#rinea x faye

[fayessketchbook]

Day 1 - Snow

[fayesdiary]

Just got this amazing Faye/Rinea commission from @seibaagoesbaah!

Please commission them, all of the money will go to Palestine in eSIMS/URNWA!

[fire-emblem-drabbles]

Master List: Fire Emblem Echoes

Berkut: Demon Berkut with angel reader, “If I don’t protect you, who will? You can only rely on me!”,

Duma: Strength Comes in Many Forms,

Faye: “You will listen to me.”, “I just want to show you how much I love you.”, “I know you liked them sweetie but they were keeping you away from me.”,

Kliff: “Why are you pushing me away?”,

Lukas: Blessed be the Father, I love you “while baking cookies making sandwiches”, “As long as I’m here, you’ll be safe.”, “Are bubble baths romantic?”, “Only I can protect you; please, let me be your shield.”, Modern AU; taking care of a sick reader, “I never stopped thinking about you, not even for a minute.”,

Multi: Berkut & Rinea “Aubade”

Python: “I don’t think I know how to love...”,

Tobin: “Is it so hard to love me?”,

[loregoddess]

14, 15, 25 for the Love your fandom ask

14) the ship that always makes you smile Hmm, for long-running media, probably Midna x Link from LoZ:TP, bc that's basically the oldest ship in my fleet and it still brings me lots of joy. For mid-running media, probably Kay x Franziska for AA (my first rarepair), Rinea x Faye for FE:SoV (rarepair I wasn't expecting to see others ship), and Ashe x Dedue (literally got me to go out of my comfort zone to figure out how to draw cute ship art, when I was really bad and afraid of drawing people interacting). For stuff that I've gotten into over the past year, probably Alear x Pandreo from FE:Engage, and Mineru x Purah from LoZ:TotK (also I'm kinda silly goofy happy about Jin x Xiaoyu finally getting some development in Tekken 8, but that's bc I had to suffer watching it come to fruition over like, 20 years of my life, slowest goddamned slowburn I've ever had to endure).

15) the character that always makes you smile Oh, lots and lots. Long-running media would be Shad LoZ:TP, love that guy, I get excited anytime I see him. For mid-running, Satoru Hosonaga, my beloved from DGS/tGAA, a decent number of FE characters (Kurthnaga, Rhys, Libra, Flora, Lukas, Faye, Dedue, Ashe, and Ferdinand come to mind off the top of my head), most of the FF7 cast but esp. Red XIII/Nanaki. For more recent things, Alear and literally any of the Engage characters actually, the Octo2 crew (and also the Octo1 crew, and a fair amount of NPCs from both games); I also read Dungeon Meshi recently and I gotta say one of the most casts of all time, I haven't settled on favorites yet but damn were there some good characters.

25) a piece of advice for taking care of yourself in fandom spaces Block button is your bestie, don't feel bad for blocking people for any reason whatsoever so that you can peruse the fandom tag in peace. But also, if you find other fans who are making stuff you enjoy, support them by reblogging their art or headcanons or writing or whatever, or even just liking their stuff.

Do what you want to see in your fandom if you have the energy. I like to see people excited about things they love, whether that's a character or a ship or something about the story or their OCs or their own headcanons, like, doesn't even matter if it's not my Thing, I genuinely enjoy seeing people happy and brave enough to share that happiness in the main tag, so I try to also share stuff that brings me joy when I engage with fandom stuff too. Share joy when you can.

This is not to say you should never be negative ever like, you should also give yourself space somewhere to be a petty snob about things that tick you off. You don't have to make it public, but at the very least give yourself an outlet to let the negative move through and out of you. Believe me there are so many things that tick me off so much about either fandom spaces or various media that I could rant about for hours, but I just choose Not To Share It after I've written it out bc writing it often makes me feel better--or I go and find a trusted friend who I can be like, "Hey I gotta vent about something stupid real fast, will you hear me out?"

Lots of things in life are never all positive or negative feelings, but no emotion is inherently good or bad, so it's important to let yourself feel those emotions and let them pass without bottling them up. Otherwise they stagnate or explode, and neither is fun to deal with the aftermath for. But like, it's okay to be pissy about things from time to time.

Have fun, but never feel like you have to engage with a fandom just because you used to be a part of it, or you got into a new thing. I treat fandom like a public park, I can go there when I want to enjoy myself but I can also leave anytime I want. If a bunch of mean people are hanging around the park I know there are other parks, and I can just go to those instead and cultivate my own little garden to make up for the park I won't go to anymore. I might even get to invite some friends to that garden. Honestly, most of the time I'm some weird forest hermit who only comes out sometimes to haunt the park, and I think that's just fine as well. Engage with fandom in a way that makes you comfortable.

[stargazer-balladeer]

Fire Emblem: Echoes Page

Characters List:

Alm, Gray, Tobin, Kliff, Faye, Lukas, Claire, Clive, Forsyth, Python, Luthier, Mathilda, Delthea, Tatiana, Zeke, Celica, Mae, Boey, Genny, Sonya, Conrad, Fernand, Mila, Rinea & Berkut.

☆彡 - sfw

★彡 - nsfw

» Alm

» Gray

» Tobin

» Kliff

» Faye

» Lukas

» Claire

» Clive

» Forsyth

» Python

» Luthier

» Mathilda

» Delthea

» Tatiana

» Zeke

» Celica

» Mae

» Boey

» Genny

» Sonya

» Conrad

» Fernand

» Mila

» Rinea

» Berkut

» Alm

» Gray

» Tobin

» Kliff

» Faye

» Lukas

» Claire

» Clive

» Forsyth

» Python

» Luthier

» Mathilda

» Delthea

» Tatiana

» Zeke

» Celica

» Mae

» Boey

» Genny

» Sonya

» Conrad

» Fernand

» Mila

» Rinea

» Berkut

Currently none

[x] Back to Main Notebook

[supergenial]

The Byleth Diatribe

clickbait title: if you thought Byleth was creepy, wait until you read this!

Intro

In the past couple months it's really gotten my attention the fact that some people cannot stand looking at images that depict the teacher character from fire emblem three houses (Byleth) with their students in a romantic manner. They arrive at this disgust due to the parallels it traces with real life teachers who take advantage of their students. While I don't share this sensibility, I do think it's an interesting topic to think of so I'd like to explore why these people are correct in their conclusion that Byleth is creepy, but entirely wrong in their logic-path to it.

1) Byleth is just not an actual character

To address the elephant in the room, Byleth is literally a non-character. In a game filled with wonderful dialogue that fully exposes character motivations for a massive cast, it's hard to think of this one silent teacher as a real character that normally exists in that world. Byleth's "character" is purely an afterthought to their role as the Player Avatar. Surely enough in previous installments of the series you had Robin, Corrin and Kris, but their situation was partly different.

Robin and Corrin were proper characters as much as every other character in their game. They held conversations with the other characters, they expressed themselves in regards to the events that happened to them, some would even dare to argue they were better written that some other characters in their respective games if only because their heightened importance to their respective plot lines inevitably helps them have more dialogue, and even a bad writer has to stumble into writing something good eventually which means in some scenes they’re able to overcome the barrier of being bland by design.

Byleth however has none of this. At best they're given 2 or 3 text choices at any given time, and any bipartisan conversation that involves them is more of a soliloquy by the other character, with the player input being largely irrelevant to the flow of the conversation aside from changing the very immediate reaction that follows that same input.

As such, the notion that Byleth is a creepy teacher who's grooming their students to be their personal sex slaves is misconstrued in the fact that Byleth simply has no real motivations, hence no intent. It is equally as valid to assume they could be a straight laced no-nonsense teacher or a deviant who preys on children, because no conjectures can be traced to their personality, as it doesn't exist. We can't deduce what is it that Byleth wants out of life because the avatar has no life and exists purely as a videogame terminal. We don't know what they enjoy outside of the very few things we the players are allowed to do as the character, which is why so much Byleth fanart involves fishing, cooking, or drinking tea, the few hobbies we indulged in while playing as them.

There is however something innately perverse about Byleth, it's just not the fact they're a teacher, but rather the fact they're the player.

2) Player avatars are inherently creepy, and so are dating sims

Fire Emblem is a fantasy game. In Fire Emblem games you will not only find unreal things like dragons and magic, but also straight up impossible things such as kind-hearted rulers that care about protecting and improving the lives of their constituents. The three real main characters in this game all have pure motivations and genuine desire to improve the world (yes... even Edelgard). As such, we can expect the same purity and lack of reality from a hypothetical Byleth that has a personality. It's fair to assume they'd be legitimate teachers with no creepy intentions who, through the vicissitudes of life, end up inadvertently falling in love with their students. In a fantasy land where every "good guy" is pure in nature there is no concern of Byleth grooming Dimitri, or of Edelgard forcing some ill intentioned quid-pro-quo with her right hand strategist whom she is obsessed with, because it's simply fantasy where everyone is nice and pure so things just magically always work out.

There is however an insidious factor lurking over this fantasy land, and that is the player. An omnipotent being who decides who lives, who dies, who gets married to who, and who stays alone because we just don't like them that much. The player can send Ashe to get the last hit on Lonato, just out of morbid curiosity to see what is the special dialogue that they have in that situation. The player can recruit Felix and then have Felix kill Rodrigue in the crimson route, just to see what hilarious quip will the son bark at the father. And of course, the player gets to decide who gets married to the lifeless slab of meat and bones with no emotion that is the Player Avatar. If anything breaks the idea that these characters are well written or realistic, it is the fact that they can all fall in love with someone who cannot communicate with them, all because of the emotions they magically choose to believe the avatar has, or rather, we choose to make them believe it.

In a "set" story like fire emblem echoes or path of radiance, the epilogues have little to no variety because the characters will just be themselves regardless of the player's input. No matter how much you want to see Celica's reaction to Faye getting together with Alm, that is simply not going to happen because their bond is set in stone, it cannot be altered, it is a "set" story. Likewise Nyna in new mystery of the emblem will never, ever fuck Sirius regardless of what she or the player wishes. Three Houses on the other hand is more like a playground than a book, the player will mess with the lives of these characters until they get bored of them, seeing every possible unlikely combination programmed into the game just out of curiosity to see what the characters will say, to squeeze out every last bit of "Content" that the game has until they get bored of it and move on to something else, effectively reducing the characters from "characters" to mere consumables. 

Hence why I can't help but laugh at the notion that Byleth is creepy by nature of being a teacher when they're so much more than a teacher and so much more creepy than a creepy teacher. They're an in-game god (hell, lore-wise they're also a god in every ending except crimson). Byleth can quite literally mind control other characters into loving them as long as they're given enough flowers and tea. Look at Sylvain's C support with Byleth and tell me if it's natural for a guy like him to fall in love like that after saying he wants to murder Byleth (surely enough, it's even creepier for players to fall in love with him because of that support, as Sylvain is an extremely interesting character but only in his other supports).

This is why you see people saying that Felix and Annette are a great couple, or that Marianne and Dimitri are made for each other, but you don’t really see people saying that Byleth’s pairing with x is cute. When two proper characters interact all the way to their A support and fall in love that way, you’ve actually seen their story develop, you can feel happy for them. Pairing Byleth with a proper character fulfills your desire to monopolize that character and get a neat special artwork of them, but has it really been a good story and feel like this is a good conclusion for them? No. (I’d be willing to say Byleth and Dimitri do make a somewhat good couple though, but that point would be much easier to defend if Byleth could actually communicate properly)

It wouldn't matter if Byleth was a 15 year old teacher, or a 17 year old student that's a peer to the classmates, or if all of the classmates were older than Byleth AND teachers instead while Byleth is a student. By the mere nature of the player input and Byleth's lack of character, the pairing is screwed up to begin with. 

What I'm getting at is that pairing Byleth with Catherine or Shamir is equally as fucked up as pairing Byleth with Dimitri (I would argue moreso because come on... Shamir and Catherine are totally girlfriends and you're just squeezing yourself in, have some respect).

In other words Byleth is only creepy because you are creepy. You're playing a game where you can date people who cannot possibly refuse you. Even if you remove that factor, you'd still be playing at making children fuck each other in whatever way you see fit. Something is wrong with you. You're the only impure factor affecting this game.

3) Fire Emblem will always suck

This is my favorite series of games but come on guys, you know fire emblem will always suck if you care about this kinda thing. In fire emblem fates Corrin has a wide variety of about 9 flavors of incest to choose from. In fire emblem awakening Robin can marry an amnesiac woman with head trauma who can't even speak complete sentences and is entirely dependent on him to subsist. The fanbase has grown so twisted they actively wanted Byleth to get married to Alois, a married man with children, and were disappointed when they didn't fuck in that paired ending (though I understand getting upset about the lack of gay supports, but hey that's just yet another way in which fire emblem chooses to suck).

Hell this is the fanbase that considers Berkut and Rinea to be a cute couple, what the actual hell guys. Go ahead and criticize the games but as long as the shipping simulator is included in the series, the games will always be creepy in their very nature, and guess what: the shipping simulator happens to be one of the most popular features and the one that people say it's the best written part of every game, so go figure if they're going to remove that.

ps: if you want a fire emblem with no paired endings, path of radiance has your back, it is my favorite! and if you want to avoid supports altogether, try Radiant Dawn, that's some good stuff.

4) Just for fun: the actual most fucked up ships in the game

-Lysithea with Linhardt, Byleth or Hanneman, or anyone.

When I recruited Lysithea in my first playthrough I didn't know she was a strong unit, instead I simply did it because I saw this sassy lost child wandering the halls and just really didn't want to kill her. I wanted her to live on and see her have a happy epilogue. Imagine my surprise when I reached the epilogues and it turns out she just simply dies shortly after the story if you don't pair her up with anyone. The exact one thing I wanted to avert was having her meet an early death, yet the game simply has her die anyway.

At the end of my deer playthrough I was all set to click on Hilda when I realized, wait a minute, Lysithea is going to die if I do this, right? And that is in fact the case. She can only live by supporting Hanneman, Lindhart or Byleth, and I had not recruited those two. So I click on Lysithea but it's kind of a tainted click isn't it? Not that I dislike her or anything, but once you throw in that additional motivation the scales have been irreversibly tipped in an unpleasant manner. I have effectively been guilted into picking her.

On to a third playthrough. I see Felix has really cute supports with Lysithea, but I can't have them supporting each other because I know she still meets an early death with him. And Lindhart, well his supports aren't bad and he's a great guy but they're certainly not as fun supports as Felix's. Hanneman fortunately doesn't seem interested in that way when you pair him up with Lysithea (not that he has any restraints when it comes to his supports with Dorothea...) so you can still have that as effectively a "solo" end for her in which she lives, but it's still kind of messed up. By giving her the Hanneman ending I'm condemning her to miss out on love for the rest of her life so that she can live on, but isn't love the reason we live on to begin with? Overall, I'd say Lysithea x Lindhart or Byleth is certainly a creepy support in the very nature that you have to do it or else you're a murderer, because you had the power to prevent this death and chose not to.

-Flayn with literally anyone

Imagine if a grown adult man could disguise himself as a high schooler, infiltrated a school and got married to a girl less than half his age. People would hate it, people would riot, Intelligent Systems would be over. But that is Flayn everyone! Fire Emblem is no stranger to the stupid trope of "little girl who's actually hundreds of years old", but I'll argue that Flayn is markedly different from Nowi. Nowi is most definitely a cartoonish fantasy character, who still acts like a little girl despite being hundreds of years old. She's literally bait for pedophile nerds with a flimsy shield in her supposed age, which she and her fans openly flaunt as if it really meant anything when the intent of her character is so transparent.

Flayn on the other hand is a legitimately mature character (as far as maturity goes in this game...) who is pretending to be a high schooler to get hitched with a student, all while hiding her real age entirely on purpose. An actual wolf in sheep's clothing (or dragon in sheep's clothing in this case...). And she can s-support literally every single male student except for Hubert (for story reasons) and Sylvain (for Sylvain reasons). Not only that but she doesn’t support any females other than Manuela, her fellow cougar, and she doesn’t support any of the older men like Hanneman showing she’s only interested in young blood.

But hey everyone! Flayn is just the little meme fish girl trapped in the mcdonalds playplace so we all give her a pass right. Overall though I'd say her creep factor is still significantly lower than Nowi's if only because her design isn't a chore to look at.

-Rhea x Byleth

This is some galaxy brain 5D chess grandmaster type of shit I tell you. Capitalizing on the sickening mommy fetish that's been rising up recently internet the crackhead team of geniuses at intelligent systems decided to pull Joker's Trick on people who are into that kind of thing. First they have her be the oldest non-wrinkled character, then they give her Kikuko Inoue as a seiyuu (famously known for often playing mom roles), then they give players that one scene where Byleth rests on her lap like their kid, and then? Then the game tells you Rhea is the daughter of Byleth. Wait a minute, what the hell? I can't even begin to think this one out because at this point my brain has turned to tofu and I am forever perplexed by this turnaround, hats off to intelligent systems for their ultimate jest.

After fates and this I positively cannot wait to see what new incestcoaster they'll turn my guts inside out with in the next entry of the series, Fire Emblem is truly the finest series of horror games disguised as jrpgs.

Obviously, this post was written in jest. I don’t actually believe you’re an inherently creepy person for playing fire emblem, nor do I think Flayn is a predator deviant (hell I don’t even think Nowi is that bad). I just found it truly interesting how people’s sensitivities can activate in these fictional settings (and do think those sensitivities should be respected) but when I try to activate those neurons my mind ends up in a whole different place. So yeah, just having some fun.

Also check out the rest of this trilogy with Three Houses sucks actually and Three Houses is good actually. I seriously hope I never feel like writing anything about this game ever again.

[togetherweridefanzine]

TWR zine info, v.3

Together We Ride is a zine that explores the similarities that can be found throughout the Fire Emblem series’ considerable cast. Each individual artwork in this zine features multiple characters from different games spanning across the FE series. Volume 3 consists of thirty-six full-color illustrated and prose pages by our artists and writer (listed below), each featuring combinations chosen by them.

The zine will be printed on a 9"|22.86cm x 6"|15.24cm gloss saddle stitched booklet. Preorder date: 1st October - 31st October 2017 Release date: Late November - Early December 2017

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ARTIST LIST Volume 3

Celes , Mimiblarg , Treekianthia , Garmmy , Ale , Flamingopunch , Kynim , Blubery , Kyou , Lady Kuki , Gem , Lazulines , Tcong , Sanschips , Phlavours , GloriousLily , Yuan , Rand , Vergara , Reri , Nickles , Narg , Trashbird

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Volume 3 artwork and prose includes the following FE characters

Shadows of Valentia: Alm, Celica, Lukas, Python, Forsyth, Mae, Boey, Genny, Saber, Grey, Kliff, Faye, Silque, Clive, Clair, Mathilda, Sonya, Jesse, Leon,  Tatiana, Zeke, Berkut, Rinea, Fernand, Mycen, Palla, Catria, Est, Duma, Mila Fates: Leo, Corrin, Setsuna, Mozu Awakening: Lucina, Lissa, Mirabelle, Stahl, Donnel, Inigo, Nah, Aversa, Tharja, Robin Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn: Micaiah, Oscar, Boyd, Rolf, Callil Sacred Stones: Eirika, Natasha, Ewan, Ross Sword of Seals/Blazing Blade: Roy, Lillina, Clarine, Klein, Cecilia, Marcus, Idoun, Eliwood, Ninian, Lyn, Sain, Isadora Genealogy of the Holy War/Thracia 776: Lewyn, Reinhardt, Evyel Shadow Dragon/Mystery of the Emblem: Nyna, Jeorge, Midia Heroes: Sharena

[katieisblue]

Finishing Echoes

Just finished FE Echoes, it 'twas good. Amazing, too. Loved the characters and the whole story, better than Fates imo. Wish there were more supports between some characters since some only had one (Kliff with Tobin, Jesse and Saber, Silque and Faye). I really like Celica's design and especially when female mages promote, their outfits has a matching color scheme to their character (Mae and Delthea for example). Good story, nice pace. Voice acting was neat and even some of h e characters you dislike have a redeeming moment where it just messes with you feels (cough, Berkut x Rinea, Fernand). EXCELLENT GAME. 👍👍

[isuzukuretsuki]

I. AM DONE. THIS GAME. I’M SHAKING. This game was so good, 10/10, amazing, perfect, it was honestly everything I could ever ask for and it’s probably gonna end up as one of my favourite games ever. more random thoughts from negative to positive

-The final boss battle included Alm chipping away at the dragon while healers frantically heal him, and all the other characters are just chilling in the background doing fucking nothing.

-I AM STILL MAD with what happened to Berkut and Rinea. They were actually the characters I was looking forward to the most. I will hang onto their memory prism with my life because that’s the only place where they get some actual characterization. Like seriously don’t add new characters to the story if you’re just gonna kick them to the curb. Berkut was there literally to make Alm look better and I’m sorely disappointed with how poorly he and Rinea were treated by the writers

-also apparently Berkut is around the same age as Alm?? you’re trying to tell me he’s 17-18?? Nah son, this man is in his mid 20s at least. No 17 year old has a voice as deep as that.

-Speaking of Alm, he was a pretty meh protagonist tbh. Without any war experience he somehow manages to become the leader of the army, is glorified and loved by everyone, charismatic, skilled, kind. Yeah......... Celica, on the other hand.

-I was kind of upset about how all the female units had to be saved but given how this game is a remake of a 1992 game I’ll let it slide 

-I wish they’d let you save in the middle of dungeon crawling because accidentally getting Alm/Celica killed and having to redo the entire thing isn’t fun. The music in the dungeons was pretty bad too

-The only thing Fates (conquest) has over Echoes is better map designs tbh. The maps in Echoes were pretty plain in comparison

-I read all the endings and what the fuck was up with some of them. People bitched about how Faye got a terrible ending but what about Kamui? Kliff? Tatiana and Zeke having an incredibly fragile relationship? Fucking Sonya? She of all people deserved a happy ending and she ends up becoming a witch? Fuck that

-Speaking of Sonya, she surprisingly became one of my favourites. She should have been a story relevant character because of her connection with Jedah and honestly she’s by far the most tragic character imho. I do not regret picking her over Deen.

-I would have paid real money to have Faye get the hell over Alm and like hook up with Kliff or something. Cutest villager girl x cutest villager guy would have made the cutest pair lel. Faye deserves way better than continuing to pine after Alm I just want my daughter to be happy

-Alm and Celica’s romance was really boring lmao. I was way more invested in the side romances (Berkut/Rinea, Zeke/Tatiana). Then again I’m usually more invested in the side romances so welp

-FULLY. VOICED. Even the support convos and npcs were voiced like if that doesn’t scream effort and detail idk what does. Aside from a few bad voices, the dub was a joy to play through. A step up from Fates that’s for sure bc if Fates was fully voiced with their dub I’d prob stop playing lol.

-Grinding through dungeons >>>>> boo camp and risen boxes any fucking day

-World building was really fun and I loved how you could actually do shit aside from just moving the story forward like side quests or dungeon exploration. The world map layout of Fates was horrendous so I’m glad Echoes fixed that

-The story was really enjoyable and I was honestly 100% fully invested and interested. 

-I remember when I saw Jedah’s full body art I was like “this man is the final boss” and you know what I was pretty close. While I’m sad that Mila ended up not being a villain, I do think Duma was a great villain and final boss. He isn’t just a stereotypical evil shit head and most of the characters still hold respect for him and were thankful to him like Mila, so it was a nice touch.

-I heard the final map theme beforehand but honestly having this song play while you’re actually playing the final map is a whole other experience

-I have adopted probably 9 sons and 11 daughters over the course of this game. I absolutely loved the cast. Every character was lovable. The short supports, and the simple base dialogues they have when talking to them actually did wonders in characterizing. Even the memory prisms. For characters aside from the story relevant ones who get so little spotlight, they were characterized really well and were all likable and memorable. 

-The fact that these characters are so enjoyable makes it even more infuriating when the writers fuck them over (cough Berkut, Rinea and Faye) 

-Honorable mentions to Rinea, Berkut, Kliff, Celica, Faye, Lukas, Conrad, Mae, Boey, Sonya, Tatiana, Leon, and Python. I have so many faves from this game

[fayessketchbook]

Day 7 - Free

[fayesdiary]

how about fayenea duo bingo

The rarest rarepair that ever rarepaired

[ech0ez-blog]

Luthier x Reader (Wattpad)

This was my very first oneshot so sorry if it’s bad or it has cringe plus I added myself because I loved fire emblem echoes... & still do

Thanks @Milas_blessing for the request! Warning: None

3rd P.O.V

    You had recently joined  Alm's army that contains Alm (Of course), Mathilda, Clive, Clair, Kliff, Gray, Tobin, Faye, Delthea, Lukas, Python, Silque, Forsyth, Tatiana, Zeke (Camus), Sir Mycen, and now you. How did you get in the deliverance well... you were kidnapped by (Spoiler Warning Start!) Alm's cousin, Berkut, (Spoiler over!) to become his bride. (Rinea doesn't exist in this story!)  When your father sent you to regal, you were locked in a room and the hero, Alm, came to regal and rescued you. you thought that you would fall for your hero but you fell for someone else, it was your best friend Delthea's older brother, Luthier. You and Luthier met right after you joined the deliverance. That was then but here's now...

Two month's later 

    You and Luthier grew closer and closer to each other. You already told Delthea you liked him and she keeps on calling you her 'sister in law', which made you blush in embarrassment because Delthea told Alm that you were going to be her sister in law! Now  Alm ships(Alm is legit me! I ship reader~chan with their Wiafu/Husbando. Plus my cousin shipped me with Alm because we act the same, eat hard bread, have green hair, and have the same interest's! Save me!) you and Luthier. It get's you all flustered to just imagine you and Luthier together as a couple. You were tired of it all! "Hey (Y/N)!" Alm exclaimed You groaned "Yes Alm?" You huffed you knew this was going to be about you and Luthier "The princess of Zofia is here!" he exclaimed "Oh yeah I forgot today the true hidden princess of Zofia is going to get control over her kingdom today. Wasn't she hidden as Aye?" "Yes her name is Violet but in public we must call her Princess Ayano(I had to add my self into the story I sorry...)." he said with his normal smile of his face. "Let's go!" you exclaimed "Wait (Y/N)." Alm stopped you. You turned slowly to she a sly smirk on his face "Y-Yes Alm?" you asked nervously "Aren't you going to confess to Luthier today?" he asked with the smirk still on his face. You gulped "Y-Yes..." You said in guilt "Yes!" Alm whispered to himself "Alright let's go meet her!" he exclaimed happier then before in fact he was delirious (Delirious= Very happy)

Time skip after you met her (Cough me cough)

    You met the princess and realized she was just like Alm, now you got your revenge on him by shipping him with the princess. That's right The princess of Zofia  and the other good thing about it is Delthea ships it too! That's a plus for you! Now the odds are even! (Fire emblem awakening quote! I love Morgan there needs to be more Morgan X Reader fanfic not you as Morgan mom you as Morgan friend) Alm needed an excuse for Delthea to stop bringing it up "(Y/N) is going to confess to Luthier!" Alm blurted out "Allllllllllllllllm!" you groaned "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Finally!" Delthea screamed you blushed in so much embarrassment. Alm tipped the scale, even and now back to odd (Another fire emblem awakening quote Ha!) Alm had a huge smirk on his face. "Is everyone ok?" the  light blue haired princess ran down to see what all the commotion was about. "Oh everything is perfect Violet." Alm replied She looked at him with a confused face "(Y/N) is going to confess to her senpai which is my big bro!" Delthea exclaimed with joy. Violet smirked the same way as Alm did "Hey Delthea, Violet is smirking just like Alm!" You blurted "I ship it!" Delthea screamed (Delthea is turning Into me) Violet and Alm were flustered. You evened the odds again! but it was time for you to confess to Luthier.

Time skip after you found him  

    You two hanged out for about two hours or more under a sakura tree outside, but it was time. You took s deep breath and opened your mouth "Hey (Y/N)..." Luthier said with a flushed up face "Y-Yes Luthier?" you asked "I know we only knew each other for two months, but I really really like you and hoped that you would go out with me as my girlfriend?" he asked nervously as ever. "Y-Yes!" you answered and you two kissed. It was a soft kiss but long. You two pulled away "I love you, (Y/N)~" Luthier purred "I love you too." you replied.

Violet(Ayano): Man that was hard.

Alm: But  you did it!

Violet: Yeah I did... Oh anyway thank you for requesting and if you guys have any more request please request!

Alm: And don't forget to vote, follow, and comment.

Alm and Violet: Next M! robin x reader

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Day 3 - Comfort

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Day 4 - Clothes

Outfit swap!

Original colors version:

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And of course I had to end the weekend's drawing spree by drawing Faye and Rinea together 🌸❄

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Faye/Rinea

When I started shipping it

When I saw this art by @ grimoirering. They were so cute together and eventually I started genuinely thinking about them and realizing they actually work together really well and so... here we are.

My thoughts

I adore them. It's a rarepair that works better the more you think about it (such as noticing the various parallels or the spring/winter aesthetic) and can has huge potential for both fluff and angst.

I just delved into a bunch of fluff at the moment, but you bet I want to make something angsty with them one day.

Mainly involving Witch Rinea because I mean, come on. It's right there.

What makes me happy about them

These two are adorable.

They work so well from the village girl/noble lady and spring/winter dynamic, both of their lives revolving around a male lead meta-wise and not and being very unsure of their place in their group, so them finding love and support in each other is just *screams*

And something I realized when writing the latest chapter of Socially Distant and makes this pair even better is that Faye is still a bit clingy and obsessive with her loved ones because that's just how she is (though nowhere near to the unhealthy levels as she was with Alm), but for Rinea that's ironically a good thing since she constantly needs showings of affections to remind her that she is truly loved and not just a pretty thing to show around like she's been viewed as for most of her life.

Helps that neither of them like being at the center of attention, too.

What makes me sad about them

Faye and Rinea's view of themselves is very bad and they tend to struggle understanding what the other sees in them. Faye is scared of overstepping her boundaries and making Rinea feel uncomfortable, while Rinea keeps thinking people around her barely tolerate her and will abandon her if she doesn't act as this perfect lady and makes the slightest mistake.

It takes them a long while for them to have a better view of themselves and trusting the other not to leave them behind at the slightest mistake.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me

The fact that beside Socially Distant and a drabble collection where they feature in a really short story, there are no fanfics about these two and I'm starving for more content.

I really have to do everything around here, have I?😤

Things I look for in fanfic

As I said, right now I'm looking for fanfics of them period. Mainly with them as the main focus because them just being a really minor couple in the background wouldn't really count.

Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other

For Faye I'd say Celica or Silque... although Chloé recently joined as another great rarepair option me and @zorua-adorable are obsessing over.

For Rinea, and I just thought of it but am already really into it... Clair would be a really fun partner for her!

My happily ever after for them

Living together and having the coziest, most peaceful life and where they're filled with love and care from both their friends and each other.

Who is the big spoon/little spoon

Faye's definitely the big spoon and Rinea just melts in her arms.

What's their favorite non-sexual activity

I just got the mental image of Faye resting on Rinea's lap while the latter is humming while the two are in a garden of flowers and that just works so well.

For Socially Distant in particular it's watching and talking about anime together, particularly magical girl ones. Weebs.

Faye/Celica

When I started shipping it

Many years ago, specifically thanks to this fic by @ pureauthor-blog. Which, ironically, is another Faye rarepair fic set in a modern setting, so I'm kinda picking up the torch with Socially Distant? Maybe? Hopefully?

Anyway, that's the fic that really got me into the pair and I haven't stopped shipping it ever since!

My thoughts

They are just the cutest!

This was the first Faye rarepair that I started shipping and it's still one of my favorites and most of it is just due to how saccharine these two are.

Another top-tier aesthetic, I adore the childhood friends and village girl/princess dynamic and these two just work so well with each other, you know?

Also, something I just realized is just how similar it feels to Faye/Rinea, which I am not complaining.

...so when Celica/Rinea?

What makes me happy about them

That this one has just a tiny hint in canon.

Well, not outright romantic, but the fact that when Celica returns to Ram Faye is super happy to see her which is so unlike what her archetype would have you think and just one that makes me spiral.

They were best friends. Faye welcomed Celica into Ram and taught her many things like sewing flowers. Faye is almost as devastated as Alm when Celica has to leave but unlike him she thinks she'll never see her again and even if she does she wouldn't remember her anyway.

But then Celica comes back, and remembers her. And the two just melt in each other's arms.

What makes me sad about them

That Faye and Celica could never be together in canon because Alm aside, they just belong to different worlds that can't reconcile.

Faye would be miserable living as a noble or outright a queen because it's just so alien to her entire life and what she cherishes, and while Celica would want so badly to just be a simple girl and live to Ram with her she has so many responsibilities to her kingdom she would never shy away from.

So there's this constant sense of distance and longing, and while maybe there are some ways they could work (like Faye secretly courting Celica and occasionally visiting her), they could never be anything more without jeopardizing who they are as people, no matter how badly they want to.

And while this makes for great angst, this is why I joke that I ship them in anywhere but canon.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me

Not enough fics to have found things that flat out annoy me, so no idea.

Things I look for in fanfic

Mainly for more fics.

And mostly fluff, although I would be intrigued by an angsty Faye/Celica fic.

Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other

Well I already mentioned Faye, but for Celica it'd be Alm of course, Clair would be fun, Mae and Céline! And as I said before, I'm curious about how Celica and Rinea would be together :3

My happily ever after for them

Living in a cozy home together, surrounded by cats :3

Who is the big spoon/little spoon

They switch! Sometimes it's Faye and sometimes it's Celica :D

What's their favorite non-sexual activity

Gardening! I like to imagine they have a large garden filled with several flowers. And yes, they still sew them.

And for the character I choose Loptous! And straight out of the bag, I'm skipping all the romance options because he should not be with anyone.

How I feel about him

Holy shit, this guy is the most evil villain in all of FE and I sincerely doubt IntSys will ever even come close with his level of depravity ever again.

He is pure evil in the best way possible, from his obvious damage on a large scale (the Jugdral timeline at the start of FE4 is just a list of his atrocities) to even a smaller scale to make you hate his guts (Taking advantage of his possession of Julius to drive both Arvis and Ishtar to indirect suicide, and just his relationship with Ishtar is a huge bag of fucked up in the best way possible).

Unlike other evil dragons he doesn't even a tragic backstory. He just things humans are toys to break in so many ways and he turned himself into a cursed tome just to torment Jugdral forever. He doesn't have a tragic motive to hate humans like Medeus and Grima, he didn't degenerate like Duma.

He's sane and just unbelievably evil and sadistic, and that's what makes him terrifying.

Not to mention the grip he has over Julius. By the time of FE4 the two have pretty much become synonyms, and when you kill him you'd think Julius would die as himself for his last few moments like it happened with Lyon and Future Past Robin, right?

But no. Instead the opposite happens, where Julius is fully taken over by Loptous. It even extends to Heroes. For Lyon and Robin, their version where they're taken over by Fomortiis and Grima are relegated to Fallen Heroes, but for Julius?

That's his base form.

Loptous has taken over Julius so much that the latter almost doesn't exist anymore both in official material and in fanon. When people talk about Julius, they're usually actually talking about Loptous.

And that is, to me, an existential nightmare.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Hilda. No, not that Hilda.

She's the only one who comes close to him in terms of depravity and that's an achievement in and of itself.

My unpopular opinion about him

Not sure if it's an unpopular opinion, but I think he's the best villain in the franchise, or at least the best "pure evil" one.

And I doubt IntSys will ever surpass him.

One thing I wish had happened with him in canon

I want to see the moment he starts to possess Julius so badly, I want it to be as fucked up as they can get away with. Can we see it for the FE4 remake please?🙏

A headcanon fact

This is an old one, but I like to think Loptous grew in a hate group of Earth Dragons who rather than just think they're better than humanity they do what... well, hate groups do. Let's just leave it at that. And then Loptous grows up and takes the hate to even more horrifying extremes in Jugdral.