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)
it’s the return of chicken scratch fe3h…i just wanted to draw something dumb and i liked the idea of edel and dorothea trying to mastermind one of those simultaneous gay proposals LOLL
May I…stay here with you? May I believe in you? May I love you?…May I have this dance?
Just like how CF is shorter than the other routes, this comic shorter, but that’s because it’s not the end but a new beginning for edelgard haha badum tss
One of the major problems with Three Houses is that sometimes it tries to make you feel bad for poor Edelgard and how alone she is (now that I’ve stolen her entire house out from under her, anyway) and how much she hates what she “has” to do. I don’t feel bad for her, game! This is entirely her own doing! If she didn’t want to have to fight her school friends she shouldn’t have declared war on her school friends! No one is makingher try to subjugate the entire bloody continent, that was entirely her own decision!
INKTOBER 6 - The Immaculate One, Fire Emblem Three Houses
Personally I do not feel mercy for this character and I hated her in all the FE3H routes and even more so in the DLC, she is so guilty of all the misfortunes of Fodlan, along with Those Who Slither in the Dark, who are the true villains of this play.
This deranged dragon is not really difficult to beat, but she has severe “artificial difficulty” problems which makes this battle frustrating and tiresome. the Silver Snow route.
Especially when he uses “Miracle” and even more so that he has the “Luck” statistic that is too high (many more than any of your units and enemy) when even any character or enemy has “Miracle” at his few health points, he can make a powerful counterattack according to her statistics of “Luck” that in turn can beat her speaker and this wretch has very high levels (like all the dragons of the Silver Snow route and even much more) and but uses “Miracle” in any time of battle and kill all your units in one hit to repeat this battle again.
What is the solution to this? The truth is nothing, you will have to go with the mentality that at any moment she will use a miracle and that if you are lucky if she does not use a miracle since it is a random, something similar to what happens in Dark Souls with The Bed of Chaos, you have to go with the mentality that will throw you off the stage, it is a matter of luck if you can beat it the first time.
That is why I like to battle against her on the Edelgard route, it is a matter of Greek tragedy, that they defeat her with the Heroes’ Relics, those who played the game know where the origin of her comes from.
