#fernadetta

Edelbert's already been done, so how about we start with Ferdie/Bernie?

(Now this is a fun combination. Two of the lowest ranked parent/child combos mixing together. Can two negatives make a positive? Find out next time on Dragon B-)

🧡House Aegir (Fernadetta Edition)💜

Red-headed troublemakers and their pretty sorority sister; now there's a trope I haven't seen in a while. This dynamic is pure chaos and I love it so. Bernie probably made those roses for Roxanne's hair, too. A little splash of purple to offset that flaming hair.

Sibling Dynamic

One big change would be the circumstances of their birth. Roxanne and the twins are born very close to each other by default, so in contrast to their dynamic under House Vestra, the twins would not only be planned for, but expected. Perhaps not as twins initially, but both Ferdinand von Aegir and Bernie would have agreed to have another baby after Roxanne - and ended up with two. (For the sake of this post, I'll treat Roxanne like she is a year and a few months older than them.)

Now, this may somewhat change how the twins interact with Roxanne. By default, they have a possessive streak when it comes to her. Artemas and Apollo are like the stray dogs that bite everyone else, steals their food, and destroys their stuff, but not that one person who regularly gives them pats on the head and snacks.

One does not simply walk up to Roxanne without her guard dogs watching nearby. If they don't trust you, mission failed. They will find some way to scare you away, and if they're lucky, it'll be for good.

The twins are also, to their credit, very good at keeping secrets, and Roxanne has one she'd never want released to the world. They already cause her enough anxiety with their bad reputation for being troublemakers, filling the time on their hands with pranks and schemes. Besides, with their father busy being Prime Minister in the capital all the time and their mother holed up in the house managing Aegir territory, the twins are often left to their own devices with very limited policing.

Roxanne would try to knock some sense into them whenever the pranks go too far, though. They reflect on House Aegir just as much as she does, and their seemingly endless schemes would only make repairing its reputation that much harder. While it is unlikely they'll ever stop their foolishness for good, like with their mother, they would calm down for a time if it was taking a toll on Roxanne as well.

In truth, they both really envy how much Ferdinand gushes about her. For as "perfect" as their sister is to daddy dearest, they've seen her at her "not-so-perfect" more than anyone else. So, why don't they get the same praises sung about them when they do good things but get a stern talking to when they play pranks? While Roxanne is getting crushed under the weight of her own perfectionism, the boys just want some attention - any attention at all. Even bad press is still press.

The wildest animals in the wild west, The Ferd and The Bern!!

This took a lot out of me and then some but I'm happy with the result!! Really love playing around with the gold patterns and accents on both of them :]!!

Hope yall still like outfit design explanations, it's under the cut since its a bit long. I tried putting my words the best I can ehehe

To anyone who writes future fic involving two characters having (biological) children, how exactly do you come up with the names for said original child characters? Is it completely at random or theme-based?

I told you, I’m not good at this, so it’s usually the latter for me. A good example of this is my writing about Fire Emblem: Three Houses, a story with more than a few possible intercultural relationships/marriages.

Every now and again, I get a freebie like with Rhealeth. Who exactly is Rhea in Greek mythology? Exactly. I write their (eldest) daughter being named Hestia, since they’re literally the mother and father of the Olympians. It also works into my preference for writing M!Byleth and his fear of harming his children bordering on obsession because war and Cronus. Unfortunately for the old Witcher and Leonie for that matter, this would translate into young Byleth’s first instinct with his first training blade put in his hands being to hit Jeralt in the crotch.

Some are still easier than others: Like how I wrote Annette and Felix’s sons as named Glenn and Dimitri. Or Lorenz and Marianne’s children having German given names after their father. And since Seteth is kind of...a special case and Manuela (Spanish) is pretty obvious, so that one was a no-brainer too.

Others are kind of me being “clever,” like how I wrote Bernadetta’s (North Italian/Veronese) eldest son as being named Marius, so it doesn’t really matter that her man is a Dane with a mane of flowing red hair. With that in mind, it’s almost as much of a freebie as Edelgard’s son being named Rhaego!

The rest I have no fucking clue about honestly. Even the ones like Sylvain (Occitan or something?) and Ingrid (Norman maybe?) who you’d expect not to have an insurmountable cultural gap between them or those with a lot of historical contact between the IRL cultures like Petra (Scottish/Hebridian) and Ashe (French) or Hilda (Bavarian/south German) and Caspar (proto-Hungarian?). The one possible exception to these above examples I’d considered was Cyril and Lysithea- she’s a Greek mythological reference, so that can go any number of ways too. I’d considered them having a son named Cyrus, since Almyra is literally Persia/ancient Iran, but I honestly thought it would be kind of lazy on my part. It would flow one hell of a lot better in-universe than Xerxes would, that’s for sure.