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I feel like my stance on Leopold and Waldemar is pretty different from the norm. Obviously I like them more than the average person, and I especially love Leopold to death, somewhat undeservedly on his part.
One thing I find myself disagreeing with regarding these two is the idea that they are political opportunists who only sided with Edelgard because it was the most convenient option. I don't think that is the case, or at least not the biggest reason.
In Hopes specifically, which I feel holds more weight for the dads because they had to put some thought into them, Edelgard makes a huge gamble that even Hubert tries to talk her out of at first. They act much sooner than they had planned, make more enemies than they had planned, and Rhea warns them of what could happen to them should their accusations regarding Arundel prove false.
This doesn't sound like the most "convenient" situation, and the two counts receive minimal forewarning, but they still choose to go along with Edelgard's plan when they could've just as easily taken Ludwig's side.
This leads me to some unassuming word choices from their very first appearance in Hopes, in the pre-battle segment of Scarlet Blaze chapter 3.
It's short - just three lines each - but I want you to pay attention to Leo's third line.
Edelgard allegedly "caught [them] with [their] breeches down", which is some strange wording.
The game never elaborates on how they actually came to ally themselves with Edelgard, and I don't actually believe it's ever stated whether it was Leo and Wal or Edelgard who made the proposal: the former would lend more credence to the idea of them being opportunists, but it's clear enough that whichever way things went, Edelgard wanted them around more than she wanted them gone because they're powerful assets.
In Crimson Flower, Leopold is even made governor of the entire Leicester region despite Edelgard having no reason to choose him specifically (granted, neither he nor other potential candidates are well-explored), and in Scarlet Blaze, both she and Hubert of all people never hold back on praise for him: they certainly don't need to curry favor with him, and they even do so when Leopold is not around.
Leopold also calls Aegir and Arundel "dastards". I kinda want to check the Japanese script, but the word seems to imply animosity between him and them. This could be due to various reasons:
Aegir and Arundel being generally unpleasant people
Aegir and Arundel having slighted him in some way before or after the Insurrection
Aegir and Arundel having coerced him (and potentially Waldemar) into joining the Insurrection
The third option feels like a stretch, but considering that Leopold and Waldemar are specifically about to take to the battlefield to undo the effects of the Insurrection, I think it has merit. I also want to point out that Scarlet Blaze sees a safer Adrestia than Crimson Flower, due to the fact that TWSITD are pushed out of the court before the timeskip along with Ludwig.
My headcanon - and this is just that, a headcanon - is that Leopold's and Waldemar's families were threatened to force them into the Insurrection. It would make sense if it were just these two of the revolting nobles:
Ludwig stood to gain the most, as he would become emperor in all but name
Volkhard was replaced and became a non-issue: you could even interpret this as him refusing to join so forcefully that TWSITD was forced to kill him outright (he was also in a unique spot, as the brother of the emperor's favorite concubine)
Grégoire might've been threatened, but given how little he cares about Bernadetta as a person and how his wife straight-up lives in Enbarr, I think they just threatened him and he folded
we have the least amount of information on Duke Gerth, and the man lacks a known heir, but he stands out from the others in being a younger man (at least apparently - his portrait is generic) and having earned Petra's respect, which is no small feat given that his country colonized hers
This leaves Vestra, Bergliez and Hevring. Vestra is the important one here, as we do have one Support which tries to tackle his involvement in the Insurrection: Hubert/Hanneman in Houses. Regardless of whether you believe Hanneman's theory that Marquis Vestra may have joined to protect his family, this is the game at least opening up the option of nobles being coerced into the Insurrection.
We already know you kinda need the Ministries of Military and Domestic Affairs on your side if you want to rule successfully in Adrestia: it seems reasonable to assume that Ludwig & co. would've needed Leopold and Waldemar in order for their coup not to get overturned immediately, just as Edelgard would need them years later.
Vestra is deceased, so we don't get to see his relationship with Hubert firsthand, but we do get to see Leopold's and Waldemar's with Caspar and Linhardt respectively, which could be summarized as "pretty alright" (if you disregard Caspar's one Expedition line which seems to paint an entirely different picture of Leopold than the rest of Hopes). They are at the very least okay dads, the kind who wouldn't want their kids to die senseless deaths (see Caspar and Leopold's conversation in Azure Gleam Ch. 14).
In Leopold's case, his family is canonically kinda big: his eldest son + Randolph, Fleche and their mother makes at least four confirmed people, plus his father if he was still alive (but sick) at the time, and obviously Caspar. That's a minimum of five people TWSITD could've used to blackmail Leopold, and it wouldn't be the first time in fiction an incredibly strong person is threatened through their vulnerable loved ones.
This next part might be another stretch, but I don't think it would be too farfetched for a person to become nicer or less demanding on people they almost got killed: it would help explain why Leopold's eldest is still the heir despite the fact that he's a lazy bum and Caspar is Leopold Jr., or why Randolph and Fleche are still part of the Bergliez family even when Leopold's inheritance was at one point in question despite him being the legitimate heir (that is, if Leopold ever had any animosity towards them or his father's second wife).
Leopold could have refused to join the Insurrection, but who knows what could've happened to his family then. He'd be a difficult target to kill and replace for TWSITD, but the same cannot be said about his family.
Am I biased in my analysis? Totally. Am I reading too deep into this? Hell yeah. However, I feel like the word choice is suspicious and worth considering, even if the topic never gets touched upon again. It's pretty clear that the writers didn't quite know what to do with some of the Hopes additions: remember, Leopold and Holst were designed to be background NPCs from a very early point in Houses' development. It certainly makes you wonder why Hopes ended up being (Non-Playable) Dad Galore.
been thinking about Caspar and his dad a lot. After playing 3 hopes and seeing hints that Leopold is unimpressed with his oldest son, it makes me wonder ... was part of the reason that he aligned with edelgard so readily and wholeheartedly because he thought it would give Caspar a better shot at earning what his efforts owed him? I mean, in that 3 hopes mission, leopold even gives caspar their heroes relic. And the fact that it can be used without a crest is an extra layer of, "you dont need to be born first or born with the right blood to claim my inheritance"
Their relationship is so fascinating. the constant militance of caspars childhood obviously damaged him, and yet they also clearly care about each other
I could talk at length about the Bergliez family, but my most recent take is that Leopold (at least in Hopes) genuinely cares about both his sons.
He clearly appreciates Caspar in Hopes, acknowledging his strength independently of Crests, but I recently started thinking about Leopold's relationship with his eldest. I've been wondering if Leopold keeping his eldest son as his heir in spite of his apparent incompetence might have to do with Leopold's own history with his father.
Leopold is a man who, despite winning the genetic lottery and being generally quite popular (I wrote about it here for anyone who wants to read more in-depth) was nearly passed up by his father in the Bergliez succession in favor of Randolph, and we don't really get to learn why.
Leopold's eldest son must be a grown-up by the time Hopes rolls around (he's older than Caspar, who is 18 then), which is certainly a lot of time for Leopold to figure out his son isn't up to the task! It doesn't seem realistic with what we see of Leopold in Hopes. Hence why I wonder if Leopold decided he would make his firstborn his heir arbitrarily, to spare them the (certainly unpleasant, to say the least) experience of working your whole life for something only for it to be (almost) taken away from you.
He certainly would've gone too far in the other direction, with his eldest falling into complacency if Edelgard is to be believed, but I think it's reasonable to say Leopold at least managed to avoid putting the two brothers against one another.
My thoughts on why Leopold sided with Edelgard are mostly headcanon (the burden of his Major Crest, differing opinions with his father who was still MoMA during the subjugation of Hrym, etc.) but I don't think it's incredibly surprising the way some people have made it out to be.
Read here for more information, but Leopold's wording in various languages makes me think there was some foul play behind his and Waldemar's involvement in the Insurrection: as stated by Edelgard and Hubert, you need Military and Domestic Affairs on your side if you want to seize powers in Adrestia, and Ludwig and Thales/Arundel are decidedly less honorable than Edelgard and Hubert. Edelgard and Hubert probably wouldn't have, say, used Caspar and Linhardt's lives against them, but something tells me Ludwig and Thales could have been... unscrupulous.
But that is all headcanon. Leopold only calls them "dastards", and while he's generally happy to turn his back on them across all languages, we don't get more than that.
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I'm very tempted to try to make my own Dedue scarf, I love the way yours looks (no hate to the printed ones available it just isn't authentic enough in a way that sates me). Would there be any tips/tricks you'd be willing to share before starting? I crochet primarily, but I've knitted things before so i'm not completely in the dark.
Hey!! Thanks for your patience on this ask, I wanted to get you good instructions but I have been super busy. In the end while looking for the color chart I actually found my pattern for the smaller motif (it was on notebook paper) so I decided to just. Write the whole pattern out.
I mentioned this in the post with the photos but to restate here on the pattern, I knitted my scarf using Knit Picks Palette fingering weight yarn (50g, 100% Peruvian highland wool), which is very warm and toasty in my New England winters. To do this pattern the way I did it you will need to buy 8 balls in Marine Heather, 1 ball in Almond, and 1 ball in Garnet Heather. I used 2.5mm circular needles with a long cable to manage the width of the fabric but use whatever you like to get the gauge; gauge should be 8 stitches across and 10 stitches tall per inch.
I Included the lengths of blue stockinette I used to be proportional to my 5'2" height, but you can knit more or less of this as you like to account for the height of the wearer. Dedue has two different sizes of the motif, a larger one on the tail down his back and a smaller one on the wrapped part, so there are two different colorwork patterns. Only one of each motif is visible on the model, but included a second small repeat for visual interest on a human person. I also start from the straight edge visible on the Hopes model and end on the jagged edge hanging down the back of the Houses model.
Also credit to @eaglehorn who sent me the chart I went off of for the larger motif, which I have translated to a pattern here.
Pattern below the cut;
Cast on 154 stitches in Marine Heather, ideally with a stretchy cast-on.
Reverse-stockinette for 3 rows or garter stitch, however you would like your straight-across edge to look.
Begin normal stockinette - Knit stockinette for appx 9.5"
Pattern (small)
*Knit 7 rows of Almond in Stockinette, starting with a knit row
Knit 5 rows of Garnet Heather in Stockinette, ending with purl row
Begin smaller pattern in 3 strand Fair Isle; Colors are R (Garnet Heather), Y (Almond), B (Marine Heather), K is knit, P is Purl.
Row 1 - KR whole row
Row 2 - P3R, [1Y, 6R] x 21, 3R
Row 3 - K2R [1Y, 1B, 1Y, 4R] x 21, 2R
Row 4 - P1R [1Y, 3B, 1Y, 2R] x21, 1R
From Row 5- Row 30, even rows Purl same stitches as preceding knit row - even row instructions not included below for this reason
Row 5 - K[1Y, 5R, 1Y] x22
Row 7 - K[2Y, 5B] x22
Row 9 - K[1B, 2Y, 4B] x22
Row 11 - K[2B, 2Y, 3B] x22
Row 13 - K[3B, 2Y, 2B] x22
Row 15 - K[4B, 2Y, 1B] x22
Row 17 - K[5B, 2Y] x22
Row 19 - K[1Y, 5R, 1Y] x22
Row 21 - K[2Y, 5B] x22
Row 23 - K[1B, 2Y, 4B] x22
Row 25 - K[2B, 2Y, 3B] x22
Row 27 - K[3B, 2Y, 2B] x22
Row 29 - K[4B, 2Y, 1B] x22
Row 31 - K[3B, 1Y, 2R, 1Y] x22
Row 32 - P [4R, 1Y, 1B, 1Y x22
Row 33 - K1R [1Y, 6R] x21, 1Y, 5R
Row 34 - PR whole row
Knit 5 rows of Stockinette in Garnet Heather
Knit 7 rows of Stockinette in Almond
Knit appx 22" of Stockinette in Marine Heather, repeat pattern from *
Knit appx 16.5" of Stockinette in Marine Heather.
Large pattern
Knit 7 rows of Almond in Stockinette, starting with a Purl row
Knit 5 rows of Garnet Heather in Stockinette, ending with knit row
Begin colorwork in ladderback jacquard (to manage the very long floats)
Row 1 - P[13R, 1Y] x11
Row 2 - K[2Y, 11R, 1Y] x11
Row 3 - P[2Y, 9R, 3Y] x11
Row 4 - K[1B, 3Y, 7R, 3Y] x11
Row 5 - P[1B, 3Y, 5R, 3Y, 2B] x11
Row 6 - K[3B, 3Y, 3R, 3Y, 2B] x11
Row 7 - P[3B, 3Y, 1R, 3Y, 4B] x11
Row 8 - K[5B, 5Y, 4B] x11
Row 9 - P[5B, 3Y, 6B] x11
Row 10 - K[5B, 3Y, 6B] x11
Row 11 - P[7B, 3Y, 4B] x11
Row 12 - K[3B, 3Y, 8B] x11
Row 13 - P[9B, 3Y, 2B] x11
Row 14 - K[1B, 3Y, 10B] x11
Row 15 - P[11B, 3Y] x11
Row 16 - K[2Y, 11B, 1Y] x11
Row 17 - P[2Y, 11B, 1Y] x11
Row 18 - K[11B, 3Y] x11
Row 19 - P[1B, 3Y, 10B] x11
Row 20 - K[9B, 3Y, 2B] x11
Row 21 - P[3B, 3Y, 8B] x11
Row 22 - K[7B, 3Y, 3B] x11
Row 23 - P[4B, 3Y, 6B] x11
Row 24 - K[5B, 3Y, 6B] x11
Row 25 - P[7B, 3Y, 4B] x11
Row 26 - K[3B, 3Y, 8B] x11
Row 27 - P[9B, 3Y, 2B] x11
Row 28 - K[1B, 3Y, 10B] x11
Row 29 - P[11B, 3Y] x11
Row 30 - K[2Y, 11B, 1Y] x11
Row 31 - P[2Y, 9B, 3Y] x11
Row 32 - K[1R, 3Y, 7B, 3Y] x11
Row 33 - P[1R, 3Y, 5B, 3Y, 2R] x11
Row 34 - K[3R, 3Y, 3B, 3Y, 2R] x11
Row 35 - P[3R, 3Y, 1B, 3Y, 4R] x11
Row 36 - K[5R, 5Y, 4R] x11
Row 37 - P[5R, 3Y, 6R] x11
Row 38 - K[7R, 1Y, 6R] x11
Stockinette 5 rows Garnet Heather
Stockinette 7 rows Almond
Stockinette about 9# Marine Heather
At this point I starter free-forming the bind-off with my heart to achieve the jagged edge on the scarf. Ultimately the longest tail was about 27" from the start of the Marine Heather section; refer to the photos in the above linked post for the edge I ended up with but do whatever you want here to end the scarf! Wet block; I used foam mats and blocking wire for blocking this.
been thinking about Caspar and his dad a lot. After playing 3 hopes and seeing hints that Leopold is unimpressed with his oldest son, it makes me wonder ... was part of the reason that he aligned with edelgard so readily and wholeheartedly because he thought it would give Caspar a better shot at earning what his efforts owed him? I mean, in that 3 hopes mission, leopold even gives caspar their heroes relic. And the fact that it can be used without a crest is an extra layer of, "you dont need to be born first or born with the right blood to claim my inheritance"
Their relationship is so fascinating. the constant militance of caspars childhood obviously damaged him, and yet they also clearly care about each other
People who hate Dimitri for his "horrible, centrist, status quo-loving, monarchial politics" continue to be so interesting because uhhh literally every other FE lord before 3H believes the same shit as him.
That includes Ike as well despite him not being a prince/noble, considering IntSys compared Dimitri directly to Ike positively for a FE Heroes video.
He has the same detestation for violence and war like every other lord, it just depends on his mental state whether he's pretty typicaly appalled by it (Marth, Eliwood, Micaiah), violent and threatening when faced with it (Hector, Lyn, Ike, Chrom) or self-sacrificing about it (Celica, Eirika, Corrin).
Him choosing to save Faerghus over getting caught up in his revenge is ripped straight from Marth's playbook of "I am a prince before I'm a son or a brother." That itself was also used in Leif's story regarding maturing beyond selfish revenge and personal satisfaction, instead choosing responsibility for one's homeland.
He has the same conviction of Lucina when it comes to wavering about choosing the life of a loved one versus the safety of countless more. He shares the ideals of combatting oppression and igorance that Ike and Roy have. He shares the dual belief of having compassion for others with the strength to protect the vulnerable that's espoused by Alm and Celica.
His supposed "centrism" is really just a verbose version of the "there is more than one truth" speech that Sigurd passed down to Seliph; understanding that there's multiple perspectives for each side of a conflict, not to excuse one's evil actions but to better prepare for the future when those grievances come up again.
Why are people so uncomfortable with a Fire Emblem lord acting like a Fire Emblem lord. Complaints about status quo don't make sense, considering monarchial hierarchies still exist in the alleged "progressive" ending that Edelgard's route has. Her choosing her next successor is no less of an archaic practice than genetic inheritance is.
Just call the spade a spade: you don't like what Fire Emblem stands for, you like what you pretend Three Houses stands for. You like what Three Hopes offers because it confirms your biases despite the very publicy known fact that the writers said they deliberately made each character worse off-and Fodlan worse off-because they didn't want to invalidate Byleth, i.e. what Three Houses actually was.
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My fire emblem 3 houses followers--what are your top byleth ships where you feel the support conversations were actually good? I know ppl always complain about byleth being a blank slate but there are several supports where I feel the writers did incredibly well
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Dude ive been playing fe3h and shipping claurenz for like 3 years now and I only JUST NOW realized that their designs are complementary all the way down. Complementary colors, complementary styles, all of it. When your conservative grandpa starts waxing about complementarianism, he's fantasizing about claurenz. That's how deep this shit goes
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