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Oooooo love those ideas. Dimitri’s power up being Areadhbar makes sense. I do like the idea of needing to get a dragon stone being a priority, from a plot perspective because Dimitri would be concerned about going into a blind rage again. I guess realistically they probably wouldn’t know what a dragon stone is until they find it but I can see the stone being hidden in like a different area deeper into the base or something. What if it’s like a set of maps that follow immediately after each other with not pause in between? The first one the group arrives and defeats dragon Dimitri and scare away Thales and second they’re fighting more agarthans and after that they find the dragon stone. It would be interesting if during that map Dimitri is force deployed but unable to fight lacking a weapon and the general concerns about him going into another draconic rage. He would still have his regular stats so he wouldn’t be squishy but would be unable to fight.

Love the idea of involving the Nabateans. If we wanna involve playable characters that are also saints Seteth and Flayn could also be interesting. While they are of course loyal to Rhea there is some tension especially with Seteth not liking Rhea’s experimenting (as we can see with him asking what she did to Byleth) and if in this au she’s doing even more experimenting I could see Seteth and Flayn taking a more neutral stance? Like they’re not siding with Edelgard but they give their trials and then leave and show back up after the war. They could give separate trials but if we want to involve more of the saints maybe they have a combined trial and so do Indech and Macuil. Thematically what I’m thinking is Edelgard faces the Cichol and Cethleann trial and Claude faces the Indech and Macuil one.

That idea makes a lot of sense for Dorothea, where she’s found in a village and once they explain their goals she joins. I could also see maybe she’s traveling through doing her songstress work and Manuela is also there and either joins or stays in the village to help them but is now their ally. Yeah Petra is kinda tricky but that makes sense that she agrees to join on the condition Edelgard will work to set Brigid free. If we want to connect the Church more as a primary antagonist maybe the Church is directly trying to control Brigid/establish the church there and Petra left to find aid. She heard about Edelgard’s traveling and decided to see if the princess would hear her out.

Now that leaves the Golden Deer. Hilda of course is there from the beginning and I feel like Marianne is an obvious one to talk about. I could see her either going to find Hilda and helping a village on the way that’s being attacked or something similar. The group arrive and she joins once talked to. An alternative is there’s surprise attacks on alliance territory by a mix of TWSITD and Faerghus troops and Marianne is in one of the villages trying to help the people.

Here me out- 3h au where it’s more of a classic fe story. The Church is trying to revive Sothis but is just making monsters in the process (including Byleth) so the lords have to team up to take Rhea down while also dealing with TWSITD.

Edelgard is the hero who can wield a holy weapon. She grew up around a lot of church members and grew very suspicious and distrustful of them especially after she accidentally overheard Rhea talking about the experiments on Byleth.

Claude is mind behind all of the plans. While Leicester has less ties to the Church Claude was often in Adrestia or Faerghus to visit Edelgard and Dimitri as his uncle wanted him to “foster relationships with the other nations”. This lead to him also seeing how suspicious the church was. He is also an expert in some Almyran magics.

Dimitri on the other hand did not notice, and while Faerghus was the “holy kingdom” Rhea and the church higher ups didn’t seem to care much about him. This was because the title of holy kingdom was due to their loyalty to the church and nothing more. The reason Dimitri in particular was more dismissed is the Blaiddyd line had fell dragon blood (even though they had long claimed it was holy, the lie collaborated by the church) and in Dimitri had a lot of fell energy.

There is still a war with the empire and kingdom although the kingdom are the aggressors. Prince Dimitri has gone missing and Regent Rufus and Advisor Cornelia are claiming the empire kidnapped him. Edelgard knows this can’t be true and Claude suspects Rufus is hiding something so with a small group of allies they depart to sneak into the kingdom to find Dimitri. They first suspect the Church has him but after breaking into one of the Church’s labs they find out about TWSITD and that they’re most likely responsible.

On the road they meet Byleth, a mercenary hunting TWSITD who agrees to join and help take them down and suspects they know where Dimitri is held. Once they break into the find him but Thales reveals the truth of the Blaiddyd line and pushed Dimitri into a fell dragon form. Made mad with rage and pain Dimitri doesn’t recognize anyone and attacks indiscriminately. Claude is able to calm him down with a magical song and they make Thales retreat.

Now reunited with the other lords Dimitri joins their cause to stop the war, expose the church, and defeat TWSITD.

They all have unique classes of course and weapon wise it’s

Edelgard: axe and sword

Claude: bow and magic

Dimitri: spear and dragon stone

[hauntedaeon]

Thank you I’m glad you found it interesting! I’m tempted to write the fic lol if I can convince myself I’ll do it.

Here me out- 3h au where it’s more of a classic fe story. The Church is trying to revive Sothis but is just making monsters in the process (including Byleth) so the lords have to team up to take Rhea down while also dealing with TWSITD.

Edelgard is the hero who can wield a holy weapon. She grew up around a lot of church members and grew very suspicious and distrustful of them especially after she accidentally overheard Rhea talking about the experiments on Byleth.

Claude is mind behind all of the plans. While Leicester has less ties to the Church Claude was often in Adrestia or Faerghus to visit Edelgard and Dimitri as his uncle wanted him to “foster relationships with the other nations”. This lead to him also seeing how suspicious the church was. He is also an expert in some Almyran magics.

Dimitri on the other hand did not notice, and while Faerghus was the “holy kingdom” Rhea and the church higher ups didn’t seem to care much about him. This was because the title of holy kingdom was due to their loyalty to the church and nothing more. The reason Dimitri in particular was more dismissed is the Blaiddyd line had fell dragon blood (even though they had long claimed it was holy, the lie collaborated by the church) and in Dimitri had a lot of fell energy.

There is still a war with the empire and kingdom although the kingdom are the aggressors. Prince Dimitri has gone missing and Regent Rufus and Advisor Cornelia are claiming the empire kidnapped him. Edelgard knows this can’t be true and Claude suspects Rufus is hiding something so with a small group of allies they depart to sneak into the kingdom to find Dimitri. They first suspect the Church has him but after breaking into one of the Church’s labs they find out about TWSITD and that they’re most likely responsible.

On the road they meet Byleth, a mercenary hunting TWSITD who agrees to join and help take them down and suspects they know where Dimitri is held. Once they break into the find him but Thales reveals the truth of the Blaiddyd line and pushed Dimitri into a fell dragon form. Made mad with rage and pain Dimitri doesn’t recognize anyone and attacks indiscriminately. Claude is able to calm him down with a magical song and they make Thales retreat.

Now reunited with the other lords Dimitri joins their cause to stop the war, expose the church, and defeat TWSITD.

They all have unique classes of course and weapon wise it’s

Edelgard: axe and sword

Claude: bow and magic

Dimitri: spear and dragon stone

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College is wild cause like what do you mean I went from struggling for hours on end just to fall asleep to passing out on random surfaces in my houses like the fucking dining room floor

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Oooo yes I love the idea of Linhardt learning early on and leaving to go find Edelgard. He may love his naps but yeah be does have issues with human experimentation like you said. If we want to bring his dad into this and figure out how/when Dimitri is found we could honestly connect them. Maybe Linhardt’s dad was communicating with Cornelia and planned to move Linhardt to Faerghus to work under Cornelia in order to study and hone his already sharp intellect. When he runs away to find Edelgard he brings with him knowledge of Dimitri’s location inside Faerghus.

Yeah Dimitri being found would definitely need to be early. Originally I was thinking maybe a 1/3 of the way through but considering they’d likely still have the war to end, church to deal with, and TWSITD to deal with maybe 1/4th of the way through makes more sense. Early enough time for Dimitri to be present for the vast majority of the story while giving enough time for malicious forces in the Kingdom and especially the Empire to take over. I say especially cause if Cornelia and Rufus are in charge then the Kingdom is basically already taken over.

Love the idea of Linhardt having to be the one to recruit Caspar that makes total sense. I feel like Linhardt also would not have to defeat Caspar, just talk to him.

As for which antagonist forces are present where TWSITD are definitely the dominate force in the Kingdom with Cornelia. I kind of picture that while Dimitri is definitely the most disliked the Church has never been the biggest fans of the Blaiddyd line due to their fell dragon blood leaving space for the Agarthans to worm their way in more easily. Thus most likely the Church is very present in either the Empire or Alliance. The Empire is the more logical choice, although it could be more 50/50 maybe with some working with TWSITD like Ferdinand and Linhardt’s dads.

As for the recruiting of other Black Eagles. I could see Bernadetta being an enemy recruit. Either her dad is involved in the scheme with the other scheming dads or maybe he’s working for Rhea. Maybe she’s somewhat aware that the Agarthans are rising in power and to combat this she’s doubled down on her own experiments trying to revive Sothis and had Bernadetta’s dad guard one of their labs. Bernadetta I feel would surrender after being talked to and leave the map. I could see there being a condition though that like her dad has to be killed after she’s been talked to, if he’s killed before she’s talked to she just runs away instead of joining after the map.

Minor detail but I think it would be interesting if there was that one trope (or like plot cliche?) where all of the lords gain a power up at some point around but after the half way point. Edelgard could gain a holy weapon, I can see her having divine dragon blood however like most royals she can’t turn into a dragon she just gets a cool weapon. Claude maybe gets a level up to his Almyran magic like a new exclusive spell, probably not a damage one though like a status affect one or summoning or something, and maybe Dimitri gets a dragon stone. I can totally see SWSITD keeping dragon stones away from him especially if they wanted to turn him into a weapon of some kind.

Here me out- 3h au where it’s more of a classic fe story. The Church is trying to revive Sothis but is just making monsters in the process (including Byleth) so the lords have to team up to take Rhea down while also dealing with TWSITD.

Edelgard is the hero who can wield a holy weapon. She grew up around a lot of church members and grew very suspicious and distrustful of them especially after she accidentally overheard Rhea talking about the experiments on Byleth.

Claude is mind behind all of the plans. While Leicester has less ties to the Church Claude was often in Adrestia or Faerghus to visit Edelgard and Dimitri as his uncle wanted him to “foster relationships with the other nations”. This lead to him also seeing how suspicious the church was. He is also an expert in some Almyran magics.

Dimitri on the other hand did not notice, and while Faerghus was the “holy kingdom” Rhea and the church higher ups didn’t seem to care much about him. This was because the title of holy kingdom was due to their loyalty to the church and nothing more. The reason Dimitri in particular was more dismissed is the Blaiddyd line had fell dragon blood (even though they had long claimed it was holy, the lie collaborated by the church) and in Dimitri had a lot of fell energy.

There is still a war with the empire and kingdom although the kingdom are the aggressors. Prince Dimitri has gone missing and Regent Rufus and Advisor Cornelia are claiming the empire kidnapped him. Edelgard knows this can’t be true and Claude suspects Rufus is hiding something so with a small group of allies they depart to sneak into the kingdom to find Dimitri. They first suspect the Church has him but after breaking into one of the Church’s labs they find out about TWSITD and that they’re most likely responsible.

On the road they meet Byleth, a mercenary hunting TWSITD who agrees to join and help take them down and suspects they know where Dimitri is held. Once they break into the find him but Thales reveals the truth of the Blaiddyd line and pushed Dimitri into a fell dragon form. Made mad with rage and pain Dimitri doesn’t recognize anyone and attacks indiscriminately. Claude is able to calm him down with a magical song and they make Thales retreat.

Now reunited with the other lords Dimitri joins their cause to stop the war, expose the church, and defeat TWSITD.

They all have unique classes of course and weapon wise it’s

Edelgard: axe and sword

Claude: bow and magic

Dimitri: spear and dragon stone

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SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO RESPOND. I’m a full time college student and this week was finals.

Yesssssss. Love those ideas.

I can kinda picture a combination? Like Mercedes is recruited the way you talk about where she’s trying to save orphans from being kidnapped and it’s fog of war style map. Especially since if there’s no academy to meet she wouldn’t know any of the group outside of Annette of course. Maybe she wouldn’t have heard about Dimitri through Annette talking about her dad? I mean she’d know of the royals regardless bust still.

Maybe then Mercedes leads them to the School of Sorcery to get Annette and confront Cornelia. They know more directly what to look for but I like the idea that Annette somehow got kidnapped or trapped cause of their clumsiness. The latter makes more sense to me especially cause oh how trusting she is. I feel like she would initially trust Cornelia, probably a bit suspicious but wouldn’t suspect all the stuff Cornelia is doing.

Timeline wise I feel like they’re recruited in the middle? I can see Dedue being the earliest of the Blue Lions, maybe they end up looking for Dimitri in the same place he is. Then Mercedes and Annette followed by Felix and Sylvain. Then probably Ashe, makes even more sense for Lonato to talk of Sylvain and Felix are able to vouch on behalf of their houses, at least Felix. Ashe could also be recruited after Dimitri is found with Dimitri doing all of the vouching. Then Ingrid after Dimitri is found.

As for the other houses, Hubert and Hilda are probably there from the get go. I’m trying to think of who would be an enemy that has to be defeated and I’m thinking probably Ferdinand? I could see his dad trying to capitalize on Faerghus attacking and Edelgard leaving by trying to take the throne. He sends Ferdinand to attack and after beating him Edelgard tells him the truth, backed by the others.

Here me out- 3h au where it’s more of a classic fe story. The Church is trying to revive Sothis but is just making monsters in the process (including Byleth) so the lords have to team up to take Rhea down while also dealing with TWSITD.

Edelgard is the hero who can wield a holy weapon. She grew up around a lot of church members and grew very suspicious and distrustful of them especially after she accidentally overheard Rhea talking about the experiments on Byleth.

Claude is mind behind all of the plans. While Leicester has less ties to the Church Claude was often in Adrestia or Faerghus to visit Edelgard and Dimitri as his uncle wanted him to “foster relationships with the other nations”. This lead to him also seeing how suspicious the church was. He is also an expert in some Almyran magics.

Dimitri on the other hand did not notice, and while Faerghus was the “holy kingdom” Rhea and the church higher ups didn’t seem to care much about him. This was because the title of holy kingdom was due to their loyalty to the church and nothing more. The reason Dimitri in particular was more dismissed is the Blaiddyd line had fell dragon blood (even though they had long claimed it was holy, the lie collaborated by the church) and in Dimitri had a lot of fell energy.

There is still a war with the empire and kingdom although the kingdom are the aggressors. Prince Dimitri has gone missing and Regent Rufus and Advisor Cornelia are claiming the empire kidnapped him. Edelgard knows this can’t be true and Claude suspects Rufus is hiding something so with a small group of allies they depart to sneak into the kingdom to find Dimitri. They first suspect the Church has him but after breaking into one of the Church’s labs they find out about TWSITD and that they’re most likely responsible.

On the road they meet Byleth, a mercenary hunting TWSITD who agrees to join and help take them down and suspects they know where Dimitri is held. Once they break into the find him but Thales reveals the truth of the Blaiddyd line and pushed Dimitri into a fell dragon form. Made mad with rage and pain Dimitri doesn’t recognize anyone and attacks indiscriminately. Claude is able to calm him down with a magical song and they make Thales retreat.

Now reunited with the other lords Dimitri joins their cause to stop the war, expose the church, and defeat TWSITD.

They all have unique classes of course and weapon wise it’s

Edelgard: axe and sword

Claude: bow and magic

Dimitri: spear and dragon stone

[hauntedaeon]

Omg yes. Glad you found it interesting!

Oooooo I can totally see that. The idea of Ingrid being the more hesitant to believe she’s being lied to makes sense especially when you factor in she has less options cause she needs to keep her house a priority. I like the idea that Dimitri has to talk to her, cause he may be the only one she believes, especially if they’re still fighting the kingdom at that point cause joining would mean possibly endangering her house. Comparatively Felix and Sylvain are in better positions, Felix especially cause I doubt Rodrigue believes Rufus and Cornelia and is more likely to act on it.

I can totally see Felix and Sylvain deserting and leaving to go find Dimitri, especially Felix. Felix wouldn’t believe the lies for a second, already being one of the only characters to not put up with the duty talk of Faerghus. I don’t think he’d tell his dad but the implicit support is there. As for Sylvain I feel like he’d either get dragged along by Felix or also sets out on his own and they run into each other. I picture them being recruited as allies who show up part way through a map. If Edelgard or Claude talk to them they immediately join mid-map.

For our other blue lions I feel like Dedue would be recruited from being an ally mid battle as well by Edelgard or Claude but has to be talked to multiple times (similar to having to knock one Midori’s door multiple times in fates)

Ashe I could see joining after a Lonato chapter or interaction, either a fight and Ashe is spared, then they talk to Lonato afterwards or they’re able to avoid fighting since Lonato is more likely to listen and Ashe is sent with them as a sign of loyalty thus recruited in between maps.

Here me out- 3h au where it’s more of a classic fe story. The Church is trying to revive Sothis but is just making monsters in the process (including Byleth) so the lords have to team up to take Rhea down while also dealing with TWSITD.

Edelgard is the hero who can wield a holy weapon. She grew up around a lot of church members and grew very suspicious and distrustful of them especially after she accidentally overheard Rhea talking about the experiments on Byleth.

Claude is mind behind all of the plans. While Leicester has less ties to the Church Claude was often in Adrestia or Faerghus to visit Edelgard and Dimitri as his uncle wanted him to “foster relationships with the other nations”. This lead to him also seeing how suspicious the church was. He is also an expert in some Almyran magics.

Dimitri on the other hand did not notice, and while Faerghus was the “holy kingdom” Rhea and the church higher ups didn’t seem to care much about him. This was because the title of holy kingdom was due to their loyalty to the church and nothing more. The reason Dimitri in particular was more dismissed is the Blaiddyd line had fell dragon blood (even though they had long claimed it was holy, the lie collaborated by the church) and in Dimitri had a lot of fell energy.

There is still a war with the empire and kingdom although the kingdom are the aggressors. Prince Dimitri has gone missing and Regent Rufus and Advisor Cornelia are claiming the empire kidnapped him. Edelgard knows this can’t be true and Claude suspects Rufus is hiding something so with a small group of allies they depart to sneak into the kingdom to find Dimitri. They first suspect the Church has him but after breaking into one of the Church’s labs they find out about TWSITD and that they’re most likely responsible.

On the road they meet Byleth, a mercenary hunting TWSITD who agrees to join and help take them down and suspects they know where Dimitri is held. Once they break into the find him but Thales reveals the truth of the Blaiddyd line and pushed Dimitri into a fell dragon form. Made mad with rage and pain Dimitri doesn’t recognize anyone and attacks indiscriminately. Claude is able to calm him down with a magical song and they make Thales retreat.

Now reunited with the other lords Dimitri joins their cause to stop the war, expose the church, and defeat TWSITD.

They all have unique classes of course and weapon wise it’s

Edelgard: axe and sword

Claude: bow and magic

Dimitri: spear and dragon stone

[hauntedaeon]

Here me out- 3h au where it’s more of a classic fe story. The Church is trying to revive Sothis but is just making monsters in the process (including Byleth) so the lords have to team up to take Rhea down while also dealing with TWSITD.

Edelgard is the hero who can wield a holy weapon. She grew up around a lot of church members and grew very suspicious and distrustful of them especially after she accidentally overheard Rhea talking about the experiments on Byleth.

Claude is mind behind all of the plans. While Leicester has less ties to the Church Claude was often in Adrestia or Faerghus to visit Edelgard and Dimitri as his uncle wanted him to “foster relationships with the other nations”. This lead to him also seeing how suspicious the church was. He is also an expert in some Almyran magics.

Dimitri on the other hand did not notice, and while Faerghus was the “holy kingdom” Rhea and the church higher ups didn’t seem to care much about him. This was because the title of holy kingdom was due to their loyalty to the church and nothing more. The reason Dimitri in particular was more dismissed is the Blaiddyd line had fell dragon blood (even though they had long claimed it was holy, the lie collaborated by the church) and in Dimitri had a lot of fell energy.

There is still a war with the empire and kingdom although the kingdom are the aggressors. Prince Dimitri has gone missing and Regent Rufus and Advisor Cornelia are claiming the empire kidnapped him. Edelgard knows this can’t be true and Claude suspects Rufus is hiding something so with a small group of allies they depart to sneak into the kingdom to find Dimitri. They first suspect the Church has him but after breaking into one of the Church’s labs they find out about TWSITD and that they’re most likely responsible.

On the road they meet Byleth, a mercenary hunting TWSITD who agrees to join and help take them down and suspects they know where Dimitri is held. Once they break into the find him but Thales reveals the truth of the Blaiddyd line and pushed Dimitri into a fell dragon form. Made mad with rage and pain Dimitri doesn’t recognize anyone and attacks indiscriminately. Claude is able to calm him down with a magical song and they make Thales retreat.

Now reunited with the other lords Dimitri joins their cause to stop the war, expose the church, and defeat TWSITD.

They all have unique classes of course and weapon wise it’s

Edelgard: axe and sword

Claude: bow and magic

Dimitri: spear and dragon stone

[hauntedaeon]

Say what you will about Hopes’ questionable writing and Azure Gleam specifically (like wtf was that ending and how Edelgard was treated) but I will always like how Dimitri is basically just holding Faerghus together with duck tape. Pieces keep falling off as he scrambles to tape it back while the whole thing is tilting a little to the side and may fall.

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Not my usual fire emblem post but but I am in fact an artist and this piece got into an exhibition at my university recently so I figured I’d share it!

The vase is 13 inches tall and entirely coil built! I’m very new to ceramics and the pot is very uneven but I decided to embrace that lol. It’s based on flowers pots but also mold, its title is “Mold Pot” I know, I’m so creative lol.

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Lion man Dimitri is such a fun concept but instead of him having vague “beast desires” that relate to violence or nsfw stuff I think it’s far more entertaining if lion man Dimitri’s only ��beast desires” are like sitting in boxes and occasionally knocking stuff off tables and stuff. I want him to be a silly little guy, made funnier by his height especially post timeskip.

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Sometime I try yo explain ships are similar but I can’t formulate why so it’s just kinda vibes??? Like Dimilix (FE) and Acheswan (HSR) have similar vibes to me but I can’t explain it well so I feel like I’m just gesturing wildly saying “SEE, SEE THEYRE SIMILAR”

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I wonder how many times Dedue had to hold back from calling Dimitri a dumbass. Not that he ever actually would but like. How many weeds did Dimitri try to eat, how many suspicious persons did he almost trust, how much nonsense did he get up to that Dedue put a stop to.

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I love looking at a set of angsty siblings and putting them in an au where they are a different set of angsty siblings. Like Edelgard and Dimitri are Ragbros now (Edelgard is Diluc and Dimitri is Kaeya. Also Anselma is Crepus).

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I love the idea of Modern AU Dimitri being this seemingly normal preppy boy in high school who comes from a rich family and had a lot of friends but then he completely vanished one day. He’s not really seen till years later when he shows up at the class reunion after Byleth found him and dragged him there. He walks in with multiple new piercings and tattoos and they find out he’s been living in shitty apartments and his car for past 5 years.

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Anytime I see someone complain that fans are making games “too woke” or talking about how “that character isn’t gay! You’re forcing it!” I will simply make another queer headcanon /hj

“Stop shipping them they’re both straight!”

Blade from HSR is trans now 🙂

“No he’s totally straight and not trans and would hate gay people”

Congrats to Shoko Ieiri for coming out as a lesbian!

“No more of this transgender nonsense in this fandom”

What’s that? Ling Wen is aroace? Good for her

“No she’s a WOMAN who loves MEN”

Oh look! It’s Jin Kazama, heard he’s bisexual!

Like, as long as they aren’t harmful let people have their hc’s. And just because a character isn’t confirmed queer does not automatically mean they’re cishet. Homophobia and transphobia I will simply use as fuel to make me stronger 😤

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Here to push the Dimitri and Yuri being friends agenda (in Azure Moon primarily).

They meet again in the slums of Fhirdiad after Dedue helps Dimitri escape. Yuri had been visiting the capital to learn what he could of the situation and is very surprised to find the prince crouched covered in dirt and grime in a dirty alleyway. He is surprised to see Dimitri alive but helps him hide from Cornelia’s forces and the guards. For a time he’s stuck essentially babysitting a man who is extremely unstable and currently the most wanted man in the Kingdom. He can’t really help Dimitri mentally but he tries, for the sake of Faerghus at least. Yuri leaves Fhirdiad as soon as they can and takes Dimitri with him. Dimitri gets a bit better and while and Yuri convinces him to not run off and kill Edelgard yet, he has to lay low for a bit first. He starts helping Yuri when he can mostly with his strength.

Yuri teaches Dimitri a lot of skills he uses in his line of work like, how to walk silently, to throw knives, and even more trivial things like how to curse and antagonize your enemies. He ends up joining Mockingbird’s Thieves until his restlessness and desire for revenge consume him again and he leaves, although Yuri does convince him to take a new set of armor with him

They of course reunite a few years later at the class reunion. Everyone concerned about Dimitri’s state and how he refuses to talk to people most of the time as he just stands in the chapel. Then one day Yuri barges in barking orders at him to everyone’s shock, and even more surprising that Dimitri kind of listens. No one is swaying his opinions or goals but Yuri is able to get him to bathe and eat.

Instead of being a sudden change Dimitri slowly gets better, while Rodrigues’s death is certainly a wake up call and causes him to open up faster he was a bit more open initially and instead of just Byleth he also has Yuri and soon the other blue lions.

When he becomes King he appoints Yuri as an advisor and I feel is a more radical King. Faerghus is very steeped in tradition and that won’t change but you have a Prince born with just so much empathy who then lived in poverty for 5 years and now cares a less for nobles. Over the years he gives away a lot of the Blaiddyd fortune to those in poverty.

Yuri had also made him a menace to the council/noble society. Dimitri is now somewhat crass with plenty of swearing and even the occasional innuendo. His manners often aren’t the best either. He sometimes eats with his hands and takes pride in his ability to drink Balthus under the table.

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A shitty doodle of Felix on my dry erase board in my studio at college. Photo reference of the figure on my shelf. I find the photo funny lol and have the doodle to remind me I am a fool anytime I bite of more than I can chew with a drawing (literally every assignment).