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shiggybrainr0t · 4 months

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i was going through @willowser writing tag and reading all their stuff, as one does, and found their response to how bakugo would react whenever you tell him about a creepy guy and it got me thinking….yall know that tiktok trend about the fake Dimitri voicemail 💀 this turned out to be 90% domestic katsuki and only 10% him responding to a creepy guy so I’m sorry 😞

divider made by @cafekitsune 🖤

warnings: one fake creepy guy, comment about abuse and anxiety (not from bakugo)

Whenever you walk inside your shared apartment, you make sure to school your face into one of neutrality. You feel like you should know better than to do something like this, but Denki got this little prank into your mind and said he would give you 3,000 yen if you actually did it and well- who are you to turn that down.

Katsuki is sprawled shirtless on your couch, sweatpants hanging dangerously low on his hips as he snoozes with his arms behind his head. He makes the couch look hilariously tiny, with the way one leg is hanging off the edge and the other is bent just so his torso will fit. You can tell he has just taken a shower by the way his hair is a couple shades darker than normal and sticking about in odd ways. Seeing him there makes you forget about what you were set on doing, and you gaze at his golden form for a minute until you shifting has the floor creaking and one of his eyes opening lazily.

You know that he knew you were here the moment your keys jingled outside the door, but it was you not coming over and immediately plopping on top of him like usual that prompts him to make a grabby hand in your direction, a soft scowl on his face as you continue to stand there.

“Why’re you just standing there?”

His rumbling, sleepy voice breaks you out of your stupor and you continue on your journey towards your boyfriend. Unceremoniously, you drape yourself over his form, making him grunt at the impact even though he was expecting it. It’s muscle memory the way your legs tangle with his, and the way one strong arm wraps around you to grip at the squishy part of your side, all insecurities long lost in the safety of his arms.

His scent surrounds you, the smell of caramelized sugar and his body wash filling your senses, making you wiggle up to place your nose into the crook of his neck. You sniff loudly, giggling when he palms your face to push you away.

“Fuckin’ weirdo.”

After settling, you both bask in each other’s presence for a little while. You’re content to end the evening like this, until Denki’s stupid face flashes through your mind. Nonchalantly, you start to trace little patterns on Katsuki’s smooth chest, saying his name softly. At his responding hum, you start telling your tale.

“You know we have a new neighbor downstairs….” He doesn’t reply, only adjusting his grip on you slightly and raising one blonde eyebrow whenever you look up at him.

“Well, his name is Dimitri and he isn’t from here. He seemed a little lost, and he doesn’t really know anybody yet, so I gave him my number in case he needed help.”

“…..I don’t like where this is going.” Katsuki looks down at you, giving himself a double chin because of the angle. Annoyingly, he’s still gorgeous.

Put on, you sigh and trace “I love you” lightly into his skin. You know he got it, because he buries his nose into your hair and kisses your forehead in response.

“He started calling me a lot, even after I told him I had a boyfriend who could snap him in half-“

“Fuck yeah I could.”

“-and he left me this voicemail that was weird.”

You trail off, and at his raised eyebrows and slight shake of his head saying “well?” grab your phone and pull up the video Denki sent you, making sure the screen isn’t visible and press play.

The grainy sound of a voicemail fills the space, “Dimitri’s” voice starting up quickly.

“It’s Dimitri again. I left you a message a couple days ago. Now here’s the way I work: I don’t like leaving second messages.”

Your boyfriend’s jaw drops slightly at the sudden change of tone in Dimitri’s voice.

As “Dimitri” begins to tell you all his attributes, Katsuki’s face begins to screw up. The list of why “Dimitri” is an amazing guy and why he should be your boyfriend is a long one, and you can see Katsuki becoming more and more irritated as the voicemail continues.

“I’m giving you until 3 o’clock to return my call. I can understand if you’ve got some other issues…like maybe you were abused or you have an anxiety disorder and you’re on medicine for that-“

A warm and calloused hand engulfs yours to turn your phone off. Katsuki gently shoves you off of him, standing up and stretching lightly before turning to you.

“What apartment is he in again?” Your shocked face makes him turn around, quickly putting on some slippers and forgoing a shirt to step out of your apartment and into the hallway.

“I’ll find it.”

He’s already down the hall, bare back tense and cocking his head to the side as he jabs at the elevator buttons whenever you make it off the couch and out the door.

An apartment down, your neighbor perks up when she hears your voice, and goes to peek out her door. Where you are, your hunk of a boyfriend isn’t far behind.

“Kat-Katsuki it was a prank!”

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sigmoon · 7 months

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IM CACKLIJG BECAUSE YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHTaaa. The thing that attracts me the most to Dostoevsky is the fact that he writes everything in such a dramatic and over the top way. Every time I read his books, I notice that there's 3 pages worth of him trying to portray something as short as "yeah, he was really anxious," and I adore that. And I swear to you his books or classical literature in general has a way to be absolutely hilarious regardless of how serious the situation they are trying to portray is

I've gotten into classic literature 4-5?? years ago because of school and I actually started off reading classical literature written by people from my country as part of social studies and history so that was fun but a little hard for me to comprehend since I'll be honest, I don't speak my native language all that much

Currently, I'm reading White Nights. The book I bought was a book that had multiple of his small stories (including white nights) and Notes from Underground, but I'm already itching to start reading it already. My parents got me a THICK STACK of Dostoevsky books that I plan to read and I'm saving brothers Karamazov for last since it's extremely long and I've been too busy lately to focus on reading so I don't want to ruin the experience for me by reading then stopping for a long period of time

And honestly, maybe Dostoevsky has gotten it all figured out. There's something about jaded, morally frustrated, depressed, anxious, and anti-social men who have a chokehold on me, AND I GET IT, BUT I DONTT IS IT BECAUSE THEY'RE GENTLE??? Either way, reading crime and punishment made me realistically think about it, and I've come to the conclusion that if I was in Raskolinkovs position, I honestly think I would've done a good job acting normal after it but the anxiety I'd feel would've been x10000 worse than his

Dostoesvky has been one of the only classical authors I've read so far that combines so many different themes like nihilism, optimism, pessimism, religion, socialism etc. I read that he also had struggles with his religion, but he ultimately was an avid Christian, and he writes about all these things in his books. But I'm planning to dip my toes into Leo Tolstoy and Nabokov

SORRY IF THIS WAS LONG AHH, my friends don't read Dostoevsky, mostly other authors, SOOO ♡♡

Aaaahhh I’m sorry for my late reply, I read through your ask but I didn’t get to answer yet!

First of all, I don’t mind long asks or people talking about their interests, especially if I share them :3

What you said about Dostoyevsky’s writing being over the top and dramatic— I love that! Raskolnikov fainting five times a day? Sweet, and I’m not sure if I would handle the agonies of the guilt after a double murder more graceful than he did. Dimitri Karamazov holds really long monologues as well, and they’re sometimes really moving and beautiful and sometimes it’s just…yeah…you’re bitchless, we get it (/lovingly).

I’m so glad you perceive his works or other classics as funny as well, because the few people I’ve told that C&P or notes made me giggle while reading gave me that 0_0 look and asked how something so dark can be funny (but it is! Whether that was intended or not.) God, you have to read notes from the underground, I love the MC so much, he reminds me of an angry cat who scratches and hisses at people for no apparent reason but actually needs to be wrapped in a blanket, made some tea and given some head pats (bad example, don’t feed your cat tea…)

Overall, Dostoyevsky understands me like no other; him and mitski are the only ones who do.

And what is it with disheveled, greasy, depressed and anxious men with superior complexes that makes them so hot? They barely eat, they keep fainting, they don’t bathe, they’re antisocial…and they’re so sexy doing exactly that. When Raskolnikov said that he’s very busy with thinking— I felt that.

#Raskolnikov is so hot i wish Russians were real #can you tell I want to fuck him?#AND!! Dostoyevsky lets his male characters cry!! I love that!#Snot! and! tears!#aahh…white nights…⊹♡₊˚⊹#chit chat #anons<3 #Fran♥︎

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inspector-montoya-fox · 2 years

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hi happy new year, how are you? to start off 2022 i’m gonna rank my top 10 favourite guards from the Sly trilogy. let’s take a look:

10. Card-dealing Dalmatian: honestly made the list mainly because of the outfit - it’s a look - but overall just a funny lil boi, a jokester

9. Basset Hound Pirate: this guy wants to take a nap but he can’t because LeFwee will probably cut his dick off idk. he’s not groundbreaking by any means, but i love the vest and the eye-patch as well as the fact that he has his own little mini cannon

8. Japanese Culture Aficionado Walrus: ok this guy... when Sir Frogger told his guards to wear overalls, this guy didn’t listen. fuck overalls he said. he prolly watches hentai and reads Naruto, and owns a scooter like Furio Tigre. god knows his income isn’t enough to buy a proper motorcycle, so he chose to settle. also, he feels really uncomfortable around his squid coworker

7. Janitor Rat: so imagine it’s late in Paris and you’re stuck cleaning the disgusting club floor, trying to get muddy footprints and gum out of the carpet (great choice Dimitri) while all your friends are out clubbing, and this cane-wielding dude in blue who doesn’t wear pants comes in and trashes the place. i mean, i’d be mad too tf ?? honestly, props to the janitor rat for standing up. you go, janitor rat.

6. Wolves: a silly lil guy, a cutie. why would you want to pick a fight with him? for shame.

5. Gays: listen. if it wasn’t for Tony de Killer B, these guys wouldn’t have made it on the list. but he paved the way, he put in the work. the outfit... mama mia ! 100% absolutely, he’s ready to vogue, he’s ready to death drop, it’s very John Galliano. the mask? it’s giving camp. skipped leg day for the past 8 years? that too. what’s there not to love exactly?

4. Y2K Monke Gurl: is she good at her job? no, she’s actually abysmal at it. but did she slay with her fit? i think she deserves a raise, Mr Panda. from the bandana to the blush, the braid, the gloves, the flame detailing on the sides, the sandal. GIVE US EVERYTHING, we stan. we have no choice but to stan. also, very good at finding excellent hiding spots, i’ll give her that too

3. Bomb Cock: i love these guys honestly. they’re just here to have a good time even though it might be their last. they’re doing the most and it’s ok, no judgement. very much Looney Tunes rejects with their comically huge bombs. they want to protect the hens in the coop but they’re way too destructive for that, it’s hilarious. if they were a lyric, they’d be When other bitches tryna get with my dude and when other chickens tryna get in my coop from Streets by Doja Cat

2. Moose Dude: ok hear me out on this one. very controversial choice but i couldn’t place them lower, i’m sorry. they’re lovable idiots/ jocks. they wear jock straps because they’re comfy, they probably smell like sweaty balls, they drink beer all the time. it’s the type of oblivious, dumbfounded straighty you see in gay porn. they’re pea-brained, they wanna play RC battles all day because they never finished high school despite being the best at PE. the poor things had no other option but to become guards. absolute goons. the way Murray just waltzed into their man-cave with a moose head on and they didn’t even bat an eye is so charming, these dudes drive me nuts. i’m a furry

Honorable Mention: Carmelita: she’s not a guard, but her patrolling the hubs always puts a smile on my face. what an absolute legend, what a ki. the mega threat herself, not letting anyone out of her sight, no matter the weather condition, the hub architecture, the surroundings. nothing.

1. Doberman Flashlight Guards: this is elite tier guard, no questions asked. these guys understood the assignment. they don’t care that their coworkers are wearing jailbird attire or that some of them even come to work nude; they’re gonna wear that fucking tuxedo and rock it. the way they walk is so funny, the way they run too, and if they catch you they’ll just waste an entire round of bullets because they’ll howl and shoot at the sky. that’s a good doggy !! they’ve been working hard and they’ve been cashing Muggshot’s cheques, because they’ve always got that cigar in their mouths. i love them, 10/10

#i'm in a silly goofy mood can you tell?#my name is Tony de Killer B and i've been afraid of insects my whole life. stop stop stop where? where's the bee? THERE'S A BEE !?#how have the two first days of 2022 been for you? good or bad?#lmk and tell me your thoughts on my ranking #i wanna do more of these. i'm thinking i'm gonna rank the racers from the first game next or secondary characters #or maybe villain bossfight locations or missions idk #sly cooper #ranking

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antiloreolympus · 3 years

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9 Anti LO Asks

1. LO Apollo being a villain/Antagonist could be interesting if he wasn't so irredeemable and irritating. I mean, think about it. Apollo hates Persephone (for whatever reason. Maybe cause she's friends with Eros and Apollo and Eros have an ongoing rivalry), and maybe Persephone even hates him back (say because he's stuck up). But they're both friends with Hermes and Artemis. Now we've got a hilarious, slightly tense, "glare at each other across the couch" situation where Apollo and Persephone have to pretend not to hate each other for the sake of their friends.

Artemis is all like "I'm so glad my two favorite people are getting along!" and then it cuts to Persephone sharpening a knife while Apollo grips a pen so hard it snaps. And they're both like "Yeah. We love each other soooooo much...."

Bonus points if Hermes knows they hate each other, but just kinda wants to see how far they'll take it!

Anyways, all I'm saying is that I like the idea of an antagonistic Apollo. It could've been good! She could have used Persephone and Apollo's shared relationships to her advantage for comedic affect! Plus we could've had a whole arc about them learning to be like each other and thus strengthening Persephone's relationships outside of Hades. But RS is too incompetent to write anything good adjacent.

2. This was like, ages ago but I cannot get over the fact that RS named random characters stuff like “Brenda” “Jill” and “Hank” like? Hello?? She could very easily just search “Greek names” (even “Ancient Greek names” if she wanted) and pick stuff she liked from there, and if she still wanted to keep the more “Americanized” names she could do names like Sophia, Helen, Nicholas, or even Jimmy (which is just an Americanized Dimitri, if I remember correctly?). Like,,, it’s so easy to use google instead of calling a Greek nymph “”Brenda”” 😐

Note: I am not a native Greek but I do have the classic “Greek-name-opoulos” surname so while I definitely do not have as much say as native Greeks I at least know a *little* bit about Greek names and the way RS names minor non-God characters is.... interesting.

3. Why is Hades’ face shaded like that? Is he about to get fetishized for being gay or smth?

4. Regarding the Americanisation of LO’s Greece: It would be one thing if the Greek pantheon in LO were the only pantheon in their universe. That way, RS could write off the Americanised lifestyle and names in LO as some weird shoehorning of diversity (the Hades games creators did a much better job by making the gods different races and justifying it by saying the gods may be Greek gods but they rule over all of humanity and therefore should be treated as representative of human diversity).

However, RS has established very early on that there are multiple pantheons in the universe of LO (remember how Perse at one point contemplated running away to join the Norse pantheon?) thus making it Impossible for her to justify the Greek gods being so Anglicised since they only rule over Greece in LO…

5. What I don't get it anti-nymph racism (and yes it's racism, Rachel said they're a different race) is so heavy and common place in the series that it's like ... what about Amphitrite? She's a nymph! Is the deal with her that she's well bred/one of the good ones" because if so 🤢🤮

6. Getting caught up on LO and Pfft Polymnia everything shes saying is supposed to be "character assassination" and slander / defamation of character of Persephone according to the title and yet....

Everything shes saying is true... Also "the accused hid like a coward" cuts to Persephone looking comfy just hanging out in Hades arms in ya know, the King of the Underworlds house??! After commiting a second murder / mutilation?

7. Rachel you coward give women big noses too

8. im sorry, i don care how much you might love lo, but yall cannot look me in the eye and tell me hades being wider than spiderverse kingpin is somehow a good look. how does he even walk without falling over.

9. I hate how the plot steam rolled over so much of their actually interesting plots. Hera just got reunited with Hephaestus, let’s see that relationship fester after she just started having nightmares. Artemis and Apollo were looking for each other because she almost put two and two together. Who texted echo to say “hey your roommate is a tree now”. Do any of the gods know Daphne is missing OR Minthe? Do gods actually care when something happens to a non god? (Probs not Hera turned someone into a goat) Eros and psyche??? What’s happening? Idc about the trial plot since persphone isn’t going to get punished

#anti lo #anti lore olympus #lore olympus critical #lo critical

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agent-cupcake · 3 years

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I don't know if you've touched upon this in your asks before, but I find the way Claude's parents treated him as a kid upsetting. When he misbehaved he got dragged behind a horse and they apparently left him on his own to be bullied by his half-brothers and survive assassination attempts. I want to give my poor boy a hug. :(

I’m not sure I’ve ever specifically talked about this, but I agree! Compared to Edelgard and Dimitri, his childhood wasn’t as overtly awful, but it obviously left him with some severe scars (his trust issues, being an outcast, knowing that he has to cover physical weakness by being smarter than everyone else) and it is really sad. Like, yes, meme man deer boy haha, but also... Poor kid?

I think the writing for Claude’s background is pitch perfect. Just the WAY he describes that story about being dragged by a horse is heartbreaking cause he’s so casual like “lol yeah my parents thought it was hilarious to torment me” then quickly moves on because Hilda’s rightfully horrified by it. But, in context, that’s clearly meant as an ice breaker or joke, not that serious to his which is also so human because it was normalized. Joking and making light of trauma is possibly one of the best coping mechanisms there is. It’s also interesting that Claude never really seems to hold any disdain for his parents despite the fact that they betrayed him in basically every way a parent could. He just addresses things as they were and rationalizes his upbringing while still maintaining a positive, or at least working, relationship with his parents. To me, this is a very nuanced take on people’s interactions with their families. Claude places a lot more of the blame on circumstances. That’s especially apparent in this line: “But in the right environment, anyone could be seen as an outsider. It can become…overwhelming. That’s why I kept running. Kept fighting. As a kid I spent a lot of time licking my wounds and coming up with schemes, trying to keep my nose out of trouble while plotting against my enemies. My parents always told me I wouldn’t grow stronger if I didn’t learn to fight my own battles. And so, in the end, I did. And I grew up to be as independent and self-reliant as my parents always wished for me to be. Lucky me, right?” Obviously, there’s that tone of ironic bitterness, but it’s kind of passive. It seems like Claude regrets that that’s how it happened because he obviously lost a lot in the process of learning self-reliance, but acknowledging that it did ultimately make him a more capable person to play the bad hand he was dealt in being born of mixed parentage. Which is just... really sad.

Despite not being as dramatic as some of the others, Claude’s story a lot more realistic, or at least relatable. Like Dimitri and Edelgard, he never had agency in the circumstances of which he developed, stripped of a childhood and forced to grow up quickly for the sake of self-preservation. Although, in his case, I think it made him a lot more mature. Not so much in emotional ways, but in a very practical sense. Dimitri and Edelgard grew up in a chrysalis of trauma, developed in some ways but still very immature in others. Neither of them have ever had to be independent and take care of themselves, even when drowning in isolation and pain. There’s also something to be said for the fact that they both had people who loved and unconditionally cared for them, even if the bad ultimately outweighed the good. They both know how to recognize and reach out for that, as evidenced by the unhealthy bond they form with Byleth. Claude didn’t have that. I don’t recall that he mentions any close friends and his family was a mess. Obviously nobody stuck up for him. Not that he needs to talk about it, as his difficulty forming actual trusting bonds with others is enough of an indication that he missed out on those emotionally formative experiences. Just because he was able to take it on the chin and jokes about it doesn’t make the things he describes and the way his childhood affected him any less tragic. When people brush over his past just because it’s not as overtly awful as some of the other characters, it strips away context for a lot of the most interesting and morally questionable aspects of his character.

TD;LR sorry for the rant, I wholeheartedly agree with you and will do anything to avoid my finals and talking about Claude for an hour is therapeutic. We should all give him a hug.

#fire emblem three houses #claude von riegan #fe claude #Anonymous

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mrpenguinpants · 3 years

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Hey so that Dainsleif quest huh 👀

[Spoilers for those who haven't played it yet ofc]

These are just some disorganized initial thoughts for your consideration:

So I'm pretty sure his "travel companion" that he keeps mentioning is our twin

Does that mean our twin has gone to the exact same places as we've been going?? Dainsleif seemed to be familiar with all the locations we visited in Mondstadt but I suppose that could've been from an even earlier journey

And the possibility that the Abyss is trying to mislead us bc we hadn't encountered any abyss mages since Dvalin 🤔🤔🤔 what do they want??? We know (kinda) that our twin is watching our progress and that they're the prince/princess of the Abyss so like are they trying to keep us from getting in the way of their plans so as not to accidentally hurt us? Though something tells me we're gonna get tangled up in it one way or the other lmao

Dainsleif said that his goal is to oppose the Abyss so perhaps he's got his own secret plans to try to stop our twin (as is also supported by what he said at the end of the mortal travails video about proving ourselves worthy of stopping "her"/Lumine probably)

Also turns out I'd been pronouncing his name wrong the whole time lmao I had been saying dains-leaf instead of dains-lif

No Vision as confirmed by his full character model

Also his eyepatch is more of a phantom of the opera mask lmao

Important observation he looks like post timeskip Dimitri from a distance when I had to meet him in Dvalin's Lair I legit thought he was Dimitri for a sec XD

Anyway those were my thoughts about the new quest lmao my internet was cutting out the whole time while I was trying to play like dsfkdksjf pls I just wanted to talk to blond eyepatch man

Important part of this post:

I took a lot of pictures of Dainsleif if you want to use them as references (or appreciation). The pictures are under the read more tag so if you don’t want spoilers, don’t read anything and skip to the read more.

Also, he calls you and your sibling “idiots” through money.

He asks for 500 mora and (this is probably just a coincidence but considering Zhongli tips Xiangling 888 mora I’m sus). The number 250 [二百五] or ( èr bǎi wǔ) means “idiot”.

If someone calls you 250, they can say (nǐ shì wǔ bǎi) or “You are [250]”. But if you give someone 500, this can be taken as saying two people are stupid (250 + 250 = 500). I mean, that’s probably not how it works but I think it’s funny to imagine Dainsleif being too polite to call us stupid.

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I know right? When I saw the leak for it and seeing it confirmed in patch notes, I was so confused. Wha-Why are you here so early? I wasn’t expecting you for another 5 years at least. I’m happy to see you and your beautiful model in game but at the same time I was so worried that we were going to get crumbs of interactions. Same thing with Guizhong in Zhongli’s story quest. Genshin please...finish your stories (that’s fucking hilarious coming from me considering I still have a part 2 to Childe that I need to write), but I’m honestly just happy that he’s in the game. But yes 👀👀 more lore food.

You know, I was talking about the archons a bit with @maagdalen and, I may have been misunderstanding or reading the wrong message, but they brought up the idea that what if the archons’ personality is based on their regions country's? So for example, Venti’s personality adopts the German mentality because Mondstadt was modelled after Germany? Obviously, I have no idea if that’s true because I’m not from or am German but in the context of Liyue and Zhongli. I can definitely see some sort of connection.

But some food for thought:

“But cyro archon is very viable since she's suppose to be a kind hearted person that needed to be cold for the sake of freedom. or peace. something like that.”

“Sorry, but this is stupidly Russian style. No matter what you say, people will always be dissatisfied. Of course it's not that bad...but it's something to think about.“

But yess, @svnflowery said the same thing. That Dainsleif was Lumine’s “guide” the same way Paimon is our guide. I actually think that’s an interesting idea. That Lumine has gone to the exact same places as we’ve been through. It actually makes me wonder (since we can play as both her and Aether), that Lumine went through the same story line as Aether. She met Venti, Zhongli, everything that’s happening right now. She’s already been through, then when she reached the Khaenri’ah chapter she failed. So she decided to spin the clock back and change destiny. I mean, this is me spit balling and I don’t think this happened but it’s something to think about.

You know funny enough, hasn’t Venti been asleep for a while? Either way, he doesn’t really strike me as the type that truly wants to be an Archon. He says in his voicelines as well that “that’s a problem for Mondstadt to deal with”. So it would be easier for the Abyss Order to mess some things up. While Zhongli has been alive for 6000 years and I highly doubt Abyss Order can do anything to him haha. If we’re going on that “Lumine has already been through this journey” she could be trying to re-make or lead us on the same path.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Dainsleif was our guide, then when Lumine spun the clock back and aligned herself with the abyss, that’s when they split. That could be a reason why he’s trying to oppose the abyss order but really I think it’s because the Abyss Order’s goal is to basically set the world on fire (or something like that). I always pronounce character names wrong and I don’t understand why people make such a big deal out of it. You know who I’m talking about, my pronunciation isn’t completely shit to the point you don’t know. So why do you keep yelling at me??

Also. The most important part of his quest was it was “Aether’s version” of the “We will be reunited” trailer.

It even showed the crushed dandelion flower and the ruin guard footprints. IT’S OUR SISTER.

I knoww, I was searching for his vision and got weird pics but that’s alright, I LOWKEY HATE THE OPERA MASK SO MUCH. GIVE ME ACTUAL MASK. THERE GOES THE “SEPERATE COLOURED EYE” ART OF KHAENRIAH PEOPLE. Yo, knock off Dimitri let’s go.

I love Dainslief’s english voice but I hate Xiao’s en voice. What a dilemma. I usually play in chinese but wow does Dainslief sound old. Jp is slightly better but I hear grandpa vibes. Korean isn’t bad and I actually don’t mind korean xiao so korean we shall go. It’s weird. I like Dainsleif english voices, Xiao chinese voice, paimon korean voice haha. Jp is usually just good all around but I have preferences. But tyty for telling me your thoughts! I’d love to hear about the Xiao quest that just dropped. Beautiful boy

sweats

yeah about that...xiao scammed me. I wonder if his speech changes based on what you say. i kind of doubt it though.

I’m looking at his outfit from every angle while Xiao stays pretty in the back.

I like that you can see his magic arm there.

While on this side you can’t.

I swear this is for research. IM TRYING TO SEE IF HE HAS A VISION. IM INNOCENT!!

he also has some sort of weird...blue thingy on his foot?

Im using Xiao as a personfication of me BUT TELL ME YOUR SECRETS

#genshin #genshin impact #genshin lore #genshin impact lore #genshin spoilers #genshin impact spoilers #genshin khaenri'ah #genshin impact khaenri'ah #genshin lumine #genshin impact lumine #genshin aether #genshin impact aether #genshin dainsleif #genshin impact dainsleif #lumine #aether #dainsleif #genshin 1.3 #genshin impact 1.3

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starredfishing · 2 years

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I’m crying ur HC of the hoshidan fam seeing crests for the first time being Dimitri’s is something that can be so hilarious. Please dimitri is having a crisis and thinking he’s gonna have to fight a war AGAIN and it’s ryoma who just straight up guffaws finding it so funny

ADJAJDJSJJXJSD YEAH LMAO hes like

'o-oh my i am....So sorry,' and ryomas just losing it while hinokas like wait do it again 👁👁 thats cool af.

takumi, nervously: what if he snaps fujin yumi in half

ryoma: im sure it'll be fine its a Sacred bow-- [dimitri snaps a steel lance in half] WELL.

and felix is like yeah uh its just. its just like that hes just like that.

[felix activates his crest approx 20 times while swordfighting hinata]

knowing how often his crest activates itd be fucking hilarious if the dragon vein went off just as many times. like can u imagine. felix will walk literally anywhere in hoshidan territory and hes terraforming like its animal crossing 🧍

#fe3h #hoshidan felix au #DHHSHDHSJFNJDJCJDJCJJDJD PLS #dimitri is like 🥺😭 and ryomas like HAHAHA ITS ALRIGHT DONT BE ALARMED [everybody on the hoshidan side is alarmed]#white ppl built diff for real!!!!#theyre handshaking over POWERS THAT COME FROM A DRAGON!!!!

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faemoria · 3 years

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throws u my url from covid baby jail---

[ ♛ ] send me a url and i'll tell you the following;

my opinion on;

character in general :

nox : has like 3 million muses also nox : doesn’t specify a muse for me to talk about uMMM well okay in a general sense , nox has gotten me to care about a lot of characters that i didn’t care for or , in a few cases , even actively disliked prior . they have a few distinguished types which include knights that subvert genres && garbage men , both of which i can highly appreciate . i am especially fond of jayce , zelgius && sigurd , but that might be because they’re the ones i’ve interacted with the most across my own blogs .

how they play them :

spectacularly ? show-stoppingly ? wonderful ? as i said , nox has managed to make me care about characters i did not care about before or even actively disliked . if you told the ‘ me from 2012 ′ that the newly released jayce was going to become one of my most beloved fictional characters of all time i would have asked how you got into my house && also not believed you . specifically nox has a wonderful way of invoking emotion && introspection , generally favoring that over the more tangible side of things , that really gives you a good look at what their characters are going through && their reactions to the characters they’re interacting with . it’s very tasty .

the mun :

y’all , nox somehow sneakily crept their way into becoming one of my best friends at some point && honestly i’m still reeling over it . they’re hilarious , down-to-earth && delightful to talk to about adored fictional characters && video games && all that jazz . it helps that we are two peas in a pod when it comes to beloved tropes && such . but also i would trust nox with just about anything && know they’re someone i can turn to if i need help or support . i can only hope that i provide the same sense of comfort in our friendship .

do i;

follow them :

i will follow nox on every blog they make until i die .

rp wtth them :

probably more than with anybody else at this point .

want to rp with them :

always , i love our interactions && the relationships we’ve formed between our various muses so far . i admit that sometimes i can get a little melancholy when their brainrot changes from a character i’ve been enjoying interactions with to someone new , but i know that 1 . they’ll return to old muses one day 2 . no matter who they’re writing at the time , it will turn out to be fun && exciting if we squish our muses together .

ship their character with mine :

jayce && tooth breathe life into me , we all already know this . i am very soft for zelgius && aqua , even if it’s not a romantic thing ( although i think they’d make a stellar power couple ) . && i enjoy the little interaction we’ve had between sigurd && tooth so far . that one i definitely don’t see turning romantic at any point , but i think tooth can really come to care strongly about him ( if she has the time ) . viktor && jayce can fucking kill me && i’ll thank them for it . oh and byleth / dimitri is god tier content , sorry i dropped that muse after like a week lol i might return one day .

what is my ;

overall opinion :

**Note: Mun’s answer are all to be completely honest. Don’t send url if you don’t want brutal honesty. i mostly just want an excuse to say nice things about you && your muses . i mostly just want an excuse to say nice things about you && your muses .

@hamartio send me a url .

#[ i hope you are freed from covid jail very soon my friend ]#gif //#» ทั่วไป ; Ask Meme | let me say nice things about you && your muse #» โลกีย์ ; Out of Character

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yukiwrites · 5 years

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Spending the Nights with You, At Last

Thank you so much for the support, anon! I’m,,, LOVE DIMITRI FIRE EMBLEM...

Summary: It was not as though Dimitri’s worries and fears had disappeared with the end of the war or with his marriage. No. He was a happier man than he was a decade ago, yes, but he was a scarred one all the same... But now, he had Byleth by his side, to wake up during the night with him and lull him back to sleep.

Commission info HERE and HERE!

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The smell of burning flesh. The icy grip of fear, helplessness and guilt amidst the chaos all around him. He cannot see any faces, nor can he remember them -- their screams blending into the fire, mixing with their own blood; their colors unable to discern.

However, he could not seem to forget this bottomless pit filled to the brim with fear and guilt, the murky darkness always plunging him deeper and deeper into it, no matter how well he seemed to have been during the day.

At night, he was not allowed to forget. He was not allowed to overcome. The dreams would not allow it.

The stillness of the night was cut sharply with the sound of a muffled scream as Dimitri sat up with the shock of tearing himself away from the nightmare.

"Hah... hahh..." He breathed heavily, his good eye wide while the hollowed scar panged with a phantom pain he knew all too well. Digging his face into both of his hands, it took the King a few moments to regain his breath, his entire body lumping in defeat. "I am so... terribly sorry." His voice sounded muffled.

Lying down beside him, Byleth stretched herself, well used to handling her husband's nightmares by then. "Why are you sorry?" She patted the spot he had been previously, silently asking him to come back.

Defeated and ashamed, Dimitri let his weight fall down on the bed with a loud thud. "I had resigned myself to being haunted by these nightmares for the rest of my life, but you -- you needn't sacrifice your sleep over my own sleeplessness."

"Nonsense," Byleth snuck an arm under Dimitri's head, wrapping it around his neck as she brought his face to her almost bare chest -- she wore a V-cut camisole, see. "There's nothing to forgive, love."

Suddenly and quite literally wrapped in her warmth and soft skin, Dimitri closed his eye to enjoy the constant of his beloved's heartbeat. Slowly did he reciprocate the hug, gently grasping her waist and back within his arms.

He took a moment to breathe, to take in his wife's welcoming embrace and to simply allow his own anguish to melt under her touch before he opened his mouth to speak again, his lips brushing against her skin. "Resigned I say I am, yet I cannot help but think that I should not be plagued by these dreams any longer...!" He huffed, a frown deepening over his brow. "It's been over a decade... I should be- yet I cannot hope to-"

"Shh," Byleth combed Dimitri's hair with one hand, graceful and softly, her breath disheveling a bit of his fringe. "You've only just started to heal, my love... The dreams happen with less frequency than they did ten years ago, do they not?" She asked, but didn't truly wait for an answer, although he did nod. "Soon they'll happen less and less until they're a thing of the past."

Dimitri's frown melted as Byleth spoke, his shoulders sagging as his body deflated. "Mhm," he nodded once again, bringing his wife even closer so he could feel her breasts on either side of his face.

"And I will be honored to be with you every step of the way -- it's something I've wanted to do since a long time ago."

"Oh?" Since Dimitri's mouth was too close to her skin, his voice barely came out at all, only the rumbling of his throat let it be heard by his wife.

Giggling, Byleth never stopped caressing her husband's hair, carefully taking any knots she found along the way. "I wanted to be your strength to help you go through these sleepless nights ever since your academy days, you see." She admitted, squeezing him more into her hold lest he looked up at her and saw her blushing face. "As I saw you wandering around the monastery at night, unable to sleep and plagued by the nightmares I couldn't begin to understand... I only wanted to hug you and tell you it would be alright. Yet, all I could do was simply tell you to go back to sleep."

Heat rose to Dimitri's cheeks so fast it made even Byleth's chest warm up. "Y-you- ever since then?" He stuttered with embarrassment, his heart now beating in a dissonant rhythm out of love instead of anguish as it were mere moments before.

Byleth dug her face into Dimitri's hair, a giddy laughter bubbling out of her chest. "I couldn't very well do this with that boy from back then, could I?"

"Haha!" Dimitri laughed into her chest, strengthening his grip on the hug, making her lose her breath. "I suppose not, however he who lives inside me could not be happier to hear this! Oh, if only you could have said that then... Perhaps it would have given me the strength I needed not to fall into despair."

"Perhaps," Byleth bobbed her head to the side. "Perhaps not. There is no way to tell, now that all this time has passed."

"That is true."

"Still, even if it had helped, it would've only made your focus change towards me, turning me into a crutch that would keep you from walking with your own feet... and then I- the fall from the canyon-"

Dimitri closed his eye once again, breathing her scent from so close. "That is also true as always, my beloved. I needed the words you told me during the war at the time you said them; had I received them too early or too late, I would still be consumed by darkness."

Byleth murmured a "mhm," before resuming her threading through his hair, gently stroking his skin with the other hand.

For a few moments, they stayed that way, enjoying one another's warmth as they caressed their beloved in their own, loving way. Dimitri ran his hand up and down Byleth's back as she breathed into his hair, the rhythm of their combined respiration making both of them sag in one another's embrace.

Once the Queen took a smaller breath to speak, Dimitri snuggled into her chest to hear her voice rumbling through her ribs. "Do you want me to sing you a lullaby?"

Immediately did the King smirk as he took a nip of his beloved's skin, right in the middle of her breasts. "Am I still that same boy, my beloved?"

"Heehee," Byleth giggled, ticklish, as Dimitri dug his face into her skin, making her laugh even more. Squirming inside his rock-solid grip, Byleth struggled to pull his hair up, making him face her amidst his and hers laughter. "Oh, come here, you." She huffed before digging into his lips, surprising him with a deep kiss.

Widening his eye but not about to deny a caress as passionate as that, Dimitri simply opened his mouth to allow his wife's entry, their tongues well used but never tired of interlacing in their kiss. He turned his head to one side as she did the other, her small hands gripping at the tip of his jaw to lift his face to her even more, his own arms wrapped around her waist for support.

Byleth slowly turned the large kiss into countless smaller ones, their lips never wanting to part. "I could never do this to a boy," she scoffed as he bit her lower lip, enjoying how softly it stretched as he pulled away.

"Duly noted," he breathed into hers, the hot air intertwining between them. "Truly, duly noted," he said in a hoarse voice, closing his eye to snuggle his nose into Byleth's neck, making a trail of kisses from it to her cleavage -- to the spot he had been previously.

Shivering with his careful touch, Byleth dug her nails into Dimitri's back, holding her breath. "Perhaps a lullaby isn't what you need right now?" She teased, hearing a hilarious, bubbly sound leave Dimitri's mouth as he kissed her breast. "Haha! What was tha-"

Choking with embarrassment and mirth, Dimitri dug his face into her breast even more. "I thought I was being 'real slick' about it, too," he mumbled, his voice sounding with a pout, though his mouth wearing a smirk.

Byleth raised one eyebrow. "Real slick? Was that something Sylvain told you to say again?" A moment of silence before Byleth felt Dimitri's cheek burn in the middle of her breasts. "No way, I was right? Please don't listen to what he says! He's teasing you!"

"I get that now!" He pouted, his cheeks puffed in embarrassment as his face burned up. Lifting his gaze to meet hers, they both dissolved into laughter as they once again reached in for a peppy kiss, their bodies wide awake and ready to demonstrate their love for one another.

"You are so cute," Byleth teased as they pulled away to breathe. "I love you even more during these times."

"Good to know you love me when I embarrass myself -- at least I will not need to suffer from it long, knowing you will be there, laughing at me whilst still loving me." He grumbled as he shut her growing laughter with his kiss, placing her on her back over the mattress. "Of course I love you as well, despite this teasing, my beloved. For all eternity."

#dimileth #dimitri #byleth #dimitri x byleth #fire emblem three houses #my writings #yuki's commissions

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teaveetamer · 4 years

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Yo Jesus anon, if anything, Rhea's the one with an actual Martyr complex. (Those are bad. Self care is important, everyone.) Edelgard kinda reminds me of my mom's bad side, "sacrificing" a bit for the benefit of no one, then complaining about it later. It happens all the time. Isn't it tiring? Isn't easier to try to understand someone than it is to nag them repeatedly? (Sorry about the rant. Family, ya know.)

Pretty sure Jesus was a pacifistic hippy. That gave up his own life for humanity. And by extension his birth right as the king of Israel. Edelgard wouldn’t even work herself to death like Dimitri does for the people.

Regarding what that "Jesus anon" said, I have ASKED people who said "she sacrifices so much!" what exactly it is she sacrifices. And I'm usually met with being completely ignored. Except the time someone said "Because she knows how bloody her path is, she'll be seen as a warmonger in history" and I think... history is written by the victors, dude. I'm 99% sure she won't.

Combining these three.

I have nothing to really add to any of these I just think it’s kind of hilarious that I’m getting so many asks with the phrase “Jesus Anon” in them now.

#Anonymous

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I’m laughing so hard cause I think we share maybe 2 FE ships across the entire franchise but now I’m curious what ships you have for 3H so far since they’re so different from mine? xP

Dimitri/Byleth owns my soul

Claude/Hilda also owns my soul

I also ADORE Felix/Annette, Sylvain/Ingrid, Dedue/Mercedes, Ashe/Petra, Raphael/Marianne, Leonie/Ignatz, Linhardt/Lysithea, Caspar/Bernadetta, Ferdinand/Dorothea, Seteth/Manuela, and I know they don’t have supports and I’m salty about that, but I crackship Cyril/Flayn.

A lot of these ships need more love.

Claude/Hilda not only are on the same wavelength, but they understand each other, can never manipulate the other, and are best friends first which is the foundation of all great relationships.

I never expected to ship Felix/Annette BUT HOLY CRAP THEIR SUPPORT! Felix is such a jerk to practically everyone in their supports until after the C support where you see there is more to Felix than being a grumpy a-hole. However with Annette HE’S NICE AND PLAYFULLY TEASING FROM THE GETGO! Also their supports are adorable! Also funny too!

Sylvain/Ingrid reminds me a lot of a couple classic anime ships I love (Miroku/Sango for instance from InuYasha). Plus I love how Sylvain has everyone fooled except her. She knows him better than most people and he her. Also they understand each other with the issues with their families and the Crest system, the two get one of the best endings regarding that issue. Also they’re childhood friends and I’m a sucker for that. I know Ingrid is childhood friends with Felix and Dimitri too...but I don’t feel the same chemistry with them as I do her and Sylvain. The other two feel more like brothers where as Sylvain I feel more like an old married couple.

Dedue/Mercedes, HOLY CRAP THIS SHIP! I was told do the support and I wouldn’t regret it, how right that was! This ship is SOOOO PURE! I don’t want to spoil too much except please check it out if you haven’t! I cannot do any justice to how wonderful these supports or their paired ending is!

Ashe/Petra is another one that surprised me. I never intended to ship it but really I was just shopping Ashe around with who I could support him with that wasn’t taken. However this one was a pleasant surprise. Their C support starts off as amusing and a little cute. But the two gel really well as it goes on and their A support and paired ending is so sweet and perfect! It feels like a natural conclusion for the two!

Raphael/Marianne, from what I knew of their personalities I had a suspicion I’d want to support them. BOY HOWDY WAS I RIGHT! It’s so dang wholesome, and Raphael is the perfect teddy bear for sweet Marianne! He doesn’t judge her at all, he accepts her as she is and embraces that. He wants to connect with her and through his efforts you can see how touched Marianne is. Also GIANT GUY AND PETITE GIRL AESTETIC!

Now as for Leonie/Ignatz, I tried, I really tried Chip. I was trying to check out Lorenz and Leonie because I know you loved it. And while it was nice, especially the B support...it didn’t pull me away from Ignatz with Leonie (as I already accidentally had their two supports done on my first playthrough when I recruited them for BL) I wanted to try your ship...but my heart couldn’t stop. It wanted to see more of Leonie/Ignatz! She’s just so darn SWEET AND KIND AND SUPPORTIVE to Ignatz. Leonie can come off a bit strong willed and stubborn in some of her supports but with Ignatz she’s so SOFT with this cute shy nerd from the getgo! She helps him figure out what he wants to do with his life and find a dream for himself and they’re both so wonderful AND IT KILLS ME THERE IS NO CONTENT FOR THEM!!! I’m sorry I tried, I really did but this ship claimed my soul and I cannot see her with anyone else.

Linhardt/Lysithea was amusing at first but surprisingly tinged with some angst, only to circle around to their A-support to be extremely heartwarming! Also Linhardt gives Lysithea one of the BEST endings in the paired endings so that boosted it a lot.

Caspar/Bernadetta was also something I never planned on shipping, heck I outright expected I wouldn’t like it. Considering how different these two are and I’m very particular about my opposite attract type ships. Because some out there have no chemistry. At first I was worried it’d go that way when I started the C support, but then the end of the C support surprised me, showing me there was more than what I originally perceived. The more I went into it the more I started to grow very fond of this pairing.

Now on my first BL playthrough, I never expected to ship Ferdinand/Dorothea. And certainly not in the way I came to ship it. I only got to their C support and from that alone, you see Dorothea STRONGLY dislikes Ferdie. However I failed to recruit Ferdinand in time for the timeskip. So unfortunately he was going to be my enemy. Well then something happened. On a certain map I’m told there is a chance you can recruit Ferdinand (and Lorenz) in the BL route IF you defeat them as Byleth. I didn’t know this as I had Dedue confronting him and to my horror I killed Ferdie. I was...very sad. I really grew fond of this ginger knucklehead noble boy pre-timeskip. Now after the battle ended and we go to the next month and I explore the monastery...I run into Dorothea at the fishing area. I was not expecting what would come out of her mouth. Remember I only got her C-support with him at the time where she plainly tells a confused Ferdinand she hates him. What Dorothea said...GUTTED ME! Through the timeskip you can see how this war is wearing thin on her. She often laments of each battle with it only bringing more death and loss of soldiers, she just wants it to end. I feel for her so much and want to hug her. But that isn’t what gutted me, it’s what she said this particular time that gutted me. “Ferdie...he was our friend. And we killed him.” THAT KILLED ME SO MUCH! Again I only got their C-support, I hadn’t seen the other supports yet. So in my eyes, claiming she hated him in the C-support was a lie, she did care. She didn’t hate him. She did see him as a friend. But because he died I locked her out of the rest of a support so she never got to tell him she was wrong and did care AND THAT KILLED ME! I vowed on my second BL playthrough THE FIRST PERSON I would recruit is Ferdie and Dorothea so I don’t put poor Dorothea through that again. Okay...long winded story aside...the rest of their support was also fantastic. But that’s why I started shipping them. AND THEIR SUPPORTS ARE REALLY GOOD TOO!

Seteth/Manuela, another case of “I never expected to ship this and yet here I am consumed by them”. I accidentally unlocked their C support which was HILARIOUS as you expect with their clashing personalities. So I started having them fight with each other more because I wanted to see if there was more hilarity. There was...some...but I was not expecting such...wow. Like their B support caught me off guard. I don’t want to say too much because wow please go see it! It’s REALLY good!

I’m salty Cyril/Flayn has no support because wtf I could see these two getting along and helping each other grow wonderful AND DANGIT INSYS WHY CAN’T I SUPPORT THEM?! Screw it I’m still crack shipping it, you cannotstop me.

I would be here all day explaining why I love Dimitri/Byleth. Like you have no idea how much I would gush about this ship. This is Chrom/Robin level of these two are soulmates and their dynamic is wonderful and they truly complete each other! And soooo many more things! Just like how pairing Robin with anyone other than Chrom—and vice versa...it feels WRONG to me to pair Dimitri or Byleth with anyone else. It has a different feel as Chrom/Robin yet the unbridled trust, affection, respect, and COMPLETENESS feels kinda similar while also being different at the same time. It certainly sucked me into this ship as hard and fast as Chrobin did. I never expected I’d fall this hard for it but holy crap it owns my soul and there is no escape for me!

#chipmunkfanatic #erin does responses #fire emblem three houses #dimileth #claude x hilda #felix x annette #sylvain x ingrid #dedue x mercedes #ashe x petra #raphael x marianne #leonie x ignatz #linhardt x lysithea #caspar x bernadetta #ferdinand x dorothea #seteth x manuela #cyril x flayn

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langwrites · 5 years

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Lang Plays Fire Emblem: Three Houses

So a while ago I said I was planning on playing the story routes in this order: Blue Lions, Black Eagles, Church of Seiros, and then Golden Deer.

The Golden Deer made a liar out of me.

So, here’s an approximation of What Happened During Verdant Wind.

So many spoilers below the cut, you guys. I do a lot of route comparisons.

Okay, I’ve been staring at the “which house do you want” selection screen for an embarrassing amount of time.

This shouldn’t be hard. I had a plan.

But no.

I clicked the Golden Deer, just like that. What the fuck, Claude. I blame you.

Immediately upon talking to this rop of students again, I can feel the difference in the social group from what the Lions were like. The latter were really a bunch of noble kids around their prince, and they felt really tight-knit. Classic Fire Emblem starter crew.

The Golden Deer is the fucking Scooby Gang.

First impressions of individuals:

Raphael, thank goodness, is the one character who absolutely has his shit in order. Sure, he’s bad at book work and thinks everything comes down to MUSCLES, but all of his emotional issues are handled by the time he arrives at Garreg Mach. He’s the brightest of sunshines.

Ignatz needs some more confidence in his art, and also I want to see his painting of Seiros. Now, if only both of his offensive stats and growths weren’t incredibly bad.

I was so close to making him my dancer. Just because he sure as hell wasn’t gonna be useful anywhere else.

Lorenz! I don’t like him. His haircut is a monstrosity.

Leonie! We are going. To be. Besties. Even though the timing of your support conversations are incredibly bad.

Marianne no please don’t be sad everyone loves you

Hilda is the greatest enabler I have ever seen. By which I mean she enables other people to do all her work for her.

Lysithea is going to have the last word with God. And especially he Death Knight.

And finally Claude! Teamwork makes the dream work, so obviously meme work does the same.

I’m sorry.

PRE-TIMESKIP

Mock battle! Marianne’s great and I love her and also the only healer oh god.

OKAY. I have access to New Game+ bonuses. What do I do first?

Immediately crank the Professor Level stat to max to avoid ever having to run short of activity points again.

Next, raise all skills I can’t easily get to at least Rank D+. HEAVY ARMOR IN PARTICULAR.

Third: Boost supports with people whose support ranks are an absolute pain in the ass to earn. Lookin’ at you, Rhea.

Also, put glasses on Byleth (named “Yuri” for this playthrough). Glasses are the bomb. I am the evil genius.

LEVEL GRINDING TIME.

It’s a lot harder with Blacksmith access being story-locked, but I can do this!

As a direct result, every single battle after this point is a complete curbstomp in my favor. Because the grind don’t stop.

I broke a lot more weapons than last time, though.

I will befriend Leonie and Ferdinand if it’s the last fucking thing I do. I will befriend everyone, and I will not get timeskip-locked out of supports! >:(

Ferdinand was my first recruit. Oh dear.

Okay, there are like five born cavaliers in this game. Leonie, Ferdinand, Lorenz, Sylvain, and I guess Dimitri if you’re on the right route.

Last time, Sylvain was a great paladin and a decent Dark Knight before he started getting one- or two-stat level ups for like thirty levels. Similarly, Dimitri was great until all his ultra-secret-awesome promotions didn’t use a fucking horse.

Contrast Leonie who, despite sitting out 99% of the game out of spite from me getting locked out of her support chain, went to endgame with a ten-level deficit and still rocked.

Ferdinand didn’t count since I failed to recruit him last time and he died. These two facts are directly related.

I didn’t use Lorenz at all; I recruited him to keep from having to kill him later.

This time, Lorenz straight-up sucks, Sylvain did the terrible level dance for like the entire game, and Dimitri’s not recruitable.

Contrast, again, Leonie. Her support chain with the player character is hot garbage, but she plowed through most of the game as a mainstay of my team and made it to Bow Knight first out of anyone.

Bernadetta and Ashe as Bow Knights don’t even come close to being as durable as she is, except for Ashe’s absolutely bananas Resistance. 29?! WHY?!

And Ferdinand is also awesome. His only real weak point is Resistance, but he doesn’t need it. He dodge-tanks everything, is faster than Leonie, and has two Saints’ relics he unknowingly stole from Seteth.

He still talks in MLA format, though.

I started putting off recruiting people so I wouldn’t have to level-grind them up to par with the rest of my team.

But if these people wanna join, of course I’m saying yes.

Lord Lonato’s rebellion and Miklan yoinking the Lance of Ruin feel way less relevant on a Golden Deer playthrough than on a Blue Lions one. None of the Herd really know who the hell these people are.

I say that despite having already recruited Sylvain for this playthrough and deploying him in the relevant level. He wasn’t treated as there by the game’s preamble cutscenes.

At least the Holy Mausoleum stuff feels more...handled? Claude actually asks questions about rebellion and about the “assassination plot,” where Dimitri didn’t really.

OKAY SO there’s this whole plot thing where Flayn goes missing for a month. With the Blue Lions, this is handled like a manhunt. Dimitri’s seriousness about the issue rubs off on everyone except Sylvain, and Felix actually correctly identifies the culprit almost instantly. He doesn’t know he’s done it, though, because basically everyone is just throwing out accusations. Manuela is the real MVP.

CONTRAST THE DEER. The very first meeting reads like a Scooby Doo episode, when they’re piling up clues and throwing out suggestions like the gang of goofball teenagers they are. Claude’s got this group running like Persona 4′s Investigation Team. None of them are jaded or frantic, they’re just doing this.

Why did Rhea entrust the investigation to a herd of teenagers.

Anyway, the rest proceeds as usual.

I don’t know why the game tries to drop the same set of hints for each route. “OoooowoooooOOOOoooo, your house leader might be the FLAME EMPEROR.”

The Flame Emperor wears heels. And is still too short to be either Claude or Dimitri. Especially Dimitri. Who the fuck let this kid get so tall.

The only real result of all this bullshit is that my wyvern-riding sniper of doom is not available during the first map where Yuri personally beat the Death Knight into the ground.

Which, by the by, was hilariously cathartic.

It doesn’t exactly matter, since the only unit who can make real use of the Dark Mage and Dark Bishop classes is unrecruitable, but bragging rights.

Remire Village’s drama is about as bad while playing as the Golden Deer. One of the foreshadowing cutscenes, though is excellent:

Claude actually finds a book that depicts The Immaculate One before its debut, only to have it confiscated by Seteth and learn that it wasn’t a library book at all; it belonged to “Tomas.” Like, all of his suspicions--which he shares with the player--start lining up. Censorship! Monsters! Sword of the Creator! What the hell is going on here??

Dimitri’s version of the cutscene involves him being caught investigating Lord Arundel by the player and Sothis. Which--since his route doesn’t meaningfully deal with the Morlocks faction aside from steamrolling them as incidental opponents--seems kinda useless.

Kicked the Death Knight into submission again out of spite.

Sylvain was useful! Mostly because I had him sit there and distract the incidentals while Claude and Lysithea cleaned house, but still!

Claude is the only lord character who seems to understand that the transforming Morlock faction probably needs to be taken more seriously. For the remainder of Part One, no one does so.

Rhea you’ve got some ‘splainin to do.

Marianne’s my team’s dancer this time. She’s a sweetheart. She seemed happy to be asked and to pursue the lessons, and being able to use Physic is a good trait in someone who’s nearly always going to be waaaaay behind the rest of the group.

Dad-stabbing happened.

Again.

Boop boop Solon’s dead.

Again.

Dear diary: I learned the definition of irony and set the Flame Emperor on fire.

I kid.

But Claude took her out in one completely overpowered shot, because crits are a thing, Flame Emperor class skills don’t reduce damage enough to survive it, and his Dex stat is through the fucking roof. And he was on a wyvern at the time because fuck it, why not.

Claude’s reaction to all of this is a minor letdown compared to the fully-rendered cutscene in the last route.

This would become something of a trend--taking out OP bosses with unexpected critical hits.

I didn’t expect to like Lorenz and now I do. How.

This is hilarious simply because he seems to be the only character that Mercedes hates. What the fuck, man.

Once again, Edelgard invades! Once again, I drop someone unexpected on her head!

Not really. It was Yuri.

Yuri does the timeskip shuffle and we’ll see everyone again after a nap.

FIVE YEARS LATER.

Aw, Claude was waiting for Yuri to show up. Adorable.

The post-meetup fight is actually harder than it was in the BL route, despite excessive level-grinding. This is due to three factors:

Claude is automatically on a wyvern, meaning that he has inherent class vulnerability to archers on a map with at least five of them. And less range than they did, for some fucking reason.

Lorenz and Ignatz started out on the same corner of the map and both of them are shitty offensive units who could barely kill a mage between them. (Neither of Ignatz’s offensive stats cracked 20 for another thirteen levels.)

I don’t have Ashe and his personal skill Locktouch, and nobody started with a Chest Key or Door Key, which meant I had to keep various enemies alive long enough to steal all of their stuff. And the enemy item drops came up one short of the number of chests on the map. I want my stuff, dammit.

LET’S MAKE A SCENE.

Randolph, as a boss in Verdant Wind, did not get any better at figuring out when he’s outmatched. Therefore, I killed him with Raphael again.

At least he straight-up died this time.

Claude didn’t even get to set the damn place on fire.

Ingrid is turning out to be way better of a unit this time than she was last time. She’s a little slower, but a lot stronger.

FELIX, WHERE THE FUCK WAS ALL THIS STRENGTH HIDING LAST TIME. YOU’RE TEN POINTS AHEAD OF THE GUY WHO HAS STORY-BASED SUPER STRENGTH.

AND SPEED.

Iiiiiiiiit’s JUDITH!

She only shows up on one map in the entire Azure Moon route, and that’s a damn shame. She’s so cool in Verdant Wind.

A lord-class character who isn’t also a Lord! WOO!

Also her spies are better than anybody’s apparently.

I am choosing to believe that because Ingrid’s family is related to Judith’s, her badassery in this route is the direct result of meeting her distant cousin and absorbing badass radiation.

There’s something funny about having to pull one over on Lorenz’s dad to get anything done. The Great Bridge falls not to power, but Claude baiting Count Gloucester’s entire army to be somewhere else. (FEAR THE DEER.)

As a result, Ladislava dies alone. (As opposed to taking Ferdinand with her due to plot shenanigans.)

Lysithea and Ferdinand’s paralogue was really quite sad, for all that the only named guy who died was deeply unsympathetic. Ferdinand’s dad was an asshole, but he wasn’t the asshole for this particular scenario, and now both of his parents are gone. :(

Felix...hasn’t heard from his dad in a while. Worrying.

Oh, and Caspar’s uncle is still dead, in case we were keeping track of that.

Dorothea’s happier with Ferdinand alive. She did an impression of the Gatekeeper. :3

Gronder Field! FUCK.

I delayed playing this chapter for two solid days because I already knew what was gonna happen. Specifically: Edelgard gets injured and evacuated, and Dimitri drops of exhaustion just in time to get run through like ten times by the Emperor’s rearguard.

I eventually got my shit together enough to do the thing.

Marianne, Raphael, and Ferdinand went after the Kingdom army first. Leonie and Felix hung back and then reinforced them after taking out the archer on the central hill.

Claude killed everyone in the center of the map, which meant Edelgard set the entire hill on fire and if Bernadetta had not been recruited she would’ve burned to death there on the spot.

Ahem.

I sent Yuri to clear the entire left side of the map by herself.

She succeeded.

Raphael KO’d Dimitri with a luck Gauntlet crit, got blasted down to half health by a Warlock, then plunked ineffectually at Dedue until Marianne used her Levin Sword to sort him out.

Ferdinand killed everyone else on that side of the map.

Claude once again got the kill on Edelgard with a lucky crit, after Yuri had killed everyone else (up to and including the Demonic Beasts) single-handedly.

And then the plot moved on. Hilda’s account of Dimitri’s death was awful, Dedue’s reaction was worse, and off we go to punch Edelgard’s teeth in.

Again.

Annette’s dad is probably dead now.

Felix’s, too.

(I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE WITH THE DAD-STABBING.)

FOOOOOORT MERCEUS.

No matter how many times I think about it, Claude’s Almyran army reinforcements only make so much sense. How the hell and fuck did he manage to sneak an entire foreign army across a whole country to help with one battle?

But hey, they’re here, and Claude almost admitted the reason why he could do that. And the arrow greeting between him and Nader was cool.

(Spoiler: On top of being the Alliance’s leader, he’s also the crown prince of Almyra!)

The Death Knight had the gall to run from my army.

Yuri punched his ticket for the third time, which was not the charm.

And then Fort Merceus took an intercontinental ballistic missile and suddenly defeating the fort’s garrison feels a lot less triumphant.

Spot the miscolored eyes in this cutscene!

Welp. Fuck it, we’re off to Enbarr. Time to also punch Hubert this time! What a change of pace.

Eyyy, it’s the Enbarr map. I totally forgot to bring Seteth and Flayn along to check out the opera house, despite a whole bunch of characters talking about how they totally wanted to check that place out at some point. No room for deadweights in a map that has SO MANY ARCHERS.

Managed to get the special dialogue between Ferdinand and Hubert, and now I’m sad again.

Killed Hubert with Claude.

And because this is a two-part map, we immediately run off to chase down Edelgard. Due to the player army not doing a really weird 180 in the middle of the plot to kick Cornelia out of Fhirdiad, she didn’t have time to turn into a giant demonic thing! She just has WAY TOO MANY MAGES.

Strategy: Forget what Door Keys are, split the team by Avoid rating, and go to town.

Claude nearly died thanks to a critical mass of Gremories and Mortal Savants (and still, what the fuck is that name), but Dedue-as-guest-character didn’t, so I count that as a win! His defense was so high that the Giant Demonic Beast couldn’t even scratch him.

Claude, Petra, and Ingrid all having Alert Stance as a skill means dodge-tanking is hilariously easy.

Also, Ingrid was supposed to just take a chunk out of Edelgard’s HP bar for the final assault and ended up crit-killing her on the first attack. With a bog-standard silver lance.

Weird as the situation turned out, I guess that means one of Dimitri’s friends really did avenge him after saying they would. Even if Dedue was the only one who had a special cutscene about it.

We rescued Rhea! And the characters being happy about it doesn’t mean I’m happy about it. I want answers, same as Claude, and being forced to RP Yuri being oh so worried about Rhea’s safety felt incredibly disingenuous.

Claude actually yells at her over the “...” she seems to think is an explanation. THE TIME FOR SECRETS IS PAST.

WHY DID ALL THIS SHIT HAPPEN.

WE’VE BEEN AT WAR FOR FIVE YEARS.

A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE DIED HORRIBLY FOR BASICALLY NOTHING.

Incidentally, this is why I didn’t end up playing Edelgard’s route as planned. Her logic for kicking two other sovereign countries in the balls felt incredibly self-centered.

At least Catherine’s happy. Same with Alois and the rest of the Church crew.

They are soon going to be not as happy.

I’m filling out the ENTIRE support log before endgame. I have absolutely no idea what characters are going to end up together as a direct result.

The last conversation? Seteth and Manuela’s A+ support!

Because so many of the support conversations are romantic at A/A+ level, I guess we’ve managed to turn this ragtag army into a polyarmory.

Oh boy, Thales sure is a sore loser.

I say, as though I didn’t kill EVERYONE he knew over the course of an hour and also split his skull open under Seteth’s axe. His racism would have keeled his ass over before death set in.

That sure is a ICBM.

GOD DAMMIT RHEA, THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A Q&A SESSION AFTER THIS.

WHY DOES EVERYONE WHOSE JOB IS EXPOSITION UP AND DIE.

Meanwhile: THE UBER-DEAD PEOPLE.

Claude, your route is batshit. What is this genre anymore?!

I wanna point out that, despite seeing Rhea/Seiros do the dragon thing, the player character never told Claude what the fuck that was about. I feel like one of the first things I would have done after the class reunion would be going, “By the by, did anyone else notice the fucking dragon?!” WHO IS ALSO THE POPE???

Bah.

ANYWAY. Looooong-overdue exposition time!

I notice that Rhea didn’t out Seteth or Flayn, which was nice of her.

Claude, she can turn into a fucking dragon. I don’t think immortality is that far from being plausible.

GOD DAMMIT NEMESIS, CAN YOU FUCK OFF FOR TEN MORE MINUTES.

Uuuuuuugh fine, fuck everything, I’m putting your head on a pike.

CLAUDE, THE SWORD OF THE CREATOR LOOKS LIKE A SPINE.

OF COURSE IT’S MADE OF BONES. A BUNCH OF THE HEROES’ RELICS MOVE ON THEIR OWN!

The frantic music is not helping.

Time to kill a bandit king.

“My flabber is completely gasted by now.” Okay, that made me laugh.

Nemesis’s boss mechanic is pretty neat. To kill him at all, you need to kill all of the minibosses in the level and take down his friendship-based-plot-armor.

Or it would be, if I didn’t already make a habit of steamrolling everyone else on the field before tackling the boss at the end.

CUTSCENE.

Cutscene lesson: “Fuck honor duels.” It’s time for CHAIN SWORD LIMBO.

Claude, your bow shoots LASERS. SINCE WHEN.

Also getting kicked across the field by a dude twice his size didn’t seem to actually affect his mood much.

Awww, Yuri smiles now. Adorable. :D

AND THAT’S A WRAP.

Pairings: Yuri/Sothis (mostly to get them out of the way and see what everyone else would do), Claude/Petra, Raphael/Marianne, Catherine/Shamir, Lorenz/Mercedes, Ashe/Annette, Felix/Sylvain (bad end; the former straight up disappears), Seteth & Flayn wander off, Manuela/Dorothea, Lysithea/Linhardt (again), Leonie/Ignatz, Ferdinand/Bernadetta, Caspar/Hilda, and a couple of people are alone. Cyril gets to actually be a student after the story’s done, though!

Whew, that was fun. Gonna mix up the pairs a bit next time I play through the endgame and see what happens.

#fire emblem three houses #Lang plays Fire Emblem: Three Houses #Lang Plays #spoilers #long post #fire emblem

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I IMPLORE YOU FOR THAT CLAUDE/ANNETTE ESSAY! P-Please senpai~ uwu

*kicks down door* IS THAT SOMEONE ASKING FOR THE CLAUNETTE ESSAY I SEE??

WELL THEN, LET’S GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD

warning: this is long. this is really, really long. like 3.5k words long. i don’t have a proper tl;dr for it because there’s too much going on, so it’s fine if you don’t want to read it! it just talks about why i think claude and annette click super well together

edit: aaaand the read more doesn’t work again;; yikes i’m so sorry about all these long posts, everyone!

edit2: read more works again!! it’s now under the cut

first, we’ll take a look at their profiles as a refresher (many thanks to vincent and the serenes gang!)

annette’s japanese profile talks about how she’s chipper, diligent, and very smart. she seems sweet and friendly, thanking byleth for their advice and calling mercedes by a cute nickname. plus, she’s lively and energetic because she speaks with a lot of exclamation marks!

“she can often waste her energy and end up nowhere” comes from karamawari (空回り), which loosely translates to the idiom “spinning one’s wheels”. in other words, she’s a genius oddball. i don’t think it’s in the sense that she’s ditzy and all over the place so she makes mistakes all the time, but that she’s wickedly creative and her ideas fail because they’re so left-field. like she thinks so far out of the box that she ends up in a completely different neighbourhood

the uk one (here) says she has “a reputation for being a bit oblivious at times”. it’s…pretty vague bc we don’t know what exactly she’s oblivious to, but it implies that she either a) has a one-tracked mind, b) can’t read the room, c) is unaware of herself, d) comes up with weird conclusions, or e) all of the above

i also think she’s pretty transparent, if this exaggerated expression of hers is any indication that she wears her heart on her sleeve

now onto claude! he’s also nice!! fun, easygoing, and always equipped with a smile. but, as i always like to call him, he’s a smart cookie and is very cunning! it’s hard to say if “someone unable to trust” means he has a hard time trusting others or if others shouldn’t trust him, but either way, it seems apt to call him crafty, clever, and ingenious. his uk profile (here) also mentions that “he sometimes shows a side that you can’t let your guard down around”. a lot of his quotes thus far make him sound carefree and witty (“my family’s the head of the leicester alliance, but eh, no need to worry about that"—thanks for the translation, satsuma!—and the class reunion bit in the latest e3 trailer), which supports his personality quite nicely

at first glance, they have a lot of similarities. they’re both outgoing, peppy, and smart. so they’re not really an ‘opposites attract’ pair, but birds of a feather do flock together. their friendly personalities make it much more likely for them to interact despite being in different houses, and it would surely help them get along. i can imagine them greeting each other as they pass by the hallways it also means i don’t have to make up a contrived situation of how these two meet because as much as i’d love to come up with a case for bernadetta/dedue, they would probably never talk to each other unless they have to

so it looks like they can be friends! or at least, cordial acquaintances. their personalities don’t clash too violently that they would hate each other, which is the fundamental basis of every good relationship

but then why do i think they’d be good for each other?? why can’t i just say it’s a nice broship and call it a day?? why do i feel the need to make this my game otp (and it’s slowly inching there) despite the high chance that they won’t have supports together?????

to answer that question, we’ll have to delve into the few opposites that they do have:

annette’s oddball-ness + claude’s intuition

let’s be real here, claude could probably cold read you like a pro. one glance is all he needs to get a sense of who you are, what you’re thinking, and what you’re going to do. this would be especially obvious with consistent, rational people like edelgard or dimitri; he can predict their moves because they’re meticulous and routine-based folks

annette, on the other hand, is a curveball

now don’t get me wrong—her thoughts are easy. her emotions? child’s play. the real question is what she’s going to do

…because what is she doing?

he’d be able to get a sense of what she’s planning, sure, but annette is weird. and unexpected. and unconventional

her actions aren’t going to be surprising; after all, it’s clear to see what she’s thinking. for example, if she somehow broke ingrid’s favourite teacup, the guilt would be obvious to anyone around. the shifty eyes, the shuffling of her feet, the panic that sets in once she sees ingrid in the distance. what would she do about it? probably fix it. she’s a nice girl who doesn’t want her friends to be sad. reasonably, she might try to piece the broken bits together or buy something from town that looks similar

so when he catches her asking around if there’s anyone who could teach her the art of glassmaking, he almost bursts out laughing and gives away his hiding spot

he lets his presence be known anyway because this looks hilarious

when he walks into the room, annette—and byleth, who she’d been talking with—gives him a surprised look, but he holds his hands up in defense and says he’s here to help

byleth will try to get him to convince her not to make the teacup herself

annette will insist she has to do it in order to make up for her mistakes

and if claude asks why she believes she has to—to show her full sincerity? was the teacup that unique? does she want to learn because it seems fun?—she’ll tilt her head and say, “if i learn how to do it, then i won’t have to bother anyone if i break ingrid’s cups again”

that wasn’t the answer he was expecting, but that makes it all the more amusing bc he was wrong (plus, she fully expects herself to break the cups a second time instead of being more careful in the future?? annette why—)

and while her failed attempts in glassmaking are also pretty funny, watching her do her best despite the setbacks is a bit endearing

this goes on constantly—annette getting into trouble and claude being entertained by her antics. in other words, claude would think she’s fun to be around because he can never truly guess what’s going on in annette’s head (he’ll get better at it eventually, but she’ll still catch him off guard every so often and keep him on his toes), and annette faces a dilemma like every other day so there’s no shortage of good times when he’s with her

on the other hand, annette would appreciate having a translator. she already has one in mercie, but another one wouldn’t hurt! especially since mercedes is more of the encouraging type while claude just seems to know what she’s trying to say

she’ll flounder about, trying to explain whatever ‘thing’ she’s describing this time because her words run quicker than her thoughts

“magical overuse makes me keel over because it feels like i can’t breathe anymore and the pain just concentrates at your core and i don’t know the term but i know i know it because it’s on the tip of my tongue and—”

mercie will say, “take a deep breath, ann. parse it slowly”

and claude chips in to help: “it’s like a punch to the gut”

“yes!! that!!!”

so while mercie is patient with her weirdness, claude always seems to know the right thing to say and do, making conversations with him much more smoother than with most people

she makes a vague statement like “it was pretty good today. i kinda wonder how they did it”

and without missing a beat, he’ll reply, “you mean the meatloaf we had for dinner? yeah, i thought dorothea and professor did a great job. you should ask them for the recipe”

“i should! great idea”

he still gets it wrong a lot of the time though

“he’s really prickly,” annette will say. “i wonder if he hates me”

“felix?”

“oh! no, no, i was talking about the cat that hangs around near the gardens. but what you said is true too. do you think he does?”

“the cat—no, he’s like that to everyone. felix—maybe. the stableboy who ignored you just now as you tried to wave at him—he didn’t notice so don’t feel bad about it”

other people listening in will get lost about thirty seconds into the conversation because it feels all over the place and random, but mercie is delighted that there’s someone else that understands annette

so yay! now they seem like good friends instead of having a casual ‘hey, i know you. i see you around sometimes’ relationship, which we can only keep building up the more they get to know each other!

their levels of trust

okay, i know this sounds cheesy but hear me out

we’ve already established that annette looks like a bad liar. the type that’s diddly darn horrible at poker. when she’s happy, you can tell she’s happy. sad? sad. angry? well, she isn’t angry often but you get the idea

so if something is troubling her, it’ll show on her face

and claude, being the curious boy he is, will ask her what’s wrong

her eyes will widen and she’ll say, “was it that obvious??”, but she won’t actually need any prompting and tells him her problems right away bc a) “i can’t hide anything from you”, b) “you give great advice”, and c) “you really get me!”

the last one’s important

you see, claude gets everyone. he doesn’t even have to ask what’s wrong—he probably already knows. but he asks anyway because you can’t have a conversation without two people talking (and maybe he could glean some more information about it that he isn’t aware of, who knows)

however, from the get go, sweet little annette was always truthful. was always sincere. she’s not the type who’ll say “i’m okay”, all the while plastering a fake smile on their face. annette is consistent. what she says she’s feeling is the same as what her expressions show

in other words, she doesn’t hide secrets. that’s what makes her special

claude is an expert in secrets. he snuffs them out in others so he can figure out their real intentions, and he hides some secrets himself. annette though? annette’s genuine. it’s straightforward with her

if it’s like this, it doesn’t even matter what the “someone unable to trust” in claude’s profile means. distrust doesn’t exist when he’s with annette. she’s unambiguous. she isn’t two-faced. there’s no need for him to figure out the underlying meaning in her words because there are none. and claude, for all intents and purposes, has the confidence that he can trust her even if he doesn’t

her guard when she’s around him is down

he doesn’t have to wonder if she’s trying to gain his favour or wants something in return. annette doesn’t want any of that. she just talks because claude asked her a question and she wants to answer it

she hangs out with him just because she likes to hang out with him

she’s his friend just because she wants to be

she has no ulterior motives

for claude, it’s a breath of fresh air

on annette’s side, it’s hard to pry about claude’s private life. whenever he asks, he gives her a vague answer and deflects it with a question. he never lies to her, but he never tells her the full truth

if she says she’s not curious about it, she’d be lying (and claude would know; he’d see it in her eyes). so whenever he avoids the question, she’ll be a bit dejected, but she won’t pry and move on to something else. they never linger on the subject too long

the curiosity is still there though. whenever he gives the slightest hint of any of his preferences (“i think the orange flowers suit your hair”), she perks up and smiles. she never asks him to divulge any more than he wants to because she’s not going to force him to overshare, so the little things that she does find out makes her happy enough. there’s no need to know his backstory—she trusts him now. as long as she does, whatever happened in his past or history won’t change who he is

after all, claude doesn’t lie to her. sure he’s not entirely honest, but she knows that whatever he says comes from the heart—even if it withholds quite a lot of information

here, at this point, annette is really good for claude. she makes him feel simple. like he doesn’t have to hide anything. it’s a rather nice feeling

but currently, the dynamics in their relationship are skewed, with annette giving more than she takes. claude doesn’t reciprocate the trust and continues to keep his cards close, while annette lays them all on the table. the only way their relationship can reach an equilibrium is if claude becomes honest with annette

i think in any claude relationship, that’s the end point: claude being honest. and not in the way that he already is—that is, his vague but truthful answers—but that he can say what he hasn’t

i remember there was one theory that claude’s character arc involves him learning to trust people. can annette get him to do this? i think so! she only wants what’s best for her friends so she wouldn’t force claude to tell her anything he doesn’t want to. she’ll still be there for him, talking and listening and having fun together until he’s ready. the question then becomes: would he ever be willing to tell her?

claude works hard but annette works harder

i do have a basis for why i think annette can somehow get over claude’s high trust hurdle, and that’s her perseverance

despite her constant mishaps and misfortunes, annette still passed the mage academy with excellent grades. why? because she never gave up. because despite the setbacks, she continued to try and try and try. and yay! her hard work paid off!

if we translate that to her relationships, it means she’d never give up on her friends. even if they try to push her away, try to make her hate them, try to stop being her friend—she won’t

so no matter what claude does, she’ll stick by his side. he’s not getting rid of her, that’s for sure. if he refuses to tell her everything—if he never tells her at all—annette will still be there, being annette, and being on his side even if he doesn’t trust her as much as she trusts him

i can see that faith of hers eventually wearing down his defenses. it’s just so freeing being with her; claude doesn’t have to pretend

and it becomes a nice conclusion to his character arc. he doesn’t bury the hatchet, doesn’t hide his skeletons in the closet. he gets catharsis and closure, and during all of his confessions, annette holds his hand and listens intently. she doesn’t run away afterwards. she doesn’t shy away from disgust

all she says is: “can i hug you?”

and when she does, it’s like all of his worries melt away

once this is all said and done, claude becomes much, much more open with her. he tells her everything and doesn’t have to fear being judged for it. like this, their relationship becomes balanced again

claude becomes good for her because he helps her improve herself. he doesn’t limit her weird thinking—in fact, he encourages it. by supporting her in all of her endeavours and being able to understand it, making sure her ideas run smoothly, he allows annette to discover even more ingenious solutions and lets her creativity have free rein. they’d be really good partners on a research team; annette comes up with the plans/a new scope to focus their field of study on as well as doing the literature search and reading up on a lot of journals in order to synthesize new ideas, claude irons them out and implements them all the while checking up on annette to make sure if she’s got any new input, rinse, repeat, they get an a+ on their graduate thesis

so here are my final remarks! this pairing doesn’t even have to be romantic to me (i just like romance because i’m a weakling). they just mesh together perfectly that i think they’re soul mates—if they have each other in their lives, they can develop themselves to new heights and eventually reach self-actualization. i don’t know?? i just think they cover each others strengths and weaknesses so well that they’ll be…happy with each other. and if they’re happy, i’m happy

to end off this post with a bang, here are some claunette au fic ideas i have for the soul:

'help i’m in love with my next door neighbour because whenever i take out the trash they’re there as well and they have the prettiest smile so i can’t help but swoon every time i see them but whenever i tell everyone that my favourite day is garbage day they look at me weirdly and they just don’t understand’ au

'you lost your dog and found him running around me in circles and apologized profusely but when you tried to get him to leave he whined and sat on my feet and i don’t know why but i think he likes me??’ au

'you left your usb plugged into one of the computers in the library and i was looking through some of the documents to find out your personal information and i realized that you took a class that i previously did and your ta is the same stupid one that marked mine way too low so when i came to give it back to you i offered to tutor you for free so i could be avenged’ au

'out of the one hundred and fifty students in this course you were the only one that bothered to answer my desperate plea of needing lecture notes on the classroom discussion board so thank you i owe you my life can i buy you a coffee?’ au

'you’re the barista of some cafe that i frequently go to and i have a crush on you because you’re super cute so my friends are embarrassing me by asking you all sorts of personal questions and i don’t know what to think about you flirting with me over the counter whenever i order cheesecake’ au

'i got lost from my tour group while sightseeing but you seem like a nice and friendly native so do you mind if i tag along with you to visit the nooks and crannies of the city while i wait for my friends to come get me?’ au

'i have to get off the bus because it’s my stop but you’re sleeping on my shoulder right now even though i don’t know who you are so i’m not sure if i should wake you up or just keep letting you sleep and—welp, there goes my house i guess i’ll just get off at the terminal station’ au

'i’m a human being hunted down by an elder vampire for who knows what and you just so happen to be a vampire hunter so please let me stay with you i don’t want to die’ au

'i’m a magician that has to fill their daily curse quota of the year and you just so happened to stumble into my line of sight in my time of need but i don’t want to curse you because you seem really nice but my job is on the line here so i’m sorry but i’ll find your true love so you can stop being a frog’ au

#fire emblem three houses #fe16 #fe3h #claude von riegan #annette fantine dominic #asks #headcanons #user #prerelease

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fe3h blogging 1

spoilers

Sorry blue lions. It was between eagles and deer for me.

ch3: Well OK. The church is now using me as their personal political assassin are they?

Fe3h fav characters so far: Tomas: knowledge grandpa! And one of the few I trust Gatekeeper: my pure boy. On the topic of trust. You know who I don't trust? Claude. He always angling for something. Always digging for secrets never revealing his own

I didn't think I'd like Raphael so much but I do. He's so good natured. He always wants to help and even when the other kids are mean to him. His only response is more kindness. Like oh youre kinda grumpy right now how about a snack. Like a human shaped golden retriever. Full of love and very food motivated. As much as he's a complete musclehead, his emotional/social intelligence is pretty high. He just wants to make friends. Let Raphhael have friends!

Guess who chose golden deerI was considering black eagle. But everyone did black eagle. I can go on youtube later. I haven't gotten it but on youtube is lorenz and sylvain's c and b supports and they are hilarious

I found japanese audio of fe3h and it just really hit me that Sylvain belongs in an otome game. I mean his character design (hair color, hair style etc.) and the way he acts is already... eh. But then his japanese voice actor... and its giving me this mental dissonance. Especially aince I've seen the character artist doing utapri, samflam, and other stuff.

weeho spoiled myself on supports: Everyday I grow less and less convinced of Sylvain's heterosexuality. Does he even like women?? He's just emotionally manipulating them as a self destructive coping mechanism because he has self worth issues. So he presents himself as the superficial stuff like social status and then gets insecure and accuses them of only dating him for status. He's setting himself up for failure. And each tine reinforces his belief that he is nothing but his crest and family. Look at this disaster boy

knowledge grandpa no! I trusted you and I trust so few people. I wonder if it was real Tomas who first joined but an impostor who rejoined a year ago

List of potential immortals: Jeralt, Rhea, Flayn. There are multiple mentions of Jeralt not seeming to age, he looked the same over 30 years ago. Rhea looks suspiciously like Saint Seiros and was archbishop 20 years ago. Flayn act both young and old and won’t give me her age. That said now that its revealed in the paraloge that Seteth is her dad, maybe not secretly an immortal so much as magical bloodline. Also Seiros, Rhea, Sothis, and Flayn are all related somehow. The green hair doesn’t help. And Byleth is somehow involved. I thought byleth might be part of the immortal gang but mom’s grave stone said she died at age 20 so byleth was born at the church like 20-21 years ago

support thoughts: Are all of huberts c supports just him insulting people?? each and every day I fall more in love with Dorothea. her support with Ferdinand where she straight up says she hates him, the voice acting on that! Lorenz and Ferdinand was hilarious. This is why you get bullied. Lorenz and Sylvain was also funny. Not a big fan of Bernadetta.

Ok so update on the green haired tinfoil hatting: Flayn related to the saint cetholynn????? somehow and definitely real old.

end of part 1

Thinking back the crests and church(seiros/saints) are what turn people into demonic beasts. there are beasts with crest stones in their heads, in Remire villiage they tried to turn people using Flayn’s blood, and later succeeded. Flame emperor is using the church’s abilities against it. Also Rhea’s been seeking to replicate... something Seiros maybe?? (or more someone.. someone who was precious to her) by ripping the hearts out of babies and putting in a special one??? Rhea seem desperate, but I’m not sure what (or whom) she is desperate for. turning Byleth into Seiros??? There is a ... tension is her, like she is on the edge of snapping. And what was she trying to achieve there in the tomb before she was interrupted. For being “holy” relics, they sure are ominous looking. and they turn people into monsters. The whole church is sketch honestly. The propaganda and censorship campaigns. The crushing of any that are a threat under the language of sin and justice.

So Edelgard went full supervillian. Wow. And Rhea was the immaculate one huh (still don’t know what that means), here I was theory crafting that she was a reincarnated Seiros or something. Edelgard is like a worse Alm, she wants to rid humanity of dragons ruling over them and install a meritocracy. Her methods though are !!!!! yikes. I mean any reign that starts with “kill all that resist” can’t lead to anything good. Also out of 10 siblings only 1 didn’t die of illness or go mad. hmmmn where have I heard that before.

That said I do agree with her goal. I love it when I can take down a religious institution in a videogame.

At Garreg Mach her whole plan in to brute force it. Like if we just keep throwing enough lives at it we are bound to win. Admittedly I know nothing of military strategy, but that doesn’t sound like the best plan.

Interesting the differences between routes. In Edelgard’s church allied with feargus, while in Claude’s the Church lost significant power and Edelgard successfully incited a coup, but why did the Empire give up Garreg Mach as a strategic position?

My baby deer are all grown up. And yup another mark in the Flayn is some immortal being, her sprite didn’t change at all. Totally in favor of stealing everyone from the other houses.

Who wore it better Part 1 or 2

Edelgard: 2. I mean p1 Edelgard was already best dressed but p2 takes it to a new level

Dimitri: 2. I mean p1′s hair is so goofy looking I just have to choose the edgelord

Claude: both. Claude looks fine so matter the time

Hubert: 2. He really did grow into the goth look

Petra: 1. Both are good but I love the huge braid

Lindhart: 1. p2 isn’t bad but I like the two layers look

Dorothea: 2. but both are good

Caspar: 2. Something about p1 always bothered me

Ferdinand: 2. His character model looks better than his sprite, and his hair is so luscious and flowing!

Bernadetta: 2. its just a mess is p1, v cute in p2

Dudue: 2. what is even going on in p1. where as p2 is like... elegant

Sylvain: 1. as much as I teased about him belonging in an otome game, his p2 haircut is just ugly

Ingrid: 1. mmmm its fluffy?

Felix: 1. What is his p2 hair even doing??? it makes me confused

Mercedes: 1. Fluffy.

Annette: 2. never was a fan of the hair loopies

Ashe: both. p1 is cute but p2 is beautiful. both are sooo good

Hilda: 2. p1 pigtails kinda boring

Raphael: 1. though p2 its a shaggy dog

Leonie: 1. another fluffy head, p2′s low pony tail does not give a flattering shape

Ignatz: 2. a bowl cut is an improvment from whatever p1 is

Lysithea: 2. not sue about the veil but it is more intersting than p1

Marianne: 1. I always did prefer thick bangs

Lorenz: 2. its definitely p2. in p1 he looks like such a clown

Cyril: 2. Honestly he kept the baby face so there’s not much difference.

Claude sees that under Rhea the church enforced a doctrine that locked in the status quo of nobles and crests and he wants to chage the church’s influence to promote tolerance, diversity, and open mindedness. but, hey. Hey. What if we got rid of the church all together.

Why can’t I recruit the old general... hey. Hey!

Aww Claude introduced me to his second mom and dad

So the more people you can recruit the less painful things are. I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get to kill Dimitri.

In terms of characters, Ferdinand has surprisingly grown on me. As for Caspar I shocks me occasionally how uncaring he is about killing people. He reminds me of a smt chaos hero with the whole might equals right thing. As long as he decides they are evil its ok to kill them. Now all he needs to do is get possessed by a demon. Eating away at him from the inside out. Ashe as always continues to be an absolute angel. I need somewhere to gush about how cool Claude looks in him final class promotion. So I rather like the group of childhood friends dimitri, felix, sylvain, ingrid. And it always trips me uo to remember that sylvain is like 2 years older than the rest because he really doesn't act like it. I'm getting that they are all traumatized from the death of felix's brother. A lot of the characters have had pretty bad childhoods.I was surprised to find out that Lysithea was tortured as a child like ok wow. I need to spend more time with you. Does Dimitri have PTSD? Golden Deer has had quite a few goofy hijinks. Marianne's character growth really has been a a thing of beauty, I’m so proud of her. But I love my oddball bunch of misfits. How did Dedue not get found out??? He’s very noticeable. and Claude, you’re starting to sound like Edelgard. I love Edelgard’s final promotion. Looks so cool. Like a mix or her Lord and Flame Emperor clothes. I wince every time some mentions the free market or the joys of capitalism. I guess adrestia is imperialism, faergus is religion, and leister is capitalism. I didn’t care about Dimriti’s death, but Edelgard’s got me.

damn ok so dubstep cyberpunk dungeon and Rhea took like 15 missile strikes. wow this really is very smt. maybe persona 2. And fighting zombie Nemesis and the 10 was excellent (Nemesis is still a stupid name). I love it when we fight literal embodiments of the past

its hilarious that in Shamir and Claude's paired ending, he ends up ditching 3 whole times. He turns the opportunity to lead the unified fodland down, then he ditches house reigen, and then he abdicated the throne! I love it! That's so him. And they both wanted to travel the world. Technically Claude is also a descendant of Loog so he also gave up claim to the Faerghus throne too. I swear. This dude. This dude... Next its going to be revealed that secretly Claudr is Edelgard's cousin. Or one of her "dead" sibling. Lysithea tell us that blood experiment to force crests leads to physical and mental damage. Does this have anything to do with what happened to Edelgard’s siblings? As far as I can tell every ending has Fodland under a single party state. Crimson flower, azure moon, and verdant wind all end in monarchies, and silver snow a theocracy.

Hold up. Flayn said that Cethaleann never had any children as rational as to why she's not a descendant. But how did Lindhart get the crest then?? And I might be mixing up the 10 and the saints, but then I thought the crests were designed as tools of war by those who slither in the dark. Thats how the 10 got them, to use as weapons against Sothis. But that then brings the question of why Rhea edited history in favor of them. This is why the holy relics looked so ominous and creepy. The animations are eeeeeeeeuuuuuugggh. My initial though was that the church is secretly evil and this is foreshadowing. I mean rhea's kinda... viscous? Ruthless? Filled with barely contained hatred? I was thinking maybe she's secretly the evil dragon of the game the way Mila kinda was.

But then you dont need consent to make a crest. Only blood. Blood could have been stolen from cihol and cethaleann to make their crests. Alternately they could have chosen to give crests to specific people. The 2 sources of crests is also why there’s multiple weapons for some crests. The crest weapons made by the agartans all have a similar aesthetic, but not all the crest weapons have that aesthetic some look different and probably weren’t made by them. As for why Rhea rewrote the 10 into heroes. It might have been to stop people from questioning the crests and relics and seeking to replicate them. By framing it as sothis's doing, with the power of the church she can control crests, how people view them, and keep a closer eye on the descendants. Its its a gift by the goddess, of course we cant try to replicate them.

Let’s see what Claude achieved before he dipped. anti-discrimination laws (race, religion), and increased foreign relations. Potentially equal treatment under the law.

Edelgard really likes brute forcing solutions

The whole opera thing with Dorothea and Manuela stinks of the idol industry where an idol peaks at like 18. Real opera singers have much longer careers.

Golden Deer is so JRPG in the best way. There’s an evil cult of technologically advanced subterranean people, a zombie army, the power of friendship.

It already caught my attention when missiles appeared and the evil cult's dungeon belonged is a scifi movie like ghost in the shell and I was thinking to myself "hmmm... this all sounds very smt of you" or maybe Persona 2. I mean with names like Shambala and the whole general aesthetic of that dungeon ... yeah. But then someone points out the UN’s symbol is all over the Agarthan stuff. And wow we really are in an smt timeline aren't we. and I remember seeing the missiles thinking hmmm that looks vaguely familiar. Its the UN symbol. Which means in alternate future Earth Sothis comes, we wage a war against the gods and and then Rhea destroys modern civilization along with the planet. that really does sound like the plot of an SMT game. I did wonder at the inclusion of electronica and dubstep into the soundtrack.

THC (Thinking Hard about Claude). Claude let's everyone know he's up to something, and his self portrayal as a schemer is both deliberate and truthful. He's using it part as social armor and part as an excuse to probe. Claude holds genuine cuiosity, wonder, and passion for the world. He is not always scheming so much as he is one of those people who's brain never turn off. He just wants to explore the world, meet different cultures, and discover all the secrets. Given the environment he grew up in, his natural inclinations angled him to thinking in terms of how to best leverage someone or how to sneak around.

Alright so here’s the lore as I know it. Sothis=Goddess came from another world to Fodlan. Through her blood made the goddess’ children (Nabateans) who are the original magical beasts and can talk, and they resided at Zanado. Rhea=Seiros=The Immaculate One, and the 4 Saints (Cihol=Seteth, Cethaleann=Flayn, Indech=The Indomitable, Macuil=The Wind Caller) are Nabateans. Sothis gave knowledge/interacted with the native humans of Fodlan (Agarthans). Eventually the Agarthans waged war against Sothis killing her and many Nabateans. The Agarthans used their bones to make weapons, their hearts to make crest stones, and their blood to make crests. The above is why magical beasts and demonic beasts are connected to crest stones. The crest stones as the hearts of Nabateans transform humans into a distorted version of their magical beast forms. The Sword of the Creator was made from materials taken from Sothis’ body. Using these weapons the humans attacked Zanado killing everyone except Seiros and the 4 Saints. The 10 Heroes Relics were similarly made from Nabatean bodies. Seiros, already obsessed with Sothis thought only of vengeance and bringing back Sothis. She raised an army, killed Nemesis, and drove the Agarthans underground to become Those who Slither in the Dark. Seiros then took control of the continent under the guise of The Church of Seiros. Seiros and the 4 Saints gave their blood to favored individuals granting them the power of their personal crest as well as potentially extending their lifespan/granting extended youth. This is why the 10 Heroes Relics have a visual aesthetic distinct from that of the weapons of the 4 Saints. The 10 Heroes Relics were made by the Agarthans but the other crest weapons like the other Gloucester crest weapon the Axe of Ukonvasara and the Saint’s weapons were not mad by them. The Church the acted as a tool for Seiros/Rhea to control the continent and its course. She then rewrote that part of history. The goddess was just sleeping, crests were a blessings of the goddess, etc.

I am unsure as to why she did so, but I believe it served the 2 purposes. First it allowed Rhea to control the narrative and how people thought about the matter. Second it erases the existence of a rebellion against the Goddess. From the Church, Rhea could control the flow of information, censoring anything that threatened her power. Using the language of religion she could also justify using military force to eliminate her political opponents.

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