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FE Aspec Week Day 1 - Coming Out

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[good-beanswrites]

Fe Aspec Week Day 1: Coming Out

WOO It's aspec week time!! 💜💚 To no one's surprise I'm starting off with Lukas :3 I know we have the wonderful support convo when he and Python sort of come out to each other, but I was always curious about the loose ends that it brings up -- how he comes out to/is treated by his family, the woman he's left behind, his fellow nobles, etc. This drabble doesn't really answer any of those questions sadfsadf but it's coming from that thought 😂

Father,

I am writing to you now, so soon after my previous letter, as there is something I have yet to confess. It may be difficult for you to hear, but

The sentence stops abruptly, a small dab of ink at the corner of the ‘t’ where the pen had rested a moment in contemplation.

A man sits back at his at a desk. His candle illuminates the page, displaying a few brief lines at the top. He dips his pen in ink time and time again, but the page remains mostly empty. 

At first, the man believes his problem to be a lack of words. No title exists for men like him. He’s well-educated and well-connected in the army; he has an extensive vocabulary for how the upper and lower class categorizes its people. Whether it’s a scholar’s dull terminology, vulgar common language insults, or the carefully chosen phrasing of a gossiper, none of the usual descriptors fit him. All he has are the distantly connected criticisms he’d heard his whole life: “heartless,” “cold,” “detached.” 

When the candle burns lower, however, he realizes the real issue. He has far too many words.

Where would he even start? Should he describe his contentment with his life here? How not one of his fellows ever brought up the lack of a woman at his arm, or how dinners with the King and Queen themselves were filled with pleasantries that never touched on his romantic endeavors? Whatever his father had been preparing for, it had never come.

Or should he begin earlier, when he was first accepted by this group of people? He wasn’t sure if he could properly convey all that he experienced on that fateful night, speaking softly with the unit’s archer – a man he’d come to call one of his truest friends. The man had heard for the first time in his life that there were others like him. He heard that they were content. They were whole.

He could go back further and describe the moment that the realization first hit him. How his father had been right in a sense. Just as he said, one day when the man was grown, he would be in the arms of another, and everything about himself would suddenly make sense. There was only one difference. He’d been forced to bury that clarity, since it wasn’t the same kind that everyone else came to.

Or should he start even further back? He could recount all little hints that haunted him across his youth. His dreams for the future never quite aligned with those of his peers. Nothing ever seemed to align. His choice of stories to read, of games to play, of jokes to make. He wouldn’t ever claim he was mistreated as a child, but everyone would agree that the signs had appeared even then.

The man sighs. Where is the beginning, when one has always been this way? 

The clock strikes on the hour. It is late, and he will need to be at his sharpest tomorrow for drills and meetings. He has no more time to fret over words about his past. 

The man tries a new method, and wonders what his friends may write about him. He can’t resist a dry smile. He knows that he can never, under any circumstance, allow them to exchange any correspondence with his family. 

But the exercise gives him an idea.

He writes out a single statement. Then he blows out the candle and heads to his bed. 

there is nothing broken about me.

Cordially,

Lukas

#fe aspec week #fe echoes #fe lukas #fire emblem echoes #fire emblem lukas #i always thought cordially meant like 'respectfully' so finding out it means 'with intense feeling/in a heartfelt way' had me ;----; #i like the idea of someone whos very eloquent and educated writing the simplest and oddest letter home and just Not Elaborating #i hope the pov worked -- i wasnt sure if it was weird doing the present-tense-no-name thing but it just started flowing? so i ran with it? #LMAO i couldnt get it to work but my original idea for this prompt was art featuring lukas right after the support convo and high off the #euphoria or self-discovery #he'd be absolutely wrecking it on the battlefield -- bloody and wild and giddy staring down the viewer with the caption 'love loses' 😂 #drabbles

[good-beansdraws]

Fe Aspec Week Day 2: Friendship

An indulgent piece for today!!!! :') It's no secret the trio's friendship has always had a really special place in my heart, and I've been grateful for the taste of acceptance and contentment it brought me during (and long after) I played the game. To see them find the most caring and complete friendship in each other was truly inspiring.

Here's to all of us finding the people that make us "never long for companionship throughout the rest of our days" <3

#fe aspec week #fe echoes #fe lukas #fe forsyth #fe python #*silver tree nursery monkey* and me ✨ #fe really said 'what if we make extremely aspec coded characters and give them struggles with connecting to others #and then give them The Most Satisfying and (arguably) most memorable friendship of the game #they really have the most wonderful dynamic -- im never going to be tired of seeing art/fic of them together <3333 #its chaos but its perfectly complimentary but theyre all opposites but theyre all exactly the same #this piece was HELL but it was WORTH IT LMAOOO #i almost chickened out of doing all the armor but im so glad i didnt.... im so so happy with how it came out ;---; #top ten things that heal my inner child (and by inner child i mean adult me using echoes to get myself through 2020 asdfsadf) #i made a comment about the missing yellow knight when i first played echoes while secretly adding that to my inserts design (since its my #favorite color :)) then a friend tagged one of my posts 'what if the secret yellow knight was us all along' and i was like YES! YES IT IS!! #so my little gift to myself today is that i get to post cringe 😤😤😤

[luce-speaks]

kliff and the friends

last minute submission for day two of @fe-aspec-week 2024!! this one is a little thrown together because i had an idea at the last minute but! here goes!!

—

Kliff has never been particularly fond of other people.

He used to think he just got unlucky, stuck in a tiny village where no one understood the concept of personal space. He dreamed of the day he’d escape them, get out, go anywhere but here, and meet people who were actually decent.

Then he started going to school in the next town over, and with each new person he met, that dream died in front of him. Each and every one of them—over-familiar like Gray, clumsy like Tobin, naive like Alm, or disgustingly romantic like Faye. He hated it. He came back to Ram Village with a disappointed letter from his teacher and a new will to tolerate these idiots so he could safely ignore the rest. He might not fit in, but at least they know him well enough to leave him alone while he’s reading.

—

The war comes on suddenly, like a storm rolling in overnight, and things change. Kliff learns what fire spells can do to a human being, and Gray stops joking about hitting Tobin with his sword, and Faye picks up a lance for the first time, insisting she’ll do whatever it takes to protect her friends. Tolerable acquaintances become battle-allies, people you can trust to have your back. People who could die beside you, any day. There’s no room out here for petty bickering, but sometimes it also feels like there’s no room to get attached. When the war is over, Kliff thinks, they’ll go their separate ways. He probably won’t even miss them.

—

Tobin flags him down at camp one day. “Hey, Kliff!”

He rolls his eyes. “Tobin. I thought you knew not to interrupt me while I’m studying.”

“Yeah, yeah, I know. But I have questions about magic! That counts as study time, right?”

Now Kliff is intrigued, though he refuses to give Tobin the satisfaction. “Since when do you care about magic? I thought it was too complicated for you.”

Tobin settles beside him, keeping a safe distance, but not bothering to ask whether he minds the company. “Well, I don’t really get it. But I want to learn. You know—for the war.”

He sighs. “I don’t know what Alm or Gray did this time, but you’re better with a bow than you’re ever going to be with magic. Focus on getting better at that.”

“Healing magic,” Tobin corrects. “I want to learn healing.”

“What? Why?”

“C’mon, seriously? I’m worried about you guys! I want us to go back to Ram when this is all over—all of us, together. Even if we’re not all planning to stay.”

“…All right, then. I can try to teach you.” Kliff grins. “Though I wouldn’t count on your ability to learn it.”

—

Faye catches him off guard in the middle of an overcrowded mess hall. She’s saying something, but he can’t understand her over the din of too many hungry soldiers. Eventually, she gives up and beckons to the door.

Kliff follows her, plate in hand, out to the cool night air. “What was that for?”

She shrugs. “You looked like you wanted to go outside.”

“I—” He pauses. Mess hall never used to bother him more than any other time around camp, but now that they’ve been getting more recruits, it has been getting louder and louder. He’s never liked loud noises, either. “I guess I did.”

Faye walks a little farther away from the tent, towards the woods. He follows her, and they settle together at the forest’s edge—still in earshot of the camp, but safely away from the clamor of the mess hall.

“I miss Ram,” Faye says quietly, after they’ve been eating for a bit. “Seeing this many people in one place reminds me how far we are from home.”

Kliff snorts. “It just reminds me of school. They always crammed too many people into the common areas for lunch.”

“So you didn’t like leaving then, either?”

“I liked going to school,” he answers. “I didn’t like the people there.”

“What kind of people do you like?”

He thinks on this. “The quiet kind.”

Faye smiles and nods. They eat the rest of their meal in silence.

—

Gray looks out for him during fights.

At first he’s convinced Gray is just showing off, jumping in dramatically and kicking down a mage in mid-chant before they can fire another spell at Kliff. But then it happens a second time, and a third time, and Kliff is more than certain that it’s intentional.

“You don’t have to do that, you know,” Kliff says, the next time Gray takes a blow for him.

“Do what?” Gray asks. “Look super cool while I’m saving the day?”

Kliff regrets that Gray is too focused on the battle to see him roll his eyes. “Protect me. I can look out for myself.”

“Oh, that? I’m just practicing for next time one of the girls needs saving.” Gray pauses to skewer another incoming mage. “Gotta keep my skills sharp and all that!”

“Gray, I’m serious. Can you stop joking around?” Kliff fires off another spell, stopping an approaching cavalier in their tracks. Now there are no more distractions—Gray will have to talk to him.

Gray turns to face him. “Look, I know you can take it, okay? But that’s not your job. If you’re up in the front lines taking hits, you won’t have the energy to cast your spells. So you do your job, and I’ll do mine, yeah?”

He sighs. “Fine.”

“Great! Now how about a ‘thank you’ for saving your ass?”

“In your dreams.”

—

Alm brings him a book from town.

“Here,” he says, unloading it off a pile of rations and weapons. “They had this on sale at one of the booths. I thought you might get some use out of it.”

Kliff inspects it. It’s a neatly-bound red tome, with gold embossing on the front. It looks well-used, but it’s holding together nevertheless. He flips it open, skimming the table of contents, and frowns.

“I hate to break it to you, but this is a book on magical theory. It’s not going to teach me anything I don’t already know about battle casting.”

Alm looks a little offended. “I know,” he says. “I just figured you would like it. You liked learning about magic at school, didn’t you?”

“I did, but—” He frowns again, turning the book over anxiously in his hands. “We’re in the middle of a war. Did you spend army funds on this?”

“Don’t worry, I spent my own money on it. No funds wasted.”

“But—” Kliff stammers. “Why? What’s the point? What do you get out of this?”

Alm sighs. “It’s just a gift. We may be at war, but we’re still people. I want you guys to be happy—at least, when we’re not having to kill people.”

“Oh,” Kliff says. “Uh. Thanks.”

Alm smiles, bright as ever. “Any time.”

—

The war continues, and Kliff keeps dreaming about the places he’ll go once he’s free to travel as he pleases. He’s not sure what kind of people he’ll meet out there, but—he thinks—if they’re anything like the ones he met in Ram Village, he hasn’t got anything to worry about. Other people may be unpleasant—clumsy, naive, romantic, and over-familiar—but they’re still worth knowing, every once in a while.

#luce writes #fe aspec week #day 2: friendship #this is a messsss but i don't care bc i still got it done on time! #fire emblem echoes #kliff #fe kliff #alm #faye #gray #tobin

[fe-aspec-week]

Here are the prompts for FE Aspec Week 2024!

April 28 - Coming Out April 29 - Friendship April 30 - Family May 1 - Acceptance May 2 - Animal Companions May 3 - Supports May 4 - Free Day

You do not have to follow the prompts! They are just suggestions! Feel free to create whatever you want, as long as it includes aspec FE characters (OCs included!).

When the event begins, use the tag #fe aspec week or tag this blog in your post so we can feature it here on the blog!

All types of creations are allowed! However, AI generated content will be ignored.

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask!

#fe aspec week #fire emblem

[tiabwwtws-art]

FE Aspec Week Day One: Friendship | Friend Group

Starting off this event with my favorite quartet :] Hilda's the only allo one AND she's a gossip so she inherently becomes the team's Romance Understander, for better or for worse

#fe aspec week 2023 #fe aspec week #fe3h #fire emblem #claude von riegan #hilda valentine goneril #marianne von edmund #lorenz hellman gloucester #kind of needing to wrestle myself to keep the comic in the post lol #bc it just kinda trails off into nothing instead of having An Ending. its supposed to read like a group chat more than a Comic i suppose #im trying to show off their different flavors of aspec in a way thats not just putting up their flags and idk how well ive done it #bc theyre teens who dont know what theyre talking about #well whatever. youll see me definitive hcs for them on the free day

[nitetime-moon]

I read a transcript for the FE Echoes drama CD (linked below the cut) and had to draw some scenes from it. Coincidentally, I started with the Alm & Lukas hug at the end first, so what better artwork to use for the FE Aspec Week's Friendship prompt!

The reference I used is also below the cut!

I seriously couldn't find the original artist for this, everything just linked back to Pinterest 😭. If you know who made this, please let me know so I can properly credit them!

#fe aspec week #fe lukas #fe alm #fe echoes #i really do love their dynamic #also I'm sorry for not shading it but the armor took so much energy to draw #the drama cd was so good y'all #more rgb content keeps me alive

[lemonbronze]

Ace lesbian Ivy & demi gay Zelkov coming out of their cage and doing just fine

(pls do not tag as ship)

#fe aspec week 2023 #fe aspec week #ivy fire emblem #zelkov #fe engage #listen I just want them to be found family siblings #they may not always understand each other but they would die for each other #bran draws

[aptericia]

Concept: Lysithea and Linhardt get married out of convenience and because they like each other’s company, and are subsequently confused when people expect them to kiss/sleep together/generally have romantic feelings for each other

Lysithea: I just don’t get this business of “finding your other half”. I’m a perfectly complete person already, thank you.

Linhardt: Furthermore, why must it always be half? I’m at LEAST 4/5 complete. Can’t I find someone who will donate just 1/5 to me?

(Doodle for FE aspec week day 3!!)

#my art #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #fe16 #lysithea von ordelia #linhardt von hevring #comic #digital art #fe aspec week 2023

[lovely-english-rose]

FE Aspec Week Day 3 - Family

#fe aspec week #fire emblem #azura fire emblem #azura fe #azura fe14 #aqua fire emblem #aqua fe #aqua fe14 #corrin fire emblem #corrin fe #corrin fe14 #m!corrin #m!kamui #kamui fe14 #fire emblem fates #fire emblem if #fe fates #fe if #fe14 #my art

[fe-aspec-week]

FE Aspec Week 2024

Hello everyone! We would like you all to know that we are planning another event for 2024!

We are still deciding on the particular dates and prompts, so please fill out the form if you are interested!

#fire emblem #fe aspec week 2024

[tiabwwtws-art]

FE Aspec Week Day 5 - Modern AU

The gang goes to pride :]

#fe aspec week 2023 #fe aspec week #fe3h #fire emblem #hilda valentine goneril #claude von reigen #marianne von edmund #lorenz hellman gloucester #using designs from whenever based on the vibe. 3 hopes for marianne and hilda bc those are the most casual #post timeskip for lorenz bc thats the oldest lorenz. most come into his own. most likely to go to pride. also i just wanted to draw it lol #claude gets pre timeskip bc the other 2 designs are Less him not more imo. where he's putting up an image for political benefit #trying to look older and more authoritative than he is. whereas pre timeskip he's just chilling

[greymouse42]

💜 Affection and Platonic Intimacy 💜

(pls accept my silly meme for @fe-aspec-week)

Yes it's a Barbie(2023) meme, yes it's lighthearted, but Alear's supports in Engage genuinely have a special place in my heart. I wasn't expecting to like the game, but it's just SO silly and somehow also SO sincere, and some of these characters wormed their way into my heart and are now beloved blorbos. I really liked how open-to-interpretation most of the supports were. 💜🤍🖤💚 I am rolling in aroace Engage headcanons and it's great.

Also someone tagged the og Barbie 2023 meme as "#aroace rights" and I've had this idea bouncing in my head since then.

(MAJOR THANK YOU to @damnilovefaerghus for making a character-less version of the fe3h S-support bg and thus saving me from scrambling to draw a background with 0 free time. THANK U I owe you my life.)

#tfw you think you're in love with the dragon girl but all you really want to do with her is braid her ridiculously long hair #fe aspec week 2023 #fire emblem #fire emblem engage #diamant fire emblem #alear fire emblem #it's my art #aroace headcanons

[wild-moss-art]

aroallo Yuri? 👀

aroallo yuri!!!

#yuri leclerc #fire emblem #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #ashen wolves #myart #fe aspec week 2023 #aroallo #Ty for the request!! #I don’t do these limited color palette studies too often #but it’s a great exercise #I will take a few more aspec hcs this week to do similarly #if anyone has any they’d like to request :3

[atsuya160]

Ace Edelgard icons for @fe-aspec-week ! I never made icons before but it was very fun 🖤🤍💜

#fire emblem #fe aspec week 2023 #FE16 #pride icons #Edelgard #Edelgard von Hresvelg #atsuya talks #my edits #had I been braver about my headcanons I would've also made art on my main blog... but alas #this is posted very last minute on the last day but I hope it still counts ^_^'

[sevarix-blogs]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fire Emblem Engage Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Ivy (Fire Emblem), Kagetsu (Fire Emblem), Zelkov (Fire Emblem), Hortensia (Fire Emblem) Additional Tags: Friendship, FE Aspec Week 2023, Aromantic, Aromantic Character, aspec character Words: 1,760 Summary:

After her coronation, Ivy starts to wonder if she will be lonely as queen.

#fe aspec week 2023 #ivy #*zelkov* #kagetsu #fire emblem engage #ivy fe #zelkov fe #kagetsu fe #engage #var's fics