♠ chara markov ♠

☆ hubert von vestra's #1 enjoyer (confirmed) ☆

[vestracore]

i've been consumed

the panel was done by wildwanderlust on a03 ,, it comes from this comic (but be very warned it is NSFW /srs)

silco being here is just from the inside joke/faceclaim that myself and @medicallyfascinating created ,, also he's in on this 100% but i was the one affected by his brainworms so here we are.

[snips-fics]

Tagged by @undersideofaleaf to give the first character I could think of whose name starts with the first letter of my url. So, um, mah boi Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe.

@seeking-elsewhither and @archivewriter1ont

[seeking-elsewhither]

Satine Kryze

@margindoodles2407 @merefis18 @nightskylonging and whoever else wants to hop on!

[reading-by-the-pale-moonlight]

Rocky! From either Lackadaisy or Project Hail Mary. Or Rocky Balboa. I did if fact watch those too

@dearlittlefandom-stalker @pinkwisteria

[dearlittlefandom-stalker]

Both Rockies are awesome✨

Dori and Dory (from The Hobbit and Finding Nemo, respectively)

Tagging: @ominarii @reneethegreatandpowerful @pgzebra1023 @confetti-cat @sisterdragonwithfeathers @milksugarjams @donut-rambles @readalong @kanerallels

[donut-rambles]

Dick Grayson!

Thanks for the tag @dearlittlefandom-stalker

Tagging @katco-cereal @a-lil-strawberry @where-dreamers-go @onewingedsparrow @ghostrider-02 @thisistheendtimes

[onewingedsparrow]

I hate this but I thought "What character starts with O" and then my brain was instantly like O...laf! So, there you go, Olaf the Snowman from Frozen. Not my blorbo but hey I thought of him first. Moving on ~ COME ON OPTIMUS PRIME WAS RIGHT THERE WHY DID MY BRAIN DO THIS Thanks Donut for the tag! Tagging @edgeyrogues @ripclaw300 @ginjusttalkaboutnothing @quiet-kid-gone-rogue (<- good luck hehe) @vestracore @beyo-archives-and-shtuff @thinkingheron @jimmyjims @cooking-with-hailstones @tealclover @fizzylemonbees @shibirui @dinofibia Have fun!

[vestracore]

vubert von vestra jk vanessa wilcock-wynn-carroway

@medicallyfascinating hiya :3 /nf

[thymehaspassed]

[aromantic-diaries]

"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.

[the-based-brit]

Femoids would HATE her guts if she were alive today lmao

[spiritbladed]

something something extremely sexy when magic users resort to physical violence. yeah i have the power of god and anime on my side but i also have THESE HANDS. i cast Punch You In The Face. i take my magic staff through which i channel the vast energies of the elements and the cosmos and i cast Severe Concussion And Skull Fracture. casting time for xenoglossy too long, chose the quicker route of Stab You In The Throat.

[asmontosborne]

I wish we'd gotten to see Hanneman beat Thales bloody

[medicalmalpracticeapologist]

Bad end?..

[weaselishmcdiesel]

would u be mad if i had 5 million orbs.... would u be mad if i had 1 million powers.......

[t0bey]

#hannemancanthandleallthat

[vestracore]

i like seeing all the hubert fankid ideas every now and then cause i notice a lot of them follow similar formats, regarding how hubert raises them and their personalities being very duty-centric, loyal to the empire, and usually at least a little unnerving- and my hubert fankids are 1. an adonis-type who was a ray of sunshine as a child, echoes the voice of the old imperial elite in his teenage years and winds up abducted into a cult of agarthan survivors after running away from home in his early 20s (then is given a crest) 2. a wild child who refused to speak out of spite properly until she was 4, was convinced she was a dog until she was 3, who has the world's worst emotional immaturity, likes animals more than people, and cannot be civil with her older brother to save her life (now currently hates herself and blames herself for her family breaking apart) 3. a selectively mute accident child who develops his cautious and patient personality and hobbies slowly as his independence grows, yearns for the blade in his teenage years, and by 18 would kill his older brother if he had the chance (the only person keeping his family together at fraying threads)

[breithenua]

I keep telling myself the Scarlet Blaze route in 3 Hopes is just as morally grey as the other 2 based on perspective, and then Hubert says something so sinister and violent that I immediately think:

Well I guess it's true that there's been psychopaths on both sides of every war ever lol. But like dude. If this were a Saturday morning cartoon he'd be the main villain lol.

[tellius-to-fodlan]

Something I find cool about Hubert that the text doesn't draw much attention to is how ready he is to tear down a system that he is perfectly suited to his place in.

He enjoys all the privileges of nobility except landowning, and isn't shown to struggle with the drawbacks, like pressure to continue the bloodline with an approved partner. Yeah, he's in a weird position where despite all this power, his entire life is signed over to one other person, but he has nothing but devotion and admiration for that person. He really hit his personal jackpot!

But he agrees with Edelgard that the system is unjust, and working for him doesn't mean it works for everyone. So he works to destroy the system that he benefits from, probably more than anyone else in the story.

[plaguelily-art]

Artwork completed for @fecrackshipweek. This was for Day 3, and I went with "First Kiss".

I was so excited to see another unhinged ship week event, but had to deal with finals so I didn't get to complete as much art as I wanted to...doesn't help I went a bit ham with experimenting with the colors and lighting (I am so happy with how the colors and lighting worked out though, this was a lot of fun to work on once I got past inking whatever Hubert's outfit is supposed to be). This feels almost embarassingly self-indulgent, but then, what is a crackship for otherwise?

Felt so good to be able to just sit down and really work on this for a few hours once my finals were completed. Trying out some new things with my borders too--I found a way to more easily draw decorative knot designs, and I've been enjoying drawing more complex borders as a result.

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2026, Spring Digital (Adobe Photoshop) Ignatz and Hubert are characters from the Fire Emblem series, and belong to Intelligent Systems. Artwork belongs to me.

This image (published by the artist to deviantart.com/plaguelily, plaguelily-art.tumblr.com) may not be reproduced, copied, edited, republished, reuploaded, distributed, or redistributed in any way, and I do not give permission for the creation of any sort of derivatives of my work including the use of the work in datasets used for generation of AI art or any other sort of procedurally generated image program or software. Thank you.

[mothchimeart]

My piece for Divine Pathways: A Fire Emblem 3H Oracle Deck, and I have been so eager to have the chance to share this publicly! Here's the most gorgeous Hubert I've drawn yet with some raven pals for this very symbolic card.

[samshepard]

computer. This Charming Man. loud enough to kill

[t0bey]

adrestians

[characteranalyses]

Character Analysis: Hubert von Vestra (Fire Emblem)

Who is Hubert?

Hubert stands in Three Houses as Edelgard's shadow as much as her retainer. He's heir to House Vestra, a family boudn to House Hresvelg for generations, and by the time the academy story begins he's already treating his own life as something organised around Edelgard's future rather than his own. He studies with the Black Eagles, watches everyone around her for usefulness or danger, and quietly helps prepare the purge of corrupt imperial nobles, including his own father. Even before the war phase, the game is very clear that Hubert's place in the story isn't just a student who happens to be loyal - he's part of the machinery that will put Edelgard on the throne and keep her there.

It gives him a very particular narrative function, because he's the character who makes Edelgard's revolution feel capable of surviving contact with reality. Edelgard carries the ideology, charisma, and historical grievance, while Hubert carries secrecy, intelligence work, intimidation, and the willingness to dirty his hands before she has to. In routes where he stands against the player, he reads as one of the Empire's most dangerous loyalists; in Crimson Flower, he becomes one of the route's clearest examples of what devotion looks like when it's fused to statecraft, violence, and personal choice all at once.

He's also one of the game's best portraits of someone who's made duty into identity so completely that ordinary selfhood barely seems to exist alongside it. Hubert is funny, cultured, intelligent, and far more socially aware than his first impression suggests, but most of that stays under tight control because he's decided what his life is for. That's why Ferdinand's accusation that he has no will or identity outside serving Edelgard lands as well as it does - Hubert really does spend so much of his life orbiting Edelgard that the question of whether he has an independent centre becomes impossible to ignore. The game never treats that as a simple insult, but as one of the most uncomfortable truths about him.

Psychology

Hubert's psychology is built first around loyalty as identity. He's spent so long organising himself around Edelgard's future that ordinary selfhood barely seems to exist apart from that duty. He doesn't speak or act like someone balancing personal ambition with service - service is the ambition. That gives him a very severe inner structure, because once he's decided what matters, everything else gets ranked beneath it very quickly.

He also has a strongly guarded emotional life; Hubert isn't urneadable because he feels nothing, he's unreadable because he keeps almost everything under control unless disclosure serves a purpose. The game gives enough glimpses of attachment, pride, resentment, and even enjoyment to make it clear that there's a lot going on under the surface, he simply hates giving other people access to it, which is part of why his supports matter so much. They show how selective he is about trust and how unusual it is for him to speak plainly about anything personal.

A lot of his moral thinking is extremely narrow by choice. Hubert doesn't seem especially interested in whether an action is broadly merciful, fair, or humane, he's interested in whether it protects Edelgard, secures the future he believes in, and removes whatever threatens that future. That makes him look colder than he actually is, because the emotional investment is still there, it's just concentrated so tightly on one person and one cause that almost everyone else falls outside the range of his concern.

His upbringing matters too - Hubert grew up inside a family where service to the imperial line was treated as a defining duty, and his hatred of his father comes from seeing him as someone who failed that duty at the worst possible moment, which leaves Hubert with a very rigid relationship to betrayal, obedience, and usefulness. He doesn't treat loyalty as a preference, but as the thing that gives a life shape, which explains both his strength and how difficult it is for him to imagine wanting anything outside the role he's chosen.

Strengths and Flaws

Hubert's strongest quality is strategic clarity. He sees power as a moving structure rather than as a collection of isolated events, and he's usually several steps ahead in thinking about what a problem will require, who can be trusted, and what kind of force needs to be used before things become public, which is why Edelgard can afford to be a visionary. He's doing a great deal of the practical and covert work that keeps vision from collapsing into sentiment.

He's also unusually disciplined. Hubert doesn't drift, indulge much visible confusion, or waste much energy wishing he were someone else. Even his bitterness is organised - he knows his role, accepts its uglier parts, and commits to it with a level of steadiness that most of the cast couldn't sustain, which makes him frightening but also dependable in a way that's hard to fake. When he gives his word to a cause or a person, he really does mean it.

He can also be unexpectedly perceptive about people. Hubert isn't simply a cold operator who fails to understand emotion - he understands emotion well enough to weaponise it, respect it, and in some supports even respond to it more carefully than his reputation would suggest. His support with Bernadetta is a good example in miniature; he initially terrifies her through sheer aura and then, once he understands the actual problem, his warning about the needle is practical and oddly considerate beneath the menace. He's often better at reading others than he is at presenting himself in a way that makes that visible.

His clearest flaw is moral narrowness. Hubert's loyalty is so concentrated that once he's decided someone or something serves Edelgard's future, nearly any method becomes arguable to him, which leaves very little room for independent moral friction. He can understand that a road is bloody and still volunteer to make it bloodier if that keeps her image pure and her project intact. His support with Edelgard says this outright; he offers to paint her path red himself so she can remain above the fray.

He's also controlling in ways that can become suffocating. Hubert watches, tests, withholds, and threatens long before he's willing to trust. His Byleth support is only the bluntest example of that mindset - Ferdinand's complaint gets at the broader version; Hubert's treats his own view of Edelgard's interests as the standard by which everyone else must be judged, and he often speaks as if disagreement itself is either foolishness or disloyalty. It gives him strength as an enforcer, but leaves him with a very poor tolerance for horizontal relationships.

He also has real difficulty existing outside the role he's built. Hubert says he chose this life, and I think the game wants that to be taken seriously, but choice and constriction are braided together very tightly in him. He's made himself so fully into Edelgard's instrument that ordinary personal desire feels almost illicit by comparison. The supports where he softens are affecting largely because they reveal how much of him has been kept under lock by his own idea of usefulness.

Relationships

EDELGARD VON HRESVELG Edelgard is the central relationship in Hubert's life, and the game treats that fact with unusual seriousness. He's served her since childhood, openly tells her that his duty is chosen rather than merely inherited, and repeatedly frames standing by her side as the defining fact of his existence. Their support conversations also make clear that this bond isn't simple obedience - Edelgard wonders what kind of life he might have had without her, while Hubert admits the monastery let him glimpse some version of that possibility before reasserting that being beside her is what he truly wants. The intimacy there is strong and strange: political, personal, devotional, and built around mutual understanding of how much blood their path demands.

FERDINAND VON AEGIR Ferdinand is one of the best relationships for seeing Hubert from the outside. He challenges Hubert's self-construction more directly than almost anyone else does, especially in accusing him of having no opinion outside Edelgard and of functioning like a pet rather than an adviser. Hubert reacts with the usual contempt, but Ferdinand gets under his skin because the criticism isn't empty. Their support line works so well because it's partly ideological conflict, partly class rivalry, and partly a fight over whether service can still count as selfhood once it's consumed everything else. Their paired ending matters for the same reason; it's one of the clearest cases where Hubert is pushed into a partnership that broadens him instead of merely reinforcing his most absolute instincts.

BYLETH EISNER Hubert's relationship with Byleth begins as a threat assessment, and the game doesn't soften that opening - he tells Byleth directly that one of his duties is to determine advantages and threats to Edelgard and that if Byleth becomes the latter, he'll dispose of them. What makes the relationship interesting is the way that hostility can turn into respect; Byleth earns his approval not by charming him or out-talking him, but by proving useful, steady, and serious enough to belong near Edelgard without endangering her. Hubert's trust always has a conditional feel to it, but the fact that he can extend it at all says a great deal - he doesn't hand access out lightly.

MARQUIS VESTRA Hubert's father is one of the ugliest ghosts in his characterisation. The important point isn't simply that Hubert hated him, it's why - Hubert loathes him as a traitor to House Vestra's duty, and the game notes that he felt no remorse when Edelgard's purge reached him, which leaves Hubert with a very severe internal standard around loyalty and betrayal. A father who should have embodied the family's purpose becomes, in Hubert's eyes, the stain on it instead. The result is a son whose devotion hardens into something more absolute and punitive, as if half his life is being spent proving he'll never fail in the way his father did.

Just for Fun / Typology

MBTI - INTJ The strongest part of the read is Ni. Hubert thinks in long arcs, hidden structures, and outcomes that need to be secured before they're visible to anyone else. He's far less interested in the immediate emotional weather of a room than in the underlying direction of events and the shape power will take once present obstacles are removed. His role in Edelgard's rise depends on exactly that kind of thinking; he's already planning around future conflict while other people are still treating the academy as a school year.

Te is just as clear; Hubert's intelligent isn't only inward or symbolic, he operationalises it. He threatens, gathers intelligence, eliminates risk, and turns private conviction into method very quickly. Even his social coldness has a task-oriented quality to it; he's not detached for its own sake, but in ways that make action cleaner, hierarchy firmer, and outcomes easier to control.

There's also a quieter Fe underneath all of that, and I think it matters a great deal - Hubert isn't purely a mechanical servant, he's driven by an intensely private emotional code that he almost never displays plainly. His loyalty to Edelgard, his disgust toward his father's betrayal, and the severity with which he chooses his attachments all point to a very strong internal value structure. It's just heavily armoured, highly selective, and usually expressed through action rather than confession.

MORAL ALIGNMENT - Lawful Evil The Lawful side comes first because hierarchy, role, and structured duty define him. Hubert doesn't treat loyalty as a feeling that can fluctuate with mood, but as a binding order around which a life should be built, and he extends that same seriousness to the state, Edelgard's authority, and the political future he's willing to secure from the shadows. He operates covertly, but not chaotically. The violence is organised, purposeful, and attached to a larger structure he believes in.

The Evil side fits because his methods and moral priorities leave far too little room for the wellbeing of anyone outside his chosen circle. He's willing to threaten, assassinate, manipulate, and terrorise if it advances Edelgard's cause, and he offers that willingness with almost no hesitation. Neutral would fit someone more merely pragmatic, but Hubert goes furrther than that - there's a personal intensity in the way he commits to bloodshed, and a readiness to make other people pay for the world he wants to build, that puts him squarely on the Evil side even when the game allows him dignity and selective tenderness.

Conclusion

Hubert is one of Three Houses' sharpest studies in what happens when loyalty, intelligence, and violence become mutually reinforcing instead of correcting one another. He's cultured, funny in a dry and vicious way, highly competent, and far more emotionally invested than his surface allows. He's also willing to become the instrument of terror in someone else's revolution and to call that love, duty, and choice. That combination makes him much richer than a stock sinister retainer.

He's interesting because the game never fully empties him out into villainy. There's too much discipline in him for that, too much selective feeling, and too much evidence that a different life might once have been imaginable. Edelgard even says as much - Hubert just turns away from that possibility every time it appears, and he turns away with his eyes open, which is what gives him his edge. He's not trapped in darkness by misunderstanding, he's chosen a role that lets him live in it usefully.