A Pale Azure Moon

Call me Midnight. She/her. A place for my various thoughts and ramblings, mostly about video games, particularly Fire Emblem, Zelda, Mario and various JRPGs. Diehard Dimileth and Chrobin shipper. Eternally struggling writer. You can follow me on AO3 here.

[dandyfelines]

For @a-pale-azure-moon and her amazing Utena AU of FE Three Houses, Someday We'll Shine Together.

Aesthetically, Utena goes surprisingly well with FE3H, with the academy setting, European-style architecture, and military-inspired uniforms. Basically, this meant I didn't have to change their designs at all for this setting lol.

[a-pale-azure-moon]

OMG!!!! <3 <3 <3

I was definitely not expecting three pictures! I don't even know what to say except that I love these! Dimitri and Byleth with her birthday cake is just too cute and I LOVE LOVE how in the other two you used some of Utena's imagery. Byleth's mental disconnect with her prince versus the one-eyed demon styled like Utena's fairy tale narration, and then the one of them in the greenhouse that's just like the still from the opening credits!!! (Rondo Revolution is now playing in my head again!) PERFECT!

I'm resisting the urge to keysmash because I feel my response should be coherent, lol. I'm so honored my fic inspired you to draw these! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! <3

[a-pale-azure-moon]

After a very long wait, my Dimileth miis have welcomed their third kid! 🎉 Say hello to Tristan Egitte Blaiddyd!

Hopefully his stare properly conveys that he takes more after his mom despite having his dad's hair color. 😉 In a future Fodlan, he'll grow up to be a renowned bishop with a passion for helping the less fortunate. 💗

Of course, even as a kid he's already skilled with a sword.

And he was quick to make friends with Dedue's son.

He's been spending lots of quality time with his parents and siblings. They're all one big happy family. 💖

[a-pale-azure-moon]

My sister gave me this puzzle for Christmas several years ago, but I only got around to it recently. Whoops! 😅 This one was very fun...cats are always a winning subject in my book, and I love all the vintage style posters and fake advertisements. It's so segmented that putting it together was low stress and relaxing, though that also means I finished it very quickly. 9/10, will definitely do this one again at some point.

[a-pale-azure-moon]

Welp, my Chrobin miis decided they wanted a third kid, and who was I to refuse them?

Meet Morgana (extremely creative name, I know lol)! Tomodachi Life only allows for single children, but in my head I consider her to be Morgan's twin sister. 💗

She's settled in to the family dynamic nicely. Lucina in particular seems to love having a little sister. 💙

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

To the people who say: "But I need to ask Chat GPT / Claude / [whatever, idk] to help me brainstorm, and get past the blank page!"

Here's some suggestions:

One: Ask one of your friends, instead. If they're also working on a story, you can return the favor.

That's how J.R.R. Tolkien made friends with C.S. Lewis. That's how Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein (yes, she wrote it based on a dream, but she and her friends were all stuck in a rainy summer writing stories together).

Two: Call your grandma, and ask her for an idea. I'm sure she'd love to hear from you when it's not a holiday or her birthday.

Even if she gives you an idea that you know is all wrong, the reasons why it's wrong that spring to mind immediately, will help you figure out what's right.

Three: (if you don't have a grandma to give you wrong answers) Personify that Inner Critic in your head, and write down all the things it says about how your story is stupid. Then, write down your answers arguing back about why your story is a good idea.

At least the page won't be blank, anymore. And you can recycle your Inner Critic and make it into your story's villain.

There is zero reason on this, Our Earth, to ever use a plagiarism machine.

Period.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Partially quoted tag:

#this post makes me ashamed to admit that I *did* use ChatGPT to help me [... ... ... ...] once

Okay.

Take the energy of that feeling, and channel it into writing your next draft.

I also want to amend my "Call your Grandma!" suggestion. Maybe she'll give you the perfect idea. For all you know, she could be a member of the first generation to write Kirk/Spock fanfic, back when it was distributed by the postal service.

[trinaenigma]

just them in their element; byleth locked in and dimitri listening to (and admiring) her

[pamachirin]

She loves him very much :3

[a-pale-azure-moon]

Morgan has arrived! 🥳

By sheer luck, Chrom got the pink bubble for Lucina, and Robin got the pink bubble for Morgan. Sometimes this game is almost eerie with how it seems to know.

But the blueberry family is complete! And they are all happily living together along with aunt Emmeryn and Lissa. 💙

[a-pale-azure-moon]

Congrats to my Dimileth Miis welcoming their second child! 🥳

As established in How Did You Love, this is Etienne Reus Blaiddyd. He's got a little bit of grandpa Jeralt in him, even he is otherwise the spitting image of his father, haha.

He enjoys taking daily jogs with his parents, big sister, and Grandpa...

....Attempting to make dinner with Grandfather Lambert (looks like it's takeout night again!) ....

....And playing Mario Kart with Grandma Sitri and Dadmitri. I'm willing to bet Sitri won this match (Dimitri lost to them both).

All in all, they're a big happy family, exactly as it should be. 🥰

[a-pale-azure-moon]

It felt like it took forever, but Lucina has arrived!

Her first word was 'sword.' 😆 If I had the artistic talent to make a replica Falchion, I would totally do it. This cartoony sword will have to suffice.

So that's 3/4th of the blueberry family here on my island. Hopefully Morgan will come along soon to complete it. 💙

[a-pale-azure-moon]

My Dimileth Miis had a baby!

Neither of them think pointy objects are inappropriate for babies. 😅

Since I figured 'why not?' I made the teenaged version of the firstborn adult fankid I introduced in How Did You Love. Say hello to Nadia Satis Blaiddyd. 💙

She's a real chip off the old block, already defeating her father in mock duels. 🥰 I'm hoping her three siblings will join her in this 'verse eventually, and they can all become friends with Roy, Lilina, Lucina and Morgan, haha.

[red-stairs]

I saw this and had to save this image cause I definitely have a few readers like this.

[a-pale-azure-moon]

It finally happened!

These dorks sure took their time: my Dimileth Miis got hitched six days after pairing up and my Elinian Miis waited only three. I don't why my Chrobin Miis took so much longer comparatively. (Probably had something to do with Robin overanalyzing the concept of marriage.) I'm a bit surprised that she was the one who initiated too.

The good news about the delay is that I'm more practiced with the proposal minigame now and did it perfectly. Sadly, we missed out on Chrom's iconic 'wyvern in heat' line in this universe.

Lissa sang at their wedding. 😂 I love that she called her brother a celebrity...it's actually true because he's a popular guy on the island, haha.

No, your next step is producing Lucina and Morgan. This is a timeline where there's no Grima, so this is actually possible. 💗

[a-pale-azure-moon]

There was huge DRAMA yesterday as my Dimileth Miis, to this point a museum portrait of marital bliss, had a fight. 😭

It started when Byleth was having a very normal, friendly chat with Chrom. Out of the blue, Dimitri got super jealous and started randomly walking between them until she got mad at him and asked what his deal was. They soon both had steam coming out of their ears.

When they parted, they each went down to the beach and started shouting things at the ocean.

Sending friends (Dedue and Mercedes for Dimitri, Robin and Ingrid for Byleth) to help calm them down had no effect. On the way home, the fight continued. They were literally throwing things at each other, and their relationship arrows had changed from 'Soulmates' to a concerning 'Still Soulmates?' 😬

My Ninian Mii was the savior, as she was finally able to get Byleth to calm down, at which point she immediately went to Dimitri to apologize, and he apologized to her in turn.

All remains right in the world. 💗🥺 Whew!

[a-pale-azure-moon]

With my Dimileth Miis tying the knot, I'm now waiting for my Chrobin Miis to do the same. It should be soon, I think! Once again, the only mystery is who will actually decide to pop the question, because they are absolutely stupid for each other. 🥰

I sent them on a vacation to Japan to help move things along and was rewarded with a very cute picture!

I love these dorks. 💗

[a-pale-azure-moon]

Byleth decided to propose!! 😍

I love that she was the one who initiated. It's not quite in line with how their S-Support plays out, but it IS in line with how she's the more decisive and direct of the two. 💗

(I almost flubbed the minigame! There was a brief moment where I was afraid I'd failed, but it gave me another try and I passed it. Whew!)

Dedue sang at their wedding, lol.

My heart. They're just way too precious!! 😭💗💗

[a-pale-azure-moon]

Dimitri decided it was time to ask Byleth to move in together! It went perfectly smoothly, because they're both definitely on the same page about what they want to do together. 😉

They're so perfect for each other. It's just like canon. 🥰