My boss called me “Tyrone” on accident (My name is Tyrand). She apologized and bought me lunch to make up for it. I didn’t think twice about it, since I’m used to getting called every variant of “Ty-(fill in blank here)”. Then later on I read a quote she keeps in her work area that made me feel kinda special.
“During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade. “Absolutely,” said the professor. “In your careers you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say ‘Hello’.”
I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.“
An idea for a Fire Emblem game. It’s mostly set in the magical faerie world where there are mythical creatures like fairies, dragons, vampires, etc. The Princess is kidnapped/lured away into the other world by fairies. I think it would be cool to have a plot that isn’t about defeating a world-destroying demon/dragon possessing someone’s body…
Brigette and Antony are the two main characters you control from the beginning. One could be an avatar you could change the appearance of, idk.
Please feel free to ask me any questions about it!!! ❤
Some ideas –
They try to find the princess but she’s declared missing/dead and they give up their search until years later.
The avatar is a noble/politician’s kid from the “real world” and Brigette and Anthony are their retainers. In the beginning there are mysterious happenings in the “real world” such as reports of strange beings attacking people, artefacts being stolen, etc. The avatar and their retainers investigate and on the way get more people into their army.
It turns out those strange happenings are a result of the gate between the fairy world and the real world being broken, and the gate breaks for one year every 15 years. The avatar’s army steps into the fairy world and that’s where the mid-game onwards plot is.
To distinguish the “real world” from the fantasy one the “real world” is based on the Victorian era/Industrial age instead of medieval times like the usual FE games. This would also allow the use of new weapons like guns/muskets and new warfare strategies.
Speaking of guns the “iron burns fairies” trope will be there, but exploited and played with, like some enemies will have a gimmick that makes them immune to iron based weapons for a few turns. Or have coverage moves/weapons to deal with iron.
Instead of stereotypical “magic” (because it’s the Victorian era) there will be a new weapon called “science” which functions the same way. Acid deals fire damage, poison gas will deal wind damage, and alkali will deal electrical damage. So the classes cleric, sage, and valkyrie/strategist are now scribe, medic, and scholar/scientist instead.
Traditional magic and tomes will exist in the “fairy world” though and your party will be a mix of human and fairy characters. Each will have its own gimmick and skillset and stats.
The fairy land is a story that’s told in the “real world”, in the sense like how we see the “medieval fantasy” genre. Books and plays are written taking place in that world, it has its own set of tropes, lore, world building, etc. So expect a few lines about “OMG it’s just like how I read in (book/play)” or “X only exists in fairy stories *x is behind them*”
Plot Twist: The princess is the villain, and the villain from the get-go. She was a royal brat who was obsessed with fairy stories and fantasy to the point of neglecting her lessons and duties.
She was abusive to everyone, her parents, retainers, other kids her age even though they were kind to her because they wanted her to come to reality and could “never understand her like her books could.” Basically she showed empathy to fiction but not to actual people.
She would keep having outbursts and running away from the castle, and then it was the year where the gate broke, so she found the fairy world was real. She made a plan to escape there. She drugged her nanny and bodyguards with sleeping draught and escaped the castle.
When she got to fairy world, she thought she was like the characters from her stories. She thought she was the “chosen heroine” who was to go on a quest and save the land from its problems. She ended up becoming its conqueror and the people played along with her delusions out of fear.
(Basically the princess is a deconstruction of an Isekai/light novel protagonist and of the “kids wanting to escape to a fantasy world” trope)
Initially the heroes think fairy world is a mostly happy place being beset upon by an evil dragon (like conventional FE games) and that the princess is the benevolent and loved queen (in fact she PRETENDS to be an Emmeryn/Mikoto archetype in front of others).
…in actuality the dragons and demons are an endangered species in that world and are being persecuted by the princess. You can recruit the dragons and demons in the late game.
The princess had a younger sister who she also used to bully and abuse (but the younger sister was a baby/toddler so she only remembers fragments). The younger sister was the ignored “unfavourite” child but she was loving and kind to everybody. Basically a “good counterpart” to her elder sister.
After what happened to her older sister, her parents got convinced that fairy stories are evil and made their first daughter like that (they didn’t, she was a bad seed anyway). So even though the younger sister also loved fantasy, they would abuse her every time she showed interest in it and banned those books from their home, and do the stereotypical “anime parent logic” of never telling the child WHY they did what they did.
a girl i know told me how a guy she knows once moved out from his parents, ate nothing but fries and meatballs for HALF A YEAR, and got scurvy. imagine the doctor’s face when this guy shows up with like his gums bleeding and the doc has to fucking say DUDE…. THATS SCURVY…. in this day and age
this is turning into a “how a person i know got scurvy” thread and im so here for this, please share your scurvy stories if you have any
the other day someone posted pics from the reddit page r/zerocarbs where these fools only ate meat and 0 vegetables or fruits and all the posts were about various symptoms of scurvy. i died when one literally read ‘i don’t want to start the vitamin C debate again but’
THE VITAMIN C DEBATE
My mother told me all about scurvy when I was five and trying to resist eating pumpkin and let me tell you it’s been 35 years and I still get nervous if I go for two days without eating a green vegetable.
I told my own little picky eater about scurvy, rickets etc and now one of her most frequently requested lunch items is baby spinach, closely followed by carrots.
I’m not saying everyone should mildly traumatize their children to make them understand that vegetables are vital to ongoing possession of your teeth and organs, but.. no, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Go for it.
some guys i used to know went on a boys only road trip. they decided they were only going to eat things they could cook on the engine block of the car.
two of them got scurvy. one of them drank so much jagermeister + red bull that he temporarily lost the ability to see in colour.
Um yall… I was typing in the tag “no more” and.. This is really what came up in the suggestions? Really yall? Wtf did white babies ever do to you? They literally can’t even talk. I have a half white (¼ Native, 1/8 Mediterranean 1/8 Latinx) baby growing inside me right now. This is kind of extremely fucked up for a first time mother to see… Not all white people are bad yall they just trying to live their lives too. A lot of them stand with minorities in solidarity, a lot of them are appalled by the way society and the government treats minorities.
We need to stop this hateful rhetoric. This isn’t going to make equality any easier to achieve. Demonizing a race is.. Well it’s racist. Yes, you can still be racist against a group of people who are not oppressed.
I want people to treat people like people. We all are so much more alike than we are different. We should be judging people based on the content of their character, not on the color of their skin.
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (aka Posie Parker) spending £700 on a billboard intended to denounce trans women as women instead of actually putting it towards helping women is the height of white feminism
It’s also the height of radical feminist narcissism and paranoia. That and radfems tend to not actually want to help actual women in need, but to advocate for a nebulous “liberation” of “women/females as a class” as if they themselves are the divine arbiters of what all women want or need. They’re like your sanctimonious Fundie neighbor who thinks his prejudiced opinions are given to him by God but covered in pink sparkly paint, vagina stickers, and (hopefully fake) period blood.
Enemies to “ugh I can’t believe I’m saving your life” to “ugh we have to work together or the world ends but it’s not like I like you or anything” to “oh we actually connect pretty well but that doesn’t mean anything” to “I would die for you but don’t read too much into it” to “I’ll kill anyone who lays a finger on you” to Lovers.
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