Fire Emblem: Three Houses is one of my biggest fandoms ever, generally speaking Fire Emblem is probably one of the only fandoms I'd consider myself to be in or have ever been in. Everything else, I feel like i'm more on the outside of things I like, not as into it as people who are "in fandom" are or have since grown uninterested in. Even for things I barely enjoy sometimes I like to make OCs for the universe just for fun cuz I enjoy it as a writing experience and an expression of creativity so of course I have made my fair share of OCs set in the Three Houses universe.
Xel is a young woman from Duscur who witnessed her fathers death at the hands of Dimitri when he participated in the genocide of her people. She is the last living member of her bloodline, even family friends were all killed who were of Duscur. She was forced to live on her own as a child, ending up fighting in the shadey underground arena of Fargus where the allegedly civilized nobles came to bet on what warrior would win or lose in bloody combat. She took some merc work from time to time the arena tiring on her soul but eventually it was at the Arena where she met the two women who would lead to her going to the officers Academy, Catherine and Cornella. At the arena she also got into sex work as she got older having people asking for a night with the buff warrior woman and accepting the money given her dire need for it.
Xel has a total contempt for Faerghus as a nation and wishes to see it burn to ashes regardless of who's hands it is at. However, her rage and cynical side stay mostly hidden as she attempts her best to present as feminine, delicate and soft. Xel is a trans woman who was accepted by her family and culture but lost her resources and acceptance with the death of her people. She was already not keen on fighting and wished to study magic but instead had to hone her arms for the arena becoming a world class brawler. Still she attempted to present feminine and did her best to salvage for what she could to continue a transition. She is my most dysphoric trans OC and often finds herself struggling between what she is good at and what she wants to be.
Xel is childhood friends with Byleth, both of whom were young and trans and met up together with their partners both seeking to support their child who knew their gender early. Xel's mother was a merc who had worked with Jearlt a few times so they had let the two have play dates and spend as much time as they could stationed there together. Xel learned Archery from her mother as well as the fundamentals of how she would later fight with her fists while she got her inspiration for magic from her studious father who worshiped the spirits and saw magic as a means to be closer to him.
She ended up working in the same company as Shez for some time before returning to the Arena making her connected to both mercs. Her connection to Cornelia started as a private engagement in sex work, a rare woman who wanted the lesbian and actually treated her as a woman. Cornelia assisted in funding her stay at the officers academy while Catherine was impressed with her skills in the arena and recommend her to the school getting her enrolled. Catherine see's Xel as a potential apprentice who can carry on her legacy whenever that time came although Xel disinterest in the faith troubles her.
I am still exploring Xel's arc and where it might go, she may get a buff to her faith magic spell list after some experiments from Cornelia who wants to take her as a long term lover once she can get her ascended to a higher status. Xel has her heart set on Byleth and Shez but Shez wants Byleth dead and it places her in a very complicated situation. Xel is a Black Eagle but the older women in her life both eventual enemies of Edelgard. Xel is in school with the boy who murdered her peace loving father and can barely contain her rage around him. A lot of fun hooks are set for her in the future.
From my sweet girl with a lot of potential paths, let's go to my most problematic gal of the batch Queen Arte of the Agarthians. Sister of Epimenides the twins were equal in skill and talent but differed in their abilities. Epimenides was a master of magic and power while Arte crafted the shapeshifting and stealth of her people which would become vital after Serios's bloody retaliation to her people's fight for freedom from the dragons. Arte is mostly hands off with Those Who Slither In The Dark allowing them their actions across Fodlan given they advance her eventual goal of reclaiming the surface. She however, does not trust Thales and excepts his eventual betrayal in a power play for her throne simply awaiting one wrong move to kill him and remove him all together from the chest board.
Arte is one of Shez's mothers and the reason for Arval's creation inside of her. Publicly she wished for her brothers return but truthfully Arval was created to be a thing capable of removing her brother from the table all together. Arte did not want her brother competing for her position in power nor to share it equally. However, the woman she paired with not knowing that she never intended to have their daughter consumed by her brother ran away with Shez hoping to let her grow up and be her own person. Arte would hunt down her former lover but wouldn't find Shez until she was a young adult.
Arte is a morally complex character who mostly cares for power but does wish for the best future for her people and does not want wanton human death either seeing any worshiper of the church as tainted and worthy of death but anyone who doesn't worship Serios as a lost sibling to her own people. The culture in Agartha is complicated, there is a mix of freedoms and oppression that suit Arte's grand design. Queerness is allowed, there is no poverty, there is public education but also the nation requires a lot of the people's bodies and lives in service to the continued existence of their people. She's intended to mirror Rhea in a lot of ways.
Taking a break from Slithering to talk about Zara my first major Three Houses OC that I used in a short lived Three Houses roleplay. Zara came after my first OC idea was rejected and I cooked up this terrible disaster instead. She has an OC crest, the crest of Herzefeld. Zara von Herzefeld is a mixed race Almyrian and Lester woman. She was raised in secret by her mother who hide her pregnancy from the noble man who had on some nights taken to her before she moved away near the border. In a little town Zara was raised, a happy girl but her crests healing abilities manifested, something that her mother would beg for her to suppress. Yet, one day a friend of Zara's was injured and she healed them, they told everyone about her powers and rumors came that someone else had the Crest of Herzefeld. So her father came to town. Her mother was killed for keeping her secret and Zara was taken in, given a cover story and raised by the man who killed her mother.
Zara at first tried to rebel, tried to fight back but she couldn't defeat the older war tested man even if he was mostly a healer. Then she tried to run away but his men would always catch her and he would get more agressive eventually having shackles placed on her. The reality was Zara was a valuable asset. He had failed to pass a crest onto any heir so he simply pretended he had non but he had, many, many children and non had gained the crest, so Zara had to be the answer. Eventually Zara learned to play him, to be the perfect daughter for her father with an intention, a goal, to kill him one day, not just kill him but to tear away his legacy, to ruin his family, to end nobility itself, she wanted to see it all in flames. In secret she studied fire magic but actively she practiced faith magic. Zara was set to be married off but convinced her father to wait until after she graduated the officers academy and that she would go hunting for a proper man of even higher status she might be able to seduce to bring their family higher wealth and power. He agreed but assured her he would keep his looking for suitors. Her father knows Zara's attraction solely lays with women but he cared not about that, never seeing her as more than an object to be used. Although in the time he started to truly see her as a daughter, as Zara stroked his ego and made him think they were ever more alike, he even began to search for whispers of young women in noble families perhaps looking for a mistress or ones his daughter might be able to take. Yet, it still was mostly to twist his own ego. Ultimately the goal remained the same and he'd do anything to get her to fill his goals even the worst things one could imagine.
Zara's personal skill allows her to gain extra damage when she does not heal an injured ally in rage and instead attacks with her fire magic. This represents her hatred of the noble class she is at school with at the Officers Academy and those of positions of power. She is in school the year before the Events of Three Houses, the same year Monica was enlisted and therefore lacks connection to most of the cast until the war begins regardless of Houses or Hopes timelines. Regardless of the timeline, the intended route for her as a character is to kill her father, join Edelgard but have some friction in her wanton desire for violence. Zara is unlikely to drop the guise though that she is a simple cleric stereotype, one who loves her friends and wants to heal everyone and that she is devote although in truth she hates the church nearly as much as the nobility. Can Zara be fixed, be open, will she end her path concluding that she too is a noble and must also face her own fires? I'm not sure I didn't get to explore everything but I really think she is a fun compelling character and I think about her often.
The final two face of my batch of Three Houses women. Heca is an Agrathian woman sent to live deep undercover by Queen Arte as a young Noble to be her spy on both Edelgard and Thales. To Thales she is a report on Edelgard but to Edelgard she is a noble she has no idea has any ties to Thales she's known since they were young. To Arte though she is here to ensure Thales stays in line although she is rarely ever to report to him only giving him updates every few moons. Heca is Kronya's girlfriend, they started dating young but were called apart when Heca was sent off due to her amazing aptitude for shapeshifting and roleplaying. She contained no other magical talent, unlike most Agarthians she had no magical aptitude at all except in her ability to shapeshift, even requiring a mystic stone crafted by Arte to do the Agthain's signature warp. Heca happily agreed to sign up having thought herself and the Agrathan's as future liberators of human kind of the churches oppression, it being pitched to her and many others of the nation as a means of giving liberation to the people to let them live as they were at the cost of the lives of those in power and those who would defend them. That they would end Sexism, Homophobia, and more that the Church created and placed in man.
Heca is a Wyvern Rider, something she hides from others in her role as a Student and noble, she saved a young Wyvern's life who was at the edge of the underground when her and Kronya were playing exploring the limits of where they were allowed to go and she nursed her back to health. Since then her and Medusa have forever been linked together. Medusa flies near where ever Heca works ready to be her escape at any time an the two meet in secret to play and enjoy each others company. She is a firm believer in Queen Arte and in the Agarthian cause but she feels bad for spying against Edelgard as a fellow queer woman, she has no love for Thales and hopes one day Arte will give her the order and let her kill him so Edelgard can be free of him but she is a good solider so she doesn't. When Shez appears at the monastery her goals are expanded to observing her and the Ashen Demon and to learn more about both their abilities by Arte.
Heca for her role was given to a noble man who's wife and daughter had died in a crest beast attack, "revived from the dead" before anyone even knew they were dead other than him. Arte gleefully positioned herself a necromancer when in truth they had simply extracted his dead daughters Crest of Earnest and placed it insider of Heca and Heca's exceptional abilities allowed her to copy the daughters memory and personality. Heca understands the weight of her deception but there a small loss of ethics in the grand scheme of the goals, in the end the man who believes her to be her daughter would likely need to be killed in order for Agatha to flourish above anyway. Although Heca advocated for the idea he may remain loyal given they had given back his daughter so long as she continued to live her life as his daughter until his natural death.
Heca begins to struggle with faith in her queen as she finds more of what Those Who Slither In The Dark had done through Kronya and as she finds more and more people who might need to be sacrificed she cares about. Her arc has her strugglingly between loyalties, realities, believes and dreams never totally sure that the path she choses is right and knowing every choice has the potential to hurt someone she loves.
That will do it for now, I considered talking about the Three Houses version of my OC Lena but I did talk about my longer term roleplay with here over here which was in my Thirsty Sword Lesbians campaign Four Houses, so not in Fodlan but a world with it's own lore and stuff but she was a very similar type of character as a Three Houses OC although not as important to the world as she is in Four Houses.
I hope you enjoyed this look at my OCs, if you like it you can always shoot me some cash over at patreon or ko-fi which helps me be alive so I can cook up new OCs and share them with the world, sometimes in the form of stories or as art in TTRPGs or as comic characters or whatever. I am deeply curious if if fandom inspired OCs are something that tickles people's fancies and if it is, what world should I cook up OCs for that you'd like to see me bake some lesbians in?
Willy'n'Lycaon are already OCs lol, given how they only exist as 3 lines in both games
I don't have a lot of original OCs or haven't thought a lot about them, but I've considered some characters for fics I'll never write like :
Hubert's younger sister wanting to join the Mittelfrank opera - her dad supported her thinking she could infiltrate the company and further the Vestra agenda this way, but when she told him she really wanted to sing and dance, he supported her all the same - and being very shocked when her dad dies.
Her mother frowned and sighed, but welcomed her son as the new leader of the House with as much excitement as someone waiting for water to boil an egg : she made the grave mistake, during the timeskip, to compare Hubert to his father given the lengths he goes through to make sure they're not targeted by Uncle'n'pals, since then, he had her exiled from Enbarr (for her sake, or because he was pissed?) and they never meet or talk again until the end of the war.
Hubert's sister wanted to support her brother, but still doesn't understand (and doesn't want to) why her father had to die, when she learns Hubert was the one who killed him she believes he is manipulated by Supreme Leader - it's the first and only time he gets violent towards her (even with his shit strength growth), Sister thus joins part of Mittelfrank Resistance network and helps sabotage various things here and there in the Empire during the War, Supreme Leader and Uncle want this "group of terrorists" arrested and executed at once, but Hubert always, somehow, arrives too late to catch their ringleader.
When the war happens in Enbarr, during his last stand - his sister doesn't even spare a word to him and is busier helping the members of the Opera Company and civilians to escape the besieged city, Hubert dies knowing, at least, she managed to make it out of the city safe.
After the War, House Vestra officially disappears - its name lives on as the shadow behind the Supreme War - and much like Olwen, she calls her brother a pitiful man. She and her mom use the ties and network from the former House Vestra to help with the rebuilding and all, wishing to return to the roots of their house, that was, helping Adrestia and its people instead of exclusively supporting the Emperor.
CF!wise, she disappears from Adrestia when Garreg Mach is retaken, but Uncle especially called for Hubert during his paralogue to get rid of a certain "experimental demonic beast", putting 1+1, Hubert cannot kill it and allows it to escape : post CF, after dealing with Uncle, he tries to find a cure - to no avail.
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Ludwig and his brother once "toured" around their lands, not only around the big cities but even visited small villages, when Ludwig was still a young and naive fool like Ferdie - 3 years before the start of the game, the Astral Knights bring some orange-haired lass to Ludwig's estate (in Aegir) because she managed to rescue some people who were drowning by using the power of her Cichol crest in some village, and she's "old" enough to have been born after a "mistake" during the "tour".
Jury's out on her being Ferdie's half sister or Ferdie's cousin, but as someone who was born a commoner and suddenly brought into "nobility", she has to learn etiquette, get a "noble souding" name and ultimately, goes to Garreg Mach (but of course she will not be enrolled in the prestigious BE class with Supreme Leader, let's say there are other classes, like the BE2 where second, third or even bastard kids are enrolled, aka it's less prestigious than the BE1 class, but it's still a class for the "rest of the Adrestian nobles who want to enrol", like the NPCs we see in game, etc etc).
"Cousin" supports Ferdie's escape from Adrestia and joins him, as the leader of the Astral Knights who pretended to listen to Supreme Leader and whoever was in charge of ruling Aegir in his absence - she's investigating on the "mysterious" disappearances happening around the Empire and more or less tries to prevent bandits/merc from doing red unit stuff whenever they reach green NPCs in the Empire's far removed lands (aka in the lands far from Enbarr).
In the non CF-routes, she joins Ferdie as the leader of the Astral Knights when the army starts to set foot in Adrestia.
In the CF ones, she leads an opposing faction of the Astral Knights and tries to help Ludwig escape - refusing to believe his supposed corruption - ultimately joining the Kingdom to defeat the "corrupted" Adrestia led by Supreme Leader, she dies in Tailtean, unable to sway Ferdie's mind.
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Some before (15?) the start of the Dagdan and Brigid War, feeling unrest regarding its "savage" neighbours, Adrestia attempted some "diplomacy" with them through Leopold - not yet Duke - and the former Duke Gerth. It didn't work as well as intended, but for a shortwhile, fishermen from Brigid could fish in Adrestian Waters, and even rest/live in small huts/homes in Adrestian shores, they wouldn't be considered Adrestian, but still wouldn't be attacked or "politely asked to gtfo" from the Empire.
Obviously, the plan to "lessen tensions" didn't work, and the war broke out. Petra ended up being shipped to Adrestia, but she was supposed to go with some "young warriors/fighters", not to be shipped alone.
Gerth only accepted to take one lad with him, but obviously lad would never go to Enbarr with Petra, he could stay in his estate and maybe receive "Adrestian education". Vestra Sr (Hubert's dad) immediately understood why Gerth accepted to take the kid with him, since he has blue-ish hair and believes Gerth wants to have leverage against Leopold for some reason.
Caspar somehow learnt about his half-bro (?) and they engage in various spars whenever they can, even if his older brother belittles him for playing with "a crestless mongrel". Brigid Kid wants to enrol at Garreg Mach to keep "the princess" safe : Leopold has to refuse because the rest of his family will get on his case for letting his bastard attend Garreg Mach and not Randolph or Flèche.
War happens, on CF, Brigid Kid leads the rebellion in Brigid - that will ultimately be put down by the BESF - and he escapes, swearing to return one day, but only if Caspar is the one to defeat him. If he isn't, he's killed - calling Petra a traitor.
On non CF routes he defects along with Caspar (if Caspar is recruited) or Petra, and through support with her or Seteth, it'll be revealed his fisherwoman mother came from a tribe rumoured to have been "blessed by spirits" - just after after the WoH's end, the heir from the a cadet branch of House Aegir, Erina von Bergliez, bailed out from Adrestia and left to "explore" the seas : she landed in "Bridget" and apparently met a Spirit who came from "after the Great Flood", she founded the mythical village of Fiana known for the long lifespans of its inhabitants and their "magical powers". Seteth will namedrop a certain name, being happy for his "brother".
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One of Hanneman's niece : she has no crest thus is treated like a potted plant by her Father and family at large : learning about the fate of her mother, she refuses to follow in her footsteps and instead wishes to become someone who will exist and be valued as her own person rather than a womb.
She thus wants to become a scholar and a talented magician like her hero, the former Imperial prodigy Cornelia, who managed to become one of Faerghus' most valued Court Mages!
Alas, while she's a dutiful student, she has no particular talent for magic. Coming up with some bullshit about how "she will have more value on the bridal market if she becomes a talented sorceress", her father accepts to send her to the Firdhiad School of Sorcery. There she manages to, idk, at least get a degree or whatever, even if she realises she's way beyond the crested students like that klutz with orange hair.
Sadly for her, when she returns home, her dad tells her he managed to find a good match for her, even if she's a crestless "failure" : she ends up being fiancéed to Randolph who's also crestless, but after discussions with Randolph's mother, if she manages to bear him a crested heir, maybe they will finally get some standing in the Bergliez household.
She tries to cook the best bullshit excuse she can to run away from this marriage, explaining how she got very good grades in the Firdhiad school of sorcery, and how attending Garreg Mach will no doubt give her even more "value" thus an opportunity to secure a better match than a mere "step-son" - unknowingly to her, Hanneman, alerted by his other nephews, paid his brother-in-law a hefty sum to convince him to let his daughter attend to Garreg Mach - she thus enrols in Garreg Mach, but in the "for randoms" BE class (BE2), and becomes "good friends" with Ferdie's cousin.
In CF, she's part of the "engineers" working with Cornelia and oversees the Titanus' building process - in the other routes, she joins the School of Sorcery soldiers.
