#it's complex.

[yellowocaballero]

on one hand, idk how flayn might've helped in the breakdown dimitri had, other than maybe having more experience w the human condition bc she's longer-lived. On the other... I am choosing to find it hilarious that right after she temporarily leaves to go help seteth, the blue lions are confronted w how Not Okay dimitri and their general situation is... Lol

HAH YEAH. I think Flayn is a weird sort of character where she's halfway between the children and the adults. I think in some ways I felt as if she was auditing the classes. Still 100% a Blue Lion, but undoubtedly in a very different situation than the rest and coming from a very different place. Petra's the same - I wrote the two late joiners as very much having their own stories that intersect significantly with the BL. Dedue was here from the start, but I don't think he ever becomes actual friends with Ingrid, Sylvain, and Felix, so he entered the academy pretty isolated.

I didn't want to homogenize the characters and give them the exact same relationship with each other and the cult BL, so different characters absolutely put a lot of their identity into the cult (the kids who were childhood friends and the kids from broken homes, mostly) and others just have intersecting lives (the outsider kids). They all care for each other the same (for reasons I'll reveal next chapter which I personally think are VERY funny), but each character has a separate reason why they need the BL found family, and if they need it or just want it.

I don't think Flayn would have known how to help at the time. I think she would have been pretty frightened, but not devastated or terrified like a lot of the other BL. Her sense of self isn't tied up in Dimitri, unlike a lot of her classmates lol. But Flayn's relationship with Dimitri becomes important, and we'll see much more of it next chapter. Dimitri's relationships with everybody in the BL changes drastically once he gets severely sick. Again, we'll see more of it.

I don't think I've mentioned this yet, but we're done closely following the game. Part 1 basically set up why the big canon divergent thing happens, and then during the timeskip the big canon divergent thing happens and then Part 2 is absolutely different. Good news for readers unfamiliar with the game I guess lol. Thanks for the ask - I'm super looking forward to posting the next chapter!

[lilthya]

i think often about the time lilith felt her children threatened and she went mother bear and started slaughtering then got banished to the void.

[warriorprincesstramp]

it's the middle ages and also everyone on merlin was insane so u can't consistently use any modern labels for them. like yea merlin's gay but he's bi but he's gay but he and gwen could've queered heterosexuality and he had a bitter tragic love affair with morgana (spiritually) and also he fucks. and obviously arthur is bisexual except when he's a gay gay homosexual except he loved gwen but they were also giving sitcom 50s couple and they were not fucking. but he did love her. even though he's gay. and morgana was the most lesbian lesbian but she did used to be in love with merlin. and gwen has crazy bisexual swag but sometimes she's straight and in season one she was a lesbian. and who knows what was up with any of the knights but they were definitely all fucking each other. ultimately what really matters is that they're all kinsey 5s just making it work (except merlin and morgana who are kinsey 5s just ruining everything and trying to kill each other). hope this clears things up x

[hopefearlovefaith]

Day Twenty-seven: My current relationship status.

SINGLE. BOOM.

I don't mind single life at all. Less stress to live with. I'm only sixteen (almost seventeen). With school to finish. And life to live. Without having to make effort to impress someone on a daily basis. I could rant about the stupidity of high school relationship allllll day.

Yes, I understand that some people do meet their soul-mates in high school and they live happily ever after. I get it. But I've seen more than a few teenagers with broken hearts over nothing. Over something that they thought could have been, but really wasn't God's will. I don't know. I just think it's easier to not be in constant relationships through what can be such an amazing time in your life.

My dating philosophy is complex.

I sound really negative in about the whole thing. I'm not. I swear. I am such a hopeless romantic, it's not even funny. But I'm not stupid. I like to believe that I have a good head on my shoulders. I've seen broken hearts. I've seen relationships go down the crapshoot. I don't want to be like every other broken hearted, damaged girl when I find my forever.

Guys my age are generally jerks anyway. So. That's it. I could literally go an for forever...but I'll spare you the reading. Maybe someday. Maybe someday, you'll hear my long rant about this particular subject. But for now, no.