#Sombron

[textsfromtheemblem]

[daydreamingsommie]

The most upsetting part about the death of Alear's siblings isn't that they were killed by their own father, but how much torture was involved in it

Do you know how long it takes to burn before your nerves stop feeling the pain? Drowning can feel like an eternity. And the whole thing of being torn apart limb by limb is just horrific

While a lot of people think about how Alear's siblings died, I feel like not enough have really grasped the sheer malice required to kill them in these ways. It takes thought and preparation to make sure someone stays underwater or in a fire. And it took effort to make sure there was enough corrupted to kill two people without a means to escape or fight back

Sombron wasn't just apathetic about his kids. He completely hated them when they failed and wanted to make sure they knew that as they died

[elysianstars]

For absolutely no reason, here is the Elyos version of Put Baby in Pelican Mouth.

[avocados-of-law]

Fire Emblem Engage

[fefuckability]

Engage Qualifier 3

Feel free to reblog and comment with your reasons!

[synergysilhouette]

Rewriting "Fire Emblem: Engage"

This has been on my "draft" page FOREVER. It's my oldest post, and by the time I post this, I'll probably have forgotten some details that I KNOW I'm gonna get hounded (no pun intended) for.

Less emphasis on Emblems--I know, I know. "'Engage' celebrates the anniversary of the franchise, so why wouldn't previous games come into play?" I get it, but it feels suffocating; putting emphasis on the protagonists from past games takes away from the current game (which already feels like it borrows a lot from their last installments). However, in lieu of emblems inside the magical rings, something much more sad is there: 12 of Alear's dead siblings whose spirits are inside them (or their bodies were sealed in there; less sad and still works).

2. Zephia is Alear and Veyle's mom (plus Sombron being their father isn't a plot twist)--As per usual for previous recent FE protagonists (notably Robin and Byleth), Alear's mom is an unseen character who doesn't do much for the plot. Seeing how Zephia wants a child and Sombron promises to give her one, I'd prefer it to be retconned so this happens earlier, and she ends up giving birth to Alear and Veyle (and possibly other siblings). She yearns to be reunited with her children a thousand years later, and manipulates the Hounds into acting as her family (I feel like making Mauvier younger works here since she was supposed to see them as her children, but she physically looks his age or younger), something they all latch onto. However, when they stand against her and Sombron, she turns vengeful and vows to destroy them. Plus she takes the place of the evil Lumera boss (because that was too much like the Revelation route in "Fates" with Mikoto).

3. Flashback/Nightmare makes more sense--A really confusing thing is evil Alear at the beginning. I don't recall if it's ever made clear if this is simply a nightmare or a flashback. Neither one makes sense; we SEE Alear in the past, and they're much more timid and submissive, not as sadistic or wicked (at least their vibe) as shown in the flashback. A nightmare also doesn't make sense, since it's never validated; Alear never joins Sombron, nor do they ever struggle with their evil. Instead, I like the idea that at first, they're legitimately evil. Thanks to Lumera and Sombron's toxic love and living in fear of their death, they are cruel and broken at first. Only when they're injured during battle and rescued a thousand years later by Lumera (for once, I'm keeping the amnesia arc) do they change their perspective on things, vowing to defeat their father. It's also worth noting that they KEEP their hair color; it doesn't turn blue because of Lumera willing it to. Instead, I'd prefer they have a natural red and black hair color (looks better, imo).

4. More of Alear's backstory--We do an unnecessary time travel event for ONE chapter, and I'd prefer if we did more back and forth. Perhaps we simply nix the arc where the team travels back in time (I'll still be using time travel, albeit in a different way here), and subsequent flashbacks we get are from Alear slowly regaining their memories. I'd probably also utilize Nil and Nel, who, in the OG game, are twin children of an alternate version of Sombron. I'd also kinda of change their designs since the black and white is mainly used to show affiliation (still keep Nel in pink and Nil in blue, though), and I'd probably give Nil a more buff design to contrast with Alear, similar to how Nel's mature design contrast's with Veyle's innocent one. In my version, they're children born to Sombron (not via Zephia) who are treated as inferior to Veyle and Alear, and are abused for that, so they strive to prove their worth so their father won't kill them.

5. S-supports for other characters--It was a weird choice for only Alear to be able to marry/reach S-supports with other characters. I know this is a minor detail, but I'd like this, since it adds a bit more depth to character bonds.

6. More romantic options--Everyone is fair game except characers who appear to be underage, ie Framme and Clanne. FE was really great with making much more same-sex options for "Engage," though it did seem confusing why some characters were platonic (yet still required a ring). I'd prefer it if S-supports were romantic, personally.

7. Child units via ring chamber--I got into FE via "Awakening" and "Fates," and I always loved being able to have kids. I made a post about fanmade kids a while ago, and I would do an "Awakening"-style time-travel story. Only this time, it's not a threatening future or a grim mission; you simply unlock them in the ring chamber when achieving S-supports, and they're summoned to your world via the rings within thanks to Alear's siblings.

8. Sombron's backstory is less hypocritical--I...I'm at a loss. He talks about his kids trying to kill him when he's killed several of them. Then he says how alone he feels, and when Alear reaches out to him, he brushes it off. It doesn't feel like writing that makes sense, especially if Sombron himself had feelings. In my rewrite, I'd say that Sombron is from Elyos (IDK why they made him from another world) thousands of years ago, growing up in an abusive and toxic family who eventually tried to kill him before his powers were unleashed and he killed them. Mentally broken, he vowed to have a "right" family of his own, though his first child ended up being as twisted as his family and tried to kill him, only for Sombron to beat them to the punch. Now suspicious and weary of all succeeding children, he lives a loveless, unhappy life.

9. Less rushed villain origins/more pronounced Hounds--Every FE game I've played has issues with writing villains, at least supporting ones. I guess that's the downfall of a game that relies on pair-ups/boosting affinity with other characters. In any case, it does feel like the Four Hounds weren't really characters, but just obstacles. They didn't feel fleshed-out beyond certain traits, and their motivation/backstories were pretty quickly rushed through. I'd probably include them in the story a bit more to give them more screentime and availability to be expanded upon for more nuance.

I feel like there are things that I'm missing, but I've had this post for so long, I wanted to finally release it, so I'll add any additional thoughts later.

[evostrashbin]

Happy Morgan day! 🥳🎉

[engagetextposts]

remaking my old textposts, but better. erm sorry i don't have any new ones but eh well.

[slotumn]

*Sombron voice* Political theory is for pussies I will build and govern a nation through infinite child abuse

[ro-botany]

How Big are the Fell Twins?

from @elysianstars on this post:

#Sombron will get chomped and he will DESERVE it #I'm curious about how the Fell Twins' dragon forms measure against Sombron #but I think they might be limited by the fact they need to fit onto the screen as playable combat units #personally I headcanon that they're smaller because they're younger. and a dragon's true form never stops growing. just like a lobster

Well if you wanted to know the In-Game Math Answer to how big these dragons really are, you're in luck! Because ripping dragon models from fire emblems and measuring them in various ways has become one of my favourite pastimes.

The short answer is: yes, the twins are quite a lot smaller than papa Sombron!

I guess what they look like is DLC spoilers probably? So I'll stick the screenshots and exact measurements behind a read more.

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To briefly explain how Engage's models work - most character models are lightly sculpted off a starting base, and then the game has a big table of scaling values for each character that changes the length and size of various parts of their bodies.

The fell dragon models fall into this pattern as well - all of Sombron, Nel, and Rafal's fell dragon and great fell dragon models are proportionally identical. But while Sombron's scaling values are all left to default, the twins... are 40% size!

(Fogado for scale.)

And given their identical proportions to their dad, and the math I've done previously about Sombron's size, I can tell you Nel and Rafal's measurements too!

The twins in their base form are approximately...

16.2 m (53 ft) from snout to tail tip

5.4 m (17 ft 8 in) from snout to vent

13.7 m (44 ft 10 in) from wingtip to wingtip, when their wings are fully extended

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For the sake of completeness, Big Boy Rafal is 60% of the size of Big Boy Sombron:

Which means his measurements are approximately:

70.6 m (232 ft) from snout to tail tip

30 m (99 ft) from snout to vent

68.4 m (224 ft) from wingtip to wingtip, excluding his weird wing finger claws

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(Of course, in a fight with Grima, all these bozos are still definitely getting chomped.)

[curse-d-owl]

I do believe the chance is high we'll get a Engage warriors game in the future.

My main wish is that we get a side campaign of when Alear was working under Sombron and how they lived together with Lumera but considering Age of Calamity didn't show us the true backstory of botw that chance is small.

[textsfromtheemblem]

[daydreamingsommie]

Why did Sombron choose the name Alear?

When Alear and Lumera met the first time, they state that their mother said that Sombron was the one who named them. He only used it once, but the name "Alear" came from him. But why?

You wouldn't expect a Fell Dragon to name their child after light

I have a couple of theories

The Emblem of Foundations had a name with a similar meaning. He didn't remember the Zero Emblem fully, but remembers that their name meant light and named Alear the same way

Alear was named after the light in their eyes. Alear and Lumera both make reference the look in each other's eyes. Sombron could have a similar comment about eyes as a dark parallel

Sombron named Alear after himself. Sombron wasn't always evil. He became evil after he was forced to flee his original world. What if he named Alear after the person he used to be before he became the Fell Dragon and took the name Sombron

He chose the name in a moment of lucidity. It's debatable if Sombron's currently suffering from Dragon Degeneration, but there are degenerated dragons with varied level of intelligence. It's possible that he gave Alear a name with the exact opposite meaning of his own to signify that his last moment of rationality was a hopeful one that at least one of his children wouldn't end up like him

Their mother lied and was the one who actually picked the name. Alear's birth mother might have had rose-colored glasses about Sombron. Maybe she didn't want to believe that Sombron was a terrible man and told Alear that he gave them their name to say "See, your father loved you enough to give you a name"

That's all the theories I got. Does anyone else have any ideas?

[feshippingpolls]

Embla x Sombron x Grima x Loptous x Velezark x Audamorze

FE: Should they kiss?

Embla x Sombron x Grima x Loptous x Velezark x Audamorze

[racecarart]

Sombron is a snake. Snakes are cute. <3

[garregmachina]

sombron wip