as someone who absolutely adores ikesoren, I’m so tired of the people who insist that it’s canon. It’s not. Could you interpret it as supported/encouraged by canon? Sure! Absolutely! But it isn’t canon, and the sooner other ikesoren shippers accept that and stop sounding like pretentious assholes the better. Whether or not the ship is canon doesn’t make it better or worse, and frankly it just alienates the people that don’t ship it (as they are free to do!)

(And before someone harps on homophobia: yes yes I understand the want to call it canon because of the way homophobes cry about how Ike could never be gay, etc etc, but listen. I am a gay man and I’m taking you by the shoulders and telling you that it’s not innately homophobic to say ikesoren isn’t canon. Because it just ain’t. Again I absolutely adore the ship, it’s one of my fave FE ships! I’m just tired of other fans of it acting like it’s canon and alienating people that don’t ship it. Frankly I feel the same about every ship that isn’t canon being called canon, but this is the most egregious example imo)

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my piece for the ikesoren zine! leftover sales are on now @ikesorenzine ❤️

Queen

Leanne, my beloved :')

but in the spilling of blood,

a hope still glimmers dim

in a reflection in the water

in a whisper in the wind

zelgius after nados

Seeing people hating Soren for hating the laguz is wild because. That's the point!!! He suffered so much and he became bigoted because his life was horrific and that's the point!!! Because even then he learns and he grows and that's literally part of the point!!!

Like I don't know how to tell you, but something amazing about Tellius is how they show you racism being born out of very different experiences and still showing it's bad. Jill, who was raised with those ideas. Soren, who thinks like that because of his own pain. Shinon, who's kinda just an asshole. It's never framed as something good. With Jill and Soren we see them learning and growing and changing, no longer judging others for that.

It's called being able to tell a story with nuance, being able to show characters who are the good guys and still have flaws, really bad ones, and not getting excused for them, so they have to learn and grow and change.

And it's not easy but that's the point!!!

Minor IkeSoren Rant

Truly dislike the phenomenon of ukefying Soren because of his debilitating crush and dependency issues to the point he's basically unrecognizable as a character. He's a tough nasty little bitch with many negative traits and poor coping mechanisms who canonically likes to bully Ike relentlessly and he's genuinely funny when he's not having a horrible internal meltdown. Ike relies on him just as much as he does on Ike, and I wish more people leaned into that aspect of his character in fanfic; I've never been crazy about "saved by love" tropes and I truly think I wouldn't be into Ike/Soren at all if they weren't genuinely mutually supportive with great chemistry

Titania :3

a place near me was offering free hoagies to anyone named Soren yesterday

Here me out.

FEH Harmonic unit that is Mordicai and Yarne.

Yarne being a bit spooked by Mordicai's large stature, but Mordicai seeing Yarne as the Brave Tagual Warrior hes aspiring to be, and goes out of the way to help protect his new friend.

This gives us more beast units, let's my favorite unit (Mordicai) get more screen time, and could let an artist flex their back drawing skills having Mordicai protect Yarne in the damage splash.

Also the dialogue line between the two being

Yarne: umm, you're not going to hurt me... Right?

Mordecai: We can wrestle if you wish but Mordecai wants to keep friends safe.

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Ikesoren week 2023

Did a little corrections on the manga

I found this sketch I did of a summer outfit for Soren (Fire Emblem) and I really need to draw a proper neat fancy version of this now, I've already drawn Bunny Soren, Spooky Soren and Snowy Soren, add this Beach Soren and I'd have all four seasons! XD

soren-flavored shitposts to celebrate him finally getting his cyl win