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part eleven of my every fire emblem support aesthetic series

it's not easy for me to rely on people, but with you, it's different.

lysithea x ignatz

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my contribution for the Reunion at Dawn fanzine 🦅

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Nooo I was a little late for wip wednesday but I painted Rhea in my normal style for the first time today~ I'm trying to like it but I'm feeling pretty unconfident. Hopefully it'll work out tho

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part ten of my every fire emblem support aesthetic series

a world without you would be ever so dull.

claude x lorenz

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part nine of my every fire emblem support aesthetic series

she really is brimming with untapped potential. when she smiles like that, wow! even my heart skips a beat.

hilda x lysithea

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the angst of haymitch knowing he can’t get close to or love anyone without getting them killed and yet slowly growing closer to effie and not being able to tell her why he has to keep pushing her away >>>>>>>

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Facades

Gonna cut to the chase here (this is brought to you by sleep deprivation).

We all know about the Claude Acting Silly conversation. Sometimes fandom flanderizes Claude's propensity for pranks, but other parts of the fandom think it is all a machiavellian ruse to make people underestimate him. However, we literally have a line from Claude elaborating that he acts the way he does because it helps calm people down. That line, "grin and bear it," haunts me. That Claude has to bury the panic because it keeps other people from panicking. In other words, Claude is not an inherently silly person, Claude is not putting on an elaborate act; Claude cracks jokes and plays pranks because he believes it is his civic fucking duty as the Duke of Leicester to insert some levity into the lives of his followers.

And yes, Claude is not the only one like this.

Dimitri is an angry person, deep down. Dimitri came to Garreg Mach for revenge, Dimitri went to a battlefield at age 14 for revenge, Dimitri is likely delaying his own coronation because I do not think Dimitri planned to ever take the crown; Dimitri wanted to violently murder whoever killed his family and friends in Garreg Mach and then just go to jail. Dimitri was close, he was right on Thales's ass with the donation records! The kindness and gentleness is Dimitri trying to suppress the voices. But, it's not just that is it? Dimitri says that he wants to be like Rodrigue, the kind of man who can "save a soul" by offering his hand. Dimitri's kindness is the one thing tethering him to his role as King and his obligation to his people. Dimitri does not think he is worthy to be King because of his acts of cruelty, kindness is such a high value to him that he believes a lack of it delegitimizes him! Dimitri is kind because of the obligations put upon him as King, but it is an obligation he fully believes in!

Edelgard, you know she was going to come up. Edelgard is associated with fire, the colour red, and love; Edelgard is probably the most emotional of the three lords in the core of her being. Paradoxically, Edelgard frames arguments on the grounds of logic and practicality. Edelgard often cites the practical weakness of the Crest system (consider her Devil's Advocate of Miklan, or appeals to the strength of people to rise above their stations), instead of the suffering it causes (only recognizing these things when other characters bring up their own pains to her, such as Lysithea or Bernadetta). Yet, Edelgard is not motivated by the weakness of the system, but by the emotional scar of the cruelty it can inflict. Edelgard is emotional, her core drive is an emotional response to the point that she is the most unyielding and stubborn of the bunch (you ALWAYS have to kill her in every route). When Edelgard speaks of her coldness, she speaks of it as a mantle she must take up as leader, Edelgard believes that leaders should be cold and detached despite how much she feels, feels, and feels again. However! Again, it is a principle Edelgard sees as one worth striving. I feel like a lot of people do not dig into that line in her B support (or was it A support) with Byleth; that Hubert spurs Edelgard to work harder and "worst of all, he's always right so I cannot disagree." Consider how Sylvain and Ferdinand (initially) do not put a lot of stock into Hubert's wisdom. Edelgard, on the other hand, does. Edelgard literally says that she often finds Hubert to be correct. Why? Edelgard likely values Hubert's ability to be fully and completely detached and logical. The amount of faith and autonomy Edelgard grants Hubert (an aspect of their relationship also worth thinking about, Hubert goes behind Edelgard because he has implicit permission to do so, they trust each other a lot) is evidence as to how much she genuinely values and strives to be the hard-nosed and clear-headed observer of events. Edelgard is most certainly not an inherent voice of reason, but she most certainly dedicates her full being to it because that is what an Emperor is supposed to be and she must be the best she can be to validate the lives of her lost family.

Also, yes, the other two retainers are relevant to this as well!

We already covered Hubert, how Edelgard's regard for him betrays how she does think being Logical And Detached is important, so we can skip him.

It is no coincidence that Claude, who thinks a leader has to project an image of being relaxed and upbeat, thinks the perfect lieutenant is someone who is genuinely lazy and wishes she was somewhere else. Hilda does not pretend, she genuinely is nonchalant and silly, she wishes she was at the club right now but oh well she can spare an hour or two of her day to crack skulls before going back to the day spa. Hilda is a hilariously Not Deep character here, she's the ";p" emoji made into a pink anime girl. So it is really easy to see how Hilda fits into Claude's ideal as a leader who is nonchalant. Claude grins and bears it, Hilda genuinely grins because she would hate to bear anything.

Dedue is the truest knight here. End of discussion. Strong, kind, always offering a hand. Dimitri says that the two of them saved each other, which rings similar to how Dimitri describes his ideal in Rodrigue as someone who can save another. The last thing I could call Dedue is cruel, despite his own capacity for violence (which comes with the territory, this is a Fire Emblem game, no one here really resolves a conflict without smashing a few faces in). Dimitri struggles to bury his traumatic anger with kindness, while Dedue simply does it better (I like to think there is a similar anger in Dedue, it's how he understands Dimitri so well).

The retainers are really straightforward characters in a lot of ways, uncomplicated but at the same time deeply fascinating with how they show what each lord values in a lieutenant and thus what they value in leadership and their identities as leaders.

What I am trying to say is that all three of them are putting on facades, are committing to a bit, but the line is blurry. Each genuinely thinks the facade they uphold is something important and forms a core of who they are as characters.

This could be why people call 3 Houses "Persona Emblem" because- yeah- a game called Persona has a lot to say about what people project as themselves and who they are really deep down. Claude, Dimitri and Edelgard would fit in too well.

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U know, Suzanne didn’t have to develop Effie’s relationship with Haymitch so deeply in sotr. She didn’t have to say, with all the words, how much Effie trusted him to not hurt her, implying a kind of trust that is beyond explanation, due to their short friendship. She didn’t have to say that Effie took care of him during his entire process in the Capitol —from his own Games, all the way to the 75th edition—, and how grateful he was for her. She didn’t have to make the last thing he saw before leaving to his eminent death being her eyes. She didn’t have to use a broken metaphor of geese’s mate to represent the way he saw his relationship with Lenore Dove, knowing perfectly well Geese don’t, in fact, mate for life; but grief for a long time —like Haymitch was doing— before finding another partner. She could have spared us the lore and just sell her tragic romantic story of Haymitch and a Lenore Dove, with no further explanation about Effie, so we wouldn’t question the epilogue as much as we’re doing now.But she didn’t!

She gave us it all, knowing very well the fandom she was working with. Knowing that ever since the first book was released —a decade ago—, we never stopped coming up with more analysis. That we kept overthinking about the tinniest details from the books, creating a stronger understanding about the characters. Knowing she wouldn’t get away with the incorrect geese metaphor…we would see though it

There is no way you are looking at all of this and saying we got less material for Hayffie than before…

She really said “they are not mine…but i know they are yours and i won’t take them away from you”

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children of the goddess 🌟

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afternoon naps

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face studies featuring my favorite boys. i think this is the closest i've got to the nose i picture claude having in my fics.

i feel the need to delve into a more semi-realist style from time to time so i can learn some stuff and stylize it into a more anime, simple drawing style.

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part eight of my every fire emblem support aesthetic series

 if the goddess appears, you let me know, ok?

ignatz x claude

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part seven of my every fire emblem support aesthetic series

perhaps in the future, you will join my retinue as my personal painter!

lorenz x ignatz

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part six of my every fire emblem support aesthetic series

then we can share cake notes and eat cake together all the time.

felix x lysithea

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Jan van Eyck - The Annunciation. Detail. 1434 - 1436

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Dimitri sketch 💙

He's a good boy

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King's Shields