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witchcraft-in-wonderland · 4 years

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Peculiars (Pt.1)

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Patton Boleyn was a special child, not necessarily special in the way most would describe. He was smart, yes, but he was average smart. He was skilled in things like singing art and cooking, but not profesionally.

Looking at Patton most would assume he was completely ordinary, and he was for the most part.

But Patton could do things most humans couldnt. Most people would watch him sitting in fields and wading through lakes and rivers and say it was just him being a normal energetic child.

Patton's parents knew better, they saw the way the flowers moved to face their son, and the way the lake seemed to become empty in the spots Patton swam in.

Patton's father said they would have to keep him inside for his safety, his parent said that Patton's gift was one to be nurtured, not locked away from the rest of the world.

Patton hated the days they would argue. The way his father's eyes would narrow as he yelled at his spouse over a petty incident of a flower growing quicker than it should in the school yard. The way his parent's hand clutched the nearby table as they struggled not to raise their voice at their husband.

The day Patton asked to go to the pool was the last straw. His father had panicked, words were exchanged that Patton wouldnt forget for years. So Patton and his parent had packed up their things and left. Patton found out later that they hadnt been happy in the marriage with his father either way, so Patton was glad both of them had escaped.

That was how the first nine years of Patton's life had gone, and the next five had been full of Patton hiding his gift from everyone except his parent.

They had the most vibrant garden in the neighborhood, and a little pond with a small waterfall in the backyard. Patton would watch the koi swim through the pond, manipulating the water to small bubbles occasionally so he could lift the fish out of the pond without hurting them. He had to stop doing that when the neighbor tried to catch it on camera and call the police.

Patton didn't mind having to hide, but sometimes it hurt, he felt wrong, he wanted to run around in lakes and fields like he used to, wanted to watch the water ripple under his hands, and flowers bloom where he walked. But it wasnt safe anymore, people were scared, they wouldnt trust someone like him.

Today felt different, he'd woken up same as usual, to his parent's voice calling him down for breakfast, their soft brown hair pulled back into a ponytail. It was almost identical to his own, only a little darker, and a lot less healthy from all their years of dying it as a teenager, they'd told Patton that if he ever wanted to dye his hair he would have to wait a while between sessions so it wouldnt fall out.

Then he'd gone to school and had a perfectly ordinary day, he'd done well in his classes, he talked to other students, and he hadnt caused a single flower to bloom or ripple in a puddle of water.

He was beginning to think that the feeling he'd had this morning was just nerves, until he walked home to find his parent on the front porch with a woman who had white hair with streaks of pink and blue. The woman was smiling and talking to his parent, who's face was one of shocked Awe and silence.

"Patton! There you are!" His parent threw their arms around him.

"What's going on? Who's this?" Patton put his hands in his pockets, an expression of concern on his face.

"Mrs. Hera Raven, she runs a school for kids like you," Patton's jaw clenched.

"You're not sending me away are you? I haven't done anything wrong!" Patton stepped back, he'd almost tripped into the street before his parent caught his arm, their deep blue eyes were full of a mix of sorrow and understanding.

"No one is saying you've done anything wrong dear, but people with your talents arent safe out here, Mx. Boleyn has agreed to let me take the two of you somewhere safer," Mrs. Raven was smiling, Patton noticed her lipstick was an odd blood-red color. Patton looked between the two adults, the confusion in his face only becoming more pronounced.

Mrs. Raven's face shifted suddenly to one of fear, "we need to leave, quickly, follow me," she gestured to a car.

A few minutes of driving later they had come upon a collection of oddly shaped rocks, and disappeared through the center of them.

"Now hurry up hurry up, we'll be safe once we're at the school," Mrs. Raven said, ushering them through the woods. Eventually they came upon a large building, it was made of bricks and stone, and the brick was painted black.

"Can someone please tell me what's going on?" Patton said, fidgeting with his clothes.

Mrs. Raven looked around for a few seconds, Patton noticed that, rather than both her eyes being the bright green he thought they were, one was a striking yellow color.

"Patton, you are what we call a peculiar child, it's a recessive gene in families that manifests in, as you might call them, supernatural abilities in children," she said.

"You mean theres more kids that can do what I can?" Patton said.

"Well, not exactly what you can do, they all have their own abilities, you can meet more of them here," Mrs. Raven said.

"Oh, and the main rule, now that you're here, you cant leave, if you leave the loop you will be in danger once it resets," Patton opened his mouth to ask another question.

"Loops are rewind in time created by ymbrenes like myself, they are used to protect peculiar children such as yourself, some of the children within this loop have been here for nearly one hundred years, if they were to leave, they would age until-" Patton's parent covered his ears.

"So what about Bon?" Patton asked, looking up at them.

"The same rule applies to humans, typically parents who accompany their children to the school become members of staff, it's actually quite good for the children to have multiple parental figures," Mrs. Raven said with a grin.

"Patton, I'm gonna let you go make friends while I go with Mrs. Raven ok?" Bon smiled, running their hand through Patton's hair.

"Ok Bon," Patton said. He watched the two adults leave before finally walking into the main portion of the courtyard. There were dozens of children chasing each other and playing around, and adults talking to each other on the sidelines while watching their children.

"Watch out!" Patton barely had time to react before a basketball came hurling it's way across the garden, a tree branch curled it's way around the object just before it made contact with his face.

"Wooooaaaahhh! Awesome!" Patton moved the tree back into the ground, picking the basketball up and turning on the direction of the voice. A boy that looked a year or two older than him, with red eyes and the wisp of a mustache, was smiling brightly at him.

"So you can make trees huh? That's cool," he said as he took the basketball out of Patton's hands.

"I can control water to," Patton whispered, shuffling his feet in the grass.

"Remus! Who's that!" Another boy ran over to them, this one had bright green eyes and a mass of red hair.

"New kid, he makes trees," Remus said with a grin.

"Well come on, it's your turn," said the boy.

"Can we call it a tie for today, I wanna show him around," said Remus. The other boy nodded and ran off to a group of five other boys.

"Well, I'm Remus Duke-Prince, and I can reanimate the dead," Remus said. Patton blinked a few times while trying to process this, earning a laugh from the boy.

"Patton Boleyn, I can manipulate earth and water, which I guess are kind of similar since they both make up the actual planet anyways," Patton mumbled, tapping his fingers together.

"Boleyn? Like as in beheaded Anne Boleyn?" Remus said. Patton nodded and flinched slightly as Remus let out a loud howl of laughter.

"Come on- let me introduce you to my favorite people here," Remus said, grabbing Patton's arm and running over to the group of six.

"Everyone, this is Patton, Patton, this is Roman, Logan, Virgil, Janus, Emile, and Remy," Remus said, pointing at each of the boys in turn.

"Roman Prince-Duke, yes, I'm related to the rat," Roman said, picking up a rock and holding it out in front of Patton. Patton was about to take it from his hand before Roman closed his fingers around it, when he opened them again a light blue gemstone had taken its place.

"He makes rocks boring," Remus said, laughing. Roman let out an annoyed huff before fixing the gem into a silver necklace and clasping it around Patton's neck.

"Logan Mercedes," said the boy next to Roman, he had fluffy brown hair that seemed pushed to one side of his head.

"I can breath underwater and see in the dark," Logan said before turning to the boy next to him.

"This is my boyfriend, Virgil," Logan said, moving a lock of vibrant purple hair out of Virgil's face.

"Do you want to show him?" Logan whispered to Virgil, who was fidgeting with his hoodie strings. Virgil gave a slightly nod and Logan pulled a rope out from his belt, wrapping it around Virgil's waist. Virgil bent down to unlock what seemed like iron boots fastened to his legs. The moment he'd stepped out from the shoes, the boy was a few feet above the ground, Logan holding the rope with one hand and Virgil's hand with the other. Logan helped Virgil back into the boots, fastening them back up before he took off the rope and placed it back on his belt.

"Virgil doesnt talk much," Remus said simply before turning to a boy with a large scar on his face. His skin was a dark brown, which made with yellow eyes stand out all the more obviously.

"Janus Allen, I can talk to animals," he said simply, bowing slightly and placing a kiss on Patton's hand, Patton noticed Remus shift slightly and let out a soft giggle.

"Remy Hypnos, and this is my little brother Emile," said the boy next to Janus, his skin was a lighter brown than Janus', and he was wearing sunglasses despite it not being very sunny out.

"Hes like medusa, and I can move stuff with my brain," Emile said, fidgeting with the bow in his hair.

"Well now that you've met all of us, welcome to the loner squad Patton," said Remus, clapping a hand on Patton's back with a grin. Patton thought he might enjoy it here much more than he'd first expected to.

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randomnameless · 5 years

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Finished AM !

So...

Crazed!Edel doesn’t have line with the dragons, just like Myson (whose Hell doesn’t summon naked women).

Too bad, Myson’s calling us beasts, but is he calling the humans following Seiros’ beasts or just, humans in general, or in “us”, the guys following Billy who isn’t really human??

I don’t even know if Edel was conscious after reverting, she smiled when she tried to throw the dagger at Dimitri so... Was she still seeing him as an enemy, why smiling? idk.

The scene where she dies was anticlimatic as fuck so...

Dimitri tries to return to the throne where her remains lay, but Billy urges him to press forward and meet cheering randoms, it felt nice, thematically speaking - Dimitri shouldn’t be tied by the past anymore, he has to be a king for the people living right now.

When Myson died, everyone escaped, it was funny. The Agarthans are totally not dead, they’ll just wait another millenia to stir up trouble, I guess.

Edel was totally a pawn to them. Too bad for her who loves being in control. Funny how she attacks with the power of Flames and the power of Seiros, it wasn’t on purpose, i’m sure, but she never managed to touch Seteth and Flayn with her “Seiros” attack^^ They know the real deal, Seiros doesn’t attack with magic, she uses her fists

Rhea’s supposedly fine, even if I suppose she must be bothered by Catherine and Caspar constant fighting (is it really fighting though) in Zanado.

Gilbert looks after Dimitri’s kid, Flayn opens a restaurant with Dedue, Billy the new archbishop is married to Mercedes who is a nun...

Raphael and Bernie ended up together it was... refreshing.

Sylvain and Ingrid’s kids don’t have any emblem which is a pretty roundabout way of avoiding Jugdral genetics about determining which crest the kids are supposed to inherit (and also provides a non-answer to the question “can someone with two crests occur naturally if two crested people were to have a child”).

Felix and Dorothea fight side by side (lolwut) and she ultimately makes an opera.

Annette and Ashe ended up together, again, it wasn’t expected but it felt nice (two cinnamon rolls together?).

As for AM as a route...

Well, it’s not a secret that I am fond of the Nabatean/Reptile interactions, and the game doesn’t give us any, save for SS.

AM felt more like the classical FE, even if Dimitri’s boarness was a... welcomed change? Still felt forced though, especially the supposed atrocities he commited and the blood on his hands - it’s weighing a lot on his psyche afterwards, but what are we talking about?

For sure, we don’t see Dimitri torturing someone to death (Billy’s here to prevent that) and we don’t see Dimitri pulling a Leif and sending half of his army to death (even if Leif wasn’t fueled with negative emotions/sent his army to have his revenge).

The choice between routing Edel or saving the people from Cornelia also felt forced, I pointed out FE9 earlier, but FE8 wise, the real turning point when Ephraim starts to accept his duties as the King is when he returns to Renais, not when he kills Vigarde in Grado.

So it made sense for Dimitri to go to Firdiad (i will never get this spelling correctly :’() when he starts to become King Dimitri - but Boar!Dimitri wanted Edel’s head the most. But even if Dimitri takes responsability for things that weren’t his fault to begin with (as a king i should have protected my subjects?) people in Firdiad being miserable is first and foremost due to Cornelia’s actions. So Corny, Thales and Edel are the number 1, 2 and 3 liable for Firdiad being a shit place, not Boar!Dimitri.

Maybe the “blood on his hands” he is lamenting isn’t about the Empire peons or the bandits he killed during his years in exile, but the Battle of Gronder? I’m still not over Leonie’s death being plot mandated because Claude had ponctual myopia - or, story wise, because there’s fog. If Boar!Dimitri had been King!Dimitri, they would have allied, worked together and killed Edel there but...

No, the biggest cucumber point in that route is Billy - i know CF plays a lot on avatar!wanking, SS does too but it could be explained by Billy being super important to the Nabateans because Billy is Sothis, but here?

Dimitri has a ton of reliable friends, vassals who could have talked to him, who, i’m sure, would have been able to pull him out like Billy did, but they weren’t allowed because, uh, Avatar worship.

I will forever not be okay with Gilbert’s A support being unlocked after Rodrigue’s death. If Gilbert pulled this card while Dimitri was still a Boar, idk, but maybe Rodrigue wouldn’t have to die?

Ingrid knows how it is to lose a loved one, Felix knows how it is to inherit all of said loved one’s duties and expectations (and it pisses him, he isn’t Glenn), hell, Ashe lost his Father and strives to be a good and just knight, for Lonato, but also for himself. Mercedes is overwhelmed with guilt about what happened to Emile, she couldn’t save him.

But nope, only “Sensei” is allowed to have lines and interactions with boar!Dimitri. Eww.

The only ray of sunshine in this Billy centric arc is Dedue. Dimitri snaps out of the Boar!mode when Dedue returns.

Tl; dr : Fig Billy.

#FE16 #Blue lions #Azure moon #fire emblem three houses #fire emblem three houses spoilers #only Edel died in this route so out of the 4 that's the best outcome possible?#i don't count CF here because Claude most likely dies given how the route is all about being ruthless and leaving emotions behind #plus Claude survives only if you kill him with special characters so #but no rhea at the end made me sad :'(#she isn't the focus on this route #even if Dimitri shows interest in the agarthian machinery #like what the fuck are those things #rip Myson you were annoying #i don't know if they're going to change it in lunatic but #edel always attacks first #so myson isn't that dangerous Edel can snipe kill someone who was Hell'd #but damn if all of those magic users were a pain to deal with #hopefully ingrid is here #and Felix used his shoulder plate wisely #but damn #even if Mercedes is a res sponge she was doubled #and of course ninjas don't always have tomes they also have swords :)#they could have given melee weapons to gremories tbf #wait no it would have been a nightmare

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