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Modern AU Headcanon Time

What is your modern job headcanon for your favourite characters? Are they similar to the one they have in-game? Do you prefer to choose to do something different and let them have jobs that others wouldn't have associated with the characters? Why do you think those jobs fit the characters? Do you have characters that, in your mind, could do almost every job?

Personally, I think that Frelia would "turn" into an airline with Hayden as the owner, the pegasus riders as pilots, Gilliam as a security guy or something, Moulder as the head of the labour union (and caring for the pilots´ mental health), etc.

Ephraim would totally become a professional athlete (martial arts more than team sports). Eirika could become pretty much everything, imo, though I think that founding a firm and being a boss might not be her first choice. I can totally see her working with kids (she could totally become a teacher like Fado).

Lyon would try to follow in his dad´s footsteps and become a lawyer, but notices that law is not for him and then studies a science, biology or chemistry or both. Knoll also totally becomes a biologist.

Sooooo, what is your headcanon? :3

Fanfiction: Circumlocution

Characters/pairings: Eirika/L'Arachel
Rating: PG
Word Count: 5,500
Genre: Drama, mostly.
Author's note: I haven't seen any decent-length Eirika/L'Arachel fic lying around, despite my secret love of the pairing, so I wrote this. :[ Appropriately wordy for a piece that features Rausten's very own darling princess. 

Find it on FF.Net here.

On knight/royal pairings

From the way the Seth/Eirika supports go, one might assume that marriages between royalty and their knights are forbidden in Magvel.  The way the entire Ismaire/Carlyle fiasco plays out lends this some support, and a good deal of fanfic and meta uses this assumption as a springboard in any event.

On examination, though, is it really the case?  Consider the counter-evidence.

1) Seth/Eirika paired ending.  "[They] were wed, with the blessings of Ephraim and all the Knights of Renais.  The tale... became a beloved romance in Renais."  Sounds like nobody objects, then.

2) Joshua and his ladies.  Both the ending with Natasha (his "perfect companion") and the one with Marisa indicate no hint of turmoil, and you might imagine that the citizens of Jehanna would be a wee bit leery of unconventional relationships.  Apparently not.

3) Innes/Vanessa.  All of it.  Not to mention their paired ending also states they "lived happily with the blessing of all around them."  And while Joshua might be pegged as a renegade royal who does things his own way, I don't recall any indication that Innes is a particularly oddball Prince of Frelia.  If anything, he's presented as the opposite, a royal heir who strives to fulfill the common expectation of what the role requires.  He's got no problem at all hooking up with one of his knights (even if we assume he doesn't marry her) and apparently no one else is bothered by it, either. 

In fact, the royal marriage that does cause public outcry is the union of Ephraim and L'Arachel, which "throws Rausten into turmoil" for whatever reason.  Interesting.  

World-building in Magvel being what it is, we know next to nothing about the marriages of any of the senior representatives of the royal houses. We don't know if Fado, Vigarde, and Hayden married nobles/clerics from their own courts, or foreigners, or perhaps members of their own retinue of knights[*].  As the game doesn't mention any of the royal heirs being closely related, it's not too likely that Fado married Hayden's sister (for example), but that's still within the realm of possibility.

But, aside from the situation of Carlyle and Ismaire-- a unique situation of a ruling queen with a dead husband and a missing son-- there's not really hard evidence that matches between royalty and commoners are forbidden.  In Ismaire's case, a second marriage could potentially result in a "king" of Jehanna whose progeny could break the line of descent from Jehanna's unnamed founder, so Carlyle's situation is especially problematic.  He's got more against him than just being a commoner, even if we assume (again) that second marriages are even allowed in Magvel.  As [livejournal.com profile] crimsonmorgans pointed out, they might not be.  We don't have positive evidence for second marriages being acceptable.
 
At any rate, while the marriage of Eliwood to either Fiora or Lyn in FE7 is stated to cause conflicts/uproar, we don't see anyone in Magvel throwing fits over Joshua bringing home a cleric from Grado, or even over Eirika going off to nowhere land to live with some dude in the mountains.  The only thing the public won't take, apparently, is L'Arachel Princess of Light taking the Restoration King as her husband.  (Again, interesting.)

So, what's up with all the objections raised in the Eirika/Seth supports?  Well, it could be a couple of things.  There could be a double standard for acceptable behavior in princes and acceptable behavior in princesses.  There might be a different standard of conduct in Renais, the nation with no female knights or generals, compared to Frelia.  Or the whole dynamic could say more about Seth and Eirika, their personalities and self-perceptions and fears, than about Renais in particular or Magvel in general.  Note the vast difference in tone between Eirika's supports with Seth and her supports with Forde.

I tend to think Seth's objections are coming from more of a personal level.  The way Eirika made him feel during their escape rattled his self-perception and some of his own core assumptions re: duty and social roles, and I don't think that can be underestimated.  He wasn't expecting that.  From the way he speaks of it in their A-support, it got to him deeply.  And if the great knight of Renais can feel that way for his princess, what else might be he capable of that he doesn't even know or expect?  Over the course of the war, Seth sees more than enough of the damage caused by obsessive love; he wouldn't want to even think about risking Eirika and everything else he values.  The cost, as seen in the antics of Orson, Carlyle, and Lyon, would simply be too great.  And Eirika, at least in the course of their conversation, does echo the objections as Seth defines them.

And then she marries him anyway.  Hmm...

* A fair possibility for Hayden, in any event, especially as royal women serve as Pegasus Knights.  

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[personal profile] raphiael2012-01-05 07:03 pm
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Dreamwidth question

A quick question for the community: how would you feel about mirroring the comm on Dreamwidth? Posts here would remain the same; the only difference would be that I would import all the old posts and comment threads on DW, and posts could be crossposted from there to here. This way people who've switched platforms can access posting to the comm without going to LJ. 

Community import on DW is not live for me yet, but when it does happen, I can do this if you guys would like. Again, it's not a "move" (you wouldn't ever need to go to DW if I do it right), just a mirror. 
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[personal profile] raphiael2011-12-08 10:05 pm
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[meta] (link) Saleh

Because I'm always talking about how anyone can post and all that, I should really put my money where my mouth is, shouldn't I?

Anyway, I just posted a meta thing without really thinking over on my public meta journal, [livejournal.com profile] noneedforwings, but I thought it might be of interest to the community (and I should have probably posted it here instead, oops). 

Link is here! 

As always you can all feel free to post anything FE8 related you do here, either on the comm itself or as a link c: 

Also: if anyone has any suggestions for themes for a reboot of our previous contests, please feel free to send them to me via PM!
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[personal profile] raphiael2011-12-03 03:29 pm
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[mod post] comm pimping, and question

For anyone interested, [livejournal.com profile] fe_exchange is holding their holiday fic/art swaps. If you're interested in doing it this year, sign up fast!

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Also, is anyone interested in possibly restarting the periodic theme challenges? I figure it'd be a good way to keep the comm alive and all that good stuff. Let me know here (or via PM or messenger) if you have any input on things, or ideas, or anything, really. 

Fic: Straining Your Neck

It's time for me to post here again, isn't it. So here have some family tiems~

Title: Straining Your Neck
Fandom: Fire Emblem 8
Rating: G
Word Count: 1310
Main characters: Innes, Hayden
A/N: This was part of a longer "collection" of scenes with Innes and Hayden portraying Innes´ relationship with his father. I believe that Innes looks up to his father very much, even more when he was a child (and wanted to be like him) and I kinda wanted to show that progress, but I hate the other scenes. So you only get the first one, aka this one, because it's cute and works perfectly on its own. Little!Innes is squishy.

Summary: Innes knows he isn't supposed to disturb his father when he takes care of the matters of state, but this matter is important to the young boy.

Posted on ff.net and on dreamwidth.
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October Tenth: Fall

This is the 10th picture in my October daily FE8 Challenge!

Decided to go with another traditional picture, made this kinda quick, hope you
enjoy! : )
Yay Tana~ (she's ok)

Full Post: http://norree.livejournal.com/4246.html

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October Ninth: Burst

This one's a traditional one, and it's on sale for $5.oo! <3

Full post: http://norree.livejournal.com/3974.html#cutid1

October Eighth: Indecision

Here's a real quickie, made this in a few minutes!

Full image&post here! http://norree.livejournal.com/3683.html
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October Fifth: Happy

Posted this a day late cause of downtime! However, it was posted on deviantart on time so some of you might have already seen it.


Click here for full post! http://norree.livejournal.com/2575.html

October Third: Stars

So for the 3rd I'm glad to finally have a night picture!

October Second: Brothers

Here is October Second!
This one is cute, but bittersweet. :>
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Crack pairings

What are your guys' stance on uncommon/crack pairings in FE8?

Personally, I don't mind who gets paired up with whom as long as the situation that leads up to it is in any way plausible; this includes AUs, so to me, any of them are possible, really... I just like the idea of seeing characters become closer to each other through some unexpected circumstance that you wouldn't usually see in the Fire Emblem games--that's the stuff of fiction.

But what do you think? Do you like the idea of crack pairings, or does the idea of trying to romantically pair up characters who have had next to no interaction just not appeal to you? Feel free to defend your OTPs and such, too; I just want to shift the conversation towards the characters' personal relationships, and what people think about them.
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October First Daily FE Drawing!

As some of you may already know, for every day of October I will post
one Fire Emblem(Sacred Stones) picture, leading up to Halloween!
Anyone else is welcome to challenge themselves to do the same!

I will try to draw most of the cast : ) Although my favorites may show... Scroll down for full picture link!
 
Full picture here!
http://norree.livejournal.com/1570.html
I anyone has any requests for characters, lemme know!

October Daily FE8 Drawing Challenge!

So I will be attempting to do an October Challenge, in which I draw a FE8 picture every day of the month, leading up to Halloween.

And, I want to post them to the community, but that would be one post every day. So how should I post them? I have no problem with posting every day, but would that be too spammy for everyone?

Oh, and most of the pics will be of the characters in our modern world, because they'll be based off of my AU fanfic. Some will still probably be knight related, tho.

Any advice is really appreciated!!

Also, in case anyone didn't see, have two fall chibi pics under the cut!artsy fartsy )