just fire emblem things

• read a suuuuper cute headcanon on reddit today about Meg, in a what-if post if she got in FEH: "The core of this build is her unorthodox statline, her personal skill Fortune (prevents crits), and a personal headcanon: that Brom and the whole Ohma village had her sword and armor blessed by the local priest for her big adventure. Nothing but the best for his lil' girl."
  
  • I love this headcanon!  this alone gives her so much more character than RD gave, and emphasizes her real bonds with the home community and with Brom that Crimea as a nation does so well (see also, Nephenee). It also gives her a window of opportunity to grow into way beyond just a one-note joke, to the point I wish that fully-written supports were a thing because this would be a perfect thing to weave in.

• Had so much fun writing Ghost in the Dunes late last year I've been tossing around ideas for a sequel set in Hatari. Nailah's just too cool. Part of the reason I think I liked it was that the fic was very intentionally ... concise. tight. wasn't going to do more than those 3 big scenes, and every smaller scene in there was absolutely needed for the plot to work.
  
  • The best I've got so far is that somehow, Izuka's feral potion got diluted/modified into something that's basically like, heroin/a steroid for laguz, and Nailah's got issues with what's basically cartel gangs in Hatari and trying to stamp them out, lol (I didn't say it was a good idea!). Unfortunately that idea's way, way too wide-spanning to spin into something 2-3 scenes which is better for simple character explorations, although the idea of stat boosters having a dark side to them has always tickled my nose with potential.
  • Another fic idea I briefly considered was Rafiel talking with Renning (post feral-potion poisoning in RD pt4), now that I've got a handle on Rafiel. Not nearly as confident as getting the character voice for those two, so going to sit on that until after Nagamas is done, and/or the RD playthrough.

• fic rec // I remember very few works from the old ff.net days, but one fic that's always lingered around the recesses of my mind is Queen of Sorrow. in a nutshell, it's basically "what if" Elincia starts spiraling, after the events of Pt2 of RD, and begins treading on a very dark path where all knives are pointed towards her. Basically, Worst End RD.  While keeping in mind that this was read during my highschool days, I always thought that the level of nuanced characterization was unreal, and shockingly good while respecting both the tone and everyone's backstories. Never really particularly cared for Elincia as a character but this fic basically single-handedly gave me that.