#still dimilix tho

[lieutenantraziel]

Happy Valentine’s Day with this extremely romantic picture for 2023 Dimilix Week! There’s so much more on Twitter, too, with the same tag.

[r26yz]

after school poetry club

[lu-lox]

how far into a fic do you have to be to actually say you're serious about writing it?... bc i may have "i guess we're doing fenris/anders now" my way into writing 4k of what i can only assume will be an over 10k words long fic.... 🚬🚬🚬

[adamantineheart]

it's genuinely so wild seeing how a character's interpretation in fandom can be so affected by what someone ships. sometimes it's whatever, sometimes i cringe, but i swear with felix it's like... oh man if you don't think he's in love with dimitri i'm probably not going to enjoy whatever you have to say about him jsdkljfklj

i say this really genuinely because some of the best felix meta i've seen wasn't like "dimilix my 1 and only" but still acknowledged felix is in love with dimitri in some capacity. his character doesn't make sense without this angle and is prone to wild misinterpretations. he obviously has a deep love for sylvain and ingrid as well, but it's almost like they're the contrast and calibration for what he feels for dimitri. it DOES have an extra layer of something to it. each of these relationships do, but to different results.

with ingrid it's easily the most familial and fittingly despite their ending (and i feel like most endings should be disregarded because heteronormativity really wins out in fe3h [tho not so much in few3h]) they have the most platonic supports from these four, even counting sylvain & dimitri because at the very least you can argue dimitri's disinterest in women and annoyance with sylvain's womanizing can have a gay!dimitri slant. like. it's something. ingrid and felix are just 100% platonic. ingrid is supposed to be his sister-in-law and glenn being dead can't erase that this is the foundation of their relationship.

with sylvain, the dynamic is "odd" from felix's side and I suppose it's supposed to evoke their childhood. from's sylvain's side, it absolutely does. he brings up seeing felix as a younger brother in both games and likes to tease him. whether felix sees him as an older brother is debatable but i would say no because he already had one in glenn and he really idealized the kind of person glenn was while with sylvain he feels a lot of exasperation. the love there is more embarrassing for felix than anything else because sylvain is such an irritating person but felix does appreciate him and is protective of him.

dimitri though—dimitri brings out all the emotional breakdowns from felix. makes him forgive things that are a lot more heinous than being a serial cheater. they're tied together from the moment felix is born—before that even. felix rejects him for changing. for not being the boy of his childhood. yet, yet—felix is always waiting for dimitri to return to the right path. he thinks about dimitri obsessively and is obviously concerned for his well being. if dimitri dies his grief consumes him, even on AM. even on AM! his only happy route and he still will be fucked up by dimitri dying of old age. and this is just fe3h. few3h is just an entire parade of all the ways felix loves dimitri, including people (essentially) pointing it out. it's one thing to ignore it (i guess) but denying it is as ridiculous as denying dedue loves dimitri. felix loves dimitri just as much! i won't say more because this isn't a competition, just that it's as fundamental to his character as with dedue and is also a lifelong thing (truly—from birth to death). i think the denial people sometimes have is especially grating because his love of dimitri when they were children and then as they grow older is very set in stone. no tsundere decoding needed.

anyway,

dmlx make the brain go brrrrrr

[lanshappycorner]

I kno one thing I've seen while lurking in the fe3h fandom is that dimilix shippers tend to not like sylvix, while sylvix shippers tend to not like dimilix but unironically they both seem to appreciate dimivain is which is pretty hilarious in it's own right sjfjsjdjs

[mieaou]

Fraldarddyd is such a mouthful tho Or is it Dimilix? So I got commissioned to draw these two like less than a month after FE3H came out and I /still/ have not found the money for the game so I'm living vicariously thru all the art the tracked tag sends to my dash instead of digging into any spoilering anywhere pls no judge I was convinced p quickly after hearing about these two that I'd def ship them tho so!!! yes this was fun to make :3

[defiantbird]

Dimitri headcanons because obvs (also Mercedes if you want to throw in a bonus)

Dimitri

Sexuality Headcanon: I kinda just automatically headcanon everyone as bi because I’m mad the game doesn’t let you marry regardless of gender. But I admit I think having seen all of Dimi’s endings with women I just automatically think of him as straight

Gender Headcanon: Cis

A ship I have with said character: F!Dimileth is the OTP, I love those weirdos so much together. Tho I can appreciate Dimilix, and ngl, some Dimidue art has gotten me having feels for it. Dimitri is usually the Big Guy in the ship so him being the smaller guy, especially with Dedue who has been caring for him for so long, it’s just really cute.

A BROTP I have with said character: The Faerghus Four. I love those beautiful idiots. 

A NOTP I have with said character: Dimigard. Nononononono. But honestly worse than that? Him and Catherine. Idk if anyone actually ships that but their higher supports make me so incredibly uncomfortable

A random headcanon: Even when he’s been back in polite society for a while, sometimes he still just lapses into feral behavior out of habit, like sleeping on the floor in full armor or eating with his hands or forgetting to do anything about his appearance and his advisors always have to be like “Your Majesty pls...”

General Opinion over said character: Instant fave. I love him smol and I love him feral and I love him rehabilitated. I could write a whole essay but I’ll try to be brief: Dimitri is awesome representation for mentally ill people. He displays both the ugly parts of what it means to be traumatized, AND the ups and downs of recovery. Just him acknowledging that his PTSD and depression was never going to go away, that he wasn’t just magically healed, was SUCH a big deal for me. Characters who are fucked up because they care too much are my jam. Like he's just such a cinnamon roll when he's not in the middle of a mental collapse and he just want the world to be better and TL;DR He’s too sweet for this world and I would die for him.

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Mercedes

Sexuality Headcanon: Lesbian

Gender Headcanon: Cis

A ship I have with said character: I honestly can really only see her with Annette...like they’re so cute I never even considered pairing her with anyone else. Probably the single most wholesome ship I have tbh.

A BROTP I have with said character: Her and Dimitri actually. Aside from how funny their first few supports are, I really like that their whole thing is each helping the other improve. She’s one of the few who recognize that Dimitri’s flaws come from being excessively kind. And even Dimitri says this: literally if someone had sat him down 5 years prior and said to him what she says--that you owe the dead to live in the present rather than obsessing over trying to fix the past--he probably would be a different person. She sees him as a kind person who needed more guidance and he sees her as someone really wise and selfless. ‘Tis sweet.

A NOTP I have with said character: I have seen people ship her with Sylvain and...no. Their supports end up pretty sweet but I don’t think Sylvain could handle being that honest all the time lol

A random headcanon: I imagine she has always been interested in ghost stories and would tell them at night to the other girls at the church she grew up in... and then she’d immediately become the mom friend after realizing that some were actually quite scared. 

General Opinion over said character: She so good. I really expected her to be the stereotypical Goddess-obsessed character of which there is always at least one in every Fire Emblem game. But I was really pleased to find that she’s actually rather firm and can stand up for herself. I also just love that she’s a healer and an absolute beast, and her crit lines are adorable. 

Thank you for indulging me and I am sorry this is so long, I am terribly nerdy over FE3H