#fe16 spoilers

[fayesdiary]

reverse unpopular opinion for....aw heck, go ahead with Rhea for this one as well

This might as well be a part 2 to the previous Rhea ask so :D

I find Rhea to be so compelling for several reasons, one of the biggest being the inherent contradiction that she is very much capable of caring, loving and trusting others, sometimes with some insane gestures when you realize their meaning behind them (ie. Saving Jeralt's life by giving him her blood thus risking outing herself because of it, letting Catherine keep Thunderbrand despite the fact it's the one Relic she could safely recover- implicitly trusting her with one of her family's remains without any obligation to do so, risk angering a noble house to give Cyril a better life and treating him like her son in all but name)... And yet she cannot, for the life of her, bring herself to be honest with them.

Something fascinating I noticed about Rhea is that she ironically seems to prefer people who are blunt with her, because look at the people she's closest to - Seteth spends all of Part 1 openly questioning her, Flayn is constantly on the verge of accidentally outing herself, Cyril is so direct and honest he sometimes accidentally comes off as rude (Shamir too even if she's not as close to Rhea) and Catherine wears her heart on her sleeve.

Heck, all of them are either not that religious or outright non-believers, which ironically I believe helps reassure Rhea they love her because of who she is as a person and not because she's the archbishop, especially given how much she implies to find the position incredibly alienating.

And isn't that just so fascinating? That she is more than capable than loving others and caring for them risking her own personal safety, she appreciates people being honest with her.... But cannot, will not be entirely honest with them in turn.

Because make no mistake, that right there is Rhea's true fatal flaw: her compulsive need to keep everything a secret.

From the big but understandable stuff that would get her and her family scrapped for parts if it became public to downright pointless shit to hide like not liking hot drinks, and it's the one trait that screws her over the most, between being the reason Jeralt left (since she didn't tell him ANYTHING about what happened with Byleth so he assumed the worst and fled) and the thing preventing her from making connections as deep as she actually wants (like even just telling her loved ones how much they mean to her), as well as getting the support she actually needs. And because she feels she has to bear everything on her shoulders, she crumbles under the weight because no matter how hard she tries, she will never be good enough.

In that sense the role of archbishop is a sort of mask to her. It's definitely a part of her, but also something she has sort of burrowed into like a safety net preventing her from being true to herself. Because that'd mean making herself vulnerable, in more ways than one. To say nothing about putting her surviving family and remnants of her dead kin to jeopardy.

If she were to open up she'd be... More lively, I think. Definitely sillier if Heroes is any indication, and arguably more willing to take a direct approach in helping people. And definitely more loved and happier.

And perhaps, one day she'd realize she doesn't need to bring her mom back to fix Fódlan. She's not doing it alone anymore, after all.

#ask replies #loregoddess #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #fe16 #fe16 spoilers #rhea #my rambles #is this coherent in any way? definitely not #i just love rhea as a deconstruction of the mikoto archetype #she wants to be like mikoto and lumera so bad but she can never measure up to them #and instead of seeking the help of others to compensate she tries to bring her goddess mom back #she's a foil to alear in that sense. i love them so much for different reasons #and i think they'd be great friends #like rhea's whole secrecy complex is definitely a product of her trauma #and i love it. i wanna put her in a test chamber and see how she functions #anyway again sorry for pretty much dumping words at random😅

[lulady030]

“I’m terribly sorry, but it feels quite good to be here, in its own way.

You’re already well aware that there’s no longer any place for you here, right ?”

#fire emblem #Fire Emblem Three Houses #FE16 #fe16 spoilers #Monica von Ochs #Kronya (fire emblem) #my art #everytime I listen to the song Dear Doppelganger by Kemu I think about these two #also I thought I could finish this in two weeks but it ended up taking a month #still seeing mistakes here and there but I hope the result looks ok nonetheless :)

[fayessketchbook]

The Queen of Monsters

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[atsuya160]

Made that one ship meme for two of my fave Byleth ships, featuring lots of personal headcanons :3

#fire emblem #fe16 #fe16 spoilers #Rhea #Byleth #Edelgard #edeleth #rhealeth #atsuya talks #my art #my edits #Too anxious to post this on main so it gets the sideblog treatment #also yes I am willfully ignoring Rhea's canon height. this woman is two meters tall to me and my mind cannot be changed.

[fishytheegg]

🍓🍦

#edelgard von hresvelg #monica von ochs #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #fire emblem three hopes #fe16 spoilers #art #sketch #fire emblem

[chamomilecamille]

The Edge of Dawn makes me so fuckin sad looking at the lyrics Edelgard wanted so much to just be a normal girl but her sense of duty and drive to change a world she sees as damaged and flawed to end the sort of suffering she went through and looking to the professor for that it just-- ghhh something about that hurts so good I love it. Also the motif absolutely gives me the energy to battle god at the end of CF it just feels so empowering when she's at the end and the goal of that world she dreams for, fights for, is in reach.

#My brain is going brr on this one tbh #Edelgard #fe16 #fe16 spoilers #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #feth #fe3h #edelgard fe #fe edelgard

[thirteendaysintaunton]

with his kiss, the riot starts

#flame emperor #fire emblem #edelgard von hresvelg #fegraphics #fireemblemedit #feedit #gamingedit #edelgardedit #id in alt text #me vs photoshop #flame emperor i have feelings for you #lyrics are from hadestown #didn't change the pronouns bc el is a gender #edelgard #fe16 spoilers

[askhubertvonvestra]

*A soft but urgent knock sounds in the night. The door is opened to reveal a small child with suspiciously dark green hair, sleeping unaware. A note is read, "Will you raise this child as a weapon to those who would defy Her Majesty? Or purely as a shield for humanity? Or perhaps he would be allowed to live among them and raised alongside them, with no other purpose but to live and discover life?"

You see no sign of anyone else in the area...

*Hubert picks up the child with the familiar ease of someone who has cared for children often*

You stay with me. First, we notify the guards and my agents to be on alert for whoever brought you here. Next... Well. We shall see.

...I cannot fathom why anyone would bring a Nabatean child here, of all places. We are entirely unprepared to know what sort of care you need, if anything about that  is unique to you whatsoever.

It could be a scheme to reveal Rhea’s location. But our options are limited, little one. It is her or Seteth, and I fear even a temporary compromise with him for your sake is too risky.

I suppose we should start with Linhardt and Byleth. The former to make sure you’re in good health, as much as we can tell, and the latter for the sake of decency. I’m sure they would prefer to be among the first to know you’re here.

The decision of what to do next can follow.

#I think we all know Hubert's not about to raise a child soldier (if he can help it oops) #there's not much Hubert WOULDN'T do but there is a lot he would Really Rather Not #anon ask #ask hubert von vestra #ask hubert #hubert von vestra #fe3h hubert #fe16 hubert #fe hubert #fire emblem hubert #mentioned rhea #mentioned seteth #mentioned linhardt #mentioned linhardt von hevring #mentioned byleth #mentioned byleth eisner #fe3h spoilers #fe16 spoilers #spoilers #fe spoilers #tw child abandonment #cw child abandonment #catching hubert being protective #long answer

[dornishsphinx]

I’ve finally played all four routes of Three Houses, and it only took me until like, 2-3 weeks after the next game in the series came out. Epilogues, untouched by the wayseer:

Azure Moon

Byleth+Ashe (I am convinced Ashe/Cyril would have happened otherwise and I am filled with regret as that became a ship of mine)

Dimitri+Flayn

Dedue+Shamir

Sylvain+Ingrid

Annette+Gilbert

Felix+Bernadetta

—

Crimson Flower

Byleth+Sothis (to be honest, out of morbid curiosity due to events, and poor, poor Rhea, she does not care)

Edelgard+Linhardt (from what I remember, surprisingly and interestingly platonic)

Hubert+Ferdinand

Dorothea+Lorenz

Petra+Ashe

Caspar+Shamir

Hanneman+Manuela

Jeritza+Mercedes

—

Silver Snow (Ashen Wolves + Faculty + gdi I missed the deadline to A-Support Rhea again Run)

Byleth+Yuri

Hapi+Linhardt

Balthus+Constance

Seteth+Flayn

Hanneman+Manuela

Alois+Catherine

Shamir+Cyril

Ferdinand+Petra (apparently so into each other they still got together despite not being fielded since White Clouds)

—

Verdant Wind

Byleth+Singledom

Claude+Flayn

Hilda+Cyril

Raphael+Ignatz

Lorenz+Lysithea

Leonie+Shamir

Marianne+Linhardt

In summation, Flayn likes powerful men and Hanneman and Manuela apparently can’t get enough of each other.

Thoughts on routes and best route order below the cut, along with controversial archetype opinions:

Azure Moon - definitely the best one to start on. Has the big cinematic reveal of who Edelgard is right after Dimitri talks about who she is and what she means to him. It has the least to do with the Agarthans or Imperial motivations. Dimitri’s character arc is cool, and it’s a more personal story about Kingdom characters with cameos of others.

Crimson Flower - then, the other side of the conflict. Gives a bit more info about why Edelgard is up to things, introduces the Agarthans, gives the other side of the central Kingdom-Empire conflict (last chapter in Kingdom capital against a desperate dragon, compared to last chapter in Empire capital against a desperate abomination). Does nothing about the Agarthans other than be like “these are our allies we’re wary of”, slotting it neatly between Azure Moon and the last two routes as an intro to the (Slavic for some reason? I got spoiled for other things but not that Shambhala was covered in readable Cyrillic) Molemen Lore.

Silver Snow - Back to the save point, decide to go against Edelgard instead and see what happens. I mean, I didn’t actually do that, since I wanted to make it an Ashen Wolves + faculty playthrough and wanted to avoid giving Edie and Hubert experience that others could get, but one less White Clouds playthrough is good for the soul. Though it could be interesting playing Black Eagles against their classmates, the Church characters are great and deserve some focus, so honestly would highly recommend focusing more on them. You fight Rhea in the end in both Black Eagle routes, and if they’re close together, you can mark the differences in how she’s treated. Also the Edelgard defeat scene makes way more sense here than in Verdant Wind and is more impactful after the reunion fight animation post-timeskip. It should be seen in context here first rather than being confusing in Verdant Wind, plus, does hit harder if you have sided with her already.

Verdant Wind - You’ve done the surface-level major conflict already, that’s now on the sidelines, it’s time for the ones caught up in the middle (and from outside Fódlan) to demand some lore and then open up to the rest of the world, bringing the routes from the insular and lore-light routes to the lore-heavy one involving the most outsiders.

What I did though: Silver Snow | Verdant Wind. It’s more complicated to put these two in any order since they’re basically identical other than characters involved, so ironically, feels like playing them concurrently is actually better than playing them side by side. They’re way too similar, but at least if they’re played together, you can pick up on small differences more than “ugh, again?”, such as skipping Gronder Field and Claude pushing for info from Rhea where Byleth accepts what’s being said, and food for thought on implications (why does Rhea snap in one and not the other, for example? Did Edelgard treat her worse as a prisoner of war when The Professor takes her side?) Still, I’d put the Nemesis fight after Rhea fight. The opening up of Fódlan and Nemesis getting put down is a more uplifting conclusion than Rhea succumbing, and it’s the point I prefer to have it end on.

Also, Edelgard and Dimitri are a take on Alm/Celica.

Prince and princess of opposing lands. Princess, the “one” surviving child of a haggard-looking king’s consort. Knew each other for a short while in childhood before the princess was taken away again. The Agarthans go on about pitting “the children” against each other, Alm and Celica both have the brands. Echoes came out directly before Three Houses, they added a bunch more fight scenes between Alm and Celica for little reason. Alm is “the jasper lion”, Dimitri is a “blue lion”. Edelgard allies with the Agarthans, Celica… it’s not one to one, but she sure did go along with what the Duma Faithful asked of her. Also I’ve heard things that happen to Edelgard in Three Hopes which tie into some things which happened to Celica in Echoes and not in the original Gaiden which makes me even more suspicious lmao.

Okay, it’s not exact one to one, but the main thing that sparked the notion is they were childhood friends and then Edelgard was taken away, while Echoes was really recent. Three Houses is just wider than Echoes because multiple routes and Claude.

#catherine plays #catherine plays fe16 #the game decided to curse me when i complained about a particular ship being my least favourite option by giving it to me twice #fe16 #fe3h #fe16 spoilers #fe3h spoilers

[someobscurereference]

*wakes up in a cold sweat.*

FEA AU where everything’s the same but Robin and Grima share a body in a similar way to where Byleth and Sothis share one.

Robin is the “vessel” while Grima is the weird looking ghost with no memories that lives in their head and also gives them some weird and kinda op ability similar to Divine Pulse.

Lucina’s Grima still takes control of Robin and causes the apocalypse in her timeline, when Grima remembers what humanity did to him (them? Does Grima have a gender?), but her actions ironically result in strengthening the bond between the main Robin and Grima, allowing them to work together to defeat their alternate counterparts.

Maybe when Robin deals the final blow, Grima decides to be the true sacrifice and takes the hit for both of them, so only Grima is destroyed when alternate Grima and Robin are killed (kinda like how Sothis’s heart is destroyed in Crimson Flower once Rhea is killed,) much to Robin’s heartbreak sine they’d become close friends in this timeline.

Idk, I think this idea has potential.

Oh, very neat! A world where Grima & Robin are one! The relationship between Robin & Grima would be full of much more animosity at the start, I'm sure, even if Grima couldn't remember its past either. Lucina's Timeline Grima would be one that wants to destroy all of humanity still, so I wonder what would happen differently to make the Awakening timeline Grima not do that. It couldn't just be the bond of friendship between Robin & Grima or else the apocalypse wouldn't have happened in Lucina's timeline. Interesting!

#fe16 spoilers #my text #asks #fe13

[aptericia]

Things I have managed NOT to do before turning 18:

Watch my mom accidentally jump off a mountaintop to her doom because my voice changed

Out myself as a heretic and plunge my continent into war

Get overthrown as the Pope and then forced to physically fight God

Get stabbed by my girlfriend and then a million other disembodied swords

I am so good at life :)

#ramblings #fe16 spoilers #fe10 spoilers #rgu spoilers #lang wu yao #edelgard von hresvelg #sanaki kirsch altina #utena tenjou

[fayesdiary]

I remember being surprised watching the Ingrid/Seteth support and hearing Seteth say Crests really shouldn't matter that much, but in hindsight yeah, no shit- of course he wishes they weren't so valued because that would mean he and his family wouldn't have to be constantly afraid of getting murdered for their sweet sweet dragon juice

#fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #fe16 #fe16 spoilers #seteth #my rambles #for context am is the first route i played #followed by vw

[lulady030]

I’ve fallen back into the FE Three Houses corner, here’s a meme ✨

#Fire Emblem #Fire Emblem Three Houses #FE16 #Kronya #kronya (fire emblem) #fe16 spoilers #fe3h spoilers #(sort of. don't look too much at the drink lol) #my art #not feeling too great about my art lately but I managed to make this at least #I think Kronya is neat ! She is full of chaotic evil energy :D

[fayessketchbook]

The Queen of Monsters (WiP)

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[quillfulwriter]

This is from the era of wonky audio for my TikToks. 😔🕯️

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[frost-felon]

Musing on Sitri's corpse and death arrangement--it's been discussed before, but Rhea comes from Nabatean culture, which seems to have different death arrangements than humans. This is likely due to the corpses not normally deteriorating the way human corpses do. Even after a little over twenty years, Sitri's corpse does not display evidence of decay.

Moreover, having her kept on a stone altar allows Rhea and other family (like Byleth, later) visit her to pay their respects in a way that is just as tangible as visiting Jeralt's grave. But I thought of this because of a video on human skin books. The only ones who should have control over Sitri's death arrangements are her living family, assuming that she didn't have any specific wishes of her own...largely because her perspective is under-played or almost non-existent in Three Houses. If Byleth, for example, would not want her to be buried, then there would be no reason to do so.

Part of the problem with how portions of the fanbase view this matter is the suspicion towards Rhea's motives. Of course, White Clouds initially makes Rhea seem mysterious and someone you should be cautious around, but you learn that she is more of a complicated, overtaxed lady with way too much going on in her life. So this suspicion is directed at her even for the mourning she shows to her professed daughter-figure. That she would not have buried her is treated as a nefarious dealing--surely, she must have some ulterior motive! Or perhaps she's experimenting on Byleth's mother!

Note that Aelfric IS the one trying to use Sitri's corpse for his own ends. He was her friend, but also someone with a romantic attachment to her that never let go; and unlike Rhea, who also does not want to let go of any of her family, he takes this to the extreme, going against what Sitri would have wished for. In this way, not only are the Nabateans' death rites disrespected, but also Sitri's autonomy.

With the human skin books, one question posed is whether it can ever be moral to produce or own those books. Many of the people who had their skin used were victimized posthumously, and now, they are only remembered in the context of being the binding of a book. How the books are treated by library staff plays a large part in whether the deceased are believed to be respected now, potentially given a dignity they were not given at the times of their deaths (and perhaps, even in their lives). Private collectors have an even bigger responsibility, as the remains of the deceased can so easily be oggled at, given no context or memory of their lives. Treated as, "Ooh, macabre aesthetic."

Even for those who consented, perhaps even eagerly, to become 'immortalized' in this way, a level of care is often discussed. For any human remains, willing or not, much of their postmortem affairs rely upon the presence and awareness of any remaining family or loved ones they may have, should they even have any.

I'm kinda off my shits, not gonna lie, which has led to the rambling nature of this post. But I think a lot of the questions raised by human-remains bookbinding are applicable to Sitri's situation, as well as the fates of the Nabateans who were (very much unwillingly) made into Relics. Burying them, I think, may not be a respectful answer to giving them dignity in death, given what little we know of Nabatean customs regarding death.

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