Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
The fic has since been removed from the internet.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,4 (click to see context) from:
15 years have passed since Edelgard conquered all of Fodlan and won the war she started against the Church of Seiros, Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the Leicester Alliance. The church is no more, as are the Kingdom and the Alliance. And in their place stands a Garreg Mach Monastery that has been converted into an Imperial officer's academy, as well as new territories for the Adrestian Empire that have had their culture and identity completely erased. And despite the Emperor's insistence that she would deal with them once she had finished her war, Those Who Slither In The Dark still operate in the shadows, stronger than ever.
to:
15 years have passed since Edelgard conquered all of Fodlan Fódlan and won the war she started against the Church of Seiros, Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the Leicester Alliance. The church is no more, as are the Kingdom and the Alliance. And in their place stands a Garreg Mach Monastery that has been converted into an Imperial officer's academy, as well as new territories for the Adrestian Empire that have had their culture and identity completely erased. And despite the Emperor's insistence that she would deal with them once she had finished her war, Those Who Slither In The Dark still operate in the shadows, stronger than ever.
Changed line(s) 19 (click to see context) from:
* DarkFic: Along with all the swearing and gore, this fic pulls no punches in showing how terrible of a place Fodlan has become under Edelgard's regime. People are kidnapped and cruelly experimented on by Twisted, entire cultures are erased with survivors becoming social pariahs at best, and a good number of named characters from the game have died.
to:
* DarkFic: Along with all the swearing and gore, this fic pulls no punches in showing how terrible of a place Fodlan Fódlan has become under Edelgard's regime. People are kidnapped and cruelly experimented on by Twisted, entire cultures are erased with survivors becoming social pariahs at best, and a good number of named characters from the game have died.
Changed line(s) 21 (click to see context) from:
* FormerRegimePersonnel: Felix, Mercedes, Annette, Ignatz, Alois, and Shamir are all survivors of the old institutions of Fodlan who have taken up residence at Garreg Mach after the war.
to:
* FormerRegimePersonnel: Felix, Mercedes, Annette, Ignatz, Alois, and Shamir are all survivors of the old institutions of Fodlan Fódlan who have taken up residence at Garreg Mach after the war.
Changed line(s) 35 (click to see context) from:
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:While Those Who Slither/Twisted are dealt with at the very end of Crimson Flower, it's all handled offscreen which gave the impression of Thales/"Arundel" getting away with ruining Edelgard's life and manipulating her into throwing Fodlan into chaos to dissatisfied fans. Here, karma finally catches up to him years later in the form of Hubert gutting him with Edelgard's axe.]]
to:
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:While Those Who Slither/Twisted are dealt with at the very end of Crimson Flower, it's all handled offscreen which gave the impression of Thales/"Arundel" getting away with ruining Edelgard's life and manipulating her into throwing Fodlan Fódlan into chaos to dissatisfied fans. Here, karma finally catches up to him years later in the form of Hubert gutting him with Edelgard's axe.]]
Changed line(s) 38 (click to see context) from:
* PrematurelyGreyHaired: Caspar and Hilda are going gray despite only being in their thirties thanks to the stress of life in Edelgard's united Fodlan.
to:
* PrematurelyGreyHaired: Caspar and Hilda are going gray despite only being in their thirties thanks to the stress of life in Edelgard's united Fodlan.Fódlan.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AdaptationNameChange: Downplayed. The main characters hear Hubert's moniker for Thales and his ilk, "those who slither in the dark", and decide that "Twisted" is far less of a mouthful.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* BloodMagic: [[spoiler:Edelgard bites her own hand to transform into her Hegemon Husk form.]]
* ContinuationFic: The fic continues the story of ''Three Houses'' fifteen years after the Crimson Flower ending.
* FormerRegimePersonnel: Felix, Mercedes, Annette, Ignatz, Alois, and Shamir are all survivors of the old institutions of Fodlan who have taken up residence at Garreg Mach after the war.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Hubert had one offscreen in the intervening years between the game and the fic. He's fallen out with Edelgard and is one of the few major Imperial officers actively opposing the Agarthans.
** [[spoiler:Edelgard redeems herself after being defeated by the heroes in her Hegemon Husk form and joins them to wipe out those who slither in the dark once and for all.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Played with. [[spoiler:Hubert expects to die when he uses Aymr to kill Byleth, who has been turned into a living weapon, when the Gray face Thales in Linhardt's overtaken lab.]]
** Hubert had one offscreen in the intervening years between the game and the fic. He's fallen out with Edelgard and is one of the few major Imperial officers actively opposing the Agarthans.
** [[spoiler:Edelgard redeems herself after being defeated by the heroes in her Hegemon Husk form and joins them to wipe out those who slither in the dark once and for all.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Played with. [[spoiler:Hubert expects to die when he uses Aymr to kill Byleth, who has been turned into a living weapon, when the Gray face Thales in Linhardt's overtaken lab.]]
Deleted line(s) 26 (click to see context) :
* HeroicSacrifice: Played with. [[spoiler:Hubert expects to die when he uses Aymr to kill Byleth, who has been turned into a living weapon, when the Gray face Thales in Linhardt's overtaken lab.]]
Changed line(s) 34 (click to see context) from:
* SongofCourage: Faerghus once used war songs for battlefield direction, and the Blaiddyd War Song is used in this way.
to:
* SongofCourage: SongOfCourage: Faerghus once used war songs for battlefield direction, and the Blaiddyd War Song is used in this way.way.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** Felix and Mercedes both remained loyal to the Kingdom yet survived the Imperial War, an outcome not possible in the original game.
** Sylvain is a downplayed example, having remained loyal to the Kingdom and survived the Imperial War before ultimately dying in a failed rebellion some years after the war. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he's a straight example when it's revealed he's been alive the entire time.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** Felix and Mercedes both remained loyal to the Kingdom yet survived the Imperial War, an outcome not possible in the original game.
** Sylvain is a downplayed example, having remained loyal to the Kingdom and survived the Imperial War before ultimately dying in a failed rebellion some years after the war. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he's a straight example when it's revealed he's been alive the entire time.]]
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* WeightWoe: Annette is briefly self-conscious when she notices how fit and lean Felix is thanks to his life as a mercenary while she's gotten a bit chubby and soft due to her more sedentary lifestyle.
to:
* WeightWoe: Annette is briefly self-conscious when she notices how fit and lean Felix is thanks to his life as a mercenary while she's gotten a bit chubby and soft due to her more sedentary lifestyle.lifestyle.
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Edelgard has defeated the Kingdom, Alliance, and Church, and in the process has allowed her Agarthan "allies" to completely trample her newfound peace.
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Edelgard has defeated the Kingdom, Alliance, and Church, and in the process has allowed her Agarthan "allies" to completely trample her newfound peace.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Badass Mustache and Badass Beard are being merged into Manly Facial Hair. Examples that don't fit or are zero-context are removed. To qualify for Manly Facial Hair, the facial hair must be associated with masculinity in some way. Please read the trope description before readding to make sure the example qualifies.
Deleted line(s) 13 (click to see context) :
* BadassBeard: Felix is said to have grown one before the story began.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* SongofCourage: Faerghus once used war songs for battlefield direction, and the Blaiddyd War Song is used in this way.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BlueBlood: Most of the characters were once nobility--Felix, Annette, Hubert, Edelgard, Ferdinand, Caspar, Hilda, and [[spoiler:Sylvain]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* HeroicSacrifice: Played with. [[spoiler:Hubert expects to die when the Gray face Thales in Linhardt's overtaken lab.]]
to:
* HeroicSacrifice: Played with. [[spoiler:Hubert expects to die when he uses Aymr to kill Byleth, who has been turned into a living weapon, when the Gray face Thales in Linhardt's overtaken lab.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* HeroicSacrifice: Played with. [[Spoiler:Hubert expects to die when the Gray face Thales in Linhardt's overtaken lab.]]
to:
* HeroicSacrifice: Played with. [[Spoiler:Hubert [[spoiler:Hubert expects to die when the Gray face Thales in Linhardt's overtaken lab.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* HeroicSacrifice: Played with. [[Spoiler:Hubert expects to die when the Gray face Thales in Linhardt's overtaken lab.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 32 (click to see context) from:
* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: When Hubert and Felix case a TWISTD facility in what was once Faerghus, Felix breaks at the sight of the Lance of Ruin without its Crest Stone.]]
to:
* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: When Hubert and Felix case a TWISTD facility in what was once Faerghus, Felix breaks at the sight of the Lance of Ruin without its Crest Stone. He goes on to overturn the cages once used to house the Crest Experiments, and desperately tries to fix the Lance of Ruin by putting its Crest Stone back into place.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
*RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: When Hubert and Felix case a TWISTD facility in what was once Faerghus, Felix breaks at the sight of the Lance of Ruin without its Crest Stone.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 31 (click to see context) from:
* PastExperienceNightmares: Felix has these about the Unification War.
to:
* PastExperienceNightmares: PastExperienceNightmare: Felix has these about the Unification War.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* PastExperienceNightmares: Felix has these about the Unification War.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 14,16 (click to see context) from:
* BrokenPedestal: Edelgard has become this to just about every member of the Black Eagles strike force sans Byleth. Even the sycophantic Hubert is disgusted by her constant game of softball with the people she swore to destroy, and views her as pathetic for it. [[spoiler:When she finally helps them fight Thales and pays for it with her life however, they start to respect her once again.]]
* CoolTeacher: Felix seamlessly plays the part of a stern mentor and fun uncle to his students, and they are fiercely loyal to him in return. Annette, Mercedes, and even Hubert are similarly beloved, [[spoiler:and the latter's arrest at the hands of Edelgard inspires a rebellion among the students.]]
* DarkFic: Along with all the swearing and gore, this fic pulls no punches in showing how terrible of a place Fodlan has become under Edelgard's regime. People are kidnapped and cruelly experimented on by Twisted, entire cultures are erased with survivors becoming social pariahs at best, and a good number of named characters from the game die.
* CoolTeacher: Felix seamlessly plays the part of a stern mentor and fun uncle to his students, and they are fiercely loyal to him in return. Annette, Mercedes, and even Hubert are similarly beloved, [[spoiler:and the latter's arrest at the hands of Edelgard inspires a rebellion among the students.]]
* DarkFic: Along with all the swearing and gore, this fic pulls no punches in showing how terrible of a place Fodlan has become under Edelgard's regime. People are kidnapped and cruelly experimented on by Twisted, entire cultures are erased with survivors becoming social pariahs at best, and a good number of named characters from the game die.
to:
* BrokenPedestal: Edelgard has become this to just about every member of the Black Eagles strike force sans Byleth. Even the sycophantic Hubert is disgusted by her constant game of softball with the people she swore to destroy, and views grows to view her as pathetic for it. [[spoiler:When she finally helps them fight Thales and pays for it with her life however, they start to respect her once again.]]
* CoolTeacher: Felix seamlessly plays the part of a stern mentor and fun uncle to his students, and they are fiercely loyal to him in return. Annette, Mercedes, and even Hubert are similarly beloved, [[spoiler:and the latter's arrest at the hands of Edelgardinspires is the last straw before a rebellion among the students.]]
* DarkFic: Along with all the swearing and gore, this fic pulls no punches in showing how terrible of a place Fodlan has become under Edelgard's regime. People are kidnapped and cruelly experimented on by Twisted, entire cultures are erased with survivors becoming social pariahs at best, and a good number of named characters from the gamedie.have died.
* CoolTeacher: Felix seamlessly plays the part of a stern mentor and fun uncle to his students, and they are fiercely loyal to him in return. Annette, Mercedes, and even Hubert are similarly beloved, [[spoiler:and the latter's arrest at the hands of Edelgard
* DarkFic: Along with all the swearing and gore, this fic pulls no punches in showing how terrible of a place Fodlan has become under Edelgard's regime. People are kidnapped and cruelly experimented on by Twisted, entire cultures are erased with survivors becoming social pariahs at best, and a good number of named characters from the game
Changed line(s) 18 (click to see context) from:
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Dimitri's son Alexander looks and even sounds just like him, while having his mother Marianne's eyes and tenderness. He's also inherited Dimitri's madness, but he has a far better handle on it and never hurts anyone who doesn't have it coming to them.]]
to:
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Dimitri's son Alexander looks and even sounds just a lot like him, while having his mother Marianne's eyes and tenderness. He's also inherited Dimitri's madness, but he has a far better handle on it and never hurts anyone who doesn't have it coming to them.]]
Changed line(s) 29 (click to see context) from:
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler:When he sees that the gentle, kind Marianne has been turned into a monster with a nearly-broken mind thanks to the Twisted's experiments, Felix breaks down crying at the injustice of it all.]]
to:
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler:When he sees that the gentle, kind Marianne has been turned into a monster with a nearly-broken mind thanks to the Twisted's experiments, Felix breaks down crying at the injustice of it all.crying.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 11 (click to see context) from:
* AdaptationalVillainy: Played with: Edelgard ''is'' a brutal tyrant in the non-Crimson Flower routes of ''Three Houses'', but ''Crimson Flower'' tones down her nastiness thanks to Byleth's influence. Here, despite being married to Byleth and Crimson Flower being canon, she has brutally crushed multiple countries under her heel, destroying their cultures while having secret police round up and kill any dissenters.
to:
* AdaptationalVillainy: Played with: Edelgard ''is'' a brutal tyrant in the non-Crimson Flower routes of ''Three Houses'', but ''Crimson Flower'' tones down her nastiness thanks to Byleth's influence. Here, despite being married to Byleth and Crimson Flower being partially canon, she has still brutally crushed multiple countries under her heel, destroying their cultures while having secret police round up and kill any dissenters.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,2 (click to see context) from:
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/22987531/chapters/54956803 To Those Who Are Never Going Home]]'' is a ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' DarkFic, written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/MadameHyde/pseuds/MadameHyde MadameHyde]], and details the worst case scenario that could follow from the ending of the Crimson Flower route.
to:
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/22987531/chapters/54956803 To Those Who Are Never Going Home]]'' is a ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' DarkFic, written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/MadameHyde/pseuds/MadameHyde MadameHyde]], and details the worst case scenario that could follow from the ending a combination of the Crimson Flower route.
and Azure Moon routes.
Changed line(s) 5 (click to see context) from:
Trying his best to survive this nightmare of a postwar dictatorship, Felix Hugo Fraldarius retires from his dangerous life of a mercenary and hopes to take a quiet teaching job as an instructor in the Officer's Academy. But his job is far from quiet: in between running into his old friends from the land known as Faerghus and old enemies from the war, Felix's life is turned upside down when he's pulled into the shadow war Hubert von Vestra has been fighting against Those Who Slither...
to:
Trying his best to survive this nightmare of a postwar dictatorship, Felix Hugo Fraldarius retires from his dangerous life of a mercenary and hopes to take a quiet teaching job as an instructor in the Officer's Academy. But his job is far from quiet: in between running into his old friends from the land known as Faerghus and old enemies from the war, Felix's life is turned upside down when he's pulled into the shadow war Hubert von Vestra has been fighting against Those Who Slither...Slither In the dark.
Deleted line(s) 10 (click to see context) :
* AdaptationalDumbass: Edelgard's brilliant mind takes a huge beating here, where she has allowed herself to become an easily manipulated patsy of the Twisted/Slithers while Hubert and Markus scheme circles around her.
Deleted line(s) 12 (click to see context) :
* AdaptationalSexuality: Byleth and Edelgard are both bi in ''Three Houses'', but are characterized as lesbians here. Sylvain, Felix, and Petra also lose their AmbiguouslyBi status and are portrayed as being exclusively interested in the opposite sex.
Changed line(s) 30 (click to see context) from:
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Thanks to Byleth developing health problems as a result of losing her crest, Edelgard decides to stall on eliminating the Twisted in hopes of them curing her. And thanks to her refusal to do what needs to be done, Edelgard enables them to continue ruining lives with their disgusting experiments while going out of her way to try to execute Hubert for picking up her slack.]]
to:
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Thanks to Byleth developing health problems as a result of losing her crest, Edelgard decides to stall on eliminating the Twisted in hopes of them curing her.her, as her problem is due to her Crest. And thanks to her refusal to do what needs to be done, Edelgard enables them to continue ruining lives with their disgusting experiments while going out of her way to try to execute Hubert for picking up her slack.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* BadassBeard: Felix is said to have grown one before the story began.
Changed line(s) 16 (click to see context) from:
* CoolTeacher: Felix seamlessly plays the part of a stern mentor and fun uncle to his students, and they are fiercely loyal to him in return. The same goes with Annette, Mercedes, and even Hubert, [[spoiler:whose arrest at the hands of Edelgard inspires a rebellion among the students.]]
to:
* CoolTeacher: Felix seamlessly plays the part of a stern mentor and fun uncle to his students, and they are fiercely loyal to him in return. The same goes with Annette, Mercedes, and even Hubert, [[spoiler:whose Hubert are similarly beloved, [[spoiler:and the latter's arrest at the hands of Edelgard inspires a rebellion among the students.]]
Added DiffLines:
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Felix and Sylvain were incredibly close prior to the latter's death, with Felix considering him to be a surrogate brother. [[spoiler:When it turns out that Sylvain is alive, no love is lost between the two.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* EleventhHourRanger: Petra becomes one of the main members of [[LaResistance the Gray]], but only at the very tail end of the story when she shows up to stop [[spoiler:Hubert's execution]], fight [[spoiler:Hegemon Edelgard]], and [[spoiler:defeat Thales once and for all.]]
* DarkFic: Along with all the swearing and gore, this fic pulls no punches in showing how terrible of a place Fodlan has become under Edelgard's regime. People are kidnapped and cruelly experimented on by Twisted, entire cultures are erased with survivors becoming social pariahs at best, and a good number of named characters from the game die.
Changed line(s) 23 (click to see context) from:
** His father General Ironfang is just as loathsome, often bullying and belittling his daughter and rubbing it in that Felix was on the losing side of a war that resulted in his culture being erased. [[spoiler:Much like with Markus, this bleeds into his real identity with Thales, who gets far more personal than his canon counterpart ever did by tearing apart Caspar, Ferdinand, and Edelgard's families and forcing them to fight their loved ones as his enslaved "New Ten Elites" thralls.]]
to:
** His father General Ironfang is just as loathsome, often bullying and belittling his daughter and rubbing it in that Felix was on the losing side of a war that resulted in his culture being erased. [[spoiler:Much like with Markus, this bleeds into his real identity with Thales, who gets far more personal than his canon counterpart ever did by tearing apart Caspar, Ferdinand, and Edelgard's families and forcing them Felix and the Grey to fight their loved ones as his enslaved "New Ten Elites" thralls.]]
Added DiffLines:
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:While Those Who Slither/Twisted are dealt with at the very end of Crimson Flower, it's all handled offscreen which gave the impression of Thales/"Arundel" getting away with ruining Edelgard's life and manipulating her into throwing Fodlan into chaos to dissatisfied fans. Here, karma finally catches up to him years later in the form of Hubert gutting him with Edelgard's axe.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* AdaptationalSexuality: Byleth and Edelgard are both bi in ''Three Houses'', but are characterized as lesbians here. Sylvain, Felix, and Petra also lose their AmbiguouslyBi status and are portrayed as being exclusively interested in the opposite sex.
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* PrematurelyGreyedHair: Caspar and Hilda are going gray despite only being in their thirties thanks to the stress of life in Edelgard's united Fodlan.
to:
* PrematurelyGreyedHair: PrematurelyGreyHaired: Caspar and Hilda are going gray despite only being in their thirties thanks to the stress of life in Edelgard's united Fodlan.Fodlan.
* TooKinkyToTorture: [[spoiler:When Edelgard has Hubert dragged off to the palace dungeons and tortured, he literally laughs it all off and shows no fear or signs of breaking after being put through multiple lengthy sessions.]]
* TooKinkyToTorture: [[spoiler:When Edelgard has Hubert dragged off to the palace dungeons and tortured, he literally laughs it all off and shows no fear or signs of breaking after being put through multiple lengthy sessions.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* AbusiveParents: General Ironfang is a belligerent bully towards his daughter Faustine, and is even okay with his son Markus ''torturing'' her. [[spoiler:And while he's truly Thales in disguise, the seamless nature of it indicates that the real Ironfang was already a horrible parent.]]
* AdaptationalJerkass: He's already dead by the time the story takes place, but what little we know of Gilbert paints him as being far more unlikable than the good, yet ''very'' flawed man he was in ''Three Houses.'' For one, when Markus was revealed to have been cheating on his wife with an oblivious Annette and she got the blunt of the criticism for it, Gilbert was among the many people who treated her as if she were the scum of the Earth for having no way of knowing he was married.
* AffectionateNickname: Felix lovingly calls Alessia "Little Wolf", a nickname that catches on with Annette and [[spoiler:Sylvain]].
* BrokenPedestal: Edelgard has become this to just about every member of the Black Eagles strike force sans Byleth. Even the sycophantic Hubert is disgusted by her constant game of softball with the people she swore to destroy, and views her as pathetic for it. [[spoiler:When she finally helps them fight Thales and pays for it with her life however, they start to respect her once again.]]
* CoolTeacher: Felix seamlessly plays the part of a stern mentor and fun uncle to his students, and they are fiercely loyal to him in return. The same goes with Annette, Mercedes, and even Hubert, [[spoiler:whose arrest at the hands of Edelgard inspires a rebellion among the students.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Edelgard has become this to just about every member of the Black Eagles strike force sans Byleth. Even the sycophantic Hubert is disgusted by her constant game of softball with the people she swore to destroy, and views her as pathetic for it. [[spoiler:When she finally helps them fight Thales and pays for it with her life however, they start to respect her once again.]]
* CoolTeacher: Felix seamlessly plays the part of a stern mentor and fun uncle to his students, and they are fiercely loyal to him in return. The same goes with Annette, Mercedes, and even Hubert, [[spoiler:whose arrest at the hands of Edelgard inspires a rebellion among the students.]]
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Dimitri's son Alexander looks and even sounds just like him, while having his mother Marianne's eyes and tenderness. He's also inherited Dimitri's madness, but he has a far better handle on it and never hurts anyone who doesn't have it coming to them.]]
* GoodCounterpart: Felix is this to Dimitri: both are Faerghus nobility that lost everything to Edelgard's insurrection, and Felix even looks similar thanks to wearing an eyepatch over a wounded eye and wearing his hair long. But unlike Dimitri, he manages to deal with his anger, grief, and trauma in a healthy way and never lets himself fall into the horrific depravity Dimitri did as the "Boar Prince".
* GoodIsNotSoft: Hubert has mellowed out over the years and is a far better man than he used to be. But he is still unfailingly brutal towards his enemies, and is A-OK with torturing them for information should the need arise.
* GoodCounterpart: Felix is this to Dimitri: both are Faerghus nobility that lost everything to Edelgard's insurrection, and Felix even looks similar thanks to wearing an eyepatch over a wounded eye and wearing his hair long. But unlike Dimitri, he manages to deal with his anger, grief, and trauma in a healthy way and never lets himself fall into the horrific depravity Dimitri did as the "Boar Prince".
* GoodIsNotSoft: Hubert has mellowed out over the years and is a far better man than he used to be. But he is still unfailingly brutal towards his enemies, and is A-OK with torturing them for information should the need arise.
Changed line(s) 12,13 (click to see context) from:
* HateSink: Markus von Engel is a boorish, sleazy {{Jerkass}} who horribly abuses his sister, is a serial cheater who failed his lover Annette and his daughter Alessia, and does everything in his power to undermine Felix and Hubert. [[spoiler:Even when he's revealed to be Myson of the Twisted/Slithers in disguise, he's still a nasty personal foe to Faustine while the real Markus is indicated to have been just as horribly unlikable in life.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Felix is even gruffer and ruder than he was in canon and has quite a foul mouth. But he's still a good man who deeply cares for his friends and students, and is an ''adorable'' surrogate father to little Alesia.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Felix is even gruffer and ruder than he was in canon and has quite a foul mouth. But he's still a good man who deeply cares for his friends and students, and is an ''adorable'' surrogate father to little Alesia.
to:
* HateSink: HateSink:
** Markus von Engel is a boorish, sleazy {{Jerkass}} who horribly abuses his sister, is a serialcheater adulterer who failed his lover Annette and his daughter Alessia, and does everything in his power to undermine Felix and Hubert. [[spoiler:Even when he's revealed to be Myson of the Twisted/Slithers in disguise, he's still a nasty personal foe to Faustine while the real Markus is indicated to have been just as horribly unlikable in life.]]
** His father General Ironfang is just as loathsome, often bullying and belittling his daughter and rubbing it in that Felix was on the losing side of a war that resulted in his culture being erased. [[spoiler:Much like with Markus, this bleeds into his real identity with Thales, who gets far more personal than his canon counterpart ever did by tearing apart Caspar, Ferdinand, and Edelgard's families and forcing them to fight their loved ones as his enslaved "New Ten Elites" thralls.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Felix is even gruffer and ruder than he was in canon and has quite a foul mouth. But he's still a good man who deeply cares for his friends and students, and is an ''adorable'' surrogate father to littleAlesia.Alessia.
** Markus von Engel is a boorish, sleazy {{Jerkass}} who horribly abuses his sister, is a serial
** His father General Ironfang is just as loathsome, often bullying and belittling his daughter and rubbing it in that Felix was on the losing side of a war that resulted in his culture being erased. [[spoiler:Much like with Markus, this bleeds into his real identity with Thales, who gets far more personal than his canon counterpart ever did by tearing apart Caspar, Ferdinand, and Edelgard's families and forcing them to fight their loved ones as his enslaved "New Ten Elites" thralls.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Felix is even gruffer and ruder than he was in canon and has quite a foul mouth. But he's still a good man who deeply cares for his friends and students, and is an ''adorable'' surrogate father to little
* PrematurelyGreyedHair: Caspar and Hilda are going gray despite only being in their thirties thanks to the stress of life in Edelgard's united Fodlan.
Changed line(s) 17 (click to see context) from:
* WeightWoe: Annette is briefly self-conscious when she notices how fit and lean Felix has been thanks to his life as a mercenary while she's gotten a bit chubby and soft due to her more sedentary lifestyle.
to:
* WeightWoe: Annette is briefly self-conscious when she notices how fit and lean Felix has been is thanks to his life as a mercenary while she's gotten a bit chubby and soft due to her more sedentary lifestyle.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/22987531/chapters/54956803 To Those Who Are Never Going Home]]'' is a ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' DarkFic, written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/MadameHyde/pseuds/MadameHyde MadameHyde]], and details the worst case scenario that could follow from the ending of the Crimson Flower route.
15 years have passed since Edelgard conquered all of Fodlan and won the war she started against the Church of Seiros, Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the Leicester Alliance. The church is no more, as are the Kingdom and the Alliance. And in their place stands a Garreg Mach Monastery that has been converted into an Imperial officer's academy, as well as new territories for the Adrestian Empire that have had their culture and identity completely erased. And despite the Emperor's insistence that she would deal with them once she had finished her war, Those Who Slither In The Dark still operate in the shadows, stronger than ever.
Trying his best to survive this nightmare of a postwar dictatorship, Felix Hugo Fraldarius retires from his dangerous life of a mercenary and hopes to take a quiet teaching job as an instructor in the Officer's Academy. But his job is far from quiet: in between running into his old friends from the land known as Faerghus and old enemies from the war, Felix's life is turned upside down when he's pulled into the shadow war Hubert von Vestra has been fighting against Those Who Slither...
----
!!Tropes:
* AdaptationalDumbass: Edelgard's brilliant mind takes a huge beating here, where she has allowed herself to become an easily manipulated patsy of the Twisted/Slithers while Hubert and Markus scheme circles around her.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Played with: Edelgard ''is'' a brutal tyrant in the non-Crimson Flower routes of ''Three Houses'', but ''Crimson Flower'' tones down her nastiness thanks to Byleth's influence. Here, despite being married to Byleth and Crimson Flower being canon, she has brutally crushed multiple countries under her heel, destroying their cultures while having secret police round up and kill any dissenters.
* DarkIsNotEvil: In the years since the war, Hubert has shed a lot of his nastier traits and become a genuine force for good after seeing just how depraved the Twisted's experiments are and being disgusted by Edelgard's refusal to pull the plug on them. He's still a brutal master of the dark arts and still loves wearing dark and sinister attire, but he's a good man and headmaster who will move mountains to protect his students from harm.
* GrowlingGut: When Felix and his friends make a pit stop at Arianrhod while preparing for their final assault on the Twisted, Caspar's stomach lets out a ''huge'' rumble that convinces him to break for lunch. Annette's stomach is also described as "rumbling appreciatively" for a big meal Felix treated her to before getting intimate.
* HateSink: Markus von Engel is a boorish, sleazy {{Jerkass}} who horribly abuses his sister, is a serial cheater who failed his lover Annette and his daughter Alessia, and does everything in his power to undermine Felix and Hubert. [[spoiler:Even when he's revealed to be Myson of the Twisted/Slithers in disguise, he's still a nasty personal foe to Faustine while the real Markus is indicated to have been just as horribly unlikable in life.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Felix is even gruffer and ruder than he was in canon and has quite a foul mouth. But he's still a good man who deeply cares for his friends and students, and is an ''adorable'' surrogate father to little Alesia.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Thanks to Byleth developing health problems as a result of losing her crest, Edelgard decides to stall on eliminating the Twisted in hopes of them curing her. And thanks to her refusal to do what needs to be done, Edelgard enables them to continue ruining lives with their disgusting experiments while going out of her way to try to execute Hubert for picking up her slack.]]
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler:When he sees that the gentle, kind Marianne has been turned into a monster with a nearly-broken mind thanks to the Twisted's experiments, Felix breaks down crying at the injustice of it all.]]
* TorturedMonster: [[spoiler:Flayn, Marianne, and Byleth are all reduced to these thanks to the Twisted's experiments. Marianne gets better, but Flayn and Byleth do not.]]
* WeightWoe: Annette is briefly self-conscious when she notices how fit and lean Felix has been thanks to his life as a mercenary while she's gotten a bit chubby and soft due to her more sedentary lifestyle.
15 years have passed since Edelgard conquered all of Fodlan and won the war she started against the Church of Seiros, Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the Leicester Alliance. The church is no more, as are the Kingdom and the Alliance. And in their place stands a Garreg Mach Monastery that has been converted into an Imperial officer's academy, as well as new territories for the Adrestian Empire that have had their culture and identity completely erased. And despite the Emperor's insistence that she would deal with them once she had finished her war, Those Who Slither In The Dark still operate in the shadows, stronger than ever.
Trying his best to survive this nightmare of a postwar dictatorship, Felix Hugo Fraldarius retires from his dangerous life of a mercenary and hopes to take a quiet teaching job as an instructor in the Officer's Academy. But his job is far from quiet: in between running into his old friends from the land known as Faerghus and old enemies from the war, Felix's life is turned upside down when he's pulled into the shadow war Hubert von Vestra has been fighting against Those Who Slither...
----
!!Tropes:
* AdaptationalDumbass: Edelgard's brilliant mind takes a huge beating here, where she has allowed herself to become an easily manipulated patsy of the Twisted/Slithers while Hubert and Markus scheme circles around her.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Played with: Edelgard ''is'' a brutal tyrant in the non-Crimson Flower routes of ''Three Houses'', but ''Crimson Flower'' tones down her nastiness thanks to Byleth's influence. Here, despite being married to Byleth and Crimson Flower being canon, she has brutally crushed multiple countries under her heel, destroying their cultures while having secret police round up and kill any dissenters.
* DarkIsNotEvil: In the years since the war, Hubert has shed a lot of his nastier traits and become a genuine force for good after seeing just how depraved the Twisted's experiments are and being disgusted by Edelgard's refusal to pull the plug on them. He's still a brutal master of the dark arts and still loves wearing dark and sinister attire, but he's a good man and headmaster who will move mountains to protect his students from harm.
* GrowlingGut: When Felix and his friends make a pit stop at Arianrhod while preparing for their final assault on the Twisted, Caspar's stomach lets out a ''huge'' rumble that convinces him to break for lunch. Annette's stomach is also described as "rumbling appreciatively" for a big meal Felix treated her to before getting intimate.
* HateSink: Markus von Engel is a boorish, sleazy {{Jerkass}} who horribly abuses his sister, is a serial cheater who failed his lover Annette and his daughter Alessia, and does everything in his power to undermine Felix and Hubert. [[spoiler:Even when he's revealed to be Myson of the Twisted/Slithers in disguise, he's still a nasty personal foe to Faustine while the real Markus is indicated to have been just as horribly unlikable in life.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Felix is even gruffer and ruder than he was in canon and has quite a foul mouth. But he's still a good man who deeply cares for his friends and students, and is an ''adorable'' surrogate father to little Alesia.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Thanks to Byleth developing health problems as a result of losing her crest, Edelgard decides to stall on eliminating the Twisted in hopes of them curing her. And thanks to her refusal to do what needs to be done, Edelgard enables them to continue ruining lives with their disgusting experiments while going out of her way to try to execute Hubert for picking up her slack.]]
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler:When he sees that the gentle, kind Marianne has been turned into a monster with a nearly-broken mind thanks to the Twisted's experiments, Felix breaks down crying at the injustice of it all.]]
* TorturedMonster: [[spoiler:Flayn, Marianne, and Byleth are all reduced to these thanks to the Twisted's experiments. Marianne gets better, but Flayn and Byleth do not.]]
* WeightWoe: Annette is briefly self-conscious when she notices how fit and lean Felix has been thanks to his life as a mercenary while she's gotten a bit chubby and soft due to her more sedentary lifestyle.
