferdinand it's crazy--both personal and political--and I don't necessarily think they have a "bad" relationship or anything I just think that Ferdinand has self esteem issues, lol, and weighs his own worth against hers which she isn't responsible for. I think you're underestimating Edelgard here--while Dimitri does have a lot of personal and political connections, so does she! There's a reason she's able to almost instantly obliterate the old guard, and that's because she has replacements like Ladislava and Randolph waiting in the wings. She's also able to keep on nobles like Lindhardt and Caspar's father's. Edelgard is a very powerful character, I think it just feels otherwise sometimes because she's so deeply affected by what happened to her as a child (as she should be) and unlike Dimitri it doesn't make her large and imposing if that makes sense.

Edelgard is jaded in a way Claude is not. I did not mean to make it seem like she was trusting because she absolutely tries not to be. Her trust issues are bone deep, and comparing her and Claude as "more" or "less" was not something I intended to do, it's just that they manifest differently. What they each want from people they could potentially trust is different: Edelgard is desperate to have someone reach out their hand to her, and Claude is desperate for someone not to slap his away when he does. Edelgard is drowning in the same way Dimitri is, emotionally. The Hubert thing was less of a comparison and more of an example of why Edelgard wants to trust someone so bad and appears to "slip" more than Claude does with her mask even though hers is a lot more obvious partially because she has Hubert. She does not have to do all her vetting herself, and I think that's very good for her.

I think the reason for me, why found family seems to be a much bigger theme in Verdant Wind then Crimson Flower, is again, partially because of the power structure less inherent in the Golden Deer house. Lorenz is visibly worn down over time through conversation with Leonie (our queen!) about commoners, and despite everything about Claude being inherently political, the Golden Deer manage to be peers in a way no one else is, because let's be real, Claude is an equal to the other nobles the way Edelgard and Dimitri can't be. It doesn't make him closer to the others--Hubert calls Edelgard only ever by respectful titles and I think if they were any closer they'd merge into a single soul lmao--but it puts him on a more level playing field. Mr. Leader Man is treated with a lot more humor than grandiosity, and characters like Leonie and Raphael really do result in the Golden Deer all feeling like they're equals even if you're conscious that they aren't. This, for me, makes it feel a lot more explicit when you get your found family forming, because in a big big way, it's forming completely from scratch. There's almost no real positive relationship between any of the Deer when the game starts! And I'm including Raph and Ignatz in it because of Ignatz's massive guilt! It makes that development very tangible, because it almost doesn't feel like a natural progression. For me, the theme is so prominent because it's about the formation of found family, although I think you could definitely argue that other routes have other aspects of found family more prominent.

I'm so sorry this took me so long anon!! Know I've been slowly working on this and thinking of you, lol!

#twila talks #twila answers #fire emblem three houses #fe3h #claude von riegan #edelgard von hresvelg #fe3h meta #never fear anon i adore you and your asks!!!

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