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[skelezomperman]

any modern hcs with FE4's gen 2 with cars? for example sety loves sports cars for the speed even though it doesn't show on the outside.

Pretty sure I've talked about this at least with @louvay and probably some others so I hope I don't accidentally steal anyone's ideas

Seliph - probably drives a functional sedan like a Honda or a Toyota

Leif - is into muscle cars (really pony cars) but doesn't know how to take care of them at first

Ares - I think I've seen the muscle car headcanon before so to avoid encroaching on that one, let's say that he is into pickups and knows how to take care of them

Fee - I know this isn't about cars but she's into drones and likes annoying people with them

Nanna - likes SUVs just like her mother

and that's all I have the headspace for today :)

[skelezomperman]

You ever had any ideas for fic, but just didn't feel like starting? I had one regarding Azelle. I didn't realize that the dialog between Sigurd and Arvis would change if he dead. Had this idea of Lex leaving as well, etc. I kinda just didn't know what to do.

There's plenty of ideas for fics that never make it to paper. Right now I'm daydreaming about Lapis and Alcryst (in the universe where Holly exists) but I'm probably never going to put any of it to paper, or at the very least very little of it. I have a years-old text file of ideas that will probably never make it to paper like an AU where the Genealogy kids are in the Gilded Age of America or a canon divergence where Lachesis becomes the regent of Agustria after Eldigan's death. I simply have to accept that I won't have the time or energy to write every idea I have in my life.

And even then, there are some ideas that have been partially written but languish for months or never even get completed. For example, I have a fic I started where Seliph learns about his different family members, but sadly I haven't really worked on it for various reasons. So, part of it I guess is accepting that I won't get to publish anything, but I still feel sad.

[skelezomperman]

CHARACTER ASK GAME !!

GIVE ME QUAN

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

4. What's something you have in common with this character?

5. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

6. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

7. Could you be roommates with this character?

8. Would you date this character?

I guess I like Quan because he's from Leonster. And he's brave. Honestly I can probably tell you the least about him of any of the Leonster family people

He goes out of his way to talk to Ayra and figure out what's going on. Even if he jumps to assumptions, at least he tries to get to the bottom of why Isaach "attacked" Dahna

That he keeps calling other ethnic groups "hyenas" and "barbarians"

Very little but I can imagine him liking footy and I guess I sometimes watch it

Make art of him with Ethlyn

Treat him as a villain like if he eats Thracian babies for breakfast. His prejudice towards Thracia should absolutely be examined, but not played up to a cartoonish degree

Probably not because I would prefer someone more reserved

I prefer not to answer this question

[skelezomperman]

Any crackships for Judgral? Zane x Bleg is peak fiction.

I guess Dithorba and Cuvuli but that's probably not what you were looking for

[skelezomperman]

If Altena was never taken in by Travant, would she have become a Duke Knight like her father or a baron esque class like what other nobles of North Thracia would have been?

I find it unlikely as it is that Leonster, a nation whose army is led by an elite squadron of lance-wielding horsemen, would be led by a baron as it is. With Altena at the helm, the chances are even smaller because I see Altena as being attached to her father. She would probably pretend to ride a horse as play from her toddler years. So, Altena would definitely choose to be a Duke Knight, even if it is almost unheard of for women to be Duke Knights. After all, I'm sure that Njorun herself was one.

[skelezomperman]

In your opinion, what is/are the most prevalent problem/s in the Fire Emblem fandom and what do you think fans can do to improve?

I realize you might have been the anon who sent the "are you doing ok" ask, and for that I apologize for not responding. I'm not going to respond to every ask I get and I seriously considered not responding to this ask for various reasons (not to mention I was very busy when you sent it), but I think I might as well answer it.

I can't really say there is a single "most prevalent problem" in the fandom, but one problem I do feel seriously does exist is the latent sexism. I don't have much room to discuss this since I am a male, but I have felt that it's been a problem for the entire time (6+ years) that I've participated online in this community. Most of the time it's more subtle than open misogyny, but you see it in the hatred expressed towards female characters which their male counterparts do not get. Obviously there's controversial female leads like Edelgard or Celica that experience this, but you also see this the crazy amounts of criticism that Ethlyn or Deirdre get as characters. Another element is the sexualization of female characters. Obviously this is promoted by the games (though some people will try to claim that males are objectified just as much as females, which isn't quite true). You see a lot of this in the type of commissions people get of characters, the way some characters are drawn in revealing outfits that go way beyond what is in the games or how their body is changed to accentuate certain elements. Also, some people in the comments are just shameless for no better word. It personally disgusts me in particular to see people use "mommy" as a descriptor for characters whom they perceive to be attractive. Sadly, if you bring up these points you are almost sure to be labeled a "puritan" or something like that no matter how much nuances you include.

I admit this post probably makes generalizations in of itself and I apologize if someone feels singled out. It's a short Tumblr post, so it doesn't really include much nuances. But that's the best I can say to you.

[skelezomperman]

What do you think would change if Finn was one of Eldigans retainers? Only asking since I recently found out that Grahnye is from Leonster.

So, based off of you mentioning Grahnye, let's assume that the entire reason that Finn is Eldigan's retainer is that Calf sent him along with Grahnye to Agustria. Because I'm smallbrained, I'm going to say that Finn runs into Lachesis and develops a relationship with her that eventually turns romantic, but that's not really important here.

Finn for some reason has a laser-focused devotion to his country. In this timeline, he would be hyperdevoted to Eldigan and Eldigan's family. When Eldigan sends Grahnye and Ares off to Leonster, Finn goes with them. That means that Finn ends up being Ares' retainer through the interwar period and not Leif's. This has massive ramifications, as one would imagine. Ares doesn't fall into the hands of Javarro and turn into a swordfighter at Dahna. Instead, Finn takes him on the run around Southern Thracia. This also means that Ares doesn't really meet Lene until they're both in Seliph's army, so they don't really have a relationship. But for plot reasons, let's just say that Lene ends up in Seliph's army somehow anyways, and this time it's Seliph that saves her (after hearing of her predicament from Laylea) and not Ares.

Now, what of Leif? Leif is still left in Leonster when his parents go on their ill-fated rendezvous attempt with Sigurd. Glade is the one that ends up taking charge of Leif, not Finn, but Glade (and Selphina) still end up leaving Leonster alongside Lachesis and Nanna (who isn't Finn's). Because I feel like increasing the hurt for Finn, let's say that he and Ares run into Lachesis in Fiana. He realizes the feelings he has for her, and she realizes that she has something for him, but they never make a move because the time is never quite right even though Lachesis' spouse is presumably dead. It's sad because Finn realizes that he would have been an awesome uncle to Ares, and maybe one day he cries when he realized that he let that possibility slip through his fingers. But anyways, Lachesis still ends up trying to cross the desert for Diarmuid and failing, leaving her nephew behind with Finn.

This is all cutting out some possible plot changes for the sake of keeping things simple, such as the idea that Finn is one of the knights guarding Lachesis instead of the triplets, or that Leif ends up getting taken to Aed since Finn isn't there at Leonster to take care of him, or Lene ends up not getting recruited due to Ares not being there, etc.

[skelezomperman]

Hey, I hope you're alright!

Not sure who asked this so the best I can say is thanks for asking? Don't worry, I'm still around

[skelezomperman]

you got any headcanons for Sigurd and Ethlyns mom? All i have is that she had pink hair, explaining ethlyns hair.

I kind of wish/secretly hope that Byron was the one with pink hair and he just grayed, but that's unlikely. I guess she's probably where Ethlyn got many of her traits from. It's most likely she probably was a more grounded personality than Byron given what Ethlyn says to Sigurd when she joins in the prologue, but wouldn't it be funny if the mom was where Ethlyn got her gremlin traits from?

[skelezomperman]

I always wondered how Febail and Altena have major holy blood instead of Patty and Leif. My memory might be hazy, but I'm pretty sure only children of the same gender as the parent of major holy blood gets major blood. That's how Coipre gets major forseti blood despite being born after Lene.

So, there's no specific rule of how holy blood is passed down within the story. I think it's generally the older one, but there's exceptions to be found. Let's take a headcount based on the examples we know for sure (spoilers below):

Major blood passed onto firstborn child: Reptor -> Bloom, Mananan -> Mallicur, Victor -> Arvis, Byron -> Sigurd, Calf -> Quan, Ling -> Brigid, Kurth -> Deirdre, Arvis -> Saias, Sigurd -> Seliph, Travant -> Arion, Quan -> Altena, Eldigan -> Ares, Dannan -> Brian, Mallicur -> Shannan, Brigid -> Febail

(Note that this is making the assumption that Arvis, Sigurd, Mallicur, Quan, Brian, Shannan, and Arion were their respective fathers' firstborn - we don't know this for sure.)

Major blood passed onto same gender child: Reptor -> Bloom, Victor -> Arvis, Byron -> Sigurd, Calf -> Quan, Arvis -> Saias, Sigurd -> Seliph, Eldigan -> Ares, Dannan -> Brian, Mallicur -> Shannan, Travant -> Arion

So, of the twelve characters that have major holy blood in Sigurd's generation (notwithstanding weirdness with Thracia's retcon of Mareeta and Galzus), at least most of them were likely the firstborn child of their parent whom they inherited the holy blood from. All of them were the same gender as the parent whom they inherited the holy blood from except Brigid (who was Ling's oldest child) and Deirdre (who is presumably the only child Kurth ever fathered).

In the second generation, there are ten characters (aside from Julius who is a special case) who always have major holy blood and have fixed parentage. Nine of these ten were the firstborn of their parents. But, Ishtar was not Bloom and Hilda's first child and she also was not the same gender as Bloom whom she inherited the major Thrud blood from. So even among the fixed characters, we have an exception. This excludes the inheritance of Lewyn's and Claude's children who are not fixed characters since neither of them have children associated specifically with them.

Circling back to your question, the gameplay explanation is obviously that a parent's major blood gets passed to the child that is primarily associated with that parent. This is the same-gender child except in the case of Brigid and Ethlyn which reverses the pattern. I'm afraid I don't have a better story example other than that I guess if Lewyn got with Silvia, for some reason the Forseti blood was not passed down to Lene and it was only until Coirpre that it was passed down. Whereas the Njorun blood was OK with going to Altena even if she was a different gender from Quan. Maybe the dragons exercise some sort of control over who inherits the holy blood? Who knows.

(Also, I did go into the Japanese script just to figure out who was older...Ishtar does refer to Ishtore as 兄, so we know that Ishtore was the older sibling. With Brigid and Edain who are twins, Edain introduces herself as 妹 to Brigid, so Edain is the younger sister though obviously not by a very long time. One would think that where genetics are concerned, the age difference would not factor into a pair of twins since the birth order is random...)

[skelezomperman]

Anyway form your own college football club with gen 2 kids and explain the role and position you assigned them

Let's go with flag football so I'm not confined to male only (I assume that you mean american football, which regrettably I do follow)

Quarterback - Febail, because he probably has strong arms and can throw far from archery

Wide receivers - Ced and Fee are probably speedy (if Lewyn is their dad)

Running back - Leif is small but strong and can probably push through

Center - I can imagine that Ares could serve as a blocker and also has the concentration to snap the ball at the right time

Rusher - I'm unsure on this one, but strangely I could see Altena as having the strength to do it (or maybe I should swap Altena and Ares)

Defensive back - Larcei and Scathach are speedy, and they can probably also steal stuff

This is stream of consciousness so I'm sorry

[skelezomperman]

In the entire Finn/Lachesis family, who

hates boiled carrots

loves collecting rocks

has a goldfish

is good with dogs

gets drunk easily

likely falls for an online scam

is the conspiracy theorist (or likes a good one)

is handy with tools

has a lot of clothes

hates shopping

most likely can murder someone and gets away with it?

Let's see...we'll go with the extended family: * Hates boiled carrots - Probably Leif I guess? * Loves collecting rocks - Diarmuid * Has a goldfish - Also Diarmuid (he likes solo stuff) * Is good with dogs - Nanna because she likes animals * Gets drunk easily - Lachesis is probably a lightweight * Likely falls for an online scam - Hard to see any of them, can I count Quan? * Is the conspiracy theorist - Tristan, jokingly * Is handy with tools - probably Finn * Has a lot of clothes - Surprisingly, Nanna (Lachesis learned practicality during the lean years) * Hates shopping - Leif * Most likely can murder someone and get away - who would ever suspect Jeanne for anything?

[skelezomperman]

Imagine a jaded gangster Finn

Jaded, definitely, gangster, only if Leif wants to

[skelezomperman]

Flashfic #15: Seliph thinks about his heritage (a bit)

It so happened that one day, when he was alone with his wife at supper after a long day of work, Seliph asked the question “Muirne, what do you think I am?”

“What do you mean?” she asked.

“When you see me, do you see me as Isaachian or Grannvalian?” he clarified.

The conversation between them took place in the Isaachian language rather than Grannvalian. Seliph limited himself to Grannvalian as much as possible in public, but behind closed doors when he was alone with one of his childhood friends, he preferred to speak Isaachian, if only to prevent eavesdropping.

“What kind of question is that?” Muirne responded with a raised eyebrow. “I don’t think of that. I see you as Seliph,” she said. “What makes you ask that?”

“I…sometimes, I feel that I’m pretending to be Grannvalian. I know that I am supposed to be their emperor, but I wasn’t born here. I didn’t even see Grannvale until three years ago,” he explained. “Today, I had to catch myself because I almost mispronounced a word. My accent almost came out.”

Of course, Seliph was taught Grannvalian primarily by Edain and Oifey, same as the other children at Tirnanog. He had a fluent command of the language, but in reality had primarily spoken Isaachian when growing up. At least it mean that there was no rural accent to worry about — his Grannvalian sounded posh and formal — but he also wasn’t as natural with the language as someone who grew up in the country.

“Do you think they noticed?” Muirne asked. 

“Most likely not,” Seliph responded. 

“Sometimes I feel that I don’t fit in too. I know I don’t fit in because I’m an Isaachian living in Grannvale. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t survive here,” Muirne added. “But we have to pretend to fit in to make it. If they didn’t notice, then it doesn’t matter much.”

“You’re right…” Seliph trailed off. “Say, when you met me for the first time, what did you think I was?”

“I didn’t think much about that. I guess that you looked Grannvalian,” Muirne answered. “It wasn’t important to me. You weren’t the only Grannvalian there.”

“A Grannvalian that was born in Agustria to a Verdanian mother,” Seliph said. “Though now I know that my mother wasn’t even fully Verdanian. Her father was the Crown Prince of Grannvale and her mother was from the Maerists who didn’t originally come from Verdane either. That’s why she is said to have looked different from other Verdanians.”

“Do you think that she thought much of that?” Muirne asked.

“I imagine that the village that she grew up in was all she knew until she met my father. She probably knew she was different because of the entire ‘you must not entangle yourself with a man’ business, but I don’t know if she worried about being different from the others,” Seliph said. “Shannan did tell me that she had a harder time adjusting once she left the forest and married my father, but he only realized that after he grew up.”

“I wish I could talk to her. I feel like she would understand how I feel,” Muirne mentioned.

“A day barely passes without mourning my parents…” Seliph said. 

“I’m glad that Mother is still around, at least…But anyway, try not to worry too much about this. Nobody who matters should care about where you grew up or what you looked like,” she encouraged. “If nothing else, I don’t care and Julia doesn’t care.”

With gratitude, Seliph looked towards Muirne, smiled, and said “thank you.”

[skelezomperman]

What your view on Travant as a father ? I have seen people opinion range the whole gamut from sweet dad to very abusive, so I was wondering what is your own take on the question. Admittedly, between his interaction with Altena in gen 2 and the whole "planning to marry his two children together", it doesn't paint a very good picture...

It's hard to say given that we don't see his relationship to Arion or Altena outside of the very end, so this is going to mostly rely on headcanon.

Arion's mother (or a mother figure to him at all) is never mentioned during the game, let alone seen. Perhaps she is just considered to be irrelevant enough to not be mentioned, or perhaps she died before FE4 began. I think it's plausible though that Travant is uninterested in marriage (what circumstances led to it being socially acceptable for him to not have a spouse as a monarch in a medieval-era kingdom, I'm not going to think too hard about). I think he just sired an heir for the sake of producing one with some woman, but then chose to raise the child by himself once Arion was weaned. So, at the beginning he saw Arion as a means to an end (of continuing the Thracia bloodline) more than anything else, and the same with Altena when she's taken from her parents. Eventually, I think he mellows out and cannot help but be affectionate towards the two. He isn't incapable of loving them and he tries to be kind. But his ulterior motivation of setting up a unified Thracia still exists.

Overall, I wouldn't say that Travant is outright abusive towards Altena and Arion in the sense of physically abusing them or belittling them like Hilda does with Tine. But as you point out, the fact that he viewed them as means to an end first and foremost set up a toxic relationship, and the toxic dynamic comes out in the way that he treats Altena when she expresses reticence at attacking civilians. If you subscribe to the belief that his end goal was to step aside and have Altena and Arion marry and become co-rulers of united Thracia, that's also messed up in the context of him raising them as siblings. (Sidenote, I headcanon that Travant's story to Altena is that she was the child of random Leonstrian soldiers killed at Aed and that he rescued her out of the goodness of her heart. It doesn't completely explain how she doesn't remember Quan and Ethlyn, but I find it more believable than him making her believe he is her biological father and Arion is her biological sibling.) So he's not literally the worst father ever, but being with him was still not a good situation for Altena or Arion.

[skelezomperman]

Mister Madam Mistheythem how tall do you think Finn, Lachesis, Diarmuid, and Nanna are? Who is the tallest in their family?

I have a text file of the heights of the Genealogy characters, though I made it nearly four years ago so I don't remember my full reasonings. I put them in customary sadly and not metric.

Finn was at 5'11" (around 180 cm) after being fully grown. I'm not sure why I felt he was that tall but maybe he has a growth spurt (I set young Finn at 5'4" or 162 when he joins the army). He's the tallest in the family I guess by default.

Lachesis is 4'10" (or 147 cm). Most people seem to headcanon that she's short and I agree with that. I guess she exudes "short but feisty" energy.

I put Diarmuid as 5'9" (about 175 cm), but to be honest if I did it again today I'd probably make him taller.

Nanna is 5'5" (165 cm). She's about average female height, not super short like her mother, but not noticeably tall either.

I'll leave the tier list of heights below for you to review, but if I did it again, I would probably incorporate more holy blood into it instead of just going by vibes.

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Flashfic #14: Accidental brainrot

"Sis, can I ask you a question?" Hortensia asked with a mischievous smile on her face.

Her elder sister sighed. "Ask away," she said, not knowing what plans Hortensia had.

"Can you say the numbers after five in order?" Hortensia asked.

"Six, seven, eight, nine," Ivy said. "What numbers do you even want?"

The younger sister could hardly contain her laughter as she pressed something on her phone. "That's all I needed!" she exclaimed as she ran off.

"I don't like the sound of that..." Ivy mumbled to herself.

Later that day, Ivy was having dinner with her friends as she was apt to do. This time, she was accompanied by Kagetsu and Zelkov since the Solmese were out doing some kind of party or something idk.

Kagetsu's face turned white when he was scrolling through his phone. "Ivy," he said, "when did you get infected with TikTok brainrot?"

"When did I what?" she asked.

"Why did you get into the 6-7 meme?" Kagetsu asked.

"The what?"

"Isn't this you?" Kagetsu then played a clip which showed Ivy saying "six-seven" aloud.

"What is the meaning of this...?" she asked with a shocked expression on her face.

"I believe that the children denote this to be 'brainrot'," Zelkov explained.

"No, but what does six seven mean? Why did Hortensia trick me into saying it?"

"It is the kind of humor that is *esoteric*. There is no *meaning* to it besides being funny."

"Oh, Hortensia....!"

The next day, Ivy happened to pass by Timerra as she was going to class. And Timerra leaned over to Ivy and said to her: "six-seven." 

Ivy's face flushed red with embarrassment. "My sister tricked me into saying that! I don't even know what it means," she clarified while Timerra laughed out loud.

"It means nothing," Timerra said.

"Nothing? There's no hidden, inappropriate meaning?" Ivy said.

"Nope! Just good ol' brainrot," Timerra answered.

"What is this brainrot? Zelkov mentioned it last night."

"You have to use TikTok and find out," Timerra piped in.

"I am not using that app!" 

"Says the person who said six-seven."

"I'm never going to be able to get past this, will I?" Ivy said to herself, exasperated.

After lunch, Ivy found her way to the lawn (which lawn? it doesn't matter) somewhere out on the campus. She decided to sit down and stare off into the distance. Unfortunately for her, somebody noticed her. At first it seemed that someone was talking to her but she couldn't make out the words. She kept staring until she realized who it was.

"Is something the matter, Ivy?" Alfred asked.

"Huh?" She turned around to see him behind her, and their friend Diamant not too far behind. "Nothing's wrong. I lost my dignity, but everything's okay. Please, go on to what you were going to do with Diamant."

"Clearly there's something wrong," Alfred said. "Do you want to share?"

Ivy sighed and looked down. "It's that stupid brainrot thing," she muttered.

"Oh, that? Céline showed me the clip today before we went to school. I rolled my eyes when I heard it. It didn't seem like something you would say."

"It wasn't. Hortensia tricked me into saying those numbers...those cursed numbers."

"It's just a silly video. We'll all forget about it eventually. Right?" Alfred said.

"Brainrot is certainly not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of you," Diamant added. 

Ivy put her head down. “Go away,” she said to her friends.

Alfred and Diamant looked at each other and shrugged. “Okay! Have a good day,” Alfred said.

Ivy felt herself weighed down as she went to class, then went home. She couldn’t even put in a good amount of studying. No matter: Ivy was going to go to bed early and hide away under the blankets, away from a world where saying something as a simple as a set of numbers would cause people to laugh at her.

When Ivy woke up, her phone had a lot of notifications. She decided to ignore them though, rather choosing to drag herself through her morning routine to class. After her first class, she ran into Timerra, Alfred, and Diamant. She saw that they were laughing at something while looking at their phones. Ivy turned red.

“I’m never going to be remembered for anything else, will I?” Ivy wondered aloud to herself.

The three turned around. Timerra jumped when she saw that Ivy was there. “Oh, Ivy! Didn’t see you there. How are you? Did you see the video your dad made?”

“What video?” Ivy asked.

Timerra opened up a video on her phone and showed it to Ivy. It was a campaign video for Ivy’s father. In it, he was doing some sort of juggling dance while saying “six seven days left until the election” or something like that. 

“Is this about me?!” Ivy asked with horror in her voice.

“About you? How would it be about you?” Timerra asked.

“B-because of the thing that Hortensia tricked me into,” Ivy said.

“Pfft. Not at all,” Timerra said. “Honestly, I would have forgotten about it if you didn’t bring it up.”

“But then why did I have so many text messages this morning?”

“We were making fun of your father,” Alfred clarified.

Ivy opened her phone and read through the messages: all of them were about her father’s campaign video, not about hers. She couldn’t help but have a small smile at Zelkov sending “I’m sorry that you have a cringe father” into the group chat she had with him and Kagetsu.

“So, that means that everyone will be focused on my father now, right?”

“Yep,” Alfred, Diamant, and Timerra said in unison.

Ivy uttered a short prayer of thanks that her father made that silly commercial. Her friends laughed in a lighthearted way at that, but somehow she didn’t have a problem with it…she was just glad that they would think less about her accidental participation in brainrot.