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unless the moon explodes   &    the sun goes cold life will always   &   always go on

[dvoyd]

“Stand up, warrior; you are not yet finished. Beaten you may be, but broken? Angels have fallen from greater heights and survived, so why shouldn’t you? Never mind what you are made of; you are more than this flesh that binds you. There is nothing you have to fear that should not fear you a thousand times more. Your heart is a galaxy, and your soul is lined in stars. You are something extraordinary, my dear.”

— so do extraordinary things | m.a.w — commission for @bearholdingashark​ of finding courage

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I’ll flesh this out more later cause I have so many ideas !! but spn verse claude is a nephilim !! his mother was the fallen angel kokabiel ( for those who don’t know the book of the watchers, essentially the angel of the stars ). they were able to stay on the run from the angels ( who sought to kill him ) long enough for claude to latch onto her memory, but she was eventually actually killed by demons for her transgression. all the while keeping both parties from getting to himself. claude never really knew his human father but he avoids leanrning more about him in order to keep the worst of the supernatural off his doorstep ( an action which fails down the line but idg ). he ends up joining up with felix & dimitri when the duo stumble across him & make an attempt to kill him, too, but lmao human weapons are more or less useless & so after some Struggles(tm) they end up teaming up :0 

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⤜    starter    !!    *:･ﾟ✧    ╱   @claymourn

Heightened senses sprawled across the room    (    the slow drip of blood on the concrete, the shifting of mice in the walls, the temporary light of the moon shifting through the branches beyond the windows reach    )    ---    waiting    ?    or keeping watch. Bodies lining the floor    &    piled in corners    (    shells of the people they used to be; one blunder    &    it all falls down    ).    Unsurprising with a demon on the loose. Harder, still, after the rampant years of the kill thrumming in his veins. It was the way of a world such as theirs    (    a world rife with monsters prowling the night    ---    &    if so, what was he    ?    ).

All paling in comparison to the luck of the draw, one such strapped within blessed chains.

It was always interesting    (    comparing the actions of the ensnared    ).    Most cases originally found their quarry relishing in spewing vitriol. Words meaning nothing, in the end. For how could the likes of their ragtag group care about the verse of a creation made of deception    ?    demons who love spinning truths just shy of their mark; fermenting in the chaos of their own kind. No, it is right to believe all demons lie    ---    lie until they’re forced to speak their truths, anyway. But the importance in all this residing on the fact demons do fear,    &    that which they fear is of the heavens. A pity    (    if a star falls, is the sky still it’s home    ?    is it still one of the divine    ?    or is it required to accept it’s fate. seek new grounds with which to cultivate its dreams    ---    to fall is spoken of in whispered words    &    secrets from guarded gates, yet those of his mother could still distantly fly amongst their brethren    ),    &    a mistake for which it would pay. There is a human saying    ---    revenge is a dish best served cold    ---    but cold is incalculable with the wet warmth of blood on his hands.

❝    We were sloppy, Felix. It will not be long before other’s can find us.    ❞    The soft glow of verdant eyes turned gold looming in the shadows    (    watching from the other’s back    ).    ❝    You know what will happen if we leave Dimitri on his own again    ---    kill this one already. He knows nothing.    ❞    Scattered thoughts honing in on the slightest of sounds; with ringing or hellfire. Hands clenching at all movement around them    (    a quick escape could be necessary, to be prepared is to stay alive    ).    The harsh panting of the demon before them only an inconvenience, but the answers they seek would not be found here.    ❝    Not to be a drag but, quite literally, I would rather not see any of my aunts    &    uncles right now but a family reunion seems imminent unless we blow this joint like...    stat.    ❞

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not that I owe anyone a reply but generally speaking I am incredibly busy; I just brought home a new kitten the other week, I've been dealing with a medical issue & I've been traveling. on top of that just because I'm not writing here doesn't mean I'm not writing at all. I'm not looking to be super active & never have been & the people I'm writing with know that — its literally stated in my rules. if you want to write/talk/etc with me feel free to pm me but I'm not amping up my activity when I don't have time for it atm. I'll write when I can write & this blog is going to stay that way

[mookybear12404]

I know a lot of people, including me, felt a bit let down with the reunion between Byleth and Claude.

But now? Now I realize that this masterpiece of a scene is an incredibly vital piece to Claude’s character development.

Let me explain to you why.

Keep reading

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pre timeskip claude is a rogue but post timeskip claude is a rogue/ranger ( beastmaster ) duel class thanks for coming to my ted talk

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while hes rocking the gym uniform I'm literally yelling at his twink arms !!! this man shoots a bone bow & you gave him twink arms !!!!!!

[chynandri]

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why mesopotamia

I was just talking to Shinya about this the other day but like, there’s a lot of reasons nonnie that more or less come down to how I’m reading the game  &  utilizing my knowledge of things outside the game, specifically, in order to extrapolate pieces that fit into my view of canon while still keeping true to the original content…  if that makes sense  ?

for starters look at how Almyra is described in canon  —  

“Almyra is a vast land replete with fertile prairies, deserts, and mountain ranges. Eastern Almyra contains pine forests. The people of Almyra are known for their horsemanship and love of battle, and elite warriors are known to wield bows from astride wyverns.”

while it is hard to grasp today, due to the changes between the landscape in ancient times versus modern times, Mesopotamia was a vast landscape made up of the mountain ranges  (  most notably being the Zagros mountains of Elam  —  modern Iran  —  to the east  ),  fertile plains  (  between the Tigris  &  Euphrates rivers, which they worked hard to live alongside  &  utilize  )  &  deserts stretching out farther still. from the Zagros mountains, are believed to have risen the great cedar forests of which Humbaba resided  (  today believed to have been located in modern-day Lebanon  ).  sound familiar  ?.

on top of that  (  which I understand is a baby interpretation in comparison  )  are the wyverns. like okay in ancient Mesopotamia there were dragons  —  not dragons as we know them  —  that are known as the Mušḫuššu  (  𒈲𒄭𒄊  ). essentially it’s a hybrid creature that is known as a “fierce serpant”  &  sometimes is believed to be the embodiment of chaos. it is believed to be the serpent related to the story of Daniel in the Bible  (  if you wanna see what it looks like, it’s on the Gates of Ishtar  !!  ).  now like the wyverns are pretty straight forward but they also don’t look like our modern understanding of wyverns imo but the mythological wyvern isn’t too far off of the Mesopotamian dragon,  &  the Fire Emblem interpretation lends itself closer to that idea.

then okay I know this is a basic thing but when speaking to Rhea at the beginning of the game  (  after your first mission  )  you see an image of Zanado at the time of Sothis still watching over Nabatea  (  ancient Fódlan  )  —  the image shown looks a lot  (  to me anyway  )  like a mix between the ziggurats of ancient Sumer  (  although the Akkadians, Assyrians,  &  Babylonians also built ziggurats; dating ‘round 3000-300 bce  )  &  the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut  (  at  Deir el-Bahri; dating ‘round 1479-1458 bce  ).  not that I expect anyone to just go “oh yeah” when looking at stuff in-game in relation to Mesopotamia; it’s not exactly taught about in most people’s history classes  &  I am a graduate of both ancient history  &  language hopefully within the next five years starting on my doctorate.

fun fact to go with a few of my other Mesopotamian hot takes on this blog  —  the ziggurat to Marduk in Babylon was called Etemenanki which means “the foundation of heaven  &  earth” in Sumerian.

anywho it all kind of ties into stuff I see going on with Claude’s character that ties itself into Mesopotamian mythology / culture  &  I do also have a few more metas in the words  (  in response to some asks / my own stuff  )  that extrapolates on this more if you’re interested in that nonnie, so I do have a lot more to say on this but skdfjhgsdfg but in a basic sense that’s “why Mesopotamia”

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every day I’m reminded that Claude is like the exact opposite of a super emotional person  &  that he’s so long had to suppress who he is the sheer concept of following your feelings over your thoughts is ludicris. everything he does is calculated cause that’s what he had to be for so long  &  now, even when he’s starting to make friends  &  learn to trust people, that still carries over. he’s got the best intentions  &  wishes for the best outcome but how much of that is something he convinced himself over the years  ??  how much of his actions are just him reaching for a goal he logically knows is what he wants  ??  (  do I even need to bring his S support into the picture  ??  ).  it’s incredibly easy to see how when he’s older Claude has outgrown most of the pessimism his younger self seems to embody but Claude pre timeskip is by no means someone you should trust implicitly  ---  

[jmberries]

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in honor of me wiping out like 6 times on a dirt bike that's probly a bit too big for my person yesterday, here are some "Claude learns to ride a wyvern" headcanons:

because the older wyverns were much too large he started off on some of the younger ones; they have like 0 real control of their wings in regards to compensating for someone on their back so he got hit in the face a lot  (  &  ended up under their feet which is not the best location  ).

he falls of more than he stays on for a good while  —  especially at first, which is part of why now he so chaotically flies wherever the fuck he wants  (  gotta go fast  &  high  ), but he still has some smaller scars from hitting stuff or landing funny ( his hands & knees got the worst of it  ).

when he came to Fodlan  &  was recognized as heir he picked up horseback riding as a kind of practice  —  horses are a bit easier to work with  &  it helped him train certain strengths  (  legs, for one,  &  getting more comfortable in a saddle  )  —  but that was just the basics. he still has a fondness for horses post that  &  will volunteer to help in the stables if needed.

after being away for so long  &  not having ridden a wyvern properly in a while, he absolutely ended up in the dirt  (  again  ).  while older wyverns are better mounts their size isn't comparable to the younger wyverns of his youth or the horses he rode in Fodlan.

while some of his flips  &  tricks he practiced on horseback he had to start all over again after getting on the back of a wyvern. due to hand raising Ophelia she's much more patient with his antics but no wyvern was really willing to sit around while he practices some gymnastics.

he's used to ending up on the ground, clearly.

he absolutely still loves  &  adores riding  &  regularly practices since  (  you learn once that time off fucks up what used to be instinctual responses from years of learning to never do it again  ).  even as a king in a time of peace post-war it's not uncommon to see him out doing so.

[roisale]

choose your fight(er)

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not to be all over the place tonight ( since I have an actual dissertation in the works in my drafts ) but while I get the tarot people are between saying canonically is Claude’s is between the moon and/or the tower --- since theoretically we’re supposed to have canon ones, right? like im 90% positive thats a thing I’m just tired --- which both are certainly good picks based off his crest/etc, the more I write on it the more the suit of swords is coloring a lot of stuff idek how to get into in the meta I’m writing. like okay so the tower makes sense for pre timeskip Claude in the sense its about upheavel & the change around you ( & can lay the lines to “averting disaster” ) & the moon makes sense for Claude in general due to the fact its about illusions & dreams ( like essentially working towards a better path ie Claude ) so for individual cards you can definitly say the tower is for crest Riegan & the moon is for Claude but the overall suit for both his character & his storyline is definilty the suit of swords & it’s absolutely wild how that fits into his canon.

like for starters I’m just gonna say this is all stuff I have half written up I’ll get more into later but of the suits, the swords are the ones associated with air ( ie: wind --- Claude’s route being verdant wind ) & represent the concept of literally the phrase “a double edged sword” & is often skewed towards more negative meanings? & is deeply rooted in thoughts/beliefs. it’s about the clarity of your thoughts & decisions & facing the reality of such. a lot of Claude’s character is about handling the experiences of his past in a way that better promotes a kinder future. while, do not get me wrong, he isn’t the kindest character by a long shot he does have a very strict set of beliefs he is working towards & that harmonzies nicely with the suit of swords grasp towards a goal while still being seeped in negative associations. his character is as doubly sharp as a blade in this --- an outward apperance that changes at the flip of a switch. the suit of swords represents both the good & the bad & how both essentially exist in this same surface without rendering the other useless. walking the fine line between explosive intellect over raw power; referred to as an “unseen power”

which like okay I’ll expand on the other’s for him to while I’m here & rambling but the moon is such an interesting one to place him in explicitly from tarot standards. it literally stands for illusions & deceptions. Claude’s whole character starts off as a deception you have to unravel over the course of the game, sure, but even moreso it relates to the plotline of the Golden Deer as well --- you are literally unveiling mysteries that the other routes never fully address. the moon is about only seeing half the picture; the creset ( Claude doesn’t get an opportunity in game to show himself as he fully is, for most if not all he is just the heir to house Riegan ). while a card who’s purpose is deceieving if pulled in a future position it means a favorable outcome !! following its present position meaning an opportunity to change your future.

which !!! is why the tower for house Riegan is interesting !! it, too, symbolizes change but not in the good way the moon mostly implies. the tower means a chaotic sudden change & acts as a forewarning of dangers to come. in a past position the tower literally means an unresolved situation --- whether this is Claude’s own backstory, a commentary on the crests history, or more is up to interpretation of course but I would argue it’s all & more. it speaks of inevitable change of which we see literally happen before our eyes in game, especially in regards to Claude who can survive all the routes & has his own change still at that.

like idk this got long & not exactly linear but I think it’s incredibly cool when you look at the tarot for him, his route, & his crest how it literally paints a perfect picture of both himself ( his past, his personality, etc. ) & his route. really fucking snazzy in my opinion

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I truly just threw all of arthuriana out the window as I laughed into the mesopotamian sunset

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tired noises I cleaned up le blog a bit ( need to clean up his bio so I temp removed it v sorry ) & i def need to figure out a new sidebar img but its Good For Now so !!

edit:// forgot to mention I also redid my mobile layout so finger guns