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felix hugo fraldarius | fe:3h | reserved (1/2)
⬢ Name: Elia
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⬢ Name: Felix Hugo Fraldarius
⬢ Canon: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
⬢ Canon Point: Chapter 22! Post-game, Pre-epilogues - aka directly after the final battle of Azure Moon
⬢ History: Felix's Background + Role | Overall Game Synopsis | Azure Moon Timeline
In the run I'm pulling Felix from, his professor (Byleth) was female, and the only students recruited into the Blue Lions house were Yuri, Hapi, Constance, and Balthus from the Cindered Shadows DLC.
⬢ Personality:
Honestly, as far as first impressions go? Felix... doesn't go out of his way to make a good one, because he generally doesn't care what others think of him. He's cynical! He's brusque! He has no problem telling others exactly what he thinks of them/their plans/their opinions, and his approach is often less than polite! In short, he's a prickly man who prefers to keep others at an arm's length—and there's a fairly good reason for this, but in order to understand it, let's jump back to Felix's childhood and trace his emotional growth through the years.
Felix was the second son born into the prestigious Fraldarius family. His father was the king's right-hand advisor; his older brother, Glenn, was a rude, almost brash individual whom others lauded as the ideal knight. Felix, in contrast, was known to be a sensitive, emotional child—and a bit of a crybaby, if you ask his childhood friends. "Whenever there was something wrong... you'd come crying to me," Sylvain teases Felix years down the line. "You were so meek and pure back then. Cute, even! Like a baby brother."
This is never presented as a problem; all three of his closest friends—Sylvain, Ingrid, and Dimitri—accepted him as he was, and he presumably had a fairly close relationship with his brother? He mentions his brother reading tales of chivalry to him "all the time," after all, and he certainly looked up to him. Growing up in the highly traditional society of the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, where children are taught to fight and to aspire to chivalric ideals from a very early age, it makes sense that Glenn, the Ideal Knight™ that everyone so admired, seemed an untouchable hero plucked from one of Felix's storybooks.
And then Glenn died.
Losing a brother is, without a doubt, a difficult ordeal for anyone; for thirteen-year-old Felix, however, losing his brother was... far more complicated than it had any right to be. For one thing, Felix went from being the spare to the heir—and all of that responsibility, all of those expectations that Glenn shouldered so beautifully? Everything came crashing down on him, and that was quite the burden for a young boy to bear. Add to that, then, the fact that Glenn, already a larger-than-life figure for Felix and his friends, became a sort of inescapable shadow that touched almost everything Felix knew and loved, and—well. Because Glenn died while defending Dimitri, Felix's childhood friend who looked up to Glenn just as much as Felix did, and because Glenn's beloved fiance was none other than Ingrid, Felix's other childhood friend, Felix's friendships were no longer his own; they changed forever, because of course Dimitri, Ingrid, and everyone else who knew and loved Glenn still saw Glenn whenever they looked at Felix. He was—and is—constantly compared to his brother.
Then there's also the fact that, while Felix mourned the loss of Glenn the person, everyone around him mourned the loss of Glenn the knight—and that meant that they didn't seem to mourn him at all? His own father, when presented Glenn's charred armor, looked at all that remained of his firstborn son and said, simply, "He died like a true knight." In Felix's opinion, there was no genuine sadness that Glenn was gone; there was only a sort of sick pride that Glenn died in the correct manner: by defending the king, his son, and other members of the royal retinue. Felix missing his brother, Felix feeling sad, Felix being anything other than openly proud of Glenn's sacrifice—that was unacceptable, by Faerghus standards.
What did Felix do, then? Felix chafed against those ideals of chivalry he'd once so admired, directing all of his frustration and anger at them. "Chivalry begets the worship and glorification of death," he explains. "Am I alone in finding that grotesque?" Life shouldn't be about putting yourself into harm's way without a second thought, all in the pursuit of the perfect, heroic death; life should be about living, and for that purpose, Felix threw himself into his training, dedicating himself to becoming stronger than anyone and everyone. If he is the strongest, you see, then no one can challenge him—and no one can sacrifice their life for him, because after losing Glenn—and his father, really, thanks to how disgusted he is with his father's response to Glenn's death—Felix refuses to lose anyone else. Felix is scared of losing anyone else.
Rather than openly express this to the people closest to him, though... well! Look at it this way: we have one angry, sad boy who's told time and time again that he's to stoically endure the loss of his brother. Is it any wonder that Felix decided the smart strategy was to hide his emotions? To create a sort of wall between himself and others by projecting a cold, callous attitude not unlike the one his brother was known for? Pushing people away was, and is, safer than forming an attachment to someone before he's strong enough to ensure his own survival and/or see if they're strong enough to ensure theirs. Strength became... everything, to Felix! It's why he still frequently challenges people (re: Byleth) to spar with him within the first, like, ten minutes of meeting them. Better to know then and there if they're worth his time... better to push them away before a bond forms...
The problem with this approach, however, is that, despite Felix's best attempts to distance himself, it's impossible for him to not care for his friends/allies/anyone who spends a good deal of time around him? Glenn's death prompted him to build a metaphorical wall around himself, but he's still that same emotional boy at heart; he feels things just as deeply as he did when he was young, and I think the best evidence of this can be found in his relationship with one of his childhood friends: Dimitri, the very prince of Faerghus that Glenn died to protect. Felix and Dimitri were incredibly close when they were younger; there's a later line when Dimitri recalls how Felix "used to whine unless [he] could do everything with [him]," and that friendship persisted even after Dimitri witnessed Glenn's death. Dimitri was assuredly one of the people Felix was thinking of when Felix made the decision to become stronger so no one would have to make that same sacrifice for him.
And then, two years after Glenn's death, Dimitri died.
Or, well. The Dimitri that Felix knew died, right in front of him, as Felix watched Dimitri lose his mind while brutally, excitedly executing members of a rebellion. As Felix tells Dimitri at a later time: "It was ruthless slaughter and you loved every second. I remember the way you killed your victims. How you watched them suffer. And your face... that expression. All the world's evil packed into it. That was our first battle. I remember it vividly."
Obviously, seeing this new, highly unpleasant side of Dimitri was a terrible shock. So this is one of the people he's been growing stronger for, all in the hopes of keeping them alive? This is the person his brother died for, the person his father dedicates more and more time to? It's a betrayal of the highest order—and that's when bitterness mixes with all of that anger and sadness he was still holding within him. He pushed Dimitri away; he began openly treating Dimitri with scorn and derision; he mocked Dimitri at every opportunity, calling him a wild beast, a boar, a thoughtless animal. He did his best to close himself off from this person entirely, and in doing so, he built that metaphorical wall between himself and others even higher. He didn't need any more friends, you see. No more crushing disappointments allowed.
And yet! And yet! Despite his disgust with/for Dimitri, Felix didn't shy away from him; he spent years calling Dimitri out to his face, telling him that, while he could play the part of the perfect prince if he liked, he needed to address the brutal nature he was trying so hard to mask. Felix was the only person to notice this about Dimitri? He was alone for years and years and years, and when others finally did catch onto Dimitri's deteriorating mental state, Felix continued throwing barbs at the prince—but he also warned their professor to keep a close eye on him. He was, in his rude way, always looking out for his childhood buddy, because again: it's impossible for Felix not to care.
This is really taken to the next level when the continent of Fódlan sinks into war—and Dimitri was supposedly executed. Felix didn't believe this; in fact, Felix spent the next five years both fighting for his kingdom and looking for Dimitri, and when he finally found him... well. Things continued on as they had for so long, really; Felix insulted Dimitri, Felix called Dimitri out when others looked away or attempted to coddle him, and Felix closely watched Dimitri's every move. He couldn't bring himself to abandon his old friend, despite the disgust and hurt he felt every time he looked at him; instead, he pushed his old friend to address his issues and move past them, even when his own father popped up and told him to knock it off.
And then his father died... while defending Dimitri.
Are you sensing a pattern here? I'm sensing a pattern here. Anyway! The point is... that even after everything Dimitri did, and everyone that Felix lost to Dimitri, he still refused to abandon him entirely. He didn't outright forgive him, and he has yet to forgive him; Dimitri came to apologize for everything after Felix's father's death, and Felix bluntly told him, "I'm not after more empty words. I want you to speak through your actions." It's clear that Dimitri has to work for forgiveness? Has to prove that he's worthy of it? But Felix was—is—willing to give him that chance, because, and I can't stress this enough: it's impossible for Felix not to care about the people around him. He feels things far too deeply. He will always, always be there when people need him, even if his approach isn't the best because he isn't quite sure what, exactly, he's supposed to do.
But while Felix's relationship with Dimitri shapes/illustrates so, so many things about his personality, if we look at his relationships with other people? All of that care and concern is still there, even when he tries his best to bury it. He helped Ingrid with her chores after she was wounded in battle; he fussed at Sylvain for attempting to protect him during a fight, then rushed to his bedside when he heard that he was grievously wounded (spoiler alert: he was NOT); he told Ashe to never give up on his dream of becoming a knight, despite his own aversion to the title; he stopped everything to listen to Bernadetta when she simply asked him to; he worked around his hatred of sweets because Lysithea baked a cake just for him—like, need I go on? It's obvious that, while he tries to keep a certain amount of distance between himself and others, he just... can't. Oh, he'll snap at them, and he'll continue to say exactly what's on his mind at any given time, but if people can patiently look past that—which people frequently do, given that he isn't as hard to read as he'd like to think—then he'll wind up (grudgingly) accepting them.
This, then, is the Felix we're left with after such a long journey: an outwardly cold, sharp-tongued individual who tries his hardest to keep people at bay, because he knows damn well that he can—and will!—grow attached to them. A man who wants to escape both his brother's death and the chivalric values that glorify it, all because he wants the people he cares for to do all that they can to live. A person who claims to value strength above all else, even as he goes out of his way to do the right things—and to help others when they're at their weakest. He's a bit of a mess, really, but he's doing what he thinks is best, and that's what matters in the end.
CRIES sorry for the length
- Offensive Magic: Despite having a budding talent for Reason (Fire Emblem's term for what is essentially dark magic), Felix only has access to two spells: Thunder (minor lightning magic; 8 uses) and Thoron (advanced lightning magic; 4 uses). He rarely uses these spells? He prefers to take things apart up close, ie with his swords, but he'll fall back on his spells if he's backed into a corner—and they do pack a punch.
- Major Crest of Fraldarius: Felix possesses a Crest, which is an inherited ability that Felix... doesn't have control over, per se? It ~activates~ of its own accord during random attacks, increasing the MT (attack power) of Felix's weapon—which means that Felix occasionally hits harder than he normally does. We're never really given info re: how often this happens, but as Felix has a major Crest, it procs more often than minor Crests tend to. In the game itself, Felix's Crest activating is something I'd definitely work out with the person/people I'm threading with!
- Aegis Shield: The Aegis Shield is a Hero's Relic (a thousand-year-old weapon crafted from the bones of a dragon, although Felix and friends do not know this) passed down through the Fraldarius family. Only a person with a Crest of Fraldarius can wield it without turning into a beast, and as for what it does... well, it functions just like a normal shield, but sometimes it halves the damage its wielder takes? We're not really given any stats regarding how often that happens, sadly; it's another thing I would work out with the person/people I'm threading with.
⬢ Inventory:- Felix's outfit for reference, ft some light leather armor.
- A black iron spur tucked away in his pocket...
- For the display case:
- The Sword of Moralta (restores a bit of health to its wielder each turn, and Felix's Major Crest of Fraldarius increases its effect—but this is something I'm honestly not going to mess with this in the game if he ever does regain his sword)
- Zoltan-forged sword, which is just a regular sword from his favorite blacksmith of all time...
- A hunting dagger
- The Aegis Shield, the abilities of which I outlined above.
- Felix's secondary outfit will be simple: a plain white shirt, another pair of teal pants, and another pair of his boots + gaiters combo. Simple, casual attire, a la this!
- For Felix's t-shirts, I would like to pick options 2 and 3, please!
⬢ Sample 1: [TDM Top-Level]⬢ Sample 2: [Network Stupidity (from another game)]
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