#verdant wind

Crest of flames: a burden or a blessing?

Hi I am back to announce that I have been completely destroyed by @yanyan46e20, who drew this amazing Clayn commission that has absolutely obliterated me. I've been launched into space. It is taking literally every ounce of my remaining strength to not scream right now!!! 💚💛

Funny story: I initially pitched two ideas and was like, idk dealer's choice, either would be awesome. Yan picked one and asked me to yap about them so of course I did. She came back and was like, "I have another idea too if you want," and it was this. Of course I picked this one.

FE3H - Dear Teach, Chapter 4

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I've been super into Fe3h for a few months now. I have about 260 hours on the game currently. My favorite route by far has been Verdant Wind!

right off the bat claude introduces his class as less difficult as the others. and while they’re certainly chaotic, he has good reason for saying that. their relationships with claude feel much more like regular friendships than with edelgard and dimitri. even sylvain and ingrid, who’ve been friends with dimitri for years, still use his title when talking to him. so do most of the other blions. felix still calls him a prince, even if it's the boar prince. they all treat dimitri very respectfully as well, obviously keeping in mind his position. obviously felix is the exception. here but that's not super important. in the beagles, none of them use edelgards title (except hubert) but she very clearly has authority over the rest of them. this is especially prominent in cf post-timeskip where the only person who actively questions what she’s doing to her face is ferdinand (that i can remember). and that’s ferdinand so of course he’s going to.

compare that to the deer. if memory serves, i don’t think there’s a single time in the game where claude is referred to with his title by someone. you would never know he was leading the alliance if the game didn’t explicitly tell you. unlike edelgard and dimitri, people are also willing to question him. of course lorenz does it throughout the entire game, but so do hilda and judith. judith is especially notable considering she’s a noble very much under claude.

through cf and am, almost everything is done by edelgard and hubert and dimitri respectively. dedue, gilbert, and rodrigue all have some plot importance but not an extreme amount. everyone else is just kinda there. vw on the other hand gives some of them actually important roles. hilda comes up with the idea for getting into fort merceus. ignatz is the one who tells the guards reinforcements are coming, which is what gets them in. and while less important, shamir is apparently the one who made all the disguises for fort merceus. nader casually brings in the almyran army because claude decided to be safe and ask for help. lysithea later on tells claude and byleth stuff about twsitd. the other houses do not get this kind of involvement from people other than the leaders. now you could say thats just bad writing but i think it makes sense.

even the names of each house leaders' theme goes into this. edelgard's is the leader's path. the only person mentioned is her. she's their leader. dimitri's is the king of lions. of course he's the king, and while the blions are there too, it's more to establish his power over them. claude's on the other hand, is golden deer and crescent moon. crescent moon is a pretty indirect way of referring to claude, and it's not even put first. just another way how the unity of the golden deer is proven to be more important than just claude on his own. the music itself is very different as well. golden deer and crescent moon is significantly more relaxed than the other two.