#fe gunnthra

[darkness-2727]

happy day of devotion to all who celebrate

[blazartstudios]

Gunnthrá from Fire Emblem Heroes

It's been too long since I last drew the wife, and while not perfect, feels good to know that I still got it!

As much of a trainwreck the game's become since Book VIII, I still love it and I gotta see the story to its end anyway. Book IX bringin' us to Ásgarðr definitely screams endgame territory cause frankly, I dunno where else they could take us after throwin' down with the almighty Æsir above the rest.

Anyway, so glad that despite how absurd the meta (that I don't exactly care about, but still kinda pay attention to), Gunnthrá's still holdin' strong, even if she was scuffed from the start with her stats, the remix, refine, and new skills have continued to give options for her to keep up. (just a shame she's been outclassed in her own gimmick)

Regardless, they'll never make another character that warms my heart like Gunnthrá does. She's everythin' I could want...♡

Enjoy!

[feh-alt-battle]

Poll 9 - Gunnthra

We are not here to comment on how "good" or "bad" any of the art is. We are here to find which alt is your favorite, be it in outfit, usability, or if it's just your blorbo! Please keep "this art is better than that art" out of the tags.

[bananabraiined]

Praying for a good fortune.

[jebbeesketches]

Tikanthrá

Tiki x Gunnthrá Fusion!! :3!!!

[godly-feh-edits]

Bridal Gunnthrá ❤️✨

[memie-art-blog]

Gunnthrá for @/WGamer06. Thank you for your vote!

[adrestianmomo]

Una Gunnthrá toda guapa

[fefuckability]

FEH Qualifier 1

Feel free to reblog and comment with your reasons!

[bravenewwor1d]

The Nifl family vacation!

[avionvadion]

Book Four and Five both feel really messy… Five especially. Although the switcheroozy with Alfonse and Summoner in Book Four was really fun. Also, WOW older siblings just can’t exist in Heroes. 🤣

Alfonse has a pass because of plot armor (though Alfador tried to erase him from existence after he killed Hel, but… failed??? I guess??? That was never really made clear. Just, “oh the Allfather erased him from existence because he was too powerful to live after killing Death herself; psych, he’s still alive, look he’s right here”!) but every other older sibling??? Just one living walking death flag.

Not gonna lie, part of me is convinced that the reason Alfador couldn’t/didn’t actually erase Alfonse is because Alfonse is gonna sacrifice himself at one point for Sharena and/or Summoner and thus becomes Alfador. You can’t erase yourself from existence, after all.

I’m not even that sad about Nott. Just kinda baffled. Some of these deaths just feel so unnecessary. It feels like they’re trying to go for a shock factor but it’s just kinda like… “Really? Again? Okay, I guess. Sucks for that character”.

Book Six has a decent start so far, though. Here’s hoping it’s as good as books two and three. I’m curious how the Embla vs Askr gods war is gonna go. Letizia is hella sus. I do really like her design, though.

Update: Really enjoying Book Six so far. Glad we’re actually getting back to the original war plot (the whole reason Summoner was summoned to Askr) rather than yeeting off into wars of other realms. The mid-point movie was really good- and the strings? ✨Mwah.✨ Chef’s kiss.

Askr was absolutely hilarious though. Man really said he was gonna descend fabulously from the heavens like, “Helloooo~ descendants! Daddy is here!”

Embla was NOT having any of his wink and smile. Just, “Oh great, this guy again. SPEAR TO THE FACE!!!”

Askr, effortlessly blocking it: “Honey, you wish!”

Second Update: Book Six was really good. That said, the older sibling thing was supposed to be a joke 😭 game, why?

ZACHARIAS NOOO. YOU AT LEAST MAKE SENSE AND HURT BUT ALSO NO YOU FINALLY TOOK OFF YOUR MASK. SIR PLEASE.

*cries*

Onto the book seven now…

[fe-smashorpass]

[moe-broey]

Oh!!!! And!!!! Interestingly!!!!! The One (1) Kiran/summoner sighting I found (idk if there's more? I thought it was neat though!)

[daybreak-champions]

Figured I'd show off some character builds of my FEH F/Os here for kicks ^^

[apollo-just-ice]

Bruno’s ??? fan asked: what are some feh characters you like but dont talk about very often?

Oooh this is a good question! Hmm let’s see: Gunnthrá, I just think she’s pretty & lovely :) Obligatory Njörðr mention tho I think I have talked about him a little. He had such potential to be a cool villain,,, can’t wait for him to become playable so I can pick apart his brain more lol. And finally, I will say Elm! He has grown on me more, funny little mean bat who’s super loyal :-)  

[emblemxeno]

Eik wins but because Baldr wins both sides are doing the same thing um no? Baldr is any sexy booby oc in a sea while Eik is the rare male fanservice character in a sea of women, a lot of people rallied around to prove male fanservice sells too but now we have the straight men being all “let’s agree all fanservice is bad “and I JUST WANT YO SHAKE THEM you don’t get constantly sexualized in everything while men can just be themselves and get catered to in everything and it pisses me off they refuse to see it and didn’t have a problem until now and now its both are bad I’m so tired. And here’s the thing I’m a sex repulsed asexual so I don’t like it period (hate this world) but my god how does anyone not see the difference?

Sorry to vent I’m curious on your thoughts on this you have really good analysis on things like this

I think you're spot on in your take tbh.

Like, I'm not gonna police horny stuff, or even generalize that people only vote for horny reasons. Baldr is pretty appealing in different ways. Design is one of them, but personally I also have interest in how they adapt the Norse myth into it (because Norse mythology go crazy) and because the Ojou-sama haughty personality is hiliarious to me.

But to ignore "she's hot" being a factor would be a bit naive. She's in the same position as Gullveig, only known for a couple months yet having a popularity boom because of aesthetic, interest in their story, and probable meme potential. But also cuz hot.

As you say, FEH has had no shortage of hot or attractive women. Example: How FEH treats the mainline FE game women, what with the odd (or flat out incorrect) body proportions, poses that make no sense, costumes that are impractical, and blatant imbalance of men and women in the banners themselves.

Even removing them from the equation, we have had many female OCs be massively popular for reasons that are... easy to understand, to be nice about it.

To start, there's the fact that, until this current book, the only free OCs we've gotten were women.

Fjorm, besides having a canon crush on the summoner, has also weirdly been hit with the sex appeal beam recently, with Summer and Ice Festival. Personally I think Fjorm was whatever, but became ironically hiliarious because of her crashing Forging Bonds every time, but I would've easily thought Gunnthra, Laevatain and Laegjarn would've had that "sexy OC" position more often, aside from their swimsuit alts.

Ash, Reginn and Ratatoskr fall into the "cute and bumbling" appeal which is a prominent niche. Peony would seem like an odd case of not having many hornybait fans, but then you realize Plumeria and Triandra were also there, and then Freyja hit a massive popularity surge for her story and design, before getting a sexy swimsuit alt as well. Even then, Peony's still cute. Dagr and Nott hit the "muscle mommy" niche. And Loki and Thorr are sexy and have been somewhat omnipresent.

Eir would be the true oddball, because she's very beautiful with a compelling story, but kind of is not given a lot of stuff.

But the real big example is all of book 7. Not only is Seior kind of infamous for both her design and "create a child with me" line, almost all of the cast was a variant of her/related to her in some way. Then looking at the designs for Book 7 in general, and like... yeah.

Now, compare that to the male OCs we have gotten over the years. Alfonse hits some good notes, but he was criticized as pretty boring early on until Book 3 started him on his cutthroat trend. Bruno is very obviously hot, but always had to be written around rather than written for, until he was flat out killed off in Book 6. Plus his clothes bursting apart to show his bod was kind of played for laughs rather than drawn to be outright attractive.

I think Helbindi and Surtr are hot, but I'm very much an outlier. (There could also be an anti dark skin element to them and Bruno but there's not enough evidence for that)

Lif was treated better than the actual star OC of Book 3, but he's not known for sexy fanservice, he's known for cool factor and being a dark future for Alfonse. Freyr is handsome but killed off mid Book 4. Book 5 had Otr and Fafnir, the latter I like, but neither were winning beauty contests. Same for Elm. Then you get Njordr, the only new man in Book 7, with a design that's not to everyone's taste (I happen to like it), a motivation that's badly undercooked, and has not even been made playable.

Eik was really kind of the first outright "here, we made this to appeal to people who like Muscular Men", considering the fangirling FEH was doing in the midpoint channel. Coming after Book 7 which was the most egregious skew towards fanservice-y designs for the women, and it was a bit of a perfect storm. And while interest in him for his design alone happened ever since Book 8's reveal, the above average writing of Book 8 (for FEH standards) helped him surge even more, along with more fourth wall breaking "you're interested in my muscles?" lines from him.

So, contextually, as you say, it's not a fair comparison for Eik and Baldr, because Eik is 1) the first guy who's had fanservice backing and popularity growth fueling it through his Book's story and 2) he had an entire Book to gain fans anyway unlike Baldr and Gullveig.

And definitely, there's major room for a conversation about misogyny regarding how women in media often have to be made attractive and sexy while the men get to be weird creatures and oddly shaped. FEH doesn't really treat many of its women as more than things to sell to horny people, and Eik was the first example of a man doing it, which was so uncommon that he got a lot of fans just for being different.

I wish that wasn't the case, considering the fact that many characters who aren't the typical sexy women have been conistently popular. Look at Veronica and Sharena! Idk why IS still believes that there needs to be curvacious babes in order to sell well when there's evidence that good writing or feel good personalities do just as fine. Women shouldn't just be hit with the "Sexualize Button", I would think that's pretty patronizing and demeaning for irl women and fans of female characters.