#fe rambles

[acrobaticcatfeline]

Thinking heavily about Daniel "I have commitment issues" Howell. Danny "I don't like to be put in a box" HowL. He's me asf y'all but also not at all

[waffleweirdo]

Cruel and unusual punishment that path of radiance limits the number of supports each character can have. They’re all so interesting and I want to know how they interact!!

(Mutterings of someone indecisive and afraid to miss out on cool characterization)

[undyinglantern]

wholesome

[oracleether]

When Ike thinks he needs to cut himself short because he’s talking too much about himself, but I think his level 40 conversation is important and accurate to his character. Because a lot of people in the community give him such shit how he grew up and that his position of leadership was undeserved or that he didn’t work for it, at all. And they’re very wrong. “I just struggled with it constantly.” Those aren’t the words of someone who is perfect, they’re not the words of someone who didn’t work to be a better fighter, a better leader, a better brother, commander, general, or whatever. Ike holds so much doubt in himself, but he never voices it, or anything that ever really bothers him. He has to hold face and be who those he is protecting expect of him. Ike is a lot like Breath of the Wild Link in that his being naturally quiet or having a hard time talking stems from the expectations placed in his hands and on his shoulders, and Zelda even writes in her journal as much when Link manages to finally open up to her at her questioning of his constant silence, to the point he appears mute to others. Its why strength is important to Ike, “But I was told to use what I’d been given. If I did, then great things would happen. That really stuck with me. Now here I am, fighting in battles with real Heroes.” Ike doesn’t even add himself with them (and he does the exact same thing in R&R3), because he’s uncertain he can match up to them, but hell if he’s not going to try and protect them all. Regardless if he knows them or not. And that’s why he’s the strongest Hero, in strength, in lore and myth and in character. That is why he’s known as The Radiant Hero of Legend.

[acrobaticcatfeline]

Y'know. I have to say that people calling this the hard launch is sending me, mostly because what was the soft launch. Was it them meeting for the first time in 2009. Was it tatinof. Was it them buying the phouse. Was it them coming out as gay. Was it the end of the phiatus. Was it anything in between.

[acrobaticcatfeline]

Popping pills (ibuprofen) to handle the weight of the world (having a spine and chronic pain)

[acrobaticcatfeline]

Unironically just wrote sonic is temporary but kuromi is forever so if that helps you find out where I'm at rn

[acrobaticcatfeline]

If you didn't know I'm a die hard epic the musical fan and in the tag I've seen people saying that the interaction with Athena and Ody in I can't help but wonder was out of character, or that it was just used to show the "monster" that Ody became but like. I so disagree.

Here's the lyrics:

[ODYSSEUS:] Show yourself... I know you're watching me, Show yourself. You were never one for hellos

[ATHENA:] I can't help but wonder What this world could be If we held each other with a bit more empathy I can't help but feel like I led you astray What if there's world where we don't have to live this way?

[ODYSSEUS:] If that world exists It's far away from here, It's one I'll have to miss For it's far beyond my years. You might live forever So you can make it be, But I've got one endeavor There's a girl I have to see

[ATHENA:] Very well

To me, this whole interaction is so so important. The two of them have not spoken in a decade. They left off on bad terms, saying things that were hateful and that they both regret. We get it spelled out for us about Athena but you can just tell with Ody that he regrets how they ended their partnership so badly. He takes her scolding to heart. He still calls out to her when he needs help. He cares so deeply for her and we know it.

Ody starts with a call back, a reference to his very first meeting with Athena. Comments on her habit of not greeting people before going into quick thought.

Athena's verse is soaked in guilt and apology, though she'd never directly say it. This is not actual mythological Athena but she's still a prideful goddess and I doubt she would ever speak the words I'm sorry to a mortal, even her favorite.

She sings about the world that polites saw the world that polites had shown Ody and that she had shunned him for believing. She finally understands why mortals behave like that. Yes of course they lived by open arms, because otherwise you end up spiralling so far that you can't possibly pick yourself back up. It's what happened to her before she had finally decided to check on Telemachus in her guilt.

Telemachus lives by and large the same way as polites and Ody when she had first met him. He's sweet and innocent and joyful and believes in goodness and protecting people. He wants to be her friend, and for the first time she not only accepts that but calls Ody her friend too. She found out he was right. She was lonely, she did want friends. She wants to make a difference to protect people and make the world a better place and she offers to Ody that he can join her in this. This is an offer.

But odys too old. He would've joined her on that quest a long time ago but he's an old man now. It sounds wonderful but he's walk himself through hell and back and sacrificed so much of what mattered to him about himself to make it home, and he can't put that off anymore. His priority is his wife and son.

I also don't think it's unreasonable to assume in epic that after the events we see here that Telemachus goes with her and does that instead. He's a warrior of the mind now too after all. I think Telemachus and Athena have many wonderful adventures to go on together :333