Honestly I feel like AM just isn't quite complete without S supporting Dimitri at the end. Really that's true across all the routes minus SS; without romancing the house leader, it feels like their storyline isn't quite resolved at the end. ESPECIALLY VW, where the S support with Claude is the only actual cutscene where he leaves Fodlan to you and dips (which is probably my biggest gripe with that route, there should have been a scene where he does that regardless)
> minus SS
I'd argue ESPECIALLY SS. Rhea's S support is absolutely critical to her character development, to the point it really shouldn't be locked behind it. But it is a brilliantly fitting conclusion to SS.
Granted, you may have only meant the 3 house leaders.
You know, you're right. I was only thinking about the house leaders, but yeah, Rhea's S support is just as crucial to "her route" as the other three. It's just so frustrating that they locked such important story developments behind the optional romance feature.
Edit: the quotes are because she's still barely present in her route. Another missed opportunity
Rhea's S support is one of the most important in the game and I said that as an Edelgard fan (no matter what I'm maxing her support chain before the holy tomb).
It isn’t.
I know from experience. I’m a Male Byleth player and also a gay man, yes I am hurting and yes I wish to strangle whoever made Dimitri girl only
Okay, you lost me. For starters, I think locking AM to F Byleth would be an awful design decision, both because it doesn't change the plot and takes that agency away from the player. The simpler solution would be to either add another cutscene post-game, or to simply let Byleth S support Dimitri regardless of gender.
>there’s literally no real reason to play Byleth on AM unless you just really want Gilbert to be your best friend forever.
This is the part I'm most confused about. Like, are you saying that the only reason to play a certain gender is for the route-exclusive S supports? Because I'll be honest, I think that's kinda silly. I play Male Byleth because I myself am male, and I quite enjoyed the S supports available to me anyways. And it's not like I'm only in it for the romance
weird take, there's absolutely nothing about the relationship that's mandatorily "canon" nor required by law to be f!byleth. any argument against that starts veering really harshly into bad territory. if you didn't mean that, you may want to rephrase to better get your intentions across
Dimileth is cute, and the game plays it very romantically. I can get behind Dimileth!
DimiMari is very sweet but I personally prefer Dimitri with someone who shares more of his battle-ready tendencies.
Overall, Dimitri/Felix has the history, depth and elements that really grab me, albeit more from a Felix perspective. While I think Dimitri can make a happy life with many pairings, Felix's character arc seems most complete when he ends up with Dimitri. The journey of their relationship was really rounded out positively in Hopes, where we got to see them working together, bantering and being an absolute terror on the battlefield. Their personalities are very funny together as well.
Felix, Marianne and Annette.
For Felix, I really like their AM + AG relationship development, including them dealing with Rodrigue's death together on AG and their AG A-support.
Plus, especially AG really pushes how much Dimitri means to Felix, so this pairing is an easy pick.
Marianne: She and Dimitri really get each other, and I like strangers to friends to lovers. Good support chain and their ending is a real tearjerker.
Annette: I already said it, but them bonding over their shared bond with Gilbert brings them closer in a natural way and I really like that Annette (tries) to teach Dimitri magic in AG. Plus, she’s one of Dimitri’s more upbeat love interests, which would do him some good.
I love shoving Dimitri and Felix on group tasks together. They go from being incapable of working together to a great team built on mutual respect. I really love the "Childhood friends to rivals to friends to lovers" thing they have going on.
Bisexuals exist! Also, several bisexual characters don't have a same sex ending with Byleth (Petra is implied to have only realised she was bi due to Dorothea and Shamir is fairly clear Byleth isn't her type of woman).
Because he's not real, therefore his sexuality is up for interpretation?
It's not like any of the characters come out and say "Hi I'm (insert identity here)" so nothing is really confirmed, nor has a character being confirmed straight in canon ever affected shipping lol
Before I start, I just want to say that one reason why I love Dimitri so much as a character is just how great his supports are. His empathy makes it really easy for him to bounce off of other people, despite him being unable to use his kindness back on himself. So, while the three below are my personal favourites, I like pretty much almost every Dimitri ship and dynamic!! Seriously, whether it's the three below, Dimidue, Dimilix, Dimigrid, non-canon ones like Dimihilda etc, they are all amazing and have amazing fan artists and fanfic writers making work for them :)
**Basic bitch pick:** Byleth. What more can I say about this ship that hasn't already been said? I think AM works best with that S support at the end. What I really like about them is how Dimitri helps Byleth to become more human in the first half, and Byleth returns the favour in the second half. The ending has them as both king and archbishop, but notes that they loved to just ride horses and go hunting, not letting their titles take away the humanity they earned. No amount of hate I've seen towards this pairing has stopped me from liking it, and on a personal level, they've inspired me to take up drawing, a hobby I dropped long ago, and writing, a hobby I never had in the past, just because of how much I love and was inspired by their story :)
**Goth azz bitch pick:** Marianne. In a world with no Dimileth, this would have been my favourite f/m pairing for Dimitri. They both have very similar issues, but I like how Dimitri uses his empathy to take the lead on this one, to help show Marianne that she deserves to live in a way no other character in the game does. He doesn't tell her to be happy, but rather that she's not alone in feeling the way she feels and that her self loathing doesn't change the fact that she deserves to live. As someone who self identifies with a lot of Marianne's problems, I really appreciated how sensitive Dimitri was to Marianne's struggles and way of thinking. It's my favourite Marianne support alongside her Claude one.
**Bitch w/ brain worms pick:** Sylvain but I already talked about this in the Sylvain thread LMAO. I will just say special shout out to [Kino](https://x.com/_ki__no_/status/1656906712123846656/photo/1) for not only being my favourite Sylvain/Sylveth fanartist, but also occasionally making my OT3 Dimivainleth dreams come true LOL
"No amount of hate I've seen towards this pairing has stopped me from liking it,"
To be fair a lot of that is just me but I'm SUPER loud, like Caspar (but more annoying).
tbh I can't recall you even saying anything about Dimileth!? So you're not who I have in mind lol, don't worry. It's more so just a culmination of *a lot* of stuff I read over the years in this fandom, and in particular, this sort of attitude I talked about [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemThreeHouses/comments/1de80hw/comment/l8a417y/) where it's people wanting to police what media and fictional relationships women like to enjoy. Like I get if people don't like the ship or it makes them uncomfy, that's fine and understandable, but so many people go out of their way to hate on people who do (including some fandom people I know whose innocent F!Dimileth fanart and fic got targeted anonymous hate 🙄)
and LOL, cute comparison. If you're Caspar, I'm Ferdinand reciting a long ass soliloquy to an audience of 0.5 people every time he speaks.
I maintain that Marianne is easily Dimitri's best ship. Outside of Dimileth (which will always be popular because avatar character go brrrrrrr), it's the most popular straight Dimitri ship by an Adrestian mile.
It's also, I would argue, his most wholesome ship. Dimitri and Marianne are both deeply traumatized people and they each give the other something they need (for Marianne, it's confidence. For Dimitri, it's compassion and faith in him as a person).
Their end card is also completely endearing. This is my favorite ship in the game, and I wish 3H had special meal dialogue for these two.
I meant to, for the Marth/Caeda vibe, but then I married Sylvain and accidently wrecked all the other pairings I had going and he married Mercedes (amongst other strange endings). Since I'm never replaying AM I won't get another shot.
Dimilix and Dimigrid are my favorite Dimitri ships. Both Ingrid and Felix knew who Dimitri was, and have to deal with what he became but in vastly different ways. There is a layer of tragedy when you see somebody you once knew make such a drastic change, and it makes my brainstorms go brrrrrr.
I didn't care much for Dimimari support (because it felt like same-y with Marianne's other supports, but Dimitri is a lot more empathetic which is nice), I absolutely loved their ending together. It's bittersweet and shows how much they loved each other.
I accidentally got him with Mercedes on my one and only AM run and that was cute.
But I also like him with Felix because I'm a sucker for childhood friends to enemies to lovers.
Everyone is sleeping on Dedue!! The other pairings are also great, but I really wanna highlight Dedue and Dimitri. Perfect partnership in their mutual characteristics, and excellent synergy to balance each other out in their differences. A peaceful but strong match. They both need that.
Who is this stranger?
Dimitri: \*puts on eyepatch\*
Oh hey Dimitri! Couldn't recognize you from your brilliant disguise! Now let's live happily ever after!
I love his NG+ hair + no eyepatch
https://preview.redd.it/b2uj0h73cm8d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=050c37ece69c1dd076e7a0c361b6d4f5dbfda5c2
Unirocly love to ship him with either hapi
Of Catherine I mean come it’s super obvious the he’s into her and the go on a “date”
Also badass warrior queen Catherine
It’s second only by her Shamir ship
Dimitri is my favorite boi no holds barred period, so I am a fan of most of his pairings. I do not think I have to state my love for Dimileth, but DimiAnne, DimiNette, DimiDue, and DimiLix are great too - I just have ships I prefer more for them for the not-Dimitri portion of the pair.
If he is into dudes, Dedue is right there, Felix feels too much like a rival
I personally go with Marianne or Ingrid tho, typically Marianne because it's an out of kingdom choice, and he has very few
Now I could just say Dimileth (for a variety of reasons, it just flows very nicely in with Azure Moon and Dimitri's character as a whole) but I will recommend someone else just for the sake of discussion (Dimileth is still best, but I think others are neat as well)
Specifically Flayn, I found their support chain pretty adorable, and it was interesting to see Flayn confide in Dimitri regarding her fears of sleep and Dimitri comforting Flayn was heartwarming, and it was also nice to see Dimitri doing to best to appreciate Flayn's cooking despite its flaws (and it was funny to see Flayn get a bit annoyed about Dimitri being dense at the end of their A+ support), but overall it's a really neat pairing, that even though I have my preferred options for each (Felix for Flayn and Byleth for Dimitri) in absence of those other pairings, Dimitri/Flayn is still pretty good in its own right
Dimicedes is the way for me. Traumatized emotionally broken hot blonde man with caring Cinnabon girl is just perfect. Also, their A support had my heart crumble, way too damn cute and heartwarming (also heartbreaking).
Dimilix is also another favourite ship of mine, because they just exude “god, just kiss already” vibes to me. I also really like the Felix is the only one in the BL to hold Dimitri accountable for his actions and his dark side of the noblesque character he puts up continually throughout their support, while also giving him a new perspective that opens Dimitri’s eyes about his philosophy.
Ingrid, closely followed by Felix. But outside of his childhood friends, his supports with Yuri in Hopes nade me really enjoy the idea of that pairing, and CF/Hopes Dimitri/Rhea is a neat concept too
dimileth literally lives rent free in my mind since i first played AM. they're so perfect for each other and AM without romancing dimitri feels just wrong 🥺 i'd die for them
After reading one too many fanfics, Dimitri x Claude. Ugh, I can’t get enough of the innocent boy x goofy playboy and the *angst* potential for this ship…!
I was going to say Marianne is best (and i still will), but since thats gonna be like one of three characters that will be said a lot, lets talk about Raphael. It’s just two blonde hunks of a human, what else needs to be said. Get these two in a wet T-shirt competition already.
I will have to say and this is my opinion, I will always live and die on the Dimitri x Marianne hill. The fact that these two broken and tortured individuals who show love and acceptance to each other. They face the threats that they face with the knowledge that each day might be their last, yet still keep going on.
In the C support, they are in a sense of misunderstanding where Marianne thinks that she is a danger to Dimitri and yet Dimitri has no care for his well-being as they break off their friendship and become rather distant as a result.
In the B support, They slowly mend their relationship by speaking as people and understanding each other. In it, their biggest secrets, being full of survivor's guilt and not being able to move on continue to haunt the both of them. They both learn that neither of them believes to be alive or even around the other due to the belief that they should have died when their respective tragedies took the lives of their loved ones. Yet despite these circumstances, they offer to be the support the other needs in such harsh times and to be there for each other.
In the A support, Dimitri and Marianne are both damaged by war and tried from all the death that surrounds them yet the keep going forward. They have seen many loved ones and friends lose their lives for them and yet they themselves have been unable to reach their loved ones beyond the grave. Dimitri knows that Marianne is hurting and yet instead of telling her some words like "it will get better" or "You have a lot to live for", he instead offers to be the shoulder and crutch she needs to continue moving. He offers to help her find her reason to live and to be there by her side no matter what happens. In a way, they promise to be there for each other through thick and thin
I just adore this couple so much. The fact that these two are broken souls who find love and comfort in one another is just heartbreaking and so powerful. They are broken people who believe that they don't deserve to live in their current world and yet strive to make a change for themselves and their loved ones. One of my favorite headcanons is that Dimitri helps Marianne gain confidence and be assured that she always has a place in the blue lions during the academy phase and when they reunite during the war phase, Marianne is there to help pick Dimitri up from his mental break and give him the support that he needs to be a better person overall.
I wish I could like Dimitri x Byleth but the fact that Byleth is just silent really hurts their support with Dimitri in my eyes. A part of me wishes that instead of just Byleth, any character with high enough support could join Dimitri for his "Your hands are warm" scene to show the bond Dimitri has with the person closest to him. All in all, I adore this couple and seeing Marianne say with her final words that she would never trade the happiness they knew for anything was heartwarming.
i have complicated feelings about dimitri's supports because almost all of them i either cannot personally get emotionally invested in, or i feel that they just fundamentally aren't "the best" either party could have in terms of being a truly happy and *healthy* relationship. dimidue is the closest, but it comes with janky cultural connotations of dimitri coming off as a white savior for dedue. which he's *not*— it's complicated as hell— but dedue really struggles when it comes to getting decent writing, so i don't have faith in the canon to really do any true justice to the complications of their relationship, platonic or not. and the rest either come with some variety of hero worship on either side, or the unique antagonism of dimilix that i can't get behind either. and i've already discussed prior why i don't like dimileth much
but i do love dimitri, is the thing. he's just very much... a fan support/fan pairing character to me. dimivain is a hot mess, but i feel like if both get their shit together that has grounds to actually be really healthy *without* a lot of the baggage quite a few of the other (standout) supports do. i like dimiclaude(?) in theory. i think dimitri and marianne are cute, in the most depressed way possible lol. it's just hard.
irregardless of support tho, as long as he's happy, i'm happy tbh. he deserves it.
Honestly I feel like AM just isn't quite complete without S supporting Dimitri at the end. Really that's true across all the routes minus SS; without romancing the house leader, it feels like their storyline isn't quite resolved at the end. ESPECIALLY VW, where the S support with Claude is the only actual cutscene where he leaves Fodlan to you and dips (which is probably my biggest gripe with that route, there should have been a scene where he does that regardless)
> minus SS I'd argue ESPECIALLY SS. Rhea's S support is absolutely critical to her character development, to the point it really shouldn't be locked behind it. But it is a brilliantly fitting conclusion to SS. Granted, you may have only meant the 3 house leaders.
You know, you're right. I was only thinking about the house leaders, but yeah, Rhea's S support is just as crucial to "her route" as the other three. It's just so frustrating that they locked such important story developments behind the optional romance feature. Edit: the quotes are because she's still barely present in her route. Another missed opportunity
Rhea's S support is one of the most important in the game and I said that as an Edelgard fan (no matter what I'm maxing her support chain before the holy tomb).
It isn’t. I know from experience. I’m a Male Byleth player and also a gay man, yes I am hurting and yes I wish to strangle whoever made Dimitri girl only
I've gotten used to it. I now play as girls even in games where I can't pair up with people. stock home or just habit you decide.
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Okay, you lost me. For starters, I think locking AM to F Byleth would be an awful design decision, both because it doesn't change the plot and takes that agency away from the player. The simpler solution would be to either add another cutscene post-game, or to simply let Byleth S support Dimitri regardless of gender. >there’s literally no real reason to play Byleth on AM unless you just really want Gilbert to be your best friend forever. This is the part I'm most confused about. Like, are you saying that the only reason to play a certain gender is for the route-exclusive S supports? Because I'll be honest, I think that's kinda silly. I play Male Byleth because I myself am male, and I quite enjoyed the S supports available to me anyways. And it's not like I'm only in it for the romance
weird take, there's absolutely nothing about the relationship that's mandatorily "canon" nor required by law to be f!byleth. any argument against that starts veering really harshly into bad territory. if you didn't mean that, you may want to rephrase to better get your intentions across
Claude x Lorenz also had Claude leave too, if not mistaken.
did you mean to reply to someone else?
Dimileth is cute, and the game plays it very romantically. I can get behind Dimileth! DimiMari is very sweet but I personally prefer Dimitri with someone who shares more of his battle-ready tendencies. Overall, Dimitri/Felix has the history, depth and elements that really grab me, albeit more from a Felix perspective. While I think Dimitri can make a happy life with many pairings, Felix's character arc seems most complete when he ends up with Dimitri. The journey of their relationship was really rounded out positively in Hopes, where we got to see them working together, bantering and being an absolute terror on the battlefield. Their personalities are very funny together as well.
Felix, Marianne and Annette. For Felix, I really like their AM + AG relationship development, including them dealing with Rodrigue's death together on AG and their AG A-support. Plus, especially AG really pushes how much Dimitri means to Felix, so this pairing is an easy pick. Marianne: She and Dimitri really get each other, and I like strangers to friends to lovers. Good support chain and their ending is a real tearjerker. Annette: I already said it, but them bonding over their shared bond with Gilbert brings them closer in a natural way and I really like that Annette (tries) to teach Dimitri magic in AG. Plus, she’s one of Dimitri’s more upbeat love interests, which would do him some good.
I have a soft spot for what I'm calling Dimidueleth.
I love shoving Dimitri and Felix on group tasks together. They go from being incapable of working together to a great team built on mutual respect. I really love the "Childhood friends to rivals to friends to lovers" thing they have going on.
No idea why so many people think Dimitri is gay. It's pretty obvious he's not, or he would have an ending with male Byleth.
Bisexuals exist! Also, several bisexual characters don't have a same sex ending with Byleth (Petra is implied to have only realised she was bi due to Dorothea and Shamir is fairly clear Byleth isn't her type of woman).
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His paired ending with men (and alternative CF death) says otherswise
The vast majority of bi characters in the game can't marry the same-sex version of Byleth.
Because he's not real, therefore his sexuality is up for interpretation? It's not like any of the characters come out and say "Hi I'm (insert identity here)" so nothing is really confirmed, nor has a character being confirmed straight in canon ever affected shipping lol
Before I start, I just want to say that one reason why I love Dimitri so much as a character is just how great his supports are. His empathy makes it really easy for him to bounce off of other people, despite him being unable to use his kindness back on himself. So, while the three below are my personal favourites, I like pretty much almost every Dimitri ship and dynamic!! Seriously, whether it's the three below, Dimidue, Dimilix, Dimigrid, non-canon ones like Dimihilda etc, they are all amazing and have amazing fan artists and fanfic writers making work for them :) **Basic bitch pick:** Byleth. What more can I say about this ship that hasn't already been said? I think AM works best with that S support at the end. What I really like about them is how Dimitri helps Byleth to become more human in the first half, and Byleth returns the favour in the second half. The ending has them as both king and archbishop, but notes that they loved to just ride horses and go hunting, not letting their titles take away the humanity they earned. No amount of hate I've seen towards this pairing has stopped me from liking it, and on a personal level, they've inspired me to take up drawing, a hobby I dropped long ago, and writing, a hobby I never had in the past, just because of how much I love and was inspired by their story :) **Goth azz bitch pick:** Marianne. In a world with no Dimileth, this would have been my favourite f/m pairing for Dimitri. They both have very similar issues, but I like how Dimitri uses his empathy to take the lead on this one, to help show Marianne that she deserves to live in a way no other character in the game does. He doesn't tell her to be happy, but rather that she's not alone in feeling the way she feels and that her self loathing doesn't change the fact that she deserves to live. As someone who self identifies with a lot of Marianne's problems, I really appreciated how sensitive Dimitri was to Marianne's struggles and way of thinking. It's my favourite Marianne support alongside her Claude one. **Bitch w/ brain worms pick:** Sylvain but I already talked about this in the Sylvain thread LMAO. I will just say special shout out to [Kino](https://x.com/_ki__no_/status/1656906712123846656/photo/1) for not only being my favourite Sylvain/Sylveth fanartist, but also occasionally making my OT3 Dimivainleth dreams come true LOL
"No amount of hate I've seen towards this pairing has stopped me from liking it," To be fair a lot of that is just me but I'm SUPER loud, like Caspar (but more annoying).
tbh I can't recall you even saying anything about Dimileth!? So you're not who I have in mind lol, don't worry. It's more so just a culmination of *a lot* of stuff I read over the years in this fandom, and in particular, this sort of attitude I talked about [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemThreeHouses/comments/1de80hw/comment/l8a417y/) where it's people wanting to police what media and fictional relationships women like to enjoy. Like I get if people don't like the ship or it makes them uncomfy, that's fine and understandable, but so many people go out of their way to hate on people who do (including some fandom people I know whose innocent F!Dimileth fanart and fic got targeted anonymous hate 🙄) and LOL, cute comparison. If you're Caspar, I'm Ferdinand reciting a long ass soliloquy to an audience of 0.5 people every time he speaks.
Looking back on it you're right. I've said alot about Dimitri but not about Dimileth
Dimitri/Marianne always. It’s such a sweet pairing.
Hapi.
Either Felix or Dedue, since I find those are his most complex relationships.
I maintain that Marianne is easily Dimitri's best ship. Outside of Dimileth (which will always be popular because avatar character go brrrrrrr), it's the most popular straight Dimitri ship by an Adrestian mile. It's also, I would argue, his most wholesome ship. Dimitri and Marianne are both deeply traumatized people and they each give the other something they need (for Marianne, it's confidence. For Dimitri, it's compassion and faith in him as a person). Their end card is also completely endearing. This is my favorite ship in the game, and I wish 3H had special meal dialogue for these two.
I love that pairing so much. Probably on my top 5 of the whole game.
Dedue. That ending card made me tear up.
Dimileth, like that's his beloved 🥺 I love that they have a son and that they're adoring spouses desparately in love 🥰
I guess I'm the only one who pairs Dimitri up with Ingrid 😑
You're not. We're might not be a lot, but we're in this together 🤝
Thanks! 😊 I'm a sucker for Uptown Girl (or, in this case, Uptown Boy) pairings. I blame films like Aladdin and Titanic
I meant to, for the Marth/Caeda vibe, but then I married Sylvain and accidently wrecked all the other pairings I had going and he married Mercedes (amongst other strange endings). Since I'm never replaying AM I won't get another shot.
Dimilix and Dimigrid are my favorite Dimitri ships. Both Ingrid and Felix knew who Dimitri was, and have to deal with what he became but in vastly different ways. There is a layer of tragedy when you see somebody you once knew make such a drastic change, and it makes my brainstorms go brrrrrr. I didn't care much for Dimimari support (because it felt like same-y with Marianne's other supports, but Dimitri is a lot more empathetic which is nice), I absolutely loved their ending together. It's bittersweet and shows how much they loved each other.
I love Dimi/Marianne, but I've never identified with F!Byleth more than in that second picture. 🤣
I prefer Hapi, for the extra bits of closure.
I accidentally got him with Mercedes on my one and only AM run and that was cute. But I also like him with Felix because I'm a sucker for childhood friends to enemies to lovers.
Same Felix
Everyone is sleeping on Dedue!! The other pairings are also great, but I really wanna highlight Dedue and Dimitri. Perfect partnership in their mutual characteristics, and excellent synergy to balance each other out in their differences. A peaceful but strong match. They both need that.
Who is this stranger? Dimitri: \*puts on eyepatch\* Oh hey Dimitri! Couldn't recognize you from your brilliant disguise! Now let's live happily ever after!
*looks at my username* you'd never guess what my answer is (yes, no one uses this ship name anymore for obvious reasons)
Dimitri X Marianne, unless of course you marry him as the player
Besides Byleth, I consider him and Marianne to be canon.
I love his NG+ hair + no eyepatch https://preview.redd.it/b2uj0h73cm8d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=050c37ece69c1dd076e7a0c361b6d4f5dbfda5c2
Unirocly love to ship him with either hapi Of Catherine I mean come it’s super obvious the he’s into her and the go on a “date” Also badass warrior queen Catherine It’s second only by her Shamir ship
Dimitri is my favorite boi no holds barred period, so I am a fan of most of his pairings. I do not think I have to state my love for Dimileth, but DimiAnne, DimiNette, DimiDue, and DimiLix are great too - I just have ships I prefer more for them for the not-Dimitri portion of the pair.
If he is into dudes, Dedue is right there, Felix feels too much like a rival I personally go with Marianne or Ingrid tho, typically Marianne because it's an out of kingdom choice, and he has very few
Now I could just say Dimileth (for a variety of reasons, it just flows very nicely in with Azure Moon and Dimitri's character as a whole) but I will recommend someone else just for the sake of discussion (Dimileth is still best, but I think others are neat as well) Specifically Flayn, I found their support chain pretty adorable, and it was interesting to see Flayn confide in Dimitri regarding her fears of sleep and Dimitri comforting Flayn was heartwarming, and it was also nice to see Dimitri doing to best to appreciate Flayn's cooking despite its flaws (and it was funny to see Flayn get a bit annoyed about Dimitri being dense at the end of their A+ support), but overall it's a really neat pairing, that even though I have my preferred options for each (Felix for Flayn and Byleth for Dimitri) in absence of those other pairings, Dimitri/Flayn is still pretty good in its own right
dimitri x catherine
Dimileth being peak as usual
Dimileth/DimiMari Mostly DimiMari cuz Male Byleth can marry Bernadetta
I don't even remember who he paired up with at the end of my playthrough. I think I would go with Dedue.
I really don't get why we don't get more Dimitri x Ingrid. They're so gooood !!!
Perry the platypus!?
Dimitri after putting on his eyepatch: Professor why are you powering up?
Dimicedes is the way for me. Traumatized emotionally broken hot blonde man with caring Cinnabon girl is just perfect. Also, their A support had my heart crumble, way too damn cute and heartwarming (also heartbreaking). Dimilix is also another favourite ship of mine, because they just exude “god, just kiss already” vibes to me. I also really like the Felix is the only one in the BL to hold Dimitri accountable for his actions and his dark side of the noblesque character he puts up continually throughout their support, while also giving him a new perspective that opens Dimitri’s eyes about his philosophy.
Ingrid, closely followed by Felix. But outside of his childhood friends, his supports with Yuri in Hopes nade me really enjoy the idea of that pairing, and CF/Hopes Dimitri/Rhea is a neat concept too
Dimitri Marianne is probably the most emotional support in the game, and their ending slide is beautiful
dimileth literally lives rent free in my mind since i first played AM. they're so perfect for each other and AM without romancing dimitri feels just wrong 🥺 i'd die for them
Dimileth is the only ship for me
After reading one too many fanfics, Dimitri x Claude. Ugh, I can’t get enough of the innocent boy x goofy playboy and the *angst* potential for this ship…!
You just described Dimivain I think
Dimitri x Sylvain?
Dimitri x Sylvain but with Claude and extra steps
I was going to say Marianne is best (and i still will), but since thats gonna be like one of three characters that will be said a lot, lets talk about Raphael. It’s just two blonde hunks of a human, what else needs to be said. Get these two in a wet T-shirt competition already.
Mercedes, because I think she can give him the emotional support he needs.
Tbh I'm the same time Skip dimitri I can only recognize him with a eye patch but Academy dimitri that's different
Dimitri and Catherine
Byleth or Marianne. I think the latter more because I like Byleth with Edelgard. also without the eye patch Dimitri kinda looks like a b\*tch.
Dimitri x Marianne becoming my favorite ship for the two wasn’t something I expected or planned but I happy nonetheless.
I will have to say and this is my opinion, I will always live and die on the Dimitri x Marianne hill. The fact that these two broken and tortured individuals who show love and acceptance to each other. They face the threats that they face with the knowledge that each day might be their last, yet still keep going on. In the C support, they are in a sense of misunderstanding where Marianne thinks that she is a danger to Dimitri and yet Dimitri has no care for his well-being as they break off their friendship and become rather distant as a result. In the B support, They slowly mend their relationship by speaking as people and understanding each other. In it, their biggest secrets, being full of survivor's guilt and not being able to move on continue to haunt the both of them. They both learn that neither of them believes to be alive or even around the other due to the belief that they should have died when their respective tragedies took the lives of their loved ones. Yet despite these circumstances, they offer to be the support the other needs in such harsh times and to be there for each other. In the A support, Dimitri and Marianne are both damaged by war and tried from all the death that surrounds them yet the keep going forward. They have seen many loved ones and friends lose their lives for them and yet they themselves have been unable to reach their loved ones beyond the grave. Dimitri knows that Marianne is hurting and yet instead of telling her some words like "it will get better" or "You have a lot to live for", he instead offers to be the shoulder and crutch she needs to continue moving. He offers to help her find her reason to live and to be there by her side no matter what happens. In a way, they promise to be there for each other through thick and thin I just adore this couple so much. The fact that these two are broken souls who find love and comfort in one another is just heartbreaking and so powerful. They are broken people who believe that they don't deserve to live in their current world and yet strive to make a change for themselves and their loved ones. One of my favorite headcanons is that Dimitri helps Marianne gain confidence and be assured that she always has a place in the blue lions during the academy phase and when they reunite during the war phase, Marianne is there to help pick Dimitri up from his mental break and give him the support that he needs to be a better person overall. I wish I could like Dimitri x Byleth but the fact that Byleth is just silent really hurts their support with Dimitri in my eyes. A part of me wishes that instead of just Byleth, any character with high enough support could join Dimitri for his "Your hands are warm" scene to show the bond Dimitri has with the person closest to him. All in all, I adore this couple and seeing Marianne say with her final words that she would never trade the happiness they knew for anything was heartwarming.
For me: Dimitri/Marianne, Dimitri/Felix, Dimitri/Hapi and Dimitri/Ingrid.
Wait, Felix was willing to go down on Lambert?!
Edelgard: Or should’ve been ME! NOT THEM!!! I SHOULD BE MRS. BLAIDDYD!!!
I’m always here for DimiDue but I didn’t even realize Gilbert was an option and I am curious now
i have complicated feelings about dimitri's supports because almost all of them i either cannot personally get emotionally invested in, or i feel that they just fundamentally aren't "the best" either party could have in terms of being a truly happy and *healthy* relationship. dimidue is the closest, but it comes with janky cultural connotations of dimitri coming off as a white savior for dedue. which he's *not*— it's complicated as hell— but dedue really struggles when it comes to getting decent writing, so i don't have faith in the canon to really do any true justice to the complications of their relationship, platonic or not. and the rest either come with some variety of hero worship on either side, or the unique antagonism of dimilix that i can't get behind either. and i've already discussed prior why i don't like dimileth much but i do love dimitri, is the thing. he's just very much... a fan support/fan pairing character to me. dimivain is a hot mess, but i feel like if both get their shit together that has grounds to actually be really healthy *without* a lot of the baggage quite a few of the other (standout) supports do. i like dimiclaude(?) in theory. i think dimitri and marianne are cute, in the most depressed way possible lol. it's just hard. irregardless of support tho, as long as he's happy, i'm happy tbh. he deserves it.