♦ Fire Emblem: Three Houses, EoaNA {Planning / Discussion}

Haha, even though he's become friendlier towards his brother at some point during their childhood I think they'll always keep at least a little bit of their old dynamic. Their own time as students at Garreg Mach had a lot of such interactions. During one of their battle practices Konstantin practised that Rescue spell and deliberately stood near a river. So he ended up dumping his brother into the river, much to Alyosha's dismay and his own entertainment.

He may be serious for the most part but he's definitely not above being a little mischievous sometimes xD Just ask the guy who was the House Leader of the Golden Deer that year. That idiot used to think too highly of himself and had way too much fun belittling nobles without a crest and nobles who otherwise don't meet his standards. Alyosha was a pretty slow learner when he was a kid and Konstantin doesn't have a crest so the Deer's leader often got on their nerves, though as Blue Lions it wasn't too hard for them to avoid him.
Well, one time when he did run into them and two of their friends they somehow got him to stop messing with them. The unfortunate Deer tried to challenge Alyosha, figuring that he could beat him since he seemed to be one of the weaker Lions. Well... for one, he was wrong about that (though Alyosha doesn't enjoy fighting so he tries to avoid stuff like that) but while he stood there, trying to goad the kid into a fight Konstantin just walked up to him from behind and stuffed a fist full of squashed rosehips down his collar. The hairs inside those fruits can be used as itching powder, you know xD
After that the Leader-Deer just did everything he could to avoid any of the Blue Lions. He also was too embarrassed to tell anyone. But now I wonder... if Philomel already was teaching the Golden Deer back then I guess he might have figured something out if he happened to see the poor guy that day. Ugh, now I hope they had a different professor back then, Philomel is definitely smart enough to figure out what went down if he watched the students of the other houses even for a little while. I mean, it would be so awkward now. "Hey, remember that time you pranked one of my students?" "Oh shut up."
Oh, and some more trivia about his time as a student: The Golden Deer won the Mock Battle and the Blue Lions won the Battle of the Eagle and the Lion. There's also the fact that Konstantin was banned from the kitchen after the first month. And Alyosha wrote some sort of song or chant for the Lions in case they win one of the tournaments. It's awful and the rhymes suck xD The whole class presented it after the Battle of the Eagle and the Lion and while all of them were cringing on the inside they also had a lot of fun subjecting the other two Houses to this.

I think one of the worst things Konstantin did back then was baking some scones that exploded. They looked edible (which already made everyone suspicious of the food) but when the class took a short break when they walked home from a mission they found out what was wrong with the stuff. One kid just looked at a scone for a moment - and threw it against a tree. The scone exploded and a small chunk of the tree trunk got blown off. After seeing that Konstantin tried to convince his brother to try some. "Hey, we don't know if they explode inside of someone." "Well you eat it then!" "I already had to stand in the kitchen. And I beat most of the bandits today. Time for you to put in some effort, Alyosha. Go on, take one for the team." "Hell no! Make our professor eat it!" "Are you crazy? We'd get expelled if we killed one of the teachers!"

I should figure out orryns experience more, cause I'd like to think he had to go through multiple years cause his family did something that prevented him from graduating or he had one year and then worked around the monastery because his family refused to let him return home, cause they didn't want an illegitimate child around

Maybe have him go through two years and then work around the monastery. Whatever works best for him. Anyway, do you know if the Black Eagles won the Mock Battle or the Battle of the Eagle and the Lion during his time as a student? Or did they lose both? Also, any big incidents? Orryn was the one who first mentioned the disappearances so I suppose they were kind of a big deal during his year as a student?

Hmm that works! I'd say blue lions won the mock battle and deer won the battle of eagle and lion is first time through, then the second time deer won the mock battle and eagles won the battle.

As for disappearances I'd say his first year only two went missing so it wasn't thought to be to severe. His second time though, 5 went missing so it was a bigger deal. And since I love to put them through angst, one was someone he was close with, and he was blamed for the disappearance but was eventually found innocent but everyone in his house still were suspicious of him and avoided him when they could. During his time working around before being a professor disappearances still occurred but since it was outsiders no one really did anything.

And then since he had students that were outsiders he choose to give them the information that students have disappeared in the past, but choose to keep hidden it was only outsiders, in hopes that the students would work to keep each other safe

Still tormenting your OCs, I see. Sheesh, his second year sounds awful. Love his reasoning for mentioning the disappearances though. And since it's kind of a big deal some students have already talked about it to the others. I remember that Vincent told Estelle about it and she told Callan and Rekka. And the very next day Callan told Luca about it so I wouldn't be surprised if every student knew about it by now xD

Also, during Konstantin's time as a student there was also one incident where one of the Black Eagles got killed by some assassins. Since there are quite some people who don't like the church it's probably not too uncommon for some of them to try and assassinate the archbishop. Like, every other year or something xD
Anyway, the Golden Deer guarded the Reception Hall since the archbishop has her quarters on the third floor there, the Black Eagles guarded the Entrance Hall and the Blue Lions had to guard one area where, during that year, a wall was damaged and was likely to be used by unwanted visitors. The gang of assassins had split up, just as the church had expected, but instead of most of them trying to sneak through the 'secret' entrance the largest part of the group used the main gate, knowing fully well that the other parts would be guarded more carefully. I think the Deer had it pretty easy since almost no one managed to reach the Reception Hall. The Lions didn't have too much trouble either because the squad they had to deal with wasn't too strong. The Eagles however had to fight the largest part of the gang and since neither Lions nor Deer were allowed to leave their posts (since they couldn't run the risk of anyone sneaking past them) they were pretty much on their own until the knights returned from their mission.
Both Lions and Deer figured out pretty quickly that the ones they were fighting only served to keep them occupied. One of the intruders even laughed at the fact that the strongest members of their group were probably slaughtering the ones at the main gate right now. And with that there just was this weird sense of desperation and hopelessness among the Lions as they knew they couldn't just go and help the Eagles. I think some became even more ruthless against the intruders out of sheer frustration while others kept trying to disobey the orders and run off to support them anyway. And while most of the Lions, including Konstantin and Alyosha, never were super close to the other houses, they too were probably devastated to learn that the Eagles had lost one of their own. I like to think that because of that incident Konstantin absolutely despises assassins and secretly fears missions where the whole monastery has to be defended from those people, especially if multiple places have to be guarded at the same time.