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sooooo the peerless @lululeighsworld and I got together to make a possessed!Gunter FE: Heroes unit ~ !

Leigh did all of the amazing writing (seriously, I was on the floor mallet'd by FEELINGS upon reading the forging bonds for the first time), and yours truly stitched together the art & UI. Leigh's inspired me with their unshakeable devotion to the character not to mention talented writing and so it felt like a delightful inevitability, and an honor nonetheless, to collaborate here :D

Ao3 mirror (writing & art): https://archiveofourown.org/works/53279173

log mirror (for art): https://log.kradeelav.com/archives/1935

#rebagling here for maximum luck ;a;;;;; #own art

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not gonna lie, keaton's wolfssegner GIANT GLOWING RED EYES eyes jumpscared me the first (few) times.

#the best part is it happened during black flames too. imagine: it's dark and stormy (literally). i promote the guy. #BAM. GLOWING DEMON EYES and me swearing up a streak. :D god fates creepy worldbuilding is genuinely cool. #i am still not over that mushroom forest in CQ either. #fates is like fe did a really cool gothic horror bent in a lot of respects. #krad loveblogs revelation: true golden route

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me making a silly mistake in 'black flames' getting kana killed right in front of gunter and realizing the horrific angst implications of that:

o w

#(i reset of course. but good god that'd be a doozy. i don't even know if i could read that not gonna lie.) #dread fighter gunter-raised kana is such a weird unbalanced little gremlin but i do love the bugger so. #(half me playing around with new classes and half headcanoning kana loves hoshidan culture b/c slight rebellion from parents lol) #krad liveblogs revelation: true golden route

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from the first time I read m!Corrin+Gunter's support (after playing rev):

I had always assumed that it was more or less equal to the other support chain from C-A, but there's some worldbuilding gems in here.

(also feelings ;_; )

Corrin: What about your random wanderings around the fortress? Gunter: I could tell when I would visit you that you were not sleeping all that well. Whenever I could, I would make my way to your quarters after hours. I'd read stories to you until you fell asleep, then watch over you as you slept. It looked like I was wandering around because no one at the fort could risk the king's anger. They would have reported my visits had they seen me come directly to you.

that last line really says something about how closely observed Corrin was.

given how things relaxed eventually in the NF, I strongly suspect Gunter (and Jakob/Flora/Felicia/Lilith) rooted out the spies over time, but it would make sense in the first year or two he specifically would have to exercise caution before figuring out who was Garon's people.

Feels like it also says a lot Gunter knew the trap in advance; of everyone in the NF (not including the royals), he's the one with first-hand experience just how lethal a critical gap in that ever-present paranoia could be.

(There's a part of me that goes 'damn, even more respect to him for quietly defying Garon.' which yes, but: what worse could Garon do to him? What's he gonna do, kill his whole family again? I have a sneaky feeling that that style of quiet defiance went a long way to stoking his ice-cold anchor of revenge. In a morbid way, it wasn't all lovey dovey feelsy shit about Corrin, it was that defiance that gave him a reason to stay alive day by day.)

He's also real clever about leaning on the excuse of 'senile old man developing weird habits' - not the first time Gunter's ironically weaponized his age to fool everyone else, or the last. I think this kind of mention make Revelation's eventual reveal even stronger when he's remarkably consistent about hoodwinking everyone on so many levels (including Corrin!).

#gunter really was straight up playing 4D chess this whole time. 'u r a little baby watch this' style. #cleaning out drafts of old meta and realized this was in here #i'm also starting to pay attention to “when” he chooses to reveal what. it's the absences that's meaningful. #meta

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#SCREAMSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS #easily my favorite feh comic now omfg. jagen and gunter at the bottom so SMUG IM HOWLING #(.....................damn gunter's well drawn here) #[tries very hard to not think about that gunter/jagen sandwich fic i wrote--] #woozy_emoji #other art

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it warms my heart to know that with your 'gunter aging slower' headcanon that it means he'll get to watch Kana grow up into a sweet lil prince ;wwwwwww;

:')

as you probably know, your ruin, my ruin - in the end - was all about giving Gunter the happiness I thought that the vanilla Rev route denied him, so it's a little bit of an extra nudge towards earned closure. Not ignoring all laws of nature or bittersweetness, of course; but something earned and beautiful in how he could enjoy the last third of his life with a real legacy and happy family.

#you know kana grows up so so loved between those two. Valla's also had a sad time but i do see it having a golden era flourishing there.

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If I speak I‘m in trouble

#barkbarkbabrkbarkbbkebkebjsjhshjshjsjh. AN HONEST TO GOD SHAVING + HYPNO SCENE??? #how the actual frick did the old man fucker on this show get away with actual fetish material. braver than any marine etc. #(also me and leigh internally yelling at the yrmr parallels LOL) #old man thirst: marvel edition

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assorted grab bag of gunter/corrin headcanons (vaguely yrmr/rev based) that i've been rotating in my mind for.... a while.

occasionally even after the events of revelation, corrin gets overstimulated over the day or has bad dreams that wake her; he still rocks her tenderly just as he did as a child, or holds her until she stops shivering. he sometimes has endearingly paternal gestures like kissing her on her forehead as well as the above; they never think anything strange about it, as it just is.

likewise to her quiet dismay after sleeping with him a few times, corrin realizes he still suffers from occasional night terrors, occasionally mumbling or thrashing enough to throw out limbs. accidentally whacks her a few times before she figures out the warning signs when he fidgets around and knows how to soothe him (gunter spooning her does wonders). gradually, these get less severe.

interestingly, he initiates (sexually) more in the night, being slightly more inhibited and usually looking for a pleasant distraction from insomnia that never goes away; she initiates more in the daytime.

while they're the opposite of demonstrative in public (being conscious of everyone's thoughts towards their relationship) - there's an undeniable frission between them at times (a subtle knowing look as an order, or a throwaway sir); they'd never pass for vanilla especially to the likes of niles.

in public, she leads. in private, he does. there's never a specific conversation where they explicitly talk about their type of dynamic, although they do get steadily more adventurous as time goes on. theirs is the happy long marriage where the sex only gets better.

gunter tries to spar with corrin once like old times, after the events of Revelation. they both realize that's a terrible mistake when she essentially has a panic flashback of them fighting (when he was possessed), and almost goes to pieces in his arms. he misses their sparring afterwards, a little, but never presses about that again to his dying day.

one of their mutual favorite quiet things to do is corrin massaging his more arthritic joints, particularly knees and ankles which sometimes get slightly swollen if he's on them for too long, and become more of an issue as he ages. gunter's embarrassed/guilty of the assistance, let alone wanting the touch, but they work it into part of their service (and teaching) based love language - eventually he's often raspily reading various reports to her (with his commentary, to corrin's delight) as she's leaning between his thighs.

yrmr-wise, he ages slightly slower than he would normally, given corrin's actions in the story (i'd say he gets ~40 more years of stable good health, versus ~15-20 at best naturally), though with the stroke he's never quite back to peak health like before, which chafes at him. they don't have true fights, but if there's points of brief contention it's usually his pride and getting stubborn about doing something he used to be able to do. (corrin learns the fastest way to sweet talk him is after they've been in bed for a bit, naturally)

#i have sooo many more of these it ain't even funny l o l

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the lord works fast but sicko fanartists are pretty close too

( @lululeighsworld's gagged gunter comment activated an immediate sleeper cell inside of my brain. what can I say. )

#if i had a dollar for every beat up hot fucker i've drawn forced down on the floor.... well. they *do* look good there. #aaaaaand the rest of the thoughts are. unrated. we shall say.

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truly evil meme back at @lululeighsworld in light of the new xmen97 episode :))))

#HOW DOES IT GET EVEN WORSE/CLOSER...... < things we'll probably be yelling btwn sobs the next three eps #(don't mind me i make terrible old man memes to cope with Stuff) #old man thirst: marvel edition

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gone fishin', ama !

#rebageling your perfect replies over here and imagine me nomming into your answers like a crossaint with hot tea <3 <3 <3 #good god these are delectable........ might be interested in drawing them too eye emojis

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Sometimes I see a respected mutual in my notes and remember they follow me and I'm like. Should I apologize for what I'm doing here. But they did choose to be in my house

#literally all of you previous-to-gunter-thirstposting-24/7 mutuals who for whatever reason only known to god decided to stick around :P

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your precious flower-girl imouto 🌿

#super cute and well done #other art

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you ever sketch a pose and go hell fucking yes i nailed you on the first go

#i want possessed!gunter to look viscerally *wrong*. like hot yea obvs. but *wrong* in the sense manga garon actually does. #there is a malignant entity that is part of him and it's fascinating to think through how that'd affect everything down to a gesture. #sweeping gestures w/the arrogance of anankos. a royal. (combined with gunter's hatred of being so penned in for so long) #(mental gunter wants to stone cold murder me every time i think this but a lot of the initial sketches look eerily like garon every time.) #apparently a specific hellsing-ish slant to the eyes and triangles everywhere are working real good #own art

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having the absolute time of my life figurin' out possessed gunter's shapes this afternoon >:)

#krad do not try to dirty talk the angy hot daddy. do not. you'd end up incinerated to a crisp. lol. #(hashtag worth it) #own art #(sorry the scar's on the wrong side i'm flippin the canvas like crazy. doing a whole page of these.)

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#leigh 🤝 me 🤝 seithr #i see both of u #shitpost

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day one of trying not to think about fucking that old man

#................................................................................ #IT'S ONE OF THOSE DAYS OKAY