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Dimitri: I am a monster... she is a wonderful person and she deserves so much better ... she most likely will despise me if she finds out...

Byleth if Dimitri DID turn into a monster: That's a very nice bear you caught with your bare hands, my dearest, and it is very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I received Mercedes' help to knit you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eye? I'll kill it if it's bothering you. I'll kill the sun.

Ooh, sorry for taking so long to respond! Here's a little drabble as compensation. It's female byleth/dimitri, since those are the pronouns you used in the ask.

Dimitri knew that most of the hardships he had experienced were simply a byproduct of his true nature. All monsters were doomed to be abandoned, hated, and feared. Ending up alone was simply in his nature.

But when she looked at him, her eyes showed no disgust. On the contrary, she looked at him with… pity? He didn't know. Nobody had ever seen him like that. Not until now.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" he asked.

"Because I love you," she answered.

Love? How could someone like him ever be loved? Surely, she must be mistaken.

"No, I know what I feel," she shook her head. And then, she confessed in a quiet voice: "I would kill the sun for you."

And he knew, that she had the power to do just that.

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Hopes Felix mumbling about a disgusting boar being a supreme annoyance to the staff and it’s just the king of Faerghus giggling, blushing and kicking his feet while talking to a fish eyed mercenary.

Hopes Sylvain, watching other nobles raging about Dimitri paying attention to a commoner: Please Sothis let this happen because it would be so fucking funny.

Rest easy, Sylvain. Sothis has the best sense of humor and will make it happen.

I can see how the camp gossips might escalate rumors based on the smallest of things. The king smiling at Byleth on the queue at the mess hall? Forbidden relationship! Byleth knocking him on his butt during training? Lover's spat! Byleth cleaning a bloody overcoat by the river? Disposal of the evidence of their forbidden love affair! Felix complaining about Dimitri being a disgusting boar? Dimitri must have asked his shield to help him formalize his concubinage to Byleth!

I mean. They're not wrong, but they were ahead of their times.

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Hopesmitri, clearly self-aware: I am not smiling like an idiot gazing at miss Eisner!! What do you even mean by that? I do not daydream about us getting married on a Pegasus Moon day while she wears a blue dress or about building a family with 5 children whose names I most definitely have not chosen yet!! You are just saying nonsense Sylvain.

Dimitri found out that Byleth has never received any flowers. He goes out to the meadow to pick flowers. His crest activates. The flowers are made into smush. He wants to cry. Dedue suggests Dimitri make a flower-based lip balm.

When he offers the lip balm to Byleth, she puts it on. The sight of her lips is............. something that he thinks about. Maybe even daydreams about. Maybe even thinks about their wedding, her dress, their children.

But he'd never confess that to Sylvain. He'd never live it down.

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I find super funny that people judge as Byleth as emotionless when her post bad sauna session expression is the most kicked puppy face of the kicked puppy faces I have seen in ages.

Dimitri fainted in the sauna? Too bad! He has to redo the whole thing because of that kicked puppy face.

When Byleth said that Dimitri's only bad thing is that "he doesn't last long", she was referring to the sauna.

This reminds me of a video by Shinoakoucho where they point out that Byleth looks visibly upset after interacting with Dimitri when he's not being very cooperative:

It's such a minor detail, but so interesting...

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Dimileth’s actual fights be like:

Dimitri, who has seen white-beaked dolphins causing trouble for the people in the north coast of Blaiddyd since he was a young child, discussing with his wife how they are evil and not fish and almost ending his marriage that day.  (for the not fish part not the evil part)

Whose dad was the strongest and coolest and handsomest blonde bearded faerghan master of the lance. The lions saw nervously the whole thing as Dimitri sang praises about Lambert having unmatched strength (Byleth thought he was talking about Jeralt so she agreed) and Byleth sang praises about Jeralt’s insane knowledge and experience (Dimitri thought she was talking about Lambert so he agreed) while the blue lions saw them as a terrified children watching their parents a step away from a fight. “I am gonna tell them.” said Sylvain who had nothing better to do that day.  

Who ate the last sweet bun.

Dragging Dimitri against his will into bed after a long day.

Don't forget the one where Byleth wanted to participate in the local wife carry race to win her weight in beer.

The wife carry race was hosted by the Kingdom so Dimitri thought it was in bad taste to absolutely trounce on the competition because of course they'd win. And it was meant to make the subjects happy and all that.

In the end, Byeth got so tired of Dimitri refusing to cooperate she just threw Dimitri over her shoulder and carried him... but lost because Dimitri's long legs didn't cross the finish line before the competition managed to finish the race.

Next year, Byleth promised, they would win that beer prize...

(They still got to drink beer, but she just wanted to earn it, damn it!)

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no thoughts only [dimitri's suprised pikachu face in his s support when byleth gets him a ring at the same time he tries to give her one]

YES ANON, YOU GET IT!!! It's like homeboy was just waiting because usually his dream tends to end a little after that. And then he's like "wait. this isn't a dream??????"

Angst idea: Dimitri in AM always gives Byleth a ring because he states he'll accept the truth and walk away if Byleth rejects him. And also Dimitri is literally the only student that outright takes Byleth to the Goddess Tower he's not sneaky at all.* *Dorothea did send a letter to meet Byleth on the tower, but it seems Byleth didn't read it/connect the dots.

Dimitri, however, is the only one who actually physically meets Byleth outside the venue, and WALKS ALL THE WAY to the Tower with them (and it's not a short walk, it's from the Officer's Academy courtyard place, across the bridge and alongside the Cathedral!!!!)

Everybody else was:

Already at the Tower (eating or just taking a break from the ball)

Saw Byleth go into the Tower and followed them

Were looking for Byleth because everybody was like "omg where is the pwofessor"

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Byleth, when the blue lions asked in class why did she become a mercenary: A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a house. He goes to the house, knocks on the door, and says, “My cart broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?” The mercenary band graciously accept him, feed him dinner, even fix his cart. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a very strange sound. The next morning, he asks the mercenary band what the sound was, but they say, “We can't tell you. You're not a mercenary.”

The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry way. Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same house. The mercenary band again accept him, feed him, and again fix his cart. That night, he hears the same strange noise that he had heard years earlier. The next morning, he asks what it is, but the mercenary band reply, “We can't tell you. You're not a mercenary.”

The man says, All right, all right. I'm dying to know.

If the only way I can find out what that sound was is to become a mercenary, how do I become a mercenary?

The mercenary band reply, “You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles, when you find these numbers, you will become a mercenary.” The man sets about his task. Some 54 years later, he returns and knocks on the door of the monastery.

He says, I have traveled the earth and have found what you have asked for. There are 145,236,284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth.

The mercenary leader reply, “Congratulations. You are now a mercenary. We shall now show you the way to the sound.”

The mercenary band lead the man to a wooden door where the head mercenary says, “The sound is right behind that door.” The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked.

He says, “Real funny. May I have the key?” The mercenary leader gives him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone.

The man demands the key to the stone door. The mercenary leader gives him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. He demands another key from the mercenary leader, who provide it.

Behind that door is another door, this one made of sapphire, and so it went until the man had gone through doors of emerald, silver, topaz, and amethyst.

Finally, the mercenary leader says, “this is the last key to the last door.”

The man is relieved to know that he has finally reached to the end.

He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and behind that door he is amazed to find the source of that strange sound.

But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a mercenary.

I was positively HOOKED on this, Anon. How dare you end it on the cliffhanger?! (Good job)

But all jokes aside (and the possibility that Byleth might've been bamboozled into joining up with Jeralt with that same story), I can just imagine Byleth deliving this entire block of text with that calm, almost monotone voice. It'd be kinda soothing...

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[[[Academy phase]]]

Ingrid, to Sylvain and Felix: I am sick of both of you bothering his highness!! He has an gigantic responsability in his shoulders and you won't stop teasing him. So now, for every instance of even the slightest breath of "boar" or womanizing trouble you bring to him, you both will put a piece of gold on this jar!!

......

Felix: Hey... I need to drop 3 gold after today's training session in the jar...

Ingrid: The jar is already filled for today. I think we actually have enough money to buy silver equipment for everyone.

Felix: How come?

......

Earlier that day.

Dimitri: *doodling hearts in his notebook around the words Mr. Dimitri Alexandre Eisner over and over again*

Sylvain: !!!!!!

Sylvain had the choice to NOT tease Dimitri. He could have chosen to ignore him. He could've tried to forget that he saw Dimitri trying out his married name signature.

But he didn't.

He couldn't.

It was just too perfect to resist.

(This scenario is so cute, Anon! Thanks for sharing it with me!)

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Hopesmitri, who just got to Askr: ... and then after the mission... the ashen demon kissed my cheek and pulled me into her lap.

Hopes Sylvain, who also just got there: That was 1 hour ago... why are you still in her lap...?

Brave Byleth, still holding him: 👁👁

Hopesmitri is still sitting on her lap not just because Brave Byleth is holding him, but because the Sothis Regalia has some risque cut-outs down the front that he's covering by sitting on her lap and he doesn't want to accidentally expose her. Especially in front of Sylvain! He's being a gentleman!

But the Sothis Regalia does look very good on her...

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Hopes Bylie going in her own little silly adventures by herself... Why is Miklan so scared of her? Why does she have a secret handshake with Duchess Ifan? Why does she have matching tattoos with Judith von Daphnel? Why was she named, due to a technicallity, the red star of Enbar (a famous pageant for handsome men in Enbar)? How did she teach briefly in Fhirdiad's Academy of Sorcery? Why was she charged for tax evasion in Albinea? While the blue lions were doing War (tm) in Hopes, my girl perfected her srengsi, was stranded to Brigid for two weeks, accidentally seduced an almyran princess and adopted an ugly turtle that might or not might have been Indech (since she was an awful archer, she ignored The Inexhaustible and tried to keep him as a pet against his will).

[[At camp dining with the blue lions about Duchess Ifan]]

Byleth: We met in prison. She was my cellmate.

Ifan: We even have matching BFF tattoos with Judy too!

Dimitri: Judy?

Byleth: Oh right, I think her name was Judith von Daphnel.

Dimitri: You were ALL in prison?!

Byleth: I think Judy was there for a spying mission.

Ifan: I was charged for treason by Cornelia.

Byleth: I was charged for intent of murder of a noble with a deadly weapon.

Ifan: Oh Byllie, dear, don't be shy, please share the details.

Byleth: I threw an alligator at viscount Kleimann.

Byleth: ... I was spearfishing in the river, and when I finally got the pike I wanted... I realized there was a man reaching for my fish... I just wanted to scare him away from my food... I didn't want to release the fish I just caught so I reached for the closest thing... how was I supppose to know that he wouldn't dodge the alligator I threw at him?... so I was charged with intent of murder of a noble with a deadly weapon.

Ifan: Can you see why we love her so much now, my dear?

Dimitri:

The rest of the blue Lions:

Dedue: Would you like an extra slice of meatpie miss Eisner?

THIS REMINDS ME OF RATATOUILLE more specifically that one dude that went to prison and when asked seems to always change the story but I maintain that he probably did ALL of the things he confesses to in the same crime, somehow. Byleth would have the wackiest backstory, and yet all of it is true or actually understated/downplayed

I can't remember if it was Engage or Heroes, but if I'm not mistaken I think that Byleth says that their lecture style usually consisted of telling stories. So their teaching style seems to stem from their practical experiences as a mercenary and how so-and-so strategy can apply at any given situation.

So all this to say that yes, I can see Byleth having the WACKIEST experiences ever, and being extremely casual about it. And having best friend tattoos with Judith and Duke Ifan.

Judith and Duke Ifan also deserved more time in the limelight I conceptually love these two so much.

Thank you for sharing this ask with me Nonnie! (And sorry for taking so long to reply, I've been in a weird headspace all week)

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Post Silver Snow in which Dimitri survived… They are doing their best to reconstruct everything that was destroyed in the war and both are plagued with survivor guilt.

Byleth took Dimitri as her prince consort for political reasons. Faerghus is happy he survived and his blood will go on into the new royal family.

They are now trying to have her first heir but both are falling apart at the seams because they are dumbasses who cannot communicate and are trying to pretend the almost every day baby making is for Fodlan when they are stupidly in love and way too horny about each other to properly function in society.

Also they are actively falling in love with each other even more every day now that they live together and actively participate in projects and ideas for reconstruction that made them see the other with the same feeling of hope, love and wonder of a 4 year old who just discovered his first favorite dinosaur.  

Silver Snow can be hopeful if you squint really hard and lowkey forget how to read….

Yeah - I am still in denial and crying.

Anon I’m so sorry I didn’t respond right away! I wanted to give it a proper response… And then I goldfish-brain’d with it. But I’m back and ready to answer!

Honestly, having him just appear out of NOWHERE in SS is so sad… and unexpected! Sure, we rescue Claude in AM and Edie has the “I wanted to walk with you :(“ scene in VW which is just straight up lifted from SS but let’s not think too much about it but Dimitri is the only one that we got told “he super died” and then we see him. It’s so odd, and so interesting… but really freaking sad.

SO ANYWAY yes, I can see Byleth, new divine monarch of the entire continent, taking up a spouse with a claim over part of the territory. It helps de-ruffle the feathers of the nobility by giving more legitimacy to her line. So on paper, it sounds great!

However, I can see how much they both could struggle with intimacy once married. (Like. Emotional intimacy, they absolutely do not struggle to get to the actual boning.). Pre-Gronder Dimitri’s problems with intimacy are pretty obvious (bucketloads of survivor’s guilt, complicated grief, hallucinations, his maternal figure was emotionally distant, etc.) but Byleth has the combo-wombo of “my class leader was in cahoots with the jerks that killed my dad and I didn’t notice until it was too late”, “I had to kill my class leader with my own hands”, “I had to kill the person that gave me a home because she went berserk-dragon-mode” and “to me, my father died like a year ago”.

I’m not necessarily saying that Byleth would revert back to “Ashen Demon :^|” mode, but I can see how she would at first try to approach the marriage as a purely practical arrangement(which it started as) but then feel guilty that she might’ve kinda-sorta indirectly strong-armed Dimitri into becoming her spouse? Since, she is the savior of Fódlan and that title does carry some clout, especially when compared to Dimitri who has no mayor military accomplishments in the war under his belt apart from almost getting killed om the 3-way battle that was Gronder Field.

On the other hand, when Dimitri is in a bad place mentally we already know that he just shuts everybody else out and only listens to what his ghosts say. So you can imagine what the disembodied chorus of ghosts have to say about the arrangement and how it would feed into the “has no right to happiness” feeling he seems to fall back on (aka the kind of thinking that’d make a dude say “yeah I’ll be happy when I die and my subjects are happy” with no irony at all).

They could start off in “super denial” mode, then having the “oh no I like-like them” and stopping by the “it’s foolish to assume that the other like-likes me” spot before reaching, “I will do anything for their happiness so I’ll support their pet reconstruction projects to make them happy”-ville before finally arriving to “wait they like-like me too!?!!?!” destination.

Thank you so much for the ask, Nonnie! Sorry again for taking so long, but better late than never, eh?

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Yuri, trying to poach Byleth under Dimitri's nose after azure gleam: ... Dick might be good, but is it full dental insurance and retirement at 50 good?

Sylvain: How is any of that shit enforceable?

Balthus: Hapi is our union representative.

Hapi: If Yuri doesn't fullfil his part of our contracts and agreements we are contractually allowed to call his mom and she will beat him up

Byleth, finding the funky loophole that allows her to have the full dental insurance and retirement package WITH the dick that's called "tell dimitri that she got another offer and all of its perks": dimitri said that his union representative is his dead dad telling him that if he doesn't give me what i want he will never forgive him.

Yuri: What

Byleth: But I like Happi more. Dimitri said I could work with you, but to pretty please marry him first. So anyway: are you allergic to fish? We need to plan out the dishes for the reception.

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I saw the baby chrobin in FEH and propose more baby adventures.

Weird kid Byleth (6 years old) who found actual wet kittens Felix and Dimitri (both 3 years old) who were lost in the snow as told in Rodrigue’s support from hopes.

Dimitri: … and no matter what, Glen won’t accept my challenge of a duel… and that’s why I fought with him and father and then I ran away from home…

Byleth: … There’s a secret word that can help you.

Dimitri: Really?

Byleth: You must watch directly into his eyes and speak with confidence… Repeat after me – pu

Dimitri: PU

Byleth: Ssy.

Dimitri: SSY!

Byleth: Now he won’t be able to run away from your challenge, that word is a secret spell between mercenaries, I have yet to heard of one to resist it and not insist in a fight…

Dimitri: Thank you Thank you!! I will definitely duel him and win!! *runs to find Glenn*

Felix: Huh… miss Byleth… what does pussy mean?

Byleth: I have no idea.

YES!!! I LOVE CHILDHOOD AU SCENARIOS WHERE ITTY BITTY BYLETH HELPS OUT ITTY BITTY DIMITRI!!! I might be biased: I wrote a fic about it and asked KC to do the art for it as a sort-of art trade.

Obviously, pussy means cat. So, Dimitri would be calling Glenn a scardy cat! Ergo, Glenn is honor-bound to reciprocate the challenge for the duel! That is, if they get out of their current predicament first.

I can see the two little rascals (Felix and Dimitri) calling each other "pussy" to mean that that they want to spar on their journey back to their warm home. I wonder how Rodrigue reacted to seeing them use such words...

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Silvain, when meeting feralmitri after timeskip and asked why he doesnt think he is a beast: I love you man, but I will never be intimidated by a man who used to practice writing his name as "Mr. Dimitri Alexandre Eisner" in glitter pen

“Dimitri you’re embarrassing the bros like we all know we pine in this Blue Lion House but you’re pining so much people will start pinning glass orbs and lights on you.”

-Sylvain Jose Gautier

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Sometimes I think that with how dutiful Dimitri is Sylvain always expected him to just have a business marriage that was amiable enough to have an heir. He never thought Dimitri cared for love anyway (Dimitri does seem pretty intent on focusing on his own plans at the academy). He did not expect the puppy crush -> angsty pining -> desperately in love marriage pipeline from Dimitri. Sometimes he’s still surprised by the constant 😍 Dimitri is throwing around since that wasn’t old Dimitri

You're right, nonnie! Royalty is, by definition, doomed to not have "normal" relationships. Especially with the kinda trauma Dimitri's got and survivor's guilt.

I think it's especially poignant how in the S-support with Byleth, Dimitri says that his life is his own... Dimitri's guilt mixed with compassion for the dead was so extreme, it was literally driving him insane. Dang...

I think the little guy does deserve a shot at having a "normal" relationship. Even if he's making total gaga eyes at the blank-stare professor, tehehe!

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Hopesmitri losing all the pathetic loser allegations just because he pulled “the assassin you sent to kill me is now my beloved wife” into Edelgard as a power move.(This was Dimitri and Edelgard’s actual B support, I swear it).

The B+ support is when Edelgard tells Dimitri that she's totally not offended that she wasn't invited to the wedding (she kinda is) but Dimitri reassures her that there technically wasn't a party just a really small ceremony.... aka just the priest(a confused Seteth) and a witness (Dedue). But she's invited to the actual party if she wants.

She says she'll think about it (she's super stoked).