#{ hc: the long dead prince | dimitri }
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extremely hot fire emblem take under the cut that discusses dimitri as a villain. this is not character hate. i love dimitri. i just wish that he was a villain a la toni collette’s kid in hereditary.
i just think rhea and dimitri are both more interesting as a villain duo than edelgard is as a stereotypical evil emperor who turns into a monster (in azure moon at least) who is actually a revolutionary that wants to end eugenics, sexism and human experimentation.
as a villain duo, rhea represents the catholic church and its colonialism, dimitri represents violent white male leaders who have experienced great tragedy and are born into violent systems against women and people of color, and, whether they realize it or not---continue these systems as they rise to power they don’t even know how to wield. which is where rhea comes in, of course, leading him and his holy ‘chosen’ kingdom forward against the revolutionary edelgard, as well as brigid, dagda and almyra, the children of color a false colonizer’s god does not favor. guiding him, as so many mentally ill people are guided into religious repression culminating in delusion & self-hatred.
as a bi mentally ill white boy, dimitri could’ve represented the apex of misogyny and privilege, and the fact that even the most powerful and privileged humans can be victims and victims of being groomed and abused and led to the slaughter by the very systems of power they are part of that do not care for them. that eat boys with good hearts like dimitri for breakfast, that roast them inside out like christmas ham.
dimitri never stood a chance because no human stands a chance against the nabateans. and no one ever stood a chance against dimitri if they were against BOTH edelgard & her revolution and claude & his.
#{ ooc: hc }#{ ch: the long dead prince | dimitri }#{ hc: the long dead prince | dimitri }#{ fandom: i am finally me | fe3h }#today we are ranting about capitalism and white men.#writing this made me feel better#i rant about fictional systems of oppression to make myself feel better i think#I'M COPING!!!
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May I request some hcs of Dimitri and a caring! Reader please? like they think he's just their friend and is looking out for him? Like sending him food, asking if he's okay and all that stuff, only because he saved their life.
Sure can anon! I hope you like this
Yan!Dimitri x Caring!reader
Pre-TS
Let's just say, as a fellow Blue Lions student, he saved you during a mission.
Immediately you started to feel like you owed him a favour. Even though he said he's just looking out for his fellow student, and in a way, his citizen. So you decided to become sorta like his unofficial retainer. Kinda like Dedue but without the fighting.
You started to notice how he is tense all the time. So you started to ask everyday how is he doing. It's a simple and small gesture but he's glad that someone cares for him. Especially when that someone is you.
Whenever he had his headaches, you would fetch him some remedy from Professor Manuela and when the whole Flame Emperor thing happened you were there to listen to him.
Were it not for you, those voices in his head would've made him go insane so early. With all of the things he went through, your presence felt like a saving grace from the Goddess.
Felix, knowing how unhinged he is, warns you to not get too close to the boar prince. You brushed it off as Felix being rude as usual but that was your mistake.
You've became one of the people Dimitri care about. With everyone that he has lost, he can't even bear the thought of losing you. He wants to be with you. Or to be clearer, he's a fool in love for you.
But one day he hear Sylvain talking to you during training. He was ready to belittle Sylvain for disturbing you during time when he shouldn't but he can't help but eavesdrop a bit.
"So, (Y/N), you and your highness?"
"What? Sylvain, no! I only see him as a friend...."
"Then why are you so caring for him? Making sure he's okay and everything....Come on there has to be something."
"Because he saved my life and I intend to return the favour Sylvain! It's the least I can do."
Hearing this made him quite sad. You only saw him as a friend. A friend that saved your life. He wanted to be more than that! He wanted to be the one you love and cherish. To be the one by your side for as long as time allows it. Because you're the only one who can tame this beastful thoughts of his.
But he's not easily deterred. He will not give up until he has you. He will do whatever he can. He'll slowly spend more time with you, guilt tripping you a bit in the process. You wouldn't want to abandon him, right? Do you not feel grateful for the time he saved you?
He's even more protective of you in the battle. Dedue has been at his side but now he also has you. You try your best to help him and in turn he tries harder to protect you. Quite easy with his inhuman strength. Your kind-caring heart is no place for such a morbid atmosphere.
Your fellow Blue Lions are.....quite amused at his blatant crush. They'll try to tell you (Except Felix, he's the only correct one telling you to keep your distance) that he clearly has a thing for you but your answer remains the same, you only saw him as a friend. But soon enough, he'll change your mind.
"Thank you for staying by my side. I can't possibly imagine a life without you."
Post-TS below (Azure Moon spoilers)
Ah, this is where things gets more awry. With his sanity barely intact and the war going ablaze across Fódlan, he can't help but descend further. One of the thing that was still pounding some sense into him into staying alive was the fact you were possibly still out there. He won't believe you're dead until he saw your own rotting corpse.
But as the 5 years slowly goes by he can't help but think you're dead. Because he wasn't there for you. Too weak. Too late. Your voice haunts him. In his sleepless nights he kept muttering apologies to the ones that was dead, especially to you.
"Where were you Dimitri?"
"My path ended....because of her...
you know what you must do, don't you?"
"Avenge my death.....spill Edelgard's blood."
"Of course (Y/N), anything....for you...my beloved."
After the resurface of Professor Byleth he was hellbent on making Edelgard pay for your 'death'. Even if it's the last thing he does. But it all changed when all of his classmates reunited. He felt his dead heart twitch at the sight of you. Alive and well.
After disposing of the vermins that plagued the monastery, suffice to say he was quite scared to meet you again. He's a monster covered in blood but you were still ever the same caring person you were once was.
But you approached him anyway, worried about his well-being. He wanted to tell you to go away but he seems to be unable to say it. The words was stuck in his throat. He missed your benevolence so much.
He allowed you to continue as normal. Bringing him food, checking in on him. Honestly, Professor Byleth was grateful to have you around. The man won't budge at all from his sulkings but he seems to listen to you a bit. Even managing to drag him to the dining hall sometimes.
Back then he's afraid of showing his ruthless side but now he's basically putting it on display. His enemies crushed. Your assailants obliterated. He wanted to show you that he was capable of protecting you. Of course you were quite shocked at the display of his monstrous strength but it was war. And yet you can't help but feel sorry for the enemies who were unfortunate enough to cross his path.
But with time he slowly started to heal. After the death of Rodrigue, he becomes less bloodthirsty. Even more so with the return of Dedue (unless you didn't do the Duscur Paralogue). After finally taking down Edelgard, he can finally confess. And he won't take a no.
Courting after gruelling war isn't really the best time so he'll take it slow. Until the moment when he confessed, you will have no other choice but to accept. Even if you deny it.
You still saw him as a friend until today? What about those memories of you fighting together? The moments where you cared for him and when he protected you? Please just love him.
You better not love anyone else because they will end up dead somewhere. If you still reject, albeit with a different reason, he will still try.
Oh, it's because he's a royalty and you're a commoner? Fret not he's the King of Faerghus now, YOUR king. The people can't disobey him now.
Hm? You're from a small noble house? Then perfect! None will ask why he wants to marry you, it'll go smoothly.
Aside from that, the amount of PEER PRESSURE of people telling that you two does look good together is also one of the factor. Can't you see the king is in love with you? Surely you don't want to break his poor heart! He's been through a lot you know.
In the end, no matter what, you will end up marrying him. But he won't let you out of the castle ground at all. He's afraid that something might happen to you. At least you can still enjoy a fresh breath of air in the gardens even if there was some handpicked guards watching you.
You were his everything. You were his fuel to live on. He's not the very best with affection but he loved to hold you close to him. It gave him some reassurance that he didn't fail to save you. The Goddess gave him a second chance and he swore not to failed it.
"I'm glad you're here with me, my beloved."
#sporadicpage#yandere x reader#yandere fire emblem three houses#yandere fe3h#yandere dimitri#yandere dimitri alexandre blaiddyd
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THE DREAM PROMPT I WAS WORKING IN AN ANGSTY FIC FOR THIS AND NOW I CAN DO HC’S DNJCKSNXNF
this was the only thing i could finish writing, everything else comes out so bad :( hopefully i made this at least decent? i’m super sorry if this came out terrible ahh,, it’s super angsty and strays off topic so rewrites will always be here!!
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➼Despite coming to his senses long ago, Dimitri was still haunted by the voices of the dead. He may not be acting by his hatred anymore, but the requests of the fallen still plaugued his mind. You had always been among them. When you had disappeared from the monastery and not returned for the class reunion he thought the worst. The first thing he had done when the army grew was request a search for you, but as he came closer to ending the war he assumed you had fallen sometime in between those five years.
➼The thought of you being dead, the one he had loved so dearly in the officers academy, was too much to bear at times. Thoughts of your eyes losing their glow and your skin growing cold filled him with such sorrow that it almost ached. And the nightmares... he isn’t sure he’ll feel as much horror as he did when he sees visions of you fall.
➼But there was nothing he could do, in all honesty. Every time he tried to find you the search parties came up with absolutely nothing concerning your whereabouts. Half of him knows he should give up, accept that you’ve passed away, but the young boy inside of him is still so lovesick that he can’t bring himself to stop the search. He knows they won’t find anything. He knows you’re most likely dead. He knows he’ll have to live the rest of his life without ever seeing you again.
➼So when commotion breaks out near the front gate one morning, he simply thought it was a few enemy scouts and grabbed his lance. As he grew closer, though, no one seemed to be panicking or running. Not even the children, who were instead trying to see over a large crowd that had gathered.
➼He parted the people and saw Annette and Mercedes working a healing spell on someone. Was the monastery under attack? Had someone shot an arrow over the wall and hit somebody? He quickly rushed to their side and knelt down, but froze when he saw a familiar face.
➼You. It was you. You were bloodied and bruised, and had obviously grown over the years, but it was you. You looked half conscious, and were weakly attempting to hold the wound on your side while your old classmates worked to stop the bleeding. Dimitri could feel his hands start to shake, and for a moment he thought he’d start crying from sheer relief and joy.
➼You turned to him, and he watched your pained expression shift into an ecstatic smile. “Dimitri...! Dimitri, I though you had..” He feels your free hand grab his affectionately, a single tear slipping down your face. “I thought you had died.”
➼Dimitri swallows the lump in his throat and smiles back, leaning his forehead against your knuckles. “That makes the two of us... don’t scare me like that ever again. Please. Please.”
➼You’re in bad shape, and he has to stop himself from panicking when Mercedes calls to clear the way to the infirmary. He wants to follow, but Byleth tells him to wait and see what the healers can do. He knows he has to give them space to work, but he just barely got to see you after five years. He can’t lose you, not again.
➼He doesn’t hear back from the healers until late at night, where an exhausted Annette breaks the news that you’ll be fine. Dimitri wants to faint from relief, but simply thanks his classmates and trudges to his room for the night. Despite the overwhelming feeling of wanting to be at your side, he knows that it would do him no good to see you when you were so deep in sleep.
➼He lays in his bed, restless and unsure of what to do. He can’t sleep, plaugued with thoughts of you and you alone. After believing you to be dead, you find him instead of the other way around. How silly. He’ll have to find out where you’ve been when you heal.
➼Dimitri freezes at the sound of his door slowly opening. He’s facing away from the door, and hears quiet footsteps on the floorboards as whoever came in draws near. He tries to act asleep, thinking it to be just Dedue checking on everyone for the night, but stops when a warm hand caresses his cheek.
➼“S/O? What are you doing awake? You should be resting in the infirmary. Come, let me walk you back, my love,” the word slips out, but he could care less at the sudden flush in his cheeks. You’re standing over him, covered in nothing but your undergarments and bandages, exhaustion all over your face. “I can’t sleep without you, Dimitri. Please, can I rest with you tonight? Please?”
➼He sighs, knowing that he’ll get chewed out for this later, but happily pulls you into bed and covers you with a blanket. You’re sore but somehow manage to get comfortable, pressing your back to his stomach and humming contently. He lets his lips linger on the back of your head, but his eye travels down your back when he sees the mess of pink in the moonlight.
➼“They’re horrid, aren’t they?” He looks back away from your back, watching you curl inwards a bit. “They’re all over my stomach and shoulder too. It’s ok if they disgust you. A lot of people don’t like how they look.” “S/O, please, don’t say such things...” Dimitri frowns, tracing the faded likes that cover skin. Where had you gotten all of these?
➼“I hate them.” You look small, fragile. “No one would ever love me after seeing my scars. I’m not good enough for you anymore Dimitri.” The prince feels his heart shatter and he moves above you, both of you staring right at each other. He reaches up and removes his eyepatch, wincing when his fingers graze over the now exposed wound.
➼You say nothing, reaching up and gently caressing the jagged scar that runs across his face. Dimitri flinches a tad bit as it’s a sensitive area, but allows you to continue. He needs to let you know you’re not the only one with marks on your skin.
➼Suddenly, he’s not sure why, but he’s crying. “Look at us. We’ve both changed so much, been away for so long, but it’s like we’re still at the officers academy. I still love you more than life itself, you know.”
➼You smile, then giggle, then fully laugh. A few tears slip from your eyes, and you sit up to kiss his scar. “We really are the same as we were in our school days, hm? I love you, Dimitri.” You wipe away any stray teardrops on his cheeks and cup his face shakily. “Now let’s sleep, shall we? You look so tired...”
➼And when Mercedes and Ingrid found you both fast asleep in each other’s arms that morning, both of you looking extraordinarily peaceful for once, they decided that they’d let you off the hook for leaving the infirmary. You both deserved to be with each other after so long apart.
#fire emblem imagines#fire emblem x reader#dimitri x reader#mod cordelias book of imagines#hope you enjoyed!!
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soo dimitri’s determined to do anything to get his s/o bound to him right? headcanons for when he proposes/marries + (successfully) gets them pregnant and his reaction(s?) to his s/o remaining blissfully ignorant to his true nature and going along with everything he wants?
You’re hitting all the good spots, nice anon! Hope you like the HCs!
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It really is just a matter of time. Not good timing or getting the blessing of any family - aside from the fact that most family members might be dead or that they would have loved that charming prince anyway once he put on the fake smile and fake goodwill. It just took the time it needed until his s/o was too deep into thinking he needs them more than anything and won’t survive without them by his side, that they wouldn’t have dared to say no to his proposal. They can barely realize everything until they are standing at the altar next to him, everyone seemingly happy and crying tears of joy because of their union, while they are left to wonder when they even planned this grand ceremony. But there is no time to back out now, the words being put into their mouth and no one alive to speak up against the marriage
He might be a little to forceful when it comes to making them pregnant. Dimitri would take out every line he can muster, from “I want to start a family with you” to “The Kingdom needs a heir if anything happens to me while there are still riots everywhere”. There’s nothing he wouldn’t try to make them willing and receptive for a child, though he cares much less for the intimate affection than for the fact that a child will bind them even more to him. Especially in their helpless, pregnant state his s/o will HAVE to rely on him, there is no way they couldn’t. That’s at least what is going on in his mind while his s/o ends up more and more bruised every time he decideds he wants a child right that instant
Neither he nor them can help it that they stay blissfully ignorant at all time, supporting Dimitri’s possessiveness unwillingly. Their friends learn fast enough to keep their distance and shut up about what isn’t okay in their eyes. They lack the prove and frankly, how could they interfer with the happiness of their king? And though it’s the job of a whole team of shady people by his side to keep everything hidden and undercover, Dimitri doesn’t feel greedy if it allows him to hold up the farce of being the slightly unstable, but saved by his lover king, doing everything holy to be what everyone wants to see. Even if it’s just a boiling pot of sins, he’s ready to stir it as long as it needs to finally tip over
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claude + arranged marriages
was going to put this in the discord until i realized that it’s way long....
anyways, i can’t do the meme, but i can spend an hour writing up my Thots on matchmaking with Claude. This is coming from a more objective arranged-marriage kind of perspective rather than shipping goggles or whose personality meshes with Claude's the best like the meme, but I enjoy reading about 4d chess in ASOIAF and which political marriages would be most advantageous, so it's what you're getting. For the context behind my decisions, this is with trans Claude and the year is 1180.
claude’s position and thoughts on arranged marriage
So for starters, I think that Claude is willing to offer his own hand in marriage in order to move his political ambitions forward, for the right price and to the right person. As the heir to the Leicester Alliance and crown prince of Almyra, he's very confident in his status as an Incredible Catch. Because of that, Claude would hold off on marrying until he found someone more than suitable to be his spouse and continue his lineage… except for the fact that he is a Riegan, a House with waning influence in the Leicester Alliance, and Oswald can't afford to wait. It’s a huge point of contention between the two of them, second only to "what do you mean it's almost required to have babies until you get lucky in the Crest gatcha"
claude in the leicester alliance
Oswald is looking within the Leicester Alliance–like I said, House Riegan isn't looking too hot and they need to reaffirm the Roundtable's loyalty to them before an army marches into Derdriu. His primary options are one of the other Four Great Houses that sit at the Roundtable. Gloucester, even though they are a major threat that could possibly be neutralized if they were bound by marriage, is out in Oswald's eyes. If they married a Riegan, it would only solidify their claim as the leading house of the Alliance and make them even more powerful. Instead, what Oswald wants to do is undercut their influence and present a stronger threat to their power. Ordelia is probably waning due to the Things that happened there, and though Edmund is an up and coming new money noble I can't see Oswald the Old and Somewhat Traditionalist throwing his only heir at some whippersnapper.
That leaves the Gonerils, which works for Claude if he returned to Almyra but wanted to marry someone from Fódlan and solidify the two countries' friendships (I imagine that the Gonerils are well known in Almyra and regarded with some respect as strong opponents). As nice as it would be to go for Hilda, in both Fódlan and Almyra blood needs to pass onto the next generation, so that honor would go to Holst.
If Oswald couldn’t get a Roundtable member, I think he's sentimental enough that he would try for a Daphnel. I hc that Judith has some kind of daughterly relationship to him, as a granddaughter or a daughter-in-law through Godfrey, so I imagine he would want to keep Riegan-Daphnel ties. Unfortunately, even he knows that Claude can do much better than a crestless down-on-their-luck noble.
claude in the kingdom or empire (fun au where house riegan isn’t half-dead)
For fun, I also thought about Claude marrying someone outside of the Alliance, which probably would have happened if things were better for House Riegan. Oswald would have gone to the Kingdom first. Things unfortunately get complicated with heirs and inheritence, so Dimitri, Felix, and Sylvain are out. Tragically Miklan is a dick, not like the Riegans have any interest in Sreng. The Galateas are a non-option, because like hell Oswald would disrepect House Daphnel like this.
As for the Empire, like with the three boys from Faerghus, Ferdinand and Linhardt having an inheritance complicates things. Incredibly Caspar would be a pretty good match due to House Bergliez's large swaths of land (potentially rich?) and their control of the Empire's military could be a potential chip to play in the future. The lack of crest is unfortunate, but without any inheritance wrinkling procedures a marriage could proceed pretty neatly. You only have to get rid of the brother to guarantee an ear in the Emperor's affairs, though that's easier said than done if House Vestra has their own ears pricked. Hubert himself is a non-option–without any lands of their own and forever under the heel of the Hresvelgs (not to mention that he would have to be removed from Enbarr, rendering his Vestra closeness to the Emperor moot), it's a terrible match for your one and only heir.
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Hey, so I was reading those posts about Dimitri and necromancy. Could you do some hcs about it (like the lions finding out, or felix and dedue knowing the whole time)? I love your work btw :)
Thank you so much!
A lot of these are inspired from the discussions in this post! and for those of you reading post-release - there are no spoilers about postskip Dimitri. this is all speculation)
warning: mentions/descriptions of a dead body. it’s super vague but I want to be careful
Dimitri starts dabbling in necromancy when his father dies.
He’d been close to his father, and loved him dearly - more than anything. So when he was ripped away from him, without any warning, the grief was overwhelming, and far too much for him to bear.
Dimitri starts losing his cheerfulness and his smiles, and essentially lives through every day for the sake of it, without any purpose.
He’s not coping, and when you add the pressures of him supposing to become king when he wasn’t expecting it?
It’s too much.
So, he enlists some help, and gets to work.
The changes are gradual. His movements become more lethargic, his hair grows longer and unkempt, he forgets to care for himself, gets dark circles that won’t go away no matter how much he tries to sleep…
All the Lions are worried, but none of them can get through to him. He’s completely closed off.
Dedue and Felix, though, are determined. Dedue wants to see his lord safe and well (not like he is now) and Felix because that’s his best friend, and what the hell is he doing to himself?
One day, they see him disappearing to his chambers again with no word to any of the Lions, and having had enough, decide to follow.
The sight that awaits them is grisly, to say the least.
Dimitri, crouching over an operating table, muttering to himself and staring at the ashen corpse of the king? It nearly makes the two of them retch.
Dimitri takes no notice of them, and Dedue’s frozen in his tracks, so it’s up to Felix to grab him by the collar and shout in his face.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
“Felix, wait -”
His shouting is rageful, yes, but more fearful than anything, especially because Dimitri isn’t reacting to him at all.
His eyes are completely blank.
Soon enough the prince orders them out, despite Dedue and Felix’s protests.
He doesn’t even look at them properly, and he’s refusing to budge from his spot, so they’re forced to leave.
The next few days are tense. The pair have no idea what to do.
To think that Dimitri would dabble in something as dark as necromancy… Exactly how badly was he coping with death of his father? Did he think he wasn’t good enough to be king?
They keep it a secret at first, simply because they’re so overwhelmed. However, they do try to enlist the help of their fellow Lions in trying to pull Dimitri out of his despair, without raising the alarm.
Felix chats with Ingrid and Sylvain, seriously, and tells them that they need to do something. They agree on a plan, but it falls flat since Dimitri refuses to speak to them when Felix is around.
Dedue gets Annette to try and cheer Dimitri up. He smiles when she’s around, but it immediately disappears when she leaves.
Mercedes’ soothing words and gestures of comfort only go so far, and Ashe can’t even use his peppy conversation topics to get their leader back on track.
Eventually, the tension starts fracturing the Lions, so much so that it ends up with Sylvain yelling at Dedue and Felix to spit it out already, and just what are you hiding? What’s wrong with him?
So the pair stop deliberating, and tell the rest of them what’s really going on.
All of the Lions are shellshocked.
Ingrid and Sylvain are mad at Felix for keeping this from them for so long - they’re a team, so what was Felix thinking?
Ashe can really only sit down in the nearest chair, and stare at a blank spot on the wall.
Annette goes to Mercedes for comfort, but the latter finds that she can offer very little.
The Lions separate and go their different ways for a day, just to digest everything. They would’ve given themselves a bit more time, but Dimitri’s already spiralling so they can’t afford to waste more time. This’ll have to be enough.
When they finally come back together as a team, they’re much more determined. Ingrid heads the discussions, and they come up with a plan of action to help pull their beloved leader out of his misery.
The plan seems like it’s a 50/50 chance of actually getting through to the prince, given his hostile reaction to Felix and Dedue beforehand. However, the Lions are determined to try.
And, if it doesn’t work? They’ll keep at it until they break through.
#anon#ask#headcanons#blue lions#fire emblem three houses#fe16#this was fun!! also funny story: was typing this up in a free#when a teacher came over and suddenly asked me what i was doing#i JUMPED like those cranberries in the ribena adverts#'HI SIR I'M TOTALLY DRAFTING MY PERSONAL STATEMENT. DEFINITELY'#jfc...
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byleth's 5 yr absence and reunion hcs: sunflower prince and the scarlet knight.
(otherwise known as Claude x Sylvain.)
• The ongoing war against the Empire keeps them torn apart. One's trying his best to hold an entire land together, while the other's juggling cataclysmic nightmares concerning his family. And with Sylvain's father becoming an ally of the Empire's, Felix's friend soon finds out what it's like to hold an entire empire up on a toothpick.
For those five, crimson-laced years, Sylvain is unable to see Claude for even a second, and doesn't even have Felix as a support system (as Felix is enduring his own House issues). Claude's submerged in matters regarding the Leicester territories, and a fragile alliance with the severely wounded Blue Lions. Old friend Dimitri's absence does not help. Neither does Byleth's.
Sylvain comes to terms with himself during those excruciatingly long five years. He finally accepts that he's passionately in love with a man-a man that may very well be dead, for all he knows. Claude has no shortage of opponents coming at him from all sides. And with the Empire operating off an insatiable lust for blood?
• Byleth reunites with his class, the Blue Lions. It is far more painful than joyous, though, which speaks volumes because they're all euphoric over seeing each other alive. However, Byleth's boyfriend Dimitri is a billion miles away from happy. 'Enraged with a thirst for blood' is more like it. Dimitri looking right through Byleth does not make matters easier to handle. And the Golden Deer? Scattered and crumbling like soggy crackers, Claude being the soggiest cracker.
Byleth's heartbroken over his 'reunion' with Dimitri, so he vows to make sure old friend Sylvain's reunited with his beloved brunette. No matter what.
Sylvain thanks him with a smile, but the pain behind his smile is immeasurable.
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dimitri meta / hc
schizophrenia vs violent behavior, the futility of knighthood
the canon of this blog is that my dimitri has schizoaffective disorder that he has been dealing with his whole life.
while i have other muses with psychosis (namely, eulalia, my oc), i do hc that dimitri is still violent and terse with others.
this is not because he has psychosis.
this is because of the underlying message of the blue lions route, namely the things that we can pick up from what felix says.
felix tells you over and over again, that his father, ingrid, sylvain, everyone here seems to want to die for the dead. and even felix himself throws himself into violence because of it---not just to cope with their country’s generational trauma, but because it’s their country’s patriarchal, masculine ‘strength’ devoted culture to cut through every problem. to be stronger than all others.
they are given swords before they are taught to read. they are taught violence before they are taught understanding.
everyone says that the blue lions are like ‘kids with republican parents.’
but that’s not true. the game stresses that the fathers we see are as good and noble as faerghus men can be expected to be. rodrigue&gilbert both supported lambert, and lambert was a revolutionary who wanted to IMPROVE relations with duscur.
but we also see all three of these men FAIL in their personal relationships. rodrigue traumatizes his son by lording his dead son over him with all his talks of chivalry and knighthood, strength and willpower and violence. gilbert traumatizes his daughter by leaving her and his wife behind completely and even when he finds his daughter again, and could save his wife from her abusive brother---he chooses instead to be a knight, to be chivalrous, to be loyal, and strong-willed.
i think the point of the blue lions route is not that dimitri is wrong and overly aggressive and ‘feral’ (and i hate that term, but that’s what fandom insists on using) because he is mentally ill.
i think he is like this because faerghus is corrupted, to its core, with violence and toxic masculinity masquerading as reasons to kill ‘respectfully.’ dimitri was taught to worship death and force since he was very small. to say little of the fact that dimitri never goes against the crest system--a system of eugenics that subjugates women into ‘baby makers’ if sylvain is to be believed.
dimitri doesn’t kill/use force ‘respectfully’ because he does not have the social graces due to his mental illness to not be terse and mean and rude because he is in so much pain and a brain fog all the time.
but he kills, and he hurts, and he has been so hurt by everyone else---because faerghus is corrupted to its core, and its taught him that violence is life’s meaning and the only way to get anything done.
and it says something, about how engrained in all the blue lions AND their parents following faerghus is, that even when dimitri is not ‘chivalrously’ violent, they still follow him. because the truth is it’s not that out of the ordinary for a man to be violent and mean and lash out, especially a man in power. they all tolerate felix, after all.
anyway the point is faerghus is a fucked up place for mentally ill and impressionable children to grow up in, and he is violent because of the society he was raised in and indoctrinated into, and not because of his mental illness.
#{ hc: the long dead prince | dimitri }#note: i am not a terf and do not think all men are just evil and men are biologically engineered to be evil#but cultures of toxic masculinity lead children to lash out violently and react within existing power structures regardless of their gender#and children who are impressionable are going to be affected.#that being said i want to stress that i have psychosis and many of my friends have psychosis and you CHOOSE the way you act regardless of#mental illness. evil is just a choice. violence is just a choice#peopel with psychosis are not inherently violent just like men are not inherently violent or people with brown eyes are not#things are always more morally ambiguous than just good or evil tho and sometimes violence is justifed and sometimes violence is#unavoidable. i think what makes this game so interesting is that it IS unavoidable here#this game does complex morality really well but it also is complex morality EXPLICITLY because the world around these teenagers#is so evil and fucked up in ways u wouldnt expect! and ways that are stereotypical to the genre#but still lends themselves well to the characters
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dimitri hc:
'yandere’ dimitri
there’s nothing romantic or sexual about post-skip dimitri’s pain & anger & definitely not his violence. he hurts people and he does not do it to be gratified---and he is not satisfied when they are dead because he killed them horrifically, or because he hurt their feelings. his pain is a festering wound, an infection that gnaws at his bones and eats at his heart and will surely kill him one day. there’s nothing sexual about his quest for vengenance even as he bathes & wallows in it, because he no longer views himself as a sexual being, he is just a vessel for a warped view of ‘justice’ (that does not make sense), an empty corpse by his own admission, literally hungering for his pound of flesh.
it will take dimitri a long time to see his body as his own again, and when he does---it will take him a long time not to view himself as monstrous, and worthy of the love he believes sex goes firmly hand in hand with.
dimitri is a good man with a very soft heart that loses his way---but sexualizing his own violence/power imbalance/strength over others is an act of evil not in line with his character. and i know we are conditioned as lgbt people & women to view violence as sexy, but unless it’s explicitly consensual and within some very tight lines of bedroom roleplay, that’s both not an ethical or canon way to potray dimitri or most characters with mental illness in my opinion.
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dimitri’s little dossier quote thing:
I LIVE IN GRIEF. I DO NOT DROWN IN IT, I SWIM, AND SWIM IN CIRCLES, AS A FISH DOES. I BATHE IN IT, I LIVE IN IT, I BREATHE IT IN DEEP AS DEATH AND PAIN AND EXHALE SALT WATER; AND THEN FORCE EVERYONE ELSE TO DRINK IT.
#{ ooc: hc }#{ ch: the long dead prince | dimitri }#{ hc: the long dead prince | dimitri }#{ fandom: i am finally me | fe3h }
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dimitri hc:
signs of mental illness as a child. (abuse of mentally ill/autistic children tw. this hc could be triggering for people with autism, psychosis, or ptsd. i aim to show that the root of dimitri’s violent tendencies comes from a result abusive ways that dimitri’s family tried to ‘fix’ his neurodiverse behaviors, and that trying to ‘fix’ such behaviors in childrens or adults is morally reprehensible and totally evil. )
dimitri was not like other faerghus boys. he kept his hair long---because he screamed when they tried to cut it. he could only wear certain pieces of clothing, or he would throw ‘tantrums’ (really meltdowns). he would walk on his tiptoes almost everywhere---a trait that had to be literally beat out of him in battle to get his center of gravity closer to the ground in battle.
he would mumble every word he spoke when he eventually started talking (at a late age of development, which worried his father)---and when his words were intelligible and often repetitive, he would hardly speak of anything except swords & stories and the imaginary friends that came with them.
he did not like to eat any food but cheese and said it made his stomach ‘feel bad’. he did not want to be seen naked---even by his father or many nurses---and would take great measures not to take baths. when meeting new people, his hands would shake---and he would talk to his imaginary friends instead of them about them, right in front of them. and, when taken hunting, dimitri would cry for the dead animals, every single time, and apologize to his food afterwards at the dinner table every time as if it was still alive---and then refuse to eat it.
dimitri would grow up with ‘crying jags.’ very suddenly and very often, he would burst into tears, for what appeared to be no reason at all. when he was questioned why, he just said he ‘felt bad.’ (often times he still gets crying jags, but has learned to excuse himself.)
he would grow out of some of these behaviors as he was taught the ‘discipline’ of faerghus nobility. he would learn social graces, how to speak clearly, how to be polite and how to dress and bathe and cut his hair. but it was very hard for him, and the methods in which his teachers and father weaned him off of it were not always kind & gentle as dimitri was; and despite everything, having been forced to grow out of imaginary friends and story books---he would still see things that weren’t there. particularly, he would claim to see his mother, something that disturbed his father and uncle, and that he learned to hide, at least for a time. he would be trained out of ‘talking’ to her out loud as he was trained to be violent and ruthless and oh-so chivalrous and polite.
after the death of his family, he temporarily regressed to childhood behaviors---but his uncle would not let him. his uncle took guardianship of dimitri (and dedue), and as such treated them very harshly. only dedue really let dimitri feel the full brunt of his psychosis and trauma deep into the night in their shared bedroom, where dimitri would talk to the dead and openly weep and wail and cry. in the morning, dimitri would try his best to appear normal to appease his uncle---both for himself, and for dedue---as dedue had become something of a bargaining chip in dimitri’s uncle’s terrible mind games with him.
after the ‘death’ of dedue---dimitri once again falls into these behaviors, but now with anger and vengeance and the hate that his uncle passed down to him more clear in his mind’s eye. he will continue to have trouble bathing, changing clothes, and eating for the rest of his life---as well as committing to concise, precise pronunciation and polite speech, and not lashing out at others. he will have hallucinations for the rest of his life as well, but over time, and with the support of his friends, he’ll begin to give them less and less merit and focus on the living.
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dedue hc/'analysis’ & dimitri canon divergence hc
“Everyone is saying His Highness is back to his old self, but I do not think that is accurate. What he was until recently is what he had been for as long as I’ve known him. So tortured by his compassion for the fallen that it had driven him mad. He has always been too kind to be king. He has always felt too much for the weak and the dead. That is exactly why I look up to him.” - dedue, during the blue lions route
Dedue and Dimtiri have known each other for nine years, and they’ve done pretty much everything together during that time. Dedue is the only one that sees that Dimitri was mentally ill long before his breaking point with Edelgard in the Holy Tomb, as he’s seen it first hand. Yes, he sees the same Dimitri everyone else sees in battle---but he also sees his night terrors, his moments of confusion when he cannot differentiate reality from his hallucinations and delusions.
In Dimitri’s most confused moments, he thinks he has died, and he does not need to eat or sleep at all, and he does not understand how he can talk to the living---or if the living are even still alive, or they have simply joined his hallucinations despite their kind tone/words. Dedue has helped him through this for literal years, since the very beginning of the time he’s known him.
And while he does enable Dimitri to be and speak violently with those from Faerghus and The Empire (which he thinks both committed genocide against his people, mind you), he also cares for him and is one of the only people Dimitri can calm down. Before he sacrificed his life for Dimitri, Dimitri viewed him as the only person he saved from The Tragedy of Duscur, the only person he loved that he could be sure was alive, that he needed to be alive.
And because of that, Dimitri believing that Dedue was dead was the final straw that broke Dimitri entirely leading him to go down the path he did, being coarse and rude even with his allies and friends, even with Byleth.
I believe Dedue returning is a large part of why Dimitri gets better, though it is now hard for him to know if Dedue is real now, and that, in turn, makes him more volitaile.
In my canon, Rodrigue does not die, but Dimitri is severely wounded in the attack of (that girl whose name i forget LMFAOOOO), and is unable to battle before Rodrigue apprehends her. The last thing Dimitri sees before blacking out is that little girls’ eyes---and though in my canon Dimitri did not torture the little girl’s brother (because that’s pretty problematic representation for people with hallucinations/delusions lol, he simply killed him and then like desecrated his body with how far he took the beating he gave it after he had already died from a crit as he had done to countless other enemies, scaring the shit out of his friends), he saw his manic eyes in hers. And slowly over time, through being healed by ALL his friends over the course of months while they fight a losing battle against the Empire... Dimitri learns that he does not want any one to suffer on his account, and apologizes to them for his quest of vengeance getting in the way of being a good leader. (This is their TRUE A support montage in my eyes, any further bonding would be A+ support lol.)
From there.... I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!!!! We’ll have to RP it out lmfaoooo. i can see BRANCHING PATHS!
#{ ooc: hc }#{ hc: loyalty & loss | dedue }#{ ch: loyalty & loss | dedue }#{ fandom: i am finally me | fe3h }#hallucinations tw#delusions tw#psychosis tw#mentions of ableism tw#genocide tw#{ hc: the long dead prince | dimitri }#{ ch: the long dead prince | dimitri }
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@honedblade [ many muses ] : ♡ and the word is 'dessserts!' for any one or more of your muses you like bc I only just recently followed you so i gotta know MORE
(thank you for the ask sorry its taken me so long to respond i can’t wait to interact with u more!!!!
edelgard: edelgard has the sweet tooth to end all sweet tooths. she loves sugary sweets and confections, especially if those sugary sweets and confections have a certain AESTHETIQUE to them, whether that be cutesy & pink or dramatic and gothic. (she especially likes halloween treats.) she’d like to spend all day in bed eating sweets and reading her books (historical accounts, political treatises, and philosophy, of course), but she has no time for such things.
dedue: dedue is fond of making sweets. he doesn’t have to worry about most sweets being ‘too spicy’ for his faerghus peers, so he’s free to experiment as he likes with old recipes he’s learned. he also enjoys making the more tightly rigorous desserts of the andrestian empire--he likes experimenting with different kinds of macarons especially when he feels particularly anxious. all his desserts are wonderfully tasty, but he doesn’t have much of a sweet tooth himself, prefering savory and spicy foods.
enki (f!byleth): enki has no sense of taste or smell, and cannot tell if a dessert tastes ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ because of this, she prefers foods with ‘good textures’ that suit her sensory needs. that means she prefers chunky, crunchy, soft-in-the middle cookies that are the perfect degree of warmth. she does not enjoy hard candies as they hurt her teeth---but she does like lollipops and chewy candies that she can chew and stim with.
dimitri: dimitri also! no sense of taste! but he does have a sense of smell. he loves the smell of baked goods and fruity teas mixed together especially, and he likes, for lack of a better description, food with a texture similar to melted cheese, such as taffy he can pull apart with his mouth.
#{ ooc: hc }#food tw#food mention tw#{ hc: emotional labor | enki }#{ hc: the long dead prince | dimitri }#{ hc: loyalty & loss | dedue }#{ hc: blood eagle | edelgard }#honedblade
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