#1 dimitri fire emblem apologist

milf lover, simpsons aficionado, video game enjoyer

[leosaku]

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hi i'm sandhu (she/they), i'm in my late 20s, i'm desi american, and i like nerdy stuff

[porcelaintoybox23]

A lot of things in fe3h make no sense but these have been bugging me in particular:

Shouldn’t everyone know Edelgard and Dimitri are step siblings? I think the game has an explanation but that still doesn’t make sense. The king of a nation being married to the mother of one of the emperor’s children would be impossible to hide. That’s a historical fact that would be in books. I just can’t take Edelgard not learning this ever. Like-

Does Claude think he’s white passing? there is no way in hell anyone would think he isn’t mixed. He’s the same skin tone as Cyril (going by their portraits). I’m disillusioned as a black woman in America but Khalid should’ve been clocked immediately. Thank you to every fic that has everyone know he’s not fully white

Edit: There's a whole convo down there that seems interesting if anyone's interested

[leosaku]

i've actually thought quite a lot about #2 and i think i can offer two possible explanations: claude is the fodlanverse's zayn malik, or it's not actually an uncommon phenomenon

almyra (from the small glimpses we see of it) seems to draw inspiration from ottoman and mughal empires, down to the characters having arabic names (nadir, khalid, shahid). that means we can assume that claude is what we would consider mixed south asian. while claude's sprite makes him noticeably tanner, if you look at a lot of white + desi people irl, many of them can pass as being from the mediterranean/iberian parts of europe (eg: zayn, charli xcx, naomi scott, etc). so while people might be able to tell that claude isn't fully "white" in the anglo-saxon/gaelic/slavic/nordic/etc sense (this is a sweeping generalization, i am aware), which is what most of fodlan seems to draw on, he could simply look ethnically ambiguous in-universe, and his artwork is the way it is so as to drive the point home to the players.

on the other hand, leicester's proximity to almyra probably makes him suspect, especially if his appearance favors his almyran side (which it seems to, if we take his sprites at face value). however, i'm sure outside of the nobility, interracial relationships with people of almyran descent probably aren't unheard of. since we already know that house goneril (and probably other noble houses) would take almyran orphans as slaves servants, it wouldn't surprise me if people just automatically assume that he's the product of a extramarital affair between an almyran servant and a minor member of house reigan, who just so happened to be the only person in his entire generation to manifest a crest, and was therefore legitimized and made the heir (legitimizing bastards, while rare, isn't entirely unheard of). then, it would make sense for him to be secretive about his parentage, and while it's still a scandal, it's not on the level of "my dad is actually the king of fodlan's most antagonistic neighbor"

but also everyone could just be really fucking dumb lmao

[sneasels]

they put crack in fire emblem or something bc whenever i describe it to customers it sounds so boring but when I move Gerbardo WarCrimo to D7 I’ve never felt so invigorated

[byjove]

I love narratively complex and dark video games where the player can dress the main character so people post clips of the most agonizingly sad and soul crushing cutscenes but the main character is wearing the ugliest most unserious fucking hat you’ve ever seen. Partially nude while getting the news his whole family was killed. In those jester shoes with the bells finding his best friend’s corpse on the battlefield.

[leosaku]

ik no one gaf but i had such a good time at nycc this past weekend hehe

[nsevens]

INFINITE CONRAD FISHER ( 34 / ∞ ) — 2.03, Love Sick

[vonkarmic]

i think taylor swift wishes she was bisexual because she knows it would make her slightly more money. whereas sabrina carpenter wishes she was bisexual so she could have sex with someone who looks exactly like herself. and ariana grande wishes she was bisexual because she did too many designer drugs on the set of wicked and now she has kin memories of being glinda for real

[bellamyblcke]

the infinity necklace has got to be one of the most insane things conrad has ever done. he buys it for belly before theyre even together romantically like just to say hey the concept of infinity makes me think of you :) and i think it’d be neat if you wore it around your neck every day so you thought of me forever and everyone who sees you sort of knows you have an infinite presence in your life which is me :) and this is all in reference to a conversation we had six years ago i’m sure you remember :) and then he chickens out on giving it to her (valid), tries to give it to her even after saying he doesnt want to be with her (insane), gives it to her again after theyve hit pause (okay), goes feral with self satisfaction whenever he sees her wearing it when theyre together (hot), keeps it on his calendar after theyve broken up (sad), tries to give it to her AGAIN after theyre not together (unhinged), and then somehow manages to send it to her halfway across the world on accident (jenny han my god). like conrad. my guy. no normal person would do any of this. and then the SECOND belly sees the necklace in his drawer shes like yeah i get what he means. and she’s right. truly they are soulmates.

[fulltacs]

[leosaku]

and when i write a songfic then what

[understands]

[leosaku]

feeling the urge to write insanely melodramatic fanfiction about fictional straight people someone come shoot me in the head repeatedly with a nail gun

[leosaku]

just lurked on r/jellyshippers for a bit and i must say. i think there might be an entirely different show out there that is coincidentally also called "the summer i turned pretty" that coincidentally also stars the same actors. because idk what the fuck they watched, but it's definitely not what i watched

[monwinvo]

Bedtime Story.

Short story by Jeffery Whitmore! Wanted to make this into a comic for a while :] just in a girl boss sorta mood hehe

[bloodraven55]

it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even when all of the context clues are screaming the opposite

[bloodraven55]

[orteil42]

fact-checking me is a form of violence

[somewhereincairparavel]

okay since my tsitp posts are doing particularly well, I just wanna talk about susannah/belly and laurel/conrad parallels in a more lengthy manner bc I'm actually losing my mind over them and I need people to lose their minds with me lol.

In S1, susannah is angry at laurel for thinking she can't handle things on her own and jabs at laurel's hero complex ("I have to clean everything up" "I'm sure nothing will make you happier") and that's so similar to belly getting mad at both laurel and conrad for thinking that she isn't ready for a marriage + belly also had issues with conrad's hero complex.

both belly and susannah's deepest flaws were naivety, stubbornness and delusion to an extent, they wanted to live in their dream world for as long as they possibly could without anyone "popping" their bubble.

laurel and conrad are practical people who shoulder so much burden, it makes them come off as a pessimist but they're just trying to be realistic and make things easier for the people around them.

susannah spent the entire summer pretending everything was fine so they can have their dream life in cousins. she stayed with adam for 3 years despite knowing about the cheating (sound familiar?)

both laurel and conrad say that belly getting married was "killing" them, they were both INSISTANT that debutante balls were not "belly's thing" and that she wouldn't enjoy it, they both struggled with grief to the point it made them push people away (laurel pushed away john in S2, was disant to belly and steven) as belly said, they both grieved susannah the same way.

in S2, belly tells laurel that she's been so distant, moody, and angry with her and thinks it's because of what she did in the funeral but it was actually because she was pissed at how unfair susannah's death was. another case of belly misunderstanding laurel/conrad's emotions thinking they were upset with her when they weren't.

laurel says she sometimes thought susannah was her only true soulmate, just like conrad saying that belly was the only girl he could ever see himself being with (basically roundabout way of calling her his one true soulmate)

susannah says she and laurel are "immovable objects" it's like their version of bonrad's infinity.