#dedue tag

[untitledgoosegay]

trans femme/nb dedue

is a headcanon i hold close to my heart

he is at minimum strongly gender-nonconforming -- despite the protective shell (literal; it's made of steel plate and chain) he wears, his key interests are cooking, gardening, and sewing. this is not someone who aspires to be the big manly protector. moreover, he never talks about his relationship with his dad; if his bio page didn't mention that he was a blacksmith we would know nothing about the man. dedue only ever talks about his relationships with his mother and sister, and how that shaped his interests and the way he prefers to connect with people even now -- especially now that it serves as a way to preserve their memories. his mother taught him to cook.

in his ideal life, Dedue gets to stay home and make sure the people he loves can come home to good food and warm clothes and beautiful things ... but that life was severed at the root, right at the time where gender and sexuality start becoming increasingly unavoidable; there will always be the question of who Dedue would have been in that other, peaceful world, and it will never be answered

headcanon -- at fourteen Dedue was just starting to run into the mounting pressure to join his father as a blacksmith, and, correspondingly, running into his instinctive reluctance/resistance to do so. at the time Dedue didn't yet understand why, and couldn't verbalize what was wrong, and his dad is -- was -- even quieter by nature than Dedue, so it remained this unspoken but increasing tension. sooner or later it would have had to break, and they might have had a fight about it or it might have resolved more quietly; Dedue knows -- he thinks he's certain -- that his dad loved him, and that ultimately that would have mattered more than having A Son™ ...

... but he'll never get to know.

maybe in that other world he would have grown into a woman. maybe, with a version of masculinity he didn't find abhorrent, he could still have been a man. maybe he would have settled between, or two the side, or never been asked to define himself in that way at all.

but in the world-that-is, the world of the Tragedy, where he's the last surviving Molinaro and right hand to the crown prince of Faerghus, he's not exactly given time or space to think about his gender. in the aftermath, embedded in the heart of Faerghan power, still very much a grieving, terrified child, his preferred presentation is "whatever's safest," and he's trying his hardest not to have an identity at all. he's submerged in Faerghan masculinity -- in the standards of Faerghan masculinity applied to its nobles -- which is inextricable from Knighthood™ and which prizes violence, and that is absolutely not helping. it's hard to make any concrete statements about the version of masculinity Dedue was raised with, but I think it's safe to say it was very different. and Faerghan manhood is absolutely not something Dedue aspires to.

and that state of affairs holds until the timeskip, where he gets five years to finally reconnect with other Duscur people, other survivors, out of Dimitri's shadow and away from the constant crushing threat of Fódlan's nobility -- five years to reconstruct a sense of safety and a sense of self; to live as part of a community, in (relative) peace; to start thinking about who he wants to be, not just what.

& then ... ?

i think, if you asked him, and if he thought you were worth an honest answer, Dedue would say that he's not sure whether or not he's a man, but he did (does) want to be a wife.

in the world-that-is, rejecting manhood & claiming femininity is a private rejection of the world that assumes of him -- & thereby demands -- masculinity-as-violence, and stoicism, and sacrifice. it puts space between him and the outward-facing self he's constructed; it frees more space for the heart he keeps secret, separate and protected. the part of himself that is safe, and untouchable, and unassailably his own. it's a claim to the softness, warmth, and fragility that Faerghus denies not just him but everyone around him, that it refuses to acknowledge is necessary or absent. it asserts that he is not expendable; his duty is not to inflict and endure violence; he can be beautiful, and precious, and worthy and deserving of protection

i don't think he'd ever be 'out' to more than a handful of people -- his partner(s), his absolute closest friends. Maybe more amongst the people who saved him, but not many. Not so much out of fear or repression -- Dedue is just a private person by nature, which is unfortunate, given that he's found himself in an extremely public position. He prides himself on being a cipher to strangers (check his B-support with Sylvain); he prefers to keep very tight control over who knows anything personal about him, especially given how much of his life is in the public eye. He sure as hell does not want a whole continent's worth of people feeling entitled to an explanation of his gender which most of them won't get anyway. Knowing things about Dedue is a privilege and it is not one he grants lightly.

To whatever extent she's a woman -- i don't think she could define it herself; self-knowledge is not one of Dedue's strong suits -- it's reserved for the few people she feels truly safe with

#fe3h #fire emblem three houses #dedue molinaro #fe3h dedue #bird original #dedue tag #this post got a lot longer than i thought it was going to #this is my femme dedue manifesto #edit: i had this under a readmore at first but since people evidently read the first paragraph and thought i said #''he like cook therefore he woman'' #you get the whole thing up front. #“femme nb” is in the post title; i continue to use he/him pronouns throughout & most of the body is about why i think hed reject masculinit #given that he was violently & forcibly subjected to a standard of masculinity that treated him as an expendable vessel of violence #at a critical stage of development

[wild-moss-art]

this is how I feel when I play azure moon

#like that one girls boyfriend on reddit I can only s support dimitri on that route #dimileth #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #byleth eisner #annette fantine dominic #ingrid brandl galatea #dedue molinaro #sylvain jose gautier #felix hugo fraldarius #flayn #mercedes von martritz #marianne von edmund #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #azure moon #whyd I tag all that falls down #I prob forgot some. don’t crucify me im barely conscious

[alexiadraws]

I got really into fire emblem three houses while I was gone

#fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #fe3h #I gotta tag all these mfers #edelgard von hresvelg #hubert von vestra #ferdinand von aegir #caspar von bergliez #bernadetta von varley #petra macneary #dorothea arnault #linhardt von hevring #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #dedue molinaro #felix hugo fraldarius #sylvain jose gautier #annette fantine dominic #mercedes von martritz #ingrid brandl galatea #ashe ubert #claude von riegan #hilda valentine goneril #lorenz hellman gloucester #lysithea von ordelia #marianne von edmund #ignatz victor #raphael kirsten #leonie pinelli #yuri leclerc #hapi fe3h

[unxpctedlygreat]

Rotating some blorbos...

#few3h #blue lions #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #felix hugo fraldarius #dedue molinaro #sylvain jose gautier #ingrid brandl galatea #rodrigue achille fraldarius #ashe ubert #annette fantine dominic #mercedes von martritz #gifs #i need a tag for my few3h ramblings #hi hello have some rotating blue lions #dimitri #felix #dedue #sylvain #ingrid #rodrigue #ashe #annette #mercedes #they are not synch'd im sorry #cw motion sickness #i feel it's? probably right?? #motion sickness cw

[lsain]

a golden dream

#fe3h #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #edelgard von hresvelg #claude von riegan #felix hugo fraldarius #dedue molinaro #sylvain jose gautier #ingrid brandl galatea #byleth eisner #marianne von edmund #hilda valentine goneril #lorenz hellman gloucester #hubert von vestra #ferdinand von aegir #dorothea arnault #petra macneary #i drew over 40 characters in a fit of passion so i will not tag them all #this was originally to celebrate the third anniversary of fe3h #but i still hope for this possibility for them in a kinder world

[isan0rt]

The Dedue scarf (or more of a wrap really) I've been screaming all the way through knitting is done!!!

Final dimensions are about 8 ft long by 22 inches wide, and about 14.6 oz dry. I used 7.25 balls of Knit Picks Palette fingering yarn (50g, 100% Peruvian highland wool) in Marine Heather, one ball in Almond, and about half a ball of the same yarn in Garnet Heather. The smaller motifs are your standard 3 yarn Fair Isle knitting and the larger is 3 color ladderback jacquard at the suggestion of @themikecollective .

(Credits: shout-out to @eaglehorn for floating me their chart for the pattern as a starting point (I did my own chart for the smaller scale motifs but used their chart as the starting point and for the larger scale motif) and also shout-out to @themikecollective and @ehyde for suggestions on how to manage the floats on the larger motif. The medal (for display purposes) was purchased from @gizmoforge .)

I'm now going to snuggle in and be toasty warm for the rest of the winter.

#dedue molinaro #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #adventures in fibercraft #my cosplay #not really but filing it under that tag for organizational purposes

[akolnoix]

fe3h has wayy too much life sim stuff between the fire emblem gameplay for me to be willing to play it, so im watching playthroughs instead. by luck of the draw i've started with blue lions. i'm having fun so far

#fire emblem #fe3h #oh god i have to do so many character tags.............. #hilda goneril #dedue molinaro #mercedes von martritz #lorenz hellman gloucester #bernadetta von varley #marianne von edmund #shamir nevrand #cyril fe3h #byleth eisner #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #edelgard von hresvelg #felix hugo fraldarius #fucking finally

[meltypancake]

nyam

#dedue #dimitri #pancake (art tag) #waffle (study tag) #2 of da hardest dudes to draw...

[eurekq]

blue lions my beloved...

#fire emblem three houses #fire emblem #do i. really have to tag all these guys. okay im doing it #byleth eisner #felix hugo fraldarius #sylvain jose gautier #dedue molinaro #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #ingrid brandl galatea #mercedes von martritz #annette fantine dominic #ashe ubert #yes i did spend 3+ hours drawing backgrounds for these and no they will never see the light of day. #my art

[prince-jelli-fish]

woah back from the dead 

#fire emblem three houses #linhardt von hevring #caspar von bergliez #ashe ubert #dorothea arnault #lysithea von ordelia #claude von reigen #leonie pinelli #seteth #flayn #hilda valentine goneril #dedue molinaro #haha you thought i was done making these??? #think again bitches #then again i've had this done for weeks #but i forgor #i had to add all the tags and sttuff #anyway enjoy

[untitledgoosegay]

dimitri learned most of his duscur from dedue. dedue is from a working-class family from the duscur border. dedue's border-town working-class duscur accent is inflecting dimitri's Literal Royalty Accent faerghan, where most bilingual faerghans would be starting from a working/merchant-class west faerghan accent. never mind that learning a language from one (1) native speaker who is himself not fully fluent in your first language is going to result in a weird-ass idiolect by nature.

what i mean to say is that when diplomacy reopens, the king of faerghus can negotiate (& makes a point of negotiating) in duscur, but he sounds like a hick and fucking weird

#bird original #fe3h #i like to think about the specifics of language and accent #in a highly-stratified highly-regionalized society that seems to have relatively little travel outside the noble & merchant classes #its time for birds late-night fireemblem posting again #dimitri tag #dedue tag #fe3h tag #dedue starts off with an Utterly Bizarre accent in faerghan for the same reason #partial fluency in west faerghan/faerghan-duscur trade pidgin dunked directly into Royal Class Formal Faerghan #although he's under much more pressure to match the diction he's surrounded with :(

[wild-moss-art]

This barbie is going to kill every last one of them!

#fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #fe3h #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #ingrid brandl galatea #felix hugo fraldarius #sylvain jose gautier #dedue molinaro #mercedes von martritz #annette fantine dominic #ashe ubert #blue lions #myart #whew tagging that #anyway it only took 5 hours tbf I didn’t render it #not taking criticism on the background. it’s close enough

[aptericia]

artwork of Dedue for my upcoming commission sheet! I hope to get it out later tonight!!!

He was a lot of fun to draw, and it was nice to do something complicated/polished that was still within my comfort zone

EDIT: I KEEP FORGETTING TO ADD AN IMAGE DESCRIPTION RIP. IT’S UP THERE NOW

#my art #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #fe16 #dedue molinaro #an actual crime that I haven’t drawn this dude before #aptericia’s show off tag

[mikusabbathh]

looking through old screenshots and feeling unhinged. dedue I love you :’)

#fe3h #fe3h dedue #dedue molinaro #dimidue #not really but I’m tagging it anyway

[mixed-up-metaphors]

another prime example of "what the heck was going on with my 3h playthroughs"

#ashe having such a high res basically meant the man was immune to all magic. i think he had a mv of 10 in this run too #...he obviously was the mvp of this battle. and the three battles before this one #his speed also meant no one hit him basically ever which was really funny #which is why when dedue showed up 2 maps earlier ashe was able to just yeet up there and destroy almost everything to protect dedue #i have a screenshot somewhere of him just obliterating thales in this run it was hilarious i gave him too much power. #anyway that's the story of how i didn't take this fight probably half as seriously as i should have and also made ashe too strong lol #just. gonna tag the most prevalent characters here lol #ashe ubert #...does nemesis have a tag...? #byleth eisner #fe:3h #fe3h spoilers

[isan0rt]

Also tbh like speaking of Dedue and his community, like, there's no way the Duscur soldiers who save him if you do his paralogue in Azure Moon knew he was there alone at the time they saved him. They had no reason to think he was in the dungeon needing rescue. They happened to show up after he had already gotten Dimitri out, but what were they doing there in the first place, unless they were also there to break out Dimitri?

Like, Dimitri's own people left him to rot, his own friends didn't come help Dedue rescue him, the people of Faerghus didn't rise up to save him. People from Duscur did.

The soldiers at the end of Dedue's paralogue think he's naive, but they promise to pay their debts, and they do. Dedue is the reason Dimitri survives when he's been all but abandoned by Faerghus. The fact that Dedue is the one who saves him when everyone else has forsaken him, that his actions to save Dedue's countrymen ultimately save Dedue also, reinforces the themes of healing broken bonds and choosing to build community instead of perpetuating the cycle of revenge. It validates Lambert's whole thesis in even trying to make peace with Duscur that it's better to make a friend than an enemy, and that building bonds will always pay off more than conquest will.

The fact that Azure Moon can't let Dedue coming back be the primary catalyst for Dimitri's healing because of the permadeath mechanic (and, tbh, the need to center the player character) is probably the single weakest aspect of Azure Moon. Thematically, Duscur is crucial to Dimitri succeeding as a king, and of letting go of his need to perpetuate the cycle of bloodshed and vengeance. It shouldn't be possible for Dimitri to have a good ending if the player lets Dedue's countrymen die. That whole situation is just too integral to the setup for his character.

(Three Hopes, it must be said, really gets all this. It's interesting how that game specifically sets up another scenario of needing to rescue Dimitri from being jailed in Fhirdiad by Cornelia, but this time Dimitri's friends back Dedue up, so he comes out of it unscathed. Even so, Felix can't convince Dimitri to stand up and fight and choose to live. Only Dedue can do that.)

#Dedue Molinaro #fe3h #I'm sorry for flooding the Dedue tag the last day or so i just have a lot of thoughts about him all the time #also this is no hate on the other Lions to be clear i love them all #but like NOBODY GETS IT like Dedue does. Nobody else has been in the trenches with Dimitri the same way #their trauma bond is thematically relevant