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......I CAN FINALLY REPLY AS MY SIDEBLOG. Oh Tumblr I'm going to kiss you on the mouth

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ohhh s i don't know where you are in persona5 shenanigans so feel free to answer this once you deem yourself ready (lol): who's your favorite confidant? <3

HOOOOLY SHIT I NEVER ANSWERED THIS. Or I was waiting until I actually finished the game? But that was a while ago???? Save me from myself. Anyway:

Futaba my love <3 I would say I adore Ryuji and his relationship with Ren, which helps him get close to top spot, but there's something about Futaba that makes my heart warm. I adore her to no end.

#s responds #nugylienshyd #persona #p5r #shoutout to sojiro though #and the gun shop guy.

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s i hope i'm not being presumptuous here but. i would like to hear your sylvain/seteth brainworms

MY AGENDA. IT'S WORKING.

Okay okay okay. Hear me out: (un)stoppable force v. immovable object, Sylvain being the former. Which isn't to say Seteth is a rigid stick in the mud--he can't be for this to work. Only that living for so long means his constant state (i.e. the thing he can't be moved from) is one of at least some adaptability. In other words: we have a volatile force who can (and does) at one point change for the better, and an object that's essentially a stalk of bamboo in the breeze.

The potentials here are endless.

I have another post somewhere in my blog about Setvain, but that's mainly pertaining to a blurb I had about them in Princes (in which they will not, unfortunately, be getting together). But I think Crests would invite a very interesting friction between them. Sylvain has a disdain for Crests that never really goes away. Seteth is one of the few people left in this world who understands what Crests are. And, as far as I'm concerned, Sylvain's attitude reminds him of how he felt when his people were first brutalized. To see the remnants of your family paraded around like trophies and lauded as blessings--I don't think the hurt that comes from that ever truly goes away. But once it's been done, it's done. You cannot strip Crests away from Fódlani society in one fell swoop without being utterly and indisputably morally bankrupt (read: dabbling in eugenics or creating a new social system wherein the Crested are on the bottom).

ANYWAY. Tangent over. Seteth has had time to come to this conclusion. Even if it'll never be true peace of mind, it's peaceful. The truth of the matter is that Sylvain has a Crest, and it is of value. I think Seteth is the perfect person to help him come to terms with that, given that Sylvain has a very nasty habit of objectifying himself, either as a son or potential spouse.

On the other hand, Sylvain has a very interesting and, dare I say healthy, relationship with duty. At least by the end of the game.

We're introduced to Sylvain as someone who's acting diametrically oppositional to how he knows he'll need to act in the future--but he never lets it affect him long-term. He enjoys himself (even if this enjoyment is debatably a method of emotional self-harm, given it feeds into his self-objectification), but when shit gets real he's one of the first to be on top of it. He's emotionally intelligent, even if it takes a while for him to become emotionally mature, and that informs a lot of his more level-headed beliefs. In this instance, when it comes to accepting the reality of the situation ("I'm gonna be margrave one day, might as well party-hardy while I can"), he's swapped places with Seteth.

Because Seteth has his own unrealistic ways about walking through the world, and they all boil down to Flayn.

Though not informed by nothing (see: that oft-forgotten genocide before the start of the game), he is incredibly, unhealthily protective of Flayn. I would argue he is unrealistically protective, the same way Sylvain has unrealistic expectations of women. Yes, some people are going to act the way you fear they will, but to let that inform every single decision you make in this one area of your life--flirting with someone or raising your daughter, for example--is to take the long route of shooting yourself in the foot. You become a self-fulfilling prophecy. You act as though women will treat you like meat, and so you're likely to attract those same women; you have been proven right. In Seteth's case it's more like confirmation bias, where he feared the worst and close to the worst happened, so all of his previous behaviours have been justified--though credit where credit is due, he does send Flayn to school in the interest of self-defence. (Emotional growth and human interaction being bonuses, I guess.)

Seteth does not need advice on how to raise his daughter, per se, but I think the input of someone who was raised with more weighty expectations placed upon him than he has fingers and toes would mean something. And depending on WHEN in canon we're talking about, this can take on different tones. Pre- any sort of relationship, before the kidnapping, and Seteth has actually managed to corner Sylvain and foist advice onto him? Sylvain would passive-aggressively offer advice he genuinely believed in pertaining to how Seteth managed his younger sister. Post-kidnapping, and perhaps a one- or two-night stand for stress relief on either end? Sylvain would be more earnest and serious in reminding Seteth he is not the goddess and couldn't have possibly done anything differently--not without making her hate him indefinitely for keeping her cooped up in a tower a la Rapunzel like he very clearly has the urge to at times. If he worded it specifically that way, I think Seteth would have perhaps a more volatile reaction--because while he isn't the goddess, he is her kin, and if the world were different he would have been able to use that truth of him to protect her more thoroughly.

So we now have two men who have been irreversibly altered by the world, in a way that allows them to offer a different, calmer perspective on the facts at hand, while at the same time giving them emotional blindspots that are perfectly in the field of vision of the other. We have the basis of what so profoundly intrigues me about them. Which leads me to my next and final statement:

I just think DDILF (dragon dad i'd like to fuck) dick would fix him <3 or at least calm him down a bit.

#sylvain has so many issues. i don't know how many of them are Freudian. but i know seteth is the solution to AT LEAST five. #shyd now i have fic brainworms. take responsibility for your actions! #s responds #nugylienshyd #fe #fe3h #setvain #seteth #sylvain jose gautier

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I have an agenda and by god will I spread it. Haveth more setvain propaganda:

What was he doing? What did he gain from acting like this? Seteth distinctly recalled never having been proposed to, yet it seemed that was the only explanation for what he was seeing. Maybe it was an apology for the confusion. Maybe it was a prank from someone else, capitalizing on the fact the famed Margrave Gautier seemed to have a genuine romantic interest. You know, came the phantom breath against his neck, I think the flowers should be church uniform. Lilies would look good on you. No. The flower choice—this was only from Sylvain, and it could only be for Seteth.

But this commission was so good for my brain; something about putting Old Men in Situations is good for every fic writer.

#s writes #setvain #fe #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #fe16 #sylvain jose gautier #seteth

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Every day I dress to attract a wife. One day it will work

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s hello!! i hope you've been well i just snuck into here to tell you i'm rereading your works and ahhhhh <3 princes of silver and gold has such a special place in my heart. i hope you have fun while working on it, be it rewriting, writing new parts or just thinking about it. that counts too. source: trust me bro

Brb bawling my eyes out

No but thank you so much for the encouragement 🥺🥺 it's hard to find time to actually Write It but you're so right, thinking about your blorbos is half the fun. Also thank you???? so much for making a point of reading my works lol???? You're so incredibly sweet, I feel spoiled 😭

#after i finish these grossly overdue comms it's back to hacking away at that white whale of mine #princes of silver and gold #s responds #nugylienshyd #fe #fe3h

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TAKING A PAUSE FROM WRITING COMMS TO SAY: We get to choose to anaylze a piece of fanfic from ao3 as a part of my class on the digital text. do i be an absolute shithead and just use my own work lmao?

#'cause on one hand i'm like. the thought of someone using MY work for homework is batshit bonkers crazy #so i don't want to do that to them #on the other. this is a test of my academic integrity #whatever. we'll cross that bridge when we get there #s rambles

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Decided to go back and review previous Princes chapters. Things have changed, which means I'm going to push back any publishing until I've got more in the tank. Hopefully we'll get an update before the two-year mark 🙏🏻

#i love this fic you guys don't understand. i can't abandon her. #and also because of how much danmei I've been reading I've adjusted my relationship with INCREDIBLY long works #that's the power of homosexuals babey #fe #fe3h #s writes #princes of silver and gold #re: the long works thing - i know fanfics and webnovels aren't one and the same #but the possibility (and MASSIVE success) of such long stories existing as a cohesive individuals makes me excited #obviously as they get put to paper they get broken up #but that also just helps me with narrative structure #SO #all that being said #expect good things this year 😛 #rewriting is nasty. alas it must be done.

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this is going to appeal to a not-very-large overlap of fandom but Mu Qing and Felix sharing an English voice actor is actually so important to me

#i've only just started reading TGCF but from what I know of Mu Qing: similar vibes #fe #fe3h #felix hugo fraldarius #tgcf #mu qing

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Blood-craving beast

artist: aaagiogio

#am i . COMPLETELY on one? or is that claude holding the meat? #anyway. this is stunning and i will be thinking about it for the rest of the night. #god i neee to sleep. but this design....these fics...must be completed OTL #fe3h #fe

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look! i manage to finish it! i had to crop it to half the original size but well!

it's still dimitri's bday here so i'm safe!

#my favourite holiday and my favourite lads. all is right with the world. #fe #fe3h #dimiclaude

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Got a new phone and all my apps are up to date. This is the worst thing that could have happened to me.

#WHY DOES THE NOTES PAGE /LOOK LIKE THAT/ #s rambles

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Byleth really isn’t that much of silent protagonist. They do have dialogue; it’s just not fully voiced in a game with full voice acting so it sticks out more. They’re the Fire Emblem version of a Persona protagonist. They didn’t suddenly get a personality in Three Hopes and Engage; it was always there. Bias against avatars and not wanting to read between the lines of a character who is already reserved is where I think a lot of the hate comes from. I also understand some it is cultural difference too. Still, it’s frustrating sometimes.

#oh OP i could kiss you #fe #fe3h #byleth is not a silent protagonist!!! they literally have dialogue 😭😭 it's just not vocalized

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A commissioner ensured that I wouldn't stray too far from FE3H fic, and in fact wanted me to put my brain to its best use: cooking up setvain scenarios

#s and her inability to maintain her wordcount #s writes #setvain #fe #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #fe16

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Oh there's something sinister about the end of November....my ass trying to be like "yeah this will get done by x date!" and then school is like "oh? S wants free time! Jail for S!!!! Jail for S for one thousand years!!!!!!!!!"

#in short: I'm so sorry to my commissioner lmao #s rambles

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...so almost getting trafficked was NOT on my itinerary. Alas.

#I'm okay!!! i am all right. #but this fuckin guy was asking me practically everything aside from my social security number #after a certain point i started lying my ass off #but still!! holy shit do i feel gross and a lot anxious. #whatever. it's fine. I'll write this essay then make a cake then work on a comm then sleep it off. #s rambles

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being sick as a dog makes me stupid apparently because why did i look at a ~$500 kickstarter and think "you know what . . . !"

#i talked myself down don't worry. got it down to a much more manageable contribution lmao #those rewards were mighty tempting for a while though . . . but i don't really need them or want them so! lower tier it is #self control and prioritization babey! #s rambles