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Holy King Dimitri - King of Delusion

I thought it’d be cool if dimitri got an antagonist form like [spoiler] and I wished that CF played more into some stuff they lightly imply w him so here are some loosely drawn Holy King Dimitris

some nerd story thoughts below for the design [FE3H AM & CF SPOILERS]

Some misc/clarifying notes bc while it would be cool & smart i’m unlikely to ever make a real reference style drawing of Holy King Dimitri
- it’s his alt. hairstyle
- his fur cape has a radial star/sword pattern around the collar
- his cloak has a dragon wing-esque pattern and ribbing to it
- circlet w classic church patterning and an eye-like jewel at the center
- left side armor chest scar for his bleeding heart nature until someone tells me a good reason why it’s on the right
- he’s loyal to Rhea for the normal canon reasons & also she saved his life w her blood after a particularly brutal and reckless battle. though his right eye appears to be healed he still cannot see through it
- faerghus troops would be named something religious sounding and HK!Dimitri would lead them on Holy Crusades

now for the true nerd & spoiler stuff:

Sight and the lack of it is Holy King Dimitri’s theme. Dimitri is kind, full of emotion, and focused on what’s in front of him. With Rhea’s manipulation, Holy King Dimitri is all of the above to a fault. She capitalizes on his blind spots and direct nature, and gradually dictates everything he’s aware of. HK!Dimitri sees the war casualties and fallen innocents, but not the secret experiments and systematic inequalities that cause harm in the long term. Eventually, he would be blind even to the former, as long as it’s committed by the Church or one of his Holy Crusades. By the time something causes him to recognize the manipulations of the Church the corrupt masterminds around him, it’ll be too late - or maybe he’ll live forever in his delusion until he falls to the Emperor’s axe.

i thought about it but Holy King Dimitri would not have a monster form. Just like how Hegemon Edelgard is Dimitri’s worst fear (becoming a monster, estranged and out of touch w her subjects, ambition at a devastating cost), Holy King Dimitri is Edelgard’s worst fear. She is not afraid of becoming a monster; she’s afraid of becoming a puppet ruler, a king/emperor with all the bravado of one, but no real power or agency to protect what she truly values.

She’s afraid of being a shortsighted and gullible human being, overlooking the same hidden injustices that shaped her childhood and missing the unseen victims, just like how she was. If Dimitri fears the emotional distance between a ruler their subjects that can allow them to justify difficult choices over the body count of individuals, Edelgard fears being too close & too emotionally precious to see the bigger picture and the body count of those fallen prey to a larger system. 

anyways fe3h doesn’t seem to be interested in truly presenting Dimitri as a possible antagonist but i think he has so much villain potential, and i mean that in the best way possible!! it’s all there man! and it’d make the duality of edelgard & dimitri that much more compelling asldkj thanks for coming to my ted talk

(also i love edelgard so if u really don’t like her that’s valid but i don’t need to know)

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Thank to the FE3H datamine, I could get my paws on the FE3H pixel sprites, and turned one of Rhea’s into a pattern to be used as a needlebook.