#fire emblem shadows of valentia spoilers

[gentleoverdrive]

Once the last bastion has been conquered, the Deliverance prepare to march towards the Rigelian Capital. The Deliverance's field commander and one of his most stalwart allies allow themselves to take it easy before that happens, however.

(Previous oneshot/chapter is here. If you don't want to read it in AO3, see below!)

“Well met, and salutations, Alm.” Hearing those first two words from someone out of his eyesight would often leave the young leader bereft of any energy and force him to grin and bear with what was needed of him; and while he had grown to adapt to his position atop the Deliverance fairly well, part of him simply wanted to avoid the etiquette of it all when it came to people calling him ‘Sir’ or something to the effect. “Well met, and salutations to you too, Clair!” But he was easily able to make that melodious voice out among the crowd, and luckily for him, neither his ears nor the tap on his left shoulder managed to deceive him, for it was none other than the spirited lady who had become his confidante among said upper echelons of the Deliverance, the cheerfulness that populated his reply all the more apparent now because of that. Following her older brother publicly decreeing that this fortress had been successfully conquered was just as good a time as any to find her emerald-haired friend since, for Clair, having these one-on-one talks with the leader of the Zofian effort was one of the few boons she could still count among, what with almost everything else in her day-to-day life having become mostly stripped away to make way for actual necessities. “May we speak once more?” “As always, I would most certainly love to.” The jovial back and forth allowed Alm to hand his quasi-personal blacksmith the remnant parts of his armor so that it could get a lookup and, perhaps, some proper restoration work done ahead of the march to Rigel Castle the army was preparing towards. “Milord.” Clair deigned to offer her hand for Alm to take… “Milady.” …an offer which the boy quickly took her up on. And before long, they were walking away–respectively letting out a hearty chuckle and dignified titter as they did–from the makeshift tents the Deliverance had set next to the front gate for miscellaneous tasks. --------------------------

As they made their way into the main hall, Alm noticed that his walking companion was barely able to suppress a wince. “Wha–-hey! Clair, are you OK?” “I… well, I deign most unsuitable to lie to you, but I did not want you to worry over such a minor affair.” “This goes beyond my being your commander. Answer me: Are you okay?” For a brief moment, with Alm’s face occupying part of what she considered her personal space, the celebrated falcon knight briefly felt that same funny pang in her chest from back when she was still getting acquainted with the Ram Village boy she now called both her friend and commanding officer. “I…” Clair felt the need to find her verbal footing once more. “...I may have flown afoul of a small deployment of archers as I directed my partner into your general direction. Perhaps I should count my blessings, for all but one arrow was the one that managed to graze my right greave.” “I see… will you be able to hold on until we arrive at the mess hall?” “My my! Could it be, perhaps, that there is something you have in store for me?” Seizing upon the opportunity to lighten up both of their burdens, she teasingly poked at his cheek to dispel that frown that currently inhabited his visage. Along with turning the tables and having his cheeks turn a flush red, Alm’s frown quickly gave way to an awkward smile as he offered his arm for her to hold on to. “Heh, I just might!” -------------------------- “So, you saw my scrap against Slayde.”

After finding appropriate seating arrangements upon a relatively isolated table, the young man from Ram Village and the girl from the Zofian Capital had exchanged pleasantries for some time, before the touchy subject resurfaced.

“I most certainly did.”

At that confirmation, Alm guided his eyes away as he took in a deep breath and his clasped hands became ever so slightly shakier as he remembered his violent act of unfettered retribution against the now slain turncoat.

“You do not have to pretend when around me, Alm.” Just in the moment she felt her friend pulling back, Clair placed her right hand upon both of his. “Slayde visited some sort of heinous act upon you or, perhaps, a loved one, did he not?”

“He did.” His reply came swift and almost as though it were instinct, his eyes still casting their sights elsewhere.

“Then say no more.” Clair’s own response came along with her left index flicking the green-haired young man on his forehead. After wincing from the slight sting, Alm directed his attention towards his confidante once more, her bid to regain his attention a success.

“I have known for quite some time how much of a right craven that man was. Some of said experience came first-hand too, no less. You did Valentia as a whole a favor by besting him the way you did.”

Upon hearing those words, a sense of relief flowed through the leader of the Deliverance, both obvious due to his neutral expression soon switching to a sober but genuine smile and the easygoing sigh after he allowed himself a deep breath.

“...a cutting remark from the Queen of High Society herself? Alas for his reputation!” At his sudden retort, both quickly embraced the levity their back-and-forth allowed them, with his open chuckle and her serene titter.

“I thank you, Clair.”

“Perish the thought. You ought to be in as high spirits as possible if we are to have you properly lead us to victory.”

Her refined manner of speech might have made a good show of hiding it, but seeing as though they were all but knocking at the doors of Rigel’s imperial capital, Alm understood her friend’s burning vigor all too well.

“Right you are, as usual.” Alm quickly cleared his throat after those words. “Apropos of what we briefly talked about earlier and if it’s not too terribly imposing, may I see your right shin?”

“Mm? Is this pertaining to my injury?” The falcon knight suddenly felt put on the spot by such a request. At seeing her friend and fellow in arms reply with a quick nod and brief non-verbal grunt, Clair decided that she might as well allow him this ease of mind.

With a slight bit of difficulty, she put her right leg atop her seat to start undoing the armor covering her leg. Fortunately, her armor was relatively light and well cared for, so it came off without much problem, with Clair’s bare leg now in full display as Alm stood up from his seat and walked to her side.

All of a sudden, Clair felt a slight tinge of embarrassment at her current position, even as she knew the boy would not have any untoward intentions.

“Right.” Upon inspecting her injury, the aforementioned boy quickly closed both his eyes and took in a deep breath; a few words which Clair herself did not recognize started coming out of his mouth, and before she was able to put in two and two…

“And… there!” Alm placed both his hands near her injury, with a faint glow appearing soon after, fading before long.

Caught completely unaware, Clair did not even eke out any sort of reaction… not until she noticed that her injury and the fatigue that came with it both were gone.

“W–wait! W–”

The boy probably did not mean to cut her off, but when he exhaled a breath of relief, Clair’s thoughts were unable to be properly put all in one place.

“Would you kindly keep this a secret?”

The combination of her being unable to suppress her surprise at what just transpired and his plea of secrecy to this soon allowed a small bit of frustration to seep through as he walked back to his seat.

“And what, pray tell, was the meaning of that?” She was careful to not raise her voice, lest she were to bring the attention of the rest of the hall down upon their table, but the Zofian noble still felt like an explanation was needed.

At her line of inquiry, Alm realized he needed to come clean.

“You are absolutely right.” Once he seated himself once more, Alm placed the Royal Sword in front of them both.

“At some point after toppling Desaix and recovering this sword, I started hearing… well, not quite sure what it was, but I think something started to change within me as we journeyed further north. To make a somewhat long story short, thanks to sister Silque, Luthier and Kliff, I have been making strides in an attempt to learn healing magic.”

At that confession, Clair’s eyes widened.

“This is still very much a path I am just starting and to properly walk forth, I’m sure. So, as I previously begged of you, if we can keep this a secret for the time being at least, I would very much appreciate it.”

As he finished, Alm winked at her while bringing his left index finger to his mouth.

Clair was never much for mincing words or enjoying sweet nothings. However, she could not help but to admire as the man she had grown strangely close to throughout these hostilities showed her a side of himself he was still trying to prove worthy of.

At that, she revealed an open-hearted smile…

“Ow!” Before ‘chastising’ him for his transgression with yet another light flick to his forehead. Same as the previous flicker, too.

“Such an underhanded, cheeky friend I must have.”

[hello-eeveev]

MaeBoey in my 2023 Zelda? It’s more likely than you think.

[agirlinsearchof]

I just realized something: Grima’s backstory has similarities to Frankenstein’s monster.

So in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, after you’ve beaten the game, there is an optional dungeon containing the notes of the researcher Forneus, who creates a creature later known as Grima and also learns to raise the dead through insect-like creatures called thanatophages. He came to fear his own creation, seeking to kill it (but ultimately failing). Not helping is when Alm and Celica also seek to kill it (also failing).

It’s probably just a common trope, but I found it interesting.

[frickingnerd]

Fandoms I'm Writing For:

sorted by category + fandoms in alphabetical order

⋆˖⁺‧₊ ANIME ₊‧⁺˖⋆

MHA: Vigilantes

All Vigilantes Exclusive Characters

⋆˖⁺‧₊ CARTOONS ₊‧⁺˖⋆

Miraculous

All Miraculous Users & Civilian Versions Of Them

RWBY

All Main Characters

Most Side Characters

⋆˖⁺‧₊ BOOKS ₊‧⁺˖⋆

Percy Jackson

All Main Characters

Most Side Characters (no Calypso, Stolls & Will - yet)

⋆˖⁺‧₊ VIDEOGAMES ₊‧⁺˖⋆

Ace Attorney

All Attorneys, Prosecuters + Companions

Most Side Characters from All Games

Danganronpa

Trigger Happy Havoc + Komaru Naegi

Goodbye Despair

V3: Killing Harmony

Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core

Zack Fair, Aerith Gainsborough, Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, Sephiroth, Cissnei, Genesis Rhapsodos, Angeal Hewley, Tseng

Crisis Core Only! No Spoilers for Base FF7!

Final Fantasy 10

Tidus, Yuna, Rikku, Wakka, Lulu, Auron, Kimahri, Seymour

no spoilers for X-2!

Fire Emblem

Three Houses (+ Hopes)

Engage (+ Fell Xenologue)

Awakening

Fates (Birthright & Conquest)

Shadows of Valentia

Blazing Blade

Kingdom Hearts

Sora, Riku, Kairi, Roxas, Axel, Xion, Namine, Aqua, Ventus, Terra

Hayner, Pence, Olette, Vanitas, Organization XIII

Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE

All Master Detectives + Kurumi Wendy

All Peacekeepers + Makoto Kagutsuchi (no Swank, Guillame & Dominic)

NieR: Automata

2B, 9S, A2, Adam, Eve

Persona

Persona 3 (Portable)

Persona 4 (Golden + Arena Ultimax)

Persona 5 (Royal + Strikers)

The World Ends With You + Neo: TWEWY

All Party Members

All Reapers + Side Characters (no Kubo)

Valkyria Chronicles

First & Second Game Characters

Xenoblade Chronicles

Xenoblade Chronicles + Future Connected

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 + Torna: The Golden Country

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 + Future Redeemed

[calamitaswrath]

You know, on a certain level it's actually nice that Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn were so obscure in their time and are so hard to get now. Cause it means that I never really got to hear much about the actual story in these games, though I guess I did hear some spoilers over the years. But all I really know is completely disjointed stuff, like

Ike and Mist's father dies (I think he's killed by the Black Knight?)

There's all kinds of furries, and there's racism between the humans and the animal-species people (though how the heck do you even draw the lines when there's seemingly all kinds of different animal race people)

The Black Knight is a guy named Zelgius, whoever that is

One of the main antagonists (I think?) is a a guy named Ashnard who's also the Mad King™, and he's a wyvern rider and his wyvern is a person, one of the animal race people?

Soren is also a dragon person? I think?

Final boss of the second game is a goddess, except it's only half of one cause the original one got split into two, a hot one and a child. The former represents order and is the final boss, and the latter represents chaos

Not actually a story thing, but out of all the FE art styles and designs I've seen so far, these games have probably my favourites. They're definitely up there with Shadow of Valentia, at any rate.

And. . . yeah, I think that's it. Also apparently not a whole lot of a basis for Ike being attracted to women, while there's a lot of basis for him being attracted to Soren or the sky blue haired cat boy

. . .And on a completely unrelated note, the other day I managed to figure out how to install Gamecube and Wii games (among others) onto my Wii U as sort of Virtual Console injects.

[imustbenuts]

wait wait wait

spoilers for fire emblem engage end game

is the emblem of foundation referring to fire emblem cipher?

https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Fire_Emblem_0_(Cipher)_Original_Characters

for those not in the know, there were actually 8 original characters who debuted with the now cancelled card game. some of them became playable as DLCs in Shadows of Valentia.

but out of all of them there's a character named niamh who is explicitly stated to have a world which she originates from that has nothing to do with any of the existing games. everyone else seems to be natives of certain worlds in existing Fe games but outside of the narrative

so about Niamh.

this is her profile

i dont actually think she is the zero emblem, but considering how Fire Emblem Cipher's logo is this...

its uh, sus. these original characters were released in separate sets and the official source of lore to go with it are now pretty much gone. the zero emblem might be something that was once real and in the works in some form, and it feels like its strongly pointing towards cipher.

only the devs know for sure though...

:thinkingemoji:

[vonbergerpants]

Fire Emblem Progress:

- FE1: Owned on the Switch but not started.

- Mystery of the Emblem, Genealogy and Thracia: Still need to find Totally Legal Copies.

- Binding Blade: English patch gotten, not started.

- Blazing Blade: DONE

- Sacred Stones: In Progress!

- Tellius: Both DONE and true ending achieved!

- Shadow Dragon: Don't own it, wondering if I should when I have FE1 anyway? I know it's a DS remake. Probably should.

- Awakening: DONE

- Fates: Have no plans to play it, might just watch a playthrough.

- Shadows of Valentia (FE2): Don't own it, but I plan to eventually.

- Three Houses: this is how I got here. over 1,000 hours of gameplay. I need help.

- Three Hopes: Played Scarlet Blaze and Golden Wildfire. Have no plans to play Azure Gleam because this game makes me angry.

- Engage: Have no plans to play it until I finish all the previous FEs first (I KNOW it has spoilers of previous games).

[thoobn]

Day 4: Crossover

(Contains spoilers for Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia)

[nowis-scales]

FE Liveblog Updates

Hey hey! It’s been a little while since I last did any live blogging — and maybe you care, maybe you don’t — but as I have… a lot of potential live-blogging to do, I wanted to give some updates, notices, and minor thoughts. So if you’ve been following along with any of them, here’s where you’ll get your info. Yay!

‣ Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia:

Hmmm… what is there to say about this one? I need to continue it, first of all. It should hopefully be picking up sooner rather than later, finishing off Act 2 in Celica’s path, and then presumably switching back to Alm. I don’t have too much to worry about here, just making sure that I’m getting a healthy dose of support conversations! If I don’t by the end, I may just play again and see what else I can gather. Otherwise… I’m considering a more stack-em-up style to my posting like the other playthroughs, just so it’s less of a spammy feeling. If you have any opinions, please do let me know!

‣ Fire Emblem Engage:

Yep yep, I’ve already got a liveblog of this one set up! As I write this post, I have just beaten Chapter 3, so you will soon be able to find the liveblog under #koto plays engage , and avoid spoilers with #Fire Emblem Engage Spoilers. I’m very excited to share my thoughts so far, so it should be super fun to share! I don’t know when exactly I’ll get that set up, but probably towards the tail end of the next liveblog I’ll be talking about…

‣ Fire Emblem Three Houses: Crimson Flower: I think, with my desire to introduce an Engage liveblog, continue the Echoes one, and someday continue this one… I might get back to this one sooner than I anticipated? I’m still somewhat iffy on this one, just because… well, in the event that you’re new here, let’s just say that CF as a route is just very much not for me. That’s not to say that I look down on or would chide anyone who enjoys it — my rule is, forever and always, as long as you’re kind I don’t mind — but it’s just not the most positive playthrough. So while I’m leaning more towards yes to going back to it, I want to make sure that it’ll be an okay experience for everyone involved.

The good news is, I have newly set up some measures to keep all of the critical stuff contained where you want it. Firstly, I have a new tag I’ll be using to tag posts with the super critical stuff (#Fódlan Fault Finding) and of course I still have the tag meant for criticism in relation to EdeIgard’s character writing in the route (#Shut up about Del). I also have a series of emblems I’m going to be using, to mark each section of the post based on how critical it is. So for example, if you only want to read the positive stuff, you’ll look for a flower with both black and white on each petal, like this: ❃ There’s about four total, ranging from positive, neutral, joking criticism, and hard criticism. That way, you can pick what you like, and go from there!

Otherwise, I think I have about 12 posts already (some of them are leftovers I missed before I stopped before) built in a Google Doc just so I had time to organize my thoughts and review them for sharpness. I’m considering posting them twice a week just to get things moving along so I don’t have a gazillion playthroughs ongoing, but let me know if you have any good ideas! I could even intersperse the posts with live blogs of the other games just to keep things cheery, if that’s preferable.

‣ Fire Emblem Three Houses: Azure Moon & Silver Snow:

These ones, I am… stumped on. I’d like to chronicle them as well, I find live-blogging a super fun endeavour (even if I realize the live-blogs mostly entertain me instead of all of you), but again that’s something to run at the same time as all the other liveblogs. I could wait until Echoes concludes, I could just pick Azure Moon up once CF concludes, or I could intersperse playthroughs with CF and AM to balance out negativity like I just mentioned. It’s hard to know exactly what to do, and even in posting AM, I’m wondering if I should just post SS at the same time… I think probably not, as that would get really confusing, but it’s also the nature of just not having so many on the go. So… yeah, I dunno! Just like for the others, thoughts are welcome.

As you can see, at the moment, it’s all just a matter of figuring out where to put what!

[elegybeatty]

top 5 favorite games?

without a doubt one of the hardest questions you could've given me, rjshshshhshshhjshsh

5) Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, one of the most solid RPGs I've ever played. Solid characters, solid soundtrack, solid artstyle, solid gameplay, solid voice acting, just...solid! Def the sort of game I'd want to make. Bonus points for having almost none or the anime bullshit of the rest of the series and also being one of, like, 3 games in the entire franchise where archers are good.

4) Mario & Luigi Partners in Time, if I can only pick one Mario RPG it's gotta be this one because I have the most nostalgia for it and the gameplay clicks with me best, but they could all go here, really, lol

3) Celeste, an absolute masterpiece in both soundtrack and gameplay and also was there for me when I was figuring out gender shit

2) To The Moon (the entire series is one perfect work of art after the other, but if I was held at gunpoint to pick one, it'd be the first, mostly out of bias because it was the first time I saw an autistic person accurately portrayed in...anything, h)

1) Anodyne 2 and Mother 3, I couldn't pick between the two if my life depended on it and almost all of my reasons are spoiler related, dhvdvdjdbdnbsbhsbd. Soundtracks amazing, stories fantastic and tear-jerking, and both are anti-capitalist as hell, what more needs to be said?

Honorable Mention: Splatoon 3, it just came out and I'm currently taking a break from it due to kinda pushing myself too much with it, but Splatoon is already one of my favorite video game series of all time, and depending on where 3 goes from here, it could easily get into my top 5

[berkutwantsdoritos]

F is for fire engulfing your fiancee, U is for Undead soldiers, N is for No survivors!

Possessed Berkut and Duma. 

[bad-fire-emblem-posts]

[serenfloras]

posted this on my priv bird app but i’d do alm and celica’s battle as cheesy and dramatic as possible. they have a fuck ton of romeo and juliet-esque moments in that damn game already so just go full with it i am a lit student that would be a theatre kid were i richer. i will pepper in the drama as i rewrite it bear with me

so instead of “trust in falchion” or whatever the fuck that scene was meant to be celica instead /pulls/ falchion from the head of mila (idk if celica can wield it but since she’s also a “child of fate” i assume she can) and starts fighting alm with it. the royal sword gets fucking kicked out of his hands and he has to wield the weapon celica dropped before her soul was sold— beloved zofia. symbolic of the kingdom he was fighting for at the start. celica’s kingdom, his beloved’s kingdom.

is is clear that our girl celica is in full offense and barely in control of her soul anymore, her vision clouded by duma as if she were reborn (see: heroes), and alm wouldn’t dare hurt her. he can’t. so he keeps on defending, calling out to her, even as his body gets more and more bruises. we would be able to get this part playable because we deserved it, hordes of witches attacking alm while celica (who is undefeated) would just keep getting stronger. her portrait would be painful to look at, a princess fallen to the abyss due to a false promise. alm’s battle quotes would be painful, with whispers of “come back to me” or just calls of her name as his health diminishes.

it’s a scripted battle. he loses. you feel like you lose too.

alm loses beloved zofia too, and has no weapons as celica tosses him against the skull of mila. even so, as she’s about to kill him, you can see her eyes full of pain and tears rolling down her face. he smiles and places a hand on her cheek, saying that his life was always hers, and admits that this one battle he could never win. his stomach is pierced by falchion as he kisses her, the wicked spell thus broken.

celica finally comes to realize what has happened, her beloved dead by falchion’s blade, and she embraces him, crying out his name. *then* we’d get mila’s warm, soothing voice, speaking of a miracle caused by the children of fate, to trust in their love that the falchion blade would never bring him harm.

that scene of falchion healing celica happens but instead of celica it’s alm, and he falls right into her embrace, waking up. they cry and hug and she kisses him back, before they realize a bigger battle lies ahead. they had a mad god to slay after all. they swear to be by each other’s side, and celica hands falchion to him, saying she’d rather fight with her kingdom’s heirloom, another affirmation of her role as zofia’s princess.

hand in hand, they fight to free valentia from war and madness— together.

[whitediamondfairy]

[gets brutally murdered by everyone in the Gaiden / Echoes corner of the fandom]

[the-blue-double]

When you and your friends are all upset about the same thing

[maggyfall]

for the fandom ask, how about FE Echoes? FE in general would be too big to pick those answers

THANK  YOU FOR SPARING ME BECAUSE YEAH

Favorite Male Character: GOnna go with Alm (SHOUT OUT TO MY BOYS LUKAS, PYTHON, AND FORSYTH. I LOVE THEM)

Favorite Female Character: And gonna go with Celica. (ANOTHER SHOUT OUT TO MY GIRLS THE WHITE WING SISTERS, I LOVE YOU PALLA, CATRIA, AND EST!)

Least Favorite Character:.....I hate to say it but Faye. Good unit, but I wish she had better writing. Don’t hate her but... yeah.

Favorite Ship: VALBAR/LEON

Favorite Friendship: Forsyth and Python (though I also ship it) but for purely platonic Mae and Celica.

Favorite Quote: “Leon tell me something.” “Something.”

Worst Character Death (if any): ...Rinea.

This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: WHEN CELCIA FUCKING RANUP THE STAIRS TO SEE ALM, AND THEY HUGGED. I WANTED TO CRY WAS SO CUTE.

Saddest Moment: Defeating Rudolph.

Favorite Location: The Milla Temples, love the music and getting refreshed.