sunsalute | Entries tagged with fandom: fire emblem

To prevent signup brain going 'have I ever liked anything ever', here's a list of every character, ship and prompt I've made in exchanges that I can keep to look back at! Everyone listed alphabetically by first name. General takes written up, then specific prompts in bullet points.

Fandom Specific Likes
There is so much fun to be had with this setting. The horror of time loops / the fun of time loops / the fun of making out in a time loop while incorrectly assuming there will be no lasting consequences!! The lengths they go to for their beliefs! Fighting unwinnable fights because they have to! Body horror that comes from -waves vaguely at everything crest-related-! Taking a prisoner of war but oops they remember sitting next to them in history class!

General Prompts
[Seasons of Drabbles]
- crest-related body horror
- attempting to have a relaxing day post-war (gone wrong)
- the relationship between the character and the magic they learn (Sylvain lives in the ass end of the arctic but learns fire magic! I am sure this is nothing to do with trauma /sarcasm)
- characters being losers. Being absolute dorks. Little oblivious idiots.
- culture clash between the countries
- horror - medical, cosmic, psychological! (shamelessly stole this one from someone else because I saw it and agreed)
- trope subversion (too many beds! Chastity pollen!)
- your wildest AU you'd never consider giving unrequested in an exchange
- realising they're in a time loop
- using the time loop to their advantage
- I love 'random facts' style drabble sequences that have a shared topic. Like '3 times [character] celebrated a birthday'.
- exerpts from war plans/forbidden library books/dark magic/notes passed during class

Individual Characters

Claude von Riegan
Attributing his 'bullying as a love language' thing to an utter dearth of familiar affection in childhood. He might die if he has to stop moving. Is actually pretty honest about a lot of things but says it in such a way that nobody believes him. Not to woobify him but I think if someone hugged him without the intent to stab, he would tear up.

Claude as the tarot card Judgement
Modern fanfic AU: Claude apologising in his latest update for being slow but there was a civil war

Constance von Nuvelle
I am fascinated by gulf between 'well-bred noble who speaks well and exceeds at everything she sets her mind to' and 'the saddest, most passive soggy cat you've ever seen'.

Constance as the tarot card The Fool (or Lovers!)
A sticker sheet of her reason or magic equipment!
Constance using Adrestia's royal treasury for Shenanigans she swears is honest to god really important magical research

Dimitri Blaiddyd
His pleasant smile is at all times masking barely contained rage. Went to school so he research his family's murder without his uncle trying to assassinate him every night. The sole character that would be estatic to find himself in a time loop because it would mean he doesn't have to deal with all the shit he has going on for two minutes. Wipes out every TWSITD leader accidentally. Got so much game he straight up invites his teacher to the Goddess Tower.

Dorothea Arnault
She knows what it is to be both privileged and disadvantaged and she's honed that into a diamond-sharp blade to carve out a space for her and her loved ones in the world. Despite everything she went through, she's still so kind. She's also willing to drop to her knees and serenade a pretty girl at a moments notice so 10/10 just purely for that. She'd also look great as a gothic heroine kicking the shit out of the beast holding her captive while looking glamorous in a blood-stained white nightgown.

an in-universe table of contents or introduction with formatting for a Dorothea the opera star fanzine would be hilarious
Modern fanfic exchange AU: Dorothea sniping at common fanon she dislikes about her own operas in her signups

Edelgard von Hresvelg
She's tiny and angry and she's got too much to do for how incompetant everyone around her is. She's the emperor of a kingdom but that doesn't stop her shyly drawing fanart of her teacher and laying in bed at night with anxiety tummy aches thinking up names for her new strike force. I'm also fascinated with the effects of her history of experimentation and what that means for present-day Edelgard. Scars? Nightmares? I want to know!

Edelgard as the tarot card Justice

Felix Fraldarius
Is such a bitch so people won't realise he gets anxiety tummy aches about Dimitri's well-being. Saw his family's self-sacrificial deaths and decided it was a skill issue. Loves his mama. Is right about everything all the time but he's so unsocialised that not a single person listens to him (the effect of what unresolved deep-rooted grief does to a child who turns to aggression to hide that he's hurting). Mocks his teacher for turning up at the Goddess Tower, where he has been all night, waiting for them.

the only way Felix Hugo Fraldarius is admitting romantic or sexual feelings for anyone is if they can best him in a fight because he needs to know his potential partner can take care of themself (also he never learnt how to relax and might need to be forcibly beaten up to let his guard down)
Felix as The Chariot tarot card

Hapi
She's A+ trauma rep for her uncanny ability to tolerate anything except for minor day-to-day inconveniences. There's a certain nonchalance that must come with being able to summon giant demonic beasts toward any threat to her, but I'd love to know how much of her personality is a trauma response and how much is Just Her.

Hapi as the tarot card Strength!

Ingrid Galatea
Despite railing against the gender norms forced upon her, she knows she *has* to try and keep the other Faerghus nobles in line as The Responsible Girl because she's the only thing standing between them and total dissolution. She's got a really interesting take on Faerghan chivalry considering she goes out of her way to take on a warrior role and I think what would cure her is a pretty girl kissing her.

Lysithea Ordelia
All Or Nothing, no in between. Pretty sure she thinks she should have died during her experiments and treats any time after that as a bonus that should be used solely to improve the lives of her parents, her territory, and her friends and doesn't actually consider herself alive in the traditional sense. Looks impulsive in battle but it turns out that she considered all the possibilities and decided on a near-suicide run anyway because it beats a lingering fight when she's on a deadline. Would not know what to do with a spa day gift card.

Lysithea as The Moon (the tarot card)

Mercedes von Martritz
Her entire life has been shaped by the pursuit of crests as people try to play god and here she is, all religious. Very sexy of her. Approximately two inches to the left of her own body at all times and both willing and able to deliver a sick burn and then float away ethereally.

Sylvain Gautier
Claims to be in love with everyone to hide that he thinks he's got a black hole where his heart should be. His unconfronted childhood trauma has made him kind, but nobody will see this until they're five years into a war and he's so sleepy he forgets to hide that he's a pretty decent guy, actually. Was fully prepared to let Miklan into the army for the good of the people even though the guy threw a young Sylvain down a well to drown because he thinks he deserved it, probably. World's politest misogynist.

F/F Pairings

Constance/Hapi
They're both staring at any anything weird and magical going oooh... weird... and I love that for them. They 'put up' with aspects of each other that they wouldn't tolerate from anyone else, such as Hapi's nicknames and Constance's unpredictable moods, but they're so familiar with each other that it's all just gentle ribbing and love.

A magical experiment gone wrong
Going into business post-war
Nights spent scared and lonely and huddling together in Abyss!

Dorothea/Edelgard
I love that they're both very angry women that have had to do a lot of performing in their lives.

Maybe they used to hook up when they couldn't sleep at night, and then Dorothea got recruited out to another class, and now Edelgard has her in the dungeon but can't bring herself to *really* torture information out of her...
of course Edelgard would personally help out Dorothea, who's been sex pollened, and think that's a normal thing for an emperor to do for their subjects. (she obviously won't *tell* Dorothea about her Feelings. That would be selfish.)
of course Dorothea is the first to offer help when Edelgard's Crest Bullshit sex pollens her. That's a normal thing for a general to do for their emperor. (she obviously won't *tell* Edelgard about her Feelings. That would be selfish.)
Dorogard are great candidates for the Slitherers to drop by and sex pollen purely to fuck up Edelgard's day

Dorothea/Ingrid

Ingrid grew up in Faerghus, so if everyone else in their paralogue is complaining about how hot Ailell, the valley of goddamn torment, is, Ingrid must be about to melt off her pegasus. Or maybe she really is that stoic and it's Dorothea who just can't cope!
Alternatively, a campaign in Faerghus goes terribly and Dorothea is not at all prepared for the goddess-forsaken weather. Happy for BE!Ingrid or BL!Dorothea, or maybe they meet on the opposite side of war but the desire not to see someone freeze to death wins out!
Picture this: a sweeping cityscape, with Ingrid sweeping Dorothea away on her pegasus
Dorothea's wardrobe contrasted with Ingrid's very practical set of clothes

Dorothea/Mercedes
They make such a great gothic horror couple between them, with all the tragedy and difficult relatinships with men and crests and a general air of 'the most gentle soul here but can skewer you with magic if they so choose'.

Anything horror-themed
Sweet gentle fluff
Unhinged kink
Scheming post-war about how to wrangle more money out of the government for orphanages

Edelgard/Ingrid
I am absolutely fascinated at the thought of dutiful, loyal Ingrid falling in love with the woman marching on her homeland because Edelgard is Just Like That.

The story of how they get together or what happens next!

Edelgard/Lysithea

Both of their lives have been shaped so utterly by the Slitherers, and I'd love to see them dealing with the fallout of that together
Hot 'we're tiny and angry at the world' sex!!
Edelgard/Lysithea being really cool and badass women that can take down the slitherers but god forbid they work up the courage to kiss

Hilda/Edelgard
Unstoppable force meets immovable object.

Whether it's a retainer swap AU, Hilda got recruited out, Hilda got recruited out but became a spy, or Hilda ends up in Edelgard's dungeon, I know they'd be amazing in a fic together.

M/M Pairings

Claude/Dimitri
Between Dimiti pretending to be nice and polite to mask both his boiling rage and the fact that he could actually serve cunt any time anywhere and Claude pretending to be a little shit to mask his desperate need to understand the world and everything in it, they clash like cute little air hockey pucks.

Claude/Sylvain
Are they flirting, are they making genuine digs at each other's psyche, who knows not them!!

They can bond over their families attempting to murder them! :D

Dimitri/Felix
Dimilix, the poster children for "this man is my problem" and loyalty that's a little bit off-centre... opting in to pre-timeskip, mid-timeskip, feral!mitri, post-timeskip, post-game, Azure Moon, non Azure Moon route, all Blue Lions stay with Dimitri, or Felix defecting to another house!

I think it would be really funny if they take Enbarr only to be stuck in the city during a heatwave as they try to set up a new government there
the only way Felix Hugo Fraldarius is admitting romantic or sexual feelings for anyone is if they can best him in a fight because he needs to know his potential partner can take care of themself (also he never learnt how to relax and might need to be forcibly beaten up to let his guard down)
Ten times Dimilix made awkward eye contact and said nothing
any kind of 'forced together' trope (sex pollen, huddling for warmth, only one bed) that gets Dimitri and Felix to actually talk to each other
I think Dimitri and Felix need a catalyst to get them to actually talk to each other about their feelings. Maybe it's Crest Bullshit and Felix's major crest sex pollens him because Nabateans used to have heat cycles. Maybe Dimitri researches too close to the sun and finds a book that protects itself from being read by sex pollening the reader. Maybe there's a really wild demonic beast or spell that just so happens to only get these two. Maybe they still don't talk about their feelings.

Dimitri/Sylvain
Despite growing up arond one another they have a completely different set of load-bearing trauma.

Sylvain having all his old Miklan trauma come up when he falls into a frozen lake and Dimitri has to save him...
Dimitri surprising Sylvain because he's known *how* to flirt this entire time, he's simply decided not to because he's been busy not being poisoned by his uncle/being lost in the wilderness/winning a war/governing a country

Felix/Sylvain
The 'lets just bottle up our childhood trauma for ever and ever' gang. Opting in to pre-timeskip, mid-timeskip, post-timeskip, post-game, non Azure Moon route, or one/both defecting to another house!

They're such a disaster tsundere couplee until they've been together a while, so many of the [soulmate exchange] freeforms are just pointing and laughing at them as they fumble around: must stay within a certain distance, body swap, soulbonding and then panicking, temp bond they insist there's a reason they can't break, mutual pining hamahaki, mark burns when lying, cannot lie to each other, sharing dreams.
But there are also a bunch [of soulmate freeforms] that really tap into each character's own trauma and give an excuse to see them try to grow and overcome it: avoiding marriage, 'I'm too strong for love', 'what if you're sad I can't be romantic' (feel free to add any aro/ace you want but it's not necessary), sharing pain (THEY BOTH HAD FUCKED UP CHILDHOODS AND THEN FOUGHT A WAR CAN YOU IMAGINE), burnt soulmark away/forcibly removed (I can see either of Sylvix doing this; but Sylvain's family or TWSITD are also good canditates)
And some [soulmate freeforms] would just be really great to see them played for drama in a 'you WILL vulnerability' kind of way: soulmark petal hanahaki, saved each others lives, hair colour band, 'what do you mean I do have a soulmate after all', platonic soulmates ship it (my first thought is that it's Dimitri and Mercedes, but I have no character DNWs so literally anyone would be hilarious. This is a 'your blorbo' free space.)

Miklan/Sylvain
The incest isn't the main kink for me, it's just a fun extra. I love that these two grew up in the same house share childhood trauma even if they might think they're on opposite ends of it. The angst! The drama! The possibilities!!

Gautier brothers hatefucking
Gautier brothers with very complicated feelings
Gautier brother dub/noncon
Miklan threw Sylvain down a well to drown and from the way Sylvain tells it, he seems to think he probably deserved it. That's so fucked up. I wanna see them be even more fucked up.
Is Miklan doing [noncon] to prove his loyalty to his bandits? Does he want to ruin his parents' golden child? Does he think he can 'fix' Sylvain? Does Sylvain let him? Do they live in a modern AU where Sylvain's deadbeat brother shares a flat with him and they leave each other increasingly passive aggressive post-it notes? There are so many sexy possibilities...

Seteth/Sylvain