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TOMORROW!!

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Your last Ao3 update was, like, 🥵🥵🥵

Sorry for the late reply but YES, THANK YOU

I am glad Ao3 reaches some of you, otherwise my tumblr would bring so late the food (It would no longer taste the same -__-) Anyways, enjoy loving the creature 🐙💙

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Valentine's Day to celebrate w/your BF/GF: ❎ Valentine's Day to celebrate your OTP: ✅

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Why so sad boy? Of course, The professor is partying hard somewhere else 😔💔

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Isn't she pretty? 🌸✨ (✿◡3◡)💖

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i loooove how you draw dimitri my husband 😭😭😭 thank you for blessing us <33 im tempted to make a blue sky to see what other portraits i've missed💖💖

Oh! thank you 🫶✨ So far, you've missed nothing. I try to post the full thing here. The problem is, I forget to post some other doodles as well and proceed to never think about it ever. Besides, it's relative easier to interact with :'D

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Dimi Doodles 💙 I forget to post most of my stuff here. Or I post them later... much, much later. So remember to follow me on 🦋 or that X thing... X thing still has lots of traction but Bluesky as exclusive things and also early (all of them have typos lol sorry)

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A slaying queen and a bashful lil boy because she's so gorgeous Drew Byleth first bc her new alt is Gorgeous but then Had to draw some sort of Dimitri's reaction to her so.... yeeeeh

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For Dimitri's Birthday

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What are your favorite ships for Edelgard and Claude? I think your favorite Dimitri ship is obvious

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hummm.. Ok, first of all, how do you know which one is my fav Dimitri ship? lol I need silliness in my life, okay? I actually don't have any favorite ship for those two (sadly). I mean I've tried to think about which one i like best or if the dynamic hit my interests/taste, but I still haven't reach that point tbh 😅. SO I essentially could be okay with any of their ships?(more or less). Except for my NTPs regarding those 3 lol. But I rather avoid talking about NTPs 😅😅😅 (just in case someone here, likes them) I think the main issue is that I am not really a person who focus on ships too much (or don't care much abt shipping) But when a ship knocks my door, most of my energy and time will be invested in that thing 😅

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i stumbled across your blog and have to say that i'm in love with your art 😭🫶 i have to s-support it IMMEDIATELY or else i might collapse. thank you so much for sharing your hard work with us!!

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AAAh thank you so much! 🫶💖 You're so sweet. You have my blessing to S-Support my art (✿◡‿◡) just invite me to the wedding (???)

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The second chapter of my hopes angsty comic is finally up🙌 And finally made it to tumblr

Although, I won't post the whole comic here because the quality goes to crap, so you better look at it on Ao3 -Link to the second chapter -Link to the first chapter I changed the title because it was originally thought to be a one shot but then brain worms were feed and went full ham to flex my storytelling muscles 💪 Also link to the song I gently pushed in notes (✿◡‿◡) Burning Sea Bc I like to play music in the bg while i read fics or smth Once again, special thanks @dpsisquared and @silversdragonemporium for helping me with the dialogs of this chapter 🫶💖

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Do you do commissions?

Hi nony C: Yes, I do commissions 😊 but not so often🥲 and also, I change what I offer regularly, although I am always open to whatever idea the client has in mind. A big project? something specific? Hands? Character pages? Yes, even if the current promo doesn't mention the specification of the project. But it also depends on my current energy leves since those affects tons my performance and art quality >__> So that's why my commissions are not always open.

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The dimileth trick or treat made it tumblr finally 🙌 And here's my Little Ashen Riding Hood AU in a FEH style :D Dimitri's a werewolf (Because in this house like any other's we love werewolves) And Byleth's companion. Byleth is half human half *insert some sort of fantasy entity... or perhaps just a dragon and call it a day* and they protect monsters from evil humans who want to exterminate them (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ There's Rhea, Byleth's grandma, who gives Byleth that crossbow (inspired in the immaculate one) and she's pretty much a huntress. There's also Edelgard who's the actual red riding hood, and the rest is up to y'all. Extra thing. Since Byleth is covering most of Dimitri, I am sharing here too the individual arts :V

Extra of the Extra. As a quick drabble, I followed the current AU but made it spooky. With an actual Dimitri wolf form 🥰🐺

Aren't they cute? She's just trying to return lost items 😔, but for some reason, people get scared. Who knows why...

Plus Byleth's concept design :V

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After finishing GW I think it's time to replay well to this question. But It'll have to be later. I am just making it accessible to myself lol

Do you have any thoughts on Claude’s route in 3hopes? Your analysis of Dimitri’s run was so awesome and I share similar criticisms. I’m personally not a fan of Claude’s characterization in 3hopes, and I’m a diehard Claude fan lol, so I’d love to hear your thoughts (positive or negative! your rant was just really well written and interesting!) have a good day/night :-)

My thoughts on Claude? Sure.

Well I have to be honest and start with the fact that I still haven't finished his route lol rip but I've been spoiled enough to know that this is the route where most of the characters/deers seem a little to too much OOC (for what I have read. Tbh I can't be sure about ALL DEERS but Claude is mostly the point here). And I am a defender of "characters in Hopes are still substantially the same as the one presented in Houses" argument, just different circumstances bring different outcomes. But also seems like the writers in charge of giving nuance to the characters don't know how to do it properly without taking some neurons and mental capabilities away from said characters, aka: make them look dumb.

GW and SB are the routes where I am hesitant to look for arguments that can backup such outcome or it's just a matter of "the devs forgot about that part in the original game" issue, as it's planted in some interview that I don't have the source at hand, sadly.

But I am quite convinced of one thing. Hopes is presenting us the opposite resolution of Houses with a subtlety masked by sweet fanservice (just a certain percent of fans, I must say). What I mean by that is, Cloud in Houses is the one discovering the truth behind the mystery of Fodlan and kills Nemesis for some reason at the end of his route. And in Hopes, he is the most notable affected by this change by not discovering much about Agarthans and also kills Serios instead of Nemesis at the end of his route.

In Azure Gleam Dimitri gets his revenge and that does nothing for his personal journey. Actually, it's the opposite because he learned in houses that revenge will get him nothing but more collateral damage.

In Scarlet Blaze well… I am not entirely sure tbh.

Back to Claude. I think the main problem with his characterization is that it was not quite clear what type of person he is. I remember doing his route with the idea that he was the most relaxed, "meme" fun lord, and all positive of the three because the fandom painted him as such, and I feel utterly confused and betrayed because that wasn't what I perceived of him in his route. He has a little arc about open up and trusting others, while getting rid of his own prejudices about the lands he isn't well versed. But that's in houses. In Hopes, that part of his character is taken away because once again: No Byleth.

Let me remark that I haven't played his full route yet, so take what I say with a grain of salt. So tl;dr, we can say that his characterization in Hopes is bad because it was meant to be bad. You can see it as a mirror universe without the person who functions as guidance. And once again that brings us to another conflict when we recruit Byleth, but that's another issue to tackle on its own separately because it has tints of "devs fcked up and ran out of time/resources to properly do anything with it or give coherent resolution" issues. --- Edited because I accidentally type Azure Moon instead of Gleam lol But anyway, Claude fans, let me know your personal interpretation of Claude ~

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Dimitriverse here. And I'll use it as pretext to talk about Hopes. 'In this essay I will ☝️...'/j I must be one of the few - if not, the only one- (who's not on board with the anti-church propaganda |Just in case: I grew up in an atheist house| and not a Byleth hater either) who actually liked hopes because it supports and enhances houses narrative view (contrary to the common belief that it's the opposite).

Hopes shows a constant comparison between both games. And we know that this universe plays a lot with the parallels between different characters, and relationships. Both similarities and contrasts. Hopes is a contrast, seen from Shez's perspective.

It is established from the beginning that they only see the superficial positive qualities of the leaders, just like general tone presented of this game.

Here I'm going to focus mostly on AM's goal and its contrast in AG.

In AM Dimitri achieves redemption and benevolence through forgiveness and acceptance. These lessons he learns from Byleth - the teacher/ the guide/ the enlightened one (the class enlightened one is mea to alude that who have more knowledge and greater understanding of something, who also aludes to the original aspect of the game. Nirvana. The JP Byleth class) in an indirect way. Byleth in turn gets it from the goddess herself but also their life lessons/experience from GM, and the people surrounding them. WC is an important and crucial stage in Byleth's development, as is the interaction they have with the diverse students they tutor.

The role of Byleth goes beyond a mundane "self-insertion" of the player. Byleth is meant to be a bridge between that goddess and humans: the path to Nirvana.

Both forgiveness and acceptance are mentioned in the game but can go unnoticed due to the level of subtlety they are mentioned, but they are core elements in Buddhism such as compassion and wisdom that serve as a path to inner peace and freedom (specially for the leaders who rule over big factions of people), and breaks the chain/cycle of suffering, anger, revenge, resentment, among others.

And that reminds me of Arval's constant words: "the cycle of this world". What does Arval mean? The cycle of this world… said by an Agarthan "deity", whose only role in the game has been to generate constant conflicts between the inhabitants of Fodlan and beyond perhaps? so that they kill each other. I don't know Joe, something here smells weird -wink wink- (Not to mention it also emphasizes the qualities achieved through Nirvana)

It's Important to understand the importance of Forgiveness and everything involved in the act. Understanding forgiveness, as a spiritual practice, goes beyond simply letting go of resentment. It involves cultivating mindfulness and compassion towards oneself and others. Since the game has heavily references and basis from Buddhism you can grasp it from there (more than Christianity, I'm sure different faits have somewhat different or similar approach to some concepts). But need to mention the act is also applied from a physiological and neurological perspective (in case you're not much of a "fait" person like me. I still like the Buddhism take tho, from a philosophical standpoint💖).

Anyway, Dimitri AM manages to learn those lessons and is not just "to learn to live for himself", which is also important, but it is only possible to achieve it through the through the acts already mentioned: forgiveness, acceptance, compassion, etc. Acts that acts that are practiced externally towards others but which are mostly an act towards oneself. Compared to Dimitri AG where the path chosen is revenge.

Misfortune always dogs the steps of one who gives way to the desire for revenge.

Does he get the answers he thinks he wanted? Yes Did it satisfy him? A Dimitri fan knows it didn't. Can Dimitri's friends help him? No, because they're in a similar situation or under similar believes, and this game displayed it.

Sopilers: No, they won't get anything from getting revenge and certainly doesn't help to move on. Much less Dimitri, who's mental health has only been addressed at the end of a couple of supports. Is Shez a bad person? No! but they help no one and just goes along with whatever the leader says. Is Arval/Epimenides a bad entity? This is where I think, the original concept of the game is applied, the one mentioning. There's no good or bad, only a matter of perspective. But of course, that's something arguable and extense that deserves its own analysis.

At the end of all 3 routes, the war continues (despite having finished off Thales in AG) because the cycle continues. The cycle of anger, of suffering, of revenge, of prejudice, etc. And in my opinion, I think that's beautiful (the comparison, I mean). Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

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Blaiddyd Family | Addams Family AU

Dimitri is a cursed man who can speak with ghost and is married to a demon.

Byleth is a demon summoned by Dimitri's uncle and Corny to get take Dimitri's soul to hell. She instead, marries him (and also glows in the dark 👁️-👁️)

Edelgard is Dimitri's stepsister who can't remember to be part of this family and dislikes to be there (yet, stays because she has access to "stuffs" to do "stuffs").

Rufus is Dimitri's uncle who very much hates his nephew and tries to get rid of him passively (ie, poisons and traps). Dimitri still loves his fam members very much.

Cornelia is a witch and Rufus partner (Only interest because she wants something the Blayddids have). She very much tries to get rid of everyone of this family.

Dedue is Dimitri's Best and most loyal friend but decided to serve him. He doesn't talk much.