#fe sitri

[t0bey]

cindered shadows lore my beloved

[frost-felon]

Musing on Sitri's corpse and death arrangement--it's been discussed before, but Rhea comes from Nabatean culture, which seems to have different death arrangements than humans. This is likely due to the corpses not normally deteriorating the way human corpses do. Even after a little over twenty years, Sitri's corpse does not display evidence of decay.

Moreover, having her kept on a stone altar allows Rhea and other family (like Byleth, later) visit her to pay their respects in a way that is just as tangible as visiting Jeralt's grave. But I thought of this because of a video on human skin books. The only ones who should have control over Sitri's death arrangements are her living family, assuming that she didn't have any specific wishes of her own...largely because her perspective is under-played or almost non-existent in Three Houses. If Byleth, for example, would not want her to be buried, then there would be no reason to do so.

Part of the problem with how portions of the fanbase view this matter is the suspicion towards Rhea's motives. Of course, White Clouds initially makes Rhea seem mysterious and someone you should be cautious around, but you learn that she is more of a complicated, overtaxed lady with way too much going on in her life. So this suspicion is directed at her even for the mourning she shows to her professed daughter-figure. That she would not have buried her is treated as a nefarious dealing--surely, she must have some ulterior motive! Or perhaps she's experimenting on Byleth's mother!

Note that Aelfric IS the one trying to use Sitri's corpse for his own ends. He was her friend, but also someone with a romantic attachment to her that never let go; and unlike Rhea, who also does not want to let go of any of her family, he takes this to the extreme, going against what Sitri would have wished for. In this way, not only are the Nabateans' death rites disrespected, but also Sitri's autonomy.

With the human skin books, one question posed is whether it can ever be moral to produce or own those books. Many of the people who had their skin used were victimized posthumously, and now, they are only remembered in the context of being the binding of a book. How the books are treated by library staff plays a large part in whether the deceased are believed to be respected now, potentially given a dignity they were not given at the times of their deaths (and perhaps, even in their lives). Private collectors have an even bigger responsibility, as the remains of the deceased can so easily be oggled at, given no context or memory of their lives. Treated as, "Ooh, macabre aesthetic."

Even for those who consented, perhaps even eagerly, to become 'immortalized' in this way, a level of care is often discussed. For any human remains, willing or not, much of their postmortem affairs rely upon the presence and awareness of any remaining family or loved ones they may have, should they even have any.

I'm kinda off my shits, not gonna lie, which has led to the rambling nature of this post. But I think a lot of the questions raised by human-remains bookbinding are applicable to Sitri's situation, as well as the fates of the Nabateans who were (very much unwillingly) made into Relics. Burying them, I think, may not be a respectful answer to giving them dignity in death, given what little we know of Nabatean customs regarding death.

[thatratgo]

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HOTTEST FIRE EMBLEM PROTAGONIST MOTHER!

Her spawn are very proud of her

(Shout out to deidre in 2nd place)

[aestheticitii]

my new summer dream alt is now jeralt in a fishing get up but like at the beach. i don't know if there are fishes at the beach but he's shirtless and he has four+ kids and their little gremlin brain buddies

and he's teaching them all how to fish. i don't know how to fish but i know that one of the shezes gets tired and decides they'll catch fishes with their bare hands and the other shez also thinks it's a good idea

so the same gender byleth shoves them in the water because they're being loud and because that's what they've been told is done at the beach, probably by claude or sylvain or even sothis

so the shez that fell drags them into the water so they drag opposite gender byleth in and jeralt gets soaked from head to toe

and just as he's about to scold them for making a mess and tell them to control their gremlins because they're arguing in the background, he hears this familiar laughter that takes him way back

he turns around,

and his wife is there, also dressed for the occasion.

next to flayn, who heard about the fishing so she came along, who is next to her overprotective dad who is curious about rhea's daughter, next to cyril who seteth brought along because he knows rhea would love it if they got along but also know that she knows nothing about communication, who is currently standing in front of rhea hiding in the bushes, trying to figure out how to approach her daughter

turns out kiran summoned her but she wasn't sure how to approach byleth so she spent her time asking around about them and making everyone promise not to breath a word about it

jeralt and sitri kiss and everyone lives happily after

(and sothis shoves arval into the water, only to be dragged down as well

byleth has no sympathy for her fate)

[si-cucumber]

So I heard it was Sitri Weekend!

We were robbed of so may adorable interactions between these two. Gimme more cute family interactions pls

[provenprofessor]

Imagine if life was normal....

//Credit to @korokorokoroko on Twitter

[petorahs]

pov you are rhea and you miss ur mum so you play a video game to cope.

(happy mothers day everyone!! :”D )

[doodlerh]

keepsake