Concept: Lysithea and Linhardt get married out of convenience and because they like each other’s company, and are subsequently confused when people expect them to kiss/sleep together/generally have romantic feelings for each other

Lysithea: I just don’t get this business of “finding your other half”. I’m a perfectly complete person already, thank you.

Linhardt: Furthermore, why must it always be half? I’m at LEAST 4/5 complete. Can’t I find someone who will donate just 1/5 to me?

(Doodle for FE aspec week day 3!!)

FE Aspec Week Day One: Friendship | Friend Group

Starting off this event with my favorite quartet :] Hilda's the only allo one AND she's a gossip so she inherently becomes the team's Romance Understander, for better or for worse

💜 Affection and Platonic Intimacy 💜

(pls accept my silly meme for @fe-aspec-week)

Yes it's a Barbie(2023) meme, yes it's lighthearted, but Alear's supports in Engage genuinely have a special place in my heart. I wasn't expecting to like the game, but it's just SO silly and somehow also SO sincere, and some of these characters wormed their way into my heart and are now beloved blorbos. I really liked how open-to-interpretation most of the supports were. 💜🤍🖤💚 I am rolling in aroace Engage headcanons and it's great.

Also someone tagged the og Barbie 2023 meme as "#aroace rights" and I've had this idea bouncing in my head since then.

(MAJOR THANK YOU to @damnilovefaerghus for making a character-less version of the fe3h S-support bg and thus saving me from scrambling to draw a background with 0 free time. THANK U I owe you my life.)

here are the prompts for FE Aspec Week 2023!

4/19: friendship | friend group 4/20: coming out | support 4/21: family | sibling dynamics 4/22: affection | platonic intimacy 4/23: modern au 4/24: acceptance | pride 4/25: free day

reminder that you do not have to follow the prompts! They are just suggestions! You are also welcome to post whatever you want each day, as long as it follows the theme. 💜💚

if you have any questions, you are welcome to send us an Ask or DM!

aroallo Yuri? 👀

aroallo yuri!!!

Fe Aspec Week Day 2: Support

Happy Anniversary to fe Echoes, woo!! 🎉👏 I will forever be grateful for the impact the game has had on me -- from leading me to new friends, helping me through a really rough time, to unlocking new confidence in my writing and art. And the characters were there for me in a significant way while I was figuring out I was asexual! So here's to the trio of all time, thank you for all the support ❤️💚💙

Ace Edelgard icons for @fe-aspec-week ! I never made icons before but it was very fun 🖤🤍💜

Ace lesbian Ivy & demi gay Zelkov coming out of their cage and doing just fine

(pls do not tag as ship)

FE Aspec Week Day 6 - Pride

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fire Emblem Engage Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Ivy (Fire Emblem), Kagetsu (Fire Emblem), Zelkov (Fire Emblem), Hortensia (Fire Emblem) Additional Tags: Friendship, FE Aspec Week 2023, Aromantic, Aromantic Character, aspec character Words: 1,760 Summary:

After her coronation, Ivy starts to wonder if she will be lonely as queen.

Redo of my previous ace Shez (this time with aroace colors!)

I have still never drawn m!shez lol

FE Aspec Week Day Three: Family | Sibling Dynamics

I didn't get to participate the whole time, but I wanted to share an aromantic Lukas for the FE aspec week free day

FE Aspec Week 2023 Survey!

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Fe Aspec Week Day 1: Friendship

Python’s Ten-Step Guide to Discovering You’re Aromantic

First, you need to notice something is different between you and your best friend. Do it nice and early, when he reads you storybooks of heroes and kings and battles that all culminate in a beautiful wedding. Your friend likes looking at the illustrations of the knight rescuing their lover. He can’t rest until he’s finished reading the last page. Stop him to look at the pictures of the fights. Enjoy the dragons. Enjoy the hero’s sword. When you’re alone, be sure to close the book before the lovers even reunite, because you’re excited that he won the battle using all his strength and valor, and isn’t that enough?

Spend your childhood hating every Day of Devotion to varying degrees. You can start off enjoying it, if you’d like: confess nonexistent feelings to a pretty thing in the hopes it’ll do you some good. Give flowers to the cute neighbor only to feel nothing at his rejection. Eventually, though, realize that something about the day pisses you off. You won’t be able to put your finger on it (it’s only step 2, after all). 

Worry that your best friend is the problem, and far too sentimental over everyone and everything. He’s definitely not the norm you should be comparing yourself against. Worry your pops is the problem. You know he never loved your mother, you’d never seen him love anyone, maybe this all started with him somehow. Then, worry that you are the problem. Spend sleepless nights and miserable days wondering why the goddess put you together with something missing on the inside. Try to spend as little time as possible on this one, but it’s okay if it takes a while.

One particularly quiet night, break into your friend’s father’s lord’s library. A little crime is necessary in affairs like this. You’re not the quickest reader, but maybe there’s something in here that you’ve been missing. Even if the bastard doesn’t have any books on the subject – flip through those pages of romance, courting, soulmates, and the power of love until you get fed up and leave with nothing to show for it.

Court everyone you possibly have a chance with in your little village. Silently compare yourself with the way your best friend talks about the butcher’s daughter, then break off each courtship when it doesn’t match up. Find someone new, they might be the right one. Take up archery to impress your potential dates. Learn all sorts of songs on your cittern (you’ll prefer the dances, but you have to learn the love songs because that’s all people will request). Leap into every gossipy conversation you can about affairs and crushes and relationships. Lend an ear to romantic tales about everyone from your neighbor to the head of Zofian knights. Throw yourself into it with a flirtatious fervor until you no longer recognize yourself. 

Next, you need to undo everything you just did. (Well, you can keep up the cittern playing. That will still help you take a date to bed now and again.) Look yourself in the mirror one day, and take down the act. Find yourself again. Be at some kind of peace with it. If there’s anyone you’re going to learn to love in your life, it’s going to be you. Start that right now, while staring in the mirror and listening to your friend chatter on in the other room, since he invited you over to offer comfort after your latest, and last, breakup. You don’t really need the big to-do, but you do enjoy the company.

Gather up the courage to broach the subject with your friend. Don’t do it like a normal, composed person. No – save up the thoughts for a long while, waiting until you’re at a real low point. You’ve got to be in the dumps for more reasons than this alone, but this is the main thing that comes spilling out of you as you curse the world, the gods, and yourself.

Now, this is the best step because you don’t even need to do anything. You may think that you will. You may have spent the past few steps preparing for the worst. But really, you don’t need to do a thing. Let your best friend pull you close. Let him hold you for a minute, assuring there’s nothing wrong with you. Let him say how much he cares about you. How he wouldn’t want you any other way. Let him buy you a drink, because he says it’s something that you should take pride in.

Celebrate. Celebrate. It’s important that you repeat this step. Do it as often as possible. Repeat it every single day of your goddamn life.

Now that you’ve got yourself all figured out, you can help out some others along the way. You’ll find people just like you, and people nothing like you who show what else is possible. There will be that kind pegasus knight you get talking with late into the night. That young and withdrawn mage boy. The boisterous footsoldier. The imposing swordsman who was occasionally a swordswoman. The mysterious redhead who’s feeling as if something important is missing. Remember your own pain, and your relief, and offer him some of it. 

(It’s not an official step, but make sure you’re getting your share of shuteye the whole time. This shit is exhausting and you deserve a break. Godspeed.)

Fe Aspec Week Day 6: Acceptance

As positive as Felicia is, the constant clumsiness/mistakes wear her down to self-doubt every now and then. Believing that she can't even love someone properly, it takes several conversations to show she's not doing anything wrong in the relationship. Azura assures her she's accepted just as she is.