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I posted 813 times in 2021

83 posts created (10%)

730 posts reblogged (90%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 8.8 posts.

I added 744 tags in 2021

#edelgard von hresvelg - 162 posts

#hubert von vestra - 118 posts

#edeleth - 83 posts

#black eagles - 80 posts

#ferdibert - 77 posts

#fe3h - 60 posts

#ferdinand von aegir - 52 posts

#bernadetta von varley - 47 posts

#dorothea arnault - 33 posts

#linhardt von hevrig - 32 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#and tear down the progress made on the value of human relationships and how our connections to each other changes our perspectives for good

My Top Posts in 2021

Byleth would write “a pleasure to have in class” on Hubert’s report card as a power move

285 notes • Posted 2021-08-10 16:54:11 GMT

So according to the library in the game, House Vestra is responsible for “the darker tasks of the Empire” and “coordinating things such as events and rituals”, which i have taken to mean one thing . . .

. . . Hubert is a wedding planner

381 notes • Posted 2021-05-04 05:36:34 GMT

black eagles d&d

- Hubert is the DM and he always tries to make the story ~edgy~

- “Before you lay two paths. The first is decrepit, lined with the bones of charred trees. Dark clouds block your path, and you swear you taste the dying cinders of a life once brimming with vitality in the air.” “Let me guess: the second is lined with blood?” “If you would allow me to finish . . .” “. . .” “. . . the second is a scarlet path--” “WE’RE NOT TAKING THE BLOOD PATH AGAIN”

- “Well I will take the blood path that Hubert was kind enough to prepare for us!” “EDELGARD NO”

- Caspar’s character is usually an orc barbarian. He tries to fight everything, even when it’d be counterproductive.

- “The bartender asks you to pay your dues.” “Oh I’ll make him pay!” Hubert always allows it, but he makes a snide remark every time.

- Petra (canonically) hates math so she gets incredibly frustrated when trying to understand how much damage she’s dealt/been dealt. Bernie walks her through it.

- Petra is one of the few who varies her characters every time. She likes to pick different classes, though rogue and ranger are her favourites.

- Bernie’s character has 50 pages of backstory. She picks homebrew race every time and has an additional 50 pages of notes on it. Last game she played as a half-siren, full-vampire druid. Hubert gives her the most content because she’s the best at the story part.

- Edelgard’s character is a very obvious self-insert but she refuses to admit it

- “So . . . ‘Adrestiana’ is a human barbarian fighting to free her land from the rule of a corrupt religious order.” “I fail to see your point.” “She has an enchanted axe.”

- Dorothea always plays as a elven bard and she never wants to fight anything she doesn’t have to. Is constantly groaning whenever Caspar initiates another fight. Tries to flirt with everything except Ferdinand’s oc.

- Ferdinand, while not as blatant in his self-insertion as Edelgard, always plays a nobleman looking to either restore his house’s honour or enter the fight against some blight upon the land. His oc always has a horse that’s arguably more developed than the actual player character. Always a paladin, and always tries to hook up his oc with someone else’s. So far he’s dated Petra’s, Bernie’s, and surprisingly, Linhardt’s.

- “Fair Leonore, lend me your hand in battle, and I shall fund all your academic endeavours!” “Alright Ferdinand, you got me. Here’s my hand in marriage.”

- Linhardt acts like he’s not paying attention or didn’t put any effort in, but he always seems to know what’s going on even when he fell asleep.

- “It’s because you spent 30 minutes deciding on whether to go to the tavern or not. I’m simply skipping through the drudgery of your decision-making.”

- Byleth comes up with the most batshit, off-colour solutions for every situation. It suddenly occurs to everyone that they’re the one who answers all those advice box questions.

- “I thought it was Seteth this WHOLE TIME!” “I was knowing it was someone else when I am receiving a note back saying ‘Petra!? You’re doing amazing, sweetie!’” Byleth, gripping her by the shoulders: “because you ARE”

- “So when you told me ‘traditions are meant to be broken’ . . . did you realize what you were encouraging me to do??” “El, an ominous drumbeat started playing when you shared your tragic backstory with me. It wasn’t exactly subtle.”

- This tangent completely derails the session that night.

410 notes • Posted 2021-06-13 16:30:09 GMT

a very unfocused analysis on why edelgard stans are mostly lgbt

I am constantly thinking about how Edelgard just doesn’t seem designed to appeal to cishet men. Like the joke is that Bleagles is the Gay House, but everything about her feels deliberately non-hetero. She’s dressed in sharp outfits covering her upper body, with proportions that don’t seem exaggerated. Her poise and the way she effortlessly flourishes her axe exhibits an air of coolness. While titties out =/= character of no substance, Edelgard being dressed more modestly suggests that she wasn’t designed with male-centred fanservice in mind. And she still looks absolutely stunning in her more modest attire (like seriously, I haven’t felt the need to return to cosplay in years but I want to do her academy look so bad).

Edelgard is intense. She does not mince her words and she is constantly evaluating you. Though she tries, she has a difficult time understanding her peers initially. Early on, she talks about how she would sacrifice herself and others in the name of some greater good. She is terrible at communicating with her peers. She has to be seen as infallible. Her heart has been hardened for years and she assumes she has to stay that way. She also assumes everyone mourns the same way she does - which is why she (kind of insensitively) insists you move on when Jeralt dies. Because to her, grief has to be channeled towards action, or else you’ll get lost in it. This attitude is demonstrated time and time again as she presses on. It can make her come off as cold and unfeeling - but look closer, and she’s anything but. Her story is ultimately about her realizing that to achieve her goals, she needs to let people in and allow herself to want things like cakes and tea parties and lazy days in peace. The game leaves the player guessing as to how involved the Flame Emperor was in each Part I event, makes you feel hurt by her betrayal, and leaves you with a choice: do you follow the orders of the woman who tried to make you a god without your consent, or a young girl with questionable morals about to throw the world into upheaval?

Choosing her of your own volition (not for completionist reasons) requires the basic ability to sympathize with a woman’s pain. It also requires the player to read beyond her unwavering will and dubious methods to get a sense of how deep that pain goes and how the theme of humanity relates to her differently in each route. The player must be able to see a young woman’s desperate resolve to change the world so it stops exploiting people and ruining lives. They must be able to accept the fact that women can make the same morally wrong and ambivalent decisions that complicated male characters get to make all the time and still be the one to root for. This is not unique to LGBT+ people, but this population is likely to understand why Edelgard feels so strongly about why she has to change the system.

I don’t think “Edelgard gets undue criticism because she’s a woman” captures the full picture. An important aspect of her treatment by certain parts of the fandom is that she’s a radical woman. Her hatred of the Church and the Crest system resonates way harder with people who have been hurt by institutions that are deeply engrained in our society. Siding with her means siding against the Church - which, while different from real world religious institutions, still invokes language about “sin” and “punishment. Choosing Edelgard will likely hit different if homophobic and transphobic Christians used that rhetoric against you. I’m willing to go out on a limb and say that the reason F/F Edeleth is the more popular iteration of that ship because most people who would choose to S-support Edelgard are LGBT+ themselves. This is not a revelation. To anyone in the community, it’s fairly obvious.

Crimson Flower was my first route. I went into the game knowing absolutely nothing. I played it during the last week of 2020 and hoo boy was it cathartic. I felt like I was living out a gay revolution power fantasy, where I could truly change systems of oppression while fighting alongside a group of troubled students I’d shaped the lives of. Through your unwavering support, Edelgard learns that she needs to be human, that she must listen to her friends, and that she’s allowed to enjoy the world she’s creating. I love this character so much. It has been six months since I first played and I am still analyzing her, because there’s so much depth. Yet so many people fail to see that depth and dismiss her as evil, because they never had the will to understand complicated women in the first place.

477 notes • Posted 2021-06-22 18:12:16 GMT

hubert is objectively the funniest character

evidence:

- just listen to any line of dialogue he has

- “von Vestra” is the absolute rawest surname I can think of. It sounds perfectly ominous and suitable for a character who looks Like That. but like . . . his first name is HUBERT

- Me: “Oh, maybe it’s pronounced the French way!” Edelgard: *very much not the French way* Hubert

- His entire deal is his obsessive and steadfast devotion to Edelgard. Edelgard is a character who can throw axes around like they’re nothing. Hubert, meanwhile, is made out of tissue paper and will die from a single hit.

- Threatens Byleth, a trained mercenary, in their C-support. Has to attend class the next day.

- seriously listen to any Edelbert support

- Felix has hilariously edgy lines too but Hubert does it in a more theatrical way? Like to me Felix is Shadow the Edgehog and Hubert is Scar Lion King. or like, Felix is Simple Plan and Hubert is MCR (no shade to Felix btw, I laughed at all his lines too)

- I forget who the op of the post was but someone said “Hubert is the Evil Advisor trope except the person he’s advising is 100% in on it”

- He killed his father. this is mentioned once and is never brought up again. nobody reacts to this

- I’m obsessed with El’s Hubert impersonation but on my second CF run I got to remember that Hubert impersonates his father and I am. OBSESSED with these dorks.

- He acts like he’s too good for school events and then goes “Lady Edelgard I hope you save one dance for me 🥺”

- DO YOU NOT LIKE THE SCARLET PATH I HAVE PREPARED FOR YOU

- “Hey Hubert is this your NOXIOUS HANDKERCHIEF?” “Yes, that is mine. Thank you.”

- He’s genuinely one of the more complex characters (if you look beyond the surface) and I am so so passionate about his character development but I mostly like him because every line he has sends me

- Hubert only blushes for two characters in the game: Byleth . . . and Ferdinand.

- he likes board games

- when you feed him something he likes he’s like “i don’t particularly care for food, but i will admit weakness for this one dish” which i take to mean that hubert is so edgy he thinks he’s too cool for EATING

- or alternatively, he is an actual vampire

- the evil laugh

- my best friend conceptualized the Byleth/Hubert relationship as a dad trying hard to impress his angsty teenage son. she calls him Hugh and I demand that this catch on please can we make Hugh happen

- by giving him traditionally “scary” facial features he actually gets one of the most interesting and unique character designs. this means that a lot of fanfic writes him as “sexy, but in a rat way”

- WOULDN’T IT BE TERRIBLE IF THE ARCHBISHOP GOT MURDERED

- he’s afraid of heights

- that one existential horror advice box question where he’s like “I used to fear the goddess. Now I fear the living” or something

- he is a massive edgelord to everyone else but he deliberately stops laughing around Bernie bc it scares her

- when Jeralt dies in Black Eagles Part I, Hubert gives you dry facts about the enemy’s position as his own odd way to comfort you. however, in any other route, he says “I’ve never been one for condolences” and leaves it at that

- he is 2 years older than his classmates. that fact alone makes everything he does 100x funnier

- the Hubert Stanning Experience is just laughing at this emo man until he’s wormed his way into your heart and soul and now he’s stuck there as your weird murder son

1235 notes • Posted 2021-07-31 17:46:52 GMT

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#long post #because my top posts are either long lists or meta essays lmaoooo #thanks to y'all cf stans for enjoying my incessant rambling!#the hubert post DESERVES to have astronomically more notes than anything else #edelegs rambles

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