#mypovdimitricharacterization

[mysticdragon3md3]

Dimitri? But he's a sweetheart.

Oh yeah...Forgot.

I have "Claude-Perception of Dimitri" Syndrome. It's where you judge Academy Dimitri to be a good, altruistic person. So when you see him bloodthirsty on Gronder Field, it does not compute. So you end up saying things like, "I just don't understand him", like Claude said in Verdant Wind, when the last time he saw Dimitri was as a bloodthirsty "boar". But when you hear in Azure Moon that Dimitri dropped his revenge quest to go liberate Faerghus, you're like, "That's the Dimitri I know! He'll totally go rescue me, because he's an altruistic person, just like I knew he was." In my head, Dimitri is always just an awkward, uncertain, formal sweetheart.

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[mysticdragon3md3]

I always ♥️ any dimiclaude that comes across my timeline, to teach the algorithm to show me more dimiclaude.

But i almost didn't this one because it didn't feel like Dimitri.

This feels like it was inspired by Engage's Dimitri. But FE3H's Dimitri isn't judgemental, critical, or stuck up with superiority, even when confronted with Claude's scheming. He's not a tsundere. He's more like a deredere or yandere. And he may be proper, but he's not like the nobles who let pride in their propriety, separate them as superior. In FE3H, he taught commoner children. In FEW3Hopes (Yuri Support scenes), he went around helping commoners without telling them he was king. Dimitri is not in the habit of creating emotional divides (that's what made his Boar phase so shocking). He even tried reaching out to Edelgard, during their war, in that FE3H secret meeting.

FE3H Dimitri has always been very open and sweet. He had to be written that way to make his turn after the time skip shocking. And he's always been so desperate for emotional connection and close familiarity, that he was always asking at the Academy, to be treated like any other student. Even in Engage, he was still lamenting how even the people closest to him, like Dedue, still felt emotionally distant.

Without that kind of characterization for Dimitri, too many reasons i ship Dimiclaude fall apart.

Claude's over familiarity (by royal propriety standards) no longer make sense as something that draws in Dimitri.

Dimitri becomes a character i almost dislike, a tsundere.

Dimiclaude's interactions are no longer something so sweet that i'd love the ship. Why would i enjoy watching dimiclaude interact, if Dimitri is going to pretend to be emotionally closed from Claude, even if it's "just at the beginning"? And talk down to Claude too? No thank you, I'm not into that traditional Shojo genre "cool leading man paired with leading lady who just endures his harshness until he decides to finally open up" tropes. I like dimiclaude because in my interpretations, they obviously LIKE each other. Why would Dimitri like Claude if Claude repeatedly annoys him? Why would Claude defy his own internal struggles for true emotiinal closeness, to the degree of lovers, if Dimitri was always scowling at him? Why would i enjoy watching any of that?

But i guess i just have different headcanons from other people. And we're all allowed to have our different headcanons. I'm sure people who love the "tsundere bishounen with enduring partner" dynamic or "enemies to lovers", get something valuable out of it. It's just not for me.