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Golden Deer 🍃 Verdant Wind

FE3H MONTH (you can find all artworks here)

I’m doing a self-imposed FE3H month! Where I’ll be posting only FE3H artworks from the first week of August to the first week of September to celebrate its anniversary, and my anniversary of when I played it 💙❤️💛💚💜

🦌💛GOLDEN DEER💛🦌

AFTER TWO YEARS I finally started playing GD! And as per tradition, here's my compiled sketches of them ✨

Someday I'll do Church of Seiros and complete the sketches! but probably not too soon 😂

🦁💙BLUE LIONS💙🦁 🐺💜ASHEN WOLVES💜🐺 🦅❤️BLACK EAGLES❤️🦅

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

Raphael immediately stood out to me for being physically imposing and intimidating while being THE most friendly person among the cast. He had a lot going on for him that endeared me to him and made me decide that I would always recruit him no matter what and romance him on my GD run (You want Byleth to be female because she can romance all the lords and Rhea. I want Byleth to be female because she can romance Raphael, we're not the same)

I agree that he's a good bouncing board for other characters while still having his own personality. In most series everyone would have a positive disposition while the brooding character with tragic backstory stands out, and Raphael is the opposite of that. His positive disposition is what makes him stand out among the cast. But I do think that can also be a negative.

You see, when anyone has a support with Raphael, it stands out for THEM because Raphael lights up their mood. But when you see it from the opposite direction, that leaves Raphael with a lot of supports with similar setup, so you don't see Raphael outside of HIS comfort zone, to put it in a way (I guess his support with Ignatz would be the exception? But I... kind of dislike that support chain? to be honest?)

Though, ultimately, Raphael is just a jolly dude, and I like that. His support with Bernadetta is easily among the best and his ending portrait with Byleth is the cutest, bar maybe Petra's. And he's a good unit. I will die on this hill.

So! What's your 🔥 take for Raphael? I'm interested in hearing your overall opinion about him, really.

(feel i always gotta preface these things with a "i dunno if this is really a hot take but it's my take so yeah" sticker lmao but ye)

I really like that among the cast he's the only one (that I can readily think of) that both has a tragic backstory but it still allowed to be a simple character. Even other "simple" characters like Caspar have supports that show them going through some sort of conflict, but Raphael is just. Chill. Very chill. It makes him a really good bouncing board for characters to feel comfortable around while still managing to have a distinct personality of his own, and also lowkey makes him come off as kinda mature imo?? Like he still has his worries but he feels like he's got most things in his life figured out already. He also has massive Big Bro vibes which are a big plus

Raphael, my baby girl

Pros and cons of having a mostly uncontroversial fe3h character as one of your favs

Pros

You aren’t constantly attacked for liking this character

A lot of people will also probably like/be neutral about this character

The tags aren’t flooded with hate for this character

Cons

There is most likely not a lot of content for this character

Somehow, this character will be dragged into discourse for the more controversial characters to make the controversial character look better/worse

SO REAL...

From what I know this is most apparent with church faculty and the Golden Deer commoner trio, and I like Cyril and Leonie which has been a rough peace 😭

It's just a WIP for now... Rhea is singing 'In time's Flow' to Raphael in their hypothetical support. I also wanted to make a Post Time Skip version.

YOU, 3H ARTIST

SHOW ME HOW YOU DRAW RHEA FIRE EMBLEM

my pieces for fodlan's fables (inspiration from little briar rose, jack and the beanstalk, twinkle twinkle little star respectively). 2020