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I posted 2,251 times in 2022

That's 434 more posts than 2021!

327 posts created (15%)

1,924 posts reblogged (85%)

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I tagged 2,233 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#fire emblem - 2,047 posts

#reblog - 1,901 posts

#queuerealm gate - 1,114 posts

#my rambles - 165 posts

#robin - 159 posts

#celica - 122 posts

#fire emblem awakening - 112 posts

#ask replies - 112 posts

#fe13 - 111 posts

#fe15 - 111 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#given it's very likely rumors of grima's creation that led duma to destroy thabes and him and mila being banished to valentia because of it

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Fire Emblem Series Ask Game!

Compared to my previous ask games this is one about Fire Emblem as a whole, enjoy! Previous ask games: Echoes, Fates, Awakening

What's your favorite main game of the series?

What's your least favorite main title?

What titles have you played?

What games do you wish to play next?

What game would you recommend to someone new to the series?

Who's your favorite lord/protagonist?

Who's your favorite character?

Least favorite lord/protagonist?

Least favorite character?

A character you find underrated?

A character that deserved better?

A game that deserved better?

What do you like most about Fire Emblem?

Something you really don't like about this series?

What are your favorite musical tracks?

What's your favorite world/setting?

How did you get into Fire Emblem?

How do you tend to play Fire Emblem? (es. casually, doing Ironman runs, playing it like a visual novel)

Favorite (canon) pairing?

Least favorite (canon) pairing?

Any rarepairs/crack ships you have?

What's your opinion on Heroes?

Have you played any FE hacks/fangames? If yes, talk about one of them!

An FE title you wish would be remade?

Any general or specific headcanons you have?

Come up with a pitch for a new FE title, no matter how silly it is!

Any fanfics/fan content you'd recommend? (You can plug your own stuff it's fine)

Because this fandom doesn't see enough discourse [citation needed], post a spicy hot take here🔥🔥

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179 notes - Posted January 17, 2022

#4

Look at this concept art of Emmeryn, Chrom and Lissa as kids

That's all have a nice day

271 notes - Posted April 5, 2022

#3

Now with that said, I hope Grima sues the new villain for daring to steal the title of Fell Dragon™ from them

307 notes - Posted September 13, 2022

#2

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331 notes - Posted March 7, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

"Dad, how was I born?" "You see son, when two people fall in love after talking to each other four times, they unlock a paralogue map where they meet their kid who's already a teenager for some reason"

696 notes - Posted March 28, 2022

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I posted 1,682 times in 2021

408 posts created (24%)

1274 posts reblogged (76%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 3.1 posts.

I added 4,576 tags in 2021

#fire emblem - 1512 posts

#reblog - 1219 posts

#queuerealm gate - 651 posts

#fire emblem echoes - 198 posts

#fire emblem echoes shadows of valentia - 194 posts

#fe15 - 190 posts

#my rambles - 174 posts

#fire emblem fates - 168 posts

#fe14 - 152 posts

#fire emblem heroes - 118 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#i mean in the real world absolutely because her clan would devolve into a corporate dystopian monopoly and we all know how lovely real world

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Gangrel: “Before we begin the Exalt’s public execution, I want to thank our sponsor NohrVPN”

88 notes • Posted 2021-04-29 13:51:04 GMT

#4

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91 notes • Posted 2021-06-24 18:42:32 GMT

#3

Sure, many final bosses in gaming are epic, but are they “you’re facing a possessed version of yourself while on top of a colossus-sized dragon soaring the seas and fighting to save not only the world, but metaphorically the franchise itself, all the while an emotionally charged arrangement of your theme constantly plays as you decide to put the world over yourself” kind of epic?

94 notes • Posted 2021-05-01 19:25:45 GMT

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Id (Dilemma): The weird and ironic relationship between Robin, Grima, and you

Topic overanalyzing something that the creators probably never even thought about my beloved

Disclaimer: This is an essay analyzing Robin and Awakening in a metanarrative sense when it was clearly never meant to. This is not the kind of series or game to ever truly lean on or break the fourth wall, and the player doesn't exist as an entity in the FEverse beyond the avatar. But bearing this in mind, I'm gonna throw authorial intent out of the window for this whole post to even have a point. Hope you have fun and don't get too much of a headache from my incoherent rambling!

So, you all know the third arc of Awakening: Validar does shenanigans to revive Grima and T-pose over the world but dies like a scrub while complaining about his script being wrong, you find out Robin is an avatar of Grima themselves while future Grima revives the current Grima and goes chilling evilly over the ocean, you chase them, beat them up and tell them to go to sleep. Temporarily or permanently, that's your only choice that actually matters. Anyway, you saved the world and everyone lived happily ever after, until you play Apotheosis and regret everything you've ever done and start hating this series like a true fan.

But jokes aside, one idea that gets reinforced over and over during the arc is that while Robin is the Avatar of Grima and there is a significant overlap between the two of them (to the point where some people interpret it as Robin being an amnesiac Grima), ultimately they are two different people, which is confirmed in the ending where Robin deals the final blow: Grima dies, but Robin lives.

Except, there's something deeply ironic about all of this, especially when you take Awakening's theme of destiny not being written and everyone being able to make their own choices.

Which is, Robin isn't an avatar of just Grima. They're also an avatar of you, the player.

sorry, graphic design is not exactly my talent

Fire Emblem avatars are weird.

They are usually two types:

1) The older one, they are you entirely, but there's nothing about them. No personality, no dialogue, no design, they're not even playable well Kiran is now but ehhh. They are entirely meant to be you, other characters in fact face the screen when talking to them, and you can remove them entirely from the story and the plot still functions perfectly. No really, you can in Blazing Blade! 2) The second one is a fully customizable and playable unit, with their own broken stats and personality and design. Kris was the first one of these, while Robin is the second.

So, you can interpret it two ways: either Robin is an extension of the player or Robin is controlled by you. Both of them are used in the fandom, sometimes interchangeably, and both have... interesting implications.

And you wonder how much of it was intended. After all, Robin's themes are call Id.

Robin as the player (or an extension of them)

This is the first interpretation, and the most common I feel for most players at first, since that's the case for most avatars and customizable characters.

After all, an avatar is meant to represent you, right?

That's how you are meant to see Robin, especially now that marriage mechanics are back in the series, and sure enough, there's plenty you can customize about them from the first screen.

But at the same time, there's plenty that's unique to them, but not you:

Their "canon" name and appearance. In every other appearance, Robin has a distinct look and name taken from their default settings, and the only thing that betrays their former status as an avatar is that they have a male and female variant.

Their backstory. While the amnesia plot is a convenient device to introduce the player to the world and its people, what little we know about it isn't what I'd call relatable, and this is something that gets even more exaggerated with Corrin, the next avatar.

And most important, their personality. This isn't an RPG with dialogue options, and Robin is not a silent protagonist. They're the one who talk, befriend and potentially fall in love with the Shepherds, and most of the choices they make in the plot are completely unprompted. You didn't come up with the idea to set half of your fleet on fire to defeat the Valmese army. Robin did.

So, while there is a significant overlap between the player and Robin, at the end of the day Robin has a significant degree of autonomy of free will (well, in the way a fictional character can at least), which is the same argument the game itself makes with Robin and Grima.

Robin is controlled by the player

But at the same time, in a game that preaches free will and destiny not being set in stone, it's kinda morbid to think about how much control you have over Robin, who we've already established is their own person, despite their link to both you and Grima.

Just stop and think about it for a second how much you can influence them:

You can change their name, appearance and gender, not to mention their proficiencies. You're determining their entire body and physical capabilities just in the first screen.

Likewise, while you can't change how they interact with people, you can decide if they interact at all outside of the plot. Think about all the supports Robin has: you're the one allowing them to happen in the first place.

Going even deeper, you have control over who they fall in love with or if they fall in love at all. You're literally deciding a person's entire love life and if they have a family at all.

Even their final choice, while it's intended to be the final "fuck you" to fate with it being the only choice that actually matters in the plot, if you view the player as an existing entity you can easily twist it into the opposite sense. You're deciding if Robin gets to live or "die" along with Grima, all while making believe they're acting of their own free will.

If you want to get real trippy, since this game is a work of fiction, the irony of it saying fate is not scripted while the story itself is an actual script can be tasted, like mustard of existential crisis.

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98 notes • Posted 2021-08-07 20:46:14 GMT

#1

Okay, Berkut confronting his fallen self has a lot of tragic and growth potential, but consider:

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178 notes • Posted 2021-05-02 19:28:40 GMT

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Hoshido sisters piece I drew for my fanzine that is also available as a postcard

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Art trade with @thegadgetfish!! Caminoka because they’re adorable and because we’re both stuck in sibling hell so why the hell not.

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Hinoka/Camilla? Plz?

Flowers shouldn’t be a big deal I mean Europeans kiss each other on the cheek all the time and nothing is suggestive about that

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