#c: felix madden

[grandvhs]

lista de nomes masculinos que estava no meu bloco de notas e eu só lembrei agora

starting with A ;;

aaron.

adair.

adam.

aiden.

ajax.

alec.

alfie.

allistar.

anderson.

andrew.

andy.

angus.

antonio.

anthony.

archer.

archibald.

archie.

aries.

arlo.

arthur.

ashley.

ashton.

austen.

avery.

axel.

starting with B ;;

bailey.

beau.

beckham.

beckett.

bellamy.

benjamin.

bennett.

bentley.

blade.

blake.

blaine.

blaise.

blue.

bobbie.

bodhi.

brad.

brandon.

braxton.

brayden.

brent.

brett.

brock.

brody.

brooke.

bryson.

starting with C ;;

caleb.

callum.

calvin.

cameron.

carlisle.

carlos.

carson.

carter.

casey.

chad.

chandler.

charlie.

chase.

chaz.

christian.

christopher.

cody.

colby.

cole.

cooper.

colton.

connor.

conrad.

corbin.

corey.

starting with D ;;

dakota.

dallas.

damien.

damon.

dante.

darian.

darron.

darryl.

david.

dawson.

declan.

demetri.

dennison.

denver.

derek.

diego.

diesel.

dimitri.

dixon.

dominic.

donovan.

drake.

drew.

dustin.

dwayne.

starting with E ;;

eason.

eaton.

eddy.

edmund.

edward.

elijah.

elior.

ellias.

elliot.

ellis.

elyas.

ember.

emerson.

emery.

emilio.

emmett.

enzo.

eric.

ernie.

ethan.

ethaniel.

evan.

everett.

everson.

ezar.

starting with F ;;

fabio.

fallon.

farah.

felix.

fernando.

ferris.

felton.

finn.

finnegan.

finnick.

fitz.

fitzgerald.

fletcher.

floyd.

flynn.

foley.

forest.

francisco.

franco.

frankie.

franklin.

fraser.

frasier.

freddie.

fredrik.

starting with G ;;

gabe.

gabriel.

gale.

gallagher.

garcia.

gareth.

garrett.

gary.

gavin.

gene.

george.

gerard.

gilbert.

giovanni.

glenn.

gordon.

grady.

graeme.

grant.

greggory.

gregor.

greyson.

griffin.

gus.

guy.

starting with H ;;

hadley.

hale.

haley.

hamilton.

hamish.

hansel.

harley.

harris.

harrison.

harry.

harvey.

haven.

hayes.

heath.

hector.

hendrix.

henrik.

henry.

holton.

howard.

hudson.

hugh.

hugo.

hunter.

hyde.

starting with I ;;

ian.

ibrahim.

icarius.

idris.

igor.

iman.

immanuel.

imran.

indi.

indiana.

indigo.

indra.

inrique.

irwin.

isaak.

isaiah.

isaias.

ishmael.

isobell.

israel.

ivan.

ivey.

ivor.

ivory.

izzy.

starting with J ;;

jack.

jacob.

jagger.

jai.

james.

jamie.

jason.

jaspar.

jaxon.

jaydon.

jed.

jeremy.

jesse.

jett.

joel.

jameson.

jonathon.

jordan.

jose.

joseph.

joshua.

jude.

julian.

junior.

justin.

starting with K ;;

kade.

kai.

kalen.

kameron.

kane.

kasey.

kayden.

keaton.

keegan.

keenan.

kellan.

kendall.

kendrick.

kevin.

khalil.

kian.

kiefer.

kieran.

kingsley.

kingston.

klaus.

kohen.

konrad.

kristoff.

kyle.

starting with L ;;

lachlan.

lamar.

lambert.

lance.

landon.

langston.

lawrence.

lawson.

leeroy.

lennon.

leo.

leonardo.

levi.

lewis.

liam.

lincoln.

lionel.

logan.

lorenzo.

louis.

luca.

lucas.

lucky.

lucis.

luke.

starting with M ;;

mackenzie.

madden.

maddox.

malaki.

malcolm.

manuel.

marco.

marcus.

marley.

marshall.

martin.

mason.

matteo.

matthew.

max.

micah.

michael.

miguel.

mike.

miles.

miller.

milo.

mitchell.

morgan.

moses

starting with N ;;

nadir.

naiser.

nasir.

nate.

nathan.

nathaniel.

naveen.

naydon.

ned.

nico.

neil.

nelson.

nero.

nicholai.

nicholas.

nila.

niles.

nixon.

noah.

noel.

nolan.

norman.

north.

nylan.

nyle.

starting with O ;;

oakley.

ocean.

octavius.

odell.

olaf.

oliver.

ollie.

omar.

omari.

orion.

orlando.

osborn.

oscar.

o’shea.

osten.

oswald.

otis.

otto.

owen.

oxley.

starting with P ;;

pablo.

page.

palmer.

parker.

parrish.

patrick.

paul.

paulo.

pax.

paxton.

payton.

penn.

percy.

perry.

peter.

phineas.

phoenix.

pierce.

pierre.

prescott.

presley.

preston.

prince.

princeton.

puck.

starting with Q ;;

qadim.

qadir.

quain.

quenby.

quill.

quimby.

quincy.

quinn.

quinten.

starting with R ;;

randy.

raymond.

reese.

reid.

remy.

reuben.

rhett.

rhys.

richard.

richie.

ricky.

riley.

robert.

robin.

roger.

roman.

romeo.

ronan.

ronnie.

ross.

rowen.

ryan.

ryder.

ryker.

rylan.

starting with S ;;

sage.

sailor.

salem.

samson.

samuel.

sascha.

sawyer.

saxon.

scott.

sean.

sebastian.

seth.

shane.

shiloh.

simon.

sinclair.

skyler.

sonny.

spencer.

stanley.

stefan.

steven.

stevie.

storm.

sullivan.

starting with T ;;

tamir.

tanner.

tate/tait.

tatum.

taylor.

teddy.

theo.

thomas.

timothy.

tobias.

toby.

todd.

tommy.

tory.

trace.

travis.

trent.

trevor.

trey.

tristan.

troye.

tucker.

tyler.

tyrone.

tyson.

starting with U ;;

umair.

umar.

urien.

usama.

starting with V ;;

valentine.

valentino.

vance.

vaughn.

victor.

vincent.

vinn.

vinnie.

vladimir.

starting with W ;;

wade.

walden.

wallace.

walter.

warner.

warren.

warrick.

waylan.

wayne.

wendall.

wes.

wesley.

west.

whitley.

wilbert.

william.

willis.

wilmer.

windsor.

winslow.

winston.

wolf.

wren.

wyatt.

wynter.

starting with X ;;

xachary.

xan.

xander.

xavier.

xeno.

ximen.

xylon.

starting with Y ;;

yahto.

yakub.

yasin.

yasi.

york.

ysrael.

yuri.

yusef.

starting with Z ;;

zachary.

zahir.

zander.

zane.

zavier.

zed.

zeke.

zion.

zolten.

[chickenmcnuggies]

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on my last playthru I decided to record the differences between Ashe and Marianne’s A supports before and after getting her B support with Sylvain, so enjoy

(interestingly, this change doesn’t save to the support log, always the default version)

[asexualcorvidae]

Now that I’ve beaten all 4 routes and just have some route-exclusive support grinding to do, I’ve decided it’s time to do a Fun Class run. Hard/Classic, non-optimized, just going in for kicks. Here’s my plans for Blue Lions:

Byleth: Holy Knight

Dimitri: Great Lord

Dedue: Great Knight

Felix: War Master

Ashe: Wyvern Lord

Sylvain: Dark Knight

Mercedes: Dancer

Annette: Wyvern Lord

Ingrid: Bow Knight

[wildernessuntothemselves]

Fearing You, Loving You | Part 1

Sequel to I'm Yours, You're Mine

Genre: Smut

Warnings: yandere!felix, sub!felix, dom!reader, lactation kink, tit fucking, degradation. 

“Just fucking feed.” You shout at the baby in your arms who refuses to suckle anymore. Your breasts had become so overfilled lately, it was painful, and the damned baby refused to feed more than a little here and there, leaving you frustrated and in pain.  

Felix quickly steps up to where you were sitting on the bed and takes the baby away from you, a look of concern on his face as if he’s worried you’ll hurt the baby which is fucking rich coming from him.

Swinging the girl in his arms, he tries to lull her to sleep. “Calm down, noona.”

Anger surges up inside you at his words, and you whisper at him harshly, careful to keep your voice down so the damned child would go to sleep. “Calm down? Why don’t you try having breasts fucking bursting with milk that that stupid baby won’t drink, huh? But I guess I shouldn’t expect any sympathy from you. You did this to me!”

You notice his face flush and he turns away from you, putting the baby in her bassinet, and you think he’s embarrassed for being called out. Boy, were you wrong. You shouldn’t have assumed that he has any shame.

Felix comes over to join you in the bed, getting on top of you and pushing you so you’d lie down on your back then he lifts your shirt up. You let him do what he wants, by now having learned that it’s better not to resist. He cups your breasts gently, moving and pressing on them experimentally until some milk seeps out of your nipples. He gasps when he sees the white liquid, mouth opening and eyes becoming half-lidded. 

“Felix?” You ask, sure you were imagining things. But then he bends down and laps up the milk with his tongue. “Felix, what are you doing?!” 

He looks up at you from over your chest, eyes completely hazy now. “Let me take the pain away, noona.” 

“Wha--” Your question gets cut off as Felix latches onto one of your nipples and sucks, drawing the milk out of your breast. You squirm under him but he holds you tight, not letting you pull away, and soon, you begin to feel a little relief, the breast he is sucking on not quite so painfully overfilled anymore. And a little later, it’s not just relief you feel, but arousal. 

It’s been a long time since Felix touched you. First you were getting too big and it was becoming painful and you had persuaded him that it could harm the baby, and after you’d given birth the doctor recommended that you not have sex for six weeks, a piece of advice you clung to and greatly welcomed. 

But to your surprise and mortification, the deprivation wasn’t just getting to Felix but to you too. Especially that he would jerk himself off almost every night, right in front of you as he got off to the sight of your round belly and your swollen breasts, moaning and whimpering about how he can’t wait to fuck you again, for you to fuck him again. 

You couldn’t admit to him that you were feeling needy too. Neither could you touch yourself discreetly because he was always with you. So now, with the first contact in months, you can’t help getting wet. 

Felix seemed to be enjoying it a lot too as you feel his hips start to move against your thigh as he lets out little groans of appreciation between pulling and sucking on your nipple. 

You’re the one to push him to the other breast, needing it to be milked too so it would stop hurting and Felix gladly obliges, suckling on it eagerly as he humps your leg. 

Tangling your hand in his messy hair, you make him look at you. “Fucking pervert. Are you getting off on this?” 

Your glistening nipple falls out of his mouth as he moans and bucks his hips particularly hard against you, happy you’re finally giving him attention. “I’m just trying to help, noona.” He whimpers, pulling back slightly and squeezing your breast, groaning as more milk leaks out. “I did this to you.” He repeats your earlier words but it comes out as more of prideful and awed proclamation than a guilty one. He loves that he made you this way. 

“I want to keep you like this forever.” Pulling back, he spreads your legs and pushes your panties to the side. “I should knock you up again.” 

Alarmed, you slap him, “No!” 

You immediately realize your mistake and flinch back, preparing for his retaliation, but to your surprise he just whimpers and stares at you expectantly. Quickly gathering your wits, you understand what is happening. He wants you to take control. He’s been craving it for months, but he just wasn’t confident in giving you back control yet. But now that the baby is born, he must feel so much more secure. 

To test your theory, you slap him again on the same cheek. “Bad boy!” 

“Mommy…” Felix whimpers, trying to get closer to you again, the new title he'd given you since your pregnancy lewd on his tongue. “Fuck me, mommy.” 

“You think I’ll let your dick anywhere near me after all you did to me?” 

“I’m sorry. I just wanted to make sure we’d be together. I love you.” 

"Shut up, you selfish slut." You pull him up by his hair until he's straddling just below your chest. Grabbing his dick, you start pumping it. "The only thing you care about is getting your rocks off. You don't care about me."

"I care! I love you!" He bucks into your hold, mouth falling open. "Just needed you to see."

You let go of his dick and he whines at the loss and thrusts into the empty air, his dick almost touching your face. You slap his dick and he winces and stops moving. 

"Since you like my tits so much, why don't you fuck them?" You tell him, holding your breasts together. "Wanna fuck mommy's tits, dirty boy?"

He nods eagerly and pushes his dick between your breasts. He tries to hold onto them to steady himself but you smack his hands away. "Hands behind your back, slut." 

He obeys, and although he finds it difficult to stabilize himself, he does his best, thrusting his dick between your breasts. He’s fractic about it, the deprivation getting to his head and the sight of his dick disappearing between your tits pushing him to the edge fast. 

“You like it, baby?” 

“Yes, mommy. Thank you.” He cries, his thrusts getting sloppy, and you know he’s close. But just before he can cum, you let your breasts go and grab the base of his dick tightly, cutting off his orgasm. 

He whines loudly and tries to thrust into your closed fist but your grip is way too tight. "Mommy, don't tease please. It's been too long."

“I’ll do what I fucking please. You’re mine, aren’t you?” You say ominously, reminding him of his promise to you before your pregnancy. 

He lets out little sobs as the high leaves his body, but he doesn’t protest anymore. “Yes, mommy. All yours.” 

When he calms down, you order him to fuck your tits again. And once again, you staunch off his orgasm right before he explodes. Then you wait until he’s away from the edge and repeat the whole process over and over again until he's shaking and crying above you.

“M-mommy---ahhh----p-please let me c-cum. Mommy, please!” Tears stream down his face as he struggles to stay seated over you even though you’ve let him use his hands to anchor himself by now.  

“Wanna cum, baby?” You murmur, lightly tracing your thumb over his wet, red dick. 

He nods his head violently. “Please, please, please.” 

You grab one of your breasts with your free hand and rub the nipple over his weeping slit. Felix takes in a sharp breath as he watches you rub your engorged nipple against the head of his dick. Smirking up at him, you squeeze your breast a little, letting some of the milk leak drip down his cock. 

"Fuck!" Felix shouts, cum dribbling out of his dick like your milk. He thrusts against your breast but your grip on his cock doesn’t really allow him to get much stimulation, and he starts wailing, frustrated out of his mind from the maddening pleasure that was enough to make him cum but not enough to give him the satisfaction he craved. 

His cries wake up the baby, but he barely notices, tearfully begging you to give him a proper orgasm. “Please... stroke my dick, noona---ngh---just o-once or twice. Ah---T-that’s all I need. P-please.” 

But you just push him off, wiping your hands on the sheets.  "You already came. You're not cumming again today and certainly not in mommy's pussy."

“But m-mommy--” He tries to cling onto you but you push him away resolutely. “Go put the baby to sleep. You woke her up.”

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A/N: lol let me know if you want more IYYM drabbles or if I should write something new. in any case give me ideas for either cuz I’m feeling uninspired  

[kindkindling]

better me than you

fandom: the wayhaven chronicles

pairing: mason/nb detective (billie vale)

rating: T?

warnings: some description of a knife wound, but it's not super gory.

word count: ~1.8k

summary: Billie takes a blow meant for Mason. He isn't keen on it.

ao3

Dammit, dammit, dammit!

Mason is busy with three other Trappers, his back turned; even if he can hear the one coming up behind him, he can't do anything about it without leaving himself wide open. Dammit, Billie has to do something, think —

The Trapper turns the knife in her hand, and as the light glints off the blade, they see the ominous shine of a deep red liquid coating it.

DMB.

No time, then.

They move with a speed they wouldn't have thought themself capable of, abandoning their own fight as they lunge for the assailant. She doesn't seem to expect them to change direction so quickly, her eyes wide as they crash into her and send them both tumbling. Her head hits the floor with a heavy thud just as Billie lands on their elbow the wrong way. Groaning, they quickly roll to pin her down with one arm while reaching for their stun gun with the other; but the Trapper recovers faster, and just before she's zapped, they see her arm jab out towards their midsection.

They only have a split second to consider how, oddly enough, being stabbed doesn't seem to feel like much at all — they know they saw the knife go in their abdomen, a bit off-center, but there's no pain? To be fair, this is the first time they've been stabbed, maybe that's normal — before their stun gun reaches its target. The Trapper seizes as the volts course through her body, and as her arm spasms, her hand unconsciously grips the blade tighter and forcefully rips it through Billie's side, tearing through their flesh in a jagged, bloody line.

That hurts much, much more.

The woman collapses, unconscious but no worse for wear, while Billie grits their teeth as they rise to their feet, one hand immediately applying pressure to try to stem the bleeding as best they can. The damn knife finally seems to have fallen from her hand, laying just next to her still body, and they clumsily maneuver it with their foot to hide it underneath her. No need to tempt any other assholes into thinking it somehow might still have enough DMB on it to be effective against a vampire.

At that thought, they look to check on Mason, and they're dumbstruck.

He's like a force of nature. Any restraint he had been showing earlier in the fight has been thrown aside; his face is twisted in a snarl as he kicks one Trapper in the knee, and when they fall to the ground, he brings his own knee up to crack into their jaw, and Billie thinks they can hear something break. Mason turns immediately, grabbing another by the shirt and throwing the man into the brick wall with such force that Billie has to wince; yes, there are definitely broken bones.

They take a step towards him — to help him, or stop him, they don't know — but either way, their legs seem to have decided they don't want to work anymore. They stumble and just barely make their way to the wall, their breath coming shorter and shorter with each attempt at a small, trembling step, before colliding against it and sliding to the floor with a groan.

They try to keep an eye on Mason, but their vision is getting blurry. It's a shame, it's always nice watching him. Even just walking from one room to another, he always moves with such a languid kind of purpose. It's mesmerizing. Not that they would ever tell him that. Or maybe they should? Is that the kind of thing you can tell someone you're having casual relations with? Hm.

Fuzzy as their sight is, they can still see that when Mason finishes up with the Trappers, he doesn't hesitate to turn towards them. In a flash, he's crouching next to them, and they can finally see his face properly; his eyes are wild — scanning their face with a kind of terror they think they've never seen before, his lips pressed so tightly that they've lost all color, and that was a shame, too, he really had a very nice mouth, one more thing they maybe should tell him? — locking on to where their hand is still doing what it can to keep their blood where it's supposed to be.

"Fuck," he whispers.

They take a breath to say something, to reassure him, but it doesn't come as deeply as it should and brings on another wave of pain and nausea, so they settle for a quiet hum instead.

"What the hell were you thinking, sweetheart?" He's still quiet, and his hands are hovering over theirs, like he's unsure if his touch will make it worse, somehow. What an idiot, the thought comes, unbidden. There's never been a time his touch has hurt them. "You trying to get yourself killed?"

"She was... coming at you," Billie gasps, adjusting their hands over the wound. They can't bring themself to look at it, but they can feel that the gash tearing their side open is long and blood-sticky, now, and it hurts - the adrenaline is cooling off, and with its absence, the pain is free to fully take its place, bringing with it a spinning dizziness and stars behind their eyelids. "DMB on the knife. No time to think."

He scoffs, even as he gently moves their hands to examine the wound for himself. "So what, your best plan was to get your own ass kicked first?" Whatever he sees, he doesn't like; his face twitches like he's going to snarl but thinks better of it, and he places their hands back over the cut and holds them firmly in place.

It's hard to answer when they can't take a full breath. Each time they try, they just get a new bout of pain shooting through their body. Still, it's Mason. They have to try. "Better me... than you."

Mason makes a face at that, and... it's not a face Billie has seen him make before. It's angry, for sure, but it's not like his 'Felix just slammed on the car horn as Mason walked by' face, which is admittedly an extremely murderous variation on the standard. It's a face that belies a truly deep, intrinsic kind of fury, a response to something that has offended some core tenet of his being, but... they don't understand where it's coming from.

He looks like he's going to say something, opens his mouth to do it, but the only thing that comes out is a low, rumbling growl. His hands, still covering their own, are trembling, and they can't tell why; they don't understand and it's maddening, but their mind is too foggy, their thoughts getting lost as they travel between synapses.

The little pressure they're able to put on the wound isn't doing much to staunch the flow of blood escaping between their fingers with every breath, and they let their head hit the wall behind them in frustration. "Mason, I can't - I need to... stop the bleeding."

They don't see him, their eyes squeezed shut as they are, but they finally hear his voice again, low and close.

"What do you need me to do?"

"Wish I knew," they chuckle humorlessly. A fresh round of pain bursts from the wound, and they clench their teeth to try to reign in the scream that threatens to tear out their throat, almost doubling over from the sheer force of it. It's blinding, sending a searing heat through every nerve ending, and they're unsure through the haze clouding their mind how they manage to stay upright - but when they finally come back to, they're leaning against Mason's chest, that heady scent of sandalwood enveloping them as his arm wraps around their shoulders, pulling them in close.

Sandalwood, but no smoke, they think, the words moving like syrup through their head. Odd, that they almost miss the smell of tobacco now.

They can feel vibrations reverberating through Mason's chest as he says something to... someone? Hopefully it isn't them; they can't make out the words. But he sounds upset, frantic? It's so damn hard to think when they're so sleepy. Mason is pulling away, now, and that's not good, he was so warm, but he's lowering them to the floor, and they can see his shoulder holding his phone to his ear, a tinny little voice coming through it, and he looks so focused on whatever they're saying -

- and another burst of pain courses through them as Mason presses his hands harder against the wound, breaking through their drowsiness and ripping another scream from them. He's speaking again, now, and they can make out some of it, just barely, underneath their own cries and whimpers filling the air.

"— No, it's only been a few —" "— I don't know, fuck, I can't take my hands off to check —" "— I've got you, sweetheart, I'm right here —" "— eyes open, Billie, come on, not much longer, fuck, they've gotta be here soon —"

They do their best to keep their eyes open, and they don't know how well they succeed at that, given the rising panic in Mason's voice, but eventually they can see someone else's face next to his, a stranger, and Mason leaves their field of vision, damn shame, but they can feel his hand wrapped around theirs, and it stays there even as the stranger moves them, and it stays as their eyes fall closed, and it stays as they drift off to sleep.

—————

When they come to, Mason is there.

He's laying halfway over the hospital bed from his chair, his head buried in his arms, one hand over their wrist, thumb slowly moving back and forth over the pale skin; he can feel when their pulse picks up, announcing that they're awake long before they even open their eyes, but he keeps his head down.

He can't look at them.

If he looks at them, everything he felt will come rushing back.

The fear that spiked when he could smell their blood spilling onto the floor.

The anger and terror that he had turned back on the Trappers he fought, tearing through them as quickly as possible to get to their side.

The horror at seeing just how badly they were hurt, the blood seeping out from under his hands, and not knowing how to fix it, if he even could.

The cold fury at hearing them say, "Better me than you."

It was too much. It had made his breath stop and his hands shake, something taking hold of his heart and gripping tight, putting such constraint on his chest that he couldn't speak, the words strangled in his throat as they tried to escape.

If he looked at them, it would all come back. So he doesn't.

He keeps his head down, and he holds on to them, and the only thing he lets himself feel is the immense relief that they're alive.

[radiantresplendence]

The Assassin Class - Fire Emblem Three Houses

To kick off this project we’re starting with a class that I believe is a little underwhelming: the sword and bow specialist Advanced Class. 

To qualify as Assassin, the game recommends that you have a B rank in swords and a C rank in bows, but you can get away with less, making this a fairly easy class to qualify in, even if the unit in question lacks a strength in swords and/or bows. if you’re playing with any semblance of optimization, every unit in your army should have an iron bow or something comparable to fall back on for chip damage and linked attacks. This makes the C rank recommendation for bows almost negligible, meaning the only thing you need to focus on would be swords. 

Analysis

Upon passing the Assassin exam, the qualifying unit is guaranteed a minimum of 17 strength, 14 speed and 12 dexterity. When you choose to put the unit in question in the Assassin class, they are granted a class bonus of 5 speed, 3 dexterity and 1 luck. This is the highest class speed boost in the game, tying the Falcon Knight’s mounted speed, without the demerit for dismounting. The dexterity bonus is respectable as well. 

The Assassin has a base 6 move that, being a thief-type infantry unit, can ignore many terrain obstacles to movement. This is honestly the best that a non-mounted unit can get, making it competitive with cavalry, but inferior to fliers. If you lack the will or ability to train a unit to be a mounted class, this is a very easy to acquire certification that can keep a unit relevant to your more mobile units. 

The faults of the Assassin become a little more apparent when you look at its Class and Mastery Skills and compare it to alterative Advanced Classes with similar weapon types. 

The Assassin comes with Swordfaire, Locktouch and Stealth. Swordfaire is unfortunate because swords are probably the worst weapon type in Three Houses unless your name is Byleth and/or you’re using Thunderbrand. The biggest thing that swords have going for them is 1-3 range on a Levin Sword+ for magic-focused units with decent sword proficiency. Assassin doesn’t hurt your magic, but it’s far what I would call a natural choice for a mage. 

Locktouch is pretty useless due to the abundance of gold in Three Houses and the ability to buy keys. You can get some use out it it with your decent mobility, but it’s honestly better on the Trickster class due to foul play. 

Stealth is probably the selling point of Assassin. It will let the Assassin not be targeted by enemy units so long as they are not the sole target in the enemy’s threat range. This is good for providing linked attacks to more imposing combat units without putting yourself in danger. Unfortunately Trickster also does this, reducing the effect of the main selling point. 

The class’s mastery skills are the Assassination sword combat art, which is bad, and the Lethality skill which gives you a percentage to instant kill an enemy based on a quarter of your dexterity per hit. It’s inconsistent, but could be fun when combined with a brave weapon or the Swordmaster’s Astra combat art. 

The offensive power of the Assassin is lower than the Swordmaster or Hero and is considerably lower than the Sniper. As the best way to use an Assassin is with bows, in my opinion, the Sniper is almost always a better pick. 

The Assassin has a 20% growth bonus to both Speed and Dexterity. This is actually pretty high and can help shore up deficiencies in those stats, especially in normal or hard. On maddening, this class’s only real appeal as far as I’m concerned is Stealth. 

Good Assassins

In my opinion, Claude probably gets the most out of the class due to his strength in swords and bows and his dexterity being the highest in the game. This makes Claude the best choice for the brave/Astra Lethality trick. Claude also automatically qualifies as a flier in part 2, meaning that you don’t need to worry about training his flying to keep him relevant. You can instruct him in riding instead in order to get him Dexterity +4 and Movement +1. Claude also gets the Sacred Weapon the Sword of Belgatia and the Hero’s Relic Failnaught, a sword and bow respectably. Claude also gets Pass in part 2. 

Ignatz makes a good assassin, especially with a longbow. For optimal use, you’d want him to follow Raphael around for their special linked attack bonus. Stealth will keep Ignatz alive and linked attacks will help shore up Ignatz’s potentially middling damage. The same logic applies to Ignatz’s closest equivalents in the other houses, albeit to an arguably lesser extent. Bernadetta brings Stealth and Persecution Complex to the table, where Ashe has the redundant Locktouch and should be classed into Assassin only to survive Blue Lion’s Hunting at Daybreak. 

Hilda (and to a lesser extent Seteth) make good Assassins due to their special linked attacks with Balthus and Claude (or Flayn) as well as their adjacent opposite-gender skills Advocate and Guardian. Hilda can shore up her dexterity, should she wind up a little statscrewed by classing Assassin. I’d say both are probably better in more aggressive classes though, but additionally deploying Hilda and Sylvain or Seteth and Leonie could add to the novelty. 

Byleth can make a good Assassin due to Professor’s Guidance, and their strength in swords offsetting the challenge that Byleth can pose to train, especially your first playthrough. 

The non-Claude sword and bow kids: Yuri, Felix and Petra tend to be pretty strong units in other classes and hence I don’t really recommend that you class them Assassin, despite it being really easy. Do it if for whatever reason it’s your only option at level 20, as despite being a middling choice in the tier, it’s better than all of the lower-level options and is endgame ready. 

Conclusion

Overall, Assassin is definitely a class and is definitely an option for Golden Deer, less so for the other houses. #fearthedeer If you have a plan going it, it’ll probably do what you want it to, if not, it may underwhelm. 

I’m doing a bunch of these when I have time. Here’s a link to the master post.

[unluckyadept]

…Accept the Truth—

“So… when are you planning on talking to Piers again?”

[Felix didn’t look up from his work.

He remained focused on using a fine paintbrush to add details to a wood carving.]

“I’m not ready to talk about it.”

[He remained intensely focused on his project, even as Echo hovered over his shoulder.]

“Piers said to make an effort to get better, and I could come talk to him when I’m ready. Things aren’t better.”

“That’s an excellent answer… to a different question.”

[Felix glanced up into the distance with a flat, somewhat annoyed expression. He spoke with a weary growl.]

“I don’t know how long this is going to take. And I’ve already RECENTLY re-learned the hard way that I need to keep to myself when I can’t handle having an adult conversation.”

[He washed the brush out with water, wiping it clean.]

“Besides. I don’t want to engage in small talk right now.”

“…Small talk??”

“There’s nothing IDLE going on in my life right now, Echo… and the last time I TRIED to share in something joyous, something exciting, I got REBUFFED for it.”

[The Djinn floated into his field of view, as if to block the way.]

“The longer you wait, the harder it’s going to be to repair the damage that was caused.”

[Felix stood abruptly, clearly frustrated, and snapped angrily at this in his reply, glaring in seething resentment.]

“You think I don’t know that?! What am I supposed to do about it, go and tell him again that things aren’t any better and I still don’t want to talk about it? Sure, because that worked REALLY well the LAST time I tried!”

“Your METHODS were bad, not your MESSAGE, Felix—”

“Oh, don’t you even DARE try and talk me into it, Echo! I could barely pay attention the last time he came to my house, and it took all my effort to not bolt in shame to avoid the maddening sense of despair! In what world is it a good idea to go back and say, ‘Oh, sorry, I wasn’t listening to half of what you said and I don’t want to hear it again, so can we talk more about my problems now’?!”

[Echo hopped twice, and one got the impression he would roll his eyes if he could.]

“What did I JUST say about ‘methods’?”

“Forget the methods, Echo—there’s no nice way to say what went wrong!”

“Have you considered an arbitrator?”

“And drag MORE people into this mess? Absolutely not!”

“Felix, you gotta use your noggin here—if you don’t tell him what went wrong, what’s gonna stop this from happening again, hmm?!”

“I won’t let it happen again—”

“That’s NOT what I’m talking about! This is a multilayered problem, and your volcanic reaction is only part of the equation! You can’t even ADDRESS this—much less SOLVE this—by keeping to yourself, Felix—that’s the same as shutting yourself away, since that’s the only thing that’s proven to work! If you want to fix this to where you’re not cut off from him, you need to accept that a little bit of communication will be necessary!”

“I just said I don’t want to talk about it. Would you just leave me alone for once?!”

“To WHAT end? Piers is one of your closest friends! I’m not going to let your stubborn nature get in the way of making things right!”

“You act as if it matters why I got upset, but it DOESN’T.”

“YES IT DOES!”

[The Djinn was visibly annoyed at this, practically scowling at the unlucky Adept.]

“Please TRY and get this through your head! They care, and they aren’t all mind-readers! If you LET them help, they will help you!”

[Felix was finding it hard to breathe at this point, and he just turned away, walking out of the room. Just keeping it together was getting hard again, and he couldn’t even force himself to talk.

Echo floated after him, following him down the hallways.]

“C’mon, Felix—! Be a pal, would ya? If you can’t talk about it, you could send me over!”

[Felix shook his head, unable to bring himself to talk. He just couldn’t take it, and if he tried—he didn’t know what was going to happen. If he had to sit through just one more, just one more—]

“You know, there ARE ways to go about this that would be good ways!”

[Felix had to hold a hand to the Djinn to keep a bit of distance so said Venus spirit wouldn’t invade his personal space.]

“You can’t just run away from all your problems, especially when it comes to your friends!”

“Leave me alone…”

“You’ve managed to talk to several other people about this. Can’t you at least send some sort of message?”

[Felix hissed somewhat at this, pushing Echo away.]

“Message? What would I even SAY, Echo? ‘I’m not well, and it’s not getting better. It’s getting worse.’ Right, because THAT is going to be an actual CHANGE worth saying—”

[He whirled around to face his familiar, his eyes darkened with resignation and pain. He could barely whisper his words, so overcome by the stress.]

“People I care about are getting hurt, Echo. The things I care about are getting destroyed. The principles I stand for are being assaulted. The joys I have are being MOCKED!”

[He raised his voice at that last bit, and then continued seething in louder pain as he gestured to himself.]

“I have been seeing NOTHING but pain since the beginning of the year, Echo!”

“That’s not true—”

[Felix ignored this, talking over him.]

“Just—just BE QUIET for once! The pain of everything and everyone that I care about, and I’m expected to just act as if we deserve it!”

“Now THAT’S not true—”

“SHUT UP! I’m so sick and TIRED of it, of being put down and disrespected! THIS ISN’T WHAT WE HAVE PUT OUR LINES ON THE LIVE FOR! People DIED for that which is being destroyed, Echo—they SACRIFICED their LIVES, and I’m SO tired of not seeing proper RESPECT and responsibility from the people who owe it!”

[Echo floated closer.]

“Have you c—”

“Oh, give it a REST, you never-ending chatterbox.”

[Felix turned his back again, putting a hand to the door.]

“I told you I don’t want to talk about it.”

“But why NOT?”

[Felix took in a sharp breath through his teeth, squaring his shoulders.]

“It wouldn’t help.”

“That’s what YOU think, but what evidence do you have for this?! You know that he wasn’t trying to be disrespectful—YOU just took it poorly! Who is it that you aren’t trusting, Felix—Piers, or yourself?”

[Felix shot a dark look over his shoulder.]

“I don’t want to be condescended to, Echo!”

[The Djinn got right up in his face.]

“See, this is your problem, isn’t it? You feel under attack, suffering the uncertainty of the safety of what matters—including your OWN well being, even if you only understand that to matter in the deepest roots of your psyche. You’ve fallen right back into how you were taught, how you learned to deal with life-and-death danger—to the way you were when you lived with war!”

[Felix yanked the door open and slammed it behind him, not even bothering to look over his shoulder; Djinn were spirits, so doors and walls would hardly stop Echo from following him.]

“I think you should let him know about this.”

“Go away.”

“He’s still worried about you, Felix!”

“I don’t want to talk about this!”

“If you don’t say anything, it’ll get worse!”

“THIS IS ALREADY WORSE!”

[He put his hands to his head harshly, shutting his eyes tight.]

“It’s not getting BETTER, Echo! I don’t… I CAN’T sit down and discuss nuances right now, he doesn’t understand!”

“You not explaining things MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT!”

“Just LEAVE ME ALONE!”

[He staggered over to a wall so he could sit down and try to focus on breathing. Once again, he could only whisper, feeling almost physically suffocated by pain.]

“Just leave me alone, please…”

“…You aren’t on the run anymore, Felix. Piers is your friend. You can trust him.”

“I… I don’t want… to talk about it….”

[Great. As if the difficulty breathing wasn’t enough, now his eyes were burning with tears.]

“Just… leave me alone.”

[Danger.

There was danger. There was danger and nothing he could do was going to fix this.

He already had heard word that the unrest had been costly in Kalay, where dozens of homes had been burned to the ground. He had word that no one he knew had been hurt, but it was getting worse….

And what next?

Would his father and his sister be safe? He knew his father had been traveling to Kalay frequently; if they got ahold of his father, even someone so powerful and noble a Venus Adept could still be slaughtered if sufficiently outnumbered…

He took in a deep breath, blinded by absolute darkness.

It was all wrong, and there was nothing he could do to fix this. No one who needed to be informed or convinced would listen to what he had to say… not to the point of understanding and taking a stand with him.]

“You’re wrong about that, Felix.”

“Just…”

[What next? What more would be burned to the ground, leaving nothing but undying pain and acres of ashes?]

[What would he do if it came even closer, taking away everything he cared about? He could take a stand, but it would be his last; for the first time in years, he deeply, truly, ACTIVELY dreaded the thought of being hunted down if he were spotted by those possessed with the bloodthirsty lust for vengeful violence.]

“Leave me alone. Please.”

[irandrura]

Anyway, more serious thoughts on chapters five and six...

The Heroes’ Relics make people turn into horrific dragon monsters. Okay. I know people assured me that this game wasn’t playing the ‘Corrupt Church’ trope entirely straight, but still, the Church of Seiros, the thirteen relics, and the crests have a million warning signs going off around them right now. Maybe most members of the church are well-meaning, but there are clearly dark and horrible secrets in Fódlan’s past.

Knowing previous Fire Emblem games, my bet is that it’s something to do with dragons, gods, betrayal, and fraught relationships with humanity. The relics look like fossilised bone to me, and I suspect that Seteth and Flayn are either dragons themselves, or somehow related to them. (I have not read spoilers on this, or if I have I’ve forgotten them, but there is something very Ninian-ish about her.) Flayn’s blood was mentioned as being special, so I wonder if crests are the results of some ancient blasphemy where dragon blood was fused with humans, or something along those lines? Add in that we have Sothis playing a Yune-like role and it’s easy to guess what might be going on.

Still, the relics and crests themselves seem dangerous, and possibly maddening. I suppose it’s for the best that I’ve never actually used the Sword of the Creator in battle. It wasn’t a principled decision or anything: I just never needed to.

There’s been some discussion of crests. As I said before, I find it strange that Dimitri is taking such an egalitarian, meritocratic line. He thinks that lineage shouldn’t matter? Nor should race, religion, or crest? Really? That’s an odd thing for a prince to believe. Who taught him those ideas? For some reason it surprises me more with Dimitri than with Edelgard, who I already had pegged as an egalitarian revolutionary in the same vein as Ashnard (albeit less over-the-top evil). There has to be something interesting going on in terms of the intellectual history of Fódlan - maybe it’s the Fódlan equivalent of the Renaissance, and old aristocratic houses are being pressured by a rising tide of enlightened humanism?

Actually, what crests most remind me of is an old AD&D setting, Birthright. I always really liked Birthright despite its lack of popularity, mainly because I loved its colourfully monstrous collection of villains in the awnsheghlien. Fódlan’s crests seem to have shaped aristocratic politics in the same way that Cerilia’s bloodlines have.

Moving on to chapter six...

Right now I am stressing more about recruiting out-of-house characters. So far I’ve only managed to grab Leonie, but hopefully I can get a few more. I hear Dorothea is pretty much a gimme - maybe that’s why she’s always on the top of the list of most-used characters it shows me via the online feature.

It’s starting to nag me that Byleth has a very specific level of ignorance about Fódlan. He’s wandered all across the continent with Jeralt and has become an experienced mercenary, the Ashen Demon, but somehow he doesn’t know anything whatsoever about the church or about geopolitics. That’s rather straining the suspension of disbelief.

I say this every time, but I wonder if the game or the story couldn’t be improved by just cutting the avatar character? I suppose Byleth is useful for allowing the player to take the teacher role, at least, and maybe he’s necessary for the Sothis plot? Even so, right now I find myself wondering why Dimitri, Claude, or Edelgard can’t just be the protagonist. I don’t hate Byleth or anything, but he’s definitely less interesting than the others.

Other character stuff has been fun so far. I did the paralogue, ‘War for the Weak’, where you try to resolve a Duscur rebellion. I was a bit confused there: judging from Dedue, I thought the people of Duscur were generally dark-skinned, but that didn’t seem to be the case with the Duscur units on the map. I guess Duscur is in the northern part of the continent, and Faerghus is supposed to be quite cold, so it would be unusual for there to be a whole nation of dark-skinned people there? I don’t know. The impression I got was that Duscurs generally have bronze skin, dark eyes, and white or red hair, as opposed to the extremely pale and frequently blond, blue-or-green-eyed Faerghans. But I don’t know how much thought was put into the ethnography of this world.

On the chapter six battle itself... so, okay, the Death Knight and the Flame Emperor escaped, but I did defeat thirty or so of their minions. Did we not take any of them alive? I feel like we should be able to interrogate some of them. At the very least, I’d like to take this conspiracy a bit more seriously? Could we maybe ransack Jeritza’s quarters? Search for papers? Maybe Byleth’s class can’t do that - I would say that they’re students and shouldn’t be trusted with such sensitive assignments, except that they were tasked to recover the Lance of Ruin and trusted to keep quiet about the relics turning people into monsters - but it’d be nice to know that someone is doing that.

But instead apparently we’re going to go off and have a mock battle between the three houses. I feel like I should be able to make joke about the Hogwarts House Cup, but I can’t figure out a good way into it...

Finally, on characters and supports:

I have gotten a handful of supports with out-of-house characters, and they feel odd. It’s bizarre to have a C support with Ferdinand where he asks how I think he stacks up compared to Edelgard: it is clearly written with the assumption that I’m the Black Eagle teacher. If the game was going to allow you to do out-of-house supports, I would have expected the supports to be written to avoid that issue.

Among the Blue Lions, the supports so far have ranged from the genuinely insightful or heartwarming to the merely banal. I have gotten a few C supports that feel like this, although to be fair mostly featuring Felix, and Felix is an arse. Nonetheless, by being the only Blue Lion who’s just a jerk, Felix’s supports have actually helped to illustrate some of the internal tensions. He is genuinely awful to Dedue and Dimitri, but if he wasn’t, it would not clarify for the player that there’s some sort of dark, angsty secret in Dimitri’s past.

(I don’t know what that secret is: he didn’t explain it in Heroes. I believe it has something to do with knowing Edelgard as a child, and perhaps Edelgard’s secret second crest; and perhaps also it’s hinted that Dimitri was involved in a massacre? But I don’t know or remember the details.)

As for the others, oho, Gilbert is Annette’s dad, Mercedes has some Birthright-esque drama with a noble house in the Empire (and, okay, I did read enough to know about Jeritza), Ingrid and Ashe continue to be generally nice, and Sylvain would be an excellent person if he wasn’t bent on harassing women all the time.

I do wonder sometimes what’s going on with that... is it just a Fire Emblem series trope that there’s always a guy who vocally flirts with every women he sees and is genuinely unable to control himself? Is it a Japanese thing? To my Western eyes it’s starting to get a bit tiresome. I don’t want to get super-political, but I feel like after the whole #MeToo thing Western commentators are going to be a lot more sensitive to stories that depict constant unwanted flirting as a harmless, even entertaining character trait. I don’t know. There’s probably something going on there that I don’t get.

Oh, well. I still made Sylvain kill his brother. Was that cruel of me? I guess his brother was a horrible monstrous dragon at the time...

Anyway, on with trying to recruit more characters, and then the tournament!

[semi-imaginary-place]

In which I play maddening classic with only Byleth and Dimitri and liveblog on discord 1/15/20 - 2/2/20

because if I’ve got to see a character die repeatedly, countless times, it might as well be dimitri.  

So I'm on maddening and classic with only dimitri and I’m going to kill off every other character. I heard if they reach 0 hp in part 1 they stick around the monastery and you can talk to them they just aren’t a part of your class anymore. Give me your blessings.

I died on the prologue! ... i dont have a healer... Death count:2

I am definitely new game+ cheating this for professor level and skills. I was thinking magic focused but she can't be too squishy... Gremory would help that. Also why do all the magic classes have bad growths. Give me a moving fortress of magic!

Ashe went down, 7 to go. Ch3 turned into a survival horror... but i made it out

Ch 6 is hell. Any idea for how to kill every last one of them in 25 turns with only byleth? Or alternately get to and take down the death knight. Only byleth and dimitri run. And no dimitri this chapter, Byleth's a thief

My main problem in crowd control. If i had infinite turns then i could agro them 1 by one... Maybe I've built byleth wrong and just don't have the stats. Is the warp route faster? Haven't tried that yet. In hindsight this was a bad idea for my first maddening run. I'm so used to not using byleth much that this is very different. Damn archers...  Got done in by chip damage the first time...

I I dont know what happened... but I beat the death knight.... I was expecting to die becausr i accidentally opened the door so i skipped what actually happened.... Next thing I know game is telling me i got a dark seal What  Did I crit? With a silver sword? Im in shock I DONT EVRN I dont even know if it was a crit! But byleth is thief so lethality is out of the question Maybe I should go give a sacrifice to rng god

so I was in shock but yeah I used the warp route and avoided fighting most of the enemies.

So i'm now at the winter ball chapter and felix is still alive (i've decided to off one character every chapter so Miklan downed sylvain. oh and first time through ch5 i accidentally stepped into range of one of the center archers so every unit rushed me and i died) and i tried felix's paralogue and wowo its impossible. Rodrigue dies in 2 attacks, outruns my healing and likes to charge headfirst into the enemy. My record so far is 3 turns before he dies. Might give up since this is optional.

(i eventually finished the paralogue but gave up saving anyone else so i didn’t even get anything good out of it)

The ally A.I. is sooo bad. Jeralt. Dad. Please stop getting yourself killed

Almightly Father in Heaven preserve me. I'm making dimitri learn reason.  maybe his rationale will start making sense no more moon logic for you boy

Hey. Why wont the game let me make dimitri a dark bishop

I need dark mage certification first? Or is the internet lying to me

Well dimitri is at c+ reason but I'm tired of grinding.  

got dimitri from c+ to b+ in a battle. But the boredom makes me want to cry.  Also might have miscalculated.... Fighting an assassin in a forest.... i have 35% hit and no other weapon. They have like 18% hit....  When will i be free...

I made dimitri into a dark bishop and he beat lysithea in the magic tournament.  Also just the thought of dimitri in slithers is funny to me

wrath is how i survived the sothis paralogue. crit everything

chasing the empire around in the hold tomb with 2 units was actually kinda fun

I cant believe that worked... Final battle of part 1. I charge down the middle. And it works 4 turns for infanty to cross the field... and it worked ... Welp i somehow made it to part 2 intact. Endless waves of reinforcement here i come

(Oh yeah and rng is punishing me right now by giving terrible level ups)

For the bridge is it best to go straight for the commander?

bridge wasn’t too bad but I was convinced to spare dedue so i had to fend enemies off him like ants to a dropped ice cream cone. if dedue reaches 0 hp or you don’t do his paralogue he dies in fhirdiad and I’m trying to get everyone off my party but not dead, soooo he’s along for the ride

I'm stuck on am ch 14 ... how do I defend 4 spaces when I have 2 units... Those pegasus knights keep dodging too... Damn pegasus knights.... without them i could just hold a choke point with 1 unit. I have 4 gambit uses maximum... Another thought I had is to out fly their flyers so I can shift byleth over quickly. if I take out randolf in delusional prince the map doesn't end. It just stops reinforcements right? 

Soo I tried to kill randolf but my movement is too low. It takes 3 turns to reach him...

Yup this is possible. But because I can't do things the quick way. I'll have to do the long way of waiting out the right side and then heading for randolf with byleth all the while holding out with dimitri in the center and hoping rng favors me for lije 20 turns

ALRIGHT WhIcH oF yOuSe a LIAR Sooo .... killing randolph does not stop reinforcements nor does it get you a victory, the fire attack is the only way. Time to go guard another npc with a death wish. Also Gilbert is unkillable in AM

FEAR ME The only way to beat a pegasus knight to to out pegasus knight the pegasus knight Falcon knight bae-by! I am unstoppable I. Am absolute (I am never doing this again)

Finally got past that defend 4 spaces with 2 units and endless reinforcements

I've figured out how to level grind since same level enemies are giving like 7exp each

Alright. Taking suggestions, on how to keep hilda and judith alive in golden deers plea.  Alternately, how to kill arundel in 2 thurns without archers destroying me.  With only byleth and dimitrti.  Right now I'm thibking retribution-> byleth and gunning it. Suggestions for abilities/battalions? My current thought is vantage, alert stance+, renewal, wrath, pavaise, and evasion ring and bridgid hunters

Well i can get to arundel before hilda dies but not judith. I'm starting a campaign to save judith. Please pledge your support on the indiegogo page below

whew judith and hilda and both alive! Stride was a good idea. just make a run for arundel. Kinda sad i didn’t get the aurora shield but eh I got the stat increases at least. I also tried propping up judith with byleth healing them but tanking doesn’t exist in maddening so that didn’t work.

I've been skipping cutscenes because there’s no one else there but gilbert

Things I have learned this playthrough: how to grind skills, how to grind levels, how to save scum level ups. 

I’m actually getting a lot of dialogue I missed before just because Byleth and Dimitri are taking down every single enemy unit

At fort merceus, and i want the black pearl.  And i'd like to avoid lindhardt and caspar.  I'm thinking 1: fly over nab the pearl and kill death knight.  2: wait it out and eliminate every last unit ob the map.  What turn does death knight start running? Or is when you get to a specific part of the map?  Or am i thinking of an entirely different map...

New plan. Forget everything else and kill death knight

I have beaten the death knight. I have beaten the impregnable fortress. 44% crit rate.  But I didn't get the black pearl in the treasure chest and i want my item so... i might redo the battle

Got my pearl. for an idea what the battle is like each turn each of the 2 units needs to be on one specific tile for the best chance of survival, if they die i usually had to restart the battle or change something to get a reroll. and you do this for like 5 turns learning the combinations with a mix of guesswork and trial and error. you also need to move quickly because if 4 units surround you, you’ll be stuck until you’ve defeated every single enemy unit on the map or more likely you die.

Ok story time.  So I'm on ch 21 of AM now and aux battle no longer give me exp so my only way of leveling is healing (the exp curve is brutal). Even with the double use of bishop, i'm running down to the wire getting 1 level up/battle (plus the next battle where they gain stats for its more like 1 level/2 battles). I ran out of healing with like 500exp left to go so i restarted but by the end of the 20 heals and 10 recovers I had a different number and now I’m confused Reddit is telling me turn count? Affects exp gain?

Anyways I'm in enbarr.  One of the many wonderful things about playing with only dimitri and byleth is that you can't change their starting positions in battles

Wow i did that on my first try. O.o  Huh that actually worked... Good thing hubert is squishy. spared dorothea and petra too. huh.

I just had a realization... on the last map of AM. If I apply retribution to everyone... could I kill edelgard with that without having to cross the room? Hmmmm must try it out

Nope cant counter attack. Good thing enemy units on this map are acting defensively and only attack when you go into range.  If they swarmed me I'd be dead (again)

Once you reach a certain tile they do swam... i lasted like 4 turns... need to clear the room to stop reinforcements...

(its impossible to stop reinforcements with 2 units on maddening. once you get to the throne room a new wave comes each turn. but clearing the rooms before hand buys you time before you are overwhelmed). To give an idea of what’s going on aux battles are aprox 10 levels below my units. regular enemies are about the same level (so each is a threat and my 2 units can die on any turn) and bosses are usually a couple levels higher.

Hehehehe I am so powerful I have beaten maddening with only byleth and dimitri (Dedue came along for the ride too but was never deployed to battle)

The final AM wasn't as hard as some of the others (defending garreg mach) but boy is it long.  I think my final turn count was in the 50s.  Also the credit screen character battle  count maxes out at 999

I think I got dimitri and byleth up to like 70 base crit last playthrough. Plus wrath and defiant crit almost garunteed each hit was a crit.

nope it was more like base 120 crit

In the end for both dimitri and byleth I used rng based builts around avoid and critical hits (after i figured out what the hell i was mid way through part 1). dimitri went through the brawler line and then split time between war master and great lord. Byleth went up the thief line to assassin and then falcon knight. for both of them i also got most of the class skills.

considering this was my first maddening or classic run, I looked at 0 strategy guides (like an idiot) and had no idea what i was doing in the beginning, I’d say I did pretty well for myself.

oh and I was mistaken about something, if a unit reaches 0 hp in part one they die off screen during the timeskip (except gilbert to my despair) so there was no real point to sparing dedue. I really do hate gilbert, it seems no matter what you do you are stuck with him all of AM. there is no salvation. and this is why i skipped all the cutscenes this time around.

Dedue didn’t have much if any influence on the playthrough. Dedue was never deployed in any of the chapter battles but he did tag along as an adjunct (no weapon equipped) in aux battle sometimes because I felt bad for leaving him out all the time (that and dedue pops up later in battle on the map in part 2 and if he was still a level 1 commoner i would have 0 chance of beating the map since enemies rush him). so him leveling up was to negate the consequences of keeping him alive. If i had gotten him killed i wouldn’t have to worry about keeping him alive later. By the time I got to part 2 the skill gain from tutoring was negligible compared to the amount gained from grinding in battles, also both units were starting to max out on skills (S+) so choosing to explore the monastery gave little benefit. Interestingly, you can’t do a lot of the monastery activities if you only have 1 student (choir, dining, etc). So even after Dimitri stops loafing around, having dedue there for eating meals and stuff wouldn’t have helped and I’d choose battle anyways.

I now know more about how the game works than I ever wanted to... For example the calculations for any probability check (hit/miss, crit, level ups, pass/fail) are long done by the time you see them. so to reroll the dice so to speak you have to go back a certain amount of time (varies for each thing. Level up stats are determined before you enter the battle field so you have to reload a save on or before the preparations screen. Whether you pass/fail a certification is already determined by the time you reach as given calendar date, so you have to reload to before that day. If you divine pulse a 95% hit rate that your unit missed to right before any action is taken with that unit, they will still miss. With only 2 units you will probably have to rewind to the previous turn, but with a full party you need to go back at least a few units but I don’t know the exact number. More or less forcing the game to run at least one different probability calculation than your target will reset whatever result was determined for your target.

When you have an infinite number of iterations, even the most unlikely outcomes eventually come to pass.

This run was  60% luck, 35% perseverance,  4% "grinding", 1% skill, 100% pain

edit: 5/1/2020: looking back, i was a stubborn idiot (as usual) for refusing to look up strategies or other solo maddening runs that people had already done. i can definitively say omegarevolution dealt with the defend map far better than i did. i never even considered +20hit to deal with falcon knights

oh yeah and i don’t have dlc or the nintendo online subscription so i couldn’t use any of that.

[hogibebeleri]

eski model listesi

bunu temizleyip yürürüz diycektim ama çok varmış o yüzden eski ünlülere isimlere bakmak için buraya bırakıyom kalsın sdfojdsoğjısıdjğods

ay daraltçam bu ne aq

- A -

Aaron Johnson - Leo Constantine

Aaron Tveit - Ezekiel Wymond

Abbey Lee Kershaw - S

Adam Brody - Cedric P. Powell

Adelaide Kane - Alana Windsor

Aidan Turner - Blaise Lynch

Alicia Vikander - Lily Marzia Lewis

Alona Tal - Claire Jenkins

Alycia Debnam Carey - Faith Franchot

Amber Heard - Edith Mori de Oliveira & Aureola Diana

Amy Poehler - Apple Corin

Ana de Armas - Riley Polanco

AnnaSophia Robb - Olivia Maeve

Andrew Garfield - Christen Austen

Andrew Lincoln - Desmond

Andy Samberg - Milo Dexter

Anna Christine Speckhart - Maria Sparrow

Anna Kendrick - June Lynwood

Ansel Elgort - Landon Scotty

Armie Hammer - Nikolai Fedosov

Ash Stymest - Wilford Grayson

Ashley Benson - Lexie Mallaith

Astrid Berges-Frisbey - Anthea Harrison

Aubrey Plaza - Zoya Everdene

- B -

Barbara Palvin - Annie Lancaster

Bella Heathcote - Fern Weinberg

Bill Skarsgård - Hermes Wolfhart

Boyd Holbrook - Hugo Montague

Bradley Cooper - Adonis Dard

Brett Dalton - Aldous Riordan

Brian J. Smith - Ä°.

Brit Marling - Euria Madlyn

- C -

Candice Accola - Evanora Eckhart

Carey Mulligan - Ophelia Delfino

Charlie Cox - Darcy Hemingway

Charlie Weber - Wardell Jon

Chloe Bennett - Miroslawa Waljewski

Chris Pine - Azure Welkin

Chris Pratt - Dux Stanton

Chris Wood - Atlas

Christian Bale - Mars Brant

Christian Cooke - Conor Lynton

Chyler Leigh - Cassandra Evans

Claire Holt - Karyna Gwen

Clark Gregg - Christopher Hart

Courtney Eaton - Night Haven

- D -

Daisy Ridley - Monica Myles

Dakota Johnson - Barbie Riley

Dan Stevens - Damien Delacroix

Daniel Radcliffe - Michael Genim

Daniel Sharman - Clementine Quinton

Danielle Campbell - Calista Apostolou

David Tennant - Hunter Chandra

Dianna Agron - Isis Chamberlain

Domhnall Gleeson - Jules E. Lincoln

Dominic Cooper - Quentin J. Lloyd

Dominic Sherwood - Dimitri Wolf

Douglas Booth - Vasco Delacour

Dylan O''brien - Nathaniel Hawkins

Dylan Sprayberry -Ove Stanford

- E -

Eddie Redmayne - S

Ebba Zingmark - Eloine Heaven

Eiza Gonzalez - Veronika Boleslava

Eleanor Tomlinson - Calleigh Gardenar

Elizabeth Debicki - Pippa Voughan

Elizabeth Henstridge - Gwendoline Cler

Elizabeth Olsen - Corinne Constantine

Eleanor Tomlinson - Calleigh Gardenar

Ella Purnell - Dolu

Elle Fanning - Rosie Van Laren

Ellen Page - Lydia Carrington

Elodie Yung - S

Emeraude Toubia - Elena Dimitriou

Emma Stone - Alexandra Zaleski

Emilia Clarke - Maya Davenport

Emilie De Ravin - Astrid Blanche

Emily Bett Rickards - Ocean Highmore

Emily Blunt - Lilla Arverne

Emily Browning - Ava Marlowe

Emily Deschanel - Hannah Montiel

Emily Didonato - Vera Isabel

Emmy Rossum - Vivian Gardner

Emily Rudd - Antje Griet

Erin Richards - Glory Constance

Eva Green - Verena Gray

Evan Peters - Viktor Chekov

Evangeline Lilly - Blue Marchand

Ewan McGregor - Acse Lemoine

Ezra Miller - Eugene Irwin

- F -

Felicity Jones - Macey Raphaelle

Felix Kjellberg - Silvestre César

Finn Jones - Buster

Freya Mavor - Olivia Fitzgerald

- G -

Gabriel Luna - José Espina

Gaia Weiss - Freya Kjellfrid

Gal Gadot - Cerys Ryan

Garrett Hedlund - Vitto Carlevaro

Gemma Arterton - Sabetha Belrossa

Georgina Haig - Calypso

Gigi Hadid - Mitchie Finnegan

Gina Rodriguez - Ida Castillo

Grace Phipps - Mia Kayleigh

Gustaf Skarsgård - Vincent Valente

- H -

Haley Bennett - Graciela de la Fuente

Hannah Simone - S

Harry Lloyd - Valentin Veaceslav

Hayden Christensen - Kristoff E. Petrov

Hayden Panettiere - Skyla Chavira

Hayley Atwell - Carmela di Chimici

Henry Cavill -Â Chester Norton

Hunter Parrish - Francis Rousseau

Hwang Jung Eum - Hana Godfrey

Ian De Caestecker - J.C. Murphy

Isabel Lucas - Helen Ambrosia

- J -

Jack O''Connell - Roy Whesker

Jai Courtney - Téo Teixeira

Jake Johson - Tony Thompson

James Franco - N/ash Carrington

James McAvoy - Sebastian Van Laren

Jamie Chung - Irene Weitz

Jane Levy -Â Elsie Rodgers

Jasmine Sanders -Â Liesje Lijsbeth

Jason Statham - Rafael Romero

Jay Baruchel - Cal J.W. Fox

Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Zed O''Callaghan

Jenna-Louise Coleman - Cecilia D. Chandler

Jennifer Morrison - Penny Black

Jensen Ackles - Florian W. Hoffman

Jeon Jeongguk - Jeon Jeongguk

Jeremy Renner - Dorian Dixon

Jesse Soffer - Grover Alen

Jessica De Gouw - Vera Guthrie

Ji Sung - Yong Jae Sun

JoAnna Garcia Swisher - Pacifica

Joe Gilgun - Desmond Gallagher

Johanna Braddy - Reva Keegan

John Krasinski - Jesse Wescott

Jon Kortajarena - Aaron Anderson

Josefine Frida Pettersen - Dolu

Jude Law - Andrei Pavlov

Julian Morris - Wesley Franklin

Julianne Hough - Madelyn Weaver

- K -

Karen Fukuhara - Yuki Nakashima

Karen Gillan - Emma Fray (<33)

Kate Mara - Tuesday Beckett

Kate Mckinnon - Myrna Morgenstern

Katherine McNamara - Norene Harland

Kaya Scodelario - Quinn Jenae

Keira Knightley - Mystral Roux

Kevin Zegers - Damon Wallner

Kit Harington - Joel Paxton

Kristen Bell - Vivien Rouge

Krysten Ritter - Iris Thorne

- L-

Lauren Cohan - Wonder B.

Leighton Meester - Anastacia Bouvier

Leonardo diCaprio - Jerry Arlexa

Lily Collins - Frankie Chandra

Lily James - Anaïs V. Grimaldi

Lindy Booth - Camilla Weitz

Lindsey Morgan - Zenobia

Lizzy Caplan - Ramona Fade

Logan Lerman -Â Harley Langley

Luana Perez - Elizabeth Burton

Lucy Hale -Â Sheri Payne

Lyndsy Fonseca - Daisy de la Vina

- M -

Mads Mikkelsen - Ä°

Maeve Dermody - Athena Zoega

Maia Mitchell -Â Lynda Stine

Margot Robbie - Josie Lesniewski

Maria Valverde - Valerija Roque

Marie Avgeropoulos - Ljubica Solvej

Marion Cotillard - Marika Lamora

Martin Wallström - Fabio Chepe

Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Amelie Steiner

Matt Hitt - Douglas Roswell

Matt McGorry - Corbin Renwick

Matthew Daddario - Diego Mendoza

Matthew Gray Gubler - Patrick Descoteaux

Max Irons - Marc Janko

Max Riemelt - Ziggy Hildebrand

Melanie Martinez - D

Melissa Benoist - Charlotte Evans

Melissa Fumero - Catherine Winters

Michael Fassbender - Franco Locatelli

Miguel Ángel Silvestre - Rico A. Moreno

Min Yoongi - Min Yoongi

Morena Baccarin - Tulip Talitha

- N -

Natalie Dormer - Gem Julep

Nick Blood - Isaac Wyatt

Nick Offerman - Alfred Castillo

Nico Mirallegro - Jack Daniels

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Theos Volantis

Nina Dobrev - Emmaline Winslow

Norman Reedus - Harley Harford

Noomi Rapace - Yulia Utkin

- O/Ö -

Olesya Rulin - Ceku Balım

Olga Kurylenko - Zelda Croft

Olivia Holt -Â Rylee Cantrell

Oscar Isaac - Aldo C. Ferreiro

- Q -

- P -

Paul Rudd - Marco Polo

Paula Patton - Winter Willford

Penelope Mitchell -Â Caitlyn Weatherly

- R -

Rachel McAdams - NavoÅŸ Lancaster

Rashida Jones - Jean Cardellini

Rebel Wilson -Â Lauren Dwyer

Reeve Carney - Dylan Breckendridge

Richard Madden - Tristan Windsor

Rinko Kikuchi - S

Rosario Dawson - Eve Blanchett

Rosamund Pike - Daniela Carlevaro

Rose McIver - Skyler Freestone

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley - Leona Lane

Ruth Negga - Lara Tailler

- S -

Sabrina Carpenter - Louise Linn

Sam Claflin - Mathias Clayton

Sarah Gadon - Nina Buchvarov

Sarah Hyland - Marceline Apostolou

Sebastian Stan - Maximillian di Chimici

Seychelle Gabriel - Leila Beaumont

Scarlett Johansson - Diamontina Dixon

Shailene Woodley - Joy Cappella

Shantel Vansanten - D

Shelley Hennig - Nora Simmons

Sophia Bush - D

Sophie Cookson - Rain Gisbourne

Summer Glau - Rhea Crisanta

- T -

Taron Egerton - Caleb Lysander

Tatiana Maslany - Margo Wiggins & Felicia Makovecz

Taylor Marie Hill - Milla Alexander

Taylor Swift - Melanie Phoenix

Teresa Palmer - Dora Desjardins

Theo James - Keiro Padmore

Tom Ellis - Hector A. Whittemore

Tom Felton - Alpha Rigorous

Tom Hardy - Dito Delfino

Tom Hiddleston - Newton F. Windsor

Tom Holland - Flynn Holdsworth

Tom Mison - Armitage Cromwell

Toni Garrn - Audrey Tyler

Torrey Devitto - D

Travis Fimmel - Forrest Dickson

Tuppence Middleton - Mia Santiago

- U/Ü -

- V -

Victoria Justice - Lotus van Boven & Selo

- X -

Xavier Samuel -Â August FridtjofÂ

- W -

Will Smith - Dante di Mercurio

Willa Holland - Ethea Middlesworth

- Y -

- Z -

Zendaya - Izzy McGowan

Zoe Kazan - D

Zoë Kravitz - Thalia Hardy

Zoe Saldana - Kiara Kingsley

Zooey Deschanel - Hailey Montiel

Zoey Deutch - Myra Blackbourne

[mxmearcstapa]

Maddening Lions Final Update!

Months late! Sort of fuzzy due to lack of memory! But here! Right now! Without any delay! The winner of the White Heron Cup is-- The exciting conclusion of my New Game+ Maddening Lions playthrough!

As usual, SPOILERS FOR ALL ROUTES OF FIRE EMBLEM: THREE HOUSES

Paralogue: Arianrhod:

Dozens of hours accumulated and many tearful Divine Pulses throughout my Maddening run so far told me this map would be harder, than it actually was?

Like 100% I kept waiting for something horrible and unreasonable to occur, and it just... didn't. We went straight up the stairs to the right, the whole army, magically sniped a couple units, and moved straight towards Hubert, stayed away from the mages left... worst thing that happened were Cavaliers kept spawning.

Cavaliers!! That was Hubert's big reinforcement maneuver! Fucking horse bois!! Do you know what Dimitri's defense is? How dodgy Wyvern Dedue is?? FOOL!

All you need to do is tank one Meteor (Mercedes and Flayn are well up to the task), and you're golden.

Also! I don't know if they fixed the game-breaking bug yet, so friendly reminder not to save in the prep menu of The Silver Maiden paralogue.

Naruto Running @ Ft Mercius: This was where things started to slog again. Getting to a position where we could move more offensively took a little time, but Wyvern Dedue took care of the first mage on the orb. I don't remember anything on this map being specifically troublesome--just getting to the Death Knight is a hassle because there are giant demonic beasts all over, and very many punchy bois (Warmasters) kept advancing on us, intent to crit. The Death Knight himself was actually comparatively pretty tame: as we nabbed his Scythe in the Caspar-Mercedes paralogue, he was only equipped with a Brave Lance (and if that itself is not a reason to recruit Caspar, what is??).

Invading Enbarr: The beginning of this map is such complete ass that I had to restart several times so I would have Divine Pulses left to use for later. We had to do a LOT of rearranging and fervent praying on the left side of the map. Dimitri could take a couple hits, but the enemy army has such freakish accuracy, mixed range and damage type, and non-zero critical hit chances that it was a struggle. Eventually, with some extra magic range, healing, gambitting, dancing, and the grace of RNGsus, we pushed through and were able to break into Enbarr proper. After that, it was just slow and steady progression. It did take quite a while to get up to Hubert, though. I tried to clear as much map as was necessary to keep stragglers off my tail and waited out Boltings with Mercedes and Flayn. This first map of the final two maps probably took 4 hours alone.

The Apex of the World: I really like the song for this map. It's interesting to me when music is shared across maps--these things are meant to be tied together. For Dimitri and Edelgard to have the same music for their final map is absolutely rife with meaning.

That is about all I like about this map. XD

Because the Imperial Palace is insistent that it has a roof, flying units can't fly over walls. Myson is a monster and his mages gave me headaches. He is now guarded by a Fortress Knight, so it's harder to snipe him. The beasts are only slightly less aggressive than the omnipotent Crit Masters. And Edelgard just keeps hurling shit across the field, twice in the same turn. At the very least, she has the decency to target Dimitri with one of them if he's in range, and he mostly dodges.

We ignored the treasure and punks on the left except to take a couple mages out so we had breathing room as we fled. We stayed out of Myson's range until we could gambit him and his dumb friend's face off. I believe I had 2 Blue Lion Dancer battalions on top of Dancer Flayn, and even then, it was hairy. Half my army went up right to deal with the beast and the archer while the other half went up the center to fend off the oncoming magic and reinforcements. At long, long last, we shot our tiny, useless arrows to break Edelgard's barriers, and Wyvern Hilda and Dimitri wailed on her. Final hit belonged to Crit of Fraldarius, Felix the Punchboi, Demolisher of Healthbars, Long May He Reign. And I S C R E A M E D.

No deaths!

At long last, at 142 hours and 39 minutes* New Game+ Maddening Blue Lions complete! (*recorded time, likely doesn't count all the damn restarts I had to do 🙃)

[radiantresplendence]

The Bow Knight Class - Fire Emblem Three Houses

These are starting to feel a little bipolar. Obviously, you don’t need me to tell you that Bow Knight is good. It’s easily one of the best classes in the game and it holds the unique position of the class that you can put any unit in and they will have a noticeably significant effect on your army’s performance- at least in my opinion.

For a 100% pass rate of the Bow Knight exam, you’re going to need C lances, A bows and A riding. The riding rank can be a little annoying to train, but so long as you make an effort to plan things out in advance, it shouldn’t give you too much trouble. This is our first Master Class, so you have 10 more levels to work on your skills before you can qualify over the Advanced Classes. You may not really be using lances as a Bow Knight, but C+ in lances is sometimes enough to pick up powerful Combat Arts like Vengeance. 

Analysis

The base stats that the Bow Knight guarantees are nothing to write home about. If you classed the unit in question into an Advanced Class (which you probably should have) you’re not likely to see any stat boosts on qualifying. Just for the sake of putting it out there, you’re granted 17 strength, 14 dexterity and 16 speed. The Bow Knight gives class bonuses of 1 strength, 3 dexterity and 1 speed (while mounted, 3 while not). Looking into this, was a little eye-opening as I hadn’t considered dismounting to potentially increase your speed to doubling range, but with a class like Bow Knight, that may be situationally viable. 

Bow Knights have huge mobility, boasting 8 movement while mounted and 6 while dismounted. Being bow specialists (and taking into account their Class Skills), this gives them outrageous attack range, that can easily keep them out of danger while raining death down upon their targets. 

Bow Knights have potentially the strongest set of Class Skills in the game. Bowfaire, Bow Range +2 and Canto are all incredibly strong and probably have the best synergy among Class Skills in the game. The class’s Mastery Skill is Defiant Speed. 

Bowfaire encourages bow specialization and gives you 5 bonus damage while doing so. Bows are the best weapon type in the game. It’s great. 

Bow Range +2 is self-explanatory. Bows have the advantage of being able to attack and provide linked attack bonuses at a range. Giving 2 extra range on that is exceptionally strong and can almost always allow you to avoid counterattacks. 

Canto allowing you to use your extra movement after taking an action lets a Bow Knight stage hit-and-runs better than any other class in the game and can ensure that your positioning is always strong. 

Defiant Speed is fine, but it’s often a little more work than it’s worth to get a Bow Knight down to 25% of their total health for a speed boost. On new game+, there’s probably some value in using the skill for vantage/desperation/wrath builds, but outside of that niche, I don’t think it’s all that great. 

In terms of growths, the Bow Knight offers little. A 5% detriment to speed is the only thing worth noting and pretty much the only thing that there is as 10% HP and 5% charm are granted or beaten by almost every other class in the game. It seems like this is where the developers intended to balance this otherwise outrageously powerful class, but after 30 levels of growth in other classes, it’s too little, too late. 

Good Bow Knights

Felix is probably the best combat unit in the game and consequently winds up being the unit with the best performance as a Bow Knight. He even has a strength in bows to ease the training process for your convenience. He has everything you need: high strength, speed and dexterity. His Major Crest of Fraldarius is just icing on the cake that can give you even more damage for free. With a brave bow, or even without, he can consistently obliterate targets in a single turn more effectively than any other unit classed into Bow Knight. 

Out of the low strength archer kids, Ignatz makes the best Bow Knight due to his inherent Hit +20. With a longbow and equipping the Archer’s Hit +20 on top of his personal, Ignatz just doesn’t miss regardless of range. Bernadetta and Ashe also make strong Bow Knights, despite missing out on Ignatz’s niche. All three kids gain the ability to use powerful bows at minimal cost while staying away from dangerous enemies that could potentially cause them undue harm due to their middling combat prowess. 

Cyril and Leonie make natural promotions to Bow Knight, and all things considered, they’ll do quite well in the class. If you don’t have access to Felix in part 2, either can act as a diet replacement, even though I think that both are better off elsewhere. Petra isn’t a bad choice either, however she winds up being an off-brand substitute for Leonie in this role. Still quite strong, but unless you’re making every unit a Bow Knight, she’s also better off elsewhere to avoid being redundant. 

With a magic bow, even mages make great Bow Knights. Mercedes, Hubert and Hanneman can do it. Hubert and Hanneman even have the strengths in the right skills to do it easily. I may not wholeheartedly recommend this as I think that all 3 are better off as casters, but for the sake of doing it, not only should it work, it should work well. 

Conclusion

Bow Knight is really strong, however I’m going to break from my praise for it for a moment. I think it’s easily the frontrunner for strongest class in the game on Normal or Hard, but I think it loses a lot of its appeal on Maddening due to the huge boon in the quality of enemy units. With Poison Strike and a venin bow, it can shore up the offensive deficiencies of a unit like Ashe and offer uncontested amounts of safe chip damage. 

Basically, I’d never field more than 2. It keep your army from feeling stale. 

I’ve done more of these, check them out here. 

[a-dreamers-universe]

I wonder how the kiss will bee in the live action B&B ? I mean we know how epic the animated one was and I'm sure Dan and Emma won't disappoint. I just keep thinking abut that interview Richard Madden did talking about the kiss in Cinderella. He was saying how you had to careful how much you did b/c it's Disney lol. I can't wait to see the transformation scene in live action!

I know right? Disney cannot go too far (and I kinda like that) because nobody would like to see things go too far (like... one of the most hot kiss is the Calhoun-Felix one or the Aladdin and Jasmine one).Yet it’s a live action and you’re right, that moment IS EPIC in the animation. It gives so much sentiment and feelings...

I’m so looking forward to it, I mean... for what we’ve seen so far, Dan and Emma have so much chemistry (even though he is covered from head to toe in CGI), you can feel it during the ballroom dance or the wolves scene...

So yeah... can’t wait to discover what happens and what they’ll do *^*

[harusha]

It’s honestly really hard to mess up Sylvain as a unit unless you’re either playing badly intentionally or have incredibly bad luck with rng (in which case, he’ll end up as average rather than bad).

Like...I’d honestly say he’s one of the best units in FE3H b/c of how his growths and stats line up combined with the infamous Swift Strikes+Lance of Ruin+Wyvern Lord combo. Ferdinand and Seteth can run the same combo but imo Sylvain does it best.

Like, Blue Lions is honestly a loaded house when it comes to good characters. Felix is Felix (ie. his speed and attack make him an incredible offensive unit), Ingrid has a fantastic combination of bulk and speed, and so forth. I only think Dedue and Ashe are less than optimal from that house and even then Dedue’s just stuck in a game where armors aren’t the greatest b/c of map size and how many mages there are; his early game performance is good though, and his later problems can be solved by putting him on a wyvern like everyone else.

And Annette has the unique capability of bsing able to have more rallies than everyone else combined with her support and offensive spell list. I do think she’s a weaker mage than Hubert and Lysithea though.

And Ashe is supposed to be pretty lackluster b/c of his strength growths, but honestly, he’s been really solid for me on the runs I use him on. Much better than Bernadetta anyway (haven’t used Ignatz yet so can’t comment on him). Ashe can actually double consistently. I did run him through Brigand for strength level ups though+Death Blow. He doubles for like 25-30 dmg a piece (on chapter 11 of Maddening difficulty Black Eagles rn for reference) with Silver Bow+ and carries really well. No stat boosters used either. He only has a speed ring. He’s also high enough in Bow rank to fire off Parthia and Brave Bow Deadeye shots now

And Bernie suffers from having a bane in axes so it’s harder for her to pick up Death Blow on higher difficulties without using online liasons/renown. But she does get Darting Blow as a trade-off (if you don’t mind taking a skill slot).

[biofunmy]

When Resistance Became Too Loud to Ignore

At times the fight for civil rights is a straight road pocked with speed bumps; at other times a maddening spiral of detours. It was a battlefield in the early hours of June 28, 1969, when a small group of gay, lesbian and transgender people, herded by police out of a Greenwich Village bar called the Stonewall Inn, just said no: shoved back; threw bricks, bottles, punches. As the police defensively barricaded themselves inside the bar, the fight — since variously termed a riot, an uprising, a rebellion — spread through the Village, then through the country, then through history.

It’s still spreading, expanding the way the term “gay” has expanded to include lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and other categories of identity. And for this summer’s half-century Stonewall anniversary, substantial displays of art produced in the long wake of the uprising are filling some New York City museums and public spaces.

The largest of them is the two-part “Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989” shared by Grey Art Gallery, New York University, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum in Soho. A trio of small archival shows at the New-York Historical Society adds background depth to the story. And at the Brooklyn Museum, “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall,” 28 young queer and transgender artists, most born after 1980, carry the buzz of resistance into the present.

Grey Art Gallery and Leslie-Lohman Museum

‘Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989’

This survey, organized by the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, where it will later appear, is split into two rough chunks defined by decades, with material from the ’70s mostly at Leslie-Lohman and from the ’80s at Grey. Unsurprisingly, the Leslie-Lohman half is livelier. A lot of what’s in it was hot off the political burner when made, responsive to crisis conditions. The modest scale of the gallery spaces makes the hanging feel tight and combustible. And as a time of many “firsts,” the early years had a built-in excitement.

There was, of course, the thrill of the uprising itself, captured by the Village Voice beat photographer Fred W. McDarrah in an on-the-spot nighttime shot of protesters grinning and vamping outside the Stonewall. (One of them, the mixed-media artist Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt has sparkling, tabletop-size sculptures in both sections of the show.) Activist groups quickly formed, and a way of life that had once been discreetly underground pushed out into the open.

The Gay Liberation Front, aligning itself with antiwar and international human rights struggles, coalesced within days after Stonewall, soon followed by the Gay Activists Alliance, which focused specifically on gay and lesbian issues. It was clear pretty fast that both were predominantly male, white and middle class — misogyny, racism and classism have plagued L.G.B.T. politics from the start — and further groups splintered off: Radicalesbians, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), and later, the Salsa Soul Sisters. All the energy produced, among other things, the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March (now the NYC Pride March).

Many of the Stonewall-era trailblazers, like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera — one black, the other Latinx, both self-identified drag queens — were longtime veterans of the West Village gay scene. But for many other people the event prompted a first full public coming out, which was no light matter.

In 1969, even mild affectional acts between same-sex couples were illegal in much of the United States, as was cross-dressing. An arrest — and there were many — could instantly end a career, destroy a family, shut down a future. Bullying gay men was considered normal; violence was acceptable.

As a gay person, you went through the world watching your movements, monitoring your speech, worrying about how much of yourself, just by being yourself, you were giving away. This could make for a lonely life. If, for some reason, you were heedless, or incapable, of acting straight, good luck to you.

So when safety arrived in the form of an army of out-and-proud lovers and protesters, the relief was tremendous. And you can feel the rush of at Leslie-Lohman, in photographs of the first marches in New York and Los Angeles taken by participants like Cathy Cade, Leonard Fink, Diana Davies, Kay Tobin Lahusen (who, in a wall label, is credited as being the first openly gay American woman photojournalist).

Particularly strong among these images is Bettye Lane’s shot of a raging Sylvia Rivera confronting a jeering gay crowd — they had just been applauding an anti-trans speech by the lesbian feminist leader Jean O’Leary — at the 1973 New York march. But no picture can compare in gut-level impact with the short glitchy surviving video of Rivera in action that day. (You can find it on YouTube. I urge you to watch it.)

Women and transgender people are the heart of the Leslie-Lohman half of the show, not only in its documentary components but in the art chosen by the curator Jonathan Weinberg, working with Tyler Cann of the Columbus Museum of Art and Drew Sawyer of the Brooklyn Museum.

Standouts include a Tee A. Corinne-designed coloring book consisting of exquisite line drawings of vulvae; Harmony Hammond’s sculpture of two clothbound ladderlike forms leaning protectively together; and Louise Fishman’s 1973 “Angry Paintings,” acts of controlled gestural chaos that name heroic lesbian names (the critic Jill Johnston, the anthropologist Esther Newton, Ms. Fishman’s partner at the time) and speak of emotions once suppressed, now released.

The Grey Gallery half of the show, which brings us into the 1980s, makes a quieter impression. Partly this is because of a more spacious installation spread over two floors, and to the more polished-and-framed look of much of the work. Political content is, with vivid exceptions, subtle, indirect, which is not in itself a bad thing, though an earlier charge of communal energy is diminished. We’re basically now in a different, more market-conscious, canon-shaping art world, one closer to the museum than to the street.

And though we’re in the era of AIDS, the sense of urgency that absolutely defined that time is missing. This is not to say there’s a shortage of good work. The show would be valuable if it did nothing more than showcase artists like Laura Aguilar, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Jerome Caja, Lenore Chinn, Maxine Fine, Luis Frangella and Marc Lida, all seldom, if ever, seen in New York now.

Here again photography opens a window on cultural histories that would otherwise be lost to memory. Dona Ann McAdams’ shots of performances at the lesbian-feminist W.O.W. (Women’s One World) Café, and other East Village clubs, are reminders of the radical talents — John Bernd, Karen Finley, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller — that this brief time and vanished environment nurtured.

In the end, though, it was two text-pieces, familiar but reverberant, that stayed in my mind. One, a 1989 print by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, was originally enlarged to billboard size and installed on Christopher Street, near where the Stonewall Inn still stands. It’s plain black field is empty except for two unpunctuated lines of small white type read, as if floating up from delirium: “People With AIDS Coalition 1985 Police Harassment 1969 Oscar Wilde 1895 Supreme Court 1986 Harvey Milk 1977 March on Washington 1987 Stonewall Rebellion 1969.”

The other piece is a 1988 poster designed by the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury. In large letters it commands us to “Take Collective Direct Action to End the AIDS crisis.” In smaller type it acknowledges that, “With 42,000 dead, art is not enough.”

In an ethically pressurized political present, it’s a message I find myself carrying away from a lot of recent contemporary shows.

New York University Bobst Library

‘Violet Holdings: LGBTQ+ Highlights From the N.Y.U. Special Collections’

With the Stonewall Inn — now a national monument (and a bar again; it was a bagel shop in the 1980s) — in its neighborhood, New York University has scheduled several additional events around the anniversary, among them a homegrown archival exhibition called “Violet Holdings: LGBTQ+ Highlights from the N.Y.U. Special Collections,” on view at Bobst Library, across the park from Grey Art Gallery.

Organized by Hugh Ryan, it tracks the history of queer identity back to the 19th century with documents related to Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), an American actor, suffragist and friend of Virginia Woolf, forward with material on pathbreaking organizations like the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis, and close to the present in the form of ephemera associated with the musician and drag king Johnny Science (1955-2007), and the D.J. Larry Levan (1954-1992), who, in the 1980s, presided godlike at the gay disco called the Paradise Garage, then a short walk from the N.Y.U. campus.

New-York Historical Society

‘Stonewall 50’

The Paradise Garage, or “Gay-rage,” has high visibility in “Letting Loose and Fighting Back: LGBTQ Nightlife Before and After Stonewall,” one of a cluster of dense micro-show at New-York Historical Society. The club’s metal street sign is here, along with some theme-dance fliers, and a mash-note drawing of Levan by Keith Haring. A matchbook from working-class lesbian bar called the Sea Colony, is a souvenir of 50s butch-femme culture in New York. A key fob and a flip-top lighter are relics of gay male sex clubs, like the Anvil and the Ramrod, that sizzled in the ’70s. So plentiful were such pleasure emporia that some activists feared they were sapping the strength of goal-oriented gay politics.

Yet activism is the essence of a second show, “By the Force of Our Presence: Highlights from the Lesbian Herstory Archives,” which documents the founding in 1974 — by Joan Nestle, Deborah Edel, Sahli Cavallaro, Pamela Olin, and Julia Stanley — of a compendious and still-growing register of lesbian history. The items on view represent a small part of the whole but still suggest the arc of a larger story driven by charismatic personalities.

And personality-plus is what you get in a set of separate solo homages to such out-and-proud imperishables as Stormé DeLarverie (1920-2014); Mother Flawless Sabrina/Jack Doroshow (1939-2017); and Rollerena Fairy Godmother (born 1948). All three, for decades and in different ways, served the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, as guardian angels (Ms. DeLarverie, a biracial male impersonator, worked as a bouncer at lesbian bars); style models (Ms. Flawless was impresaria of countless drag pageants); and cheerleaders (who could forget the delight, in the ’70s, of seeing Rollerena, purse in hand, whizz by?).

Brooklyn Museum

‘Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall’

As it happens, Ms. DeLarverie is stage center in this notably youthful and history-conscious — and history-correcting — survey at the Brooklyn Museum. The museum commissioned the artist L.J. Roberts, self-identified as genderqueer, to create a Stonewall monument for the occasion. Ms. DeLarverie is the subject the artist chose to honor, both as a power of example and as a figure whose role at Stonewall — some accounts have her landing the first punch on intruding police — has been obscured. In the sculpture, a construction of light boxes on bricks, her image appears repeatedly, along with those of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. (A monument commemorating both will be placed in the vicinity of the Stonewall Inn.)

Rivera, who died of cancer at 50 in 2002, and Johnson, who was found dead in the Hudson River in 1992 (her death, ruled suicide at the time, is still under investigation), are further saluted in a video docudrama by Sasha Wortzel and the artist Tourmaline, and in a bannerlike sequined hanging by Tuesday Smillie.

Friends in life, the two historical figures are tutelary spirits of an exhibition in which a trans presence, long marginalized by mainstream gay politics, is pronounced.

It’s here in the work of the queer graffiti artist Hugo Gyrl, in the diarylike photographs of Elle Perez (a participant in the current Whitney Biennial), in the vivid memorial portraits of murdered trans women by the painter David Antonio Cruz, in the songs of Linda LaBeija, in the internet-based work of Mark Aguhar, a femme-identified transgender artist who died in 2012; and in the hand-sewn textile protest signs of Elektra KB.

For many reasons, protest is a logical direction for art right now. There is still no federal law prohibiting discrimination against L.G.B.T.Q.+ people on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (although some states and cities have enacted laws prohibiting it). Trans women continue to be victims of violence. The rate of new H.I.V./AIDS transmission among gay black men remains high. And the impulse within the gay mainstream to accommodate and assimilate is by now deeply ingrained. The time has come to hear Sylvia Rivera calling us out again.

Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989

Through July 21 at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, 26 Wooster Street; 212-431-2609, leslielohman.org, and through July 20, at Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East; 212-998-6780, greyartgallery.nyu.edu.

Violet Holdings: LGBTQ+ Highlights from the N.Y.U. Special Collections

Through Dec. 31, New York University Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South; 212-998-2500, library.nyu.edu.

Stonewall 50 at New-York Historical Society

Through Sept. 22 at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West; 212-873-3400, www.nyhistory.org .

Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: 50 Years After Stonewall

Through Dec. 8 at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway; 718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org,.

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Naked Madlions Update #1!

Welcome all to the exciting adventure that is the Naked Madlions, my Maddening playthrough of Blue Lions without New Game+! (All updates are going to be tagged with #Molly's Madlions) As a warning, I've played all 4 routes and as this is a playthrough, it gets pretty spoiler-heavy. I might, and have in previous posts, talk about plot elements, comparisons, and other details.

Basically, spoiler warning for potentially all of FE3H, but most specifically Blue Lions.

With that out of the way, here's how it's going!

Prologue:

GUYS I FAILED THE FUCKING PROLOGUE AHAHAHA. We stole Claude and Edelgards' weapons and shoved them behind a wall to keep them out of danger. I put Dimitri in a bush and said, "yeah, he's sufficiently tanky, he can--" and then he took one hit, and he was okay, and then he took the second hit, and then he wasn't okay. And I thought, "oh, I'll Divine Pul--oh...right." Anyay, I've now seen what the Game Over screen looks like.

With more liberal healing and less aggressive tactics, we succeeded. :P

Mock Battle:

Battle requires Byleth and Dimitri, and I took Dedue, Mercedes, and Ingrid for other slots. Dedue has a swell personal ability which makes him excellent at taking physical hits. Mercie I took because she was the only one who could heal. Ingrid I was really on the fence about, as my past experiences with her have not been the best, but I picked her for her Res, which came really in handy this battle. I made sure to stock up on as many weapons as I could, and I equipped everyone with 2 vulneraries. It did take several restarts to find the right combination of actions, and I admit that Mercedes went down, but because this is like, one of two battles that aren't permadeath, I just left her down. She was out of heals anyway, and we were close to winning. Her survival is, of course, more important to me moving forward. Even so, it took 26 turns (and several swears) to complete three mock battle. Bleh.

"HEY, KOSTAS, REMEMBER US?":

Oh, my Divine Pulses! *cries in joy* oh...there's...only 3 of them. Okay. Cool. I'm used to like...10, but this...this is fine.

This is a tough fight to start out with, because most of these dumb babies are still level 1. No one got to 5 from the practice battle because, like a dingus, I split my exp a little more evenly before thinking about what might happen next. Plus, those Poison Touch Archers are AGGRESSIVE. All the Swordbois have Pass, so we had to watch our backs to make sure no one was sneaking behind us to stab the squishier ones. Most of the battle, we kept to the initial bridge and let the enemies come to us. The bridge gives a nice choke point to control enemy movement. Much to my own surprise, we kept everyone alive and didn't need to use any Divine Pulses (oh me of little faith). As long as you're mindful of archer range, it's workable.

DP Used: 0

Mutiny in the Mist:

CATHERINE IS AN EXP THIEF. WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?

*ahem*

Fog...sucks. About half the army had torches ready, and we only lost of one of our allied soldiers (because he ran himself through an enemy weapon. I cannot help you, sir), so not too bad! About midway through the map, I used a Pulse to pull Sylvain back up (STOP. MISSING.). At this point, Ingrid and Sylvain had learned their basic Reason magic, but their Magic skills are craaaaaaap. Sylvain I know will grow better, and Ingrid we're mostly expecting to crit, but it's a weird progression. I've never gone for straight Magic Ingrid before. When not using magic, she's been proccing her Crest fervently in the hopes that I will reconsider and have her focus on the Lance. *laughs in distance*

At the very least, having Annette, Mercedes, and Dimitri all healing was a boon. Dedue actually crit Lonato to low health, which blew away a lot of his difficulty.

This map is also funny, because I forgot I don't have access to adjutants in the very beginning, so we have to court Ferdinand the old-fashioned way. :P HE SHALL JOIN US YET. If nothing else, his weapon and vulneraries both get restored after each battle, which means "resources I don't have to worry about." As long as he's not stealing exp getting KOs, we're all happy.

DP Used: 1

Gimme My Sword!:

So I was nervous about this because I know there's a lot of mages here, and the Lions aren't super Res-blessed as a whole. But they were okay! I did split the party--Dimitri, Byleth, Dedue, Ashe, Annette, and Ferdie to the left, and Sylvain, Felix, Ingrid, and Mercedes to the right. With Ingrid's Res, Felix's Crest-laced bow shots, Sylvain's raw strength, and Mercie's healing/Res/magic, the right side was only in deep trouble at one point. I was afraid I'd need to reset entirely, but Felix just straight dodged a lethal hit, and they pushed forward. Plus, Ingrid and Sylvain both knew Heal, which was helpful.

Meanwhile, Left Team slowly fed Annette axe kills, and Dimitri and Ashe dispatched the reinforcements. The kids are shaping up well!

DP Used: 1

Closing Thoughts:

it's, uh, it's tough. It's a completely different set of resources to work with. Having 3 Divine Pulses instead of 10 really changes how careful I am: if there's an issue, I am closer to restarting the battle than being able to rewind, which is more time spent. I knew I wouldn't start with a lot of activity points, but I had forgotten how desolately you begin. Mostly I have using my AP for faculty training and cooking for the stat boosts. My truest love, fishing, returns to me as I attempt to raise my professor level. But because I'm not dining with students, they often have low motivation, which prohibits me from training as intensely. With the battle time being longer overall, it's not as prohibitive towards weapons, but magic has limited uses, so if I'm not pumping that in lessons, they learn it much more slowly. AND, even though we're getting weapon exp, it's at the cost of the weapons themselves, and this army is NOT made of money. So striving to find a balance is something of an issue, but I think I'm getting it.

Roster Progression (Post Tomb-Raiding):

Byleth: 10, Mercenary

Dimitri: 11, Priest

Dedue: 8, Soldier

Ashe: 8, Fighter

Felix: 10, Archer

Annette: 8, Monk

Sylvain: 8, Monk

Mercedes: 8, Monk

Ingrid: 9, Monk

Current Professor Level: C

Time Stamp: 14:45