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    Leatherman Jacket Lucina

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 02:35 PM PST

    Awakening Anna pixel art! Haven't done this style in a while, but I'm happy with how it turned out!

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 01:04 PM PST

    I drew Lyn :D

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 07:51 AM PST

    Why Corrin's dragon form feels so underdeveloped

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 05:22 AM PST

    Warning: This article contains spoilers for Fire Emblem Fates, Awakening and Three Houses. You have been warned.

    Some of you may recall that back in 2015 at the end of the first Fates trailer, a dragon is seen choking Azura before they turn into a human. The next trailer confirmed that the Lord of this game, Corrin, has the ability to both fully and partially transform into a dragon. This was nothing new to the series, as humanoids who can transform into dragons have existed since the very first game. It is, however, the first time said shapeshifter has been the main character. And while I'm sure that some people got a kick out of playing a half dragon demi-god prince who wields a flaming chainsword, many others thought this feature to be rather... disappointing.

    The most frequent criticism is the fact that after the route split Corrin's ability to transform into a dragon is barley brought up again. Not counting Kana's paralogue there are only SIX moments in total where Corrin's shapeshifting powers are mentioned in the main game. Those are:

    Birthright Chapter 27

    Garon: NOW YOU SEE MY TRUE FORM. THE BLOOD OF THE DRAGONS RUNS IN MY VEINS—AS IT DOES YOURS.

    Conquest Chapter 7

    Corrin: Wow... s-such power! I'm out of my league. I have no choice... I'll have to use my Dragonstone. (Sidenote: Corrin doesn't get the chance to actually transform)

    Revelation Chapter 25

    Sumeragi: Corrin... You needn't rely on your sword alone. there is greater power within you. Unleash it—avenge your mother. Give me a real battle!

    Once in M!Corrin's Support with Kiragi

    Corrin: Well, I tried a lot of things. Facial scrubs, special ointments, essential oils... But what did the trick was learning to suppress my dragon power.

    Kiragi: Your dragon power?

    Corrin: Yeah. There's a strange source of inner energy I always feel. Even in human form. I never really noticed it until after the first time I transformed. I still don't know what an aura is, but it sounded similar, so I gave it a shot.

    And twice in F!Corrin's Support with Selkie

    Selkie: You have horns, right? On your head?

    Corrin: Um...

    Selkie: You know what I mean. When you turn into a dragon. You have horns?

    Corrin: Yes, I suppose I do. Although I haven't spent much time looking in the mirror as a dragon.

    ---

    Selkie: Nope! Now we've gotta go get you a pair of cute fuzzy ears just like mine! Since you like 'em so much, you know!

    Corrin: Um...

    Selkie: What? You don't have to wear 'em when you're a dragon or anything. Plus, it'd be another great chance to go running in the forest. Wheeee!

    To make matters worse Chapter 5, where Corrin fully transform for the first time into their dragon form, is also the chapter that introduces the Yato, so the reveal of Corrin being a dragon shapeshifter is quickly overshadowed with the reveal of him being the Chosen Wielder of the Divine Blade. What also doesn't help is that Corrin's shapeshifiting ability lacks a sense of growth because he doesn't learn new attacks or skills for his dragon form. This means that Corrin learning to control and master his newly discovered draconic powers isn't reflective of his character development.

    So while the Yato becomes stronger as the story progresses, gets to have multiple forms, is the only weapon that can defeat the final boss and is revealed to be the this world's version of the titular Fire Emblem, Corrin's dragon form only had about 10 minutes in the spotlight before it lost all narrative revelance and oomph.

    What happened? Why after all this build up and hype about Corrin being the first shapeshifter protagonist in the series does their ability to do so ends up feeling more like a footnote?

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    First, let's address the issue that the reveal of Corrin's shapeshifter powers doesn't affect his interactions with the other main characters. None of the characters who witnessed Corrin's transformation treat or think about him any differently then they did before. The game does explain that in the ancient past people from both the Hoshidan and Nohrian bloodline could transform into a dragon, so the main cast assumes that Corrin just happened to have won the genetic lottery, and our heroes never find out that Corrin's biological father is actually the dragon Anankos. But it's still treated far too casually, with neither sets of his siblings addressing it at all. Imagine if in Harry Potter after the "You're a wizard, Harry" scene the rest of books focused on Harry's life in the muggle world dealing with muggle problems and magic only being used for the most trivial things. And I think the reason why no one treats Corrin special for being able to transform into a dragon is because he's already treated special for being the Chosen Wielder of the Yato.

    And you know, on some level I can understand why the devs decided to focus on the Yato. It feels like a natural fit to Corrin's character because you can easily make the conclusion that the Yato picked him as its wielder because of his "Child of Two Worlds" background. And the way the Yato unlocks its more powerful forms is by drawing powers form the the other holy weapons if the masters of the respective weapons have their own hearts in sync with the owner of the Yato, so only by uniting both of his families in Revelation is Corrin able to unlock the Yato's full power. But where it gets problematic is that Corrin's dragon powers are not connected to the Divine Blade, such as that the Yato actually works as a restraint bolt to keep his powerful dragon blood in check, or that it is secretly the key to awaken his true hidden powers. And so, as I mentioned earlier, the Yato ends up overshadowing Corrin's dragon form.

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    To better illustrate my next point I want to compare Corrin to two other Fire Emblem characters: Nah from Awakening, and Byleth from Three Houses.

    Nah is the future daughter of Nowi and the first Human-Manakete hybrid child in the Akaneia games.

    Due to her Manakete blood Nah ages physically slower than a human. Despite being about the same age as most 2.Gen characters Nah looks like a pre-teen girl, which is why many of her supports deal with her being frustated that because of her appearance she's treated like a child by her allies. And while it doesn't play a huge part in her characterization the story acknowledges that Nah's longer lifespan means that she will outlive all of her human friends. But Nah's most interesting quirk is shown in her support with F!Robin, where the latter watches as Nah in her dragon from destroys a forest, and when Robin asks Nah why she did that her response is:

    Nah: Every now and then, I get this incredible urge to just...run amok. It's like a really horrible itch that HAS to be scratched. So I turn into a dragon and rampage for a bit. It's genetic or...something.

    This incident is referenced again by the Awakening Trio in Hidden Truths 2

    Anankos: But hundreds of years ago, the dragon realized something terrible. His ancient animal instincts were beginning to invade his thoughts. Though he adored his kingdom, he also felt an intense desire to destroy it. Each day, those feelings grew stronger, and his control over them began to wane.

    Severa: That sounds familiar. A friend of ours can turn into a dragon as well. She said sometimes she gets an incredible urge to rampage a bit. Is that what you mean?

    Anankos: Hmm, perhaps it was something very similar to that. But as the dragon had tremendous power, those urges were also tremendous.

    And by Nah's Heroes incarnation.

    I'm still inexperienced in the ways of Manakete.

    Sometimes I have trouble fighting the urge to go wild...

    So if I lose control, I want you to take me out to a forest where I can't hurt anyone. All right?

    By comparison, Corrin has been aging as a regular person and whetever or not they have an extented lifespan is never addressed. And unlike Nah, Corrin never struggles to resist his dragonic urges even though a major element in the lore of both the Akaneia games and Fates is that all dragons are doomed to eventually turn into mindless beasts. In other words we never see Corrin dealing with the negatives sides of his dragon blood.

    The closest thing Fates has is when in Chapter 5 Corrin was at risk of losing himself to a mindless rampage if it weren't for Azura's intervention who managed to calm him down and transform back into his human form. It's a fine scene, but then there's no follow up to this. Nah had a lifetime to learn her powers and yet she still occasinally gets the urge to go 'Nah SMASH!'. Speaking of smash, Bruce Banner has to avoid getting too angry or stressful or else he turns into the Hulk. The half vampire Blade is constantly fighting his blood addiction. Or look up any shonen manga where the hero has to directly confront their Super-Powerful Evil Side in a Battle In The Center Of The Mind. Corrin though? After Azura gives him a dragonstone* Corrin gains the means to transform without succumbing to his destructive urges, losing all potential for future drama and exploration.

    \No, the game does not explain why she conveniently happend to have one in her pocket, but your hands down.)

    Next up is Byleth from Three Houses.

    Right from the beginning Three Houses establishes that Byleth seems incapable of expressing emotions, even earning the nickname "Ashen Demon" due to their combat prowess and habit of showing absolutely no emotions when battling enemies. But over the course of the first year Byleth slowly starts to become more social and expressive due to their time as an instructor at the monastery.

    At the end of Silver Snow we learn that at birth Byleth was stillborn and their mother started dying from childbirth complications. Acting on the mother's request, Rhea transferred the Goddess's Crest Stone to Byleth, saving their life and intertwining them with Sothis. But due to their ancestry* Byleth also became the 13th vessel for Sothis and the first one to sucessfully bring her back to an extent. The game implies the reason for Byleth stoicism and seemingly lack of emotions (as an infant they never laughed or cried) is a magically enforced side effect of the crest stone and it's only after Sothis fully awoke that Byleth's feelings began coming out more naturally.

    So if you wanted to change Byleth from "Sothis' Vessel" to "Normal Human" you would have to completly rewrite their personality and character arc in the first half of the game. Whereas if you changed Corrin into a "Normal Human" they would still be the exact same person.

    \The game never explicty says how human Byleth really is, but their father has Nabatean blood [from when Rhea saved him as a youth] and their mother is a Nabatean homunculus, meaning that Byleth is) technically a Half-Human Hybrid.

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    So to summarize with Nah and Byleth we see how their non-human heritage affects their interactions with other characters and their own personalities. In Nah's case it's used a source for both external and internal struggle and in Byleth's case as the basis for their character arc. But Fates somehow managed to miss every oppourtunity to use Corrin's status as a half-dragon as a means for him to grow, develop, or have interesting dynamics with other characters. Even the relationship between the dragon Anankos and Corrin as father and son is ultimately only used to humanize Anankos' character rather than to develop Corrin's.

    Do you agree with my points? Let me known your thoughts in the comments.

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    Here is a drawing of Mercedes ✏️

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 02:35 PM PST

    Myself as your favorite mommy Camilla. Cosplay made by myself! Hope you’re gonna like it, it took so much effort~

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 03:41 PM PST

    Brigid (FE4)

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 06:46 PM PST

    A Day in the Life of Heroes - All Pity, No Break

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 06:51 PM PST

    Christmas Mercedes

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 06:14 PM PST

    Fir in Karla's clothes! [commission drawn by @ray_ryuusaki on Twitter]

    Posted: 21 Dec 2020 11:45 PM PST

    Lucia as a student in FE3H

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 06:42 PM PST

    Did a closet cosplay of Lethe!

    Posted: 21 Dec 2020 08:55 PM PST

    Henry Chibi Drawing i drew :)

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 12:36 PM PST

    Christmas Hilda Fanart!

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 03:14 PM PST

    Trueblade Lucia Sketch (OC)

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 05:13 PM PST

    Sigurd's Unused Damage Animation from Genealogy

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 09:33 AM PST

    Hilda Valentine Goneril (OC)

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 04:31 PM PST

    Naga fanart :D

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 04:17 AM PST

    Happy belated birthday Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd ����

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 02:48 AM PST

    From the Sword Demon to the Sword Saint

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 11:33 AM PST

    "i'M a GrEeN uNiT!"

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 07:34 PM PST

    Claude Witnesses The Reunification of House Daphnel (drawn by u/chocomeat)

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 12:31 PM PST

    |OC| I'll dance with you in my heart.

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 12:36 PM PST

    Would you like to see Anna's boyfriend, Jake, come back?

    Posted: 22 Dec 2020 04:28 PM PST

    I know Anna is a very popular character and shows up in a ton of FE games. However, would you be interested in ever seeing her more obscure boyfriend, Jake, appear in another game? I think he would've been a great addition for Three Houses, since Anna is kind of useless in terms of story and supports in that game. I think if they added Jake or another foil to Anna it would've given her more story and interest.

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