zyphemblem

zypher - they/them - fe3h - ao3 under the same name - i like linhardt and claude, extremely avid linclaude lover - fire emblem rants and writing - musician - asks are open!

[zyphemblem]

hi, welcome to the blog!

about me

i’m zypher, and i use they/them pronouns. i’m a musician (viola, piano, and currently learning harp!) who loves games and the music. my favorite games are the legend of zelda series, hollow knight/silksong, celeste, and of course fire emblem three houses. i love food, art (even if i’m terrible at it), anything music related, animals, and nature. i'm trying to get more into writing, and i have an ao3!

the blog

on my blog you’ll mostly find stuff about fire emblem three houses. i like talking about characters, headcanons, lore, music, pretty much anything related to the game. expect posts to mostly be really long yap sessions lol. i post writing sometimes. i love getting asks about stuff too so please feel free to send me anything you want related to the game :) ive also played awakening and echoes and am currently playing engage so stuff related to those might come up too.

rules

• sfw ONLY - absolutely no nsfw please

• DMs are fine, but please do not spam

• please stay respectful and kind :)

• this blog is lgbtqia+ friendly - i’m nonbinary, ace, and panromantic. if you’re against that, dni

• ask/tag games are fun!

• please dont spam asks - if it takes me a while to answer, i’m probably just busy. please be patient with me :)

asks

onto the fun part! i’m totally up for most asks as long as they follow the rules above. if for any reason i decide to close asks, i’ll put that in my description.

as for what kind of asks i’ll take:

• this is mainly a three houses blog but any other game i mentioned earlier i'm down for talking about too!

• for three houses, i’ll answer pretty much anything related to characters, headcanons, opinions, lore, music, ships, etc - i would talk about this game all day if i could so literary send me anything you want related to it.

• in terms of any ship related asks, i’m fine with most pairings except for the following:

- no students x adults PLEASE

- anything otherwise problematic

- i don’t do any x oc/x reader/self insert, it’s just not my thing

• while i’ll try to answer as soon as i can, please be patient with my responses :)

favs

my favorite 3h character is linhardt, with claude as a very close second - i have so many headcanons about those two. i also love marianne, mercedes, ashe, and balthus. he’s such a silly little guy if you ignore the fact he’s the second tallest in the game. honestly i love almost every character in this game, but golden deer is best house. fear the deer.

i ship linhardt and claude so hard. they have so much potential that house AND hopes ignored… anyways i also ship petra and dorothea, felix and annettte, marianne and hilda, ferdinand and hubert, and constance and hapi.

my favorite game besides three houses is probably zelda skyward sword. it’s so fun and i highly recommend for anyone who hasn’t played it, but if not at least listen to the soundtrack. it’s amazing, especially the end credits theme.

i don't know if it's possible for me to pick a favorite song out of three houses because the ost is that good so uh if you ever ask me expect like seven different answers of something lol.

that’s it!

hope this giant block of text was helpful. it’s very possible this will be updated in the future.

thanks for checking out my blog! :)

[ladynightfall13]

All he wanted is a place to belong...

Oh, Claude...

[zyphemblem]

this poor guy :(

[kynimdraws]

I haven't drawn Claurenz in a while and ofc I had to get one in for FE Art Scuffle lol...there were two whole ppl who wishlisted it (including me) so I gotta rep it lmao

[wootwona]

since the old version of this post was flagged for ‘adult content’…

reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!

along with that, reblog if your account is a non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the nb spectrum!

[drax-the-vampire-king]

All kind people are safe here.

[drax-the-vampire-king]

Rebloging again because the world sucks and I want to spread a little positivity

[zyphemblem]

Just read ‘For the Love of Knowledge’ and omg I was smiling and kicking my feet the whole time I loved the way you wrote the two of them! It is CRIMINAL those two never got any supports in either game so I love seeing takes on what their support chain might have looked like.

I hope to see more of your writing in the future!

aww thank you so much! i’m glad to see you enjoyed it! i agree, the fact that they never interact is literally a crime. personally i think intsys just hates linclaude. if you want to see more stuff, i do actually have some more linclaude fics up that i wrote for cross house week that are on my ao3. my favorite of those was day two “from my heart to yours” and day 6 “eternally bright”. i’d love to know if you find my other fics just as good with the writing, especially since i’m not super consistent in my writing style lol. once again, thank you so much :)

[thejinster]

THERE’S MORE????

[zyphemblem]

theres more :)

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! 🌈💕🌼✨

[thejinster]

as a follow-up to the ask you sent me about my fic, do you have linclaude thoughts 👀

I feel like linclaude is a ship that’s often overlooked not just because of their lack of interaction in the game, but because its not as big and bombastic as more popular ships like casphardt or dimiclaude. Linclaude is a lot more understated, and that’s one of the reasons why I like it.

I also feel like Claude’s likely one of the few character’s whose main impression of linhardt is the one that few other get to see, since they’re both night owls often holed up in the library.

Overall, I wouldn’t call it an otp of mine or anything, but I do really enjoy it! I do think it’s my favorite pairing for linhardt (I do like casphardt, but imo their dynamic is so much sillier as besties). So a solid 8/10 for me!

[zyphemblem]

ok yes i love what you said about claude's impression of him because i 1000000% agree with that. even though linhardt's hardly the person to hide parts of himself (unlike someone else named claude von riegan) i do think that he'd be as much as himself as possible around claude, at first purely due to the circumstances in which they're around each other. obviously it would end up being for a different reason eventually, but at least to start out. thats something i've had in mind kinda for as long as i've been shipping them so it's nice to see someone else feel the same way. also very nice to see another linclaude shipper out here in the wilderness of 3h tumblr :)

[zyphemblem]

Mwahahaha! My own ship ask!

My question is: what are your thoughts on Lorenz x Ignatz? Kind of a random one ik but that’s why I want to see what other people’s opinions are on it!

ohh that's an interesting one. i don't personally ship it but i find it intriguing because they're such different people. i can see something starting because of ignatz's art and lorenz wanting it, or smth like that. i think i'll have to look more into this because now i'm a little invested actually. nice to see another cool rarepair around!

[zyphemblem]

Just read ‘For the Love of Knowledge’ and omg I was smiling and kicking my feet the whole time I loved the way you wrote the two of them! It is CRIMINAL those two never got any supports in either game so I love seeing takes on what their support chain might have looked like.

I hope to see more of your writing in the future!

aww thank you so much! i’m glad to see you enjoyed it! i agree, the fact that they never interact is literally a crime. personally i think intsys just hates linclaude. if you want to see more stuff, i do actually have some more linclaude fics up that i wrote for cross house week that are on my ao3. my favorite of those was day two “from my heart to yours” and day 6 “eternally bright”. i’d love to know if you find my other fics just as good with the writing, especially since i’m not super consistent in my writing style lol. once again, thank you so much :)

[claudenette123]

Does anyone think Judith has children? I do not recall it ever being brought up in Three Houses or Hopes, which is interesting considering she is the head of her house and an older noblewoman 🤔 …

Personally, I play with the idea that Judith doesn’t and/or couldn’t have biological children, but is the favorite auntie of her sibling(s)’ children. Her nieces/nephews adore her and thinks she is the coolest aunt in the whole world, the eldest of them she picks and trains to be the next head of House Daphnel.

[zyphemblem]

this is my new headcanon absolutely perfect

[hyperiondaylily]

Marianne wielding Blutgang, for FE art scuffle @/okamimon

[canine-t33th]

What colour is this fuckers hair

Blonde

Green

other? (say in tags)

Voting ended onJun 5

I'm having an argument over this i need you guys to settle this for us

[zyphemblem]

What sort of instruments do you think all the FE3H kiddos play, and who do you think is the "best" in each class? (spoons are included as instruments for the purpose of this ask)

YES FINALLY I CAN TALK ABOUT THIS. you actually do not understand how long i’ve been waiting for a good opportunity to yap about this. i’ve literally made an entire orchestra seating chart for the 3h characters like… can you tell i’m a musician. i stuck to standard orchestral instruments for everyone and i somehow (completely unintentionally) made a decently balanced orchestra. just because i’ve already thought about this for everyone, i’ll give you pretty much all the 3h characters.

edelgard, hubert, petra, jeritza, felix, mercedes, lorenz, rodrigue - violin

ferdinand, claude, catherine, shamir - viola

linhardt, dorothea, ashe, seteth, judith - cello

lysithea, cyril - double bass

rhea - harp

flayn - piccolo/flute

bernadetta, ignatz, manuela - flute

annette, marianne - oboe

constance - english horn/oboe

sylvain, hanneman - clarinet

byleth, yuri - bassoon

caspar, leonie, alois, balthus - trumpet

dedue, gilbert, nader - french horn

dimitri, ingrid, hapi - trombone

hilda - tuba

raphael, anna - percussion

as for the best in each class, for BE it’s bernie since she canonically plays an instrument. for BL, based on absolutely nothing I just feel like it would be dedue. for GD, claude. hes the kind of guy to show up in an orchestra as someone new and make everyone feel bad about themselves.

other random instrument thoughts for them: lysithea is the really short person who you’d never guess plays bass but she’ll get mad if you say that. constance plays english horn as well as oboe loterally just because different and get more solo parts. edelgard is concertmaster (basically most important person and leader of the orchestra other than the conductor) and hubert is assistant concertmaster. ferdinand plays viola instead of violin because he thought he could be section leader that way (and be better than hubert) but then claude showed up. catherine and shamir are stand partners for life and you should never separate them. linhardt is easily the best cello player but actively hates being principal/first chair so much that any time he’s put there he plays worse on purpose. hilda picked tuba because it sounded like it had the easiest parts but now has to deal with lugging a tuba around.

as a viola player i’m obligated to point out that claude is maybe the most viola player person in this game. iykyk. if not, then i’m sorry.

i have so many thoughts about the 3h cast in an orchestra together and i’m so happy you asked this. i honestly might make another post about this soon with more of my thoughts n stuff.

thanks for the ask anon, this was such a great one :)

[zyphemblem]

guess who finally finished editing everything! yeah, me, somehow. that took so much longer than i initially anticipated, but oh well, because it’s done now and infinitely better than all the original versions. i’m really happy with how they’ve all turned out. claude and linhardt now have good supports that are definitely 100% just rewrites of what are in the game because they totally have supports in the game except no they don’t bc intsys hates us. there’s also an additional surprise at the end :)

for all the people who read the first versions here and have read the new improved versions, thanks so much for sticking with me as i figured out how to actually write. i might’ve mentioned this before but this was my first posting, let alone even finishing, writing. other than annoying school writing. so it’s been a journey, but i’m very glad for it. once again, thanks for reading :)

[zyphemblem]

@sunlightkitty001 i just want you to know how happy reading all those tags made me

[zyphemblem]

What other game would you want to see Three Houses crossed over with? Either the games collide and everyone meets up, or characters get swapped and have to deal with genre whiplash

ok in terms of fire emblem games, i think engage would be interesting. i don’t really know why but i’d like to see something with that. either 3h characters going to elyos or engage characters going to fodlan would be rlly interesting.

if we’re talking stuff besides fire emblem, ive always believed that claude and linhardt would have a field day in a zelda game. they would get so invested in all the dungeons. thats a fic i really need to write…

thanks for the ask anon! :)

[zyphemblem]

Do you have any ideas for the sort of constellations Fodlan might have?

i like the idea that all the known crests have a constellation. the crest items you can get in ng+ are called dragon signs, which makes me think of zodiac signs which obviously based on stars. i don’t think much of fodlan’s really into any kind of astronomy, so they’re probably not a big deal. this isn’t a topic ive thought about much but it’s certainly something i might end up doing some more in depth thinking about it.

thanks for the ask anon :)

[zyphemblem]

What do interactions between Lin and Claude's wyvern look like?

i have two very opposing visions in my head so i’ll give you both. the first is they’re just very indifferent to each other. the wyvern has neither positive or negative feelings towards linhardt and vise versa.

the other is the more entertaining idea, where claude’s wyvern inexplicably just hates linhardt, doesn’t let him near, all that stuff. claude thinks this is hilarious because the wyvern will try to wack linhardt with its tail a lot. linhardt hates this. he can’t even get too close to claude during a battle or the wyvern will get mad. i’m not actyally sure where i came up with this idea but it’s stuck more than the other one, so i guess this is the one i prefer.

i don’t have a ton of ideas about them as of right now, but if i get more i’ll def make another post about it.