#affectionately yours

[repairgirl]

4. first day of classes

affectionately yours fem!reader insert + social media & college au 

a/n: HEY YALL I"M BACK!!! Something about the air, my seasonal depression, this election reminding me of 2016 and my prime fangirl days, inspired me to write again. I might make this a part 1 and 2 and already have half of the next chapter written. Soooo happy to be back writing!! Thank you all for your patience, and as always send me an ask to be added/removed from the taglist (which has grown INSANELY since chapter 3)!!! we are SOOO fucking back love you all!!

EDIT: i manically wrote this chapter at 1 am and was sleep deprived and forgot to add a photo of text between yn and leo. if you read this chapter before i fixed it no u didn’t

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[iturbide]

In regards to Gangrel, and not to get too Paulo Freire, any hatred or violence enacted by the Oppressed against their Oppressors is 100% the fault of the Oppressor. The Oppressor has the power to end this dynamic and all the responsibility to make amends for it. It's rather paternalistic and insulting to ask, demand, or, more often, FORCE the Oppressed to accept their oppression and the terms of how their oppression ends (if it ever does). And the Oppressor often makes the terms to end oppression for their interests first and foremost.

NO SEE THIS IS AN EXTREMELY GOOD AND VALID POINT and one that I don't see discussed in Fire Emblem...at all, honestly. One of my biggest gripes about Awakening has always been how it handles the Ylissean crusade against Plegia. It's made pretty clear in Chapter 5 that Gangrel is acting this way based on historic crimes committed against his nation by his neighbor, and Emmeryn admits that his accusations are valid. In the next chapter Chrom goes a little further in describing things...but pivots almost immediately to framing how the war affected Ylisse, rather than what it did to Plegia (emphasis mine).

…Not everything Gangrel said was a lie. The last exalt, my father, waged war on Plegia for many years. The violence… It was a brutal campaign, ending only with his death 15 years ago. Plegia rightfully remembers their suffering, but his war was no kinder to his own people. As the fighting dragged on, our army became more and more diminished. Farmers who could barely wield a pitchfork were conscripted and sent to their deaths. Soon there was no food at all, and the kingdom began to collapse. I was young, but I remember those dark times.

So immediately the heir to the man who committed atrocities against Plegia is pivoting the conversation to highlight the suffering of the aggressor nation. And, of course, immediately after that Validar attacks Ylisstol Castle and Emmeryn shortly thereafter ends up kidnapped by Gangrel and her martyrdom leads to yet another war with Plegia that they lose.

I completely understand where Gangrel is coming from in his aggression. Do I think that kidnapping and murder is a step too far? Personally yes -- but that doesn't change that he has valid reasons to be angry and to demand accountability from Ylisse. Ylisse is implied to have never accepted responsibility for what happened, and rather than addressing that Gangrel's got a point and that Ylisse needs to re-examine their handling of that whole situation, the game treats Gangrel's actions as unconscionable and the former Exalt's war as a crime against his own people as much as, if not more, than one against Plegia.

I ended up trying to tackle some of this in Affectionately Yours, most notably in Chapter 2 where Robin snaps on Chrom about individual responsibility versus national responsibility: no, Emmeryn's not the one who mounted the crusade, but her country is no less at fault for the attempted genocide just because she's now leading it, so she's responsible for taking action to acknowledge and atone for those crimes. And yes, it is a complicated situation: there's a lot of historic enmity between Ylisse and Plegia, and a lot of fears and suspicions on both sides -- some valid, some not. I don't know if I handled it all well, but I did my best to be fair with it, and to better highlight Plegia's situation where the game didn't.

[fraiserabbit]

a peek into the very general outline of my Percy VN 💖 after this, I’m writing the friendship and romance routes, endings, then all the dialogue/branches before I even get started on the sprites 😵‍💫😵‍💫

[static-random]

Affectionately Yours / 花仔多情 (1985)

[letterboxd-but-make-it-a-meme]

[maymaiart]

my gf sent me Affectionally Yours by @iturbide, which ive been reading at the speed of light bcs it’s genuinely a very very good fic and if you see this message you should go read it rn,, anyways i slipped and illustrated one of my fav moments from it

[theritahaywortharchive]

Rita Hayworth, 1941. Photo by Scotty Welbourne