A Black Hole of Buckets

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Hubert × female Byleth (Fire Emblem Three Houses)

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Welcome to Whumptober 2021! May the Whump be with you :)

To all of you who participated last year - we have changed a few of the rules, but overall things have stayed the same. To everyone new: WELCOME!

Please make sure to read the Event Info carefully, most of your questions will be answered there already. For everything else you are welcome to come to our ask box or ask questions in our Discord server here.

This year’s AO3 Collection can be found here.

With that being said, we’re very excited to see the community come together once more and be a wild, chaotic bunch of creators and consumers of whump. We wish you all the fun!

(All 31 Themes + Prompts, Event Information, and FAQs are posted below the cut!)

evidence:

- just listen to any line of dialogue he has

- “von Vestra” is the absolute rawest surname I can think of. It sounds perfectly ominous and suitable for a character who looks Like That. but like … his first name is HUBERT

- Me: “Oh, maybe it’s pronounced the French way!” Edelgard: *very much not the French way* Hubert

- His entire deal is his obsessive and steadfast devotion to Edelgard. Edelgard is a character who can throw axes around like they’re nothing. Hubert, meanwhile, is made out of tissue paper and will die from a single hit.

- Threatens Byleth, a trained mercenary, in their C-support. Has to attend class the next day. 

- seriously listen to any Edelbert support

- Felix has hilariously edgy lines too but Hubert does it in a more theatrical way? Like to me Felix is Shadow the Edgehog and Hubert is Scar Lion King. or like, Felix is Simple Plan and Hubert is MCR (no shade to Felix btw, I laughed at all his lines too) 

- I forget who the op of the post was but someone said “Hubert is the Evil Advisor trope except the person he’s advising is 100% in on it”

- He killed his father. this is mentioned once and is never brought up again. nobody reacts to this

- I’m obsessed with El’s Hubert impersonation but on my second CF run I got to remember that Hubert impersonates his father and I am. OBSESSED with these dorks. 

- He acts like he’s too good for school events and then goes “Lady Edelgard I hope you save one dance for me 🥺”

- DO YOU NOT LIKE THE SCARLET PATH I HAVE PREPARED FOR YOU

- “Hey Hubert is this your NOXIOUS HANDKERCHIEF?” “Yes, that is mine. Thank you.” 

- He’s genuinely one of the more complex characters (if you look beyond the surface) and I am so so passionate about his character development but I mostly like him because every line he has sends me

- Hubert only blushes for two characters in the game: Byleth … and Ferdinand. 

- he likes board games

- when you feed him something he likes he’s like “i don’t particularly care for food, but i will admit weakness for this one dish” which i take to mean that hubert is so edgy he thinks he’s too cool for EATING 

- or alternatively, he is an actual vampire 

- the evil laugh

- my best friend conceptualized the Byleth/Hubert relationship as a dad trying hard to impress his angsty teenage son. she calls him Hugh and I demand that this catch on please can we make Hugh happen

- by giving him traditionally “scary” facial features he actually gets one of the most interesting and unique character designs. this means that a lot of fanfic writes him as “sexy, but in a rat way”

- WOULDN’T IT BE TERRIBLE IF THE ARCHBISHOP GOT MURDERED

- he’s afraid of heights

- that one existential horror advice box question where he’s like “I used to fear the goddess. Now I fear the living” or something

- he is a massive edgelord to everyone else but he deliberately stops laughing around Bernie bc it scares her 

- when Jeralt dies in Black Eagles Part I, Hubert gives you dry facts about the enemy’s position as his own odd way to comfort you. however, in any other route, he says “I’ve never been one for condolences” and leaves it at that 

- he is 2 years older than his classmates. that fact alone makes everything he does 100x funnier

- one of his crits is just the evil laugh. also “you worked hard for nothing”

- this picture of him is canon

My Favourite OTP Daily Video.

games like stardew valley or harvest moon that have a fishing minigame typically let you give the fish, dripping wet and extremely raw, as a present to the ones you love - whether they like it or not.

It was an uncharacteristically warm day, after all. And the little, palm-sized cake somehow did end up being in direct sunlight. It was going to turn bad very shortly. Okay, so maybe it wouldn't actually turn bad, but it would definitely turn in an unappetizing, melted mess, that would ruin the visuals of the whole plate, when Alina had worked so hard to make this luncheon perfect.

So he did the only sensible thing: he covertly lifted the cake from the plate and ate it.

***

He ran into Alina not even five minutes later. She looked at him with furrowed brows, head tilted slightly to the side. "Have you taken some of the sweets?" she asked.

"Of course not," he replied, a picture of innocence. "I know they are off-limits until the guests arrive."

She pursed her lips together, as if to keep herself from smiling.

Yesterday, I posted a tiktok about "ship and let ship." Today, instead of deleting the comment, I got into a conversation with someone who couldn't believe anyone would really uphold that belief.

In the midst of that conversation, they brought up the well-worn line, "what about pedos who use fanfic to groom their victims?"

I replied that I blame the abuser, not the tools that they use. They could just as easily have used anything else.

That person replied about "normalizing" and "media" etc and that's when it hit me that their talking points amounted to blaming either the victim of the abuse or the unrelated fanfic author. There was no blame for the abuser.

The results are the same. Banning “bad words” doesn’t protect victims of homophobia & transphobia — it just creates an environment of forced disclosure, forced outing, that further silences/excludes/marginalizes victims.

Demanding that people not to use the term queer forces trans/bi/ace people to out themselves, usually resulting in them immediately being subjected to bigotry.

In the same way, claiming that only real victims should be allowed to write stories about rape and child abuse, and labeling anyone else who wants to write about those things as an abuser, forces victims to out themselves as abuse survivors. Which of course paints a target on their faces.

Whether we’re talking about identity labels or fanfiction stories, banning words doesn’t make it any harder for abusers to abuse. Instead it makes it exponentially harder for victims to process their trauma safely.