#Blue Lions Route

[randomkposts]

Nice erasure of the fact that Duscur and Faerghus were is good diplomatic relationships before the TWSITD backed regicide set them off.

Do you know what a pogrom means?

"A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire."

They were happening in unprecedented scale after the Massacre.

Good diplomatic relations do not result in pogroms being actions taken after Regicide. Good diplomatic relations would involve collaborating to bring justice to the rebels. Or you know, a course of action that would involve communication between Duscur and Faerghus.

Dedue is the main representation we have of Duscur, and he should not be the only representation the audiance has on an entire group of people in game, but there were not exactly a lot of people left after the violence. And he would have viewpoints of his own that an older person would have different opinions on.

Lambert was attempting major political reform, which probably included creating a better relationship with Duscur, which could mean that Duscur and Faerghus were in improving diplomatic relations in the Blue Lions childhoods, but that TWISITD's regicide resulted in Genocide for the people of Duscur probably indicates that relations were not friendly as thought, and that a lot of the older generation especially, were still very invested in discrimination against Duscur.

Overall, the reaction to the regicide does not indicate the good diplomatic relations being a long relationship.

[jacksope-lives]

I am back on my Fire Emblem bullshit again!

Summary: Dedue prepares a proposal for Mercedes but as memories of his past and thoughts of their future compound he worries it’s too simple

[kiaraalazulu]

just finished the blue lions route, I love this guy

inspired by this shirt I saw the other day:

[isan0rt]

You know, when you consider Azure Moon as a self-contained narrative, the use of ‘unanswered questions’ and ambiguity as a reinforcement of the themes of the route are really effective. I honestly think having the route not address the Slithers was the best narrative choice IntSys could possibly have made given the themes of Azure Moon.

Like. The developers didn’t really expect people to actually play all the routes; they designed the game so ‘everyone would have a different experience.’ As a result, all the routes have very different themes and scopes. Azure Moon is the tightest, most character-driven narrative despite not being the shortest route.

And Azure Moon is about grief.

Grief hangs over the entire route; except for Mercedes, every single one of the Blue Lions is haunted by the Tragedy of Duscur and the unanswered questions surrounding it. Felix loses his brother directly, and his worldview and best friend to the aftermath. Ingrid loses her fiance, but also her sense of security; without Glenn, her people may starve, and her personal future is now uncertain. Sylvain and Glenn were the same age, so we can assume they were friends, though his loss is less direct; Sylvain is surrounded by people broken by loss, including his own father. Annette’s father leaves her family in disgrace over being unable to stop the tragedy. Ashe loses his foster brother to the aftermath; and later his foster father as well. 

Dimitri and Dedue lose everything.

All of them spend the whole route wanting to find answers and some kind of closure for this event. It drives the entire narrative for all of the Lions actually from Faerghus. Mercedes, meanwhile, stands as an outside observer to that tragedy - but she is also dealing with her own personal tragedy and unanswered questions about her brother, and that drives her during Azure Moon.

And the thing about grief is that sometimes you never get closure. But you still have to move on, anyway.

That’s the whole point of Azure Moon. Dimitri has to move on. All the Lions have to move on. 

Mercedes cannot regain her brother, whether you find out his identity or not in the route. She has to move on anyway. Dimitri cannot reconcile with his family, not with Rufus (Did Dimitri kill him? We the viewer can never really know for sure) and not with Edelgard. He never finds out whether Patricia wanted to kill his father, or whether she loved Dimitri at all (and we the viewer don’t, either). He has to move on anyway. The Lions never find out the cause of the tragedy.

They have to move on anyway.

Involving the Slithers at that point would not only add a bunch of last-minute narrative complications that aren’t necessary in Azure Moon, it would undermine the emotional impact of the route (in much the same way the last map of Verdant Wind does, honestly). The themes of Azure Moon not only don’t need to answer the question of the Slithers; not answering that question is the point. Bringing up the Slithers at that point would take all the air out of the personal drama the route takes its entire runtime addressing.

Dimitri hesitates at the end. He stops, and tries to look back, and Byleth stops him. He has to move on. He can’t keep looking back at Duscur. He’s got to walk forward. 

And that means leaving his questions unanswered. 

[t0bey]

edelgard is such an interesting character in the sense she can be both an amazing protagonist (if u go CF) and also easily one of the most interesting antagonists in the game between her goals and her/byleth being narrative parallels no matter what route meanwhile i feel like dimitri's potential only really gets utilized effectively in azure moon. his character arc in his own route is the most personally investing out of the house leaders imo while in other routes hes mainly just an OK secondary antagonist lol

him as the tempest king had some good ideas and implications but not really explored much sadly meanwhile he just gets killed offscreeen in verdant wind lmao

[dpsisquared]

"Few knights are truer than you, Ashe. I bade you to keep living, and you have."

Scarlet Blaze, Ashe vs. Dimitri at Arianrhod

[arnault]

@edeltheaweek day 5: reunion

[purrplecatart]

Me and my girlfriend have been talking abt the insane supports these two could have and now I’m invested. C support Felix would think this was the most annoying man in the world

[rorah]

It’s so confusing trying to figure out where to start with all of the old art stuff. I still don’t have access to my previous artwork so it’s gonna be 2022 art only aka: Fire Emblem/dimlth hyperfixation era. The first thing i did starting this 2022 was to play the games i barely touched and FE 3 houses was right there.

[wintry--mix]

…sooooo guess who had plans for a bunch of oc content to be my first post in a while only to try out a game I’d heard some good things about with a gift card I got for my birthday and wind up getting a new hyperfixation out of it

Anyway yeah enjoy some big fancy art of my 2 favorite characters from Fire Emblem Three Houses and then way too many doodles of various other ones lol

[runawayfuture]

my first time using clip studio paint

[crescentfool]

fe3h doodls from the year....! mostly sylvain bc i love him a totally normal amount...

[lilvampirepet]

🎶 The makeup comes off and I'm a barefaced animal, I do it wild even if it’s ugly 🎶

[srapsodia]

byleth doodles ⚔🦴🌟

[sailforvalinor]

The only reason that I would tell you NOT to play Fire Emblem: Three Houses is that it might ruin voice acting for you forever. It’s just that good. There is no return.

[weavingmemories]

the war at tailtean