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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu | Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Aless | Ares, Asaa | Arthur Additional Tags: Written for Genealogy Week Prompt: Bloodline and Control, Holy Weapons Summary:

Arthur finds Ares while he's tending to Mystletainn, and brings up ideas that had never crossed the latter's mind until then.

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For @fe4week !

[5ergil]

I’ve been trying to spot the differences between Eldigan and Ares. Eldigan is more blond (I assume it’s bc Grahnye has brown hair?) and his eyes are reddish/brown. Ares’s eyes are lighter and bigger (baby face), his eyebrows are thicker, his hair is messy, darker, longer and tucked in behind his ears. That’s pretty much it? But then again, feh art is very inconsistent, so…

Rika Suzuki has been drawing Eldigan with red eyes in recent years.

If FE4 ever gets a remake, I hope they make them more distinguishable. Both are very good and pretty important characters, they deserve at least a Nanna/Lachesis approach…

[festivalofthe12]

Something I thimk about Ares is that like. He spent most of his life poor and having to work as a mercenary to survive, unlike Seliph who was very well-protected in Tirnanog. But Ares is so fixated on his noble father and honoring his legacy and bringing his killers to justice, and also might have some very vague memories of living with his mother as a child? And thus he probably has like... a biiiiig stick up his butt regarding nobility and people's proper places and so on. Because he's so desperate to prove that his family line Deserves Better Than This - that he's above all these people around him - and that nobles rightly should receive their societal benefits.

But also, there'd be such... embarrassment within him that the blood of Hothr has been reduced to this. It's not just a selfish prissiness, it's a real sense that he's bringing shame to the Nordion lineage by doing any of this, and by not having found a way out of it yet.

When Lene brings up that mercenaries also fight each other just like Eldigan and Sigurd did, he grows quiet. I'm certain he feels that there is a difference of honour, and can't quite believe that he already is the same as a knight.

So: yes, I can definitely see him sorta scoffing at Seliph in various ways, and I can definitely imagine Seliph admiring his independence and self-sufficiency (I have this mental image of Ares chopping wood and Seliph just 👀 with All kinds of feelings rattling around in that pretty head, lmao), but I can also see a really deep-seated envy for Seliph's place, too: to be so widely recognised as the Rightful Heir of a Good Man. And though Ares is largely all kinds of ~manly~ and would struggle to articulate it aloud (because he's tsundere as well), I could see him really embarrassed that he doesn't know how to dress or arrange his hair the way noble men do, or dance like they do in ballrooms. (Lene probably provides some insight into all this, but it's just not the same! He's never actually practised it!!)

And (and this was supposed to be my main point, lol): Seliph is very sensitive to the views and lives of the common people, in part because he grew up as sort of a common people's champion (of Isaach), and in part because he doesn't feel worthy of being compared to his father. So I could see Ares being surprisingly... classist? towards peasants and the like. And Seliph gently challenging that and showing a different way. Which is easy for him because Seliph's never had his own nobility questioned. But it's a fascinating contrast, because Ares is of course the one who actually has the knowledge and practical experience of that life, and from time to time they could come to disagreement about that, and it's just-

It's just interesting!! How much these two contrast one another!!!!

[sarcasticgiraff]

Guy who got emotionally invested in Ares and Lene fe4

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Ares for @/xuanathaniel Thank you for your vote!

[yeyayeya]

You guys remember when I mentioned about wanting to write an arranged marriage AU about Ares & Altena?

Well, I have been getting doses of wanting to write randomly, and while I have 2 chapters done and so many ideas that I want to get to, I do have something that I wanted to share

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Ares stood there awkwardly under the large willow tree that was at the center of the garden. He stayed under it as the sun shone too brightly for his liking.

Here he was supposed to meet his wife.

Faced with the truth that he was a married man, the word sat strangely on his tongue.

He’s been married for a day, and right away he was made to make a visit towards Leonster, where his wife and her family lived. Even during the wedding procession, too many people had come up to him to personally congratulate him, many of whom Ares could not properly remember their faces. He had been too preoccupied dealing with those people to even have a chance to talk to his wife.

The night had ended rather quickly, which Ares was thankful for.

Ares stared at everything and nothing, attempting to see if he could spot her. Just as he was about to give up and go inside the palace to escape from the burning sun, someone cleared their throat behind him.

This was a moment when Ares was glad that he didn’t have his sword.

The noise had startled him so badly that he turned around so quickly that he got the other person caught off guard.

At the sight of who the person was, he let out a sigh of relief, though his posture remained tense.

His wife, Altena, his mind supplied helpfully, stood in front of him.

Her long, auburn hair was loose, and she wore a simple crimson dress with white accents complimenting it. She wasn’t wearing anything extravagant, and the only accessory she wore was the plain bandana settled neatly on her head.

Standing before her now, and without the weight of a hundred eyes on him, he took in her appearance in silence.

As he stared, one contrasting detail made its way apparent.

She was taller than him.

For some unknown reason, this seemed to annoy him terribly, and it annoyed him more that he had to crane his neck a bit to properly look at her.

Her near black eyes stared down at him, and Ares cleared his throat, not wanting to look up at her.

An awkward and unbearable silence blanketed them both. To outsiders who knew of their relationship, they most likely saw a newly wed young man and woman, bashful and timid, and not confident enough to talk to their spouse.

To them, though, it was completely different. They had both been unexpectedly thrown to their roles of husband and wife without having a single moment to take the situation in.

Standing before each other, the situation was made entirely clear.

“So,” his wife started, “there’s no point in getting out of this, so we had best get started.” She finished off with a sigh.

Her hand reached out between them and was extended towards him. “Hello, my name is Altena, and I am your wife, whether you like it or not.” Altena said in a monotone voice, before she finished her greeting in a biting and cold tone.

Ares was not offended in the slightest bit, and an ounce of respect welled in him for her.

He extended his hand and shook hers, her grip strong.

He spoke in his usual dispassionate and gruff voice, “My name is Ares, your husband, and I would like it if we could, at the very least, not be at each other’s throats.”

Altena let out a snort, and both let go at the same time.

“Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that, Ares.” She said, and it might have been Ares’s imagination, but he detected a bit of laughter in her voice.

[anjoartist]

FE4 doodles I forgot to color weeks ago 😔

[gerdraws]

ARES IN HEROES??? ARES IN HEROES!!!

seliph is showing him around askr....