#beneath the ask

[targentis]

Hello. I saw some screenshots in some of your older posts of a YouTube channel called Minnsy and Mercles. I believe that it was about Freddie Mercury and David Minns, right? I searched for it and couldn’t find it. What happened to it? Can you explain everything about it and maybe even if I can find its videos somewhere else? I’d appreciate it.

oh my god. are you talking about this?

i am so honored that you think this is real. but alas! i actually recreated the youtube interface from scratch in clip studio paint. twas all an illusion, for art. </3 sorry to disappoint you.

@jujutsukaisen0 watched me draw this, so rest assured i speak the truth.

[detrasystem]

i neeeed to hear more about cornelia x valter! please!!

YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND......i went a little hogwild making braindump notes with this one because the more i dug into the lore of each game the more insane i went. but first here's the first line, because i forgot i wrote even that much:

Sometimes, she still can’t believe she got away with it.

and since all this will NOT be covered onscreen for the most part seeing as the fic i intend to write is going to be about Cornelia and Valter as like Already Married, here's the lore behind how that happened straight from my notes:

before the War of the Stones, Valter attacks civilians with Duessel’s cursed lance and gets exiled. this is around the time when Cornelia gets teleported to Magvel in an attempt to escape the conflict in Fódlan once and for all (after the events of 3H); she is Done with that nonsense and, after all she’s done As Cornelia on the surface, she refuses to return to the underground. she was probably assisted by Count Bergliez in this effort per that dialogue lore drop in Verdant Wind, but he didn’t go with her to Magvel—as far as i know i’m pretty sure Cornelia is the only one from Fódlan now in this crazzy fucked up world. anyway. because Cornelia shows up while Valter is stewing and formulating revenge plots, he now has something other than revenge and hatred to think about. and because Cornelia is Also fucked up and evil, she eventually becomes something More to him than something to kill. she eventually gets through to him, even, more than his bloodthirsty instincts, though he continues to have the call for endless strife pulling at the edges of his mind. it is all very lovely and it takes time, but they get married before the War of the Stones even starts and so all of that romantic buildup is NOT my business.

the fic itself runs more or less alongside the events of Sacred Stones, as Valter gets called back to serve Grado again, but this time Cornelia is there and this complicates things, both because he Cares about her and because she's decided she wants to try to un-curse him via crest experiment-adjacent procedures.

this is so much more than a crackship to me now.

[detragallery]

Going to be so predictable but cymitri in A1 ^_^ Bonus if you want: Any guys of your choice + C1!

as you wish my love

[last-2-laugh]

your art tag should be jarts

JARTS

[targentis]

I need to learn about every of your trans and disabled fe3h headcanons actually

step into my lair...i have much to tell you.

BLACK EAGLES

transmasc Edelgard

transfem Hubert with ASPD i love you queen

Ferdinand is cis+. just gnc af.

transfem Bernadetta :)

agender Linhardt (see the below image wherein i visualize my belief that Hubert harvested his gender to distribute to the rest of the beagles). also he is an ambulatory wheelchair user i think. and extremely autistic which i'm like 99% sure is Entirely canon

BLUE LIONS

transmasc Ingrid (i forget who it was who opened my eyes to this hc but they drew it for fetransweek last year and i have never been the same)

when i said Felix with prosthetics i was just waking up from a dream i had where that was the case and i didn't actually put that much thought into it but actually. i'm so right for this. can you imagine the symbolism of him losing a hand and replacing it with just like. a Blade. are you kidding me. god. he should also have a prosthetic leg just because i said so. i am chopping off his limbs as we speak

Cyrus Lenz is there and he is transmasc and autistic and if you don't know who he is then you must open your eyes. to @blaiddydboyfriend

transmasc Dedue also <3

there's something going on with Dimitri's gender but nobody knows, least of all himself. also he's canonically disabled so i don't really have to make a headcanon about this. but he's very autistic and i think it should be said. (who tf says "is my smile presentable".....)

GOLDEN DEER

transmasc Lysithea and i am NOT kidding

TRANSFEM HILDA!!!!!!!!!

OTHER

nonbinary Byleth OBVIOUSLY. this isn't even a headcanon really this is just canon. also they are a weirdstrange offputting autistic person. relatable.

transmasc Rodrigue 💪🔥🔥💥💥💥

TRANSFEM CORNELIA/CLEOBULUS THIS IS ALSO CANON. TO ME.

i THINK this is all of them but don't quote me on that. big fan of these guys being trans and disabled. <3

[targentis]

- What's your favorite character arc?

- What's your favorite details you noticed about the game?

- What's your favorite character design?

- Do you have any hcs/things you'd like about less popular characters ( the church staff, students like Raphael or Caspar, random npc )

- Idk if you particularly care about shipping, but do you have any rarepair? ( Ok, tbh that one is because of your Rodrigue fic because it was delightful. And because I saw you liked Ferdinand/Dimitri- )

- Do you have any hcs around the characters family? ( This one might also be because of your Rodrigue fic- )

- ALSO is there any platonic dynamic, especially less popular, that you care about?

- Group dynamic too! I'm pretty sure your favorite is the blue lions, but is there anything particular you enjoy/notice about the houses? ( including the Church staff! And it can consider recruits too, as well as either pre or post time-skip )

- This one is a bit cheessy but is there any song you associate with three houses in some way?

( Sorry I know it looks a bit like an interview, feel free to only answer the question you want! And I might not like/reblog your answer bc I'm shy but I'll garantee you that I will have read it! Thanks you if you decided to answer :) )

wowa sure i’ll answer all these why not HDSNDJSN

gotta say dimitri has my favorite character arc 💪💪💥💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥👆👆👆 they literally gave him a trauma recovery arc and it wasn’t even bad. we love the psychotic rep in this game 💪💪💪💪 the healing 💥💥💥💥💥💥 the sexy also 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

THE FACT THAT YOU CAN JUST. WALK AROUND ON BATTLE MAPS TO EXPLORE THEM. I’M STILL NOT OVER THIS, THEY DIDN’T HAVE TO DO ALL THAT, AND YET…

oogh. this is a Hard One. all the character design in this game slaps so hard. i’ll probably have to say post timeskip Edelgard takes the cake for me though because like…that headdress…the gravitas of the whole getup…never seen anything like it before

I LOVE CORNELIA 💥💥💥💥💥💥 i know i already talked about my trans headcanon for her but like genuinely…..she is so fascinating to me…what is trans Agarthan culture like…one must wonder…

LMAO the Rodrigue fic was a commission but i am a Rodriguela supporter forever 🫡🫡🫡 other than that yeah i like Diminand (but i’m a Cymitri truther and Yes this counts as a rarepair to me), Ashelix, whatever Ferdinand and Felix is called but Specifically as exes…i think that’s it off the top of my head. i also ship Cornelia with Valter from Sacred Stones but that’s a whole nother can of worms

OUUUU tbh i think All of my family hcs came out in that one Felix fic that everyone sleeps on HDBSBDJS i just i just i love thinking about Glenn……..and what would happen if Felix just went to therapy ONCE……… Rodrigue is a good father idc what anyone says

yes i think we were robbed of Claude and Hubert supports and i’ll die on this hill. they would have been such incredible worsties. i also really like Lorenz and Ferdinand as the most insufferable friends on the planet. and Annette and Dimitri have such cute supports that i never hear anyone talk about…faerghus four my ass, Annette is Dimitri’s REAL sibling figure ‼️ speaking of the faerghus four i hate that dynamic. Dedue and Dimitri have thee most beautiful friendship and ppl want me to believe he has a comparable relationship with the snotty rich kids he grew up with? get real. that being said Felix and Sylvain have that Exact lasting childhood bond that everyone seems to want Dimitri to have with the rest of them so. i like those two as besties i have a lot of feelings about that.

its so interesting that the Blue Lions come off as my favorite group dynamic because like…i gotta say they’re probably my least favorite as a group AKDKSNSKSA i LOVE the Black Eagles for this. (i am totally neutral on the Golden Deer. i have like zero opinions on them and i am sorry 😔) specifically though i think what gets me about the Black Eagles is that they have this…communal vibe, i guess? it makes it easy to imagine them all like hanging out with each other even though they all have such STRONG personalities. the Blue Lions…i just get the sense that they’re not all very compatible with each other if that makes sense??? it feels like i’m at an awkward family dinner every time i see them all together. it could just be that i like almost all the BE whereas there are quite a few BL i strongly dislike HHDBWNDN because recruiting my faves makes this less unbearable. also i fucking love the church staff…i especially love how supportive all the professors are of each other, and how Byleth really feels like they have a community around them while working at Garreg Mach… Gatekeeper i love you………

yes i do actually and it’s PVP by Amaranthe. i don’t actually know WHY that song makes me think of this game, the lyrics aren’t really applicable, but i have such a vivid animatic in my head every time i hear it so there you have it.

[targentis]

noo i can't believe we are no longer nordic neighbours 😔

THIS IS SO SAD!!!!!!!!!!

[targentis]

bestie I want to hear about the localisation differences about bronev or anything else you wish

jak beloved you are activating my special interest trap card

ok so i have to start this off by mentioning that the localization of Miracle Mask was significantly different depending on the region. i don't know if they had completely different teams, or if the US version wanted to somehow appeal to American audiences in ways i cannot comprehend, but names, dialogue, character bios--all of these are different between EU and US versions. (if i understood Any Japanese i would comment on the original version too, but alas. anyone who would like to chip in is welcome to.)*

now, take a look at the following lines:

(left is EU, right is US)**

it seems to me like the EU localization wanted him to be more dignified and serious, while the US localization went for a more sarcastic, almost comically villainous interpretation. i mean, it WAS the US version that gave us the beautiful line "It is perfect weather for a day of world domination."

i wonder what it was like for his voice actor to record these lines that so drastically differ in tone...lol

*this is significant because the only other time Bronev appears (Azran Legacy), both localizations are identical except for the names of Rook and Bishop/Macaw and Robin.

**screenshots from Slyzer and KarateChopsticks on YouTube, respectively