Headcanon: Sylvain Is Surprisingly Wise

Headcanon: Sylvain is surprisingly wise

Blue Lions - Shakespeare Headcanons

I know that Leicester has the most King Lear references but I can’t help but get Shakespearean tragedy vibes from BL. So here are my Shakespearean headcanons for my kids. Dimitri’s stuff will be mixed with the legend of Blaiddyd. 

The Blue Lion King: the Tragedy of Hamlet Dimitri Prince of Denmark Faerghus

When your uncle kills your dad for the throne

The childhood friends know each other because their fathers worked for the King’s guard or as advisors.

Other than the fact that Gautier, Fraldarius and Galatea are all nearest to Blaiddyd

"His greatness weighed, his will is not his own, for he himself is subject to his birth. He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself, for on his choice depends the safety and health of this whole state." I love Laertes

Dimitri’s father was murdered 4+ years ago and his uncle now sits the throne. Or his mother. 

Whatever, there’s a regent on the throne until Dimitri is old enough to ascend.

He never does ascend as he is somehow banished from the throne. He and his fellow Blue Lions flee… maybe to Sreng. (See: the Blue Lions tweet that Nintendo deleted)

Or exiled somehow like in the legend of Blaiddyd

They return 5 years later to restore the rightful king

King Lear 

In the play, the physically blind sees more than the ones with vision.

Dimitri’s eye is hollow, but he sees more now than he ever had before. He has gone mad, he knows, but he can still hear the cries of the dead at night, crying for vengeance, crying for solace. Sometimes the screaming dead become too much to handle and he himself would scream into the night. Howls of pain echoing in the dark.

Read: Greasy wolfman howls at moon

(Well that suddenly turned into a paragraph.)

Also:

Features two brothers

One is jealous because of the other one’s ‘legitimacy’

Edgar Sylvain future Earl of Gloucester Gautier

When your brother grows jealous of your legitimate claim to the inheritance and works to destroy three factions

Honestly, Golden Deer is really tempting for me right now because King Lear is my favourite play by Shakespeare. King Leir, who is thought to be where Shakespeare based his character from, was the son of Bladud (Blaiddyd) and the founder of Leicester you can Google that. This simply implies that the Leicester alliance was formed last out of the three nations (confirmed) and possibly split from Faerghus (unconfirmed) though some of its nobles might also hail from Adrestia. Ingrid and Lysithea both have a crest from the other nation. 

I was wondering why they chose ‘Regan’ instead of the kinder ‘Cordelia’, until I read that Regan means ‘little king’. This makes sense as Claude hails from a place where there is no ruling monarch but there is still a leading noble, thus making him a ‘little king’. 

Romeo and Juliet 

I’m not ready to announce this one just yet… but it exists and I’m frantically typing

Im just gonna wait and see if they can at least A-support

Police officer: What are your names?

Sylvain: Don't tell him Felix!

Police officer: *writing down* Felix...

Felix: Nice going Sylvain you idiot!

Officer: annnd Sylvain.

Notes to Self

Map Reading

There’s a piece of land between Adrestia and Faerghus near Gaspard that is unoccupied by either territory.

Galatea, Charon, Daphnel and Gloucester are all situated closely to each other only separated by the mountains between Faerghus and Leicester

Mercy

Prerelease post time skip scenario. No spoilers

Post time skip Dimitri handing Mercedes a letter.

M: This is addressed to you.

D: The Emperor expresses her desire to reinstate the von Martlitz among Adrestian nobility.

M: …

D: Mercedes… you told me once that you missed the land of your birth… return there. The nobles of Adrestia will take you away from here… I have already composed a letter of acceptance. If you so wish-

He doesn’t see the furrow in her brow when she slaps him. She stares at him sternly but earnestly. 

M: Do not assume that that is what I want. I miss the place where I was born, yes. And I know you want to keep us safe.

He won’t look at her so she turns his face towards her.

M: But even if we lose this fight, do not ask me to abandon my king.

He closes his single eye.

D: I am not king yet.

M: You are already king to the people you lead

I really really really wanted to draw this but.. no time :( Maybe I still will once I see what Mercedees looks like after time skip

Ingrid: How would you like your coffee?

Dimitri: As dark and bitter as my soul.

Ingrid: One glass of milk coming up.