"Rotting, Decaying, We're Fated To Fall Deep Into

"Rotting, decaying, we're fated to fall deep into

The clutches of the earth

Dying since our birth, withering into dirt

To Him, you have no worth..."

So, I was planning on finishing this shortly after the Adrift banner was announced, but then I came down with E coli (so much for lettuce being "healthy"...). BUT! I DID finish it, and considering the dozens of WIPs I have lying around, that's saying something.

Before the "story" was revealed to be some Azura bullshit meant to (badly) justify Big Tits McGee's presence on the banner, I assumed it was going to be Anankos/Loki keeping Corrin in a happy dream!Valla to keep them sedated and thus, unable to kill him. Mikoto and Camilla would be there because Corrin sees both of them as a mother figure, and the dream state can't decide which one is right. TT reward would've been possessed Gunther, who also fits the parent mould and whom Anankos is puppeting to coax the Corns into not waking up.

Nerr has LOTS of experience with these too-good-to-be-true dream states and is suspicious af. I will also take every opportunity to draw Gunther as naked and scarred as possible.

"You no longer believe that your faith can set you free~"

"Then, will you bring deliverance to me?"

So, I actually drew this some time last year, but I never really liked it, so into the corner it went. I fished it out a few weeks ago and decided to try and finish it. There were lots of mistakes with the linework, and while I managed fix *some* of them, I couldn't make it *right*, partially due to the acrylic paint I use as whiteout being really hard to draw on this time for some reason.

I fucking LOVE New Mystery of the Emblem. It's my second favorite game in the series, after Conquest. These are my favorite characters from the game (and Barst, but these are the top three). NM is honestly the only game whose cast I actually like. It's amazing how three conversations can make a character more sympathetic, interesting and likeable than several pages worth of dialogue. Sad that IntSys decided to forego quality in favor of quantity these days. And I know Cecil is from the original Mystery and Norne and Frey are from Shadow Dragon, but the non-main characters in the famicom games were pretty much NPCs, and characters that are locked out of all but the easiest game mode might as well not exist. If IS remakes Shadow Dragon in another twenty years, for the love of Naga, make the prologue a part of the whole game. It was literally the best part of the story!

I think, overall, what kind of story you like/ want to see shapes how you view the events of the game and the characters. You seem to be content with the story of the bands of characters, which I assume is why you see their personal grief as consequence enough for their action. The characters are the important thing to you, the story ends when their adventure ends. And that's fine! Plenty of people are more invested in characters than anything else.

But for me, and others like me, the world at large is just as important, if not moreso, than the characters. I don't need to see a character in stockades being shamed, but I need to see that word of their actions has spred and has some influence in the world around them, otherwise, it's bad writing and bad charactetization to me. A little blurb at the end of SoV, "The people of the newly joined Valentia were wary of their new queen, and it was many years before she won them over" isn't going to push a writer into a nervous breakdown. A character doesn't have to go to war to show they're mad at someone. I did a rewrite of Fates, and at the end of the Birthright route, the war had ended, there was peace as both nations began rebuilding after the war, and Leo informed the Corrin stand-in that she was no longer allowed Nohr. There would be no coming to see his corronation, no visiting the graves of her siblings, because the people had not forgiven her betrayl and while he didn't want to do anything to her, he had an obligation to his people as their king. It happened during the epilogue, just some dialogue, the main narrative had concluded, but it showed that everything wasn't hunky dory and her actions had far reaching consequences.

I don't think I'm asking too much of a game to do something writers of novels, fanfics, and so many other games have done already. As another person said, Genealogy of the Holy War did exactly what I was talking about. That game was made in 1996 for the famicom- if they could do it then, they can do it now. When your game already has an epilogue, I see no reason to not include things like that.

"I just don't care about those things because they're ultimately unnecessary to me when I'm playing a video game." And therin is the crux of the matter. It doesn't bother you because those elements of a game's story aren't important to you. They are important to other players, like me. It reminds me of the people who watch Game of Thrones. Plenty of people watch it only for the dragons and fight scenes, and get mad when other people complain about the plot holes and teleportation (I'm not sayimg you're like that; you're very civil and I'm grateful for that), but it doesn't mean those people are wrong for seeing problems. Stories, be they found in TV, books, or games, linger with plenty of people. If you can see "The End" and be satisfied with a story, that's wonderful. But if I see "The End" and the first words out of my mouth is "Really??? That's it?", the writers have failed in my book. Heck, that's usually what I'm thinking while I'm playing the games (it was my biggest reaction after defeating Berkut, I hated that part), and it's why I'm still holding out for better characters in a better story for the series.

Too many FE fans: We want really imperfect main characters that show weakness and flaws!

Intelligent Systems: Okay, sure. *Eirika, Micaiah, Corrin and Celica exist*

Those fans: These characters are f*cking dumbasses.This isn’t what we wanted.

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If I hadn't spent a year and a half perfecting my ojisans, I'd have deleted this trash after the first CYL. But it's not for us- it's for the weebs who'd gladly spend thousands on a sixth png file of their animu waifu.

they really done went and put another camilla alt in the game, huh?

my hand is hovering over that delete button, lemme tell ya

"(S)he's a killer queen

Gunpowder, gelatine

Dynamite with a laser beam

Guarenteed to blow your mind"

Oh. My. Fucking. God. This was much more labor intensive than I originally assumed it would be, for several reasons- my watercolors are VERY translucent and have to be built up over many layers. I have to mix any ahade of purble darker than a pale violet and I'm not good at that. And I had a migraine that wouldn't go away for about 4 days. THAT is the main reason I can't deal with a background- it would never get done. I was terrified of fucking it up with the ink, but I kept repeating the immortal words of Bob Ross- "there are no mistakes, only happy accidents".

Regardless, please accept my humble offering of best husbando as the crazy hand man. Making Gharnef into Killer Queen was hard because I couldn't figure out how to balance their traits, but I think this was a good compromise.