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[fillespreferees]

I tried to put together my thoughts about Cigyun so I can write her.  I can’t promise it’s coherent at all but softsmile here

Early life thots

Grew up in the spirit forest duh

But like I don't think it was as you cannot ever leave ever as it was with Dee 

Like maybe she goes into town sometimes to get supplies 

She's a weird forest girl who hangs out with birds and little creatures though 

Running away with Victor

I wouldn't be surprised if the lopt cult has something to do with luring her out of the forest. Like they know about her clearly and it's to their benefit that she dips

She's free spirited, lonely, bored, etc

I think he's charming at first. Sweeps her off her feet kind of thing. She falls hard and fast and ignores any red flags but he probably is hiding them too. 

Maybe they even get to be happy for a lil wouldn't that be nice I want that for her very badly

So she runs away

Or maybe like she runs away first because she's you know a hormonal and rebellious teenager

Naive forest girl on her own is a terrible idea

So maybe Victor finds and rescues a beautiful mysterious girl like his son does in the future 

Life with Victor

It's a big fucking change going from forest hobo to duchess of Velthomer but she's so lovely she seems suited to it

When Arvis is born he becomes her whole entire world

She can't leave for multiple reasons (I don't think she has any idea how to even get home, husband is a powerful man, etc) but Arvis is what's keeping her heart there

Azelle's mom is her best bestie and they're like super tight and it's very important to me

Spoils the fuck outta Arvis!

But like there's a very obvious sadness that's always in her eyes just a melancholy air about her

She tries to hide it around Arvis but he's a smart kid I can't imagine he wouldn't pick up on it even at such a young age :(

There's part of her that likes being bougie too I think for sure

Running away from Victor

Prince Kurth is actually nice to her! Like really legitimately nice! Of course she likes him!

I want them to start out as friends

They don't rush into it probably because she's afraid of Vicky 

But like eventually shit happens

And by shit I mean Deirdre 

That one speculation that they work together to murder Victor is so spicy and I love it but like it's also fun if he's just a selfish jerk ya know

She finds out she's pregante and oh fuck that's bad she knows why she can't have kids she's gotta get bad to the forest fuck

Maybe Kurth helps her flee? She'd need money and shit

Or maybe she can't bring herself to face him and tell him the truth about her stinky blood so she sneaks away from him

She gets back to the forest and is like I'm sorry I fucked up help me birth this kid

Dies in childbirth because she's so fucking depressed and stressed 

I want deirdre's circlet to have been a gift to cigyun from Kurth I think that's cute

[knighteclipsed]

meta 02. valter’s steeds

Preface: This document is from March of last year with some additions added on in the months that followed. I would’ve just placed this in headcanons raw, but the length of the document I’m adapting alongside the extra notes struck me more as a dashboard post in the making. Thus:

Pre-Exile

Idis

F – Horse (Courser) Name Origin: German Mythology; a divine female being. “well-respected and dignified woman” A quiet horse who doesn’t say much; Valter’s steed prior to exile. While timid at first, she was trained to be fearless and is now a silent horse instead. Was passed to Selena (and possibly renamed) after Valter was exiled.

I am fascinated by the promotional comic having Glen and Valter riding horses during the invasion of Renais—because both of them are wyvern riders (or, if we’re concerned with semantics: Glen is a dragon rider, but that’s whatever). And of course, within the game, whenever they travel long distances, they use their flying mounts, but I can see the practicality of also having a horse—just to provide options, you know? Thus, I do have a horse for Valter pre- and post-exile.

There would also be a wyvern here, but I’m placing her in the following section, since… well, I don’t know if anyone could reasonably use her (as opposed to one being able to reassign a very normal horse, if that makes sense). Valter wasn’t very attached to Idis anyway.

Before Death

Hermódr

M - Horse (Courser) Name Origin: Old Norse; Hermóðr (but I can’t reasonably expect people to write that every time), aka Hermod the Swift. “messenger of the gods” One of the fastest warhorses Grado had to offer. When seeking a method alternative to the skies, this was the horse Valter turned to for travel. A bit feisty, sure, but otherwise a good partner in battle.

(In reference to the promotional comic, this would be the horse Valter was riding, by the way.) Funnily enough, this is the only guy I have written down for Valter, so feminism win, I suppose?

Sigyn

F – Wyvern (War Steed) Name Origin: Old Norse; a deity in Norse mythology. “(woman) friend of victory” Valter's preferred wyvern of the post-exile era. A particularly ferocious animal that would gladly eat the corpses of his enemies. Lost to him upon his “death” in the Jehanna Desert.

I’ve actually mentioned Sigyn in prose before (including his interview, fun fact)! Though often, I do not believe it was explicitly stated that she was an old mount of his. Regardless, her temperament comes from those particular lines in Ephraim Route, Chapter 10 where it’s implied that if any of his subordinates piss him off, they’re going in the chomper!

Also, I will admit I didn’t know FE already had a Cigyun when I named her, but this is very funny to me. Hello Deirdre of Valter Doesn’t Like You fame, did you know his old wyvern shares your mom’s name (sort of)?

TOA (including the Future)

Frigg

F – Pegasus (War Steed) Name Origin: Norse Mythology; wife of Odin. “beloved” Valter's first pegasus and mount of the TOA Era. Given to him upon his training to be a pegasus knight, she's mostly ignorant to his hostility to others. Not fondly looked upon for her perceived stupidity, but still respected as a mount nonetheless.

Frigg was actually the reason I made the source doc to begin with! She was named around the time of last year’s BOEL since I have an endearment to muns naming their muse’s steeds, but she was his mount during Keras Kai Elephas as well! Since Valter prefers wyverns to pegasi in general, I thought it’d be funny if, alongside not having a wyvern for class access reasons, he also had a mount that was so not like him. So we have Frigg! I like her very much; she is very beloved.

Vár

F – Wyvern (War Steed) Name Origin: Norse Mythology; a goddess associated with oaths and agreements. “pledge” or “beloved” Valter's personal wyvern post-death. Similar to Sigyn, she's a ferocious creature, but she's a tad more tame than her predecessor. Sometimes hunts on her own, which can baffle the Moonstone on occasion.

Vár doesn’t exist yet! But I named her in advance since I was already naming everything else—whenever Valter admits Frigg’s name in an IC interaction, then he’ll start acquiring the final two axe points necessary to unlock a wyvern of his own. (And yes, I am soft-locking him from this.) Help a Valter today by talking to him about mounts!

And that’s the full list! It’s been a long while since I made it and I didn’t actually include the name origin section so I had to find that manually to answer the other half of the prompt haha.

OOC, I chose them for a few reasons: there is Fire Emblem’s tendency towards mythologies as name sources (hence all the Norse ones; just look at the FEH OCs), and then there is my tendency towards names with meanings (and my HC that Valter is nicer to animals than actual real people haha). IC, Valter isn’t going to choose a name that he thinks is stupid (so like, no joke names unfortunately), but names with soft meanings? Not off the table, my friends.

Anyways, to close: there is an alternate timeline where I left the spelling of Hermódr’s name as Hermóðr. The pronunciation doesn’t change, but I visit that world sometimes and dwell on what could’ve been.

[nonpareiltactician]

{Tiny Headcanon}

     Despite both his parents having red-coloured eyes, Saias’ own shade of blue comes from two of his grandparents-- specifically, Cigyun and Cowen. They are that way simply due to him receiving a recessive allele for that particular shade from both Arvis and Aida, who were carriers for it from Cigyun and Cowen respectively.

[saionofvalflame]

appearance headcanons

bold where applicable; italicize where situationally relevant. add as needed.

body.

long legs. short legs. average legs. slender thighs. thick thighs. muscular thighs. skinny arms. soft arms. muscular arms. toned stomach. flat stomach. flabby stomach. soft stomach. six pack. beer belly. lean frame. slender frame. muscular frame. voluptuous frame. petite frame. lanky frame. short nails. long nails. manicured nails. dirty nails (only if he’s been gardening). flat ass. toned ass. bubble butt. thick ass. small waist. thick waist. narrow hips. average hips. wide hips. big feet. average feet. small feet. slender feet. calloused feet. calloused hands. soft hands. big hands. average hands. small hands. long fingers. short fingers. average fingers. broad shoulders. underweight. average weight. overweight.

height.

shorter than 140 cm. 141 cm to 150 cm. 151 cm to 160 cm. 161 cm to 170 cm. 171 cm to 180cm. 181 cm to 190 cm. 191 cm to 2m. taller than 2 m.

skin.

pale. fair. rosy. olive. dark. tanned. blotchy. smooth. acne. dry. greasy. freckled (he has teeny tiny faint ones sprinkled on the bridge of his nose like fairy dust that are most visible when he’s especially pale). scarred.

eyes.

small. large. average. grey. brown. black. blue (lavender-blue, reminiscent of Deirdre and Cigyun). red. pink. green. gold. hazel. doe-eyed. almond. round. close-set. wide-set. deep-set. squinty. monolid. heavy eyelids. upturned. downturned.

hair.

thin. thick. fine. normal. greasy. dry. soft. shiny. curly. frizzy. wild. unruly. straight (only when he straightens it). smooth. wavy (naturally). floppy. cropped. pixie cut. afro. short. shoulder length. back length. waist length. floor length. buzz cut. bald. jaw length. mohawk. undercut. white. platinum blonde. golden blonde. dirty blonde. ombre. light brown. mouse brown. chestnut brown. golden brown. chocolate brown. dark brown. slate. jet black. ginger. auburn. unnatural colour. streaked. thin eyebrows. average eyebrows. thick eyebrows. no eyebrows.

tattoos / piercings.

full sleeve. thigh tattoo. shin tattoo. wrist tattoo. lower back tattoo. hip tattoo. hand / finger tattoo. foot tattoo. neck tattoo. face tattoo. chest tattoo. one tattoo. a few here and there. multiple. no tattoo (unless he decides to get a pretty and small ankle one where his Stain was). monroe piercing. nose piercing. septum. nipple piercing. genital piercing. industrial piercings. earlobe piercing(s). prince albert piercing. eyebrow piercing. tongue piercing. lip piercing. tragus piercing. angel bites. labret. gauges. navel piercing. inverse navel piercing. cheek piercing. smiley. nape piercings. no piercings.

cosmetics.

light eyeliner. heavy eyeliner. cat eyes. mascara. fake eyelashes. matte lipstick. regular lipstick. lip gloss. chapstick (keeping one’s lips moisturized isn’t makeup, he insists). red lips. pink lips. dark lips. bronzer. highlighter. eyeshadow. neutral eyeshadow. smokey eyes. colourful eyeshadow. blush. lip liner. light contouring. heavy contouring. powder. matte foundation. shiny foundation. concealer. wears makeup regularly. wears it from time to time. never wears makeup.

scent.

floral. fruity. perfumes. aftershave. cocoa. moisturizer. natural soap. shampoo. cigarettes. leather. sweat. food. incense. marijuana. cologne. whiskey. wine. fried food. blood. fire. metal. rain. grass (strongest after weeding/gardening). raw wood. ocean. autumn leaves. baked bread. smoke. campfire. lavender. trees. musk. rose. gingerbread. peppermint. oak. honey. lemon. vanilla. coffee. cake. hyde.

clothes/aesthetic.

(including modern au)

masculine. feminine. androgynous. jeans (form-fitting, for dressing nicer). tight pants. cargo pants. overknee socks. tights. leggings. yoga pants. miniskirt. loose skirt. form fitting dress. cardigans. blouse. long-sleeved shirt. button up shirt. graphic shirt. T-shirt. sports shirt. sweatpants. tank top. cut off shirt. designer (whatever his dad gives him, usually). high street. online stores. thrift (he is a KING of thrift). lingerie. maxi dress. sundress. suit and tie. cocktail dress. high slit dress. scarves. loose clothing. tight clothing. jean shorts. sweater. sweater vest. khaki pants. hoodie (for pajamas). harem pants. kimono. basketball shorts. boxers. briefs. thong. hotpants. hipster panties. bra. sports bra. crop top. corset. leotard. polka dots. stripes. glitter. cotton. silk (again, thanks to Arvis). lace (thanks to Deirdre). leather. velvet. chemise. patterns. florals (muted, subtle, tasteful). neon colours. pastels. neutral colours. black. dark colours. warm colours. faux fur.

shoes.

sneakers. slip-ons. flats. slippers. sandals. high heels. kitten heels. ankle boots. combat boots. boots. knee-high boots. platforms. stripper heels. bare feet (when at home). loafers (for fancy dress).

[valflame]

HEADCANON DEVELOPMENT MEME // OPEN

@ettards​ asked “hc + attachment. :)”

                                       Oh boy where do I even begin with this one.

Every aspect of Arvis’ character, from his interpersonal relationships to his motivations to his introspective thoughts and his ability to communicate with other people, stems from the trauma he experienced as a child that culminated in the events surrounding his seventh birthday. To summarize it briefly, he had been born the eldest and only legitimate child of Duke Victor and Duchess Cigyun of Velthomer. His father was violently alcoholic and trapped them within the confines of their castle to live at the whims of his ever-sour moods, and his mother, who he developed an unhealthy and wholly unnatural attachment to as the only other person within the space he could interact freely with, was neglectful and would often leave him with his father despite knowing full well how horridly he would treat them to go cavorting with Prince Kurth in Belhalla. Victory would cheat on her every opportunity he got, but when she did the same he took his rage out on their child until he hung himself, and in response Cigyun ran away. She knew it meant that Arvis, then seven, would be forced into forfeiting any possible childhood he would have had in favour of becoming duke and that he, as the only other living carrier of Loptyr blood apart from herself, would be surrounded by danger at all times, but she decided that her desire to escape everything that had happened in Velthomer outweighed her child’s wellbeing and abandoned him. He was left completely alone and he snapped, his attachment to her grew into an obsession and he become so fixated on her and on the notion of her coming back that he would, even as a child, canonically murder people with his magic in fits of rage if they ever dared to suggest anything in ill taste about her regardless of whether it were true or not, because she was coming back for him, he knew it, what had driven her away in the first place were all the lies that people had told about her and about Kurth and once he had eliminated them all she would be back for him because she loved him and he loved her and there was no possible way that his own mother could throw him away like garbage.

But she sure did!

What happened afterwards is Arvis receding in on himself. His character in the game and the notes and the manga and all the supplemental material clearly has a lot of passion and emotion, to the point where he’s really overwhelmed by the intensity of his feelings pretty frequently, but outwardly he always appears to be cold. He’s described several times in plenty of different places as a kind person and beloved by the masses, but he’s also described as being very distant and terrifyingly aloof. He’s intimidating, both because he’s so powerful and intelligent and because he’s so rigid and tight-lipped, which makes him a wonderful narrative foil to Sigurd who is warm and inviting despite being none too bright. He is desperate for people to not only grow close to him but to stay with him, but he feels like he can’t have that --- he is Loptyrian, and beyond that nobody in his life ever has. His father loathed him and killed himself, his mother abandoned him, his brother too abandoned him at the start of the game, and he fears nothing more than abandonment so he closes in on himself and keeps to himself. It also sets him as being kind of, of all tropes, a yandere. According to Kaga’s notes, the mere suggestion of Deirdre having been previously married from Manfroy and her first husband still being out there somewhere brings him so much anxiety he can no longer eat or sleep without being plagued by nightmares about being left alone again, and as soon as he finds out it’s Sigurd he responds by murdering him despite not hating him at all. He will go to any length to avoid being alone, no matter how good his intentions are for the world at large otherwise.

[f-ortuity]

{Muse + Headcanon Tag Drop}

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⟡ — {Muse: Aversa} ⟡ — {Muse: Ke'ri} ⟡ — {Muse: Naga} ⟡ — {Muse: Seliph} ⟡ — {Muse: Inigo} ⟡ — {Muse: Rudolf} ⟡ — {Muse: Altena} ⟡ — {Muse: Forneus} ⟡ — {Muse: Olivia} ⟡ — {Muse: Lewyn} ⟡ — {Muse: Cigyun} ⟡ — {Muse: Tobin} ⟡ — {Muse: Nuibaba} ⟡ — {Muse: Eydis} ⟡ — {Muse: Aesir}

⟡ — {Headcanon: Aversa} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Ke'ri} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Naga} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Seliph} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Inigo} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Rudolf} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Altena} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Forneus} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Olivia} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Lewyn} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Cigyun} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Tobin} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Nuibaba} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Eydis} ⟡ — {Headcanon: Aesir}

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Okay so it's been noted that Arvis is kinda misogynistic but like how??? Is he just uncomfortable near woman or-

He just doesn’t like them.

It’s pretty much as you said: he doesn’t like being around them. They make him uncomfortable to the point where he actively avoids being near or around them. There are some clear exceptions to the rule ( he obviously has children with Aida and Deirdre, he gets along well with Ishtar in the second generation, and Aida and Vaha, both women, are the highest ranking members of the Roten Ritter under his command that we see, so clearly he trusts working with them ), but Kaga goes out of his way in his notes to say that Arvis both has no interest in women and also actively evaded them to the point where he was never seen around them after the death of Azelle’s mother.

The rest can be left to interpretation. In my personal headcanon I figure it’s due to Cigyun, like everything else in his life. Victor’s constant infidelity and more active, physically violent misogyny brought Cigyun an immense amount of grief. Victor bringing strange women over all the time made his mother sad, so the then ≤ 7-year-old Arvis naturally associated women with his mother being upset. After Victor’s death he removed all female members of castle Velthomer’s working staff and very notably ( or notably enough for Kaga to mention it more than once ) kept far away from them, not just out of a desire to distance himself from them in some illogical bid to appease the mother he ‘never gave up on returning’ but also because we already know he canonically isn’t attracted to them to begin with. Arvis’ entire character centres around equality for all peoples, so he does still recognise their worth as individuals and trusts them in high levels of leadership — he just doesn’t want them to have anything to do with his personal life.

EDIT: Sorry sorry I always like to leave citations but I hit post before I did sdhgfjbhsk

these quotes are from HERE and HERE

1. Although he had no interest at all in girls, when he first saw Diadora he fell in love at first sight, which may have been influenced by his mother complex.

2. Alvis hated (like truly hated) his father for making mother sad for immature thoughts. When that father commited suicide, and Shigyun ran away, a cold mask always floated around the young expression. But, he thought of that mistress and Azel as his own family. From there, the mistress was grateful for Alvis, and served him by taking care of the space around him, but she also died of disease around 10 years later. From then on, there was no sight of a woman around Alvis.

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I talked about it briefly HERE before, but I figured it’d be useful to make a headcanon post on the people Arvis has close ties with prior to the start of FE4 since they do plenty in shaping his character and he doesn’t have many ties smh

PRINCE KURTH: The current prince to the throne. Arvis feels exceedingly warmly towards him ( as in, he isn’t chilly at all towards Kurth despite coming off as icy to most other people, which for him is a testament to how much he likes him ) and is a known avid supporter of the prince. Most of his fondness for the older man comes from the fact that Kurth had been in his eyes a very close friend of his mother’s and had kept her happy and given her much-needed support when she was still dealing with her tumultuous marriage to Victor; in reality Kurth and Cigyun had been involved in an extramarital affair. The affair was what led to Victor’s suicide and Cigyun’s disappearance and what orphaned Arvis; in his early years as duke Kurth went out of his way to quietly manipulate the political landscape of Grannvale to leave the duchy of Velthomer in ever-favourable conditions without Arvis knowing to support the child duke and watched out for him, but he did at least notice how the prince can’t seem to look him in the eye properly ever since the Velthomer family disaster. He assumes Kurth is just still mourning his ‘dear friend’ Cigyun’s disappearance as much as he still mourns his missing mother, and not that the guilt from ruining his life has culminated in him trying to both support and avoid him at the same time.

KING AZMUR: The current king of the Kingdom of Grannvale, and Kurth’s father.

He took to looking after Arvis in a more hands-on way than Kurth did after he lost his parents and made him his right-hand, both as a means of instructing him on the ins and outs of court life and the dance of medieval politics since his actual father did diddly squat to educate his son on any of it before killing himself. When he got older ( as in, at some point in his teens because age makes no hecking sense when it comes to him ) Azmur also appointed him as head of Belhalla’s royal guard and gave him additional quarters in the royal castle for an office and sleeping quarters while dealing with the royal knights. Azmur is one of the people Arvis feels most fondly towards since he sees him as a sort of surrogate father; Azmur is also probably the person he feels worst about lying to come the events of FE4, since at that point he’s sick and dying and Arvis is the one tending to him in his poor health. For most of what he does he’s either being manipulated via blackmail or he’s doing what he actually thinks is ‘for the good of the people’, but not telling Azmur the truth about everything going on is to him far more emotionally difficult than, say, the act of killing Sigurd and his entire army.

AZELLE: Arvis’ younger half-brother. Duke Victor had countless mistresses and plenty of illegitimate children by his mistresses that he couldn’t care less about because Victor only cares for alcohol and sleeping around, but the circumstances surrounding Azelle’s birth were different than most; Victor got drunk and forced himself on Cigyun’s favourite handmaid, and when news broke that the maid had gotten pregnant he attempted to banish her instead of keeping her in court like he did his girlfriends and their children. Cigyun flew into hysterics and defended her handmaid demanding that she be allowed to stay. After Victor and Cigyun were out of the picture the writer’s notes discuss how Arvis banished every one of his father’s concubines and their children but kept Azelle and his mother close and saw them as his own family, and that she looked after him like a surrogate mother. After she passed away from an unnamed disease some ten years later Arvis wasn’t seen with another woman again ( he infamously accepted no women into Velthomer court under his rule, going so far as to bar any female maids from his service, even; with him there were only ever male servants and butlers ), but Azelle kept close. He tells Sigurd in the prologue that Azelle ‘means the world to him’ despite not sharing the same mother as him and entrusts him to take care of him, and vocally wishes that he and Azelle got along better.

AIDA: Aida is Arvis’ closest confidant and his right-hand man. She is the sole exception to his strict ‘no women’ rule; among the Roten Ritter she’s earned herself the nickname of being his shadow as he constantly seems to go out of his way to stick himself next to her if they happen to ever be in the same building together. She leads Velthomer’s fire mages beneath him, but more than that she is his dearest friend --- even if he still can’t tell even her everything Aida knows more of his secrets than anyone else. He goes so far as to tell her of his ploy against Sigurd, so he trusts her enough/she’s loyal enough to go along with his schemes when seemingly nobody else is aware of what’s really going on, but he still can’t tell her about his heritage or the true reason he allows himself to answer to Manfroy. She gets to see a much less curated side to him behind closed doors; theirs is the sort of relationship where he slouches in his seat as soon as a door is closed and they’re the only two around and he starts to actually make smalltalk and want to chit-chat instead of just delving right into business. When he was younger they had an illegitimate child together; Saias is a tricky topic mostly because the courts love to talk and they would immediately latch onto anything remotely as juicy as news of a first-born bastard being conceived by anyone with Major Holy Blood, but other than that he sees her as perhaps his least problematic relationship. He adores her.

                      ... Platonically.

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name of your muse: ARVIS — As with many other characters in Genealogy of the Holy War, Arvis's name takes its origins from Norse mythology. Alviss was a Dwarven sage whose name means "All Wise". Arvis is derived from the old German Arvin, and means "people's friend". This could refer to Arvis's popularity as the Emperor of Grannvale. That’s all cut straight from the wiki by the way s-smh

one picture you like best of your muse’s fc:

two headcanons you have for your muse that you never told anyone:    

i. Arvis is anaemic. Julius is said to have always been a sickly child in Thracia 776; my headcanon is that it’s because of his Major Loptyr blood, and that it’s just a family trait bound to the Lopts. Thanks to only having Minor Loptyr blood Arvis was never as sick as his son, but he fell ill frequently growing up owing to the fact that he was a small child suddenly thrust into a very physically and emotionally taxing public position that involves a lot of constant moving around and long hours spent working. He’s no stranger to dizzy spells and stubborn headaches.

ii. Speaking of being put in a very big position at a very small age, it was always a fight in his earlier years as duke to get the sort of respect his title demands from his political peers because... Who would respect a seven year old politician smh, so he did everything he could to emphasise his power. That involves caring a lot about appearances. If there is ever an excuse to dress up extravagantly he’ll take it, he’s the sort of person that has to get up an hour and a half earlier than he’d normally have to so he could do himself up properly before an event.

three things your muse likes doing in their free time:

i. Reading. The guy always has a book either in his hands or on his person, normally more than one at a time, and more often than not they aren’t always tomes. He’s got a secret fondness for thrilling adventure stories that take the reader on a journey to faraway lands; he travelled often as a child, but it was always for business, and he was always too busy to ever actually see or do much other than talk politics and arrange inter-duchy trade agreements. Tutors and archmage teachers came to him in Velthomer to educate him from home so he could keep working, so he didn’t go off to any far-flung academies or anything. Getting to sit in a carriage and read about some ancient hero figure going off on conquests throughout Silesse and Thracia was about as much fun excitement as he got growing up.

ii. Spending time with Cigyun, or Azel, or Deirdre, or Julius and Julia when they were younger, depending on what point in his life we’re talking. Spending time with family in general. Family has always been something immensely important to him; he’d gladly make an actual, real attempt at clearing a bit of his schedule to make time for some sort of recreational activity with any member of his immediate family other than his father because Victor is Literally The Worst Human Being, but he’s cold and aloof so nobody ever wants to approach him and he isn’t the type to want to ask for it himself, so it doesn’t happen as often as he’d like it to.

iii. Getting together with General Aida to discuss military tactics and spending, which would be insufferably boring if it weren’t for the fact that they only ever spend about fifteen percent of their ‘meetings’ getting all the actual work out of the way before it just devolves into hanging out and chatting. His schedule is punishingly tight and he doesn’t typically have any time to to do anything but work, but Aida’s his general, his right hand man and his confidant, and also happens to be his best and probably only real friend, so he can spend as much time with her as he likes because they’re work friends.

seven people that your muse loves / likes:

cigyun

azel

deirdre

julius

julia

aida

king azmur

two things your muse regrets:

i. A list of all the things Arvis doesn’t regret would be so much easier to make. In gen 1 there’s probably acting against Azmur’s wishes and killing a man he ( rightfully ) thought to be innocent in order to help his personal goals along, not out of regret for the actual murder but out of regret for betraying the king’s trust. It doesn’t even stem from a strong sense of nationalism so much as it does something much more personal; the courts were cruel to him as a child duke, but Prince Kurth always supported him from the shadows ( and he’d already liked Kurth for being someone that his mother enjoyed the company of ) and the king went and eventually appointed him as his right hand man and as commander of the royal guard, and they spent plenty of time together. At the beginning of the game Arvis is taking care of him after he’d fallen ill. Azmur is someone that’d always been kind to him, and he feels very fondly toward him. Even if Azmur never found out in the end, crossing that line was one that hurt.

ii. In gen two it’s literally everything. He’d done terrible, awful things to get to where he was, but he’d justified it in his head because he’d gotten the position, the power, the wife, the children and all the glory that came with it all, and the people of his empire loved him as a just and kind ruler and he’d created his utopia free of corruption and oppression ( after, you know, getting it through corruption ) and life was better than it’d ever been for him... For about ten years, and then all his crimes caught up to him and smacked him hard in the face because a wicked priest got his son possessed by his angry vengeful god, and he got to sit back and watch while his son killed his wife and his daughter was warped away to who knew where so he couldn’t kill her too and he took the peaceful empire he’d gotten his hands so bloody to make and turned it into a terrifying tyrannical nightmare where the people lived in fear and children were rounded up and slaughtered as blood offerings and everything went very bad very quickly and it was all done under Arvis’ name because he’d been turned into a puppet emperor by Julius and Manfroy and the best time of his life turns into the worst time of his life real hecking fast. If it had to be narrowed down to one specific thing it’d be him regretting ever speaking to Manfroy to begin with, but it really is everything that’d led up to reaching the point that he’d gotten to.

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