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I'm thinking about this gif (credit to @unxpctedlygreat ) and I'm actually very amused by the subtle details I'm noticing.
Felix is using very basic techniques and cuts. This supports my theory that this isn't a spar, but an awareness drill. His initial stance allows him to quickly prepare a basic overhead cut, and capitalizes on his speed (his greatest asset) to immediately fold his grip and do a very fast upward lapel cut.
Dimitri is able to catch the first strike, and is pushing forward his footwork in order to take the impact at his core and legs rather than putting his own force into blocking or putting his balance at risk.
But because Felix is so fast, Dimitri actually chooses to pull back to dodge the second cut entirely, because he can read Felix faster than he can prepare another action, and will likely not be able to block in time.
He also slightly hops backwards to do this, and does it twice - something also seen in Three Hopes. Even if one hop puts him out of immediate striking range, his lance has a much larger effective range than Felix's sword, meaning that two hops gives him the advantage - he is out of Felix's striking range, but he is also able to use the time that is needed to close the gap read the combat situation and strike before Felix enters striking range.
I love this entire scene so much just for what it can tell you about their combative styles and attitudes.
#dimi breaks the silence#fire emblem three houses#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#felix hugo fraldarius#fire emblem warriors three hopes#analysis#3h longposts
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now that i'm apparently going to use tumblr for longposts™ here's the pinned post (lapslock so you know it's real shit)
primary fandom is 3h but i also like other FEs
lysiclaude monoship OTP except for m!shez and shahid + other family members (i like incest)
also like sothileth and shezleth, f!sothileth and m!shezleth by default
gd and leicester + almyra centric, i've spent a normal amount of time considering the worldbuilding for those countries
basically assume lysiclaude paired ending and vw/gw route or something based on that by default for everything i write
i'm a believer in no cross-faction scouting and i also don't like cross-faction shipping. i don't like "honorary" eagle/lion/deer!
everyone needs to do more wrong and commit more atrocities then get guillotined for it
i have f/m, m/m, f/f ships, i am not a "het/slah/femslash shipper" and i think dedicated het/slash/femslash shipping fandoms fucking suck and have shit taste
i also have a twitter (majority of the brainrot is here), another twitter (fic promos), bluesky (also fic promos ig) and dreamwidth (was supposed to be for longposts like on here but i have not touched it in a while)
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What's your opinion on Caspar father if you don't mind because DEAR GOD I HATE THAT GUY
Hoo boy if anyone came in here expecting me to be a Leopold Apologist, they will be SORELY disappointed. This is a Leopold Hate Zone.
So! It's time for another essay!
Caspar's been gaslit to believe that his father is a great man, brave and powerful, fearless and to be feared, a fair and just man to his soldiers and deserving of utmost respect for his accomplishments, but shows classic signs of ignoring everything about him that makes him a terrible father, regardless of his status as a military man.
To place his son's value based on how well he fights is exactly what kept Caspar believing that fighting is literally all he's good for if all he's ever known is "I have to keep getting stronger just to prove myself" and that mindset starts with his father treating him as a soldier from infancy. Because he's known nothing but training and fighting, he believes he can't do anything else, even though we all know full well he's fully capable of trying.
He doesn't even know what to do with himself if he can't be relied on for his fighting ability, and then he deflects with more of his developed habit of training non-stop to the point of exhaustion!
Speaking of his training, how is it okay to force your kid to do insane training exercises that are considered ridiculous, to the point where he's even doing night training?
It's no wonder people think training's all he cares about, because he's been enduring it like THIS since he was a child and it's all he's been taught to do non-stop! Breaking away from that does nothing but good for him because he deserves a break, and we know he won't accept one.
Yes, in Hopes, Azure Gleam shows a hint of Leopold showing his care for Caspar by telling him he sent him to the Academy to give him his own future (please correct me if I'm wrong on this ; this is what I've heard, I haven't played AG because Caspar's fate there makes me far too sad), but don't think I forgot about 3H canon where all he did was ask Caspar about how his training is going, and not... you know, how he's doing???
Leopold doesn't know how to treat his son like a father should. He only knows how to treat him like a soldier. And I know that I'm placing my opinion on him based on modern standards, and let's face it, by that standard, most dads in this game aren't great. This includes Waldemar, I have my own separate opinion of him (spoiler: it's not a positive one). But I'm still allowed to hate what Leopold's mindset towards his son did to Caspar's development as a character (see my longpost about what breaking from the Empire does for him - his positive growth outside of Crimson Flower includes having to break away from his father).
Caspar doesn't even fully realize the implications of his father's actions unless he spends time at the Officer's Academy, where he learns for the first time of what Leopold's done to Petra's father. Where he weighs his own self-worth because he learns about it and sees it for what it is; a tragedy, which he believes he himself should weigh the burden of guilt for. This is where Caspar starts to see the cracks in his image of his father (and anything before it could be straight-up denial, but that's all headcanon), but those cracks conveniently go away once he follows the CF route.
And let's not forget the fact that he owns a grounding charm, an item specifically made to calm his anxiety towards thunderstorms. Where did that fear come from? Leopold. He literally gave Caspar a fear response to thunderstorms.
Leopold is a good general. He is NOT a good father.
In conclusion:
Leopold: I raised a perfectly good soldier.
Me: You raised a kid with self-worth issues is what you did. Look at him, he's got anxiety.
#fe3h#few3h#caspar#all i want is for caspar to be free of the soldier mindset his father drilled into him#he deserves so much better#this is a leopold hate zone#fire emblem#kass rambles#kass answers
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exc use my shit handwriting cause i have the handwriting of a kindergartener but here my fire emblem three houses oc. her name is florence fleance sinclair. i have made an extensive list of info about her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lore
Date of Birth: 15th of Ethereal Moon
She was born in the kingdom to a rags-to-riches apothecary owner and a drunken layabout. Shortly after her birth, her mother started receiving death threats from her partner and they fled to the alliance where she went to a very small school that turned out to be a very small offshoot of the Eastern Church where they did terrible things to those who disobeyed. she learned the trade of making poisons and herbal remedies. She is inquisitive by nature and came to garreg mach monastery to learn as much as she can.
she can be aloof and a bit eccentric at times, but she means well. she appreciates art and music and tries to find beauty in everything. however, she is hard on herself and tries to keep to herself. Yet being demure, her vocabulary is quite vulgar and gets stressed easily and uses her free time to paint or fish.
Likes:
- small flowers, art, music, animals, mysteries, tactics, making poisons
Dislikes:
- loud noises, heights, herself, controlling people, needles
Favorite Tea:
Crescent-Moon tea
Four-Spice blend tea
Possible supports:
BE:
Bernadetta (c-a)
Dorothea (c-b)
Ferdinand (c-b)
Hubert (c-a)
Linhardt (c-a)
BL:
Annette (c-b)
Ashe (c-a)
Mercedes (c-a)
Sylvain (c-a)
GD:
Claude (c-a)
Hilda (c-b)
Ignatz (c-a)
Leonie (c-a)
Lorenz (c-b)
Lysithea (c-b)
Marianne (c-a)
Raphael (c-a)
SS:
Cyril (c-b)
Hanneman (c-a)
Seteth (c-a)
Shamir (c-a)
AW:
Balthus (c-a)
Constance (c-b)
Hapi (c-a)
Meta shit:
Personal Skill:
Poisoner: Chance to inflict poison on foe when dealing damage.
Growths:
HP: 25%
STR: 50%
MAG: 45%
DEX: 40%
SPD: 30%
LCK: 45%
DEF: 20%
RES: 25%
CHA: 20%
Stats: (lv 1)
HP: 23
STR: 12
MAG: 11
DEX: 8
SPD: 5
LCK: 8
RES: 6
CHA: 5
Learned Magic:
Reason:
Miasma- D
Death- C+
Dark Spikes- B
Hades- A+
Faith:
Heal- D
Physic- C
Rescue- B
Warp- A
She would work well as a War Cleric, Valkyrie, Dark Flier, Gremory, Wyvern Lord, Falcon Knight, or Mortal Savant imo!
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Back on my gif analysis nonsense.
Here's what we're looking at today.
In this shot, we see Byleth's hand, reaching from the left, which is where the scene is lit from.
Look closely at Dimitri's expressions.
He's in a daze, at first. As if he's questioning what he's seeing, maybe even too delirious to tell friend from foe, dead from living. But as Byleth continues to approach him, he's responsive. Something is telling him that this isn't one of the spirits who torment him whether or not he heeds, even if he's not entirely trusting of his own judgements anymore.
He blinks and then traces his line of sight to follow Byleth's hand, and whether deliberate or not, note that he still lacks the eye highlight until the very end, when he is gazing upward at Byleth, where you can see that it is not anger or the unreasonable hatred for the living he tries to portray in order to convince himself he serves only the dead. He's tired. He's still grieving. But he doesn't know what he's grieving. And in his eye, you can see the hope mixed in, no matter how he tries to tamp it down. That tiny detail of a highlight in his eye is important - it conveys a sort of life to him. No matter how he tries to suppress it to convince he can heartlessly and guiltlessly follow through with his vengeance, not all of his younger, idealistic self is lost. The look in his eye is even apologetic. He's just going through a rough time, where being openly kind and empathetic when the target is so heavily painted on him is asking for death in more ways than his recklessness already invites.
(Inserting this as a reference to how his eyes go dark and unlit when his mental state finally cracks and he goes full-on breakdown.)
The thing about the cutscene is that the lighting contrast is VERY strong, that it is easy enough to miss the details. But what's obvious is how messy he is, even in the dark because of his coloration. You can see his hair is in his eyes, matted, and his skin is stained with blood, but the one eye you can see in this shot is very much the most telling part of what he has become. Adding on that he is seated at the very edge of light, it tells you that he hasn't entirely thrown his humanity away. He's still clinging on to things like his compassion, his empathy, how he still cares, whether or not he realizes it. He just needs to be shown that there is meaning in using all that for the living, and to let the dead rest.
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Back on my nonsense about Dimitri's lanceplay.
Have a look at these three frames I pulled from @unxpctedlygreat 's gif
Dimitri only briefly tightens his grip of his control arm, and quickly slackens it again immediately after he has appropriately parried Dedue's strike. He does this by intercepting the line of attack and using its existing momentum to push the arc into an overswing, which is very useful against someone like Dedue, who is slower but more sturdy.
It also means that he conserves his strength, weapon and stamina - letting the overswing disrupt Dedue's balance instead of using sheer force as the primary counter method means that he's less likely to break his weapon (compensating for superhuman strength) while not expending unnecessary energy.
However, between frame 2 and 3, you'll notice that the only actual movement is the gravity acting on his cape, and a very slight shift in the angle of the lance. His control (front) hand has slackened its grip because he no longer has to brace his weapon to meet impact. The control hand is much more to guide the lance's trajectory when thrusting, and with Dimitri's excessive grip strength, it's even more important to keep it loose but steady. Also note how his fingers curl around the shaft. It rests on his palm, and as his fingers curl around it, only the fingertips actually press onto the wood. His grip is also angled to reduce strain on the wrist, and he doesn't fully enclose the shaft in his grip. That's what allows him to move so quickly into various stances and positions so flexibly.
The scene implicitly displays his training experience, versatility with techniques and accurate in judgements: He demonstrates using the opponent's force against them, direct blocking, and also making timely decisions of when to pull back instead of countering.
As a bonus:
Look at this frame. There's real confidence there when you realize he's already checking his peripheral vision. Confidence that he has knocked Dedue off-balance for long enough that from that point on, his eyes aren't on him. His eyes are turned to anticipate Felix already. This may simply be part of the order of the drill, but there is definitely still a certain amount of mastery required to commit to the action without hesitation.
In any case, he and I seem to use the same basic grip and stances, so I'm definitely going to write more about his lanceplay when I am Inspired™️ by gifs and videos.
#3h longposts#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#fire emblem three houses#fire emblem warriors three hopes#fire emblem three hopes
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Siblings in Faerghus Nobility, why Dimitri stands out as an only child and how Lambert and Rufus's siblinghood could have played into it:
Among the Blue Lions, a good majority of the cast have, or have had siblings at some point in their lives. This includes Felix, Sylvain, Ingrid, Mercedes, Ashe and Dedue.
However, for the purpose of this discussion we will go over all the Blue Lions characters and explore their sibling relations, and go over some that may be more unique.
Subsequently, we will also discuss Dimitri's status as an only child - the stakes it plays in his position as heir, and how the relationship between Rufus and Lambert may have played into his sibling-less life. (For purposes of timescale consistencies, we will not consider Edelgard since she was only there for a year.)
Felix and Sylvain are simple - they have both had one older sibling each, who canonically predecease both them, and their fathers. Both older siblings for one reason or another were either not intended to inherit, or were deceased before inheritance.
Ingrid has two older brothers. This is presumably a matter of trying for a crested heir, as it was what House Galatea determined its priority at the time, succeeding with Ingrid.
Now, the exceptions:
Mercedes has a sibling in Emile (Jeritza), but while she was formerly Imperial nobility, she is a commoner in Faerghus, and is exempt from many of the noble house priorities such as inheritance, social duty and having a safety net to the seat of the House.
Dedue had a younger sister who was killed in the retaliation from the Kingdom after the assassination of King Lambert. However, he is considered an exception as he is of Duscur, and would not have been expected to conform to the same cultural functions of siblinghood.
Ashe is a doubly special case. He has his younger birth siblings - fellow commoners, and had Christophe - occupying the very lowest rung of nobility due to Lonato's lordship granted for service to Rufus. Christophe predeceasing Lonato and Ashe, and Lonato's own subsequent act of treason would find his lordship posthumously revoked - similar to the Viscounty of Kleiman, and returned to the direct control of House Blaiddyd. As a result, Ashe would not inherit Castle Gaspard. His siblinghood with his birth siblings hence remains exempt from noble activity and culture.
Annette. Annette is a very special case. She is an only child. However, she is the niece of Baron Dominic. She does not belong to the main branch of the family. When one belongs to a side branch of the family, it is rare to expect that they will inherit - in this case, her cousin, only namedropped in Three Hopes as Simon, would be inheriting the title of Baron Dominic. Without the expectation of inheriting, many of the other duties that come with being the governing house of a territory also are lightened, or completely rendered irrelevant. There is no need for a spare heir, if you have no need for an heir to begin with, for example. Especially given that Annette would have been only 12 or 13 at the time that Gustave disappears, it would have been much more difficult on Gustave's conscience to simply leave if there was a second, much younger child that would not ever be able to understand his position.
So, establishing that the nobles of primary lineages in particular had the highest stakes in what a functional siblinghood served, what does this say about Dimitri? Dimitri, the only child. The heir, without any spare should misfortune fall upon him.
It is without question that Lambert could have sired a second child at any point if he wanted to. It could have been with Patricia if he wanted. It could have been with any woman, even. Hence, the distinction here is that he must have in some capacity decided against it. Dimitri has a crest, and that in itself is fortunate, because it means that he already makes for an heir who can wield Areadbhar. He is in line for the throne. All is well. The stake here, should Lambert choose to have a second child as a spare to the throne, is that the two would grow to resent the other, especially if one is without crest or worse, the younger would have a major crest. (On another tangent, maybe he simply just could never love anyone the way he loved his first wife. But that's another topic.)
The stakes of House Blaiddyd is doubly high - it must not only consider the priorities of its house and direct territory, but the entirety of Faerghus. Lambert is not a stranger to such resentment himself - Rufus resents him for his crest, because Rufus was passed over for the throne due to lacking a crest. Rufus could never be king, simply because he lacked the blood signature he couldn't control, while his younger brother won the blood lottery.
Was it a stake worth passing on to the next generation, if the heir already did possess a crest? Or was it worth protecting that heir with everything they had, that even if Lambert fell, he would know that he had Gustave, Rodrigue, and if it came to it, even Matthias, to guide and protect Dimitri until he came of age to become king, and even after? It's very like Lambert, and his many progressive ideas and schemes. There was risk, and there was reward, but on this occasion, that risk did pay off. But would this work on a larger scale in Faerghus? Perhaps not.
Three Hopes told us time and again that the way each noble house of Faerghus inherits is largely independent, picked by themselves based on what they believed was in their best interest for their people at the time. That much is true, and the reason so many of them have multiple children each generation is because it's something that has worked for them, whether it is up in the northeast where the stakes are high for the value of a relic and that trying again and again until a child bore a crest could pay dividends in the long haul, or in the more southerly territories that benefitted from having options to pick for aptitudes and exceptional abilities that would draw glory and award for their House, if not dowry and lineage.
To conclude, I think that it's actually quite apt to say that Faerghus children are really meant to be raised like a bunch of lion cubs. You don't just have a single cub. You need a whole pile of them, from different lions and lionesses, and raise them together. That's what Faerghus kids are made of.
#holy kingdom of faerghus#fire emblem three houses#blue lions#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#felix hugo fraldarius#sylvain jose gautier#ingrid brandl galatea#annette fantine dominic#mercedes von martritz#dedue molinaro#ashe ubert#3h longposts
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I've been thinking about the Tragedy of Duscur again.
Often times, I think we tend to overlook how the genocide of the Duscur people has a three-pronged effect. Think about this: Kleiman was awarded the noble title of Viscount following the subjugation of Duscur, and appear to be indebted to Rufus, suggesting that he was the one who decided that such an award was warranted. Which of course, as regent, he has the power to. But how does the subjugation of Duscur benefit Rufus?
For one, having conspired with the Agarthans to scapegoat the Duscur people in the ploy meant that a mass-killing of Duscur people would silence anyone who would dare try and come out with the truth of the Agarthans being the third faction involved. Dimitri waa not intended to survive - the intention was to have zero witnesses, but despite the failure to kill him, his insistence that Duscur was innocent is still much more easily drowned out without other evidence or someone Faerghus will trust to testify. When Gustave arrived at the scene, the attack had already all but ended, and Dimitri was verifiably the only known survivor rescued due to Patricia being completely unaccounted for - dead or alive.
In addition, they are also an easy target because of the circumstances at the time the Tragedy occurred. Lambert was making the journey for peace negotiations, making his untimely death look doubly bad on Duscur's part - to the commonfolk in Faerghus it looks as if their king was offering peace, only to be betrayed by his good intentions.
Not to mention that the commonfolk's anger about the regicide meant that it would easily feed into their cultural ideas of swift justice - that when Rufus gives the order to the Western Lords to carry out the massacre, it solidifies support for him in his early regency, despite the northeastern territories that were outraged by a lack of proper investigation before action.
The Western Lords are mentioned to have had grievances about Lambert's progressive schemes, except Baron Dominic, supporting Rufus more strongly in his politically traditionalist stance, which suggests it was easy for Cornelia to sway them into conspiring to commit the Tragedy by siding with Rufus.
As mentioned, the commonfolk, who likely get such news by word of mouth - and thus react based on hearsay of the events and its circumstance, do portray some positive response to the subjugation and feed into the racism, but one must note that south-eastern territories in Faerghus (such as Galatea) would likely also receive news and respond similarly due to being the furthest from the site of the Tragedy - perhaps even among the last of the noble houses to learn of Lambert's death.
However, the north eastern houses, due to their proximity to the capital would quickly receive the news upon falling back, while the Western territories and their co-conspirators will have already known it as part of their plan. So despite the seemingly overwhelming positive response toward the subjugation of Duscur, I believe that the understanding to be had is that for the commoners and distant nobility, it's a matter of "they killed our king, so we are justified in punishing them", when the truth is that only those who actually participated directly in the mass murder will understand that "we killed the king and incriminated people who happened to be nearby that we can easily punish in order to shield our secret ally", but of course, they likely would not admit it outright, which is why so much misinformation about the Tragedy continues to circulate by hearsay throughout the Kingdom and even outside its borders.
#dimi breaks the silence#fire emblem three houses#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#gustave eddie dominic#gilbert pronislav#rufus thierry blaiddyd#the tragedy of duscur#analysis#3h longposts
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Interesting observations and inferences:
Lambert was likely the 15th King of Faerghus.
Dimitri is more closely related to Loog than Loog is to Blaiddyd. In fact, the number of generations that Loog is removed from Blaiddyd is almost double of that between Dimitri and Loog.
Lambert likely ascended the throne in the late 1150s, around his late teens, or just out of. In comparison, Rodrigue did not become Duke until much later, and it serves a likely reason that he continued to be dedicated to Lambert's person rather than out of duty as Duke during that period.
Lambert died in his mid 30s. Glenn was likely 19. Gustave was already in his 50s at this time, and Rufus was around 40.
#fire emblem three houses#holy kingdom of faerghus#lambert egitte blaiddyd#rufus thierry blaiddyd#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#rodrigue achille fraldarius#gustave eddie dominic#glenn govan fraldarius#3h longposts
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i am also sick rn (i hope you feel better!) but here are some thoughts:
glenn giving dimitri and felix piggy back rides when he should be training and justifying himself by saying that he’s doing strength training (even though everyone knows neither of them are heavy enough to really do much for him)
rodrigue braiding dimitri’s hair before his coronation
faerghus 4 going around and picking flowers together in the summer
blue lions snowball fight
rodrigue jumping on matthias’s back when they were younger as a form of “training” (aka pissing him off)
felix and dimitri sparring while the various children of the various lions watch in awe and the lions themselves roll their eyes affectionately
I love this so much. (Hope you feel better soon, Onyx!)
I have SOME ideas about your ideas.
What if Glenn gets away with the tomfoolery during council seasons when Rodrigue (and the other Faerghus nobles) goes to Fhirdiad for larger assemblies and meetings because Felix got to come along? Sylvain also comes with Matthias, with Miklan sulking along, and Ingrid comes with her brothers and father - but for her, it meant that she also got to spend time with Glenn and the rest of the gang.
When Glenn piggybacks Dimitri as "training", Gustave briefly tries to intervene, but Glenn laughs and says that he barely feels heavier than a sack of horsefeed. He follows up by jokingly telling Dimitri that "maybe he needs a few extra steaks to be of remotely any challenge", and Sylvain chimes in that he could take a pointer from Ingrid, much to her embarrassment.
Felix gets his turn next draped over Glenn's shoulders like a towel, and Glenn, in mock thoughtfulness laughs that Felix could also do with being less picky with food. (Felix huffs and whacks Glenn for that, being a bit self-conscious yet unrepentant about his preferences.) Ingrid practically jumps into Glenn's arms for her turn, and Sylvain smirks while Felix retches slightly. In a bid of brotherly tomfoolery, when Ingrid finally is satisfied with her Pega-Glenn ride, Glenn charges at Sylvain and hauls him up by the knees and runs halfway across the courtyard with the screeching Sylvain flailing.
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As for Rodrigue braiding hair? I imagine he would have been the one toying with Lambert's hair a lot in their youth, and was the reason Lambert practically lived in braids. He tears up when he gets to do it for Dimitri, because it's so close in color and texture and sheen that it almost feels like he was a teen again. Felix barged in the room and saw Rodrigue almost crying, got irritated and told him to "stop getting snot into your moustache, old man". He did not.
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Felix wanted Sylvain to make a flower crown. So the four of them went around picking flowers. Dimitri struggled with not uprooting the entire plant at first, but eventually figured out that he could at least pinch the stems to pull off the flowers, even if it crushed the stem a little. When Glenn came looking for the lot of them at midday, Ingrid put her flower crown on his head and insisted it was for him. He sits down and quickly makes a pair, one for her and one for Dimitri, before Felix starts getting wibbly-eyed about one. Glenn tells him to reach toward his head. Felix does, and finds a flower crown already there. Glenn had already put one on his head when he first arrived. Everyone else had played along in not telling him. Rodrigue got the story of a lifetime that day.
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The Faerghus Four often got stories about how Matthias, Lambert, Rodrigue and several other lords had snowball brawls and wanted to have one of their own. Sylvain begged Matthias to host it, but he refused. Sylvain snuck out eventually, deciding that he'd just have it at the forest between Fraldarius and Fhirdiad. Suffice to say, it caused alarm when Dimitri and Sylvain went missing - and Felix had run home crying to Rodrigue. Gustave, Rodrigue, Matthias and Lambert put together a search party, and Lambert even put away his work to head the search himself. Lambert does remind Matthias that it was just like what they had themselves done as teenagers. Matthias refuses to start that conversation. When they find the duo, Sylvain was covered in scratches and Dimitri was a sobbing mess. To this day, neither was willing to admit what happened, and the story went down as one that Gustave would someday tell Annette.
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Rodrigue was the youngest of the trio, but was often able to influence Lambert's teenage impulsiveness and the two would do absolutely absurd things together. One of those things happened to include having Lambert distract Matthias with idle chatter while Rodrigue pounced from behind.
Good thing Matthias already had the beginnings of a brick-wall physique, because somehow, it would become the oldest trick in the book that he would somehow fall for again and again, though at least he was good-natured and laughed it off. Even when it irritated him, it always caught him off guard when Rodrigue would innocently suggest that maybe he could see it as training, quoting increasingly ridiculous yet still undeniably plausible scenarios where it was applicable. Even years later, when they all became fathers, Rodrigue still tried the occasional mischief - often to simply cheer the other two up. Matthias, after he shut himself away did not take it well and gave Rodrigue a tongue-lashing about how he should mature himself and stop acting like a child. Since that day, the only facets that show of Rodrigue's cheeky humor slip through in his words - with each year he ages, suppressing his spirit becomes easier. He finds that this so-called "maturity" has perhaps only allowed his body to stiffen, unlike his memory of Lambert, who kept his boisterous and lively personality until the end - tempered only for his duty as king.
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Felix and Dimitri's sparring habits after the war kept up whenever they could spare the time. When it so happened that the Blue Lions decided to have a reunion in Fhirdiad, Felix challenged Dimitri to a sword-on-sword spar. Despite the children watching, the two went at it spiritedly, and Ingrid scowling at Felix (ready for a scolding) while holding her hands over her child's ears whenever he used profane language in his taunts. Mercedes had brought some of the orphans from the orphanage that she ran in Camulus, and Ashe and Dedue tried to keep them calm when a few were spooked by the loud clashing of steel. Sylvain got smacked once or twice by an exasperated Ingrid as well, when he made lewd jokes about their sword handling, but it was more of a force of habit at that point for her. She still wonders how she came to love him enough to put up with his nonsense and willingly bear his child, but she does.
#this got long#3h longposts#ask#fire emblem three houses#fire emblem three hopes#blue lions#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#felix hugo fraldarius#sylvain jose gautier#ingrid brandl galatea#rodrigue achille fraldarius#lambert egitte blaiddyd#matthias raoul gautier#gustave eddie dominic#dedue molinaro#ashe ubert#mercedes von martritz#annette fantine dominic#sylgrid
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There's something I've been thinking about how to bring up and I think I've got it.
We need to talk about the sheer genius of Rufus' design.
Rufus looks awful. Sick, even. But he doesn't look like he's always been that way. He looks just put together enough that suggests he could very well have been a respectable man at one point. A respectable man who got the ladies, at least. His colors are off, he's pale, he's exhausted. He has little vitality, and he's untidy. Untidy, but not unkempt.
His headdress. It's such a central design detail that you will focus on as soon as you look at him, but it's so out of place. It's nothing like anything you find in Faerghus and on any of the other Faerghus characters. That's because it isn't. It's Agarthan. Cornelia gave it to him as a means to increase her influence over him. His own will and psyche is rotting under her command that he's sick of it, sick from it and entirely a defeated man.
He definitely looks like a Blaiddyd. But he doesn't fit well into the family picture with Lambert and Dimitri, because his path and choices have forcibly strayed him from them. He will look like a misfit no matter how you try to make him look the part, but the family is already fragmented.
His collar is blue, and the fur trim is black, as opposed to the white fur trim on Lambert. His armor is panelled like reinforced gates. He's gone too far, and now he's desperately building up walls to all but his perceived allies in an attempt to hide from the consequence, as his nightmares of a lion ripping out his throat depicts. That is symbolic of the retribution he expects and accepts, but he's also still running regardless, because it's human to. He's not going to go down without a fight, even if it's futile.
His cape is simple, especially compared to Lambert, and later, Dimitri. This is because his place in the hierachy is below them, even if he's senior in age, and not to mention without crest. The plain crest on his cape serves to only distinct that he's tied to House Blaiddyd by blood, and no more. It doesn't particularly decorate him as a nobleman, as royalty or even as the grand duke. In comparison to the bold blue colors on Lambert and Dimitri, he's even off-color. Off-palette. Like he's defective. A defective spare unjustly passed over, cast aside for the supposed flaw of lacking a crest. A flaw that was beyond his control, and hence his spite festers.
Rufus' entire character is strongly depicted in his character design and I will die on this hill. He's not the most good-looking or the most noble-like, but the design serves its purpose so well that I adore it nonetheless. He doesn't need to be put in the laundry basket like AM!Dimitri. The greasiness tells its tale.
#rufus thierry blaiddyd#3h longposts#fire emblem three houses#fire emblem three hopes#fire emblem warriors three hopes
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You know, sometimes I sit and contemplate about Dimitri's mental health, particularly his psychosis and intrusive thoughts. But not from his perspective. I see that far too much myself. I know it all too well. No, I think about how it looks like to his friends.
How he would approach his teatimes with Sylvain carefully, every intention to loosen up for an afternoon, to assure his friend in earnest that he isn't too tightly-strung about all the work that comes with being the king. But his words always come out a beat late. Like he's trying to sort out thoughts he's not sure are his own. Words he's not sure should be said. He has pledged to speak his mind, but there are boundaries in that realm he still cannot bring himself to cross. Sylvain listens anyway. He knows as well that some things are less painful left unsaid.
Or perhaps with Felix, in a bid for respite from stuffy formal ceremony. Impulsive actions taking them into the nightly outdoors where they would not otherwise have been. Felix looks him in the eyes, but he doesn't look back. His eyes may trail blankly, veered if slightly off to the side, but a sharp jab always corrects that, physical or otherwise. Dimitri always corrects himself. Poises himself. Pristine, untouched. The people musn't worry for the sanity of their king. But Felix knows. Felix sees when Dimitri lifts his head as if hearing the call of one superior to even the king, working late in the night beyond the time he should have turned in for the night. Felix hears his murmurs on the occasions where he finds him asleep on his paperwork, one half of a conversation he cannot understand.
Perhaps even more so, with Dedue, who attends his many needs. Who prepares his attires, and wakes him for his day. Who tidies his desk and finds countless journals, endless unfinished letters that would never find their recipients. As if he was making sense of all the things he wanted to say, or records of conversations that never really happened. Even in the Duscur script, ever since he learned it - apology after apology, in spite of recovering relations. Trauma does not leave Dimitri so easily. Dedue knows this, and deeply admires him for it. He is far too soft-hearted, far too kind to be king, but it was also what made him the king that all of Fodlan named its saviour. The scars have cut him deep, but his love ran far deeper. Dimitri may never speak of it in words, but Dedue knows. Dedue, too, will keep quiet.
#3h longposts#fire emblem three houses#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#felix hugo fraldarius#dedue molinaro#sylvain jose gautier
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Some thoughts I had about the Holy Kingdom, the Alliance, their naming conventions and some timeline things.
So we are familiar with the Empire's name format of First Name von Last Name, and that prior to the founding of the Kingdom, it was the likely standard to naming conventions within Fodlan nobility. Given that Loog I was called out as Loog von Blaiddyd, and that Kyphon was presumably descent from the Fraldarius lineage, it's safe to also assume that Kyphon would be Kyphon von Fraldarius.
Following the founding of the Kingdom in Red Wolf Moon, Imperial Year 751 at the end of the War of the Eagle and Lion, it may be established that the naming convention continued to assume a similar format for the subsequent time. The Leicester Rebellion in 801 saw the breakaway of Leicester from Adrestia, and its following assimilation under the Kingdom banner as a protectorate. This would likely have been during the reign of the king after Loog I, or the potential following king who would become predecessor to the reign of Klaus I.
It can be assumed that Klaus I was responsible for implementing that first shift in naming convention within the Kingdom to further distinguish its identity from the Empire and assert sovereign loyalties from its noble houses. This likely makes Banfig, Krouffer and Kite part of the first generation using such a format, placing the beginning several decades before the Crescent Moon War in 881.
This also makes sense timeline wise, given that the Alliance portrays an incomplete switch from the Empire format to the Kingdom format. It suggests that such conventions were not yet standard in the Kingdom at the time of breakaway, that with the formation of the Alliance under their own banner, only some of the houses had already adopted it and would simply continue to use it, and others no longer saw need to conform to Kingdom practices when they were flying their own banner.
We get a bit of a skip in terms of what we are told from this point - nothing too major for about 200 years. However, this encompasses an estimate of 6 to 8 generations during which the convention becomes distinctly standard to the Kingdom, that even minor houses like the Barony of Dominic would conform - hence Gustave being canonically "Gustave Eddie Dominic". The early 1100s (think the first 2 decades or so) would be the reign of Lambert and Rufus' grandfather, and from the late 1130s onward, the reign of Lambert and Rufus' father during which he would serve as squire.
Given that Lambert doesn't become king until the later 1150s - inferred from his time at the Academy in the earlier part of the decade, and that his coronation must have come before Dimitri's birth in 1162, I think it holds up fairly well in the timeline we were presented. Gustave would have been well into his 30s during Lambert's reign, and in his 50s during Rufus' regency, he could definitely have been the one overseeing Dimitri's training and youth between the 1160s and 1170s. Rufus' regency in Houses always ends in 1181, whether by death or otherwise, and Gustave is in his early 60s during the war phase in 1185. Interestingly, Dimitri's own coronation in AM (the only route where he survives the war) being toward the tail end of 1185 is actually quite a gap (30+ years since Lambert's own coronation and almost 10 years since his death, since Rufus is regent rather than King) if we notice how often the monarchy of Faerghus changes hands at about a 20 year interval.
It's fascinating how strongly the timeline holds with a little bit of logical inference, isn't it?
#fire emblem three houses#holy kingdom of faerghus#leicester alliance#3h longposts#lambert egitte blaiddyd#rufus thierry blaiddyd#gustave eddie dominic#loog von blaiddyd#king klaus I#kyphon fraldarius#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#kite fe3h#banfig fe3h#krouffer fe3h
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Perhaps this is out of line to say, but I've been thinking. It is quite frustrating that the primary factional conflict in Three Houses/Hopes has become a real and lasting divide within the community, particularly with regard to that of Edelgard VS Dimitri.
I am not saying that it is wrong for anyone to side with the lord and route of their choice, or that we should all simply be chummy best-of-friends, because that is entirely unrealistic an expectation. I am saying that there is no need to aggressively preach one faction over another as superior, especially when it comes to matters of opinion, personal interpretation and perspectives. Nor is there need to attack others to justify your perspective as the 'one correct indisputably factual view' that they should subscribe to.
If you like Edelgard, good for you. She's cute, and she's quite an orator. I will stay in my lane as a Faerghus fan and not interfere.
That said, if you so choose to actively target us for having less than stellar opinions of her or Crimson Flower, you are the aggressor. We do not take kindly to having our side of the community invaded, and most of us would rather simply co-exist with your side in peace left undisturbed.
If you choose to attack, and you raise your flag against us, you do not have grounds to be offended when we raise our own in defense to hold our established space in the community. We have not lost for simply safeguarding our own interests by closing off, and should you have to convince yourself it is your victory to celebrate, then I pray you find some hobbies to bring you joy beyond petty verbal skirmishes on the internet.
#3h longposts#edelgard critical#fandom critical#this has to do with things i've been reflecting on#but for as much tact as i try to include#i get the feeling that you will all come for my head regardless#call me a fool if you so desire#but i've grown weary of the bitter hatefulness that seems to be inescapable in this community of late#adrestia critical#fire emblem three houses#i might delete this later#regardless#my loyalty to faerghus is exclusive and non-disputable#so if you try to use this as a target on my back#the block button is right there#dimi needs a rant
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I want to talk about how after Rufus died, Cornelia was in charge. Do you know how much that says about her position? If the regent passes, you would think the next in line to take up charge when Dimitri, the crown prince, was barred for presumed regicide, would have been Rodrigue. The Duke Fraldarius, the head of Faerghus' second most powerful house. But no.
It was Cornelia. In some way, her service to Rufus is more than simply as his aide or retainer or what have you. For all we know, she could have talked him into marriage, or some manner of union, then insisting time and again to represent him, to attend his duties in his stead, wresting control from him. Giving orders in his stead, as we would see her do at times in Three Hopes. After all, she has his power, if not his standing. When he dies, she would be the top of the line. With free reign to resection the Kingdom into those that will kneel - the Dukedom, and those that will not - the Eastern Lords. Her word could be law, she could bring in Imperial troops as she pleased, Imperial troops who could very well include more of their Agarthan agents.
It's imperative that when we think about that section of the timeline that is skipped over during the timeskip, that the amount of power she wields is not something she wrests by force after the moment that Rufus dies. It is something that she has been setting up to steal from him since before even the Tragedy - that from the moment the Tragedy happened, the stage was set for her alone. His regency was never more than a stepping stone for her ploys and services to her true affiliation with Those Who Slither In The Dark.
#rufus thierry blaiddyd#cornelia arnim#holy kingdom of faerghus#fire emblem three houses#3h longposts
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11.30PM kinposting but please don't mind me, I just needed somewhere to put my thoughts so that I can actually be in a proper frame of mind to take an 8AM national exam tomorrow. I may delete this later on.
I still despise the feeling of being so perpetually strung tight, like I would snap if even one thing struck but a hair beyond the limit. All the little things I once did, whether with intent or by accident. I still feel dreadfully guilty. Yet even so, Garreg Mach has... so many fond memories as well. The extra care that went into maintaining weapons, the scuffs on the leather binding of my journal because I always had it on my person.
Even now, when I detail the means of maintaining a sword to Felix - it's being greeted with a satisfactory response of still knowing the motions and steps. I do remember, when once I'd broken their arm by sheer accident, the way they scowled at the healer when informed that it'd have to be rested for a bit. I did have to do an extra share of maintenance then, given the indisposition, but it was the least I could have done.
I hardly remember the war, though some parts are clearer than others in a way I haven't heart to speak of yet. But I did remember the days that did come after. The way I was helpless at handling my own hair for the coronation, the way Felix was so expertly pulling away the hair tie to fix it in exasperation. I remember looking in the mirror terrified, as if I was expecting to see someone else. As if I was expecting to see the image of Father staring back.
I remember the way my bedchambers of childhood was in the East Wing. Far from the conference, the archives, the library, even Father's office, in the West Wing. Too young to have to know just how deep into the night he worked. How I had to brace myself stepping into it as king, knowing it was mine then. Mine, of all people. A wretch of a king, I used to think. But my dearest friends would always remind me. A wretch of a king is still a king nonetheless. If... if only they could know just how far that reminder has carried me through even in this.... this lifetime, so to say. The little things I do that I want to recreate from those fonder times. The little things I wish I still could say.
Faerghus, how dreadfully I miss you so, evermuch as I miss the classmates who used to be within arm's reach. Where have you all gone, my old friends? Must the Goddess be so cruel, to put us in so many places, so far away, that even the chance to meet again is but a shattered needle in the Tailtean Plains?
#3h longposts#mitya memories#i suppose i will use that tag#should anyone hope to blacklist it#if i wind up not deleting it then at least it will have its place#i've just tagged it as a longpost for someone who wants to blacklist that tag for personal reasons#it helps with clearing my mind and dissipating the tension i often feel throughout my body so#i will not apologize for doing something that helps my mental state
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