gonna make my first ever pinned tweet. "this user is first and foremost a jester. imagine my jingling little cap whenever you craft a response to me, a certifiable silly goose"
The way he punches his leg at the 15 second mark, forcing himself through the seizing pain to win the first race that has mattered to him in years, is something I am never NOT thinking about tbh
@MarthiaTheSkull
Yes, but that Corviknight is alive/attached to their armor, and therefore is tending to the metal. If you look up tarnished silver, you'll find it's the same brownish color as Shiny Tinkaton.
Balthus is a thirty year old man who lives under his high school and wears the fantasy equivalent of his letterman jacket (with nothing underneath!) nearly a decade after graduation.
This is the gold standard in loser representation.
I'm sure they smoothed down her silhouette to help differentiate her from Lysithea, but I still love and cherish fluffy-haired-hime-cut-concept-art!Edelgard
Like. If the question is "who is the best Persona bro", I kinda feel like Ryuji DESERVES to cinch it just because he gave his friends everything he has and then some. He is the quintessential team player. He will walk your dog, help you move, and show up anywhere you need him
I get why the official translation shies away from directly acknowledging Yuri's past sex work, but also, positioning a Lord character as a queer sex worker is radical.
Three Houses sequel where you choose which faction won the war, then follow along to see how everything gets all fucked up after.
Will this solve the fandom infighting? No, but it would make it all very funny to me, personally.
Reeling from Linhardt's casual "oh, I've talked to Tomas LOADS of times" line in Hopes. There was an entire offscreen plotline where Tomas tried to feed Linhardt Forbidden Knowledge, thinking that this would impact the Adrestian nobility they didn't have under their thumb--
I was about to question why Rhea summoned Seteth to GM in 1159 (given that Flayn doesn't wake up until 1162/he doesn't start teaching until 1179), but then I did some math about it and realized it's because she had to call SOMEONE after Jeralt tried burning the Monastery down
Need a last-minute date? Bro don't you even fuckin worry. He has GOT you. Need a quiche to bring to a fancy brunch? Bro he will hunt and kill a quiche in its natural habitat. Just, like, tell him what a quiche is and he has GOT YOUR BACK
A thing I have yet to see discussed with regard to monigard: The fact that Edelgard intimately, horribly knows what it's like to be stolen away and imprisoned. In saving her, Edelgard reached into her own past and caught hold of a girl whose hair was still brown.
Y'all: wait, Sothis is an alien?
Me, taking a giant hit: and Garreg Mach is "holy ground" because the monastery was built on the remains of the crashed ship. The Throne of Knowledge is the captain's chair.
god. Imagine if 3H had an Insight stat similar to Bloodborne's. Imagine if Byleth COULD be supplanted by Sothis if you used the Sword of the Creator too much.
Imagine if anyone could become a Crest Beast.
A fun and terrible Three Hopes fact! You know how Felix says that Dimitri smiles ferociously in battle? Those madlad devs actually implemented that in-game. If you zoom in on him outside of camp, he's smiling. It's the only time/place he does, outside of cutscenes.
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god. As soon as Dimitri learns how much of Yuri's ~criminal empire~ exists solely to fund the social safety net of Western Faerghus' poorest orphans, the king is going to start shoving gold coins in his pockets whenever Yuri's not looking.
I muted this at 10 rts. What. What happened here.
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I love you, Yuri with the Great Hair von Fire Emblem, and your 30% Major Crest chance to pop off a Crit on any Strong Attack
NOBODY does it like you, baby.
Fun fact: Ferdinand's inability to halfass things might be an example of inherited Crest behavior. The next time Ferdie gives something his whole ass, find and thank Cichol for being the OG unclenchable.
not funny: the 3H jokes about secret reptiles in charge
extremely funny: the 3H canon fact that past technocrats tried to nuke an alien, failed, and became mole people in tron chic soviet bunkers to avoid that whoopsie radiation
Three Houses...Three Hopes...clearly, this naming convention implies a trilogy! There will DEFINITELY be another Fodlan game, and only time will tell if it will be named Three Homelands or Three Homosexuals.
Me, squinting hard at the nearly-invisible moths flying around the background in Three Hopes' camp: you're doing NOTHING to disprove my unhinged theory crafting
I'm glad that we live in a post-Three Hopes world, because Fodlan is so much richer now that I know Constance has a spell capable of turning people into horses (and she tested it out on the rude nobles at sorcery school).
Say what you want about Three Hopes, but there's legit some incredibly good details sprinkled in among the button mashing. Knowing that the very first Margrave Gautier was a renowned general named Letitia Zoe Gautier ABSOLUTELY increases my enjoyment of all things Sylvain.
Yuri and Balthus are horny religious boys and that's just canon. The hardest-drinking youth group that meets in the sewer and celebrates the Goddess through acts of nudity.
I'm absolutely fascinated by the fact that the highest-level chess players burn calories on par with what we see as obviously physical sports. Burning 6000 calories a day because you're thinking JUST that hard is something we should incorporate more into 3H's many chess kids
I just KNOW most of Wally and Lin's dinnertime conversations can be summed up as "petty sarcasms muttered over the top of their respective glasses of wine"
#few3hspoilers
The devs might have said that giving someone your whistle to someone isn't technically S-ranking them, but nobody informed Yuri Leclerc that this is NOT an active marriage proposal.
He gave me his MOTHER'S RING!!
Every time I need a little serotonin, I look at my custom Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes countdown and feel something for approximately eight seconds.
Wait. WAIT. Faerghus has the strongest/most vivid conceptualization of hell is unique because of the Western Church...which we now know has been Agarthan-infiltrated for centuries.
If you hated humans and their god, of COURSE you'd introduce the doctrine of eternal punishment!!
It's wild how Yuri could radically alter the trajectory of Sylvain's life just by applying a bold red lipstick to him and showing Sylvain his own reflection in the mirror.
@mogiberii
That is actually in Catherine's supports in 3H, oddly enough. It's one of the reasons why she has a higher weapon durability than any other relic-user--she knows it's killing her, and has accepted it as her duty to Rhea.
@matress_island
For real. They did redeem that SLIGHTLY in Tactica with the wildly in-character marriage dream Joker has about Ryuji asking him what level of toilet-paper-ply their joint household will be, though. My man, asking the important questions before the altar
You ever think about how Constance wears the same earrings in every fit because they belonged to her mother, representing the only material object connecting her to a life that burned around her on a too-sunny day? It's an heirloom and a promise that she'll earn her finery back.
I just love the throughline of "better men have tried and failed to force Linhardt von Hevring into a box for resource extraction". You CANNOT make him be useful against his will. All attempts are met with malicious compliance or an apathy so deep it has no pulse.
But Linhardt is Linhardt, so he just said "a book! thanks :)" and put the Forbidden Tomes atop the rest of his library materials. Congrats, Slitherers, you found the one person too neuroatypical to pursue blackmail and/or toppling dragon-led power structures.
The people who came out of playing Three Houses with a single OTP are very powerful to me. My ADHD multishipping ass staggered out of 600 hours of gameplay with my pockets overflowing with gremlin ships of my own making.
He was the whole package--Major Crest, eldest son of a minor lord, 6'6", conventionally attractive--and he chose to throw himself directly into the trash.
He's just so brave.
When people remember that Yuri is also a Lord character and include him in the lineup with the Upstairs Lords, I gain +5 to ranged attacks. This is important, because I need this stat boost to deal with the haters who claim that the Ashen Wolves weren't worth the DLC price tag.
normal Three Hopes fans: let's talk about the characters and plot!
me: biting my tongue to keep from writing a thread about how Lamine has TWO Relics with embedded stones, implying that they were sourced from twin dragons sharing a Crest/reinforcing the sibling narrative
Sitri was specifically called out as the twelfth doll in Rhea's iterative experiments because Beleth, the Demon King Byleth is named after, is the Thirteenth of Solomon's 72 spirits.
Which he summons with a silver ring.
For Flayn zine: The Battle of Garreg Mach took Cethleann's father, but Byleth saw her spared. In the aftermath of Emperor Edelgard's victory, the last Nabatean finds a secluded clearing near the coast and has a good hard cry.
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A fun fact for people who never played Cindered Shadows: there is a MASSIVE stone amphitheater beneath Garreg Mach, decorated with statues of the Saints at appropriate cardinal points.
We have no idea what it was made for, but it presumably predates the monastery.
The competition is stiff, but Dedue IS the most beautiful man in Fodlan. The thought that somewhere, Dedue is tending to his garden in an oversized sun hat, genuinely lowers my blood pressure.
The more I think about Seiros, Cethleann, and Cichol going bottle blonde during the war the funnier it is to me. Clearly, it was a necessary step meant to obfuscate their lineage because humans of that era understood that green hair = secret dragon.
Faerghan horror: folk horror, very tales-around-the-fire, abominations (various)
Adrestian horror: haunted Houses, noble rot in every definition, vampires (European, as well as variations from colonized peoples [e.g. manananggal])
Alliance horror: urban legends??
I really hope that Ferdinand found out about Constance's budding talent the hard way. I hope he thought he was going to have yet another easy sparring session with one of Her Majesty's squishy magicians and got wholly and fully bodied by the one muscle mage in the army.
Don't mind me, apparently I woke up thinking WAY too hard about how Crests are lowkey just as important in the Alliance. Even though Judith is JUDITH, her lack of Crest means that Daphnel had to give up its seat at the table. It was passed to House Edmund...
I wonder how much of Sitri's relationship with Jeralt was "allowing my failed mommidoll to enjoy her limited life" and how much was "let's find out what happens when you reintroduce my blood to mommy's". Jeralt's altered genetics made Byleth possible.
Learning that there's two kinds of FE gamers: ones who go into it for the tactical gameplay, and ones who go into it hoping it will alter their brain chemistry for at least a full calendar year. Naga willing, it'll be a curse they carry for the next decade.
Just remembered that Flayn canonically started the tradition of flower crowns as love tokens. She just wanted the humans to couple up before the rainy season so nobody had to seasonal affective disorder on their own. Everyone say thank you Flayn.
Catherine should've had the option of going beastmode (Crest Stone Beast of Charon) for Rhea. It would've been perfectly in line with the devotion threaded through the majority of her player interactions, and a cut scene where she uses Thunderbrand one time too many... chef kiss.
Do you think Sylvain has convinced himself that he can interpret the various wriggling motions of the Lance of Ruin's scuttling bits? Like, I can see him trying to funny guy his discomfort with the undead dragon (and its voice chewing at the base of his cervical spine)--
Okay. So let's say that Edelgard's implanted Crest took hold for the same reason that Byleth was able to accept the Crest Stone of Flames: parental genetic compatibility. El had the Minor Crest of Seiros, so she didn't reject her "mother's" blood. Byleth had Seiros blood, too.
Do you think Byleth can literally tell someone's budding talent by looking at them (functional menus as gut instinct), or is it a "I'm assigning homework in response to the trauma you spilled over tea" type of situation?
Or is it just like. Vibes.
LOVE budding talents. Love that Edelgard's is not technically new, considering she tried to teach Dee magic when they were children.
She just forgot. The memories of that skill, and what it meant to her--a gift from Hubert, I'd wager--were abraded, damaged by the experiments.
I can't wait to hear about the DLC planned for Three Hopes!! It's gonna happen. It will! Don't worry about it. It's definitely going to happen. don't w
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Normal 3H fans: daggers were removed for balance
Me, a 3H genius: daggers were removed because Rhea caught Yuri teaching the Blions how to hot knife Calming Herb before his expulsion
Thinking about how Flayn's merc whistle item is a pouch of sand from the Rhodos coast. She's really carrying around a pocket full of homeland soil like the gothic maiden she is at heart, and I think her lowkey vamp chic angle is good and should be encouraged.
lrt I know that not everyone picked up on the fact that Rhea founded the Officers Academy EXPRESSLY to train nobles to better fight and kill Almyrans. Add that into the calculus wrt how he feels about the Church.
I am ALWAYS thinking about young Saint Cichol. What did you do that the Goddess named you The Hammer? He wants to be recast as a strategist, but he was initially known for his blunt strength.
Being a Flayn fan who critiques the Church/Rhea (because I think Rhea is SO much more dynamic a character if you accept that she is a Degenerated Dragon whose trauma responses protected her at the cost of many other lives) is a tough needle to thread.
Why has it never occurred to me before now that Sothis is a baby in Byleth's head because she was reborn with them? I'm sure that dragons don't take hundreds of years to reach maturity, but twenty is clearly still prepubescent.
The thing that is SO GOOD about Silly Kitty Flayn is that it's grandmacore. It's 80% frills by volume. She has ALSO dressed the horse up as a Silly Kitty. This is an outfit optimized for FROLICKING. Please understand her vision.
Every time I see a Head Empty Byleth and/or Shez joke, I laugh and try not to think about how dolls have traditionally been seen as vessels for spirits because their blankness creates a vacuum.
lrt the fact that Ferdie's ill-fitting Hopes coat was a gift from his father remains an incredible character choice. Is it too big because it wasn't actually meant for Ferdinand, or just as a reminder that he is physically insufficient? Ludwig's cruelty has layers.
Losing my mind over the people who "don't get" Fallen!Bythis and argue that this was never alluded to in canon. What's it like to not have your brain broken in several discrete places by Fodlan lore. Is this what it looks like when people are Normal about 3H?
Why have I never considered the monstrous potential of arranged marriage Constance/Hubert??
Your poisons are rainbow now, dear husband! You're WELCOME.
@AmeAmedraws
Joker being an antagonist-coded protag is just so TASTY. He first saw the devil in his heart in the Shibuya crossroads, made his deal, and eventually tore down Paradise rather than submit to God.
Nuvelle's fall started before the invasion that saw it razed--Arundel had begun the process of stripping their power, due to House Nuvelle choosing the wrong dog (Ionius) in the fight. They were denied reinforcements, an object lesson in trying the Seven's hold on the Empire.
Ferdinand is nonbinary in my head and heart because his relationships are gay no matter who he's with. ALL Ferdie/girls ships are wlw, and ALL Ferdie/guys ships are mlm. He has the range.