[a deep dive into felix fraldarius because i can]
I want to deep dive into felix fraldarius of fire emblem: three houses and none of you can stop me.
❝ ━━ hi. so i have quite literally forgotten about this account until now and through talking about the (fictional) man in the title, i have come to talk about something also quite useless. there is nothing to really come about through such an unorganized analysis, espeically when many have already said this and that ever since 2019 (when FE3H released). then again, this is my page and i can post what i want (with some limitations).
so, where to start? it could be chronologically in either how the game presents itself or felix’s life itself. but perhaps the best way to begin this is to actually introduce the basics of the man himself. for those who don’t know or just don’t care at this point, felix fraldarius is the next in line to be duke of the location, fraldarius. his father, rodrigue fraldarius, is the current duke and a loyal citizen of Faerghus, the nation that has many territories under it’s banner of royal blue. many territories have their own specific rulers, dukes and what have you, but they are not the main focus of this analysis for now. what matters is that, in the year 1180 (in the game, rather than anything actually factual), felix fraldarius is one of the most bitter 17 year-olds at Gareg Mach. The academy where most royals and poor warriors thrive, he is a prude to his friends & classmates. While he is a prude only in the way that he is perceived as “no fun”, he is surely not without his desires that bare no real benefit, despite him thinking quite differently.
felix is easily defined by his passion and extreme drive to be the best swordsman amongst his peers, if not amongst everyone else. he is practically comparable to zoro, who wants to be the best swordsman in the world but has a very different feel to him. not to mention the very different power scaling of these swordsmen, but i digress. felix practices every single day and strives to find someone to beat & one may even think he only does this to find someone who can beat him, which is only partially true. he could find someone who’d beat him, be it a classmate or otherwise, and appear very bitter. and in truth, he would be. felix can or would be bitter because he believed he’d been so superior. he’s not without a huge amount of pride, confidence and ego. but on the other side of this, he now has a new goal of getting even better. it is through this opponent that he can get better and therefore improve all that he is. felix most possibly defines himself and his self-worth through his sword fighting ability. it is not what he should defined or valued by, but what anyone could on a surface level.
and while we are still in the basics of his character, yes this is still the intro, I want explain what felix finds himself to be versus what many fans think of him, me included. felix fraldarius is one of my favorite characters and i even have a few headcanons for his character that go past the initial intentions of nintendo & all those who were involved in the lore + character writing of the game. which i will get into later, don’t worry.
felix canonically and characteristically establishes his own worth (on a surface level and beyond) from his sword skills. be it against his peers or anyone that comes across him & his blade(s), he has a big amount of self-regard about the result of such bouts. there’s enough jokes that he has a “hard on” for swordsmanship and would rather date his sword than any girl. or that he is already in love with his sword, even though that can be an actually solid theme with his character when given serious thought past a humorous prod at his obsession. past this surface level, felix can still be defined by his skill just by the fact of his trauma. and i’m sure you’ll notice i have not brought up anything past how bitter and edgy he appears. before mentioning anything of it, felix is constantly going on and on about how useless being a knight is. or how it’d be much more pertinent (for him) to be practicing his swordsmanship than whatever lesson or strategy meeting he’s experiencing at the moment. without any other fact, it appears as if that’s all felix is meant to be, however. the one note sword man. but may i present another side of felix’s history, which i have also negelcted to mention until now. all throughout the game(s) that have the three houses lore/territories of fodlan, felix is seen to seemingly have a rocky relationship with his father, duke rodrigue fraldarius. they both share their signature blue hair and paler skin. whereas the younger of them looks stern and discernably annoyed at any given moment, the older of the two can appear quite warm. his usual decadence is that of a kind and understanding man, a patient father. once a father of two, while only now being a gentle father and commander if need be. there are hints of why it seems rocky between them but through several support conversations in the game, it becomes clear why felix speaks harshly to his father.
he lost his hero, his brother, glenn.
now, to anyone who hasn’t played the game or even know who the hell felix is, that doesn’t mean jack shit. but i want to paint a picture for those who read this as a fire emblem fan or as someone who wants to get an insight into just why i’m writing this overblown analysis. a younger felix, around the age of 11 or 12, give or take is the brightest young man anyone can imagine. aside from the bubbling prince that’s dimitri alexandre blaiddyid. the dark blue future duke still enjoys his swordsplay but he is not obsessed - not yet. his hero is his older brother, glenn. the older fraldarius is around 15 years old, already a knight who’s proven his capabilities in the field. in the world of fire emblem, it’s not uncommon for child soldiers. and he is respected for such skills. glenn is seen as almost abraisve in the sense he’s not as nice as could be. he starts fights to prove himself and doesn’t exactly make friends like he could or should. glenn and felix are two sides of the fraldarius coin, albeit in a more literal sense. the older fraldarius is everything felix wants to be. he’s idolized by his little brother, a nice relationship having been there since forever. and he’s even engaged to felix’s friend, ingrid. a young romance is even started between the two child spouses to be. but as mentioned before, felix at some point, is not that happy go lucky child with a knight for a brother. for those of you who don’t know, around this time (chronologially), glenn is a part of the defense of duscur, a territory of faerghus. a traitorous event leads to the death of the heroic glenn. now, this is just an oversimplification because if i were to explain the entirety of the duscur massacre, we’d be here all damn day. in the end, dimitri (felix’s friend and the crown prince of the holy kingdom of faerghus), sees glenn’s corpse and witnesses the death of his father + many duscur natives (mostly akin to africans or even native americans) who get blamed for the royal family’s near assassination.
and you now may be thinking about how felix loses his idol & how that must depress him. or how he surely will have a much softer personality after the crushing massacre of the duscur people & his one and only brother. only half of it is true. it does depress him. but i bring you back to the felix of year 1180 where he’s a bitter 17 year-old who’s willing to prove his mettle to just about anyone within a five mile radius. he becomes just like his brother. a (semi-aspiring) knight who can surely boast his swordsmanship skills. but with the added bitterness of his brother’s death and the disdain for knight manship. his gritty outlook is quite explained and touched on within the world of three houses. he belittles and demeans most of his classmates’ aspirations to be knights. he can go on about how foolish it all is or the fact that it won’t matter when they’re dead. that their honor is something to be scoffed at because they want to uphold some honoring standard about sacrificing themselves for nobles who can just buy more knights when their friends, himself even, have to grieve the new tombstone that has their name engraved. dimitri shares the same notion, although in a different context and with a much more sentimental tone. sylvain too (don’t worry he’ll get his own fucking analysis for anyone that’s confused) but his is more emotional if anything, but not more emotional than felix’s own desperate plea. and i say ‘desperate’ as in he is always trying to dissuade others in his support conversations. yes, he’s not on his knees begging to anyone, but considering it’s in so many of his conversations with others, i’d call it desperate. felix is on his way to becoming a knight only because it is his natural progression. he will be the best swordsman (or samurai if we go by the game’s canonical endgame class for him) through being an idiotic knight for the boar-tempest king.
now, we have gotten through the intro of felix fraldarius as a character. we are FINALLY going to dive into what i think about the tragedy, joy and everything else about my favorite swordsman boy. in a way, this is enough talking especially when i basically skimmed over some things in favor of giving a very muddled baseline of a man who doesn’t even exist. but i also raise you: i don’t care, i’m mentally ill. so if you’ll follow me to our next segment.
━━ MR. FRALDARIUS & HIS FRIENDS
so before the actual angst really carries in, i want to discuss a good base of felix’s relationships. i will be less essay-ish about this, but i do apologize for how ranty this will be. in the game, he has too many friendships/relationships to go over, but i want to focus on the core of his friend group, the blue lions. for those who don’t know, felix is childhood friends with ingrid brandi galatea, sylvain gautier, and the absolutely adorable prince of their lovely kingdom, dimitri alexandre blaiddyid. i will focus on these relationships primarily plus some extra characters (annette, dedue) who still serve a great deal of context to felix’s character. shall we?
sylvain gautier is the most canonical person to be defined as felix’s best friend. while in game felix does berate and demean sylvain’s supposed laziness & skirt chasing, he does value him as his friend. in most fan interpretations and just game lore, they are seen as being together for life. be it in a romantic or purely platonic context, they quite literally are together until they both take their last breath. sylvain is his “funny man” and takes the brunt of his not exactly well meaning criticisms. they never really see eye to eye unless it’s about training, but even then there are disagreements. felix will always force him to train with him, to which he obliges with a carefree smile, but the former will complain about the latter’s nonchalant nature constantly. no matter how anyone will take this bit of information of the two, only the game can present the truly entertaining and almost heartfelt connection these two men share. and perhaps it’s even more enhanced by the fact sylvain is two years older than felix and was friends with glenn. he still pairs so well with felix thematically and their chemistry is undeniable. felix has so much pain from glenn’s death and sylvain does too. but the gautier’s primary pain and trauma that’s sewed into his character is moreso seeing felix go from that cheerful child to who he has been ever since duscur. and while i don’t think sylvain or any of their friends would have felix be that ignorant but cheerful child again, i can definitely see the concept of him hoping he can still have the joy he used to have when they were younger. and while i would elaborate on sylvain’s character (arc), that is best saved for his post (if i get to it) since that’s more dependant on his lore and trauma, opposed to the point of this overblown post.
ingrid brandi galatea is felix’s brother’s bride, or rather, she used to be. the blonde pegasus rider with the crest of daphneel is nothing short of ambitious and hardworking. it is embued into her character as a whole even when not including the context of glenn or felix. she works to become a knight worthy of protecting and shielding dimitri, one of her best friends and literal prince. but with the context of it, she is a female character who could be seen as “becoming more than her romantic entanglements” but i don’t see that as being a huge part of her character, but it certainly can be seen as a faucet of it. rather, i see her as the other gear in the tragic situation of duscur & the main theme of trauma in the game, but more relatively, the theme of trauma within the route of the blue lions. she loses her first love (albeit arranged from birth), sees her friend change, and sees her other friend lose all of his family & become a little bit different. Much like dimitri and felix, ingrid has to deal with this trauma & distances herself from the friend group like the others. while sylvain sees them all change through these tragic events, she is a part of this change. their friend group is not as innocent as they used to be and never will be ever again. their closeness may never be the same, but it has the potential to be even stronger. but in general, ingrid is defined by her goal and drive to be a knight. a pegasus knight, in fact. she prides herself on this ambition and it’s clear in several supports (especially with other blue lions) that she loves it. she loves the training and wants to become the best protector she can be. but it’s in that that felix finds an issue with. they bicker almost like a distanced couple (the old married couple trope goes to sylvain and ingrid) but he always demeans her desire. while it could appear mean spirited, felix is really only showing her the dichotomy of what they perceived as children. he can only wonder why she’d want to do the same thing as glenn, becoming a knight on the front lines and willing to die for their country just because of honor, when that got him a mangled corpse through betrayal. ingrid can only defend her want through the sheer goodwill of her goal but it only holds up so much. and side note just for context’s sake, she is the very same person who develops a bit of racism against the people of duscur (dedue) because she can only inherently blame them for the death of glenn and the other blaiddyid’s, despite the fact there’s barely any real evidence the people of duscur did it. in game, there’s not much done to remedy it besides a small apology to dedue but still.
annette fantine dominic is one of the several close knit friends felix has, despite the fact he still has such a calloused sounding tone towards her. he does not hate her by any means, please do not think he hates or dislikes any of his friends to an extreme amount. jokingly, he’d be one to say he dislikes parts of sylvain’s “lazy” nature but still. annette is arguably one of the people closer to felix on an emotional level, but mostly due to their lighter conversations. she is not really as knight focused as ingrid or ashe, but rather, just wants to improve herself alongside her friends. her primary characterization is steeped within her struggle of perfectionism with her studies, magic skill and perhaps even her own problems with her past & home life. But more specifically, the lack of her father’s appearance despite him being within sight at almost all times. but that in itself is extra when it comes to her connection with felix. they have supports full of good fun with annette’s cheery nature and her stupidly cute songs. he catches her on several occasions and surprisingly likes the songs. it can be said that he oddly enjoys the songs in the way that it brings something light to his life when he already has a bitter and gruff outlook. in some fan headcanons and even the s support (when exclusively pairing felix & annette), felix & annette are a major canon romantic ship. but their worth as friends could never be understated. they share a different bond from the kind he has with dimitri and sylvain, respectively. annette is much more emotionally innocent and has a contrasting outlook compared to the swordsman and it’s in that where they thrive as friends and lovers. annette is not necessarily saved from his justified rants about being a knight but she is able to share the sentiment given they both know the fates of those who stake everything on honor, instead of valuing life.
dedue molinaro is a complicated case. while dedue is definitely seen as a friend within the blue lions to felix and others, his conversations with the fraldarius boy is nothing short of semi polarizing at first. while i think there’s not as much material in game between the two blue lions, there is a substantial amount that can be discussed, at least lightly. there is no s-support between the two, but the c-support & b-support between them paints an interesting picture. but first: an intro to dedue. the molinaro boy, about a year older than most of the blue lions, is one of the last people of duscur. through persecution and just straight up racism, the duscur people are both berated & treated as horrible traitors to the holy kingdom of faerghus. dedue always has taken on this persecution with a perceived blankness, which in reality, is a defense of sorts. for anyone that’s a person of color, there are technically several ways to take such racism, but the main way to take it without there being much issue is to move on from it. not to say that the way dedue handles it is always correct (there is no ‘correct way’) but just that it’s how he takes it. but moving on, a huge faucet of dedue’s character is his staunch willingness to stay by dimitri’s side as his retainer. he would describe moreso as “his highness’” bodyguard and primary protector just for the fact he feels as though he must repay such a monumental debt. the “debt” being that amidst the chaos of the royal family’s deaths, a young dimitri pulled a young dedue with him, saving at least one other person. a whole mini analysis could be spent on duscur and it’s effect on the blue lions + the politics of faerghus but in this context, dimitri finds what he thinks to be a new friend while dedue cannot repay the boy - soon to be man in the current timeline of the year 1180, for saving his life and finding some kind of value in someone as low as he. their perceptions of their connection to the other is an interesting dichotomy of the peasant & noble dynamic but i want to direct your attention to how felix sees dedue, instead. he calls dimitri a “boar” but demeans dedue by calling him a mere “dog” of the prince’s actions & goals. dedue doesn’t exactly refute it like anyone would. and while being called a “dog” could honestly be seen as a racist-esque insult, it is not the focus of anything & the racism is something to be explored on a deeper level within the three houses universe. the axe-wielding retainer only really defends that he is dimitri’s sole right hand man, but not with some possessive grandeur. he truly and so passionately wishes to assist the blonde blaiddyid in his goals for reforming the kingdom of faerghus. he only sees himself as this retainer and for that, felix hates him to an extent. or at the very least, he hates how dedue sees himself. not in any kind of way that it denotes they should be great friends due to the care he has for dedue, goddess no. rather, felix values the independence someone would have from someone else and dedue appears to be the opposite of that to him. he is a slave to the ambitions of his friend and soon to be king. a dog only for the goal of a foolish “boar king” who can and will only destroy that which is around him when given the chance. both supports build this neatly but don’t go much beyond this. at some point, however, there is a calm and steady relationship where they help & defend the other in battle. there is no bad blood, but their connection and small bouts explain quite a bit about both of their characters.
dimitri alexadnre blaiddyid is probably the second or first most compelling & intriguing relationships felix has in all of the three houses properties. i saved this for last as i feel like it’s the most compelling relationship felix has, even including his father. but that is also a whole other story. dimitri, as i’ve mentioned almost countless times already, is the crown prince of the holy kingdom of faerghus, which is comparable to the actual national aesthetic of russia. dimitri is seen as a cheerful and quite dedicated fellow amongst his peers. he works hard, trains to forever get better, and sincerely wishes to better his country that he loves so dearly. he could be seen as the perfect leader, but that is only the facade that shows before any of his trauma. there is enough i could say about dimitri’s trauma and pain beneath this mask of “the prince.” but in relation to felix, this is almost horrifying to the fraldarius boy. dimitri saw glenn’s corpse and does seem to understand the unique outlook he has on knights & honor of being a warrior for the sake of the kingdom or otherwise. he even warns ingrid about this, albeit in a rushed and seemingly callous way. but he still appears to keep a positive outlook on it with some limitations at different points of his life. but his life changes alongside the other blue lions. however, felix continues to have this sort of disdain for dimitri and his heroic goals when calling him a “boar.” players and even some characters in universe don’t really know just why felix does this. in one of their supports, though, we learn that some time after the tragedy of duscur, they all went on such missions before coming to gareg mach. ones that concerned those who could’ve been responsible for the royal family’s demise & the blaming of duscur. and it was then where felix saw the most unstable part of dimitri. the side that took so much sick joy in killing a man possibly responsible, if not as some small part of a big conspiracy. dimitri, arguably the most determined young man amongst them, is already enough of a killer. perhaps that barely means anything when murder is not held up to the same standard in the medieval-like world of three houses, but to felix, it means quite a lot. no doubt, felix is guilty of the same down the line, but he’s not as monstrous seeming. dimitri shows him the rage and unstable nature that bubbles beneath the surface. the insanity that came with the killing of his family right before his very eyes. whereas felix dislikes the slave-like role dedue has taken on, he hates dimitri’s hidden monstrosity that only comes out in specific situations. he cannot bare to even accept that as some normal thing when dimitri could so easily just turn into this boar who cares not what or who he swings at. and depressingly enough, that fear practically comes true. to felix, his best friend falls short in the moral sense and the upkeep of this facade only disappoints him more. maybe even more than dimitri’s insistence about being a good king and the others’ desire to be knights worthy of protecting those in peril. but just like how people change, this relationship changes over the course of time. from their time at the academy to the war portion of the game, felix can see dimitri’s downfall and eventual redemption, to which has a great slew of conversations about it. the damage is done to their relationship, just like how they all are not who they were before glenn’s death, but there is still a chance for that bond to be greater than ever. the main point, at least i think, in their connection is just the fact it can reveal so much about felix’s values & thoughts about things out of his control. he is a morally upright person despite how much he may like the violence and fighting in being a swordsman. he is no monster itching to kill someone and he certainly does not need to pretend this new monster under the guise of the “future king” is his friend from back then.
━━ THE TRAGEDY & PRIDE OF FELIX FRALDARIUS
here we get to the angst of our golden eyed boy. which is my favorite part of fascination with his character but also the best part of his characterization in general. now, i hope you all can see that there is much to gleam from felix’s relationships. but one i want to show is the one with his father. as mentioned before, their dynamic is a bit rocky due to the death of glenn. understandably so, even. any death of a family member, especially the older brother & child, will divide those closest to them. but it’s the fact that this rocky relationship lasts from glenn’s death to rodrigue’s eventual death. and through a virtuous sacrifice in order to save the “boar” no less. felix cannot even fucking fathom why his father speaks of glenn’s death like some sacrifice and still boasts knights, much like everyone else, like heroes especially if they die while on duty. there is only tragedy and no honor to be found in glenn’s death in the fraldarius’ eyes. and maybe that’s why i adore his characterization & values so much. what true point is there in being a hero when you’ll die from an ambition truly not beneficial for anyone? this one personal sacrifice does nothing to help the country and in felix’s case, the kingdom. an innumerable amount of people die before the war even begins and nothing comes of it, not really. and this theme is so agonizingly clear in any conversation or mission felix is in. even with the mission that the player finally engages with rodrigue and his troops, felix still verbally berates his father’s choice & refuses to speak to him at length.
but the true sorrow that comes in this neglect of his father comes to head when dimitri is threatened by the vengeful sister of an adrestian commander he killed in order to take back over the kingdom. i will not even bother going over the logistics of the plot point that is the finer details of the war considering no one here cares that much or if you don’t even know the game, you must be so confused, so please do not worry about it. back to the point - rodrigue jumps in front of a distracted dimitri, who’s stuck in his spot seeing the man who he may as well had raised him after his father’s death bleeding out right before his eyes. the assailant is easily killed by the player character through cutscene and it’s with the next scene that dimitri’s facade breaks once again. the one that portrayed him as this feral beast with no regard for others fades just as quickly as rodrigue’s dying. the desperation and confusion is written across his face. he holds the duke as his last words are spoken so faithfully, while it’s taken in just as bitterly by the actual son.
it is then that felix loses his father, the last person left from his immediate family. he is now fatherless, brotherless and could be seen as being utterly alone. his one and only brothers gets himself killed for the honor that he was praised for. his father sacrifices himself for the boar that merely mistreated all his friends and was seemingly content with fucking off to go die after murdering edelgard, who he perceived as being the person responsible for all his suffering. in the name of honor and the royal family that once held so much pride, he loses everything but his own life. and even then, he could feebly question just how long that’d last. how long until he dies in battle because he is the new duke fraldarius? how long until ingrid, sylvain, annette and that damned boar die all for the sake of being dutiful knights who will be boasted after their premature deaths? this is the tragedy of felix’s story. he is a boy turned man who has to deal with the sorrowful consequences of other’s actions that directly affect him. he learns that honor is a sham, one that can get you killed. that he’d be an idiot to do as his friends do. there is nothing more disappointing to felix than being a slave to foolish ambition when it merely punishes those around him.
felix fraldarius is a man of pride and honor, but he is not an idiot. where his friends take the same kind of value in their passions in being heroes for the lesser, he will only allow himself it when his skill is involved, not his untimely death. and that is why i, many others included, love the characterization of the swordsman with a much more tragic story than some would think. i am also certainly no expert on felix’s character given i did not write nor design him. but what dtaws so many people in is the subversion of what appeared to be a brash, independent boy obsessed with being the best. this fascination with the subversion is also how i’d like to bring you all to my last and very extra point.
━━ FELIX IS WASIAN / ASIAN, GO ARGUE WITH THE WALL
Okay, so I can imagine I may have lost some of you just by saying that. For many of you, there is barely any people of color in three houses just by the virtue that there’s barely any dark-skinned characters, let alone many light-skinned characters in the game. And I agree that there is a disturbing lack of them, but that’s also why I give you this: felix is east asian. now, this could be seen as some cop out given i’m not saying he could be any kind of asian with actual melanin. however, i feel as though he’s asian coded in two simple ways. this is not gospel by any means. this is simply a headcanon that i take my own personal (asian) pride in for the good fun of my mentally ill brain.
reason one: felix’s canonical endgame class is quite literally the samurai. an eventual development of the swordsman and myrmidon classes he adopts earlier in the game, he is his best when having this class. there is the thought that it could be literally just cultural appropriation since many other white characters can also achieve this class but that is all based within player choice, rather than anything actually canonical or sensical in way. the fact he has the samurai class, an obviously east asian type of aestheitc and/or thing, already gives him base for being asian. and more specifically for being japanese or half-japanese at the very least. while we do not see much of felix’s mother, fans can really just impose the headcanon of rodrigue also being wasian or just asian. but there is also the possibility of his mother being the asian one. regardless of the semantics, there is already enough reason fans can see felix as asian in some way, shape or form.
reason two: felix’s primary characterization having to do with honor and pride goes so well with the thought that he could be asian or even just wasian. while it could be seen as stereotypical i am equating being asian (more specifically japanese) with the theme of honor and pride, there is no real deniability that the japanese culture is so hinged on these values. a lot of themes in japanese culture rely on the fact that there is a pride in being successful and mor historically, strong. your family and community depends on the honor you bring & vice versa. there is no greater shame than bringing down that said image of honor your family has. you bring so much to your family’s potential and it is in that idea that felix fits so well. he cares about a surface level of his image when it comes to stupid stuff but his definition of pride & honor differs so much from the usual kind. in the world of three houses, honor is so directly tied to the feats of knights who either live or die for the people they protect or seem to “protect.” glenn dies for this honor, albeit not totally intentionally. his distaste for this supposed ideal of honor could easily refuted entirely, to which he actually doesn’t. felix doesn’t turn away this notion of it completely. rather, he has his own brand of it, which could be seen as debatable. i think there is value in two differing statements. “he loathes the concept of honor” versus “he has his own version of honor” can technically co-exist and don’t really negate the other. felix loathes all that which he comes from and decides to be different, to not adhere to the idiotic ideals of greedy knights and what have you. it is steeped in the pain & idiocy he witnesses as a child to when he’s the duke of the fraldarius territory. he instead takes his doses of pride and honor in his skill and achievements. as opposed to dying for a honor he cannot bask in, he takes pride in his honed skills as a samurai-swordsman. he finds nothing to be gained in the foolish chasing of honor and that is where he shall survive, but still be stuck in his pit of eternal tragedy as the last fraldarius duke.
felix is a complete subversion of everything he seems to be on the surface level. and it is why he continues to be one of the best written three houses characters to be written. while his popularity may never skyrocket to any of the three lords’, i find him to be one of the very best. he can even be seen as at least top five in terms of characterization across all three houses content. i hope that this was an enjoyable read if anyone actually read the entire thing. thank you for bearing with me through this jumbled rant about a fictional man. i hope to do more analysis on three houses characters. especially the blue lions.
have a good day and play three houses i beg of you. ❝