Ike x Soren

This was a huge project to take on, but I finally wanted to dedicate a big piece to one of my favourite characters of all time - Ike means a lot to me and I love him dearly!

Also doing fake movie posters is fun >:)

You can get prints of this on my Etsy!

version without text under the cut

I started replaying fire emblem: path of radiance earlier this week after recently really only playing modern (awakening onward) FE for the past 5 years and it's really hitting home for me how much of modern fe's script is taken up by useless minutiae. camp conversations in por are the thing really hitting it for me. In more recent fe games, there's a lot of little bits of dialogue in the between-level hub but it rarely ever adds to our understanding of a character or interact with the story. It's just there because the characters are in the hub and therefore they need a sentence or two to say to the protag.

meanwhile path of radiance has these wonderful little conversations in the camp. they're not all like, peak fiction or anything but they almost always deliver on short nuggets of story that let you know how specific characters are reacting to what's going on in the story, or otherwise just something about them. I can count on my hands the amount of moments in three houses and engage where characters outside of the "main cast" of those games actually react to story events but they're doing it left and right in path of radiance.

this, along with the fact that most characters only have 3-5 supports means that the characters all feel sharper, more present, and like they're a part of the story. I'm not gonna pretend that every character in por is a masterful study or anything but even the weak characters in por feel less annoying than some of the strongest characters in three houses or engage because they're just inserted into the world more elegantly.

so much of the dialogue in the newer games just feels superfluous by comparison. xander doesn't have checks notes 12 romantic supports because the devs/writers felt that he as a character needed that much fleshing out. he has them because they needed him to have that many girls to kiss for the eugenics mechanics to work! part of the reason why characters in the newer games feel significantly more one note in comparison is that they're stretched thin. there's so much pointless shit they have to say, decided by quota before the writers even got their hands on the characters and it all builds up into a weaker end product

anyway this has been one elitist whinging about the new games that I like less

Tale # 1,475,294 in the "FE fan married to a non-FE fan" diaries:

Me: *shows him Titania's FE9 official art*

Him: She looks like Sephiroth.

Me: !??!!!??!!!???!!

Sometimes Baby Soren wants to be read a book that's a bit out of Ike's league... I can't imagine Adult Soren is thrilled.

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

>be me

>"what should i draw for my ikesoren zine piece?"

>thinks about the intimacy of bleeding out in front of your lover whom you'll outl - anyways... @ikesorenzine is opening leftovers on 4/20! missed the chance to get a zine featuring this iconic tellius duo? now's your chance to mark your calendars!

petrine warmup!

what is UP lgbt community ive opened preorders for ikesoren charms + stickers! the pre-order period will run from feb 1 to feb 22, and orders will be shipped out in early to mid-may 2024.

feel free to check it out here! https://cryocannon.etsy.com/listing/1009940760

tormod from fire emblem 9 the best average mage in the world

2021 version

Absolutely true. That's why I still think about this guy:

BTW this year's CYL is coming up so do your duty and vote Soren!

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at a certain point, when the heron prince (made of wet tissue paper) grabs you by the shirt and makes a threat display with his wings, you have to make a choice on how to deal with this without making him even madder . you may:

remain unmoved, which will make him even angrier, because you're pretty sure you remember him being Sensitive™ about being so frail, and he's already mad at you for selling him to duke tanas, and being unbothered by his threat display will probably make it worse,

humor the threat display, which is. a difficult thing to do given that he'll definitely take it as you being patronizing, because your face is Just Like That and again he's sensitive about being so frail

anyway you've chosen option 2, but "now, now, reyson, there's no need to be so ~emotional~" was probably the worst thing that could have fallen out of your big stupid beak, and you have a REPUTATION to uphold so you can't fumble and recant your words, so now reyson is the maddest you have ever seen him and you really hope he doesn't break his own hand on your face or bust a vein or something bc that would be impossible to explain to (a) tibarn good goddess, or (b) nealuchi, who will definitely give you the Im Not Mad Just Disappointed face and mope for days about the poor white prince

my favorite thing about path of radiance is in the very early game some bandit is like “where’s that red-haired wench ur always hanging around” and ike is like “ermmm titania isn’t here right now” like sorry our resident wench is absent please check back later

Soren got himself a new man >:3

Titania from Fire Emblem - Path Of Radiance

Own Greyscale Painting