fe-bruary, post tíu: ranulf blather
Feb. 23rd, 2013 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
queenluaso I haven't figured out how to turn it into a fic yet
but I do have a vague headcanon about Ranulf having spent a substantial amount of time in one of the beorc nations (probably Crimea or Begnion) as some sort of undercover agent/spy
because like, Ranulf always seems far more perceptive of differences between beorc and laguz cultures than literally anyone else, and is always explaining those differences to everyone
and I also sort of think this may be where he gets a lot of his temperance/rationality/strategic thought—most of the other beast laguz we meet have either a shallow understanding of beorc culture or are just super-aggressive toward them—and there's that weird-ass thing we're given that laguz have a very hard time just abandoning a fight, even if that fight is strategically dumb, something which Ranulf tells us about but which he, himself, doesn't seem to be very affected by.
I mean part of this could obviously be just that he is a Naturally Cunning and Cautious Dude, but I like to imagine that the depth of his knowledge/experience/expertise comes from experience with beorc
and yeah something something interesting tensions between his obvious political savvy placed against Skrimir's bullheadedness and such.
but I do have a vague headcanon about Ranulf having spent a substantial amount of time in one of the beorc nations (probably Crimea or Begnion) as some sort of undercover agent/spy
because like, Ranulf always seems far more perceptive of differences between beorc and laguz cultures than literally anyone else, and is always explaining those differences to everyone
and I also sort of think this may be where he gets a lot of his temperance/rationality/strategic thought—most of the other beast laguz we meet have either a shallow understanding of beorc culture or are just super-aggressive toward them—and there's that weird-ass thing we're given that laguz have a very hard time just abandoning a fight, even if that fight is strategically dumb, something which Ranulf tells us about but which he, himself, doesn't seem to be very affected by.
I mean part of this could obviously be just that he is a Naturally Cunning and Cautious Dude, but I like to imagine that the depth of his knowledge/experience/expertise comes from experience with beorc
and yeah something something interesting tensions between his obvious political savvy placed against Skrimir's bullheadedness and such.
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Date: 2013-02-24 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-02-24 03:50 am (UTC)I think the writers of FE9/10 did mention somewhere that Ranulf has a particularly high amount of balance within him for a beast laguz. That's probably why the chaos of battle doesn't affect him so much.
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Date: 2013-02-24 05:43 am (UTC)in either case that def. sounds like something that would fit, and helps explain stuff, thank you :)
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Date: 2013-02-24 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
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