#Napoleonic rant

[ic-napology]

Did you ever think Napoleon put on false identities and facades? Do you think he had NPD and Autism?

Hello Lizzy! First of all, sorry gor replying so late. It's the first time someone directly asks me opinions about Napoleon here, so I am so honoured you trust me on this✨️ It also means I have to make a disclaimer, as I'm not a historian nor a psychologist, so everything I'm saying is based on personal sensibility and intuition over the facts I know. They are not few but also not vast.

In any case, here's my answer :)

About your second question I wouldn't be comfortable in putting names of specific neurological or psychological conditions even if I was a trained therapist, especially for a dead person I've never met. Also I'm not even sure what it truly means, so sadly I can't give you a clear answer on that.

About the first question, in my personal interpretation of Napoleon's personality, yes, in general he absolutely put up façades and was very performative most of the time, but most of all during his emperor era.

I think he most felt defined by his responsabilities. There were many factors that inspire this opinion.

He always lived in and referred to large communities with a strong collective identity, so his own was shaped by belonging to them and what good he brought to them. These communities are his family, a numerous and especially a Corsican one, then an army, then a Nation.

But most of all, in all these communities he happened to be asked to, then seeked to play the role of a provider and leader, so his value depended on his ability in being a good one. So that was Napoleon identified with: the best provider possible for a community.

Also he lived during turbulent times where he was in constant crisis mode. In these circumstances, there's no time to dwell on what he or anyone would like to do, only to go on and do the best to survive. He often used urgency to justify even his most questionable or egotistical actions.

(That's why I suspect that even his so called ambition actually was mostly a genuine sense of doing what a critical situation needed from him. His high opinion over his abilities and leadership was certainly not wishful thinking, as it was supported by a great job and it was based over a whole life of being trained exactly to be a provider and problem solver in every situation. Granted, this was combined with a dose of a wish for personal realisation. Maybe as a compensation for such a heavy duty).

I attribute the most important role to the family in shaping Napoleon's view to the world, as it happens to every individual. They first put huge responsabilities on him as a very little boy - he had to provide money as soon as possible - and made him feel worthy of attention at the condition of fulfilling his duty. No care was given to his emotional needs and state, as it is shown by sending him abroad for a then unspecified number of years.

Napoleon inwardly knew he was literally trained to carry and solve problems and provide since a young age, so he was certain about being the right person to be put on positions of guidance and responsability.

Also when your emotional needs are neglected and seen as not important as much as the circumstances, you learn to detach yourself from your own sensibility. So you learn to dissimulate your actual state of mind in order to behave like you feel it's the best, according to the situation only. You learn that to be rational is good all the time.

All of this made him feel pressured to perform a precise role in order to fulfill his responsabilities at best.

When it came to be Emperor, Napoleon took it seriously. More than ever he was requested to be a good leader because it created a lot more tension, thus more need to make your Nation survive. So he felt pressed to perform in a way he deemed the best for being a good Emperor. Even his private life was heavily conditioned by that. He divorced from his wife even if he loved her because there was a heir to be provided to the Empire. It's even suspected that he mostly seeked sexual partners because it was something expected from a monarch, not because of a real drive. Other than try to prove he was not infertile.

There was also a consciousness about not being born a monarch which created anxiety about confrontation with actually born sovereigns. Class insecurity, we might call it, something he also carried within himself since he brushed elbows with noble boys at military school while he was seen as an outcast.

Again, belonging to a community was an important value for Napoleon. Since he was young he highly valued belonging to a Nation and actively seeking the best for it. You can read it in his drafts and fictions as a young man. That must have make him feel even worse about being seen as an outcast.

Thank you again for waiting for so long, I'm sorry for replying so late. Actually I'm on a pause from social media and I took out the apps from my phone, but this was a very nice question to answer to! I hope you find it helpful and that I explained everything clearly, as I struggle a bit with English lately😅

Also I recommend both you to seek opinions from other people here just to have a more complex picture, and also I invite other people to give me your thoughts on my answer too :)

Bye✨️

[burningcheese-merchant]

Ok fuck it. Fuck it I need to rant. I'm disappointed to the high heavens. This just looks like X and Y again. It just looks like they finally bothered to get off their asses and make Pokémon Z like everyone begged for 10+ years ago and they're trying to relabel it as a Legends game. You know what the word "legend" means? It means OLD!!! It's a fantastical tale of days long past! PAST! NOT FUTURE! Why are we in the future!!! There are no legends about the damn future, only the past!!!

How cool would it have been if we were in the Pokémon equivalent of Napoleonic France? If the protagonist was from a lower-middle-class family (maybe even lower, a genuinely struggling protagonist would be interesting, especially within this time period), who set out with their Pokémon to earn money to help out, only to end up caught in the middle of a nationwide shitstorm? What if you ventured throughout the region, through the beaches and mountains and beautiful French/Kalosian countryside, all the way to Paris/Lumiose, where the societal rot is at its most obvious and damning? What if the "evil team" wasn't evil at first, just a band of revolutionaries with their hearts in the right place, seeking change and justice for the broke and starving public against the laziness and corruption of the self-absorbed elite? What if the villain was the king at first, because he and the other royals really are as awful as they're stated to be? What if there were (optional, because not everyone was against the French monarchy) side quests to help spread revolutionary propaganda or help the rebels earn money, gather resources, toughen up their Pokémon in preparation for future battles against the royals? Hell, what if there was a rival group of royalists who acted as the rebels' foil, whom you can also help and hinder as much or as little as you liked?

What if there was an honest-to-God violent coup where people and Pokémon stormed the royal palace and destroy everything in sight (and you could be there, battling guards or something)? What if the king was challenged to a battle and lost miserably, proving once and for all how weak and pathetic he is, and thus overthrown and exiled (can't execute him, this franchise is too cowardly to evolve past being milquetoast kiddie shit)? What if the rebel leader, with his dear Empoleon beside him, took his place and crowned himself emperor right then and there, to the overwhelming joy of his followers and sympathizers, dismay of his opponents, and whatever it is the player chooses to feel, because there should be a genuine undercurrent of historical, political and philosophical discussion about all of this throughout the story that encourages us to form our own thoughts and opinions about the situation?

Only for the rebel leader, the Napoleon figure, to turn out worse than the king ever was, and his close subordinates immediately going mad with their newfound power and practically destroying the country. Then they really ARE the evil team for real this time, because they became the tyrants they sought to destroy, and depending on the player's past actions, it might partially be their fault that they succeeded. Imagine the Pokémon equivalent of the fucking Reign of Terror. People and Pokémon being attacked, imprisoned, exiled (again, they're too chickenshit to kill people. Tens of thousands died during the REAL Reign of Terror). Imagine your new mission going from trying to flee Lumiose and go home (only to fail, because they won't let anyone leave outside of being formally exiled out of fear/paranoia about uncontrolled dissidents) to taking an active role against the new regime, battling police to bust innocents out of jail, reuniting families and friends torn apart by fear and force? Imagine a heated battle against the stand-in for Maximilien Robespierre to help put an end to the madness!!! What if you went to libraries and picked up newspapers and listened to the telegraph and discovered everything has been censored in some way? What if you went into houses and found depressed wives and mothers and sisters and daughters, and opened letters from the men in their families (and their Pokémon, too) who were conscripted into the Kalosian army because the Emperor is trying to wage wars against neighboring regions to fulfill territorial ambitions (which actually did happen, Napoleon's France was constantly at war, which majorly tanked the economy because all the men were sent off to die or be horrifically injured. Remember when they tried to invade Russia? Over half a million troops went, barely 1/6 of them came back)? The climax of the story + defeat of the Emperor in battle can be a nod to the Battle of Waterloo!!! The post-game can have the player looking for runaway rebels like how you hunted for the Sages in post-game Black and White! What if there was a limited time mystery gift event where you could win a ferry ticket to the island the former Emperor is imprisoned on, JUST LIKE THE ACTUAL NAPOLEON, and there was a final cutscene between you and him where you discuss everything that happened and he asserts that he did what he had to and he still believes that he was acting in Kalos's best interest!!! Because many of the revolutionaries really did think that way, they believed they were doing right by France!!! Even when they jailed and murdered thousands of innocent people!!!

But no, we don't get cool shit like that, we get AZ running a fucking inn for whatever reason and an "urban redevelopment plan" that's literally just "let the Pokémon trash half the city with zero repercussions or any consideration for the homes and businesses in the areas they overrun". What the fuck man

[largercucumber]

I should be studying, but instead I’m looking at pictures of 🔥men🔥on tumblr 😋

[azzyfuzzy]

Man those "erm you can't make female soldier g&b ocs!" mfs are gonna go crazy after this one

There were plenty of other women in war, but if we talked about all of them, we'd be here forever. (I'll post more art soon I promise)

[krchar]

ok W.I.T.C.H. cartoon ppl let us talk about this thing, this mystery which would only disturb our peace of mind (ok my peace of mind), that age-old question of HOW THE HECK WAS IT WITH THE CAT

to put this into more eloquent wording: when (the heck) exactly in W is for Witch did Phobos take on the appearance of Napoleon and who knew? i really would like to know, how you guys saw it - and now im doing some absurdly excessive research for this tiny little detail lol - but like, it has implications

so, i generally thought he changed into the cat at some moment after he revealed to Will that he wouldnt mind Nerissa catching Napoleon, for he would gain more power then - and i kind of still think that - but i bumped into people just working with different schemes casually, and i thought it was truth that there were some things strange

i even met ppl thinking he was Napoleon already at the bookshop, but i don't think it is the case tbh - some of it was in discussions about this strangely nice smile that fandom goes nuts about lol

but phobos does some magic here - it's true napoleon could just pretend to be the one doing magic, while phobos, in the likeness of napoleon, would do it - but then the cat runs away and phobos-looking person still does magic, so it cannot be napoleon.. also would Phobos really go to flirt with that cat lol

also, generally, phobos says such stuff that it would make napoleon an insanely good impersonator :D (and imagine P. taking the effort to to talk like Napoleon lol) like, why not, maybe, but i have a meta argument against this, and that is that in V is for Victory the switch of appearances was clear to the viewer from a certain point, they did not switch tempers or even try to impersonate the other - so why would they do so here? i kind of think that, while at a point P. looked like N., N. might never have taken the looks of P. - although, im not certain

well, situation: in that exchange where Phobos says he doesnt give a shit about Napoleon being taken, Will seems to believe that she actually is speaking to Phobos - they could have been just playing it in front of Nerissa, who is present - but then Will also tells the girls that Phobos told this to her as a new information, and if it was a display, the girls would know it and they seem to be completely alone, so she wouldn't have to pretend at the moment - so here it seems to be truth

but the strange things are that 1) thereafter, phobos just doesnt act like it - he actually, just a moment later, is disguised as Napoleon and overpowers Nerissa without the Heart of Earth 2) when this happens, the others are waiting aside, holding the true Napoleon, seeming as if they are not surprised, as if it actually was the plan 3) if in the end he actually took the seal for its two hearts, why wouldnt he do it at the exact point of the exchange already? Nerissa is just lying there in front of him, fighting Mr. Huggles

so

was it all a plan actually? were they fighting nerissa just to fool her? because that is a strategy that they use a lot - also to outsmart Phobos later - and was the plan followed all along, and who knew about it?

it is striking that the dramatic exchange between will and phobos takes place in front of nerissa.. AND i cant help but notice that when cedric catches Will and she fights him off, she has this strange look of knowing exactly what is going on, it is not a look of yes power i just beat cedric yeah, it is different - and omg look at her!

and it is the exact moment, when we suddenly see napoleon running away and Nerissa follows him - and i think that might be the moment, when phobos transforms - and another meta argument, Will's gaze has no other function there, it is just added into the sequence, just after will is shown to have freed herself from C's tail - there is no other emotion than actually being calm and in control and there is a cut from her fighting situation right to this, it is not flowing into it - thats strange, it seems like a shot of significance intentionally added by the creators - i would say she and C might have drawn Nerissa's attention, while Phobos changed, and Will can see this and is content, cause stuff goes well

but i still dont understand the previously mentioned two things 1) why then Will tells the girls phobos's intention as something true.. maybe Will's gaze might also be something like *im not surprised at all you piece of shit (ie Phobos)*, as she would actually think he'd betrayed them..? 2) why didnt P. take the seal? it's true that if it was Napoleon, drawing from his secret awesome acting skills, he literally would not be able to take the seal - other option is that it was strategy, cause here Nerissa would fight Phobos, while thinking he was the cat caught her entirely off guard

if it was true, that it was not just a display all along, it could be that they did not know about this plan and it was only Phobos using his previously moderately succesful strategy without telling anyone as usually - but then they seemed to be aware of it in the end, waiting for him to strike..

another idea that comes to mind is that, while it was a plan, he just planned to betray them and let Nerissa catch Napoleon and then he might have changed his mind after the exchange with Will (being just P. in his own looks).. it could be a rational choice, it's better to have two hearts than none, so he would just let the Heart of Earth go.. i'm sure some phowill fanfiction could draw mountains of gold from this tho lol - as for this, there also is the option that only Will actually knew and only told the others, when everything was clear, but i kind of dont think that she would act like this, its like, ooc - i mean, especially in the comics, she has this tendency to take all responsibility on herself and then sometimes forgets to consult, but collaboration with the villain and not trusting the girls with it might be a more sensitive topic

so to me the options are:

the cat change was a plan, but P. aimed to betray them, it was him talking to Will sincerely, and then at this moment he would decide to betray them just a little later for one reason or another

the cat change was still a plan, the dialogue was a display, the girls just knew and someone actually was close enough to hear them.. there would have to be a reason for him not taking the seal there - a strategy to mislead Nerissa into not fighting P. off or some magical rule or what not - or actually this being Napoleon talking to Will, it's still possible, i guess

it is possible that it is just an inconsistency that sometimes occurs in WITCH generally

i'm missing something

bonus option: the strangely confident will hanging from cedric's tail is actually phobos and phobos is will, cause they both can do electricity looking magic and they had a lot of fun impersonating each other's drama showwo/manship

bonus option 02: only Matt knew - the fun is that this is not entirely impossible, lol, it is true that in the final "we're far ahead of you gurl" the grimaces of the guardians might actually be a little surprised (the details are not so clear) and Matt/Shagon has a mask, but it is him holding Napoleon AND they cooperated without telling the girls in the previous episode together with Caleb and Blunk - but like, going meta again, i do not think it is true, bc it would be so unexpected that a medium of this kind would definitely explain later

i rly dont know.. tell me your ideas about this pls! i need to know!!

end of my essay

p.s. i kinda think i want to write an experimental fic with parallel drabbles for all these options, especially the last two lol

p.p.s. the phobos development here is either way quite interesting, cause in V is for Victory he is really always using others as living shields, changing appearance for his safety etc and now he just decides to take the likeness of the most endangered bait of the day? Is he so desperate for the seal? Desperate about the girls' failures in his eyes? Or did he actually decide to be only a tyrant and not so much a cowardly moron? Another point to think about..

[goofyjelly]

!!!! i went to a local store that sells used games for good prices, look what I found!!!

[heavenknowsimmajacobinnow]

"Being born in a stable does not make one a horse." ~ The Duke of Wellington

It makes you born (technically) in a barn.

And we all know that phrase.

"Were you born in a barn? Shut the door!"

(And yes, Napoleon would probably be saying that, with his fear of open doors and all)

[onegianthotmess]

Ikemen Vampire Rants:

👨‍👧Small Parent Headcanons👨‍👦

Not really full family headcanons, more so what kind of dad they are. And bear with me a bit, babes, because I haven’t gone through all of the routes yet, and if we’re gonna get specific I’m on my third route.

Basically, I haven’t gotten to know each of the suitors fully save for two, who routes I’ve already completed, so please forgive me if some of the characters are a little OOC!

Napoleon Bonaparte

Both a girl and boy dad

He most likely would have two sons and one daughter, who’d be the youngest

Very supportive dad, wants his kids to be happy and enjoy what they end up doing in life

Would teach his children the value of things and to appreciate what they have, but also encourage them to be ambitious with their dreams and try to reach for the stars when they really find something they’re interested in

(Remember that this man was one of the oldest out of eight children, so he knows how to handle kiddies)

He’d teach all of his children basic swordsmanship and self defense with Jean, especially his daughter

Definitely a bit overprotective of all of his children

Always glares at any partner that is brought home and makes it clear that any mistreatment from either his child or their partner would not be tolerated in the slightest

After that and if he gets along with his child’s partner, he’s definitely the favorite in law

His title is literally “The Charismatic Leader* in the game

And his children have most likely inherited at least a little of his unintentionally charming and charismatic aura

Overall, very supportive and loving father who is firm when he needs to be and tries his best to communicate with his children

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A girl and boy dad

He’d just have two, one boy and one girl that are most likely twins

Struggles a bit when it comes to bonding with anything outside of music and struggles a bit with feelings

I feel like he’d find it easier to talk with his son a bit more when it comes to emotions because girls tend to have more complex emotions and mature much faster then boys

But, most of his struggles would come early and they’d be over by the time the twins are a little older, and then new struggles show up with them maturing and then the process starts again

Glares at any significant others that are brought home and threatens them to make sure they have good intentions with his child

Doesn’t really warm up to any significant others until the engagement/marriage stage

But he’ll be happy as long as his children are happy

Really he’s a stern dad who just needs a bit of help to show his children how much he really loves them

He tries his best, but he occasionally needs a little push in the right direction

He just can’t really articulate how much he loves his children with anything other than music

Leonardo da Vinci

My big sleepy cat man is definitely a girl dad

Would probably have three daughters and they’re all either triplets or they’re each a year or two apart

And they’re all most definitely Purebloods

And fatherhood is definitely one of the very few things the great Renaissance Man has never experienced

Yes, he’s been around children, but he’s never raised any of his own

But he takes to it pretty naturally after holding his first daughter

He’s put in charge of teaching his daughters everything along with the occasional guest appearance of Isaac

And if they want to learn something that Leonardo surprisingly doesn’t know, like a specific language or obscure subject, he’ll sit down with them surrounded by books and begin researching before looking up at the clock and realizing that it’s time for dinner when they could’ve sworn it was just after breakfast five minutes ago

Many days have gone by quickly with the four of them buried in books in the library trying to learn something new

Leonardo also naps with his little girls, especially when they’re babies

He mostly sticks to the bed though so that they won’t fall or get hurt

He only starts napping in his usual random places like the floor or under the dining room table or in le Comte’s shed in the garden when they’re a bit older and able to move around more safely

And Leonardo is a pretty chill dad, lets his girls have independence and do what they want so long as they’re safe and it’s within reason

Wants them to find love and be happy, not just have children and marry just to produce more Pureblood Vampires

He knows when to be stern, when to be lax, when to have fun, and when to be serious with his girls

Overall, great papa who will be an amazing teacher to his girls, but he’ll probably end up dragging them into some situations that they somehow don’t get arrested in

Arthur Canon Doyle

This lovely man is a boy and girl dad

Three children, two girls with one boy in the middle, all three being happy accident babies

He was terrified inside due to his past traumas coming back to haunt him, so many nights were spent with his wife reassuring him

Definitely freaked out when his first child came, but after yelling from his wife and a couple backhanded slaps from Theo for him to get his shit together, doctor mode was activated

And when his daughter was born he instantly fell in love with her and now over protective daddy mode was forever activated

He tried to not get too sucked into his writing as he can do so he can spend time with his children and help take care of them

Teaches them to spot the little details in things but gets mad when they point out his subtle innuendos and lack of sleep and excessive coffee intake

Arthur’s wit and flirtatious energy will most likely rub off on at least one of his children and he’ll be mortified when one of them brings home their significant other because it hits him then that his babies are growing up

He cries to his wife later that night about it because he doesn’t want to let go of his babies that used to fit so snugly in his arms

But once that grief passes, Arthur has the time of his life relaying embarrassing stories and the like to his new son/daughter-in-law while his child sits there mortified and screaming at him to stop while his wife is calmly trying to get him to shut his big mouth

“They may be a charmer, but they also used to wear their spare nappies as a hat when they were starting to walk!” / “OH MY GOD! DAD, JUST STFU!” / “Arthur, that’s enough. Our child is about to pass out from how red their face is…”

Yeah, he went on for another hour before his wife had to catch a book their child threw at him and then he stopped

He is supportive of his children and encourages them to be ambitious, but also within reason with what they want

And he stresses the importance of having your name be known along with your work as many people didn’t know who he was and thought his famous character Sherlock Holmes was a real person and he got letters addressed to Holmes

Overall, Arthur is a loving and supportive father who’s incredibly witty and playful with his children when appropriate

Vincent van Gogh

Our sweet sunshine angel is a girl and boy dad

His daughter is probably older than his son by four or five years

Gentle daddy, he can’t get mad at his babies for anything so most sternness comes from his wife

But Vincent isn’t a complete pushover, he will make sure his children know when they’ve done something wrong and give them a talk after their timeout or whatever punishment has been administered about what they did and if they know why it was wrong of them to do that

But, let’s face it, his children are most definitely innocent angels just like him

Vincent will let his children watch him paint or sketch and encourage them to try new things when it comes to art or anything at all

He will also teach them how to defend themselves, with a little help from Napoleon and Jean, since his secret in game is literally that he can destroy anyone in a fight, including Theo

Vincent loves spending time with his wife and children, but he sometimes gets so wrapped up in his paintings that he forgets to take time away from his work to take care of himself and his family

But just one mutter from one of his children quickly pulls him away from his painting and towards some nice family time

In short, Vincent is a very gentle, loving, and affectionate father who loves his children very much and tries his hardest to pull himself out of painting so he can spend a good amount of time with them

Theodorus van Gogh

Another girl and boy dad!

Probably two daughters and a son who’s the youngest

Definitely starts to take a bit more time off from work to spend time with his family when his first child is born

Yeah, the guy is a fucking workaholic, but he loves his family more than anything!

He’ll try to at least spend one hour playing with his children every day he’s off from work as often as he can, but sometimes he needs those off days to sleep

His wife and children definitely try their best to make sure that he’s sleeping and eating and taking care of himself, but he always fears the moment when they’ve had enough and go tell on him to Uncle Vincent, thus ending in Theo looking down at the ground as his brother lectures him about self care

Theo will take his children to work with him on relatively calm days so he can teach them about hard work and the art world at the same time, but he’ll also encourage them to look into things other than art

He’ll also take his children into town with him when it’s time to walk King and they all end up going to the park and playing

He definitely asks Vincent, Jean, and Napoleon to teach his children self defense because he’s usually pretty busy, but he’ll help teach them when he has the time for it

And Theo is the dad who sneaks up at night with his kids to quietly sneak something sweet if the craving strikes and it’s hilarious to see this big intimidating man freeze in place along with his three kids as they’re caught by his wife who is just looking at Theo with an unamused look and waiting for him to come up with an excuse she won’t believe anyway

And that happens at least once a week

Theo also knows how to be firm with his children when needed, but sometimes he gets a little too scary when they mess up big time

(Theo actually made each of his children wet themselves out of fear, due to him being scary while scolding them, once when they all got into big trouble and he felt awful for a month afterwards)

Theo doesn’t like having his children be afraid of him, so on the rare occasion when he scares them too bad, he won’t talk to them for about a week and try to not glance at them because he feels so awful that they’re scared of him

But a quick hug makes that go away real quick

Overall, Theo is a very loving and diligent father who knows how to be firm when he needs to be and who needs to learn how to take care of himself before his children tell on him to Uncle Vincent or plant Lumière in his room for him to find as punishment

Osamu Dazai

My window mans is definitely a girl dad

He’d have just one daughter and she’d be his princess

And she’d end up being a bit of a menace to society because, hello, Dazai is her father

He’d want her to be very happy and do things she likes, but he’d also want her to know when to act appropriately

Sort of ironic since he uses windows more than doors and teases Isaac much like an older brother would his siblings

Dazai would definitely write short stories for his daughter and they’d become her favorite bedtime stories, probably because they were catered and written specifically for her

Dazai would definitely love having fun with his daughter and making her laugh and smile, but he’d also enjoy the quiet and serene moments where he can relax and let his clown façade drop and show what he’s really feeling around his baby girl

His daughter would definitely make him mellow out a bit more in terms of teasing because he doesn’t want her to end up teasing everyone she meets and being perceived as mean by both adults and other children

Dazai would also try and gently push his daughter to try new things and hobbies, he’d just want her to have options when it comes to what she’d like to do in life

He’d like her to find just the right thing for her to do and enjoy and he’d support her through anything she’d eventually choose

Overall, Dazai is a very fun and silly dad who occasionally drops his goofy mask to show how much he really loves his baby girl in private

Isaac Newton

I feel like he’s a girl and boy dad

One daughter, one son, they’re probably twins or a year apart

Isaac spent most of his life as a human alone and, while he teaches with Napoleon sometimes, he’s not the most experienced with children

He does try to learn as much as possible about babies and children while his wife is pregnant, but he feels woefully unprepared when his children are born and panics a bit

But he’s somehow a natural once one of them is placed in his arms???

Like it just clicks for him somehow?

He knows what to do when they cry, need to be fed when his wife isn’t there, when they need to be changed, etc.

Isaac will start teaching his children at a very young age out of pure habit

“Now, with all of the prior information in mind, how would you most quickly and efficiently solve this equation?”

“Isaac, honey, our children just learned how to sit up by themselves, they’re too young for calculus…”

And he’ll stop trying to teach them subjects that are far beyond the small mind of a six month old infant

For like a week and then he’s back to his habits

“Now for the conjugation of the following verbs.”

“Isaac, they haven’t even said their first words, they’re way too young to start learning Latin…”

But both his son and daughter speak English, French, and Latin fluently by the age of three, so-

Isaac will try to not get so sucked into his work that he forgets to spend time with his children, he doesn’t want them to view him as a distant father who doesn’t care about them

He will allow them to tag along to his job at the local university to watch him teach when they’re old enough (which is around age five since they’re both so quiet and polite)

He’ll definitely try to step in when Dazai or Arthur tease his children a little, it usually turns into Isaac getting teased, but it’s the thought that counts

He’ll spend time with his children when he takes breaks, often not understanding their imaginative games and make believe they play with their toys, but he’d be very good at doing puzzles with them and building things out of wooden blocks

Isaac has definitely had to scoop Harry up a good few times so his children wouldn’t accidentally get pricked by him

But it’s bound to happen since they’re his children, thus making them curious by nature

Basically, Isaac is a very shy father who panics a bit at first, but he gets better as time goes on

Jean d’Arc

Insecure babie boy is a girl dad

He’s have two incredibly beautiful twin daughters and be a panicked wreck about it

Jean is incredibly insecure and nervous in the beginning

He viewed himself as a disgusting, dirty, unholy monster who hardly even deserved the time his wife gave him during the day and now he passed down his tainted blood to two innocent little ones who didn’t even have a say in the matter?

Yeah, he was nervous for the entirety of his wife’s pregnancy and didn’t even feel he deserved to look at his daughters, but he completely fell in love when both of them were gently placed in his arms the day they were born

His daughters would from them on be his pride and joy and the only two people he loved as much as his wife

Jean, with Napoleon’s help, would teach his girls the basics of sword fighting at the very least so that they could protect themselves and teach them about honor and morals

Of course he never wanted to have as much self loathing as he once did and he could never imagine his daughters going through those same awful feelings, so he’d remind both of them daily that he loves them and that they’re the purist, most lovely girls in the world

He’d enjoy putting his girls to bed because it meant spending time with them and reminding them of his love right before they go to sleep

Both girls get a kiss on the head and a music box will be playing as Jean reads a book for them if he’s putting the girls to bed alone or he’ll be listening along with the girls as his wife sings if she’s there with them

He’d also enjoy playing with both of his girls, and he actually spends at least an hour a day playing with them and their stuffed animals and dolls no matter how morbid things get with their small child imaginations

Affection would be a bit awkward and stiff at first, but he’d get used to it with time

Pretty much, Jean will start out insecure and panicked but will slowly become more confident in his ability to be a father and enjoy every second of raising his girls

William Shakespeare

I see Will as having just one child, a son

He definitely wouldn’t know how to handle himself or the situation when he is told by his wife that she is pregnant

Definitely goes quiet for a bit before he breaks down a little and needs some reassuring from his wife

His confidence in himself gets a bit better once his son is born

Will definitely leaves most of the early childcare in the hands of his wife and requires her to be by his side whenever he is the one caring for their son

But he definitely gets better once his son starts getting to toddler and child age

He’ll take his son on walks when he’s old enough and regale him lines from some of his plays, altering the endings to make them a little happier because he doesn’t want to see his son sad

It becomes a tradition for Will and his son to sit on the living room sofa and quietly wait for his wife to return home whenever she goes out because they both love her very much

Eventually, Will takes inspiration from his son to write stories, mostly short bedtime stories for him to tell when it’s time to go to sleep

Days out in town are always fun, since Will usually uses them as family time with his wife and son

They’ll go to shops looking at things, buying the occasional small item for their son if he’s been good, and ending by going to the park and watching their son play with other children from afar

Will never thought he’d enjoy being a father as much as he did with his new life, but here he was

He’d definitely get his son a rabbit of his own if he wanted one after playing with Puck a lot

If his son ever did anything bad or broke something, Will would probably leave the scolding to his wife most likely because he would end up scaring his son a bit and Will would never want that to happen

After his son would be sent to a time out, Will would come in and give him a brief but stern talk and tell him what his punishment was

Will wouldn’t like punishing his son very much, but every child needs discipline to learn that there are consequences for their actions

I feel that family game night would be a thing

A few simple card games and some games of chess and checkers in the living room at least one night a week

Spoiler, Will’s wife hasn’t one a single game against the boys and they’re tied for who has the most wins

In short, Will is a loving father who needs a bit of help in the beginning, but becomes a natural after some time

He still hates punishing his son, tho-

Le Comte de Saint-Germain

FANCY RICH BAGUETTE MAN!!!

A boy and girl dad!

Either two sets of twins or quadruplets with two girls and two boys, and they’re all definitely Purebloods

He will spoil tf out of them, but he will be stopped by his wife because they can’t have everything in life

Comte will keep nobility away from his family, he doesn’t want them getting involved with all of that until they’re old enough

He’ll try to spend as much time as he can with them, but sometimes he has to be away for a while and can’t avoid it

But he does play with his children and he’ll play whatever they’d like, be it games or with toys or making something together

He’s already the mom dad of the mansion, so he knows how to discipline his children when needed

And if his stare makes grown men freeze and look down at the ground in shame, you bet your ass that it makes his children hang their heads in shame when they’re being lectured on their bad behavior

But, he isn’t unfair, Comte will tell his children to go to their room and think about what they’ve done before he talks with them again and gives them their real punishment

Back to fun stuff, though!

Trips to town are fun, especially with the whole family

Sometimes it’s shopping, sometimes it’s going out to eat, sometimes it’s playing in the park, or sometimes it’s all three!

Comte loves seeing his children’s eyes light up when he says that they can go to their favorite park in town to play with their friends and some of the animals there

In conclusion, Comte was built to be a father because he already is one to his residents, but he’s even better with actual kids of his own

Sebastian/Akihiko Satou

My favorite history fanboy is a girl and boy dad!

He’d have a son and then probably twin girls a couple years later

Or maybe he’d have more kids because I’m pretty sure he’d thrive on the chaos of multiple children because he literally perfectly balances his duties as a butler to those chaotic historical figures he works for perfectly!

Sebastian is a busy guy, so he’ll most likely not have as much time as he’d like with his children

But he’d relax a bit more after Comte says that he should spend some more time with his children

And after some convincing from his wife, he’d let his children follow him around and help a little bit as he does chores around the mansion

All three of his children have Japanese names that are their real names, but they all have aliases they go by to make them fit in more in Paris

Sebastian definitely teaches his children the value of hard work early on, but also reminds them to not be like him and take a break for once

And he hates that his children and Theo’s children are in cahoots to make sure that their dads learn self care and actually sleep and eat sometimes

Sebastian will take his children into town to run errands and also go to the park for a while if they have the time

He’d always make sure his children go to bed at a proper time and do their little things before going to sleep

I see Sebastian as the type of dad to tuck his kids in and tell them stories or sing a lullaby to them in his mother tongue

But, when it comes to stories, they’re mostly about the residents’s human lives and his wife usually comes into the room around midnight to see Sebastian and their children all awake as he goes into great detail about which resident the children wanted to hear about that night

He’ll teach his children how to be gentle and nice with Lotte so that they can play with her in the garden while he tends to the flowers or hangs up the laundry

The children eventually help with sheering Lotte’s wool and learn how to knit and sew and crochet from Sebastian

He’d definitely be good at getting his children to do arts and crafts projects and he’d enjoy making little things with them as well

Overall, Sebastian is a very loving father who knows how to teach his children right and wrong and how to be responsible in a mansion full of chaotic historical figures

Vlad

Strawberry boy is a girl and boy dad

Just one daughter and one son that are twins

And they’re both definitely Purebloods

I feel he’d be a bit nervous because he’s never raised a child before and he didn’t want to mess up

But his anxieties are quickly eased when he sees both of his children open their eyes

They’re so small and innocent, they deserve a world that’s peaceful and free of strife or killing

And it’s his children that motivate him even more to reach his goal of a peaceful world

Vlad will definitely do his best to spend time with his children and help to take care of them, but he’s a bit clueless on childcare and needs a bit of guidance in the beginning

He’ll enjoy watching his children play in the garden and join them when they ask him to

Oftentimes Vlad will ask his children to come next to him as he’s watering his flowers and he’ll start telling them little facts about the ones he’s watering

He’ll even take his children into town when he goes to work as a florist and he’ll set up his little flower cart next to a park so that his children can play if they get bored but still stay within his line of sight

Vlad will usually put together bouquets to put into his children’s rooms so that they can enjoy the flowers no matter the weather or if they’re not feeling well enough to go outside

When his children misbehave, Vlad will remain calm but have this scary aura about him

He will calmly scold his children and tell them to go to their rooms so that he can think about a proper punishment for them

He knows that his children get pretty scared when they’re in trouble, so he does try to cool off a bit before he talks to them again

Vlad doesn’t like scaring his children, but he can’t just not scold them whenever they misbehave

His wife is usually the one to calm him down and she’ll be with him when he talks to their children again

But Vlad is also the parent who will sneak up at night with his children and raid the strawberries in the kitchen

They’re usually caught by Charles and Vlad’s wife at the same time

Charles is exasperated because he just got more strawberries from the market and Vlad’s wife is upset because her husband and children promised that they wouldn’t raid the strawberries again

This event occurring multiple times a week eventually leads to Vlad’s wife planting a few strawberry bushes around the garden so that there’s always at least some strawberries for Vlad and the kids and so they stop raiding the kitchen most nights

Overall, Vlad loves his children very much and wants them to grow up in his peaceful and nonviolent world

Johann Georg Faust

Faust would just have one son, I don’t see him as having more than one child

He has definitely never cared for a child before, so fatherhood is definitely a new thing he has to get used to

He’s not used to being woken up late at night by crying and he’s annoyed about it at first, but he eventually understands that his child is helpless and depends on him and his wife to survive

After that realization, he isn’t as annoyed about being woken up and he even takes the night shift sometimes, but that just makes it even harder for Charles and his wife to wake him up in the morning

He would definitely teach his son about alchemy when he was old enough

Faust would prefer for his son to not go to school outside of the castle, so he’d ask Vlad if tutors could be paid to come to the castle, even though he’d rather not ask the old goat for anything

Even though he’s usually very busy throughout the day, Faust will try to make time to spend with his son

He will occasionally take him into town to go and walk around or to the park to play with other children

And there’s no doubt that his son has gotten into a bit of trouble with Mephie

I mean, it’s a small monkey and a little boy, there’s going to be some trouble and mischief

But if there’s any ruckus while Faust is researching or experimenting, he will put a stop to it and scold his son

Faust is another parent who does scare his child when he’s angry and he doesn’t mean to

He just gets upset and tells his son to go to his room and sit on his bed until he comes and talks with him

It’ll take a little while for Faust to cool down, but when he does he feels a bit bad he was so harsh because his son is a child, he’s bound to cause a bit of mischief and trouble from time to time

Faust will talk with his son, make sure he knows why what he did was wrong, but he’ll also apologize for scaring him and being too harsh

Overall, Faust is a bit of a distant and scary father, but he does love his son and does his best to try and show it

Charles-Henri Sanson

I’VE BEEN REALLY EXCITED FOR THIS ONE!!!

Okay, Charles is 100% a girl dad

PROVE ME WRONG

I see him having one daughter and maybe another one, but they’re both pretty far apart in age like say seven or eight years

Charles was ANXIOUS to say the least when he found out his lovely wife was pregnant

How could he raise a child when the blood of thousands was on his hands and he was literally nicknamed “the God of Death” while he was human?

He hardly felt deserving of his wife’s unconditional love at times, and now he helped to create a child that was now growing inside of his wife that would love him unconditionally as well?

Yeah, he had to be reassured a lot over the nine month period of his wife’s pregnancy

Labor was also a mess in the beginning

Charles was panicking and had to be smacked by Faust for him to get his shit together and to slip into his doctor mindset

Other than that, the birth went smoothly and Charles immediately fell in love with his baby girl the moment she was placed into his arms

After that, he was whipped for his daughter as much as he was whipped for his wife

He’ll definitely try to spend as much time with his baby girl as possible, caring for her with his wife and playing with her

He’ll have to be calmed down a bit while she’s a baby because he does get a bit too excited at times

But, when his daughter is a bit older, Charles will enjoy anything that has to do with spending time with her

He’ll play with her, cook with her, read to her, whatever she wants to do within reason!

He’ll even start taking her into town to go on walks to enjoy the scenery, to go to cafes every once in a while, and to go to the park when she wants to play with other children

Of course, Charles is always included in these games because children love him

He’s not the best at disciplining his daughter, he loves her almost too much to be upset at her

But, he knows that she’ll need to be disciplined by both him and her mother, so while her mother does the first bit of scolding and sends her to her room for a little while, it will be Charles who goes up to his daughter’s room and talks with her to make sure she knows what she did was wrong and why before giving her her actual punishment that he and his wife deemed fit

And Charles loves having a baby girl so much he and his wife decided to have another child who turned out to be a girl!

The previous headcanons also go for his second daughter, he loves her just as much as his first daughter and his wife

When his older daughter gets to the age where she brings a significant other over, Charles has mixed feelings

He’s happy that she’s happy, but he’s sad that she’s growing up and suspicious of this partner and whether or not they’re actually good enough for her

So Charles is friendly and civil, yes, but also has this eerily too happy aura about him that makes him pretty scary

Overall, Charles loves being a father to his baby girls and is very loving and supportive of them!

Finally done with this after a couple months! I will most likely end up doing descriptions of the children and family life I mentioned in this rant and at least physical descriptions of the suitor’s wives/partners because I’m not just sticking to the appearance of the MC in the game. I’m sorry, but her look is just a bit too boring, despite being a playable character that the player is supposed to insert themselves into in a way. I just feel MC stand ins always have the same look and that it wouldn’t hurt to change it up just a tiny bit and make it a little more interesting like a different hair color OTHER than brown! Just saying!

[running-with-kn1ves]

they're still running MLM scams? I got something in the mail from a dishware company about a part time job and couldn't believe my eyes. Damn these homos are getting desperate lately!

[jathun]

ngl I have such a love/hate relationship with the fate franchise

[ic-napology]

Napoleon, Josephine and personal stuff - rant incoming brace yourself or scroll

I finally got a grasp on exactly why I was so struck by Napoleon at 13. And I kept being like that for many years later.

It was how desperately he opened his heart and threw himself in the arms of a nice and graceful woman, one he idealised maybe for just being kind to him.

I aknowledge how Josephine was mainly useful to him for very practical reasons, but I feel that, because of that, Napoleon felt genuine elation and gratefulness to her nonetheless. I think he valued her with an emotional response, even if the reasons of her being the best party were practical. In their marriage he would find social stability. In her house, domestic stability. In her presence, sentimental stability. He had not lived in a house of his own since he was 9, and now his home in Corsica was destroyed.

I feel he kinda put himself in a full psychological dependency to Josephine during the first four years of marriage, which seems uncanny from a character that usually valued logic, pragmatism and self-reliancy. But that was a personality based on what was needed to survive in very hostile environments, not on what he could openly wish on a serene path.

His love letters are said to be "romantic" and "passionate", and in some point they are indeed. (I also believe that Napoleon's letters to Josephine stand out mainly because people don't expect it, based on a certain image of Napoleon as stern and hyper-rational; but I remember some similar lovely passages from other people's letters too from the same age.)

But to me now in these letters he mostly sounds desperate to be loved, after so many years of being on his own on unstable situations. He feels relieved to have found someone he could be openly emotionally vulnerable to and relies in that joy; he shares so much things about his campaign, he was never so open about his feeling on things like in these written words. However, this all seems based on his expectations on how Josephine would be like, on an ideal rather than how Josephine actually was going.

He really idealised her and very much held on that image. In his letters, she is perfect, then she seemingly chooses to be evil to him on a whim. It's not like she was actually dealing with her own toll of traumas, insecurities, especially around husbands and their power, and was not on a condition of comforting another lonely person. Especially not with the dedication Napoleon seemed to pretend. It's still a big thing that she came to Italy while even being sick.

Besides, Napoleon had not lost his insecurities after their marriage nor after her arrival on Italy and she was not going to help him in that, because she couldn’t.

It was inevitable that she would defy him, and I'm not talking about the (not actually proved) affair with Charles. The smallest thing would have been hurtful to a starved and insecure person, who puts huge expectations on a single person and lets himself depend on her actions only to be happy. It doesn't help that Josephine was actively being defiant because of her reasons.

And I relate a lot to her too. I feel she was as hurt as Napoleon by her own experiences, maybe she has been socially and emotionally humiliated even more in her own contexts of living, despite her privilege.

So that's it, I was captured by the voluntary emotional dependency on specific people you hope to receive care from, because you have love starvation and you are desperate.

I personally did that a lot with specific people between long periods of distrust of everyone and of emotional avoidance of everything, because I was regularly deceived. Or wasn't corresponded. That's why I'm still fond of Napoleon and Josephine, and also sad for them. But I know that's a dangerous thing to do for both parties. Don't let others be the only ones to take the toll of your well being. Thanks therapy.

I don't pretend that this interpretation of Napoleon is correct; as you see there's a lot of self-projection in order to elaborate things from my personal life, which is also the reason why I felt passionate about those characters. Maybe it's also your reason too. So yeah, my words have no informative value. But I hope that still might resonate in someone else.

[transwalterdecourcey]

me: boy oh boy time to read my favorite 19th century novel i can't wait to see what the fascinating characters the author has invented are up to now!

the 19th century novel:

[mishkakagehishka]

Me saying i can't major in history bc i'm bad at remembering years and names so i major in language and literature (where i have to remember years and names)

[arlesposting]

i know i mentioned napoleon iii being a skinny legend with an hourglass figure but i need to talk about his gorgeous wife Eugénie

look at her. she is the one behind her husband's yassification, and i know it. actually, SHE IS LITERALLY MY PROFILE PICTURE, RIGHT NOW. if Eugénie de Montijo has no fans they killed me.

[e11ie-bonez]

I HATE NAPOLEONIC/REVOLUTIONARY SEXYMEN

hi if i seeone more fucking napoleon sexymann post im going to lose it please stop making thirst traps of dead people my feeds are being haunted by napoleon and his marshals as twinks please for the love of god just regress and go baxck to the onceler or something

[a-heart-full-of-dumb]

The way I'm currently on Corsica, have been to the city Napoleon was born and will be on Elba in a week. I'm literally living Marius's dream.