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could you do head cannons of sylvain/ferdinand rivalry? or like actually ferdinand finds a rival in sylvain while sylvain might take it seriously and treat ferdinand as a little brother of sorts (platonic please

OOF DEFINITELY. i leaned more towards the second one, if that’s ok!

Sylvain loves messing with Ferdinand. It’s one of his favourite pastimes!

Ever since their duel in the lance tournament, Ferdinand had sought out Sylvain as worthy rival to spar with. However, Sylvain doesn’t take him seriously at first, and ends up mostly making fun of him.

He affectionately calls him Ferdie. Ferdie hates it.

“Hey, Ferdie!” “Do not call me that.” “Aw, why not, Ferdie? I think it’s cute - ouch, no need to throw that at me-!” 

Lots of arms slung around shoulders (with Sylvain doing the arm-slinging. Ferdinand tries to shrug him off immediately, to no avail.)

Ferdinand’s trying to study? Sylvain waltzes in, plops into the opposite chair, and props his feet up on the table, grinning.

Ferdinand comes back to his rooms? Sylvain is rummaging underneath his bed: "I swear I left my sandwich here…”

(How does he get into Ferdinand’s room without the key? Who knows. Probably Ashe.)

Whilst sparring, Sylvain throws around a lot of jokes and taunts.

“Oh, would you look at that? I think your lance nicked me - ah, wait, no it didn’t! Seems like you’ll have to try a little harder, Ferdie!”

“Why, you-”

It annoys Ferdinand so much, but it does teach him how to keep his cool during a battle. (Which was definitely not Sylvain’s intention. Not at all.)

Whenever Byleth pairs up Ferdinand and Sylvain in the choir, Ferdinand always sings beautifully. However, next to him, Sylvain’s singing like a cat with its tail getting stepped on.

(When Ferdinand rounds on him, ready to strangle a bitch, Sylvain swears up and down that it’s his normal singing voice. It’s not his fault he’s tone-deaf!)

Sylvain steals his food, all the time. He does it to everyone else, too, but with Ferdinand he actually gets a huge reaction, so it’s far more fun.

The others called them the twins once, until Ferdie got affronted and walked off without a word.

Sylvain caught him later and grovelled for his forgiveness. (Ferdinand pretended not to forgive him for days, just to mess with him.)

Everyone at the monastery find the stark contrast between them hilarious.

However, once Sylvain sees Ferdinand actually striving to meet his goals with the utmost dedication, he starts to take him more seriously.

He calls out tips when they spar, and he offers him advice whenever he’s feeling glum.

This change throws Ferdinand off. Where did the joker Sylvain go? The one who constantly lamented to him about girl trouble, and occupied his room half the time, just because it was closer to the dining hall?

Ferdinand brings this up when they next see each other. Sylvain’s silent for a while, before he breaks out into a grin.

“You’re like a little brother to me! Why wouldn’t I look out for you?”

(with a sad smile, but Ferdinand doesn’t see that, because he’s too busy focusing on his words.)

Ferdinand splutters. “Little? I’ll have you know that I am older than you-!”

They become quite good friends after that particular conversation. Of course, the rivalry’s still there (Ferdinand wouldn’t have it any other way), but they clearly look out for each other when they need to.

#imbluerose #ask #headcanons #sylvain #ferdinand #fire emblem three houses #fe16 #theyre so funny i crack up whenever i think of them

[chenanigans]

@imbluerose said: It’s an arabic name like half the names in the game, and it is pronounced like poor.

Thanks for telling me! That’s super cool! :D

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