Whats In A Name?

What’s in a Name?

So here I am completely misinterpreting everyone’s names all for the sake of headcanons. This is just for fun so please don’t take this seriously.

House Leaders

Edlegard von Hresvelg - Noble Shield of the Giant Eagle

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd - Wolf Protector from the Goddess of Life

Claude von Riegan - Stumbling Little King

I love Claude’s name, I think it suits the story

Black Eagles

Bernadetta von Varley - Brave Bear

Caspar von Bergliez - Treasurer

Dorothea Arnold - Gift of God

Ferdinand von Aegir - journey, brave, sea

Hubert von Bestla - Spirit of Bestla (mother of Odin. Unless that’s actually Vestra)

Linhardt von Hevring - Lion Heart 

Petra Macneary - Modest Rock

I don’t know what to do with the Black Eagles, send help!

They’re all mostly Germanic origins

I want to make Ferdinand’s name to mean ‘brave journey on rough seas’ but that would be a stretch

Is Petra a modest rock or is it that she comes from a humble island?

Blue Lions

Annette Fantine Dominique - Graceful Child of the Lord

Ashe Duran - Strength to Endure

Dedeu Molinaro - Guardian of the Mill 

Felix Hugo Fraldarius - Happy Thoughts 

Ingrid Brandol Galatea - Beautiful Man Made Woman

Mercedes von Martlitz - Swift and Elegant Mercy

Sylvain Jose Gautier - A Forest of Trees Will Be Added by God to this Leader of Armies

That’s it. Happy Thoughts Fraldarius is Felix’s new name.

Jose has a long name - this also means that Sylvain’s followers will multiply... so if I’m right and this actually happens, it would make sense why they still have an army

Mill meaning hardworking? Stable?

Ingrid was bred to be perfect - the imagined ideal woman that men make up and fall in love with 

Golden Deer

Hilda Valentin Goneril - Battle Ready 

Ignatz Victor - Fire of Victory

Leonie Pinelli - Lion, Pine? - Strength to Endure 

Lorenz Hermann Gloucester - Laurel Warrior 

Lysithea von Cordelia - Heart of the Water Nymph

Marianne von Edmund - Bitter Grace

Raphael Kirsten - God Has Healed the Followers

Hilda’s is actually ‘battle healthy’ but ready makes more sense

If you take the symbolism of a lion and the symbolism of pine trees, you can get ‘strength’ and ‘longevity’ so...

TL;DR

I tried to make them all sound like fancy titles but...

Happy Thoughts Fraldarius is Felix’s new name.

Petra is comes from a modest rock

Put in a certain way, Ashe and Leoni have the same name

I need help naming the Black Eagles

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

I feel like they’re hiding something from us...

Nintendo hasn’t shown us any cinematic cutscenes of post time skip Dimitri in action. So far we’ve been shown Edelgard slashing stuff, Claude jumping around and Dimitri's brooding intensity. Not that I’m complaining, I’m just really really looking forward to seeing what he’s capable of.

Happiness

Felix Dimitri Scenario

Felix gets recruited by the Black Eagles.

Because you can bet your *ss bottom dollar that I’m stealing Felix when I go through the Black Eagles run.

F: Hey boar… Listen… I’ve been invited to move to the Black Eagles.

D: Oh… That’s great Felix. Are you going to take it?

F: I’ve already accepted.

D: Right. Of course. They are all very skilled, I’m sure you’ll have no shortage of challenges.

F: What is wrong with you?

D: ...

F: I’m leaving and you’re perfectly okay with that?

Dimitri is silent for a while.

D: Of course not. But I won’t force you to stay.

Felix frowns at him.

D: If this is what you want, who am I to stop you?

Felix scoffs. 

F: You’re the prince, you could order me not to.

D: I won’t.

The prince sighs and looks toward the floor. It shouldn’t hurt to try.

D: Felix...I know you think I’m weak. I know you don't agree with our values, but… 

I’m asking you as a friend… Please stay?

He asks it so heartbreakingly honest and fragile and it’s everything Felix hates about his house. Still it hurts him to say what he does next.

F: A soft heart and good virtue is not going to win wars. You’ve always been so… damned fragile.

He leaves his prince and doesn’t look back.

Happy Thoughts Fraldarius, how could you! You’re only moving classrooms, don’t be dramatic. 

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.

Ink practice - Dimitri FE Three Houses by Rheion