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Hey I’m alive, I know it’s been a couple years but better late than never?

Anyway, I just wanted to push my theory here that Xander in Fire Emblem Fates was never voiced by David Stanbra, and instead has been voiced by RE4 leading man Paul Mercier since Xander’s first appearance.

I made a couple videos a little while ago:

Which I think showcases my point considerably well. Uncanny, even.

Basically: Stanbra WAS in Fates, he was clearly Kaze, Siegbert and Shura, but due to other projects he was doing at the time, Stanbra wasn’t able to return as the former two in FEH. A circumstantial point, Stanbra is far less acclimated to game acting, and has only done a half dozen or so in the past decade.

Mercier, however, was a part of the cast as well (my theory is that he’s Walley Hollis in the Fates credits, while his wife Paula Tiso, who voiced Camilla and Orochi, was credited as Holly Wallace), and has consistently returned to the role, across the Corrin trailer for Smash, Warriors and every appearance in FEH. A particularly interesting thing to note is that Mercier’s official role listings have an interesting blank area between 2014 and 2020. This would line up with the presumed opening of Fates auditions, alongside his use of pseudonyms to get around doing non-union work.

Long story short, I’ve been convinced that Xander’s english VA credit (which has never been directly confirmed, only ever assumed) was incorrect, and I’ve found a decent amount of evidence to support that claim. Of course, I can’t be certain either unless I’m ever able to ask Mercier himself, but I would like to know what people think?

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SD Gundam Generation: Cross Rays

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses

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Twin AU where Bylad never knows what’s going on and Bylass is in a constant state of pure unadulterated rage

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Instead of drawing an actually good piece to celebrate getting close to the release of three houses, I decided to redraw some of my favorite characters as random images I had on my phone.

Hope you enjoy!

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This child, much like his mentor, also stabs as a warning. He has such a threatening energy...

Can't wait to see how he comes out after the skip.

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dimitri: felix is one of my oldest friends. he can be a bit harsh but i wouldn’t trade him for the world, we’d go through anything together.

golden deer byleth: hey felix want to join my house?

felix: can you stab people good?

golden deer byleth: yeah

felix: ok chief

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Shamir stabs as a warning.

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Gilbert is quiet and mysterious. He does like fishing though, so he may just be a man of simple pleasures.

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Now, what is there to say about old man Tomas?

The guy likes books.

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FE3H + Text posts pt6

<pt 5

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I fully accept Jeritza as our new Char expy.

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fe3h doodles!

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i said before that i’d make an unofficial height map (for pre-skip students + the byleths) so here it finally is! you can click it to see the full size

i’d preface this post with four points:

@photographerh is an absolute genius and dimitri head measurements are henceforth called ‘dimetres’

all heights are taken from the character models and cutscenes

i have zero experience in anatomy/perspectives and eyeballed a lot of these so they might not be accurate. i do have reasoning for them though! see ‘evidence’ under the cut

the inches are arbitrary because we’re comparing the characters relative to each other. i added them so people can have a concrete, familiar measurement, but i also calculated dimetres (dm) for the curious (and to help identify the small differences)

also don’t mind the weird red horizontal lines; those were there to help me get my bearings

stuff to note:

marianne is the tallest girl and raphael is the tallest guy

bernadetta is the shortest girl and ashe is the shortest guy

the median is between dorothea and felix

girls from petra and below are the shorter half for the girls (f!byleth and beyond are the taller half)

guys from claude and below are the shorter half for the guys (ferdinand and beyond are the taller half)

edelgard has (arbitrarily) three inch heels

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