#elredeagles

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Happy 4th anniversary, Fire Emblem: Three Houses!

It's been 4 years since FE3H released on 7/26/2019.

Google said that 4th anniversaries are celebrated with the color blue or green. So I used the green and blue that I usually use for Byleth before merging with Sothis.

7/26/2023. Doodled in Pilot Petit fountain pen, using Monteverde "Charoite" ink. Colored with Copic markers, ShinHanArt Touch Twin markers, and Stabilo 88 pen. Some digital clean-up in Krita.

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Doodle for an AU.

Claude is publically known as a student diplomat for Almyran-Fodlan relations. Dimitri's family survived the Tragedy of Duscur. The Empire defeated the Agarthans before they could experiment on Edelgard and her siblings.

Still haven't returned my laptop to my room, so can't scan yet. Sorry about the photo quality. I'll replace it with a scan, on another day.

2.17.2023. Platinum Preppy fountain pen, using Noodler's Ink. No pencil underdrawing. Colored with Copic and ShinHanArt Touch markers.

EDIT 12:50 AM 2/21/2023: Replaced photo of sketch with scan.

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Admittedly, right now I'm sick and my head is a little disoriented. So when I read "Edelgard" just now, my brain saw "Edgelordgard". lol

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...

Saw something way too serious to be reminded of toxic fandom takes, of all things. And yet, that was my first reactive thought. 😓

Reminded of people who hate claude and called him a centrist. And I'm like... He's not saying dont take down the church. He's saying lets solve this without a war that kills hundreds of people, devastates civilians, and ruins land resources for people to eat and live off of.

Maybe if i took El's actions as purely metaphorical and her story purely as an analogy for internal emotional conflicts, i could get behind her. (Like i did with Lelouch in Code Geass.) But the war in FE3H feels like a whole world, vs just flat symbolism.

I'm getting to a place where it's just fun for me to hate Edelgard. Like how i hate Goro Akechi. Weird. I don't even know her.

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