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List of my F!Byleth x Seteth fanfics on AO3

Hi! I write primarily Byleth x Seteth fanfiction, and if you like Setleth fanfic, then here’s a shameless promotion list of what I have so far. Click the titles for the links.

The Goddess and the Saint (ongoing)

Rating: M

Length: 7 chapters down, 23 or so to go

Summary: What if Byleth transformed immediately after receiving Sitri's crest stone when she was born, and she was raised by Rhea instead of Jeralt? What if Seteth didn't come to Garreg Mach until after Flayn woke up? What if Jeralt was the new professor? Oh — and what if Byleth and Seteth were forced to get married at the beginning of the story?

An AU longfic about a fledgling goddess and a lonely saint.

An Unexpected Meeting

Rating: G

Length: 1 chapters / 1K words

Summary: Obligatory Goddess Tower scene for Byleth and Seteth, since the game developers refused to make one for us.

Revelations

Rating: G

Length: 3 chapters / 6K words

Summary: There are certain questions which must be answered before Byleth and Seteth can move forward. However, the answers to those questions threaten to end their relationship before it can begin.

A Funeral of Flowers

Rating: T for some violence and slightly steamy fluff

Length: 10 chapters / 49K words

Summary: An epilogue for the Silver Snow route featuring a fight, a funeral, a coronation, hard truths, an assassination attempt, and Setleth. Lots and lots of Setleth.

Always By Your Side

Rating: T for the fluff

Length: 1 chapter / 8K words

Summary: It is decided: Seteth is going to ask Byleth to marry him. But it's been more than a few centuries since the last time he did this, so he overthinks EVERYTHING. He tries to ask a few trusted individuals for advice, but at the end of the day, they're not very helpful. He invites Byleth to join him at the Goddess Tower and hopes for the best...

My Hand, My Heart, My Spirit

Rating: M for candid discussion of mature topics

Length: 1 chapter / 9K words

Summary: Byleth is looking forward to spending the rest of her life with Seteth...until some 'girl talk' at a surprise engagement party reveals insecurities and worries about marriage she didn't even know she had. How will Seteth respond when she tells him she can't meet his expectations?

Craving

Rating: G

Length: 1 chapter / <1K words

Summary: Drabble about a loneliness that spans centuries and what happens when a touch-starved immortal meets Byleth Eisner.

Seteth Shaves His Beard

Rating: G

Length: 1 chapter / 1K words

Summary: Heavily-pregnant Byleth knows that her devoted husband will do ANYTHING for her. So, one morning she asks him to shave his beard. The result is...unexpected.

The Mercenary at Garreg Mach

Rating: T

Length: 1 chapter / 4K words

Summary: In her first month at Garreg Mach, Byleth thinks that she’s adjusting to her new life just fine. Seteth, on the other hand, does not. Awkwardness ensues when they run into each other at the sauna.

Of Nabateans and Vampires

Rating: T

Length: 1 chapter / 5K words

Summary: St. Macuil Day in modern Fódlan is a bit...different from how it used to be 1000 years ago. Flayn manages to convince her parents to join her on a double date to a costume party at Garreg Mach Monastery among the humans. Byleth and Seteth manage to have an enjoyable night of nostalgia and dancing, despite Seteth's opinions of some of the costumes they see. But Seteth has a secret — and it has something to do with vampires!

The Cost of Secrecy

Rating: T

Length: 1 chapter / 3K words

Summary: Although married in secret, Seteth and Byleth have agreed to keep their relationship status quiet for the sake of the United Kingdom of Fódlan's newfound stability. However, their strategy seems to be taking more of a toll on Seteth than expected for...Nabatean reasons...

Blood of the Goddess

Rating: G

Length: 1 chapter / <1K words

Summary: Seteth reminds Byleth of someone whenever he nags.

Guardian of Fairytales

Rating: G

Length: 1 chapter / 2K words

Summary: During his time as advisor to the archbishop, Seteth took it upon himself to personally screen all of the books that were donated to the monastery library. After a large and unexpected influx of books, he enlists Byleth for help, giving her the opportunity to observe her crush in his natural habitat. Another title for this could be: Seteth Is A Book Snob.

Holy Lips

Rating: T

Length: 2 chapters / 6K words

Summary: On the night before the resistance army is supposed to leave for another battle, Seteth catches Byleth in the cathedral in a...compromising situation. Afterward, both must deal with the consequences of what they found.

Midnight Reverie

Rating: G

Length: 1 chapter / <1K words

Summary: “One of the things Byleth had learned about Seteth only after they were married was that he had a very endearing – albeit sometimes inconvenient – tendency to spout nonsense when he was woken in the middle of the night. Sometimes he would make up stories. Sometimes he sang ancient Nabatean folk songs. And sometimes he would determinedly produce an endless stream of endearments. It seemed like tonight was going to be one of those nights.”

Words of Tenderness

Rating: M for kissing (a lot of it)

Length: 1 chapter / 4K words

Summary: Byleth wrestles with the meaning of one very important word as her relationship with Seteth deepens.

In the Warmth of the Morning Sun

Rating: G

Length: 1 chapter / 1K words

Summary: In many ways, Nabateans are very similar to humans. However, there are also several key differences. Byleth learns about another one when she catches her new husband in the middle of an unusual morning ritual.

“Are You Dating Lady Rhea?”

Rating: G

Length: 1 chapter / <1K words

Summary: Claude and Hilda have a bet. They enlist Byleth to determine which of them is right.

Cupid’s Arrow

Rating: T

Length: 1 chapter / <1K words

Summary: Seteth realizes that he is in love with Byleth at the worst possible time, and there are consequences.

Open Mouth, Insert Foot

Rating: T

Length: 1 chapter / 2K words

Summary: While hosting a lance seminar, our dear assistant to the archbishop Seteth accidentally gives the most innuendo-laced lecture Garreg Mach has ever seen.

Reverse Card

Rating: T

Length: 21 chapters / 130K words

Summary: What if Sitri never died, and Byleth was raised at Garreg Mach? What if Seteth was the one who Rhea decided to hire as a professor? And what if Byleth didn’t trust Seteth at all? (In other words: this is an AU where Byleth and Seteth switch places, yet still manage to fall in love.)

From Under His Wing

Rating: T

Length: 3 chapters / 11K words

Summary: Seteth is willing to do anything for Flayn, but when Ferdinand comes to him to ask for his blessing on his marriage to Flayn, Seteth finds himself at a crossroads. How far is he willing to go, if it means ensuring his daughter's happiness?

Are You Happy?

Rating: G

Length: 3 chapters / 13K words

Summary: Suspected of being unwell, Byleth gets dragged to the infirmary. However, Manuela's diagnosis is the *last* thing she expected. And now she's left to grapple with a critical question: how is she going to tell Seteth?

Everything I Never Knew I Wanted

(Sequel to “Are You Happy?”)

Rating: G

Length: 2K words

Summary: Byleth muses on the new feelings she’s discovered after the birth of her and Seteth's firstborn.

Rules for Dating My Sister: Don't

Rating: G

Length: 4K words

Summary: Seteth and Flayn are siblings with a wide age gap. Seteth is a classically overprotective older brother, to the point of wearing a ridiculous black tee shirt every time he picks her up from high school that says: “Rules for dating my sister: Don’t”. This causes major issues for Flayn’s love life, and Flayn is more than happy to point out his hypocrisy when Seteth brings home a girlfriend.

Teatime Confession

Rating: G

Length: 700 words

Summary: Happy and secure in their relationship, Seteth asks Byleth what made her fall in love with him. Byleth knows the answer, but she's too embarrassed to say it out loud.

Better This Way

Rating: G

Length: 1.6K words

Summary: After the war, Seteth watched from the shadows as Byleth and Dimitri exchanged their proposals. Decades later, at King Dimitri's funeral, he finds her again.

No Contest

Rating: T

Length: 4 chapters / 15.6K words

Summary: What if Byleth was a UFC fighter, and Seteth was her new trainer? A fun AU set in a modern-day Fódlan!

Byleth’s Big Fat Mercenary Engagement Party

Rating: T

Length: 3.5K words

Summary: A just-for-fun FE3H x My Big Fat Greek Wedding crossover where Byleth introduces her fiancé to Jeralt's Mercenaries.

Bite-sized Setleth (ongoing)

Rating: G

Length: 3 chapters / 600 words

Summary: A collection of drabble-ish one-shots featuring our favorite Nabatean lovebirds.

udelnut

He should stop ruining his clothes every time he sparred smh😤

Commission for @amidalas

stergeon

a monologue about an unemployed golem mechanic post-crimson flower

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Rating: Teen And Up

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: The Church of Seiros’ Chief Golem Mechanic; mentioned Rhea, Seteth, Catherine, Cornelia Arnim

Additional Tags: Monologue, Screenplay/Script Format, Post-Crimson Flower | Black Eagles Route (Fire Emblem: Three Houses), Golems (Fire Emblem), Mecha (sort of. treats golems as mecha)

Word count: 1.5k

One night while you’re out on the town, a visibly drunk stranger starts telling you unprompted about the final days of their career.

A monologue delivered by the Church of Seiros’ former Chief Golem Mechanic.

(originally posted as a fic thread on bsky)

#HECK yeah #This fic is a work of art #I'm so glad it's on AO3 now

tinyghosts

“I want you to do this with me for one month. One month. Write 10 observations a week and by the end of four weeks, you will have an answer. Because when someone writes about the rustic gutter and the water pouring through it onto the muddy grass, the real pours into the room. And it’s thrilling. We’re all enlivened by it. We don’t have to find more than the rustic gutter and the muddy grass and the pouring cold water.”

— Marie Howe, Boston University’s 2016 Theopoetics Conference (via mothersofmyheart)

artemis-howl

Marie Howe:

I ask my students every week to write 10 observations of the actual world. It’s very hard for them.

Ms. Tippett:

Really?

Ms. Howe:

They really find it hard.

Ms. Tippett:

What do you mean? What is the assignment? 10 observations of their actual world?

Ms. Howe:

Just tell me what you saw this morning like in two lines. I saw a water glass on a brown tablecloth, and the light came through it in three places. No metaphor. And to resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself, which hurts us for some reason.

Ms. Tippett:

It does.

Ms. Howe:

It hurts us.

Ms. Tippett:

You naming something.

Ms. Howe:

We want to say, “It was like this; it was like that.” We want to look away. And to be with a glass of water or to be with anything — and then they say, “Well, there’s nothing important enough.” And that’s whole thing. It’s the point.

Ms. Howe:

It’s the this, right?

Ms. Howe:

Right, the this, whatever. And then they say, “Oh, I saw a lot of people who really want” — and, “No, no, no. No abstractions, no interpretations.” But then this amazing thing happens, Krista. The fourth week or so, they come in and clinkety, clank, clank, clank, onto the table pours all this stuff. And it so thrilling. I mean, it is thrilling. Everybody can feel it. Everyone is just like, “Wow.” The slice of apple, and then that gleam of the knife, and the sound of the trashcan closing, and the maple tree outside, and the blue jay. I mean, it almost comes clanking into the room. And it’s just amazing.

Ms. Tippett:

In some basic level, what they’ve done is just engage with their senses.

Ms. Howe:

Yeah, and have been present out of their minds and just noticing what’s around them, which is — we don’t do. And again, not to compare it to anything. They’re not allowed. And that’s very hard for them. And then on the fifth or sixth week, I say, “OK, use metaphors.” And they don’t want to. They don’t know how. They’re like, “Why would I? Why would I compare that to anything when it’s itself?” Exactly. Good question.

So then you think, why the necessity of a metaphor? Why do you have to use a metaphor now? Not just to do it to avoid it, but to do it to make it more there. And it’s very interesting.

The words and silences we live by. The rituals that sustain us. The poetry of ordinary time.

#Oooh I need to start doing this

punkasssharpedo

My gorgeous commission from @ticcytx arrived this weekend, featuring a waltz between Byleth and Seteth. Ticcy is my all-time favorite fan artist, and I encourage those of you who aren’t familiar with Ticcy’s work to check it out!

Is this inspired by a fic I’m working on? Maybe. You’ll just have to stayed tuned to see. 🤗

nitashinori

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

#it was either sailor moon or Pokémon

asynca

Write that one-shot. Those 3 chapters will be the best 10 chapters you ever wrote

real-fire-emblem-takes

for the rhea fans (or those generally with an affinity for girlbossing popes), someone just finished a full-length prequel romhack about her, covering the time from the fall of zanado to nemesis’s demise

https://feuniverse.us/t/fe8-life-of-seiros-complete/25600

Concept In the beginning, amid the great cloudless ocean, Fódlan came to be. At the end of a long journey, Sothis glimpsed that land and

👀

#I've played this!#Can't recommend it enough #It's so good #The creator's mind is HUGE

redpenchaos

Bonus sketch from the depths of the sketchbook: Lon'qu

ma-atti

Emblem Lyn

naaami

aaaand here's all 3 lords from fire emblem: the blazing blade, together :D

stupidthreehousesedits

fictionadventurer

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

starfieldcanvas

the other mild historical disjoint i run into is when people talk about dating in the fifties like it automatically meant exclusivity. the whole reason we have the expression "going steady" is because the default was to or "go around with" or "go out with" multiple people. not in the sense of being in a stable polyamorous vee, but in the sense that archie is actively "seeing" both betty and veronica during the entire time the two girls are competing for his attention and they're both seeing other guys to make him jealous, and nobody involved considers this "cheating."

bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.

#Important info!

scretladyspider

demisexuality can be so hard to explain because it’s misconstrued as you just wanting to trust the other person before you have sex with them. and I get why the misconception happens. But demisexuality differs in that there isn’t sexual attraction at all before that bond forms.

I think what people have difficulty with is the idea that there are people out there who aren’t experiencing sexual attraction at all until a certain point, if ever, because we’re taught that sex, libido, and sexual attraction are all the same, both in and out of queer spaces.

And when you’re learning about asexuality and demisexuality, you may learn that people have romantic and aesthetic attraction separately from sexual attraction, and that sexual and romantic attraction aren’t necessarily intertwined, and that may challenge your worldview on sex.

But “I trust you enough to have sex with you” isn’t the same as “I’m not sexually attracted to anyone but you, and the reason I’m sexually attracted to you now after we’ve established this close bond is literally because of the bond of trust we’ve been able to form”.

It’s easy to see how those can get conflated. On the surface, if you’re unfamiliar with asexuality, they may sound the same. But it’s important to acknowledge the difference between “no sex until I trust you” and “no sexual attraction unless I trust you and maybe not even then”.

Demisexuality is housed under the asexuality spectrum. It’s part of the gray area between being allosexual and asexual. It’s part of why the definition for asexuality includes “little to no sexual attraction”. It’s a mostly asexual experience with an asterisk.

While being demisexual may have impacts on a persons sexual activity, even demisexuals have a varied relationship to the act of participating in sex. Libido and sexual attraction are not always intertwined either, which can make telling the difference tricky.

I think of sexual attraction as libido that has a compass. Since I rarely ever experience sexual attraction, but do have libido, it’s noticeable for me when that libido actually has a direction to go, rather than being a floating, nebulous, independent thing.

Remember, not everyone is demisexual. There’s a difference between waiting to have sex and not having sexual attraction at all until a certain point. This also inherently ties demisexuality to romantic attraction and relationships, and not all demisexuals are alloromantic.

But if you read what demisexuality is and think “everyone is like that” or “that’s just being a woman”, you either 1) are demisexual 2) don’t understand what it is or 3) both. And it’s okay to not know. Just as long as you’re willing to try to learn.