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Our next Resplendent is Claude in a Niavellir-inspired design!

Moreover, having her kept on a stone altar allows Rhea and other family (like Byleth, later) visit her to pay their respects in a way that is just as tangible as visiting Jeralt's grave. But I thought of this because of a video on human skin books. The only ones who should have control over Sitri's death arrangements are her living family, assuming that she didn't have any specific wishes of her own...largely because her perspective is under-played or almost non-existent in Three Houses. If Byleth, for example, would not want her to be buried, then there would be no reason to do so.

Part of the problem with how portions of the fanbase view this matter is the suspicion towards Rhea's motives. Of course, White Clouds initially makes Rhea seem mysterious and someone you should be cautious around, but you learn that she is more of a complicated, overtaxed lady with way too much going on in her life. So this suspicion is directed at her even for the mourning she shows to her professed daughter-figure. That she would not have buried her is treated as a nefarious dealing--surely, she must have some ulterior motive! Or perhaps she's experimenting on Byleth's mother!

Note that Aelfric IS the one trying to use Sitri's corpse for his own ends. He was her friend, but also someone with a romantic attachment to her that never let go; and unlike Rhea, who also does not want to let go of any of her family, he takes this to the extreme, going against what Sitri would have wished for. In this way, not only are the Nabateans' death rites disrespected, but also Sitri's autonomy.

With the human skin books, one question posed is whether it can ever be moral to produce or own those books. Many of the people who had their skin used were victimized posthumously, and now, they are only remembered in the context of being the binding of a book. How the books are treated by library staff plays a large part in whether the deceased are believed to be respected now, potentially given a dignity they were not given at the times of their deaths (and perhaps, even in their lives). Private collectors have an even bigger responsibility, as the remains of the deceased can so easily be oggled at, given no context or memory of their lives. Treated as, "Ooh, macabre aesthetic."

Even for those who consented, perhaps even eagerly, to become 'immortalized' in this way, a level of care is often discussed. For any human remains, willing or not, much of their postmortem affairs rely upon the presence and awareness of any remaining family or loved ones they may have, should they even have any.

"Thanks to you, I’m beginning to feel more comfortable talking to people."

Ok, I know I say this about every character, but... Marianne, my beloved!!!!!

a small dimidue drabble

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disentangle

He could never say no to him. He never would say no to him. Even when he believed with every fiber of his being that this was not the way things should be. 

But he could not still his hand as it slid through Dimitri’s hair, settling it against his head and neck. The wind had riled it up on their walk over to the Goddess Tower, snowflakes long-melted as they trudged up the stairs. Now they looked upon the broken monastery and the shadowed lands beneath it. Dimitri’s hair felt damp against his hand.

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