Lemon Doodles

Lemon doodles

Since Dil and Timmy share the same voice Crocker and Finbarr gets them confused so they accidentally kidnap Dil instead of Timmy even though Finbarr said that don't look like Timmy but crocker is like you may think that not Turner but he's just using his FAIRY GOD PARENTS for a disguise and let the actual Timmy go in Rugrats universe then brings Dil to Vlad and he's like excellent I kidnap one of Daniel little friends and he removes the hood to see some redheaded kid.

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Here are those aged up girl designs, finally!

From left to right, we've got Kimi, Angelica, Lil, and Suzie.

Kimi and Lil are about 18, and Suzie and Angelica are around 20/21. When making older designs for everyone, I wanted to keep the time period kind of consistent, placing this around 2009 or 10, so there are definitely some dated fashion choices at play lol.

Once again, I think my coloring was a little lackluster here so I'll probably revisit the whole gang's designs later on.

Wordgirls(@clarissasbakery left my design right)

My hot take on the development of Caspar von Bergliez

I would never post this on Twitter because I would get roasted ALIVE.

So I'm putting it here instead.

Hot take: Out of all of the Black Eagles, Caspar goes through the most character development in non-Crimson Flower routes.

I'm not a CF hater - it has Problems, but I otherwise enjoy its side of things and adore the Black Eagles' found family dynamic. It's why they're my favorite house. However, there's a consistent theme I notice across fans, and that's that they either misunderstand Caspar, or ignore him altogether in favor of other characters. Not their fault, people have their notable faves.

But more often than not, I see people forget Caspar as a character. He gets benched, or his character is incredibly simplified and even mischaracterized. I see someone's take on his character and it's usually clear that they haven't even looked at all of his supports. I'm looking at you, people who think he does nothing but start fights and be stupid.

There's also the fact that he's not easy to recruit for anyone who didn't choose the Black Eagles house. Most people who don't pick the Black Eagles don't even bother recruiting him, because people don't usually train Byleth in brawling. You can immediately recruit folks without that requirement if they're at B support or higher, but Caspar's B support is locked behind the timeskip, so they don't get that chance.

So, Caspar tends to be very forgettable, which is a shame. This also means that they miss out on what is, in my honest opinion, the biggest part of his development:

The fact that outside of CF, he spends the mid-timeskip wandering Fodlan as a mercenary.

Most of the other Black Eagles either stay in their estates/territories (Linhardt, Bernadetta, Petra), or try to help those affected by the war (Dorothea). That's not to say they don't get their own growths from that but to me, they don't have as notable of an impact on their characters (and I love them all for varying reasons but that's another topic altogether). Ferdinand is actually another important case for very similar reasons to Caspar, but I'll get into that later.

But Caspar? He may be a second son, but he's still the son of a military leader. He's the son of the man who is leading most of the Imperial army to war, the very war that the Emperor started. The son of one of the biggest threats to Fodlan.

He leaves his house, wanders Fodlan, and no longer trains to get stronger to appease his father and those above him. He trains to survive and offer his services to those who need it. And what would people think when they see the Minister of Military Affairs' son wandering around? Those in the Empire will see a traitor. Those outside of it who recognize him will see an enemy, someone who is part of the problem. And he has to get around all of that just to survive. He has to work to make people trust him, he meets a variety of people who are dealing with so many different problems. And I know this is a lot of headcanon, but you can't admit that this isn't implied by the very nature of his wandering as an Imperial runaway. And he grows from this as a result. You could say he gains a lot of introspection and does a lot of soul-searching, because what else do you do for five years when you're basically homeless and wandering?

His post-timeskip lines really hit different when heard from non-CF routes. "I don't train for fun" is the biggest one for me. This is coming from someone who very much used to train for fun! He used to find joy in training, but now training has become a necessity. He becomes strong not just for himself, but for those that matter - the people being negatively affected by this war, friends and strangers alike. And he trains to survive until the reunion.

This doesn't even go into how much his definition of justice changes. It happens in both routes, yet it hits much harder outside of his own route, because you have the justice of fighting on the war's side by believing in its cause, and there's the justice of fighting against it due to the amount of people it's harming. Two different sides of the same coin where one clearly has him grappling with the meaning of it a lot more because it goes against the black and white morality he grew up believing in.

In fact, the support that has him grappling with what it means to do right the most is with Catherine, a character he can't have supports beyond C with in Crimson Flower!

This is the problem with the CF route in relation to Caspar's character; you don't get this development. His character stagnates because he simply becomes a follower of the war. There is no separation, no escaping just to live. He simply becomes a general. That's not to say he doesn't belong there, nor is this a commentary on whether CF is good or bad - this isn't about the route itself. It's about what it does for Caspar von Bergliez, compared to other routes.

This is also my main problem with Three Hopes - it completely denies Caspar that growth, both by not having an Academy phase, and by not having him gain the experience of having the option to not fight for the war (literally unrecruitable in other routes). Many Caspar fans that I know, myself included, love Caspar for that growth he gets outside of his own route, which is why making him unrecruitable in Three Hopes is such a tragedy for us.

Ferdinand is the only other character who noticeably benefits from a new perspective via how he spends his mid-timeskip in Three Houses. But I would say that the main difference between Ferdinand and Caspar is that Ferdinand has a defining character growth both in and outside of Crimson Flower (I enjoy him in both routes for different reasons!). Even in Three Hopes, Ferdinand really gets the spotlight for fantastic reasons and his growth from it all is amazing! And Caspar... just doesn't get that as much. To the point where he's just forgettable to most people.

Anyway. This has been the lengthy musings of a Caspar fan. Why I prefer him outside of his own route, and why I think it's a shame that more people don't see that. I hope you enjoyed this. Or if you didn't and you think I'm just wrong, um... sorry, I guess. :')