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FE: Three Houses [38/??]

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i love seeing the affect house leaders have on recruited characters during the war phase and i think the most visual instance of this is post ts bernadetta not leaving her room during explore days in all routes except for crimson flower

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very funny to imagine the differences in the ending bit of chapter 10

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i couldn't skip dorothea's birthday as she's definitely one of my favs :) i feel like this is a portrait that was painted post game after dorothea has her happy ending.

this is a somewhat study (i kinda went my own way at some point) of "albaydé" by alexandre cabanel.

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hubert: just a friendly reminder we are at the academy for nefarious reasons. please do not get too attached to anyone here

edelgard while finishing the black eagles’ lunch by writing a personal motivational note in each one: yea obviously?? why are you bringing this up

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when it comes to the relationship between rhea and edelgard i think a lot of people have pointed out that in a way edelgard represents rhea's greatest failure, but i don't think they really get what that failure was in the first place. because yeah the church failed to cultivate and maintain its relationship to the adrestian empire and turned a blind eye to the slithers and allowed the crest experiments that changed the course of edelgard's life to happen, but the actual failure of rhea that created edelgard was her past as a failed revolutionary.

when nemesis elevated himself and the ten elites to the rulers of fodlan and laid the foundation of its modern crest system and aristocracy, she became a leading figure in wilhelm's revolutionary movement. but when the work was done, the nascent adrestian empire and church of seiros made a choice to maintain and uphold the social order nemesis created and become its new defenders instead of offering something better to the people of fodlan. that all too common revolutionary outcome of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." and fire emblem three houses suggests a reason why this happens—because as much as seiros could care for and about humans like wilhelm, she never had the plight of humanity in the forefront of her mind. during the war of heroes, her priority was revenge against nemesis.

that's the deciding factor that separates edelgard and rhea. they are both people who looked at what happened to themselves and their families and said "i won't let this happen to anyone ever again." but edelgard, who has every right to seek revenge against the people who wronged her, never does—she even refuses to execute duke aegir for treason (which can have disastrous consequences in certain routes)—and she always keeps her overarching goal of creating a more free and equitable social order for humanity at the forefront of her mind.

in fact the entire reason edelgard takes up arms against the church of seiros is because 1200 years ago seiros had the chance to do the right thing and tear down an oppressive system and didn't. there are many ways in which the corruption of the adrestian empire, the noble fixation on crests, and the influence of those who slither in the dark represent the failures of the church of seiros' governance over fodlan that compel edelgard to take up arms, but it all stems from seiros' initial and foundational failure to do what edelgard now seeks to accomplish.

those who slither in the dark wanted edelgard to be a new nemesis, rhea wanted byleth to be a new sothis, and yet edelgard and byleth's arc in crimson flower is, essentially, to instead become who seiros and wilhelm failed to be over 1000 years ago

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tragic yuri edelthea

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im sorry your tummy hurts. you're a good mutual. there will be poems

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The girl in the box

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Women in Vidya Games Poll

Tagged by @ladyinthebluebox to make a poll for my favorite female characters in video games <3333

I am not including any dragon age characters because that would be too easy!!!

tagging:

@ellana-lavellan-rp

@dreadfutures

@buttsonthebeach

@drakonovisny

@storm-of-feathers

@sandraugiga

@mallk-z

@skiitter

@macklemorrigan

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I’m a really big fan of Balthus and I wish he got more focus. He’s an ex-noble, he’s a wanted criminal, he’s a gambler, he’s an addict, he’s a jock, he’s a self-assured man, he’s a lonely, rejected boy, he’s a victim of the economic and political disparity between the nobility and the commoners, he’s 6’5”

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this started as the study of a picture i took of the greenery near the place i usually park my car. then i added petra, then i finished it for her birthday.

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petra

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old claude stuff

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i feel like if you took a bite out of Hubert he would crumble like a saltine cracker or a nature valley bar and just leave an infuriating amount of crumbs everywhere

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BACK TO MY HADES BRAINROT