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Robin | 20s | They/Them

[merrymorningofmay]

"omg i LOVE it when love between characters is so strong it overrides the boundaries of flesh and selfhood, merging them into some sort of (un)holy chimera" — person who's uncomfortable with the idea of permanently sharing a bedroom with someone else

[kuzkinstein]

[oneoutros]

I have spread my dreams under your feet; \\ Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

[passingalien]

Claude and his wyvern

[hydrangeatattoo]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CLAUDE

[arabian-batboy]

"Prince Khalid / الأمير خالد"

Happy birthday to one of my favorite fictional characters of all time and the personification of the word habibi: Claude von Riegan 🌙🦌

[plotsandthots]

[luffa88k]

クロード誕2026

[nkogneatho]

telecom service providers in india are getting orders from government to shutdown our internet. they might also mass delete the posts and videos online. i know this is not the content you followed me for but please raise voice for the people in india if you can. if you find any posts about the brutality that the police inflicted upon protesters, people seeking legal or medical attention, people needing donation for sanitary pads, food, water, masks, etc. on twitter or instagram, please share it. it's my humble request. this is our last day. they're applying emergency alerts and new rules from tomorrow but today we are standing here in rain raising our voices and we will continue to do so.

[marquainequeen]

“𝕬𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝖒𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖉𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖊.”

The Ashen Demon

Fire Emblem Three Houses

[sycamorality]

mobility aids and glasses should be free for everyone

[sycamorality]

people need those to live

[sycamorality]

MEDICATION SHOULD ALSO BE FREE ACTUALLY. PEOPLE ALSO NEED THAT TO LIVE

[sycamorality]

ok i get the sentiment from people in the notes and i do agree with it but this is specifically a disability post

[sycamorality]

THANK YOU

[miketon]

if i made a video game where you get to pick the gender of the player character i'd make both the options be nonbinary and you can either have they/them or it/its pronouns. those are your only options

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[welpnotagain]

[calypsolemon]

the funniest part of utena movie is when anthy stares at utena's naked body like the autism creature

[hyadessaint]

Artist: ドヨコ // Doyoko

[princeorque]

It's wild to me that Claude is so widely perceived as untraumatized, especially in comparison to the other lords. This man has lived through extreme racism and xenophobia that threatened his life numerous times as well as his very identity. He is fundamentally in such difficult position that he has to be permanently on the lookout for threats, wherever he is.

It's pretty clear that this traumatic experience informs nearly all of his behavior. I would even argue Claude is so strongly driven by his trauma that you just can't understand his characters without considering its influence. There’s so many elements going in this direction: his drive to create a world that is at its essence safe for him to live in, his fear of vulnerability, his avoidant tendency, his thirst for knowledge, his particular ways of handling battles, etc.

It seems like the root of the treatment of Claude's trauma is both the normalization and dismissal of the suffering of racism. When we look at the wider cast, it shows a concerning trend in the treatment of character who's experience is tied to it: Dimitri or Sylvain tend to be painted much more tragically than Dedue is, and Petra is not really potrayed as tragic in general. It's particularly insidious as it's not necessarily that their hardships are not acknowledged, it's moreso that they do not get the emphasis and emotional drive other are granted. In essence, racism may be treated as something bad but it's normalized in the way it's not taken as an extraordinary traumatic event in its consideration. There's a fundamental disconnect in what is said and how it's actually handled.

In Claude case, it does seem to be as well due to the pejorative view of both trauma and mental illness. Often, I have seen this supposed lack of trauma held to frame Claude as above the other lords ( especially in memes, with some mention in discourse ), who are in return painted as irrational and emotional. Claude is thus removed from his struggles because due to ableist misconceptions, it would hurt his image as a cool, smart guy.

[pandemonini]

I feel like this is largely influenced by the way that the game itself frames imperialism and bigotry. The writing of Almyra as a nation is wrought with all kinds of racist subtext; the only Almyran we meet who isn't in part affiliated with Fodlan is a violent fratricidal evil guy. Nadir is a cowardly man who turns out to have lied about how good of a battle general he is, a racist trope that has a long history of being applied to the Persians specifically (which most of Almyra's writing is based on).

Petra is acknowledged to be a political prisoner, but her support chain with Edelgard ends on her literally saying she believes it's her destiny to be the protector of her own captor who is literally called an emperor who does colonisation. Cyril lives in gratitude for his white saviours, and enough has been said about Dedue I think.

The fandom errs in the direction of ignoring the weight of racism here because the story itself is oriented around contextualising imperialism and colonisation and white saviourism in such a way where it's digestible, if not positive to the player. The racism that Claude suffers takes a backseat to the politics of Almyra vs Fodlan in which Almyra is framed as a more monolithically alien and harmful than Fodlan is, thereby softening it as a secondary issue compared to, say, Dimitri's hardships starting from the Duscur tragedy.

[t0bey]

this meme was made for them