You can call me Raphi. I mostly post photography, fashion, and fandom, but also sometimes other things. This is a personal/multifandom blog with a heavy dose of meta. Current theme featuring Shulk from Xenoblade Chronicles.

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indygogo:

You can thank me later

no less IC than certain DLC! 

Untitled by ポテ子

amielleon:

amielleon:

Because I love Fire Emblem and its tropes.

Fanart Credits

Julia and Alvis - 親子 (“Parent and Child”) by まよ (Ma-yo)

Prince Soren - Fate’s Plaything by keiii

Soren in the buff - Can’t find the source and saved it some seven years ago. Let me know if you know. (The full art is here.)

I originally planned this joke with Lyon too, but he didn’t fit very well into the rhythm. Sorry, Lyon. Here he is for those of you who care.

perfect

amielleon:

Because I love Fire Emblem and its tropes.

Fanart Credits

Julia and Alvis - 親子 (“Parent and Child”) by まよ (Ma-yo)

Prince Soren - Fate’s Plaything by keiii

Soren in the buff - Can’t find the source and saved it some seven years ago. Let me know if you know. (The full art is here.)

amielleon:

professor-tammi:

assassin-gen:

krad-the-tactician:

Is it just me, or is Soren just really … overhyped as a character?

I’m kind of* curious as to why he’s so popular in the fandom; though it’s obvious in some regards. Probably being part of the main OTP probably has something to do with it, as well as the Draco in Leather Pants trope.  And then there’s the fact it’s a lot more fun/easy to ‘relate’ with the woobie-ish characters (a reoccurring habit among fandoms).

Eh.

I guess I’m just slightly disappointed that more love isn’t spread around the other characters when there’s just so many of them.  Nasir, y’guys. 

i like Nasir better than Soren, does that count?

I like Soren better as a unit if only because I never use dragons because my only laguz ever is Ranulf C’:

???

He’s really neither overhyped nor overrated, because he’s a genuinely well-written and complex character — it’s not like he’s one of those weirdly popular yet shallow characters (I am mostly talking about certain FE13 characters here… …). There really is a lot of depth to him.

For fandom to apply the “Draco in Leather Pants” trope to a character isn’t a good thing at all, though! It essentially means they’re throwing most of the character’s personality out of a window… which is admittedly a thing that tends to happen to a lot of popular characters. D:

But I do feel like there are a lot of other FE characters who get plenty of love, too, especially here on tumblr? Nasir is indeed rather overshadowed, though, which is a bit of a shame…

Mostly re: OP —

I suspect that the amount of dramatic information you get about a character and the size of his/her fanbase is related exponentially. But I haven’t really been in other fandoms for awhile so that’s nothing but my gut feeling.

Soren really is favored by the game itself, though. Of all the characters in Tellius, you get the most detail about Soren’s backstory, the kind of person he is, and even the circumstances of his birth. Soren is perhaps the only character whose entire life can be accounted for almost year by year via canon. (The only ambiguities are whether he changed hands for the first time at 2, 3, or 4, and when he reunited with Ike.)

The game’s own informational bias is honestly kind of weird, but not unprecedented — the developers seemed to have a similar affinity for Fin in FE4, going so far as to base FE5 off a concept story that’s basically half about Fin’s feelings.

There is something to be said for the appeal of sad, tragic “woobie” characters… but it certainly isn’t universal, or I would be rolling around in beautiful Nageki art all the time. Instead, Hatoful fandom likes Shuu, the creepy psychopathic doctor.

(Fwiw, Soren’s depiction in fanfic is often overly PMSy or angry instead of following uke tropes, which makes me suspect that his appeal is not solely based out of his tragic squish appeal. There’s a certain amount of Leather Pantsing going on, but I think that’s a symptom rather than a cause of the “disease”.

Though I grant you that being part of Tellius’s biggest OTP will definitely draw in a huge demographic.)

Yeah, what Ammie said. The moe aspect is exaggerated in perception, because it stands out as “wrong”, but in truth, most Soren stuff leans toward the spiny-angry, maybe tsundere. 

But canon definitely favors him, the same way it favors Ninian among non-lords in FE7. (Not that fandom really reflects that, but eh.) Across canons, though, larger fandom patterns tend to latch onto one lord and one love interest. FE7’s got Lyn and Kent or Mark. FE8’s got Eirika and Seth. And 9/10 have Ike and Soren. 

(Nothing before 7 really has a collection of work or discussion in English large enough to decipher, though.) 

Personally, if I were to pick a character who’s overhyped in Tellius — really, in FE as a whole? It’d be the other half of said pairing. Ike is great and all, but he gets a whole lot of credit for being “unique” among lords when… really, in most ways, he isn’t. The outline’s been there since, uh, FE2. Soren, at least, brings things to the Waifish Magic Love Interest trope that Diadora, Ninian, Sophia, et al don’t even touch. 

quasiemblem:

vilkalizer:

this is glorious

best use ever of that stupid poofy dress

ever

and that purple flower suits him so well

I’m digging the thigh-highs, to be perfectly honest.

iveysaur:

psychologicalmumbojumbo:

natnat34:

i want one!

This looks like a Plot Device that, when smashed, will turn the desert into a beautiful forest or something.

the second one is soo pretty

turn a desert into a forest, you say

her reign was remembered as a golden age.