Blue Lions
Reverse Bang
Information & Guidelines
A Reverse Bang is the opposite ("reverse") of a Big Bang. It is an event that pairs artists and writers together to create content for a series, ship, or theme. The Blue Lions Reverse Bang centers around the characters and events from the main 8 Blue Lions House characters from the video game, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, developed by Intelligent Systems and Kou Shibusawa and published by Nintendo.Click Here for our full Guidebook!
Schedule
Sign-up Period:
August 22 - September 5Onboarding Artists: By Sept. 9
Moderators
Peaches
Choco
lin
Manda
Blue Lions Reverse Bang Guidelines
Click Here for our full Guidebook!The Blue Lions Reverse Bang will accept submissions of any rating, meaning that this is both an SFW and NSFW event. Participants should tag their fanworks appropriately.Separate channels will be created on the Discord server for detailed discussions of mature or sexual topics. You will have to opt-in to be able to see and join the channel. However, you must be 18+ years old to create NSFW fanworks and/or access NSFW channels in the Discord.Creator Minimums are as Follows:
Artists: 1 (one) new piece of art
Writers: 5,000 (5k) words based on their artist's artwork and prompt
Please see the Guidebook for full details.The mods do not permit the use of generative AI in any capacity for the creation of fanworks for this Reverse Bang. Should it become evident that a participant has used generative AI in their work, they will be removed from the Reverse Bang event.
We WILL be accepting these submissions:
All pairings and relationships (platonic or romantic), as long as the piece falls within the focus of the Blue Lions Reverse Bang. Background relationships that do not feature a Blue Lions character are allowed. (Byleth ships and cross-house ships are allowed so long as the focus of your work is on the Blue Lion.) For the purposes of this bang, "Blue Lions" refers to the current eight (8) students who are members of the house at the beginning of the game.
Any version of Blue Lions characters, including if they are not in the Azure Moon route.
AUs, including versions of Blue Lions from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, developed by Omega Force and published by Koei Tecmo in Japan and Nintendo, as well as Fire Emblem: Heroes, developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo, and Fire Emblem Shadows. For this event, we're using Fanlore's definition of Alternate Universe.
We will NOT be accepting these submissions:
Character bashing
Ship bashing
Fanworks in which a Blue Lions character or characters are not the main focus
Crossovers (unless in relation to Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes or Fire Emblem: Heroes). Fanlore defines a crossover as "...a fanfic or other fan-created work in which two or more fandoms are combined in some way."
Please read the full Guidebook for more detailed information & expectations.
Schedule
This schedule acts as a guideline and may be updated at the mods’ discretion. All changes or updates will be posted in the Discord.
| Sign-up Period | August 22 - September 5 |
| Onboarding emails to ARTISTS | By September 9 |
| ARTISTS acceptance deadline | September 14 |
| ARTISTS rough sketches and summaries | September 30 |
| WRITER CLAIMS | October 5 - October 19 |
| Onboarding emails to WRITERS and BETA READERS | by October 25 |
| WRITERS and BETA READERS acceptance deadline | October 30 |
| ARTISTS rough concept sketches and additional information | October 30 |
| Creation period (artists) | September 14 - February 14, 2027 |
| Creation period (writers) | October 26 - February 21, 2027 |
| CHECK-IN #1 | November 8 |
| CHECK-IN #2 | December 6 |
| DROPOUT DEADLINE | December 13 |
| CHECK-IN #3 | January 3, 2027 |
| ART DUE (100% complete) | January 31, 2027 |
| Fics due (100% complete) | February 7, 2027 |
| HARD DEADLINE (FINAL version of art) | February 14, 2027 |
| HARD DEADLINE (FINAL version of fics) | February 21, 2027 |
| Previews begin | February 2027 |
| Posting schedule release | February 20, 2026 (Felix’s Birthday!) |
| Posting begins | February 28, 2027 |
| Specific posting schedule | TBA |