4am thoughts

🌟 i just made sum bullshit ahh blog. 💭 mainly fandom musings and fanfic/art ideas in their rawest forms. aka shit i'll probably never draw but might. 😎 trip ko lang. enjoy the ride.

❤️‍🔥 current arc: fire emblem tellius 🔖 tag system under cut

what if the royal army are regular grizzco eployees?

i can totally see kieran the typa worker who charges into the danger zone and by danger zone i mean the fucking shore 💀💀💀 everytime everyone marvels at the fact that kieran almost always comes back alive. because of this he collects and relays the eggs to others more than store them himself.

marcia also takes risks, but not as much as kieran would. she's the fastest in gliding through the ink and can best evade the salmon's attacks, hence her recklessness. she prefers to stay on higher surface, so she thrives on knocking down fishsticks and lids as well as catching snatchers right by the basket.

makalov the typa worker who either camps by the basket or suicides runs aways and hides in the ink on the walls as soon as things starts to get grim. sometimes you'll see him in places where it's neither the safest nor the most dangerous once the basket gets crowded. him getting lost can also come in handy if kieran or marcia gets splatted in a danger zone so mak can rescue them, the only gamble he's willing to make. he stores the most eggs.

astrid plays the safest. she has the hardest time to adjust on each weapon switch, but because she stays at all the safe spots, it doesnt make her a burden since there will be times when she has to rescue all three splatted coworkers, which she can actually pull off as long as they arent all by the far separate areas of the shore. she survives the longest.

oscar balances between going to unsafe spots to gather more eggs (and to keep kieran in check) and staying in a considerable distance from the basket where he can easily store eggs and rescue others. he's the fastest to adjust between weapons.

geoffrey is the same as oscar's but doesnt go too far to keep everyone within his vicinity. he's the best at hitting the sweet spots on every salmonid bosses, yes even the fucking flyfishes. so he earns the most KOs out of everyone. unfortunately he gets more splatted than he'd like to because of his slight recklessness to aim at the bosses everytime he encounters one.

lucia always prioritises on wiping out the lesser salmonids to make way for the others, mostly to save geoffrey's ass who tends to forget to shoot them. she also does best with damaging controls for approaching bosses (like the fishsticks). she refills her inks the fastest.

during the first war, i'm pretty sure tormod and sothe got into a fight even once they became close friends.

sothe might have made an offhanded racist comment against laguzes (like maybe how ugly and stinky they were), which infuriated tormod so much that he yelled at sothe for being so insensitive, that this was why he hated beorcs so much (despite being one himself), and stormed off.

at this point of their friendship and how deadlier the war was becoming, sothe was humbled enough to become a bit scared shitless for losing the first friendship he made since micaiah. he wanted to make it up for it, but wasn't sure how. he didn't know how to say sorry without sounding ingenuine since he used to be (and can still be sometimes) unapologetic like how thieves are usually perceived as. he didn't know how to seek advice for this sort of thing either until calil saw sothe mumbling under a tree with a troubled look and asked the kid what was wrong.

sothe recognized calil as tormod's mentor, so he almost tearfully asked her for help. being the traveler that calil is who has seen the cultures of almost all of tellius, she smiled and sat by sothe's side and told him of stories of laguzes, of the prejudices they face, and why tormod became upset. this opened sothe's eyes and wished he never grew up with such a backward mindset. he finally understood the why micaiah would frown at him whenever he used to sneer at the laguzes they come across on the outskirts of daein.

it wasn't easy approaching tormod, who narrowed his eyes at sothe and looked like he was about to hiss and snarl (and maybe he did the former). he was far scarier like this than when he unleashes a fire tornado on the battlefield with a somewhat manic smile. sothe hesitated but once he finally ripped the bandage off by stuttering a quiet yet genuine sorry, how insensitive he really was of what he'd said about laguzes, and that he wanted to change and he'll never speak of them lowly again, tormod blinked back at sothe with owlish eyes and grins wide as if they never even fought, much to sothe's huge relief.

one day during camp in the war era, a sickly rhys pukes out that night's dinner, aka oscar's cooking.

oscar was the nearest at that time so he rushes to rhy's side and frantically offers some support by rubbing the medic's back, checking his temperature, then bringing him to the nearest medical tent. rhys nearly passes out and clings onto oscar, muttering repeated apologies for ruining his cooking, tears falling down his eyes.

this isn't the first time rhys had to puke out oscar's cooking, but he truly truly felt like he offended the knight for wasting the food that he worked hard to cook for the camp. if they weren't stressed out by the war, rhys wouldn't have spiraled down like this. he had never hated his own illness more than anything.

luckily oscar is far too understanding when he shushes rhys's mumbling, that it was alright, it wasn't his fault, he should it take it easy and rest for now. oscar didn't resent rhys one bit for what happened.

whenever a new member gets hired in their company, shinon makes it a point to observe the new recruit from afar based on how they react to literally everything to asses whether they're a worthy asset to the company and if they're also worth shinon's time and energy. you could say that he would make a decent detective in another lifetime.

and it was because of this that shinon has the most accurate hunch that oscar was once a prostitute.

despite being the eldest, oscar is shy and has trust issues so it took a while for him to warm up with the others, but shinon observed that oscar had to adjust around gatrie the most, not the more rude and insufferable shinon, which is usually the case of recruits that sooner or later resigns

whenever gatrie flirts with a woman, be it during marketing duties or out of town missions, oscar barely squirms or even flinches. not that gatrie would invade physical boundaries, but the act of attempting to court a stranger somehow triggered a sort of fight or flight response within oscar.

it was oscar's obvious hesitancy to drink with the mercenaries in bars that shinon connected the dots.

oscar would tag along out of politeness, especially when it was greil who offered them drinks. but unlike titania, gatrie, and shinon, oscar would time and again refuse, excusing himself that he either needs to tend to his brothers or that he was tired. shinon would sneer at oscar for being a coward to rile oscar up, who isn't buying it one bit when he just wordlessly smiles at shinon.

the one time shinon (begrudginly) only sipped his drink for the entirety of the night to see how oscar would behave when heavily drunk, it was... quite the sight for everyone.

oscar becomes whiny about boyd's rashness and rolf crying over the littlest things. he'd also be cynical if there was any hope for them to reach their long forgotten dreams, spitting curses here and there. he would even pick fights with strangers if they so much as tap his shoulder. thankfully his companions were sober and strong enough to hold him back and drag him out of the bar before the commotion escalates.

what gave it away the most was right before oscar passed out on titania's arms, oscar points at gatrie's chest and slurs, "you.... all those ladies you've been *hic*... don't you- don't you dare toy with them. you-you don't know what they've been through... or else i'll... i'm going to kill you."

ever since then, they seldom invite oscar to join them for drinks in the bar, and oscar seems relieved now that they stop peer pressuring him.

shinon would only insult oscar around others, not just to put on a show but he simply dislikes everyone like the lil shit he is. but when they're both alone, shinon doesn't see the need to belittle oscar more than he should. oscar would go to unspeakable lengths to keep his brothers fed and safe. the only thing left unanswered for shinon to still look at oscar with malice was why would oscar pick prostitution.

shinon would have understood more if oscar had a history of being brigand or an assassin, but why that of all jobs? hell, he'd make a fantastic cook in a little diner, so why? shinon had a unique reason to resent oscar, which was oscar's willingness to sacrifice his own self-respect for the sake of his own brothers.

shinon constantly questions why the worst things happen to the kindest people. and it pisses him off to seemingly no end.