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• C’est La Mort by SeraphStarshine

  Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  01 Nov 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd/Dedue Molinaro
  • My Unit | Byleth/Claude von Riegan (Background)
  • Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
  • Dedue Molinaro
  • Hilda Valentine Goneril
  • Edelgard von Hresvelg
  • Hubert von Vestra
  • Claude von Riegan
  • My Unit | Byleth
  • Manuela Casagranda
  • Marianne von Edmund
  • Lysithea von Ordelia
  • Sylvain Jose Gautier
  • Felix Hugo Fraldarius
  • Ashe Duran | Ashe Ubert
  • Leonie Pinelli
  • Verdant Wind | Golden Deer Route (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
  • Canon Compliant (except Dimitri lives)
  • Hilda is a wyvern rider
  • Felix and Sylvain joined the Golden Deer
  • Blood and Injury
  • Nightmares
  • vomiting (specifically blood)
  • healing magic has limits
  • otherwise everything would just be fine
  • Suicide Attempt
  • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
  • Slow Burn
  • but not in the pining way more like they are too messed up to focus on their feelings for a long time
  • POV Dedue Molinaro for the most part
  • Minor Character Death
  • Panic Attacks
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Period-Typical Racism
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • Eventual Happy Ending
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Triggers
  • Hallucinations
  • Dimitri is so messed up
  • Dedue is at his breaking point
  • Dedue has a lot of repressed feelings/anger
  • this is kind of heavy (I think)
  • so read with caution
  • Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Caretaking
  • staying conscious through surgery
  • well like medieval style
  • there's a bit of Sylvix if you squint
  • the Claudeleth isn’t a lot but it’s there
  • no beta we die like Glenn

  Summary

  Dedue skids to a halt as he takes in the scene before him. His Highness's fallen form fills his vision, his body pierced with a multitude of lances, a growing blood stain swelling around him. Dedue's heart stutters in his chest. He's paralyzed; his lungs seize, his mind shatters.

  Blink.

  Dedue forces himself to take a lurching step forward.

  Inhale.

  He manages another step.

  Go to him

  Dimitri's lips move around silent syllables. He's still alive.

  All is not lost yet.

  Alternatively: what if Hilda saved Dimitri on Gronder field and brought him back to the Alliance camp instead of simply finding his body?
  

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  23,196

  Chapters:

  8/?

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  Kudos:

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