#but byleth was the funniest option

[xenonsdoodles]

2, 12, and 15? :D

ooh, fun ones!

2. OT3?

tough one... there are a lot of good trios in this cast, but I'm either going to struggle to think of one where I can see them all as romantic with each other at the same time OR to pick one option out of the many many possibilities if I open my mind a little more. so I'm going to pick my top three and they are:

dimitri/byleth/dedue (even though my default is reading dedue's feelings towards dimitri as platonic devotion) aka the royal faerghan cuddle pile, because they're my dream team and they can all read each other's minds by the end of AM

dorothea/mercedes/ingrid, because this is among the best and most distressing things that could possibly happen to ingrid and it would be good for her. and for all of them really

dimitri/sylvain/felix. because of vibes and because they're funny. when they aren't tragic anyway.

12. What's the funniest or craziest AU idea you've ever come up with?

I cannot claim all or even most of the credit for bugvain, but he does live in my head and I think about him every time I see an isopod. here I drew him

15. Have you noticed your style change over time?

yeah, definitely. I think it's pretty much inevitable if you create for long enough. I don't think of my style as changing moment to moment (I try new ideas and vary techniques plenty, but that's not a complete style shift), but looking back on my old art/writing is like… wow. a lot has changed since then huh. though I'm not sure where I'd draw the line between "style change" and "technical skill improvement" tbh

#ask meme #fire emblem three houses #doodle #sylvain jose gautier #...sort of. #thank you :') <3 these were fun to think about

[randomnameless]

The "i don't want to kill Edelgard" dialogue the game forces you to pick for Byleth in Verdant Wind is still one the funniest things in the game when you think about what that means in-universe; Byleth has had no issues killing people to get what they want all route-long, but the second Claude brings up killing the girl who started the war and is most at fault for everyone that died because of it, including her own soldiers, they say they don't want to, presumably just because they had such a deep bond with her during their time at Garreg Mach (even though it's perfectly possible to have Byleth spend all their time there never interacting with Edelgard once).

It's shit like that that makes me understand where the same-crest attraction people come from; that forced dialogue choice is at least understandable in Silver Snow, where Byleth is forced to teach Edelgard for a while and would have logicaly formed a bond with her because of that, but the only way that line makes any sense in VW is to assume that their crests made them feel a deeply-heightened and accelerated sense of attraction to each other, to the point that the few short and irrelevant interactions they had in their short time together at GM was enough for them to form a deep bond.

Anon,

If same crust attraction was a thing, do you really thing Billy would angst about Supreme Leader in VW, when Nemesis himself pops up at the end of the route???

I mean, between Supreme Leader and Nemesis, who are you going to simp for if you never talked to any of them, and both are leading a faction to destroy you and your allies?

Supreme Leader, or Nemesis??

All jokes aside,

There's, sadly, no Watsonian explanation for the very Doylist "but she lufs u!!! feel sad about her!!!" approach the devs wanted to hamfist in their game : Billy will feel bad for killing Supreme Leader, even if it doesn't make any sense for them to do so because that is why the devs designed FE16 to be : a story where the player will feel bad about killing the red emperor.

(or at least the player avatar, because damn if this completely missed the mark regarding some players lol)

Just like you feel super BaD for icing Randolph and Ferdie who still works with the Empire, fighting side by side with a Demonic Beast - when the game doesn't expect you to feel a thing when you kill the poor sod who was turned into a monster because the Imperial Army needs War Assets.

that's why some people really felt a bit disturbed by all this Supreme Pandering coming out of nowhere - same with Rhea in VW since her supports are optional, so if Billy is really a player avatar, why should they care about Rhea?

(granted, I'd say even if you only do the strict minimum, Billy still wants to help Rhea in the cinematic before falling in a ravine, so at least there's this sign that Billy cares about her - sure, Billy protected and saved Supreme Leader against Kostas, but after the Flamey reveal, we don't have anything to even remotely indicate Billy still cares specially about Supreme Leader : Billy's avatar status is the reason why they're written to care about Supreme Leader, and yet, Billy's character status explain why they care about Rhea - again, another example of the devs wanting to have their cake and eat it too!)

#anon #replies #remove the devs's “but we want to sell Supreme alts!” and the game #might make more sense #maybe as not Billy specifically caring about Supreme Leader but more Claude #who doesn't like needless bloodshed and talks about how their ideals are kind of similar and how they could have allied #to hint at Nopes #have Dimitri go full Roland in the Golden route mode #still hate and want revenge on Supreme Leader for destroying Faerghus and the rest of Flamey's deeds but also #wanting to accept a world without bloodshed and how he accepts that despite everything she doesn't need to die #because his wish to save everyone is stronger than his hatred of her guts #but that would imply rewritting the game so much that #well this Dee couldn't exist unless he's basically throwing the world in jeopardy for Supreme Leader and his own ideals #especially if it's finally revealed what the fuck Rhea went through during those 5 years #that made her aka someone who can facetank missiles #on the verge of death and imperative Nabatean sleep

[vilkalizer]

Three hopes giving Byleth full support ranks with the entire cast but making all of them outside the new options Shez and Dad completely silent is literally the funniest thing Fire Emblem has ever done.

#fire emblem #fe16 #byleth #three hopes #three hopes spoilers

[fehtism]

If you got them, builds for base Tharja? I fed her skills from 5 stars I didn't want (Atk/Spd Ideal 4 & Null follow up 3 fwiw) and now I kinda wanna build her to be viable. Got any tips/suggestions?

hiii thank you for your ask. i actually cooked up a really fun build for her.

okay i'll admit this looks unorthodox but trust me i am COOKING.

devoted basket+ (available from valentines selena, the 4 star of the current valentines banner) is actually a better option for her than arcane eclipse. she can get pretty absurd pre combat damage as well as an atk/spd buff based on a percentage of her visible speed (hence the life and death sacred seal)

for a more in depth explanation of what the weapon does please see this post explaining it.

the tl;dr is pre combat damage based on percentage of foe's atk stat.

the ruptured sky special further takes advantage of the foe's atk stat as it boosts damage based on a percentage of foe's atk stat and is a low cooldown special that will be loopable and will pierce damage reduction with special spiral 4. it's also in the divine codes.

ruptured sky can be acquired from the m!byleth combat manual in divine codes 2.

now with her a slot skill this build gets really fun. close reversal (not too different from close counter for this build so feel free to run that) punishes foes for trying to kill her. the way her pre combat damage works is that it only damages foe's if tharja is able to retaliate in combat. with close counter she will be able to retaliate in combat against melee foes and will inflict the pre combat damage against foes regardless of their range (except for dazzling staff effects) it is almost a case of "if i'm going down you're going down with me"

another thing about this build is that it purposefully does not debuff foe's atk in combat allowing for very large amounts of pre combat damage. for an example...

here is a unit with an absolutely ungodly amount of atk bonus in combat. with weapon triangle advantage, tharja would deal damage that is 30% of his atk before his first atk. 39+61=100 (wow what a nice easy number for math) means he will take 30 damage in his (likely successful) attempt to kill tharja.

special spiral 4 is the b slot of choice due to the -2 cd after combat effect allowing for looping of low cd specials. also the damage reduction piercing can't forget that one. for alternative options you can run mag. null follow up (from brave soren or heidr), atk/res tempo 4, (the funniest option) occultists strike for the pre combat damage stack (from mythic gullveig, player phase only)

her cheap b slot option is simply running special spiral 3 to loop her special as her pre combat damage already pierces all damage reduction.

special spiral 3 is available from the ninja m!corrin combat manual from divine codes 4.

her premium c slot skill option is incite atk/spd for the increased stats and partial clash effect. however, it is locked to kvasir who is a limited unit. other options for her slot c include: def/res smoke 3, time's pulse 4 with a 3 cd special like flare or luna, or atk/spd oath 4.

atk/spd oath 4 is inheritable from the m!she's combat manual in divine codes 4.

so for a tl;dr

build turns her into a player phase nuke who will deal large amounts of pre combat damage to whatever foe decides to take her out. it's what she would want.

hope this helps !

#fe heroes #feh #fire emblem heroes #fire emblem #fe heroes meta #feh meta #feh build

[frickingnerd]

For the Ask Game give me... Fire Emblem 3 Houses and Hopes (since they have the same setting)

answers for the ask game under the cut!

3 male characters I love:

only three? this is really hard for this game 🥺 one of them has to be dimitri, who's just my absolute favorite fire emblem guy out there. i think the other two would have to be claude and ferdinand. i love all three of them so much, they have such compelling stories and their s-supports are absolutely adorable! plus, they all got great va's! honorable mentions to sylvain and seteth (or just every male student 👉🏻👈🏻)

3 female characters I love:

my favorite fire emblem girl is dorothea! i absolutely adore her and i'm so glad she's one of the bi options! she also says one of my favorite lines in the entire game. spoiler: if you kill ferdie but have dorothea recruited, she'll remind you of the times when he was on your side and just... got that part always makes me cry! plus, she's voiced by allegra clark who i adore! that woman is so talented and funny, she's genuinely perfect for the role as dorothea!

my second favorite girl is petra who's just really cute. her little language mistakes are adorable and she's such a genuinely kind person. i absolutely love her!

third place is hard, but i think i have to go with flayn! she's just such a sweet heart and such a funny character! plus i love her va as well (her va & seteth's va act like actual siblings in all their interviews togethers and it's both adorable & very funny).

3 romantic ships I love:

byleth and dimitri, for sure! this is absolutely a self insert situation, i'm not even going to hide it. i love dimitri and his relationship with byleth is very sweet, but i'm def cheating a bit by picking them.

second place has to be dorothea and ferdinand! i love both of them so much individually but they somehow get even better when they're together??? i love their A support in three hopes, where they are just yelling at each other and everyone assumes they are a couple. they are definitely in love and nobody can convince me otherwise. plus, again, their va's have such a funny dynamic with each other and they are great individually, but even better together.

i can't actually decide on a third pairing because i like all those ships equally, but some that come to my mind are lysithea x cyril (very cute & wholesome), edelgard x claude (very interesting dynamic; likely frenemies to lovers) and like... pretty much all the blue lions with each other. seriously, these people should all date each other. i can't even pick a fav blue lions ship!

3 platonic dynamics I love:

my favorite platonic pairing is seteth and flayn! they are really funny but they also deeply care for each other. but seriously, the seteth & flayn related memes are some of the funniest ones in the FE3H fandom!

claude, dimitri and edelgard are another platonic dynamic i love! there is just so much conflict, but especially three hopes shows that they can work together well (and they should smh 😔). if they just had some group therapy, they could be great friends!

and my third pick is claude and flayn! flayn is such a sweet and innocent character, but claude being this chaotic schemer would absolutely be a bad influence, but in the funniest way possible. he's like an older brother that teaches her curse words and seteth would hate him for that!

3 favorite moments in canon:

this is a bit hard, but i think my favorite scenes from three houses are the reunion with dimitri and the reunion with edelgard. the reunion with dimitri was very bittersweet, but mostly beautiful, while the reunion with edelgard was much more heartbreaking. her "when next we meet, one of us will breathe their last" absolutely kills me everytime. my third favorite moment in canon comes from three hopes, when dimitri spares edelgard at the end of his route and edelgard realizes that dimitri is the boy she used to know as a child. like, if only they had realized it sooner... :')

3 favorite headcanons:

headcanon number one is that claude is an older brother figure to flayn (& also to cyril, but i'll be focusing more on flayn–). like, he's absolutely a bad influence to her and he keeps telling her to do what she wants and stop listening to seteth so much, but flayn is always super worried about disobeying seteth. but over time, claude does get her to do more things she wouldn't have done otherwise, like taking her to the market and buying her sweets, teaching her slang & curses or even getting her to skip classes on occasion.

slightly related but i headcanon that seteth & rhea do not understand teenage slang. like those two are old and cringe and i mean this in the nicest way possible! they are constantly asking the other teachers what those students meant when calling them "dilf" or "mommy" and if that meant that they view them as a mother figure. meanwhile the other teachers (mostly manuela, shamir & catherine) are trying so hard to let them think that those are just compliments, while also trying to figure out which student said that, so they can give them detention... seteth and rhea also keep using slang the wrong way and nobody dares to tell them.

and my third headcanon? uhmm... poly blue lions! they are all dating each other. i don't make the rules here.

3 least favorite things about it:

this one isn't too bad, but the first part of each route (white clouds) gets a bit boring after multiple playthroughs. it would've been nice if they switched up the missions a bit, to fit the individual classes more.

another thing i dislike is that you can't train & have supports with dimitri for quite a while after the time skip. like, i get that he's busy with being depressed right now, but gameplay wise it gets really annoying when everyone surpasses him, because he can't be trained.

and another thing that isn't too bad but still a bit of a waste is the fact that there isn't a golden route. i feel like this could've worked very well, if they had jusr established that every time a new playthrough starts, byleth rewinds time with the divine pulse and she keeps all the memories of former events, so she can create a future where everyone lives. but this one is more of a nitpick than actual criticism.

#ask game #ask frickingnerd #darkest and deepest desires #fire emblem #three houses #three hopes

[benditozorrito]

...YOU KNOW YOU COULD HAVE JUST ASKED RIGHT?!?! CHRIST

I kind of love the two options here though, take it back or give more, and add more hair is like the funniest weird thing we could be doing with this situation?? All I can picture now is Byleth being this sort of quiet and odd person who doesn't get social norms.

Byleth: This may as well happen

DISCLAIMER: NO SPOILERS PLEASE. I AM GOING INTO THIS GAME ALMOST COMPLETELY BLIND AND I’D LIKE TO KEEP IT THAT WAY.

#what does the fox play #a fox plays FE3H #FE3H #Crimson Flower #Hanneman Von Essar #Byleth

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

Seteth’s A-support in Azure Moon is honestly hilarious because he’s like

....and then rescuing Rhea is literally the last thing that happens in the route - actually it’s not even. It’s a postscript to the route. “We rescued Rhea and she retired and Byleth is the archbishop now” is the postscript to the route. You and Byleth are just left hanging on this truth that Seteth talks about knowing. Byleth doesn’t get to find out. If you played Azure Moon first and you get up to Seteth’s A-support you’re just like. What the fuck.

Conceptually, S-supporting Seteth in Azure Moon is the most hilarious option because while in Verdant Wind he doesn’t tell her what he is, either, Byleth at least knows what she is, regarding the crest stone. Azure Moon, Byleth doesn’t know shit about herself, Rhea, or Seteth. And also she’s the archbishop and a he doesn’t know shit.

And Azure Moon is just the funniest route this way, because Rhea in many ways is integral to the other three routes. Whether helping her is the goal or whether she’s the greatest enemy in the way of your goal, or whether she’s merely a tangential obstacle to your actual goal, Rhea, and the truth about her and Fodlan’s past, is important.

And then. there’s Azure Moon. where Rhea gets tangentially mentioned a handful of times but like. nobody gives a shit about her. Nobody gives a shit about Rhea and this is the route where Byleth becomes the archbishop. Byleth doesn’t care at all about the church this time, and they’re appointed the archbishop. It’s the funniest thing.

#roddy plays fe3h #i just got seteth’s b-support and i was like ‘oh right this never resolves this route’ #i’d be mad about how much is left unresolved in AM but it’s too funny #byleth wakes up in a cold sweat six months after the war ends like ‘WAIT I NEVER ASKED SETETH AND RHEA WHAT THE DEAL WAS’

[thisgodwontforgiveyou]

the third funniest thing is how byleth looks at alois after his and shamir’s paralogue if you choose the option to say his joke was bad

#do you see the pattern